Search results for "Sunday Night at the London Palladium"

Castle Haven

1960s soap opera about a number of families living in two Victorian house conversions in Yorkshire.

Parks and Recreation

Amy Poehler gives an award-winning performance as mid-level bureaucrat Leslie Knope in this US mockumentary about public officials striving to make their Indiana town a better place.

A Matter of Principle

Should a doctor tell his patients the truth - whatever the cost? Harry Branksome, brilliant surgeon, is dedicated to the truth, no matter whom it hurts.

I Can Walk Where I like, Can't I?

Set partly on a building site, a boy (15-year old Dennis Waterman) and a girl (16-year old Judith Geeson) meet secretly in a partly-built block of flats each day after the builders leave.

Imposter

The Earth has been at war with the Outspacers for many years. The fate of the planet depends on the success of a vital project headed by one man.

The Move After Checkmate

Michael Crawford is caught between two long-time adversaries who use him as a pawn in their grudge fight.

Number Three

One of the most significant pieces of unrecorded and therefore "missing" drama presentations from the television archives, 'Number Three' was an 80-minute science fiction drama shown under the BBC's 'Sunday-Night Theatre' strand.

Out There

It is 1915. Young Annie Hudd, in spite of her family's jeers, is determined to go to France to help the wounded soldiers. She is to suffer many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse is realised.

The Sin Shifter

A pearl trader and a priest-both fighting for the use of the same hall-one for a casino, the other for a church. Rose becomes the unwilling pawn in this battle between sacred and profane in a small Australian town.

The Yellow Pill

Who is the strange man brought by the police to Dr. Frame? Is he a murderer? How did he gain his uncanny knowledge of Frame's private life? Is it possible that he really comes from another time?

Victoria Regina

Peter Wildeblood's adaptation of Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina was broadcast in 1964 as four individual plays and starred Patricia Routledge who portrayed four ages of the monarch.

It Is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer

The earliest complete surviving BBC television play of the 1950s.

Journey's End

Adapted from R.C. Sheriff's successful play, Journey's End is set against the background of life in the trenches during World War One and concentrates on a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France.

The Troubled Air

The Troubled Air was Irwin Shaw's novel chronicling the rise of McCarthyism in the USA and in particular the anti-Communist witch-hunt among radio-programme workers.

Martin Kane, Private Eye

Television's first private eye was broadcast live from 1 September 1949 and was also heard on radio for several years.

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Beginning in September 1950, The Colgate Comedy Hour gave a number of performers, destined to become famous, their first opportunity to appear before a large television audience.

You're Only Young Twice

Sitcom in which Peggy Mount is the scourge of Paradise Lodge and Pat Coombs is her dim-witted sidekick, both resident in a home for retired gentle - and not so gentle-folk.

Hay Fever

Guests invited for the weekend by the irresponsible Bliss family find themselves involved in a series of embarrassing and comic situations in what has been described as Noël Coward’s best play.

Miranda

A masterpiece of craftsmanship and the product of immense comedic literacy, Miranda showed a genuine feminist sensibility without using the f-word, maintaining its quality over 20 episodes and never getting stale.

A Sharp Intake of Breath

Either trying to book a holiday or a doctor appointment, life seems to hand Peter Barnes more than his fair share of frustration.