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- TV adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1894 stage play, in which the idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.
- Elements of musical, pantomime and comedy are mixed in this early 1960'es modernist statement about the battle of the sexes. Klaus Rifbjerg's debut as TV playwright.
- Ersilla arrives almost lifeless when she seeks out famous author Ludovico Nota at his boarding house. It soon appears that she has been prostituting herself in despair that her fiancee Franco was deceiving her.
- This documentary takes viewers inside one of the worlds most restricted environments - an afghan women's' prison. Through the prisoners own stories we explore how moral crimes are used to control women in Afghanistan.
- The life of Harvey Green (Baard Owe) is at a baffling crossroads. At seventeen, with his schooling over and his future uncertain, he lives with his widower father (Gunnar Lemvigh) and sister (Annegrethe Nissen) in a crumbling, characterless part of London which has nothing to offer save despair. With his father contemplating a second marriage and trying to steer him into some kind of secure employment, Harvey's dreams of becoming a writer seem remote and beyond fulfillment. Danish adaptation of Pulman's 1959 dramatic debut for BBC.
- During the 28-year-old Oscar Wilde's journey across the United States in 1882, a wagon wheel imaginably collapses and he is left stranded overnight in a log cabin with hillbilly characters. Danish version of Morgan's dramatic debut, aired by BBC in 1957.
- Calidorus is a young man in distress. His beloved, the slave-courtesan Phoenicium, has been sold to a Macedonian army officer, and Calidorus can't find the money to buy her back. His cunning slave Pseudolus steps in to help. TV adaptation of Plautus' ancient Roman comedy, first played 191 B.C.
- Basil and Ted are two young bachelor room mates about to find each their ways into the complex world of having a girl friend. Danish adaptation of Jones' 1960 ITV play.
- When God sends Death to summon Enhver - a rich bon viveur - Enhver soon finds himself abandoned. By his friends, his wealth and his loved one. TV adaptation of Hofmannsthal's 1911 play based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play Everyman.
- After serving as a knight in Germany, Axel returns to the court in Nidaros, where he wants marry his beloved Valborg and become an armourer for the king. The King, however, also desires Valborg, and the church goes against the connection as Axel and Valborg are related. TV adaptation of Oehlenschläger's 1810 tragedy.
- In the poorhouse live the stranded: those without hope, with only their imaginations to live on. TV adaptation of Lagerkvist's 1941 three-act stage play.
- A visit to a small English village by American first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt generates excitement and provides the catalyst for the women to pull together. TV adaptation of Storm's 1939 stage play (feature filmed in 1945).
- While the strict fathers are away traveling, their respective sons use their freedom for a quick game of love.
- Four orphans (two boys and two girls) have been raised by an aristocrat - in isolation, from the world and from each other. A funny, erotic and cruel game is set in motion when the four human guinea pigs are released into a sinister Garden of Eden to explore whether man or woman is the more faithful of the sexes. TV adaptation of Marivaux's last play from 1744.
- A crime drama about an ex prisoner set in the slums of Brooklyn in the 1920s. Explores the understanding of justice, inspired by Hebrew philosophy. TV adaptation of Anderson's 1935 Broadway play.
- Three characters are being punished in afterlife by being locked-up in a mysterious room. They are forever left only with their relations to each other, and no punishment is greater than that. TV adaptation of Sartre's 1944 play.