David Markham

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.

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.

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Professor Norman Wedgwood oversees an experimental rocket group on remote Buchan Island in Scotland. His children, Geoff, Valerie and Jimmy visit to watch the latest rocket launch, along with journalist Conway Henderson. When the pilot takes ill, Jimmy finds himself taking his place on a mission to the Moon along with his pet hamster, Hamlet.

南アフリカ、1893年。ただ白人では無いことを理由に一人の青年紳士が列車の一等車から放り出され、この人種差別に青年は激しい怒りを覚えた。青年の名はモハンダス・Ｋ・ガンジー。ロンドンで法律を学んだ彼はインド人商社の顧問弁護士として南アフリカのダーバンへ渡って来たのだ。彼はインド人移民に呼びかけて身分証明カードを焼き拾てることを提唱する。

文豪ハーディの名作を、ポランスキーが映像化したメロドラマ。19世紀末、ドーセット地方の貧農の娘テスは遠縁のダーバビル家に奉公に出される。その息子にかどわかされ私生児を孕んだ彼女だが、実家に戻って生んだ子はわずか数週間で死んでしまう。後に働きに出た農場で牧師の息子と美しい恋に落ち結婚するが、テスの過去を初夜に知った彼はそのまま外国に去っていく。流転の人生の果てに再び彼とめぐりあうテスだが、もはや新たな選択は破滅を意味した……。