Norman Bird Filmes

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into...

Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the...

'Alice' and the children try to foil the attempt of thieves to steal the presents from a wedding reception, with hilarious results.

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second...

Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It...

British TV-Drama

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts...

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is...

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious...

A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost...

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

'Alice's' attempts to help with house decorating result in disaster. She is banished to the tree-house but a violent storm drives her indoors, to the...

William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby...

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama...

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...

Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist...