John Normington

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy...

Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the...

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance...

Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation immigrants. The attempt drowns in paper until the...

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr....

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an...

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a...

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Terra Alpha, where the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover a society in which sadness is against the law - a law...

Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international...

Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he...

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey....

Weird tale of a sci fi convention and a family who are apparently being taken over by vegetables.

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to...

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one...

Play on the problems of alcoholism.

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...

A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the...

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public...

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play....

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He...

Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week,...

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting...

Dr. Sam Bliss, a medical research scientist based at Cambridge University, investigates bizarre and unexplained deaths, with the help of his...

A female prosecuting solicitor has the toughest of jobs on her hands when she has to take over from a male whose conduct is less than professional.

'My word is my bond. And I thought only schmucks do business like that.' Gino, a Russian gangster, is playing for higher stakes than most when he...

Gerald has been separated from his wife and children for twenty-one years. Now ailing physically and mentally, he contacts them in the hope of a...

An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to politics...

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone...

Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.

Medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.