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- Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.
- The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.
- After a near-fatal car accident, smart, savvy, sharp-suited detective Sam is mysteriously transported back to 1973. Confused by his new surroundings, Sam tries to return to the present, but the police force of long ago needs his help.
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of copper beeches, a Greek interpreter, the Norwood builder, a resident patient, the red-headed league, and one final problem.
- Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA.
- A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
- The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
- Two worlds collide when Lord Brett Sinclair, a titled British man, and Danny Wilde, a Bronx-raised, self-made American, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs and protect the innocent.
- The daughter of a country doctor copes with an unwanted stepmother, an impetuous stepsister, burdensome secrets, the town gossips, and the tug on her own heartstrings for a man who thinks of her only as a friend.
- An expedition leaves for the Amazon to prove the existence of dinosaurs.
- Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
- A volcano in Yellowstone Park suddenly erupts.
- David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but the avuncular headmaster has faith in him. David, although well educated, is just a humble lad from the Welsh valleys at heart and has to fit himself and his ideas into the heart of the English establishment.
- The workings of the human body explained by animated characters.
- A woman who loses her husband to a romance novelist goes to extreme lengths to make their lives a misery.
- The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself.
- Made for TV movie revolving around the lives of three young women as they deal with the incidents around them. Along the way they find romance and become swept up in family intrigue. Events from 1913- 1956 are included in this adaptation of Judith Krantz's bestseller.
- The great follow-up to 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Walking with Beasts', presented by Professor Robert Winston, explains the story of human evolution.
- An army unit, conducting reconnaissance deep within enemy territory, is disclosed and defeated. Several surviving soldiers desperately run to the border.
- Miep Gies struggles to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.
- Mountain-based adventures of a young boy and his dog in a small village in the southern Alps.
- When a bolt of lightning strikes his house, a British teenager's life is turned upside-down when the characters from his video game come to life in his own backyard.
- Michael Palin travels across Sahara desert region, the largest in the world.
- A thoughtful, detailed exposition of how and why the end of the Great War led inevitably to the Second World War, the most horrific in human history. Narrated by the great journalist Eric Sevareid.
- Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
- A conspiracy to assassinate the first African American President as told by the assassin's wife is an engaging thriller that weaves suspense and intrigue into a story about the human spirit persevering in the face of tragedy.
- Clumsy,put-upon Ruth Patchett leads a drudge's life with her two demanding children and her neglectful accountant husband Bobbo. When Bobbo starts an affair with his top client,the glamorous,lighthouse-dwelling romantic novelist Mary Fisher, Ruth does everything she can to be a good wife but everything fails and Bobbo humiliates her in front of his parents before leaving her for Mary. Finally Ruth snaps and,declaring that she will become a she-devil,burns the house down in such a way that the insurance claim will be invalid and dumps the children on Mary and Bobbo.
- Whilst Mary and Bobbo find it tough going looking after his unruly children, Ruth,calling herself Lily Latimer,becomes a care assistant at the home where Mary's mother lives. Having befriended co-worker,lesbian Nurse Hopkins, Ruth soon gains the down-to-earth Mrs. Fisher's trust,learning that she regards Mary as being 'from the gutter'. Soon Ruth has stage-managed the old lady's discharge into the unwilling care of her daughter,whose work suffers from her unwanted new family. Meanwhile Ruth and Nurse Hopkins break into Bobbo's office and,using their joint account,transfer all his money into Ruth's bank balance. With the money they will set up an employment agency for women which will liberate them from love.
- Looking increasingly more elegant and visiting Harley Street with a view to plastic surgery Ruth opens her secretarial agency Vista Rose with Nurse Hopkins. By chance Bobbo's firm requests two of their temps and Ruth knows just who to send along,a bimbo whom he will love and leave wanting revenge and a computer hacker. Between them they frame Bobbo for embezzlement though the money he has supposedly stolen ends up in Ruth's account. After Bobbo is arrested the next step is to become Polly,the house-keeper to the judge who will try him and who,after indulging in some S and M,she persuades him to send Bobbo down for a very long time.
- Her romantic world in tatters Mary turns for help to lonely,well-meaning Catholic priest Father Ferguson.She is not to know that Ruth,having given Vista Rose over to Nurse Hopkins,has installed herself as the priest's atheist house-keeper Molly who also introduces him to sex,convincing him that love does not exist so that the only comfort he gives Mary is cynical and carnal. One night a mysterious wind blows through the light-house.whirling Mary to her death. At her funeral her exact double turns up and later buys the light-house, for Ruth has spent thousands of pounds on turning herself into a carbon copy of the woman she despised.