Michael Elphick

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on October 14, 1991. The show was a mixture of celebrity guests and music. Alan Titchmarsh was a presenter on the show throughout it's complete run. Other presenters included Judi Spiers, Gloria Hunniford and Ross King.

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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.

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

Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.

Documentaries showing faces and places that make up the way we live today.

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.

Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even getting bumped off herself!

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.

Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others. Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.

Dangerfield is a British drama series about a small town doctor / police surgeon, which ran for 6 series, between 1995 and 1999. Originally Nigel Le Vaillant played the central role, but this character later left the series, the focus switching to his replacement, played by Nigel Havers. The BBC decided to end the series in November 1999 when Nigel Havers announced his decision to quit. The BBC felt viewers would not find the series credible if the main character was changed for a second time. The show like a number of other BBC dramas of the 1980s and 1990s also featured a number of borderline fantasy episodes. These included "Tricks", "Angel" and "Haunted". The TV trailers for Dangerfield were heavily parodied by The Fast Show in which the character was called Monkfish and would appear as a tough uncompromising Doctor, Policeman, vet and even as an interior designer with titles mixed in with other BBC shows of the time.

Charles Dickens'ın annesi öldükten sonra üvey babası tarafından uzağa gönderilen ama inanılmaz bir olumsuzluğa karşı zafer kazanan bir çocuğun unutulmaz yarı otobiyografik hikayesi.

Victoria dönemi İngilteresi'nde yaşayan John Merrick, ender görülen bir hastalık yüzünden ileri derecede deforme bir bedene ve yüze sahiptir. Gezici bir kumpanyada Fil Adam takma adıyla sergilenmekte ve kafes hayvanı muamelesi gördüğü çok zor bir hayat geçirmektedir. Dr. Frederick Treves adında genç bir cerrahın onu içine hapsolduğu korkunç hayattan kurtarmasıyla hiç alışık olmadığı güzel bir dünyaya adım atar. Ancak acı ve korku dolu geçmişi Merrick'i bu yeni dünyada da takip edecektir.

Krull gezegeni slayer denen askerlerin oluşturduğu yenilmez bir ordunun işgali altındadır. yıllardir savaş halinde olan iki krallık güçlerini birleştirip slayerlara karşı koyabilmek amaciyla baris yapar ve bunu saglamlastirabilmek için Prenses Lyssa ve diger kralligin prensi Colwyn´i evlendirmek isterler. Tören sirasinda yapilan saldirida colwyn yaralanir iki kral da öldürülür ve lyssa kaçirilir. olayi izleyen sabah colwyn, ynyr isimli bir bilge tarafindan bulunur ve slayerlari yenip gelinini kurtarabilmek için sihirli güçleri olan 5 biçakli yildiz seklindeki efsanevi silahi aramaya yollanir. yol sirasinda pek çok yandas edinecek olan colwyn kara kulede düsmaniyla yüzlesme firsati bulacaktir.

1855 yılında ingiltere'de gerçekleşen tarihin ilk ve en büyük tren soygunu... Kırım savaşındaki askerler için gidecek olan altını o zamana kadar denenmemiş bir usûlle soymayı planlayan iki kafadar soyguncuyu ve macerasını anlatır. tabii bu gözüpek ikiliye bir de kadın yardım eder, ortaya sürükleyici bir macera çıkar...

Yönetmen Blake Edwards, Fransa'nın en sakar dedektifi için en işe yaramaz yöntemlerle yapılan beceriksizce bir arayışın konu alındığı bu "keyifli" (Boxoffice) komedide bir kahkaha dinamitinin fitilini ateşliyor! Baş rollerini David Niven (son sinema performansı), Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Ted Wass'ın paylaştığı ve Roger Moore'un komik bir kısa rolde yer aldığı Pembe Panterin Laneti, "katıksız eğlence" ve "haylazlık" ile dolup taşıyor (Los Angeles Times)! Clouseau hala kayıptır ve Fransız başkan, Clouseau'nun ezeli rakibi olan tehlikeli ve dengesiz Dreyfus'u (Lom) onu bulmakla görevlendirir. Buna hiç niyeti olmayan Dreyfus, Clouseau'nun hiçbir zaman bulunmaması için dahice bir plan yaparak dünyanın en kötü, New York Polis Teşkilatı'nın ise vasat dedektiflerinden Clifton Sleigh'ı (Wass) tutar. Ama çok geçmeden dört dörtlük planı onu aptal durumuna düşürecek gibidir!

İki alkolik, zevk meraklısı, işsiz, aktör arkadaş Withnail ve Marwood, bir kenar mahalledeki evlerinde sefalet içinde yaşarlar. Paraları yoktur, dahası ne yemek bulabilirler, ne ısınabilirler. Yaşadıkları ortamdan, uyuşturucu satıcılarından ve İrlandalı bir adamın yaptığı tacizlerden uzaklaşmak için Withnail'in gay amcası Monty'nin kır evine giderler. Bir süreliğine de olsa sefaletlerinden uzaklaşacağını düşünen ikilinin hava şartlarından, komşularından ve Monty amcanın gayliğinden dolayı başına gelecekler vardır. Traji ve komedi öğelerini birleştiren film, Bruce Robinston'un 1960 sonlarında yaşadığı hayatı konu alır.

