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Play for Today (1970)

Summary: BBC anthology series featuring original plays, theatrical and literary adaptations from 1970-1984. Over 300 episodes aired, each 50 mins to 1 hr 40 mins long. Some were later developed into series, like Rumpole of the Bailey.
Release Date: October 15, 1970
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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BBC Play of the Month (1965)

Summary: Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Release Date: October 19, 1965
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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American Friends (1991)

Summary: Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming ...
Release Date: March 22, 1991
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Tristram Powell
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Writers: Michael Palin
Michael PalinWriter
Michael Palin ethnicity
White Male
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, Tristram Powell
Tristram PowellWriter
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White Male
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Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: PG
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), British Screen Productions, Mayday
Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Domestic: $ 23,034
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The Bill (1984)

Summary: Police drama series following the professional and personal lives of officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London, England.
Release Date: October 16, 1984
Genres: Drama, Crime
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Thames Television, Talkback Thames
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Casualty (1986)

Summary: British medical drama following the Doctors, Nurses and Patients at the frenetic Accident and Emergency department set in the fictional Holby City Hospital, located in the fictional county of Wyvern in the southwest of England.
Release Date: September 28, 1998
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 0 h 50 min
MPAA: TV-PG
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Oliver Twist (2005)

Summary: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Release Date: September 24, 2005
Genres: Drama, Crime
Director: Roman Polanski
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Writers: Charles Dickens
Charles DickensWriter
Charles Dickens ethnicity
White Male
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, Ronald Harwood
Ronald HarwoodWriter
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Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG
Production: R.P. Productions, Runteam II Ltd., ETIC Films
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Television
Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, France, United States, Czech Republic
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 60,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,080,321
International: $ 40,500,000
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Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

Summary: Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
Release Date: March 24, 1979
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Runtime: 0 h 25 min
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Anglia Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Summary: The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Release Date: December 16, 1966
Genres: Drama, Biography, History
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Writer: Robert Bolt
Robert BoltWriter
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Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: G
Production: Highland Films
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, Netflix, The Criterion Channel
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
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The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972)

Summary: A thoroughbred horse in 19th century England is adopted by a widowed doctor and befriended by his children. The horse helps the children as they have weekly adventures and encounters with various characters.
Release Date: September 17, 1972
Genres: Adventure, Family
Runtime: 0 h 55 min
MPAA: Not Rated
Production: London Weekend Television (LWT), Talbot Television, The Fremantle Corporation
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Yes, Prime Minister (1986)

Summary: James Hacker was propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - Number 10.
Release Date: January 09, 1986
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 0 h 30 min
MPAA: TV-PG
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Midsomer Murders (1997)

Summary: A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
Release Date: June 28, 1998
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Bentley Productions, ITV - Independent Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Foyle's War (2002)

Summary: As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Release Date: February 02, 2003
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Greenlit Productions, Paddock Productions
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Rumpole of the Bailey (1978)

Summary: The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
Release Date: April 03, 1978
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: Not Rated
Production: Thames Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)

Summary: Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
Release Date: September 20, 1971
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Runtime: 0 h 50 min
MPAA: 13+
Production: Pearson Television International, Thames Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Jinnah (1998)

Summary: The story of the Indian politician Muhammad Ali Jinnah who successfully campaigned for an independent Pakistan and became its first Governor-General.
Release Date: November 07, 1998
Genres: Drama, Biography, War
Director: Jamil Dehlavi
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Jamil Dehlavi ethnicity
Indian Male
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Writers: Akbar Ahmed
Akbar AhmedWriter
Akbar Ahmed ethnicity
Arab Male
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, Jamil Dehlavi
Jamil DehlaviWriter
Jamil Dehlavi ethnicity
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, Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh DhondyWriter
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Indian Male
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Runtime: 1 h 50 min
Production: Dehlavi Films, Petra Film, The Quaid Project
Countries: United Kingdom, Pakistan, India
Language: Urdu
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
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Crown Court (1972)

Summary: A courtroom drama in which each case is usually presented in three episodes. At the end of the third episode, a jury of "ordinary people" comes to a verdict on the evidence presented.
Release Date: October 18, 1972
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 0 h 25 min
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Granada Television, ITV - Independent Television, Independent Television (ITV)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Armchair Theatre (1956)

Summary: This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Release Date: July 08, 1956
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
Production: ABC Weekend Television, Thames Television
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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The Champions (1968)

Summary: After a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilit...
Release Date: September 25, 1968
Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
Production: Incorporated Television Company (ITC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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The New Statesman (1987)

Summary: The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.
Release Date: September 13, 1987
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 h 10 min
MPAA: TV-14
Production: Alomo Productions, SelecTV, Yorkshire Television (YTV)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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Out of the Unknown (1965)

Summary: A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.
Release Date: October 04, 1965
Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English