Christine Hargreaves

'Play for Today' fue una serie dramática antológica británica producida por la BBC y emitida por BBC1 entre 1970 y 1984. Durante su emisión, se transmitieron más de trescientos programas, que incluían obras de teatro originales para televisión y adaptaciones de obras teatrales y novelas. Cada episodio tenía una duración de entre cincuenta y cien minutos.

'Playhouse' es una serie de televisión británica de antología de una hora de duración de dramas clásicos y contemporáneos únicos creada por Sara Pia Anderson y producida por la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Entre sus muchas estrellas invitadas notables se encuentran Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn y Peggy Ashcroft.

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Dos mochileros norteamericanos, David Kessler y Jack están de viaje por Europa. Caminando por una zona rural de Inglaterra, la población local los mira mal cuando entran en un bar. Al salir, reciben todo tipo de extrañas advertencias: 'Manténganse en la carretera y aléjense de los pantanos' y 'Cuidado con la luna'. Aun así, los jóvenes se adentran en la oscuridad y no se dan cuenta que están siendo seguidos por una terrible criatura.

Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks in Dr. Who), and Elijah Baley was played by the late Peter Cushing. It also starred John Carson John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw and Kenneth J. Warren. The master tapes of the program were erased, however a few clips from the production have turned up in various documentaries about Isaac Asimov's work.

El futuro, año 1984. Winston Smith (John Hurt) soporta una abyecta existencia bajo la continua vigilancia de las autoridades en la Oceanía totalitaria. No obstante, su vida se convierte en una pesadilla cuando prueba el amor prohibido y comete el crimen de pensar libremente.

Película visualmente evocativa, basada en la música del disco homónimo y las visiones del grupo de rock psicodélico "Pink Floyd". Narra la vida de una estrella de rock ficticia: "Pink". Una mezcla de relaciones humanas, abuso de drogas, sexo, infancia, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fascismo se combinan en un relato que alterna cine en vivo con animación creada por el caricaturista británico Gerald Scarfe.