Moskova'nın Gorky Parkı'nda üç cinayet kurbanı yüzleri ve parmak uçları yüzülmüş bulunduğunda, dedektif Arkady Renko cesetlerin kimliğini tespit etmeye ve katili bulmaya karar verir. Ama kurbanların resimleri netleşmeye başladığında, ipuçları sadece KGB değil, sevdiği kadın Irina'yı da göstermeye başlar. Şimdi gizli polis tarafından aranan ve en yüksek derecede politik aldatma ve ihanet ağıyla karşılaşan Renko, gerçeği bulmak ve katili ortaya çıkartmak için gerekiyorsa kendi sonunu getirecek ve Irina'yı da sonsuza kadar kaybedecektir...

Galyalılar, gökyüzünün başlarına çökmesinden korkarken köylerini kasıp kavuran bir fırtına bu endişelerini gerçek kılacak gibi görünür. Dahası, Hokus Pokus bilincini kaybeder ve sihirli iksir formülü kaybolur. Köy halkı korkuyla dua ederken, gizemli bir kahin Tanrılar tarafından lanetlendiklerini ve köyü terk etmeleri gerektiğini söyler. Asteriks ve Hopdediks dışında herkes köyden ayrılır. Kahin, aslında Romalılarla iş birliği yapmaktadır ve onların planı başarılı gibi görünür. Sezar, Galya'nın fethedildiği haberini alır. Ancak Asteriks ve Hopdediks, umutsuzca köylerini geri kazanma mücadelesi verirken, Hokus Pokus'un bilincinin geri geldiğinden habersizdir.

Franc Roddam'ın 1979 yapımı "Quadrophenia"sı, 1960'larda Mods ve Rockers adlı iki müzik gurubunun rekabetini anlatıyor. The Who grubunun bir albümünden yola çıkan filmde, Sting de ilk beyazperde sınavını veriyor...

Kurbanlarının ve dostlarının Kızıl Korsan olarak tanıdıkları tahta bacaklı deniz haydudu Thomas Bartholomew Red ve ikinci kaptan, batan gemilerinden sağ çıkarlar ve ölmek üzereyken bir İspanyol kalyonu tarafından kurtarılırlar. Mürettebat tarafından hapse atılırlar. Red, geminin kargosunda paha biçilemeyen bir taç olduğunu öğrenir. Artık tek amacı vardır; o tacı ele geçirmek. Zengin dekorlarıyla dikkat çeken film Kostüm Tasarımı dalında Oscar'a aday olmuştu.

Shakespeare'in 3. Richard oyununun oldukça modern biçimde yorumlandığı filmde, Tudor hanedanlığının şeytani olarak andığı, tarihin belki de en acımasız adamlarından biri olan 3. Richard'ı, aktör Ian Mckellen'ın vücudunda Hitler ve Mussolini'yi andıran faşist bir kılıkta izliyoruz.

At yarışı kazasında kör olan genç bir kadın (Mia Farrow) amcasına (Robin Bailey) ait bir konakta yaşamaktadır. Amcasını, yengesini ve kuzenini öldüren psikopat tarafından tehdit edilir. Korku dolu hikaye böylece başlar...

In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the Fengriffen family. The young bride is victim of terrifying visions and apparitions, threatening her very sanity. A London psychiatrist comes to her help and uncovers the terrible secret that haunts the estate.

Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology.

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two become notorious crime lords who rule over the East End club scene. But at the height of their power, the brothers veer into different lives, giving the older crime bosses a chance to reclaim what the Krays took from them.

"Suç Unsuru hangi ülkede olursa olsun en içi geçmiş izleyicileri bile serseme çevirecektir" diye yazıyor Variety dergisi. Danimarkalı sinemacı Von Trier'in ilk filmi, fütüristik bir gerilim, Avrupa üçlemesinin de ilk filmi. Kahire'de sürgünde yaşayan Fisher adında bir İngiliz dedektif, hipnoz altında son görevini hatırlar. Anılarındaki Avrupa çok değişmiştir; bir terk edilmişlik ve çürümüşlük içindedir. Dedektif genç kızları öldüren Loto Katili'ni yakalamakla görevlendirilir.

Dr. Arthur Calgary, Argyle ailesine kayıp eşyasını iade etmek için gittiğinde, oğulları Jack'in annelerini öldürdüğü iddiasıyla idam edildiğini öğrenir. Jack'in suç işlediği sırada aslında masum olduğunu kanıtlayan Calgary, ailenin direnişine rağmen gerçeği ortaya çıkarmaya çalışır. Aile üyelerinin karanlık sırları ve çatışmaları gün yüzüne çıktıkça, gerçek katilin kimliği şaşırtıcı bir şekilde açığa çıkar.

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey and young Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including the deviously vivacious Long Jane Silver.