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- StarsJohn F. KennedyRichard NixonFrank McGeeSenator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, participate in the first set of general election presidential debates in United States history.
- StarsPatricia RoutledgeMax AdrianJoachim HansenSeries of four plays dealing with episodes in the life of Queen Victoria.
- StarsJohn WoodCharles KayBarrie InghamA series of 8 plays reflecting different aspects of life in Victorian Britain.
- StarsOssie DavisRoscoe Lee BrowneRuby DeeA nine-part series exploring the past, present, and future of black people in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa.
- StarsMelvyn DouglasIan HolmHonor BlackmanA mini-series made up of four plays, each showing Benjamin Franklin at a different stage in his life. In each episode, Franklin is played by a different actor.
- StarsSusan HampshireMarilyn TaylersonDyson LovellRebecca "Becky" Sharp is an impoverished, strong-willed and cunning young woman determined to make her way in the early 19th Century British society.
- StarsEdith EvansMaurice RoëvesCorin RedgraveA gambling addict quickly ruins himself at the gaming tables. Based on Dostoyevsky's novel.
- StarsMichael GoodliffePatsy RowlandsMichael BiltonEugène de Rastignac comes to Paris and finds lodging in the same boarding house as a former pasta maker, Père Goriot. While the other lodgers abuse Goriot, Eugène is symapthetic to the meek and mild Goriot.
- StarsAlastair SimFay ComptonSarah BadelYoung Flora moves to Cold Comfort Farm after her parents' death, meets eccentric relatives, breaks the farm's curse, helps matriarch Ada Doom overcome childhood trauma, finds love, and enables positive changes for her family.
- StarsLyndon BrookPatricia EnglishEdward JuddAdaptation of Aldous Huxley's 'novel of ideas' in which the author Philip Quarles, withdrawn and uncomfortable with the world around him, considers his friends and family as models for the characters in his writing.
- StarsLouis MalleThomas Frederick HowardRajani Desai"Phantom India" is regarded as the crowning achievement of Louis Malle's career.
- StarsJohn NevilleSusan HampshireJohn StandingThe lives of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah.
- StarsTim PreeceJoseph O'ConorKeith BellAdaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a provincial Russian town in the mid-nineteenth century.
- StarsKeith MichellAnthony QuaylePatrick TroughtonA six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.
- StarsPauline JamesonGemma JonesIan OgilvyAdele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Fleda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
- StarsGlenda JacksonRonald HinesRobert HardyWhen Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
- StarsRobert PowellFiona WalkerJohn Franklyn-RobbinsBorn into poverty, young Jude refuses to accept his lot in life. As his dreams are shattered one by one, his life descends into tragedy.
- StarsAndrew CrawfordTim GoodmanKenneth IvesThree trappers protect a British colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.
- StarsIain CuthbertsonRichard MorantSimon Fisher-TurnerTom Brown, as a new boy at Rugby Public School, has to contend with the school's harsh discipline and accepted bullying from the older boys. Adaptation of Thomas Hughes' novel.
- StarsVivien HeilbronVictor CarinDerek AndersChris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes the managing of the farm with her father and her older brother, but the men fall out, leaving Chris and her father to manage it alone. When her father dies, she considers abandoning the farm, but decides to carry on alone. She marries a young farmer, Ewan Tavendale, they have a baby, they are happy for the first time, then the First World War breaks out, Ewan enlists and dies in France, and Chris is left once again to carry on with the farm.
- StarsMargaret TyzackThorley WaltersHelen MirrenA poor and homely spinster, who feels she's been walked on all her life, teams up with a scheming courtesan to wreak elaborate revenge on her rich and handsome relatives.
- StarsBrian DennehyAlbert FinneyColin FirthIn an unstable South American country, capable Nostromo, a person of trust and a legend among his shipmates, is ordered to secure a shipment of silver and stop any revolutionaries who might try to take it. But even the bravest can be foolish.
- StarsPhilippe LeroyGiulio BosettiGiorgio PiazzaMiniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
- DirectorJack KaufmanStarsRichard BasehartErnst HanfstaenglAdolf Hitler"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitler's rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes. Researchers spent decades uncovering shocking footage of war, carnage and genocide and examined government documents and interviews with Hitler's closest associates to discover how one man led his nation and the world into hell.
- CreatorFrank P. BibasStarsBoris KarloffRobert HardyHarry BartellAn anthology of horror stories hosted by actor Boris Karloff.
- StarsArt GilmoreRobert HoltonWilliam HenryThe first mini-series made for television. Originally airing on NBC in 12 parts, it documents Christ's story from his birth to the resurrection.
