Thomas Baptiste

Afrika’daki bir ülkede, bir diktatör iktidarı ele geçirir ve iyi kalpli başkanı zindana atar. Ticari çıkarlarını korumak amacıyla, uluslararası bir şirket yaşlı ama sağlam paralı askerlerden oluşan bir ekibi gönderir. Görevleri, eski başkanı yeniden göreve getirmektir. Tam başkanı kurtarmışlarken, şirket onlara ihanet eder ve arkalarından vurur. Elbette bu durum paralı askerleri oldukça sinirlendirir — ve artık intikam zamanı gelmiştir.

Amerikalı maceraperest Jamie Shannon, bir İngiliz maden şirketi tarafından Batı Afrika'daki Zangaro'da darbe düzenlemekle görevlendirilir. Şirket, ülkenin zengin kaynaklarını ele geçirmek için her yolu mübah görür. Shannon, başlangıçta bu görevi sadece bir "emeklilik fonu" olarak düşünse de, Zangaro'daki vahşi diktatörlüğü ve şirketin karanlık planlarını görünce vicdanıyla yüzleşir. Beş paralı askerden oluşan ekibiyle darbeyi gerçekleştirir, ancak yerine getirilen sözde "ılımlı" liderin de aslında bir kukla olduğunu fark eder.

Londra'da, bir casusluk ajanı İngiliz bilim adamlarının çocuk kaçırma ve beyin yıkama olaylarını soruştururken, bir yandan da kendi bürokrasisiyle uğraşmaktadır.

Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

The Beatles dolu bir komedi filmi. İster Help! albümlerindeki parçalardan oluşan soundtracki olsun, ister Ringo'nun peşine düşen Doğulu ekip olsun, the Beatles hayranıysanız sizi çok eğlendireceği garanti!

John Shaft, fiziksel güç tehdidi, para vaadi ve güzel bir öğretmenin cazibesiyle Afrika'da anadilini konuşan gezgin bir işçi kimliğine bürünmeye ikna edilir. Görevi, göçmenleri Avrupa'ya kaçıran ve sonra da onları sömüren bir çetenin çökertilmesine yardımcı olmaktır. Ancak kötü adamlar onun yolda olduğunu duymuştur.

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Boşanmış çalışan kadın Alex ve varlıklı Yahudi aile doktoru Daniel Hirsh sadece aynı telesekreter servisini değil, aynı zamanda ruh haline göre aralarında yatak değiştiren genç Bob Elkin'in iyiliklerini de paylaşıyorlar. Hem Alex hem de Dr. Hirsh birbirlerinin varlığından haberdarlar ancak Elkin'i tamamen kaybetme riskinden sebep bu durumu bilerek yaşamayı tercih ediyorlar. Ancak Londra'da yağışlı bir kış hafta sonu zor olabilir.

A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.

Güney Fransa'da geçen bu romantik komedide, Nijerya'lı bir kadının yeniden evlenmek istemesiyle, beklenmedik komik gelişmeler yaşanmaya başlar. Güney Fransa'nın adeta bir tablo gibi güzel kıyılarında yaşayan Nimi da Silva, soyu kadınların hakim olduğu Nijerya'ya uzanan dul bir kadındır. Görünürde huzur dolu bir yaşamı vardır. Bir gün ele avuca sığmaz oğlu Sammy ile beraber, bölgenin yerlilerinden olan Matthew Fleld (Colin Firth) adında bir çizgi roman yazarı ile tanışırlar. Sammy için adeta bir kahraman olan Matthew aynı zamanda annesi için de çok uygun bir koca adayıdır! Ancak Rue Bonaparte kadınlarının, Nimi'yi yörenin saygın beyefendilerinden Reverend Fola ile evlendirmek gibi bir planları vardır. Acaba Nimi zengin Reverend'le mi evlenecek, yoksa kalbinin sesini mi dinleyecektir?

Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

Soho strip club compère Sammy Lee struggles to stay one step ahead of the notorious bookie, to whom he owes £300.

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.

On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.

A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent poachers. As if that wasn't hard enough, he has to deal with his estranged father, now a safari guide, and with the woman they both love.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.

The Fosters is a British sitcom created and written by Jon Watkins and Eric Monte. It showcases the early work of Lenny Henry as the budding artist son of easygoing family man Samuel Foster (Norman Beaton). The series follows the day-to-day trials of Samuel, his lively wife Pearl (both immigrants from Guyana) and their three children on a South London housing estate.

Rockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.

The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.

The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.

Anthology series of six plays by writers new to television.

Drama, set in Scotland, about the world of boxing.