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Season 1
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Where to Watch Season 1
23 Episodes
- ExilesE2
ExilesA television play by HUGH WHITEMORE based on Exiles by MICHAEL J. ARLEN starring Alan Badel as Michael Arlen, Martin Shaw as his son, Michael J. Susan Engel as his mother, Atalanta and Ned Sherrin as Noel Coward Michael Arlen , author of The Green Hat , was one of the most successful popular novelists of the 20s. He was also an exile; an Armenian born in Bulgaria, but brought up in England and resident for the last years of his life in the USA. Now, after his death, and the decline in the popularity of his works, his son looks back on his life, and tries to make sense of it. - The Sinking of HMS Victoria
E4The Sinking of HMS VictoriaThe Sinking of HMS Victoria by James Warner Bellah and Donald MacIntyre. Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is sunk in a collision resulting in a grievous loss of life. - Arnhem: The Story of an EscapeE8
Arnhem: The Story of an EscapeGraeme Warrack was Divisional Chief Doctor of the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. With other doctors, medical personnel and padres, he stayed behind with the wounded. The first improvised hospital was a German-occupied Dutch military barracks at Apeldoorn. From here, the wounded were transported to prisoner of war camps in Germany. As the last of the wounded left, Colonel Warrack escaped. - A Visit From Miss Prothero
E10A Visit From Miss ProtheroArthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it. - The Dissolution of Marcus FleischmanE13
The Dissolution of Marcus FleischmanMaria Warburg and Cyril Shaps in The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman by STEPHEN DAVIS. ' Please God, it will be next year in Jerusalem '. For Zelda, and for many like her, it was next year in Manchester - for her husband Marcus the future was even more unexpected. - The O'Hooligan FileE14
The O'Hooligan FilePat Heywood and Allan Surtees in The O'Hooligan File by JANEY PREGER. ' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp. - Ice AgeE22
Ice AgeIce Age by TANKRED DORST , translated by NEVILLE PLAICE AND STEPHEN PLAICE starring Anthony Quayle with Mike Gwilym , Joyce Redman Michael Williams. ' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
