Edgar is a railway carriage cleaner. His basic philosophy in life is that any evil thought or action results in injury to one's nearest and dearest. He has a pretty miserable existence. Edgar's philosophy of sex is that if you have any sexual thoughts or commit any sexual acts there will be repurcussions that will cause injury to those you hold nearest and dearest.
A dull vacation at a holiday camp becomes interesting when the holidaying teenagers bump into 'Sherry', a female impersonator.
A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.
A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.
n ITV Playhouse drama The Substitute young Rod is finding it hard going living in one of the new inner-city tower blocks. His brother has just been signed by Manchester City football club but his dad is having a hard time coping with his homing pigeons. Rod would love a place of his own but his mum won’t let him. He realises his only option is to dig an escape tunnel – something that won’t be easy living six stories up.
Boris J. Axelford is more machine than man in the way he runs his successful electronics business. That is, until the arrival of Angel Roper as his temporary secretary. Creating chaos and mayhem with her every move, Angel turns Mr. Axelford's ordered life upside down in a matter of minutes! Mr. Axelford's Angel is an enchanting, life-affirming story with Julia Foster (Alfie) starring as the delightfully irrepressible Angel, and the multi-award winning Michael Bryant (Gandhi, Hamlet) as the stolid Boris Axelford. It won an International Emmy Award for the Best Fiction Programme in New York in 1974, and a BAFTA nomination for Michael Bryant.
A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor. Bill Maynard plays an alcoholic driving instructor. His wife hates him. His daughter doesn't like him much. His boss disapproves of him. He gives lessons to an elderly, cranky old lady (Celia Johnson). Then things go from bad to worse...
The story of one summer spent by two London teenagers who choose very different career paths on leaving school; one becomes a car thief and the other tries a more conventional job. The late Richard Beckinsale played a London gangster who becomes the car thief's mentor - a very different role than that of the naive Lenny Godber that Beckinsale played in Ronnie Barker's prison sitcom 'Porridge'.
A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.
This adaptation of the M.R. James classic ghost story dates from 1979 and was made as a contemporary drama rather than a period one like the earlier BBC M.R. James adaptations. Made by Yorkshire Television in 1978, they used a TV station as the setting for their drama, allowing Yorkshire Television to use their own studios as the location, along with a number of other locations around a very wintry Leeds. Presumably the weather conditions were just a fluke, but the snowy inner ring road motorway in central Leeds as the setting for scenes where Prudence realises the grim reality of the situation she's in work wonderfully well and give it a suitably gothic feel. The central character of Prudence Dunning (Jan Francis) is based on Edward Dunning in the original story. Many of the scenes are close to those in the book with a more modern setting (TV station instead of academic society, airport instead of railway station). Some of the dialogue from the book is even used almost verbatim.
Winsome art critic Peter visits married artists Gilberto and Vera in Brazil for Christmas. Gilberto and Peter are more than friends though, and jealous romantic entanglements ensue when it becomes apparent that Gilberto’s marriage is not over just yet.
Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy. Made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network.
