British TV & Films 1978 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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- StarsTed RogersDusty BinChris EmmettThree couples compete in a missing word game, with the winning couple going on to solve riddles left by guest performers to win prizes and avoid Dusty Bin's booby prize.
- StarsFrank DuncanPeter BanksEd BishopA series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
- StarsMaureen LipmanJohn FlanaganMaria CharlesAlison "Maureen Lipman" and Jack "John Flanagan" Holmes Are a chalk and cheese couple. She is intelligent and works hard. He is a self confident but unemployed dreamer whose plans to get rich quickly end in disaster.
- StarsJenny LaceyAnna Calder-MarshallRalph BatesFour dramas followed by four documentaries, all examining the subject of how women fit into the modern world, stepping outside of their traditional gender rôles, often to the chagrin of the men.
- StarsMichelle NewellDaniel HillJane CollinsFollowing a car crash, the lives of the ten people involved in it become intertwined. Each episode concentrated on the accident as it affected one person or one couple.
- DirectorColin GreggStarsDanny SimpsonJon CroftJanette LeggeAn investigation of a family's dilemma when the 18 year old son, trained by his ambitious father for the local wrestling championships, receives his call up papers for WWI.
- StarsKate WilliamsJames GroutGillian RaineComedy drama about two large, inter-related south London families who struggle to believe that blood is thicker than water.
- StarsAnthony StorrSally KnyvetteLouisa RixSeries featuring dramatizations of real-life cases where four young women of differing backgrounds have run away from home.
- StarsEmma BakhleBernadette WindsorPhyllida LawYoung Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for eternity.
- StarsRichard VernonBrenda BruceIan HolmShort series of plays by leading British dramatists.
- StarsNorman BeatonCorinne Skinner-CarterJoseph MarcellA soap opera, similar in format to Coronation Street (1960), this show depicted life for the African-Caribbean, East Indian, and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham.
- DirectorChristopher MongerStarsSaadi ArajiLee BuickBarry Cook
- DirectorKieran HickeyStarsCatherine SchellT.P. McKennaBosco HoganSet on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel with a French girl photographer.
- DirectorDonovan WinterStarsSylvia SymsDerren NesbittJames KerryMasked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
- CreatorLynn HughesStarsJohn OgwenPhilip MadocTom OwenFive-part BBC series from 1978 about the escapades of Welsh folk hero Twm Siôn Cati.
- StarsSarah BullenRobert GrangeAnthony SmeeDrama series about a family of provincial Auctioneers.
- StarsPaul CurranPeter SettelenStanley LeborA motley group of people - a Russian princess, an English poet and a retired Scots grocer among them - are brought together at Huntingtower. But why?
- StarsDavid RoperPeter SallisSally KinghornDavid Roper and Peter Sallis starred in this comedy series. Charlie Fisher (David Roper) is a keen young agent for the Lancastrian Insurance Company whose benevolent deeds invariably backfire.
- StarsLennie BennettJerry StevensAlyn AinsworthLennie Bennett and Jerry Stevens perform comedy and song, and introduce special guests, along with variety acts from all over the world.
- DirectorGerry O'HaraStarsSusan PenhaligonKeir DulleaJeremy KempA beautiful young woman is driving through the English countryside during a terrible snowstorm. She wrecks her car, and is found by a bitter, reclusive former American racecar driver, who was crippled in an accident. He has some secrets of his own that are hidden. The two fall in love with each other, and he almost blows things with her. He had to learn that sometimes love doesn't come easily, and when it does after a struggle, it is even more precious.
- DirectorJames Kenelm ClarkeStarsFiona RichmondRobin AskwithAnthony SteelA soldier returning from World War II gets mixed up in a series of murders and mistaken identies regarding a cigarette lighter than affects all electric power.
- DirectorMaurice HattonStarsCharles GormleyNeville SmithAnn ZeldaFilmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking.
- DirectorKeith BeckettStarsGemma CravenLewis CollinsRobert DorningThe story of a famous TV star and an unknown young actress. Their paths cross, they fall in love, and it ends happily ever after.
- StarsJack SmethurstRichard VernonRachel DaviesThe traditional early Sunday evening religious slot on ITV underwent a transformation with a series of five contemporary plays based on the parables from the gospels.
- StarsNick StringerPhilip JacksonAntony SherComedy series about the everyday events in a small town in Northern England.
- StarsDerek SmithRhoda LewisRoy MacreadyIn the BBC's 1978 Pinocchio TV series, a wooden puppet comes to life and embarks on a whimsical journey to become a real boy.
