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- During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.
- Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
- Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
- In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
- A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.
- When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
- Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.
- The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
- The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
- The life of career criminal Carlton Leach.
- Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
- In 1933, retired detective Hercule Poirot is targeted by a taunting killer who sends letters signed "ABC", which Poirot must decode in order to discover the identity of the murderer.
- John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
- Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
- A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
- Following an incident in her past, Cordelia now lives with her twin sister, Caroline in their late father's basement flat.
- This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
- The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
- Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song: a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.
- When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
- A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
- A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
- A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
- Paranormal investigations into haunted locations, using psychic mediums and scientific equipment.
- A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
- In 1939 when an English hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a rifle, he is captured, tortured and left for dead. He escapes but his captors pursue him to England.
- The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
- Astronomy programme.
- In Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
- Released from a British prison, an American is hired as an electrician for a London bank but his criminal acquaintances show-up and force the reluctant Yank to join them as the inside-man in a well-planned bank heist.
- A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
- David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
- Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin (George Murcell), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works. Petts however gains notoriety in the post office by his ability to outperform the new mechanization which the sorting office has recently installed. Harold becomes a hero when he thwarts the robbers once more when they attempt to steal a mail-bag containing used bank notes which are being returned for destruction. As his reward, Harold gets promoted back to his home village as Postmaster.
- A documentary following US, Peter Brook's experimental play about the moral issues surrounding the Vietnam War, Benefit of the Doubt is the only known film record of the Royal Shakespeare Company production. It was filmed by Peter Whitehead concurrently with his Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967), on the surface a very different film, yet both share a central concern with the war, protest and Britain's political and cultural relationship with America.
- A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Web of Fear" (1968).
- While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.
- PC Jim Carver is sent to the morgue to investigate a suspicious drowning. DI Roy Galloway and DC Mike Dashwood are reprimanded by a judge presiding over a fraud case.
- A tube train arrives at Redbridge station with all its passengers dead and the conductor who found it is also knocked out by nerve gas. Whilst Annabelle is escorting Mrs. Taylor, the widow of one of the dead men, from the morgue, they are held up and Mrs. Taylor is abducted, as later is Jason, whilst investigating at the station. The trail leads to a manufacturing company where Annabelle goes undercover as a secretary though she too is in danger when her employers, criminal speculators out to tap the hotline between the White House and 10 Downing Street, discover who she is.
- Frank is all excited about the prospect of emigrating to Australia with his visiting grandpa, who is getting on Betty's nerves. First Frank demonstrates how a fence can give offense between neighbors. Next he drags Betty to Australia House, where the chief immigration officer is driven to utter despair but unable to make clear how inept Frank is, even if Betty didn't hesitate. Then a chimney-cleaning client, neighbour Lewis, and the milkman all suffer the Spencer inverse-Midas touch, whether they fight it or not.
- With the Russian mole inside MI-5 now in custody, the team tries to decipher the information Lucas North obtained in Moscow. It is apparent that the Russian intelligence service had their own equivalent to the British Sugar Horse network and have sleeper agents across Britain and throughout the various security agencies. Information from the mole indicates that a thermonuclear device will be exploded in central London and offers to reveal the identity of all sleeper agents in the UK if they agree to provide protection and a relocation package. The Russians have issued instructions to kill Harry Pearce and all of the members of Section D so getting to the mole's information will be difficult. Harry decides to meet his Russian counterpart to ensure he knows that they will all die if they don't work together to stop the bombing.
- A reformatory for delinquent boys run by Miss Marple's philanthropic friend becomes the scene of arson and poisoning, and ultimately murder.
- Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella practice for the raid. Tony attacks Eddie Rawlins when he is fed the false information by Boxer, before searching for Linda and Shirley...
- Mycroft calls Sherlock back to London to investigate an underground terrorist organization.
- Peter Hall, who at the time of transmission was running the Royal Shakespeare Company, prepares his latest production of The Scottish Play at Stratford upon Avon.
- Yvette and Jason don 1940s uniforms as the team investigate this London Underground station that served as a WWII air raid shelter. Yvette thinks she sees a figure in the tunnel and a motion detector goes off with no-one there.
- The "Most Haunted" investigation team revisit London's Aldwych Underground railway station as part of this television special event.