Anton Rodgers

İngiltere'nin hayali Midsomer kontluğunda hayat kartpostal kadar huzurlu görünür, ta ki ilk ceset bulunana kadar. Müfettiş Barnaby, güler yüzlü köylülerin arkasına saklanmış sırları ve akla gelmeyecek cinayet yöntemlerini çözmeye çalışır.

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.

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.

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.

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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.

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.

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.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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.

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

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.

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.

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.

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

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.

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.

Bir kış gecesi, 7 erkek ve bir kadın komando, Almanya’da yüksek bir tepeye inerler. Amaçları; erişilemez denilen Gestapo’nun merkezine ulaşmaktır. Görevleri ise, Amerikan generali Nazilerin elinden kurtarmaktır.

Başkan Charles De Gaulle'un Fransız Cezayir'ini özgür bırakma planından hazetmeyen bir grup Fransız paramiliteri, De Gaulle'ü öldürmeyi planlar. Planlarını gerçekleştirmek için grup "The Jackal" olarak bilinen bir İngiliz suikastçı kiralar. Plan Fransız polisi tarafından ortaya çıkarılır ve müfettiş Lebel, The Jackal'ın takibindedir.

Lawrence (Michael Caine) nazik ve usta bir sosyete dolandırıcısı, Freddy (Steve Martin) ise sadece bir sahtekardır. Lawrence, Freddy deki sahtekarlık cevherini görünce onu kendinden uzaklaştırmaya çalışır fakat, Freddy yanından ayrılmaz. Bunun üzerin Lawrence hırsızlık ve dolandırıcılık konusunda Freddy'e ders vermeye başlar. Yalnız dersler ilerledikçe aralarında bir rekabet baş gösterir. En sonunda otelin lobisinde gördükleri bir bayanın 50.000 dolarını almak üzere bahse girerler.

1500’lerin Venedik’inde, genç Bassanio güzeller güzeli Portia’nın kalbine giden yolu fethetmeye kararlıdır. Ama talibi çok olan bu genç hanımı elde etmek için çıkacağı yolculukta ona para lazımdır. Bunun üzerine tacir dostu Antonio’ya gider. Oysa iyi niyetli adam tüm parasını seyahatteki gemilerine bağlanmıştır. Dostuna yardım etmeye kararlı olan Antonio, faizsiz borç verdiği için nefretini kazanmış olduğu Yahudi tefeci Shylock’a başvurmak zorunda kalır. İntikam vaktinin geldiğini anlayan Shylock belki de hayatında ilk kez faiz işletmeden borç vermeyi kabul eder ama eğer parayı zamanında geri alamazsa her gecikme için Antonio’nun etinden bir parça almak üzere anlaşır.

Prenses Yasemin (Debrah Farentino) kaçırılmıştır. Başmüfettiş Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) onu bulmakla görevlendirilir. Araştırması sırasında karşısına Jandarma Jacques Gambrelli (Roberto Benigni) çıkar. Gambrelli, Jacques Clouseau'nun gayrimeşru oğludur.

İngiliz casusu John Preston'ın rütbesi (Michael Caine), kısa süre önce patronu tarafından iyi niyetli ancak onaylanmamış bir görev nedeniyle indirilir, KGB ajanı Valeri Petrofsky'nin (Pierce Brosnan) İngiliz topraklarında nükleer bomba inşa etmeye ve patlatmaya çalışan gizli bir planına rastlar. MI5 yöneticisinin desteğiyle, birkaç amiriyle hala anlaşmazlık yaşayan Preston, çok geç olmadan komployu ortaya çıkarmaya ve bozmaya çalışır.

Film, daha çok George Sand adıyla bilinen Aandine Aurore Lucie Dupin’in öyküsü. Erkek adı kullanan, yaşadığı 1800’lü yıllarda hiçbir kadının yapmaya cesaret edemeyeceği şekilde pantolon giyen ve aslında en çok da aşklarıyla hatırlanan George Sand’in öyküsü...

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.

Charles Dickens klasiği Scrooge bu kez müzikale dönüştürülmüş. Ebenezer Scrooge (Albert Finney) çok zengin ama taş kalpli ve cimri bir adamdır. Geçmişin, şimdinin ve geleceğin Noel hayaletleri yine yalnız geçirdiği bir Noel akşamı Scrooge’u geçmişini yeniden gözden geçirmeye zorlar ve eğer bu şekilde yaşamaya devam ederse geleceğinin nasıl olacağını ona gösterirler. Alec Guinness, Kenneth Moore, Laurance Naismith ve Edith Evans başarılı performanslarıyla dikkat çekici! Müzikler, sahne ve kostümler mükemmel! 1951 versiyonunun vermekte başarılı olamadığı detaylar bu kez seyirciye çok iyi yansıtılmış. Noel hediyeleri alınırken, zenginlerin düşünmeden hediye alıp geçmesi ama fakir bir adamın minnettar bir şekilde15 şiline hediye seçmeye çalışması en etkileyici sahnelerden…

II.Dünya Savaşı devam ederken Winston Churchill ve İngiliz Başkomutanı sıradışı bir plan hazırlarlar. Amaç, meşhur Nazi altınlarının saklandığı yeri bulmaktır. Altınların peşine düşen İngiliz askerleri, kendilerini büyük bir maceranın ortasında bulurlar.

A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.

Frank Machin (Richard Harris) güçlü yapısı ve "vahşi" karakteriyle rugby sporunun zirvesine çıkmaya adaydır. Margaret Hammond (Rachel Roberts) ise Frank'in, kocasını iş kazasında kaybetmiş dul ve iki çocuklu ev sahibesidir. Frank, Margarete karşı hisler beslemekte ve hatta onunla ilgili evlilik planları yapmaktadır. Ancak Margaret, Frank ile arasındaki mesafeyi korumaya kararlıdır.

When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins

Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The film dwells on their parallel lives.

Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.

Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.

An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.

Adapted from the play by the British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, as part of BBC Play of the Month. It depicts the vicissitudes of a reformed philanderer attempting to embark on monogamy.