- StarsJascha HeifetzElizabeth MateskyErick FriedmanLegendary violinist Jascha Heifetz conducts a master class at USC in 1962, offering insights into his virtuosic technique, creative process and charismatic personality.
- StarsFrank PerryShepperd StrudwickE.W. SwackhamerThis was a weekly series of 10 half-hour programs produced in New York by the National Educational Television and Radio Center (the predecessor of PBS) in the spring and summer of 1961, each episode featuring a different young playwright as its guest. It would gradually be released to different blocks of public TV affiliates around the US over the next two years, the first batch of broadcasts - including Boston, Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco , New Orleans, and Durham, NC - taking place on November 8, 1961. The program was hosted by a young Frank Perry; each episode began with his brief interview of the guest playwright, an excerpt of whose work would then be staged in bare-bones fashion by a young director of the playwright's choosing, followed in the end by a conversation between all three.
- StarsMahalia Jackson
- StarsVic PerrinLee StevensNASA's documentary mini-series about our solar system.
- StarsBill CosbyCharles KuraltGeorge FosterA seven-part series about Black America.
- StarsAce of CupsRalph J. GleasonGrateful DeadA two-episode color experimental documentary film containing live studio performances by Ace of Cups and The Sons of Champlin, and performances by Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Grateful Dead.
- StarsJoan Crawford
- CreatorRobert M. FrescoDenis SandersStarsLauren R. Watson
- DirectorVern DiamondStarsWalter CronkiteEddie BarkerCharles GivensA re-examination of the findings of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Eyewitnesses and expert witnesses are interviewed.
- DirectorGerald FeilWilliam PetersStarsLeon GluckmanMiriam MakebaGregory PeckDocumentary looking at the new independent African states.
- DirectorFred C. BrannonYakima CanuttStarsClayton MooreRoy BarcroftRamsay AmesEdited from the 1948 Republic serial G-Men Never Forget (1948), and released to TV in a syndication package deal in 1966.
- StarsStuart WilsonAnne StallybrassBarbara FerrisA seven-part mini-series produced in England about Vienna's Strauss family in the 19th-century. Members of the London Symphony Orchestra provided the music.
- StarsIrene PapasAharon IpaléYosef ShiloachA biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and afterwards delivered the Ten Commandments from God.
- StarsPeter StraussNick NolteSusan BlakelyAn examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.
- StarsPeter StraussGregg HenryJames Carroll JordanThis is the sequel to the mini-series, RICH MAN, POOR MAN. It begins with Rudy Jordache apprehending the man who killed his brother, Falconetti. He then also takes in his nephew, Wesley. He then begins a vendetta with a man, who tried to take over the company of an old friend. Unfortunately for him, he has no evidence against him and the man is not about to let Rudy off the hook. He also has to deal with his step-son, Billy. And Falconetti, has been released from prison and is looking to get back at Rudy.
- StarsRichard JordanHarvey JasonPatty DukeRags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s.
- StarsSam ElliottCliff PottsDarleen CarrA story of the professional and private lives of two Army officers, Court Massengale an incompetent schemer who doesn't care about his men, and Sam Damon, a heroic and caring leader from World War I to the end of World War II.
- StarsKristoffer TaboriHerschel BernardiRichard DimitriA poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry.
- StarsStephen CollinsLauren HuttonLen BirmanDuring World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
- StarsDavid BirneyBarbara ParkinsSteve ForrestAmbitious, post-Civil War costume drama spaning 36 years which intertwines several stories of lust, power, greed and murder in dealing with two former army field doctors and their passion for their work and women in their lives.
- CreatorJohn WilderStarsAndrew StevensOlivia HusseyBarry SullivanWhen Phillipe Charboneau, the illegitimate son of an English duke, travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution.
- StarsAndrew StevensDon JohnsonWilliam ConradPhilip Kent takes part in the American Revolution and the newly formed Congress.
- StarsGlenn FordEddie AlbertVince EdwardsTerrorists invade the Cannes Film Festival.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsStephen MachtSharon GlessAimee EcclesA young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would come with wealth until he takes up with a young Chinese girl.
- StarsRandolph MantoothEdie AdamsNeville BrandThe sons and grandchildren of Philip Kent make a life for themselves in America.
- StarsDerek JacobiJohn HurtSiân PhillipsThe personal and governmental affairs of the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Roman Empire, as recalled by one of its rulers.
- StarsIan CarmichaelGlyn HoustonMark EdenLord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver is accused of murdering their sister Mary's fiancé. It's up to Lord Peter and his faithful man Bunter to untangle all the clues and the contradicting testimony of a cloud of witnesses to save Denver.
