Rupert Davies

Best remembered as BBC television’s Inspector Maigret, Rupert Davies led a remarkable life shaped by wartime service, imprisonment, theatre and screen work, leaving a legacy of understated craft, resilience and enduring character acting that was cut tragically short

War and Peace

The BBC's epic 1972 adaptation follows the intertwined lives of Russian aristocrats during the Napoleonic Wars, exploring love, family, war, and personal transformation through a faithful, character-driven retelling of Leo Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece

The Tenth Planet

As the Solar System’s newest planet reveals a terrifying secret, the Doctor and his companions confront the emotionless Cybermen at a remote Antarctic base. Amid humanity's fight for survival, the Doctor faces his own greatest challenge as his first incarnation reaches its end

The Best of...Steptoe and Son - The Desperate Hours

On a bitterly cold winter's day, escaped convicts Johnny and Frank take refuge in the Steptoes' freezing home, where unexpected friendships and striking parallels reveal that life in Oil Drum Lane can feel like a prison itself

Star Trek: Picard

Jean-Luc is an elderly gent weathered by grief, regret and anger. Haunted by memories of a career-ending catastrophe at Starfleet, he passes time by tending to the soil at the Picard vineyard in France. But all that is about to change...

Ozark

When Marty Byrde's business partner is caught skimming money off a drug cartel's profits, it's Marty and his family who have to pay off the debt. Everyone else has been murdered...

Colony in Space

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to the distant colony world of Uxarieus, where greedy mining interests, desperate settlers, ancient secrets and the Master's search for a devastating super-weapon threaten the planet's future

The Best Of...I Love Lucy

Desperate to prove she belongs on Ricky's television show, Lucy schemes her way into starring in a live commercial for the health tonic Vitameatavegamin, with hilariously disastrous results after sampling rather too much of the alcoholic elixir

The Demon Headmaster

Orphaned schoolgirl Dinah Glass discovers her new headmaster can hypnotise pupils into total obedience. Joining forces with her foster brothers, she forms a secret resistance to stop the sinister Demon Headmaster's increasingly dangerous plans for absolute control

Liza of Lambeth

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of Liza of Lambeth, based on W. Somerset Maugham's experience of poverty-stricken London slum life while he was an intern at St. Thomas’s Hospital, was an ambitious attempt to bring his uncompromising first novel to television

Barbapapa

Created from a chance encounter with the French word for candy floss, Barbapapa follows a lovable family of colourful shape-shifters whose imaginative adventures celebrate kindness, creativity and teamwork. The series has delighted children for over five decades

Little Dorrit

The BBC's acclaimed adaptation of Little Dorrit transforms Dickens' sprawling novel into a gripping drama, blending mystery, romance and social satire through outstanding performances, sumptuous production values and a moving exploration of love, greed, imprisonment and redemption

The Cruel Necessity

The Cruel Necessity dramatises the 1649 trial of Charles I using much of the original courtroom dialogue, exploring Oliver Cromwell's justification for the King's execution and the moral, legal, and political consequences of this historic event

At Home with the Braithwaites

A lottery win transforms the Braithwaites from an ordinary Leeds family into a magnet for scandal, secrets and chaos. Sally Wainwright's witty drama mixes sharp comedy with soap-opera twists to show that money often creates more problems than it solves

The Claws of Axos

When the mysterious Axons offer Earth a miracle substance capable of ending world hunger, the Doctor suspects a trap. As the truth behind the alien gift emerges, he must stop a parasitic organism from consuming the planet—and time itself