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- When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
- In Victorian England, Sue, a young thief, participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid. Things take an unexpected turn and Sue's plan goes horribly wrong.
- Solicitor Peter Kingdom runs a small Norfolk legal practice with apprentice Lyle and secretary Gloria, assisting eccentric locals. Peter lives with unstable sister Beatrice and recently lost half-brother Simon mysteriously.
- A hitman has second thoughts about his career and seeks refuge from his boss by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village.
- A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
- London, 2007. Tom Jackman is the only living descendent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He has made a deal with his dark side: a body share. What Mr. Hyde doesn't know is that Tom has a family. There is a wife and two children that he'll do anything to protect from his dark side. With all the resources of modern technology, and the best surveillance hardware, he's determined to keep his dark side in line. He's done a deal with his own devil. What neither of them knows is that an ancient organisation, with limitless wealth and power, is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is coming to fruition.
- A coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he begins to work for a retired actress.
- Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player in the town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with several other unsavory teenagers and he is soon tempted into the use of hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy.
- Ralph witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage through adultery and alcohol during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland in 1969. Ralph finds his new step-mother is the only one who understands his inner turmoil.
- A true story about a couple's struggles to meet the challenges of their son's autism.
- Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The Police have been alerted and they are under suspicion. Asif (Navin Chowdhry), Shahid (San Shella), and Mushtaq (Alex Caan) grab suitcases, the computer, and a cardboard box containing bomb-making equipment and bolt out the door. Shahid's getaway car is clamped, so the three are forced to escape on foot from the pursuing Police. Cornered, they dive into a restaurant on a busy city street. It is the Olympus Grill and dinner is being served to its well-heeled clientele. With the Police outside, Asif, Shahid, and Mushtaq have nowhere to go. Mushtaq, thinking quickly, declares that they will hold the restaurant goers hostage. The diners are forced to get up from their tables. They are lined up against a wall. Electra (Amanda Ryan), the young waitress, is also forced to stand in line. Her mother, who is the restaurant owner, comes out from the kitchen brandishing a rolling pin to find out what is going on. She is Penelope (Stockard Channing), and a rather formidable woman. Penelope at first thinks the three boys want to steal money until they reveal their true intentions. Outside, a sophisticated Police/MI5 operation is underway to release the hostages. Leading the operation is Sofia Warburton (Juliet Stevenson), a forty-five-year-old woman with a strong character, who has sacrificed domestic harmony for her career in the security services. Sofia begins to assemble data gleaned by the Police and information from voice samples and fingerprints to create a profile of the hostage takers. She discovers that Shahid, from a single-parent family, grew up in a rough working class Birmingham council estate, and was a bad boy until he found religion. Asif got a double first in Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He was brought up by his widower father who was prone to beating his kids. Asif works at his father's wine warehouse and was a good taster until he took up Islam, and Mushtaq is the natural leader of the three and has a PhD in physics. The big fear is learning that the terrorists are in possession of red mercury, which can be used to make a dirty bomb with the potential of unleashing untold damage and horror. The three youths have the knowledge and skills to make the bomb. Sofia checks the physics with her estranged husband Lindsey (Nigel Terry), who confirms that it is possible. Time is of the essence. Meanwhile, inside the restaurant, tension mounts as the hostages remain under threat of death from the three gun-wielding terrorists. The hostages are: Sidney (Ron Silver), a middle-aged American management consultant, Amanda (Jacqueline Defferary), a thirty-four-year-old physiotherapist, Neil Ashton (David Bradley), a children's author and his wife Gerry (Stella Gonet), his daughter Jemma (Jessica Brooks), who is a nurse and his adopted mixed-race son Timothy; John (Clive Wood), forty-five, head of a large chemical company and his mistress Janet (Simone Lahbib). And strangely, as days go by and nerves are frayed, the barriers between the hostages and their captors begin to come down. Behind the blank face of terror is scared, confused, and misled youth.
- A group of people staying in England discover that there are brutal cannibals in their midst.
- On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable plover - he will have 'twitched' the entire British List. Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra for company. Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with Sandra's portrait, the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger - unshaven, edgy and bloodied introduces himself as Dave John, a fugitive from the storm. After a tense introduction, the two men discover that they have a good deal in common, sharing sandwiches, tea and personal exchanges which are frank, poignant and often funny. As the two men begin to form a close bond news of a police manhunt sets them both on edge driving their fragile relationship to a tragic conclusion.
- An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a plot to get hold of the deeds.
- Peter Kingdom runs his law practice in the small East Anglian town of Market Shipborough, aided by efficient secretary Gloria and a young trainee from London, Lyle. Whilst managing to avoid grumpy Mrs. Thing, he is continually being visited by local Sidney Snell, who is constantly battling the local council, in this case over plans for a new road. Peter's somewhat dodgy younger brother Simon disappeared some time ago. His clothes were found on a beach but no body was recovered. Peter manages to clear up a feud between two brothers, the sons of glamorous Sheila Larsen who died suddenly and whose money apparently disappeared. However, he has a further problem of his own when his unstable sister Beatrice descends on him, having discharged herself from rehab and looking for somewhere to stay.
- Peter is hired by an Estonian woman, Aeste, who claims that grumpy local farmer Jack Thriplow has 'kidnapped' her child, of whom he claims to be the father. Further investigation uncovers the use of illegal labour. Meanwhile a nervous Lyle is entered for the annual dyke-leaping contest, resulting in him becoming a very dirty boy. And the less than civil Mr. Hill is snooping around, telling Peter that brother Simon was deeply in debt.