- StarsCyril CusackDaniel MasseyGayle HunnicuttHenry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession.
- StarsThorley WaltersJudy ParfittTimothy WestThis series covers the turning points in 9 different figures during the Edwardian era of the United Kingdom - Henry Royce and Charles Rolls - of Rolls Royce fame; Horatio Bottomly founder of John Bull; E. Nesbitt author of "The Railway Children"; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of Sherlock Holmes; Baden-Powell founder of the Boy Scout movement; Marie Lloyd - her role in the 1907 Music Hall strike; Daisy - the mistress of Edward VII; and Lloyd George - a politician and a philanderer.
- StarsAnthony HopkinsMorag HoodAlan DobieNapoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
- StarsBen GazzaraAnthony HopkinsLeslie CaronA physician (Sir Anthony Hopkins) sues a novelist (Ben Gazzara) for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
- StarsIan CarmichaelTerence AlexanderAnna CropperWhen one of the members of the Bellona Club passes away, Lord Wimsey is brought in to determine the time of death for testamentary purposes.
- StarsPatricia LoudBill LoudLance LoudFollows the real lives of the Loud family, a motley group of suburbanites.
- StarsJacob BronowskiJoss AcklandRoy DotriceAn account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- StarsIan CarmichaelMark EdenRachel HerbertWhen one of the copy writers of Pym's Advertising Agency meets his death by falling down a spiral staircase, a new "writer" joins the staff to investigate the matter.
- StarsRobert StephensNeville PhillipsChristopher GableThe aging Dr Graesler observes five characters in search of love in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
- StarsSusan HampshirePhilip LathamBarbara MurrayBeginning with the forced marriage of Glencora (Susan Hampshire), the lives of the friends and children of this couple are the subject of study. The backdrop is the House of Commons in England as we watch the comings and goings and loves and tragedies of the powerful and not-so-powerful.
- StarsIan HolmBillie WhitelawPeter BowlesA dramatized account of Napoleon's love life and his many women. From first love, marriage, and betrayal with Josephine, liaisons with actresses, his love for the beautiful patriotic Marie Walewska and his second marriage to Austrian Marie-Louise, all the time seeking an heir, and building an empire. There are nine fifty-minute episodes.
- CreatorGeorgia BrownVerity LambertMidge MackenzieStarsSiân PhillipsPatricia QuinnAngela DownThis series dramatizes the lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.
- StarsAlan LuxtonRhoda LewisJoe LynchAnthology of plays showing the world as children see it.
- StarsIan CarmichaelGlyn HoustonElizabeth ProudThe title refers to the nine strokes of a church bell to announce the death of a man. In this adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's intricate, nostalgic, and atmospheric novel of the same name, Lord Peter Wimsey, stranded in a New-Year's Eve snowstorm ca. 1930 in the fens of eastern England, becomes the guest of a local clergyman, an adept enthusiast of the esoteric, mathematical art of change-ringing the eight swinging bells of his magnificent medieval church. Wimsey is pressed into service to assist with a heroic and historic all-night peal to welcome the new year. A few months later the vicar, having learned of Wimsey's reputation as a sleuth, summons him back to the village to investigate a mysterious body newly discovered in the churchyard, an unknown man secretly buried, who had apparently died about the time of Wimsey's first visit. A much earlier jewel robbery, details of church architecture, unclaimed letters from a French farm, and peculiarities of canon law are only a few of the further pieces of the puzzle which Wimsey must put together.
- StarsRosemary HarrisMarina McConnellLewis FianderThe incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored, with a particular focus on her romance with famed musician Frédéric Chopin.
- StarsLee RemickBarbara ParkinsRonald PickupJennie Jerome was born in the United States in 1845, eventually becoming Lady Randolph Churchill and the mother of Winston Churchill.
- StarsMichael HordernJudy CornwellMike PrattThe life of a famous writer and his two wives is slowly revealed.
- StarsPeter BarkworthRonald FraserJoan BenhamA writer finds himself the prime suspect in his wife's murder.
- StarsIan CarmichaelGlyn HoustonRoy BoutcherSolve the mystery with Lord Peter Wimsey, based on the book by Dorothy L Sayers.
- StarsStanley BakerSiân PhillipsNerys HughesThe mini-series is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of one of the sons, Huw Morgan.
- StarsLeonard BernsteinMichael WagerTatiana TroyanosLeonard Bernstein's Harvard University lectures on the future of music, originally delivered in 1973, but not broadcast until 1976.
- CreatorVirginia KasselStarsPamela Payton-WrightGeorge HearnMichael TolanThis ambitious multi-part PBS production brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families, tracing their lives from John Adams' years as a colonial Boston attorney to the rise in prominence of Brookes Adams in the fields of political and social philosophy. This mini looks into their triumphs and tragedies, exploring their genius and profound social conscience.
