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- An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
- A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
- A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride.
- In the middle of World War I, nine British soldiers caught behind enemy lines seek refuge in a complex network of German trenches. What they soon discover is that they aren't alone - and it isn't a German soldier that's hunting them down.
- Somewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer named Victor Hazell wants to buy. When he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto them, they decide to get even with him and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
- Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at Carne School, a boy's school. When Smiley goes to Carne to investigate, he finds the junior master's wife brutualy murdered, with her husband as one of the suspects. Smiley begins to scratch at the surface of the closed-knit society of Carne, and soon begins to find that things are not as they seem. Secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy, Timothy Perkins, who is either another suspect, witness, or victim.
- The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
- A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.
- A look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi.
- A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.
- An Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.
- The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.
- Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off.
- When Bess Throckmorton encounters Sir Walter Raleigh's ghost, she is persuaded to help the spirit. Upon learning that Bess' family farm is endangered, Sir Walter devises a scheme to help her family keep the farm and avenge his cruel fate.
- It's a period tale of a circus girl (Tilda) who helps an orphan boy escape the clutches of the evil Rev Glasson, leading to an incredible canal boat adventure.
- Gabriele is a successful antiques dealer in Paris, but he's dogged by dreams of his childhood in Italy, where he was raised by a loving mother, the kept mistress of Gabriele's father, a wealthy patriarch. When she dies, Gabriele is "adopted" into his father's affluent family, but his bastard status elicits resentment and cruelty from his step-brothers. Still hurting and haunted years later, Gabriele hatches a plan for revenge.
- 198920m7.7 (10)TV ShortAn overview of the making of _Danny the Champion of the World (1989) (TV)_
- TV Mini Series
- Two unorthodox police officers are called to investigate dodgy dealings at Wetherton rugby club after the body of their star player's wife is found dead at home.
- 1996–20071h 30mTV-147.5 (204)TV EpisodeWhen the body of a school principal, thought to be buried in Austria, is found under her own memorial in the school grounds, police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are called in to piece together the circumstances surrounding her untimely death.
- Crime drama based on the novel by Reginald Hill, about two police colleagues, one of whom gets involved in some strange goings on at a country house, whilst the other gets married.
- Teen-aged Pauline Stanhope becomes the fourth victim of the Yorkshire Choker, a serial killer who strangles girls and then phones the local paper, quoting lines from 'Hamlet' - which is the play being staged by Ellie's teacher friend Mark Wildgoose, at the school attended by the girls. Dalziel, however, suspects gypsy Dave Lee, who rowed with one of the victims - a fact which brings him into conflict with the formidable gypsy rights lawyer Adi Pritchard. To help trap the killer a medium and linguistic expert are brought in but Peter solves the case by studying an old thespian photograph.
- The two detectives investigate a string of bizarre, seemingly accidental deaths occurring over three decades which somehow or other all involve the same man.
- Peter is called out to investigate the murder of elderly Robert Deeks, an old soldier whose medals were also stolen. On the same night, Andy is accused of drunk driving, resulting in the death of an old cyclist, though Andy's friend, sober Arnie Bancroft, claims to have been the driver. With Andy on suspension, Peter looks into the murder and it turns out to be no coincidence that Mr Deeks' grandson Charley is in the same regiment as one Major Kassell, whom Andy suspects of being involved in a heroin-smuggling ring, and that Charley's fiancée Karen is a tarty waitress at the function that Andy attended. Peter learns why Andy let people assume he was a drunk driver as the parallel cases are closed.
- Peter and Ellie take a holiday in the Cotswold village of Thornton Lacey, staying with old college friends - one of whom, author Colin Hopkins, has written a new book that gives a thinly veiled account of some of the villagers' dark secret. When Colin's wife is murdered and Colin disappears, Peter investigates - though his help is not entirely appreciated by local superintendent Backhouse. At the same time Peter finds a connection with a thief nicknamed the Micturator - after his habit of urinating in victims' kettles.
- As Gwendoline Huby is being laid to rest her funeral is interrupted by Alessandro Pontelli, who claims to be her son Alexander, missing in action in Italy in 1944. The other heirs are not happy - especially bluff John Huby though hotelier Stephanie Windibanks is more philosophical. She believes Pontelli is genuine, having a birthmark she remembers. The family's former housekeeper Ella Keech claims there was no birthmark. Then Pontelli is shot dead. At the same time Wieldy is visited by a gay youth who knows that the policeman is a closet gay himself. The boy is also murdered and is ultimately found to have a link to the Huby family.
- The discovery of a skeleton deep underground in a mine shaft brings Dalziel and Pascoe to the Yorkshire coalfield. When the body is confirmed as a man missing for ten years they realise that they have a murder to investigate. Raking over the past proves difficult for the local population as old wounds are re-opened and old grievances come to the fore. As the investigation progresses the acrimony increases and various relationships come under strain. As the police home in on the culprit the locals take the law into their own hands with tragic consequences.
- Dalziel almost witnesses a shooting which two witnesses claim was a beautiful woman trying to commit suicide by shooting herself in the face. He is convinced it is murder. Ironically, Dalziel and his suspect (Philip Swain) are cast in a cathedral mystery play as God and the devil, respectively. A young missing husband, a series of letters to Dalziel by an intended suicide, heroin in the autopsy, changes in testimony, and bodies buried in concrete add to the drama facing Dalziel and Pascoe.
- Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel goes to The British Grenadier to console the pub's owner Stella, who has just had a serious fight with her husband. Suspecting her of infidelity, Stella's husband returns with a gun, and takes his wife, Andy, and a number of patrons hostage.
- Inspector Pascoe's grandmother dies, and he sets out to discover the truth about his grandfather: why he disappeared during WWI. Pascoe is falsely told that his grandfather was a deserter but continues his quest. An animal rights group, in a seemingly unrelated incident, attacks a pharmaceutical firm's labs. The leader (Amanda Marvell) escapes to the woods nearby and falls over a skeleton. Dalziel is attracted to Marvell but relentlessly sets out to solve the murder of her disciple, though her Jeep is involved. Flashbacks are used to show the threads linking the two cases. The skeleton is found to have arsenic in the bones; Marvell's brother's death in Africa is suspected not to be accidental; Dalziel discovers the theft of experimental data from the lab, showing it not to have a purely beneficent medical mission in Africa; and Pascoe proves his grandfather was innocent.
- Peter is asked to protect Barney Winkler, a German academic whose book on the Cold war has put him in danger from former Stasi members. Winkler is seen in conversation with an ex-associate Leon Falke, who is murdered, Winkler disappearing soon after, his abandoned car dumped in the sea. Andy is holidaying in Scarborough where he meets old flame Florence Stockton, a much-married lady. Several of Florence's ex-husbands turn up mysteriously dead in Yorkshire. Andy is called back to look into the German's disappearance. Florence also knew Winkler. Is she the link to the murders or is it, as Andy suspects, cloak and dagger - or even professional jealousy in the groves of Academe?