Donald Burton

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.

In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.

Wilde Alliance is a 1978 British television programme created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for l ITV. The light-hearted mystery series follows husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.

Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fellow officers, with subplots dealing with life on the lower decks. Episodes typically featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.

Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who here ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

Hudson Hawk lakaplı ünlü hırsız Eddie Hawkins on yıldır yatmakta olduğu ceza evinden çıkarken kendine hayatının geri kalanını dürüst bir vatandaş olarak geçireceğine söz verir. Fakat iki uçuk milyoner olan Darwin ve Minevra Sunflower, Eddie'den Leonardo Da Vinci'nin üç eserini çalmasını isterler. Eddie'nin bu teklifi geri çevirme şansı yoktur, çünkü Mayflower'lar onu eğer işbirliği yapmazsa yakın arkadaşı Tommy'yi öldürmekle tehdit ederler. Filmin başında gördüğümüz sekanslarda Leonardo Da Vinci kurşunu bronza çevirecek bir alet üzerinde çalışmaktadır. Fakat Vinci'nin ufak bir hatası aletin kurşunu bronz yerine altına çevirmeye başlamasına neden olur. Bu buluşun yanlış ellere düştüğünde ne kadar tehlikeli olabileceğini tahmin eden Vinci, aletin üç parçasını üç ayrı eserinin içine saklamaya karar verir. Mayflower'ların niyeti ise Eddie'ye bu üç eseri çaldırmak ve elde ettikleri altınlarla dünyanın finansal sistemini yerle bir etmektir...

6. yüzyılda Mekke. İslam tarihçilerinin Cahiliye Devri olarak anmaktan hoşlandıkları dönemdeyiz. Şehrin ileri gelenlerinin Mekke maddelerin pençesinde acımasızca yönettiği rivayet ediliyor. Kız çocukların yeni doğduklarında diri diri gömüldüklerinin anlatıldığı acımasız bir dönem. Böyle karanlık bir çağda, Hz. Cebrail tarafından ziyaret edilen Hz. Muhammed insanları tek bir Tanrı'ya tapmaya davet ediyor ve şehre hükmedenlerin vahşi metotlarına karşı çıkıyor.Allah'tan inen bir ayet, peygamberin silaha sarılmasını ve Mekke ordularına karşı direnmesini emrediyor. Müslümanların ordusu tecrübesiz olduğu halde Bedir savaşını kazanıyor. Uhud savaşının ardındansa 10 yıllık bir barışa evet diyerek arada geçen süreyi İslam'ı yaymak için kullanıyorlar. Muhammed'in Allah'ın elçisi olduğu, Allah'tan başka tanrı olmadığı haberi Arap yarımadasını hızla katediyor.

An FBI agent investigating the kidnap then apparent murder of a wealthy businessman, has his suspicions. The authorities believe Ben to be dead, but the body could not be identified. Ben's wife is the prime suspect with her accomplice, the victim's brother. Brian has to go undercover(s) to get to the truth.

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. It was based on the 1963 theatre adaptation by John Barton, and directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.

Zengin bir akrabanın ölümü üzerine, "terbiyeli" aile üyeleri miras için acımasız bir mücadeleye girişir. Yönetmen Gaburro'nun tipik tarzıyla, entrikaların arasına örtülü erotizm serpiştirilir. Dalila Di Lazzaro'nun bu kez rakipleri oldukça sert ve hırslıdır, olaylar kontrolden çıkar.

In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the qualities and preparation that went into that victory.

NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.

Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?

The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.

Röntgenci bir müzisyen olan Chris, baştan çıkarıcı bir senatörün karısı Eva ile tanışır. Eva, kocasını ve üvey oğlunu ortadan kaldırmak istemektedir.

1977 adaptation of Conan Doyle's The Adventure of Silver Blaze