TV Drama
TV Drama will generally include a story development with a beginning, middle and an end. In the more conventional sense, dramatic presentations include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories in the course of a theatrical performance.
Both made for TV Drama Films as well as TV Drama Series reside here, hence many fondly remembered highlights are to be found including "I Cladius", "Hornblower", "Edge of Darkness", "Boys From The Blackstuff", "Roots" and "Shogun". Scrolling the "Television Shows" function may also prove helpfull.
Right: "Shogun" Poster
Callan (1974)
7/10
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Mohner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Russell...
TV viewers first met secret agent Callan in a one-off armchair theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", in which the disgraced former top secret service... Read more
Sutherland's Law (1973)
7.5/10
Starring: Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson
In Scottish Law the Procurator Fiscal is the public prosecutor, and in that role Iain Cuthbertson as John Sutherland strode the landscape like a colos... Read more
Upstairs Downstairs: Series 3 (1973)
7.4/10
Director: Cyril Coke, Lionel Harris, Christopher Hodson, Derek Bennett, Bill Blain
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Nicola Pagett, Pauline Collins, Simon Williams, Davi...
The dramatic story of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal servants accurately portrays life as it was from Edwardian England, through Worl... Read more
The Lotus Eaters: Series 2 (1973)
6.6/10
Director: Cyril Coke, Viktors Ritelis
Starring: Ian Hendry, Wanda Ventham
As the Shepherds run their bar on Crete, Ann suddenly succumbs to amnesia. So begins intrigue, with a local policeman warning the couple that things... Read more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
6.6/10
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Nigel Davenport, Shane Briant, Charles Aidman, Fionnula Flanagan
Can the gift of eternal youth and beauty be a curse? It is in this made-for-TV rendition of the Oscar Wilde shocker. Shane Briant plays the debauched... Read more
Divorce His, Divorce Hers (1973)
5.7/10
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Barry Foster, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rudolph Walke...
Originally made for television, this acclaimed drama stars Elizabteth Taylor and Richard Burton as a married couple, who after almost twenty years fin... Read more
Kojak: Season 1 (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas
He's got style, street smarts and a penchant for lollipops (something Savalas himself introduced as he was trying to quit smoking) - Lieutenant Theo... Read more
The Edwardians (1972)
6.7/10
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Michael Jayston, Nigel Davenport, Robert Powell,...
This eight-part BBC miniseries explores the influential characters of Britain's Edwardian Age - a period that underwent some of the greatest achieveme... Read more
Upstairs Downstairs: Series 2 (1972)
7.4/10
Director: Cyril Coke, Lionel Harris, Christopher Hodson, Derek Bennett, Bill Blain
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Nicola Pagett, Pauline Collins, Simon Williams, Davi...
Life in the Bellamy household is beset by flirtations, affairs, divorce, pregnancy, royalty, blackmail, theft, suffragettes and finally, the King's de... Read more
The Moonstone (1972)
7.5/10
Director: Paddy Russell
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Robin Ellis, Vivien Heilbron, Martin Jarvis, John Welsh, Basil D...
Young and beautiful Rachel Verinder (Vivien Heilbron) inherits one of the greatest jewels on earth, The Moonstone, a yellow diamond from India. When i... Read more