Margaret Tyzack

La tranquillité de la communauté de Midsomer est bouleversée par des crimes violents, des suspects sont mis en cause, et c'est à Tom Barnaby, un inspecteur principal chevronné et à son jeune sergent qu'il revient d'éliminer calmement et diligemment les innocents et de poursuivre sans pitié les coupables.

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.

Aux temps préhistoriques, une petite tribu d’hommes‐singes installée au milieu de rochers arides lutte difficilement pour la vie. Un matin, ils trouvent devant eux une mystérieuse dalle noire monolithique. L’un des singes touche la pierre et apprend alors à se servir d’un os de quadrupède pour tuer ses ennemis. Quatre millions d’années plus tard, en 2001, un savant de l’espace, le Dr Heywood Floyd, débarque sur la lune pour examiner une dalle noire semblable à celle des singes, qui était enterrée sous la surface de l’astre. Selon les premières observations, l’objet émettrait un signal mystérieux…

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.