- Mr. and Mrs. Forshaw engage Peter in a case of discrimination when their daughter Laura is refused a place at Cambridge, bringing him into contact with his former tutor Professor Barkway. Gloria fails to show up for work, a squirrel gets into the attic, Beatrice is pining for Alan, and of course there's the ever-present Sidney Snell, with his cunning plan to stop the gas company building on grazing land, whilst more information about Simon's nefarious dealings comes to light.
- Whilst Sidney Snell complains that he is being harassed by the council into dropping his actions against them, Peter represents the Cases, father and son fishermen, whose boat exploded. The insurance company are unwilling to pay out and sabotage is suspected. Beatrice falls for local artist Alan McEwan and becomes the nude model at his life drawing class, suddenly causing an increase in would-be artists. Peter discovers that Simon had a bank account in the name of Christopher Waller and that it is very much current even though Waller himself is dead.
- With Gloria still away Beatrice takes over the running of the office and, especially in view of her disastrous efforts last time, proves very competent, even getting Sidney to help. Lyle helps Herb Griffiths acquire a field in which to keep his prize-winning horse and things turn ugly when the horse disappears and travellers are blamed. Peter gets involved in a marital case involving Mr. and Mrs. Collins. He likes wearing women's clothes and, unlike his wife, can see nothing wrong in it, so it takes all of Peter's resources to come up with a solution. Hill returns, in more threatening mood, demanding the money owed by Simon.
- Mr. Narbutowicz, an elderly Polish man who has survived a concentration camp, comes to see Peter,as the council want to evict him in view of all the rubbish in his house. Peter gives the case to Lyle who acquits himself well. With Gloria back at work Beatrice makes efforts to befriend her by suggesting that they do 'girly' things together, a suggestion met with some wariness. Peter judges the rudest shaped vegetable at the church fete - where Mrs. Thing is persuaded to leave her money to the church - but a ruder shock is in store for him when Honor, Simon's girlfriend, turns up with her and Simon's baby Daniel.
- Peter takes to surrogate fatherhood happily, assisting Honor with his nephew and learning to change nappies. He helps Cynthia from the Womens' Institute prevent the local light-house from closure, which involves stemming objections from the elderly Tucker sisters. More sibling trouble occurs when he persuades the warring Smith brothers, who run rival fast food vans in opposite lay-bys to stop throwing food at, and mooning, each other and work as a team, rather than taking each other to court. He and Beatrice, along with their aunt Auriel, attend baby Daniel's christening, Beatrice and Peter acting as godparents. On their return home they receive a shock. Simon is not dead after all but waiting for them.
- Peter has to hide Simon, who is shocked at the discovery that he is a father. Lyle has to strip in front of a group of naturists in solving the matter of an access path to a nudist beach which has offended some stuffy locals. Peter is drawn into a dispute at the retirement home where his aunt Auriel lives. Patricia Wright is incensed that her father, another resident, has developed a friendship with a nurse, Heather, who is young enough to be his daughter, and intends to leave everything to her when he dies. Even Peter cannot prevent the outcome of this case being less happy then he would have liked but Beatrice has even more shocking news for him. She is pregnant!
- Simon is arrested and Peter feels unable to represent him as this would suggest partiality. He also refuses to respond to Simon's request that he re-mortgage his house for bail money, and puts Lyle on the case to defend Simon. In fact Simon gets bail after Lyle finds a bag stashed full of money which Simon has left in the house. The local American army base figures prominently as the pregnant Camilla gets Peter to put pressure on serviceman Brad Johnson to admit liability for her unborn baby, with love ultimately finding a way. Another, less expected, romance appears to blossom when Sidney, in protest at a new jet runway being built near his house, stages a one-man sit-in and Gloria joins him to bring him tea and refreshments.
- Lyle takes up cudgels for veteran protester Henny Leach, who claims she is being victimized by the council, who are evicting her for non-payment of her council tax. Before he can help her he comes to find out that she has not told him the full truth. Simon is bailed and wants to rejoin Peter in the family firm but the Law Society prevent this. Olivia Godfrey, owner of the Tiger Lily sex shop, tries to bring a case against Peter's cricketing pal, Nigel. She paid Nigel 5,000 pounds for her sex shop to be advertised on the team's logo, but instead the side is being sponsored by Exhausts-R-Us. Nigel admits that he has been taking money from various would-be sponsors to win back his unfaithful wife, who just happens to be committing that infidelity with Simon. Peter persuades his brother to do the decent thing and let her go whilst the sponsorship debts are met by some of Simon's ill-gotten gains.
- Lyle is left in charge of the office and cat-sits for Mrs. Compton, as well, in Gloria's absence on holiday with Sidney, getting himself into hot water when he and Gloria's enterprising little boy, Scott, inadvertently advertise a free will-making service and are inundated with clients. Peter has gone to Cambridge to help Professor Barkway clear up a matter. Another lecturer, biologist Mary Goodyear has died and Barkway believes her valuable research papers should be published but her partner, Janet Cramer, is blocking him, stating that Mary's will left her the papers. Peter discovers that this is a lie and Janet is protecting Mary, who killed herself as she thought her research was in vain. But Barkworth has an ulterior motive as the dead woman's effects contain love letters between her and himself, unknown to Janet. He believes this will prevent his being made Master of the college but the committee instate him anyway.
- Beatrice returns to Market Shipborough with her baby daughter whom she has named Petra, though Peter himself is still a trifle hurt that Simon was chosen as Beatrice's birthing partner rather than himself. However he is occupied with Simon's upcoming trial. Lyle is about to make his theatrical debut in an open air production at Aunt Auriel's home but it is interrupted by heavy rain. A terrible storm blows up and in its aftermath it appears that Simon has drowned.