Richard Wilson

The Trouble with 2B

Peter Smith

Peggy Aitchison, Richard Wilson

It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.

One Foot in the Algarve

Susan Belbin

Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them there, believing they have a roll of film that belongs to him.

Lord of Misrule

Guy Jenkin

Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.

Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime

Geoff Posner

Amanda Barrie, Sanjeev Bhaskar

An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.

Poppyland

John Madden

Alan Howard, Phoebe Nicholls

He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.

Pasmore

Richard Eyre

Philip Jackson, Alison Steadman

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

A Passage to India

David Lean

Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

The Four Minute Mile

Richard Huw, Nique Needles

A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.

The Remainder Man

Richard Wilson

Sheila Hancock, Antony Brown

Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic bomb.

Danny & the Human Zoo

Destiny Ekaragha

Kascion Franklin, Cecilia Noble

A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.

Ted & Ralph

Christine Gernon

Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson

One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded stately home. His only friend is Ted (Paul Whitehouse), the elderly Irish estate worker. But their way of life is under threat: Ralph must marry before his 35th birthday or lose everything. Just when it all seems hopeless, along comes Wendy (Kathy Burke). As Ralph's affection for Wendy grows, his dependence on Ted wanes. Is this the end of a beautiful friendship ? Is Wendy all that she seems ? Will Ralph go through with the marriage ? And will he save the Hall ?

Prick Up Your Ears

Stephen Frears

Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina

Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.

Reichenbach Falls

John McKay

Alec Newman, Alastair Mackenzie

A psychological thriller, set in the heart of Edinburgh and featuring the underbelly of the capital city, Reichenbach Falls tells the story of hard-boiled detective Jim Buchan whose life starts to unravel as he investigates a 100-year-old murder case in the Scottish capital with an old friend - a crime writer researching the new novel. Buchan's investigation takes him into the dark underworld of Edinburgh's literary past and leads him to question the very nature of his own existence.

Selling Hitler

Alastair Reid

Джонатан Прайс, Alexei Sayle

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Under the Hammer

Richard Wilson

Peter Vaughan, Michael Aldridge

All seems ready for a major sale of impressionist paintings to be graced by a royal visit. But panic erupts in the boardroom when the pedigree of the Van Gogh - to be sold by the Russians - is questioned. When it causes a scene between the porters, Les and Mick, a respectable firm is forced to take drastic action to save the big day.

A Dry White Season

Euzhan Palcy

Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.