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- In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
- Ross Poldark returns home after the American Revolutionary War and rebuilds his life with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it.
- An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
- An adaptation of Flora Thompson's autobiographical novel "Lark Rise To Candleford", set in 19 century Oxfordshire, in which a young girl moves to the local market town to begin an apprenticeship as a postmistress.
- After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
- Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.
- The staff of the defunct Grace Brothers department store reunite to run a rural hotel.
- Follows Rupert Campbell-Black and Tony Baddingham as they have a longstanding rivalry that comes to a head.
- The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
- When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cozy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
- The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is on the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their future marriage. Arthur has laid his hopes on being cured by the enigmatic count, as it is said that Dracula has extraordinary powers. However, these supernatural powers have sinister origins, since the Count is a vampire. Soon Arthur realizes his serious mistake as all hell breaks loose and the Count infects others with his ancient curse. Fortunately, Dracula has not counted on the young Lord acquiring the assistance of the Dutch Vampire expert. Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.
- Based on Rosamunde Pilchers drama: Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. It focuses on the Combes family and their magnificent Endellion estate.
- English archaeology professor 'Dolly' Parton's team handles high-profile finds. Often those prove relevant in the present, as such as symbol for a cause. The team runs personal danger, on top of their messy love - and other personal lives.
- Mr. Parker (Sir John Mills), a farmer who has the reputation of drinking most of his money away, lives on a farm which is in a poor state of repair. A pretty young girl, Dulcima Gaskain (Carol White), takes pity on him and decides to help him by cleaning the place. She is happy to be earning money, and he is happy because she is there. Despite being a miserable old bastard, Mr. Parker finds himself falling for Dulcima, and asks her to move in with him, to save her the walk from her house to his farm every day. She does, and is happy with her work, but she falls for a gamekeeper (Stuart Wilson) from the nearby estate, and they start to meet in secret because of Mr. Parker's increasing jealousy. One day, while he is at the market, she discovers a whole load of money hidden in an upstairs room, which changes the relationship between Mr. Parker and Dulcima. She becomes more friendly towards the farmer, now knowing of his wealth, and Mr. Parker decides that he wants her for his bride. She keeps seeing the gamekeeper though, and eventually Mr. Parker finds out.
- Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
- This documentary uses the recordings Princess Diana made for the book that was written by Andrew Morton. In this documentary Diana narrates her life and the events that surrounded her.
- A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
- Inquisitive teenage orphan James is invited to stay at his uncle's country mansion. He explores the property and discovers the house holds many mysterious secrets.
- The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
- In the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite being reminded that she was a working journalist in the 1920s, she clings to her view that what women really want is a romantic husband. Back home she bars women wearing trousers from her house, frustrates Ian, her son and literary agent, by announcing that she is to make an album of love songs and advises her friend, Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Queen, as to a healthy diet, with plenty of ginseng. As she dictates her latest book to a secretary, the action moves back and forth between the 1970s and Barbara's young life. Her family was once very wealthy but fell upon hard times and Polly, Barbara's mother, always told her that she would marry a duke. However, she marries a drunk who is rough in bed and has a mistress, and she retreats into writing as an escape from him. Ultimately they divorce and she marries his cousin, who encourages her writing and stays with her until his death in the 1960s. There is some irony in the juxtaposition of Barbara's flowery prose and the unhappy experience of her own first marriage.
- TV Series1852 - At the turn of the industrial revolution in the shadow of the Crimean War. IRONGATE is one woman's journey to the heart of the Irongate dynasty. The dynasty that created the cannon that would change the face of war.
- The gunpowder plot analysed using the confessions of the plotters- a mixture of documentary and reconstruction.
- After a long absence, magic has returned to England - with dire consequences. A new shadow department of MI5, Magical Artifact Recovery, has been tasked with tracking down all magical artifacts lost during the Great Rupture. A young magical archaeologist's life is turned upside down when government agents and more pursue his amulet of power.
- Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
- The team is hired by a monk to find the bones of St. Edmund which, when combined with a gold statue, are said to have magical protective powers. Guest starring Blake Ritson ("Da Vinci's Demons").
