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- Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
- Lighthearted detective series set in the West Country, about radio-phone-in detective Eddie Shoestring.
- A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
- Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
- Set in Noel Edmonds' fictitious grand house in the equally fictitious town of Crinkley Bottom, the show centres around games involving the studio audience and special guest celebrities. Contestants can "grab a grand", home viewers can be caught out live in their own homes, and celebrities get their just deserts in the gunge tank.
- An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- In the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
- BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- Long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
- In Hackney in 1977, Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton become unlikely friends in their final year at school: Jarvis is the class clown, a popular lad with a talent for welding, while Lipton is a bookish dreamer who spends his time fabricating impressive exploits, pondering the future and fantasising about the father he's never met. As they leave school and anxiously embark on an uncertain future, can their friendship survive?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable Victorian scientist, concocts a drug which releases another side to his personality: a brutal, murderous alter-ego.
- An informative and humourous take on the world of current affairs.
- Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
- The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
- Every day, television presenter Rufus Hound saves the world from domination by the evil Doctor Muhahaha, before time is rewound and he tries again.
- Alan Titchmarsh presents a mix of celebrity interviews, music, topical discussions and gardening features.
- Jasper Carrott takes a comedic look at the week's news and ponders the absurdities of life in general, with topical sketch comedy from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
- An American millionaire searches for a magic potion that will grant him eternal life.
- In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.
- A TV documentary on the trial of the Chicago 8, a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and intent to cause riots.
- In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation.
- In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
- Philip Jenkinson interviews actor Joan Crawford about her career in the cinema, from a 1967 episode of the U.K. series Film Profile (1955-1967). This show can be found in the double disc DVD release of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
- Science-fiction musical, telling of the journey of a group of people leaving Earth to find a new world on which to live.
- Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
- A programme looking back at the previous forty years of BBC TV. Using clips to illustrate how the BBC developed the medium, the programme also heralded a season of nightly vintage repeats shown on BBC 2.
- An 'interlude with music' about a struggling music hall act, presented by the BBC as part of Noël Coward's 70th birthday tribute.
- Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- An English-language version of Wagner's opera.
- A humorous and fantastic look at the world in the year 2001 as computed for the screen by those visionaries Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
- Rock musical retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse.
- Film ''Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth'' based on the novel by William Shakespeare
- Arctic Monkeys perform live for BBC Radio 1 at the legendary Maida Vale studios, with tracks from their new album Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino, and classics from their back catalogue of hits.
- Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his fellow angels help Mary, Joseph and the Wiseman to follow their destiny.
- Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
- The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel Calder. Researchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
- In this film, specially taken for the BBC, viewers are given an idea of the growth of the television installation at Alexandra Palace and an insight into production routine. There will be many shots behind the scenes. One sequence, for instance, will show Adele Dixon as she appears to viewers in the Variety at 3.30 this afternoon, and will then reveal the technical staff and equipment in the studio that made this transmission possible.