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- This special documentary examines Inspector Barnaby - his methods and techniques of investigation, from his time in the original novels through his translation to television.
- British crime writer, Martina Cole, examines the life and times of six of the most notorious female serial killers across history and asks: why do women kill and why are we surprised when they do? Each programme tells the story of an individual killer with expert analysis and dramatic reconstruction
- Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel Brideshead Revisited
- Fawlty Towers @ 30 is a series of short programmes designed to support the 30th anniversary of Fawlty Towers as a celebration weekend on UKTV Gold. The 'shorts' consist of specially-filmed interviews with actors, crew and fans intercut with clips from the original Fawlty Towers programmes and pay homage to the style and content of the original series'.
- A definitive history of the music that shook the world, looking at the origins and development of the punk rock movement as a social, historical, political and musical force. The Punk Years celebrates punk as a valid musical genre in its own right, like jazz or blues or soul. Appreciative comment focused on the great cross-section of interviewees and the programme's honesty and integrity in dealing with a highly contentious, and for many people emotional and exciting, art form.
- UKTV celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Doctor Who with an epic marathon on the weekend of Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November 2003. Classic stories, archive documentaries, the 1999 Comic Relief special 'The Curse of Fatal Death' and no less than fifteen brand new featurettes dominated a whole 24 hours of the UK Gold schedule.
- This weekend was dedicated to celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first transmission of this classic BBC Brit-com which is regarded by many people as Britain's best sitcom. Porridge was an instant hit with the viewers when the pilot first aired in 1973 and a full series followed in 1974. Ronnie Barker and the late Richard Beckinsale were perfectly cast as the experienced lag and the naive first-timer and their developing relationship had the Great British viewing public gripped until Slade Prison closed it's doors for the last time in 1977. The weekend features a compulsive combination of classic episodes from all three series along with the 1975 Christmas special supported by a series of short films exploring the origin and development of the series until it's premature ending in 1977. The short films examine how Porridge came from an initiative to develop a new vehicle for the comic talents of Ronnie Barker called Seven Of One but developed into the ultimate ensemble character cast, plus taking a loving look at the favourite characters of the series, Fletch, of course, Godber, Lukewarm, Barrowclough, Mackay, Grouty, the careers of Clement & La Frenais and the making of the series among many more
- A ten part biography series studying the histories of some of the world's biggest rock and pop icons. Featuring interviews & commentary, video history and narration. Artists covered include Oasis, Madonna, U2, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Prince, Tupac Shakur & Joy Division.
- HELLBOY is the latest comic book character to venture onto the silver screen. In this half hour film, we examine the roots and reasons behind the latest comic hero to smash the box offices in the US as he arrives on British shores. Featuring interviews with cast, creator, director and British comic commentators this is a fast, furious, fun-filled romp through the life and times of the big red horny one, they call Hellboy.
- Profile of controversial rap artist Eminem, investigating whether his work is the result of ignorance, contempt or genius.
- This series of travelogues were authored by top DJ's and personalities associated with the Ibiza dance music scene. Each show featured an anecdotal journey through the Balearic Island accompanied by the sounds of a personally selected playlist
- A series of fascinating short lectures on individual "Spaghetti" Westerns by filmmaker Alex Cox.
- 20 short films celebrating the biggest hits from Michael Jackson's last 30 years.
- A programme examining the life and work of the writer Roald Dahl. The film looks at his body of work as well as the films that have been adapted from his works and his enduring influence on popular culture.
- A pair of photographs are the only clues that Poirot has to solve the murder of a village charwoman, and to prove the innocence of the victim's lodger.
- A television documentary feature on the Hercule Poirot series - a look at the author, the character and the actor. Cast, crew, authors critics, and others talk about Agatha Christie, her major sleuth, and actor David Suchet who played Hercule Poirot in the TV series and the several feature films that followed.
- Agatha opens her own detective agency, but potential clients aren't exactly breaking down the door of her new office. In search of new business, Agatha and James visit Ivy Hall, a house said to be haunted since the English Civil War. Are the strange sounds and unexplained footsteps heard at night truly supernatural, or is someone trying to scare the obnoxious owner out of her home?
- Agatha Raisin and James Lacey's relationship is in trouble. Following a public fight, a murder occurs and James goes missing.
- A foreign revolution, a kidnapped princess, and a trove of priceless rubies are linked to a prestigious girls' school, where staff members are brutally murdered.
- As a young girl, Bristol-born Amelia Dyer watched her mother die in pain and it is assumed this had a traumatising effect on her. She qualified as a nurse and became a baby-farmer, looking after others' babies. After deaths of children in her care she was charged with neglect and served six months in jail. Later she spent time in a mental asylum but carried on baby-farming. In 1896 she was hanged for the murder of Doris Marmon, a child in her care, but is suspected of having killed many more infants.
- Intercut with interviews with experts Martina Cole tells the story of Myra Hindley,dubbed 'the most evil woman in Britain' by the tabloid press,who, in company with the petty criminal Ian Brady,with whom she was besotted, killed five children in the 1960s, burying their bodies on moorland. Despite her claims that she had reformed whilst in prison,Hindley was always to be denied a release and died in jail aged sixty. The point is made that her crimes appear the more heinous because of her sex.
- Always an attention seeker from childhood, fabricating imaginary illnesses, Grantham-born Beverly Allitt studies nursing, and, due to staff shortages, obtains a job in a local hospital, where she is well-regarded. Here she kills four children and attempts to injure another nine, for which she is put away in a secure hospital for life.
- Born in Hungary in 1560 Countess Bathory was a lesbian who, with her son,two sons-in-law and several female helpers, got young girls to come to her castle on the pretext of finding them work and then tortured and killed them. She was eventually found out and died virtually walled up in her castle. It is claimed that she killed 600 victims,making her the most prolific female serial killer of all time. A myth grew up that she bathed in her victims' blood to stay young, a fact used in the horror film 'Countess Dracula',starring Ingrid Pitt,one of the programme's talking heads.
- Mary Ann Cotton, hanged in Durham in 1873 was a Victorian Black Widow. Killing for greed, she murdered husbands, step children, her mother and even her own children.
- Rosemary West was born in Barnstaple and,after her parents split up,spent time with her father,who repeatedly sexually abused her. She met Fred West, a man who had already killed two girls, and, with Rose,would kill ten more,usually lodgers at their house but family members too. Fred West killed himself in prison.Rose was originally subject to a life sentence of at least twenty-five years but it was later amended to mean life,so that, with Myra Hindley,she is the only British murderess denied any hope of release.
- A definitive history of the music that shook the world, looking at the origins and development of the punk rock movement as a social, historical, political and musical force.