- The sales staff of the defunct Grace Brothers move to the hotel they inherited.
- The staff's first full day at the lodge proves more complicated than they expected.
- Mrs. Slocombe is on trial for speeding and stealing a horse cart.
- Mr. Rumbold announces that some Americans are going to come for the weekend and everyone has different chores to perform since the hotel has no staff yet.
- 1992–199328mTV-PG7.9 (79)TV EpisodeAfter posing for the hotel's staff for a photoshoot in the evening the electricity is cut off due to a storm. When Mrs. Slocombe's cat goes missing, everyone wanders in the dark to try and find it.
- The gang acts like a staff, trying to satisfy every need the American tourists have.
- The hotel is surrounded by the police after Captain Peacock has found a gun and fires it by accident.
- The gang hosts a cricket match.
- Mrs. Slocombe disguises herself as one of the locals when her long-estranged husband arrives with plans to buy Millstone Manor.
- Paranormal activity runs rampant in Millstone Manor when Captain Peacock removes a petrified pussycat from the attic wall.
- The gang accepts the local pub's challenge to a game of darts.
- The gang entertains a group of guests from Outer Mongolia.
- 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?
- Parson Tringham tells no one that John Durbeyfield's family is an impoverished branch of the noble, once mighty D'Urbervilles. However 'celebrating' in the pub, bad heart and bad luck end up completely ruining the family finances. His wife finally convinces daughter Tess to swallow her pride and seek help from the D'Urbervilles on a nearby estate. The heir, Alec D'Urberville, takes to her, arranges a job on the family's poultry farm and becomes her family's benefactor. Lost in the forest after a dance, he takes advantage of her. To save her honor and independence, she decides to leave.
- After Tess is refused a graveyard burial for her child, she leaves home and becomes a milkmaid. The surprising perk of the job is the presence of Angel Clare, son of a parson. He is learning the farm trade there, planning to emigrate, his parents are planning to set him up overseas. The true gentleman is the dream of all the girls, but only has eyes for Tess. She is as smitten after accidentally seeing him sleeping in the buff. He braves his mother's objections to wanting to marry a girl beneath the family's station, unlike Mercy Chant. Tess, at first, dares not accept on account of Mercy, a colleague and her past. As he doesn't object to her true genealogy, she reconsiders. Only when they are packed to leave, she discovers her last letter of confidences wasn't opened.
- After Tess is married to Angel Clare, he tells her a 48 hours affair he had once, and she him the dark secret from the unread letter. He can't accept it, but as it happened before their wedding the law doesn't accept it as ground for divorce. Angel sets off for Brazil alone. Mercy won't have a bar of him, Retti would follow him but by her own admission she can't love him as much as Tess, so he makes up his mind to go alone. Tess returns home, then seeks another farm maid employ, accepting the worst job at Groby's, under his cruel, jealous bailiff. On the road she meets Alec D'Urberville, now a traveling preacher, who claims to be converted. She tells him about their later son but refuses to stay with him. He proposes marriage, insisting even after he learns she's already wed but abandoned. She keeps writing to Angel, who can't answer as he is gravely ill.
- The smallest Royal residence currently in use, Highgrove House in Gloucester was renovated by Prince Charles and features a multiple 'room' outdoor garden which has been described as an 'organic oasis."
- In the second part of Pam's adventure through the Cotswolds, her journey starts in Wiltshire in the town of Bradford-on-Avon, as she takes to the water on a narrowboat.
- Chicken breasts with walnut l'aillade, roast meat loaf (or "hedgehog"), Beef a la Will Moreland, and A.N.'s Slow Shoulder of Lamb for the Westonbirt School lacrosse team in the Duchy of Cornwall.
- As mid-summer approaches Pam's heading to one of Britain's most special places: Stonehenge. She has privileged private access to this ancient stone circle. Back in the Cotswolds, she visits Cheltenham's Pittville Pump Room.
- Pam heads to Highgrove Gardens, adjacent to the private residence of HRH The Prince of Wales, where she meets the heir to the throne himself. His Royal Highness gives her a tour of the gardens and explains how he planned them.