- DirectorMartyn BurkeStarsPeter O'TooleDavid HemmingsDonald PleasenceIn an unnamed country rife with internal troubles, Narriman, a loyal army colonel, has his conscience pricked into planning a coup d'etat, under the influence of a dissident intellectual.
- StarsJeanette BatemanLydia BlackmanJean BohtRapunzel's story from Grimm's fairytales is retold and reinterpreted several times to examine feminist issues. There's the male voyeur as film noir detective; a raunchy cartoon Venus who's a witch; a melodrama of menopausal angst and Rapunzel's own live-action tale.
- DirectorJustin CartwrightStarsDebbie AshCarolyne ArgyleBeryl ReidYoung Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
- StarsAnnie RossNorma WestDiana DaviesStories of girls on a Sales Promotion Team.
- DirectorDigby RumseyCompilation of four short films by Digby Rumsey: For All the Immigrants in England, Windows, Nature and Time and The Moonlight Comb. Also includes new linking footage.
- StarsJeremy ClydePhil DavisLinal HaftPrivate detective Sexton Blake and Tinker find themselves on the trail of worshipers of an ancient Egyptian cult
- DirectorRod AmateauStarsBud CortPeter CushingFelicity DeanThe leader of a right-wing German political party discovers that an illiterate woodcarver is actually the son of Adolf Hitler. He kidnaps the young man from a mental institution and prepares him to start the Fourth Reich.
- DirectorSteven RumbelowStarsMonica BuferdParallels are drawn between St. Joan and Adolph Hitler, which exposes a sometimes fraudulent, megalomanic self-love on the part of the subject.
- DirectorRobert EndersStarsGlenda JacksonMona WashbourneAlec McCowenThis biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.
- DirectorRichard WoolleyStarsBridget AshburnErica BurkePatricia DonovanThe lives of two households - one middle class, the other working class - focusing on the women's roles and their emancipation.
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsJames WoodsWilliam HootkinsShane RimmerActuaries. Ethics. And One Billion Dollars.
- StarsJane LapotaireJohn DuttineChristopher GableHenry Plantagenet (later King Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.
- StarsKenny EverettHot GossipAnna DawsonThis show featured music set to imagery, just prior to MTV. Most of it was concert footage though some had effects and a theme. It had a choreography segment featuring dancers known as "Hot Gossip".
- CreatorColin RogersStarsSuzanne NeveJames MaxwellCarl AndrewsDrama set in a centre where people in trouble can get free legal help.
- StarsLes DawsonRoy BarracloughThe Roly PolysA variety show hosted by Les Dawson featuring sketch comedy, as well as stand-up comedy, guest appearances, dance numbers, and musical performances.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsNeil JohnstonPatti LoveJeff RawleGerman poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht never produced a fully revised version of Baal, his first play (1918), and so the text can be considered fair game for further work. Director Edward Bennett hasn't simply filmed this version of the play, he has risen to the challenge of producing a reading of it. Brecht at one level retains sympathy for Baal; but Bennett never does. He reformulates the play as a powerful critique of the notion of the artist as a kind of social outlaw, and resolves the sexual, moral and political issues into urgent, provocative questions!
- StarsSyd LittleEddie LargeRonnie HazlehurstSyd Little and Eddie Large present their own comedy show, which mixes stand-up, sketches, musical guests, and variety acts.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGraham ChapmanDavid JasonDiana QuickArthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks, he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp when the doorbell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
- DirectorCecil PettyStarsJulia GamboldGary DundavinAlex McCrindle
- DirectorJack GoldStarsTom BellShope ShodeindeElton CharlesSet in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria provides an unusual historical representation of a black person's experience of England.
- CreatorAlastair BalfourPeter MayStarsPatrick MalahideColette O'NeilNeil StacyInvestigative reporter Colin Anderson joins the Scottish Daily Standard, a newspaper with financial problems and an uncertain future
- CreatorJohn SichelStarsDiane CilentoNorman RodwayChristopher GableAfter the death of businessman Sir Sydney Clark, his widow Diana investigates some of the mysteries of his life and work.
- DirectorDerek FordStarsNicholas FieldFelicity DevonshireJohn Le MesurierWhen Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients. Of course Dr. Todd is no prude, and it isn't long before he's joining in on all the lusty, after-hours fun.
- DirectorDerek FordStarsChristopher MitchellJulia GoodmanHarry H. CorbettA doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
- DirectorDavid GrantStarsMichael WatkinsSteve AmberPat AstleyHaving lost his license through driving under the influence of drink, Tom hires Bente, an au pair, to be his chauffeur. He readily succumbs to her charms, resulting in his wife Jacqui hiring her own male au pair, Aron.