Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos...

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...

A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous consequences.

A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.

The life of King Henry the Fifth.

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by pirates. The travellers find themselves trapped in a sealed...

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed...

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.

Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret...

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

The wealthy Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff, a young street urchin, welcoming the boy into his stately rural mansion, Wuthering Heights. Though...

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.