Margaret Tyzack

Die auf den Romanen der britischen Autorin Caroline Graham basierende Krimiserie spielt in der idyllischen Grafschaft Midsomer. Bis zum Ende der 13. Staffel werden die Ermittlungen von Inspector Tom Barnaby und seiner Assistenten in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Dabei steht Barnaby bis zur sechsten Staffel Seargant Gavin Troy zur Seite, später ermittelt zunächst Dan Scott und dann Ben Jones gemeinsam mit dem Inspector. Barnabys Frau Joyce hat es auch nicht leicht, bekommt sie ihren immer mit ruhiger Hand arbeitenden Mann doch viel zu selten zu Gesicht.

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Als im Jahr 2001 ein Monolith auf dem Mond entdeckt wird, wird diese Entdeckung als der Beweis für außerirdisches Leben gedeutet. Eineinhalb Jahre nach der Entdeckung des Monoliths werden 2 Astronauten, Bowman und Poole, mit dem Raumschiff Discovery zum Jupiter geschickt, um weitere Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Das Raumschiff ist mit dem Supercomputer HAL-9000 ausgerüstet. Bald ergeben sich erste Komplikationen mit dem Computer...

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.