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The Devil's Hour

The Devil's Hour (2022)

The Devil's Hour

Netlix's haunting psychological thriller is skillfully crafted across multiple timelines and will keep you guessing right to the end

The Escape of R.D.7 (1961)

When a scientist’s almost fanatical devotion to a vaccine project brings her into collision with orthodox authority and there is a threat to put an end to her experiments, she rebels and continues on her own…with devastating consequences

The Girl in the Picture

The Girl in the Picture (1964)

The Girl in the Picture

The second in the series of three plays by Allan Prior, all set along Blackpool's Golden Mile, featured television débutée Nicola Pagett and future Doctor Who companion Peter Purves

The Grandeur That Was Rome tv series 1960

The Grandeur That Was Rome (1960)

The Grandeur That Was Rome tv series 1960

First transmitted in 1960, Sir Mortimer Wheeler embarks on an epic journey from Britain to Africa, to investigate the legacy of the Roman Empire

The Irregulars

The Irregulars (2021)

The Irregulars

A crew of misfits investigate a series of supernatural crimes in Victorian London at the behest of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes

The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons (1975)

The Jeffersons

Developed by ground-breaking television producer Norman Lear, The Jeffersons follows a successful African-American couple as they "move on up" from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment.

Donald Campbell

The Price of a Record (1967)

Donald Campbell

In late 1966, a documentary crew began filming Donald Campbell as he prepared to break the world water speed record. It was a film that would end in tragic disaster

The Survivors

The Survivors (1957)

The Survivors

In this ‘lost’ BBC play - the long-drawn and bitterly contested American Civil War is over, but there is a legacy of hatred left over from the fighting - hatred which comes slowly to a climax in a bar in Decker City

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox (1966)

The Tinderbox

One of Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tales, 'The Tinderbox' came to British television screens in 1966 as a three-part series, having been made as a full length feature in 1959