By Common Consent 1975
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
A striptease artist is prosecuted for indecency. Meanwhile, his aunt wants him to visit her, before she dies.
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The man is the living image of Harrow's nightmare figures, Clutched in his hand is a human finger bone and he speaks a strange, unknown tongue,
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.
A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he guess someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
The future. The TAU-mode shuttle carries passengers to Australia through the earth's crust. When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue is the experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; which its creator is unsure about.
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.
In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms.
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.
A team of soldiers breaks into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission, they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. That's the plan, at least
The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.
A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property.
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
A boy reflects on time he spent staying with his aunt and uncle.