- StarsJohn McEneryLesley DunlopJane SeymourYoung man's fortune contingent on marrying stranger. Many scheme to claim it, reducing him to fight for her as a secretary.
- It is the story and adventures of Margo, a little mouse who lives in a large tree made chalet. Small Margo has as neighbors Eliana, a squirrel who lives on the top floor; and Dennis, a dormouse that lives in the basement.
- CreatorMarc MillerStarsRoy DotriceJohn F. LandryDiana CouplandCharles Dickens grew up in a family where his father was larger than life. The elder Dickens is a teller of tales and always seems to have ambitions that are well beyond his means or his capabilities. He is also constantly in debt and, at more than one point in his life, finds himself in debtor's prison, forcing Charles to leave school at the age of 12 and work. Charles finds success in his writing and marries, his wife Kate bearing them many children despite her delicate mental state. He has a touch of his father in him, however, particularly when it comes to money. He is of course remembered as one of the great writers of the 19th century.
- StarsMel MartinChristopher BlakeSherrie HewsonA coming-of-age story perceived from the acts and feelings of Edward Richardson, a junior journalist who falls deeply in love with the enchanting and reckless Lydia Aspen, heiress of the welthy but on-decline Aspen family.
- StarsNicola PagettStuart WilsonEric PorterAnna Karenina is the young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires, Anna complicates her life.
- StarsRichard BriersPenelope KeithTom ContiThe trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in-laws gather at the decaying country house of their bedridden mother; the drink flows, and hidden enmities, intimate secrets, and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility.
- StarsAlan BatesJanet MawJack GallowayIn a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again, he realizes what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the Mayor of the town. Nearly twenty years later, his past comes back to haunt him.
- StarsGeraldine McEwanLynsey BaxterAmanda KirbyThe series tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, revealing the challenges they face growing up in 1930s Scotland.
- StarsIan McShaneRosemary LeachMary PeachA penetrating look at one of British history's most enigmatic and controversial figure, Benjamin Disraeli--a dandy, womanizer and a Jew.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisCatherine FellerPeggy Ann WoodSeen on Masterpiece Theatre, starring Francesca Annis in an award-winning performance, Lillie vividly captures the complex woman who became one of the most notorious and respected figures of the Victorian era.
- StarsMalcolm StoddardAndrew BurtPeter SettelenThe series encompasses Darwin's university days to the 1859 publication of his book "On the Origin of Species" and his death and is based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, especially The Voyage of the Beagle and The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.
- StarsEdward FoxCynthia HarrisDavid WallerThe events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.
- StarsJames BurkeKenneth KendallBruce BoaFollow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."
- StarsRoberta MaxwellDeborah OffnerPeter WellerEugene O'Neill's trilogy of plays inspired by Aeschylus' Oresteia. Set near the end of the American Civil War, the action follows the turmoil of the Mannon family and its myriad psychological torments.
- StarsJeremy BrettJoanna DavidAnna MasseyA young English girl in Monte Carlo falls in love with a rude, handsome stranger who proposes to her and rescues her from the drudgery of being a hired companion. But when he takes her to his country estate, Manderley, all her confidence disappears, especially in the face of Maxim's dour and mysterious housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and as odd rumors reach her, the second Mrs. de Winter decides to find out everything she can about her predecessor, Rebecca.
- StarsChristine McKennaRosalie WilliamsSteven GrivesIn the early 1900's in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, and two cousins. Christina finds herself struggling with classicism and during War must keep the Flambards afloat by herself.
- StarsHywel BennettCheryl CampbellBelinda CarrollDr. Edmund Bickleigh is a man who is very careful and very determined. And he is especially determined to not get caught committing the perfect murder of his wife. In the end he succeeds but then finds circumstances are "agin him".
- StarsJohn HurtAnne OrwinSiân PhillipsThis mini-series is the ultimate psychological thriller with a powerful sense of guilt and retribution, set in St. Petersburg in the second half of the nineteenth century. Raskolnikov is a highly intelligent and striking young student who decides to test his courage and integrity by killing a mean old woman who he is sure nobody will miss. But his crime goes seriously awry and, although there's no clear evidence against him, wily investigator Porfiry sets up a complex series of traps, encounters and conversations which slowly but inexorably allow Raskolnikov to incriminate himself, and eventually confess. Raskolnikov is young, impassioned, lonely, and lost. Despite being a murderer, he is a man possessed by both good and evil who cannot escape his own conscience and his inevitable punishment.