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  • Tony Smith – What Mad Pursuit? (1985)

    1981-1990BBCComedyTony SmithTVUnited Kingdom

    BBC One London, 24 November 1985 21.05

    A series of stories by Noël Coward

    Screenplay by STANLEY PRICE starring Carroll Baker and Paul Daneman with Neil Cunningham , Jane Carr and Sandra Dickinson
    If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn’t you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Well, let what happened to Evan Lorrimer be an awful warning….Read More »

  • Mike Ockrent & Noel Coward – Mrs. Capper’s Birthday (1985)

    1981-1990BBCComedyMike OckrentNoel CowardTV

    BBC One London, 17 November 1985 21.10
    Synopsis
    A series of stories by Noel Coward
    Screenplay by Jack Rosenthal

    starring Patricia Hayes, with Avis Bunnage, Paula Wilcox, Kathryn Pogson,
    Gary Waldhorn and Max Wall

    Mrs Capper’s birthday started early. After all time and the Nash’s washing-up wait for no man, or woman – even on a Sunday. Obviously it was going to be a day just like any other. At any rate that’s how it seemed at first…Read More »

  • Alan Dossor – Star Quality (1985)

    1981-1990Alan DossorBBCComedyDramaUnited Kingdom

    Part of the Noel Coward collection. In 1940’s England, a young playwright is getting his first play produced by an important director. But the director wants to get a temperamental actress for the lead. And when Lorraine Barry arrives at the first reading, the battle is begun between director and star, with the poor playwright caught in the middle.Read More »

  • Cedric Messina & Noel Coward – Hay Fever (1984)

    1981-1990BBCCedric MessinaComedyNoel CowardUnited Kingdom

    BBC Two England, 26 December 1984 19.25
    Synopsis
    by NOEL COWARD

    It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.Read More »

  • BBC – Hooligans (2006)

    Documentary2001-2010BBCUnited Kingdom

    The film follows England fans from Frankfurt to Gelsenkirchen and infiltrates groups of troublemakers.
    A record 170,000 England fans travelled to Germany for the cup and the majority were peaceful causing no problems.
    But the worst rioting happened the day before the England vs Ecuador game.
    Police believe rioters consumed or threw about 17 litres of beer each in Stuttgart and 400 England ‘fans’ were taken into preventative custody.
    The motto of World Cup 2006 was ‘a time to make friends’ but undercover cameras reveal England ‘fans’ ‘mobbing up’ and singing songs about World War Two which visibly shock German police officers.Read More »

  • James Kent – The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)

    2001-2010BBCDramaJames KentQueer Cinema(s)TVUnited Kingdom

    from imdb:
    In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe makes a marriage of convenience to rich old Charles Lawton,she feels betrayed and,although Mariana visits and has sex with her,the relationship is going nowhere. Helped by old flame Tib she makes a play for innocent Miss Browne but sees she is barking up the wrong tree and diverts herself by renovating the family hall. A drunken Tib almost exposes her secret and scornful mine-owner Christopher Rawson,whose marriage proposal she rejects,tells her that her sexuality is a subject of local gossip. Undeterred Anne meets Ann Walker who becomes her new ‘wife’ and they open a coal-mine ,living happily together. An end title tells us that Anne Lister died prematurely in 1840 on holiday in Russia.Read More »

  • Paul Seed – House of Cards (1990)

    1981-1990BBCDramaPaul SeedTVUnited Kingdom

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    Francis Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative party. When Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader, he remains neutral and after a general election where the conservatives are returned with a reduced majority, he fully expects the new Prime Minister, Henry Collingridge, to give him his just reward: a senior Cabinet post. When he’s informed that he is to stay in his current position, he devises a plot to unseat Collingridge and ensure his own election as party leader which would make his Prime Minister. Written by garykmcdRead More »

  • Peter Adam – Omnibus: Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema (1976)

    1971-1980BBCDocumentaryPeter AdamUnited Kingdom

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    Pithy half-hour documentary concerning New German Cinema (when it was on fire), focusing on and featuring interviews with “the big five”: Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff & Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

    Most notable being the rare interview with a young Herzog, and behind-the-scenes footage of him at work.
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  • Jonathan Miller – Timon of Athens (1981)

    Drama1981-1990BBCJonathan MillerTVUnited Kingdom

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    Making its debut with Romeo and Juliet on 3 December 1978, and concluding nearly seven years later with Titus Andronicus on 27 April 1985, the BBC Television Shakespeare project was the single most ambitious attempt at bringing the Bard of Avon to the small screen, both at the time and to date.

    Producer Cedric Messina was already an experienced producer of one-off television Shakespeare presentations, and was thus ideally qualified to present the BBC with a daunting but nonetheless enticingly simple proposition: a series of adaptations, staged specifically for television, of all 36 First Folio plays, plus Pericles (The Two Noble Kinsmen was considered primarily John Fletcher’s work, and the legitimacy of Edward III was still being debated).Read More »

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