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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

Then Churchill Said to Me

Then Churchill Said to Me (1993)

Then Churchill Said to Me

Frankie Howerd's last sitcom, Then Churchill Said To Me was very much a variation on a theme. Up Pompeii had moved to Baghdad for Whoops Baghdad and now it moved to a secret World War II bunker.

They Throw It At You

They Throw It At You (1964)

They Throw It At You

Featuring a number of well-known faces, this 'lost' ITV play is the first in a trilogy which were all set along Blackpool's Golden Mile

The Thick of It

The Thick of It (2005)

The Thick of It

BAFTA winning satirical comedy on the inner workings of the British Government set within the fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship

The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line (1995)

The Thin Blue Line

Anarchy reigns at a police station in the small English town of Gasforth - as dyed-in-the-wool conventionalist Inspector Raymond Fowler finds himself at loggerheads with modern policing methods, and in particular CID Inspector Derek Grim.

The Third Man TV series 1959

The Third Man (1959)

The Third Man TV series 1959

Resurrected from the 1949 movie, Harry Lime is now an international businessman with organizations in most of the world's capitals. But shady deals, and equally shady characters are never far away...