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- StarsDavid BuckMark MossFreddie Jones"Mystery and Imagination" was a UK hosted horror anthology series running from 1966 until 1970 with host David Buck as "Richard Beckett". who was a romantic young Victorian adventurer always had a tale to tell.
- DirectorDave UnwinDennis AbeyStarsAlan BennettMichael PalinMichael GambonMole disappears while answering what he thinks is an urgent summons from Rat, forcing Badger to enlist Toad and his new airplane in a frantic search party.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriPeter UstinovMaximilian SchellA conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsDonald SutherlandNed BeattyRuth GordonBritish spy George Trent disappears in Ibiza. Appleton Porter is sent to investigate, questioning hotel guests who were Trent's neighbors. Trent survives assassination attempts while unraveling the mystery.
- DirectorNico MastorakisStarsMeg FosterWings HauserDavid McCallumA popular crime novelist moves to a historic Greek village during the off-season in order to write her next book, but gets more than she bargained for when she strongly suspects a man of committing murder.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsRonald ShinerMargaret RutherfordA.E. MatthewsA wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den just when it's being raided by the Police.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsColin BakerPeter DavisonNicola BryantChellak and his men attack Jek's base. The Dr. crash-lands the ship, and must escape from his captors to find the antidote to the Spectrox poisoning and save Peri. He does so, but at a staggering cost.
- StarsNigel HaversPhyllis LoganKevin McNallyA British horror/fantasy anthology series where each story involves, to some extent, the supernatural and features lead actors from UK television.
- StarsAnthony PerkinsDoug RollinsAssumpta Serna"Chillers" was a 1990 series based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories: displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving in to the darkest depths of human nature.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsVéronique JannotBobby Di CiccoVictor LanouxA couple goes on the run after being accused for a crime they didn't commit.
- StarsColin WilsonLinda BlandfordGordon SnellAnthology series of supernatural tales.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael BrandonDavid CarradineArielle DombasleAn insurance investigator is looking for a stolen priceless medieval Russian icon.
- StarsPenelope KeithHarry DitsonElizabeth CounsellCaroline Fairchild returns to work as an Editorial Director for Oasis Publishing after spending the last 25 years raising her five children. Her husband, Donald Fairchild works for Gingsberg, also a publishing house. Oasis buys out Ginsberg and now Caroline and Donald are working for the same company. But, Oasis has a rule that doesn't allow married couples to work together. Since Caroline applied for the job under her maiden name Fielding, she decides not to quit her new job. Instead Donald and Caroline must pretend not to know one another in order for them to continue on with their careers.
- CreatorPeter BowlesPhilip BroadleyStarsPeter BowlesHolly de JongAdam NortonAs portrayed by Peter Bowles (The Irish R.M., To the Manor Born), London gossip columnist Neville Lytton exudes a sophisticated charm that masks a tenacious commitment to his job. Whether consorting with banking tycoons and ex-dictators or investigating a gang of skinheads, Lytton strives to expose the high and mighty, the corrupt and the crooked--and to make sure "God" (his editor at the Daily News) is happy with his work. All the while, Lytton struggles to keep his love life in order, write the one novel he feels he has in him, and fend off constant machinations and maneuvers of an old rival at the Daily Post. It's all part of the daily grind for Neville Lytton--and grist for the scandalous news mill.
- CreatorEric ChappellStarsPeter BowlesGeorge ColeIsla BlairUpon being released from prison, ex-con Howard Booth comes to live with his sister Mary disrupting her calm life with her cynical, uptight husband, Trevor.
- StarsJames BolamPeter BowlesChristopher StrauliA rather naive, middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsKate BinchyPeter BowlesMaxine GordonA young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
- StarsJoss AcklandElspet GrayHugh BurdenInterlinked stories telling of the lives of the residents of a rather select housing estate, the Crescent - known to these residents as "the Crezz".
- CreatorTerry NationStarsLucy FlemingIan McCullochDenis LillA community of survivors struggle to stay alive in the wake of a global pandemic known as the Death that wiped out 99.98% of humanity.
- StarsOliver TobiasMichael GothardJack WatsonCelts fighting among themselves and the Saxons in 5th century Briton after the Roman pullout.
- StarsRalph BatesPeter BlakePeter DenyerJohn Lacey comes home one evening to discover a letter from his wife, starting with "Dear John" and informing him that she is leaving him. Lonely and now divorced, John joins a club where lonely divorced people can meet.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainJaclyn SmithAnthony QuayleAn injured, unconscious man washes ashore in a small French town. As he recovers, it becomes quite clear, someone is trying to kill him.
- CreatorGerard GlaisterAllan PriorStarsJan HarveyStephen YardleyGlyn OwenTom Howard is made redundant from his job as a senior aircraft designer and decides to invest his skill, time and redundancy money in a run-down local boat-building yard. The decision puts a great strain on his marriage.
- DirectorJeremy SummersCyril FrankelStarsEd BishopWanda VenthamVladek SheybalTen years earlier Straker accidentally knocked Catherine Frazer down in his car as she was running away from something which frightened her and she has been unconscious ever since.Now Catherine awakes from her coma and explains that she and a boy named Tim whom she had not long met went to a derelict farm-house to take recreational drugs. There they saw two aliens planting a bomb. The couple ran off - Catherine into the path of Straker's car, Tim, she understood to have fallen off a roof and died. However, he was taken by the aliens who took him over and is now back, looking no older than he did ten years ago and about to set off the bomb.
- StarsTony BillJack GingJessica WalterSam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the school, served as the narrator describing what had happened to his fellow graduates in the decade since they had graduated.