British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she's just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
82) Emma
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harriet to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
84) Page eight
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his identity to find out the truth.
85) Adam Bede
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Amphibians and reptiles ruled the world for nearly 200 million years, and today there are well over 14,000 species. Ranging from some of the largest, most deadly creatures on Earth to the smallest and strangest, these are some of the most fascinating and dramatic animals on the planet. Looks at parental and breeding behavior, as well as adaptability. A magnificent overview of life on the planet Earth.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The moving finger: Poison-pen letters cause two deaths in Lymston. Can Miss Marple uncover the killer before there is another?
At Bertram's Hotel: Miss Marple thinks Bertram's is a little too proper & maybe a little sinister. And then Bess Sedgwick & her daughter check in and the doorman turns up dead.
89) North & south
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner, John Thornton.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Sleeping murder: Miss Marple comes to the rescue when a young woman begins seeing the ghost of her murdered stepmother and she may soon become the next victim.
4:50 from Paddington: Two trains briefly draw alongside each other as they race past a country house and, to her horror, Miss Marple's friend Mrs. McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing train car strangling a mystery woman.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple's path.
93) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
94) Threads
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A dramatization of the possible environmental, physical, and psychological consequences of a nuclear attack on England. The story centers on the lives of two young people and their families in Sheffield, England during the events leading up to the attack and for thirteen years afterwards.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The handsome stranger: Gerry is fed up with all the "townies" buying weekend cottages in Dibley. Then she meets one particularly charming newcomer. The vicar in white: After presiding over the marriages of hundred of other people, it appears Gerry's big day has finally arrived.
96) Smiley's people
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
97) I, Clavdivs
Pub. Date
2000
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family
98) Othello
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Richard Price presents the special stage-to-screen studio production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's presentation of Othello by William Shakespeare, directed by Trevor Nunn.
100) Bleak House
Series
Description
Tale of a long extended legal case and the havoc it wrecks in lives over various generations.