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
Rumpole of the Bailey: Series 7 (1992)
8.5/10
Director: Bill Hays
Starring: Leo McKern, Robin Bailey, Julian Curry
In the seventh and final series of the multi-award winning programme, rumpled barrister Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) defends the Timson family who are... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: A Case of Coincidence (1996)
6.8/10
Director: Gavin Millar
Starring: Keith Barron, Caroline Bliss, Ronald Pickup
Ruth Rendell (the 'Queen of Crime') has written more than 40 books and been translated into 20 languages. She penned this original story of murder and... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Bribery and Corruption (1997)
6.8/10
Director: Mike Vardy
Starring: Paul Freeman, James D'Arcy
Based on the best selling fiction from the Queen of Crime - 'Bribery and Corruption' surface as a young engineer investigates the murder of a friend.... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Lake of Darkness (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Bruce MacDonald
Starring: Liz Smith, Sadie Frost, Cal MacAninch, Nick Reding, Jerome Flynn
Martin Urban has won £1.8 million in the national lottery. He shares his luck by giving some of his winnings to those in need but doesn't realise that... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Master of the Moor (1994)
6.8/10
Director: Marc Evans
Starring: Colin Firth, George Costigan, Robert Urquhart
Colin Firth stars as Stephen Whalby in this adaptation of Rendell's gothic-tinged mystery about a brooding loner and the detective that suspects the w... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Simisola (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Jim Goddard
Starring: George Baker, George Harris, Louie Ramsay, Christopher Ravenscroft
Inspector Wexford is contacted by his local GP to locate his missing daughter who disappeared after attending an interview at a Job Centre. The body o... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Double / A Dark Blue Perfume (1996)
6.8/10
Director: Mary McMurray, Sandy Johnson
Starring: Camilla Power, Jason Flemyng, John Castle, Susannah York, Michelle Newell
The scent of 'A Dark Blue Perfume' figures in the tragic love story of a Hampshire man who falls for a woman after failing to save her husband's life.... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Inspector Wexford Collection (1996)
6.8/10
Starring: Sadie Frost, George Baker, Diane Keen, Christopher Ravenscroft, Russell Mabey
Based on international best selling author Ruth Rendell's riveting novels, 'The Inspector Wexford Collection' is full of drama, deceit and intrigue. T... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Secret House of Death (1996)
6.8/10
Director: Jim Goddard
Starring: Amanda Redman, Owen Teale
Try as she might to mind her own business, a woman finds her life turned upside down after finding murdered lovers next door, in 'The Secret House of... Read more
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Vanity Dies Hard (1995)
6.8/10
Director: Alan Grint
Starring: Eleanor David, Mark Frankel, Jane Gurnett
The internationally popular crime author Ruth Rendell presents another puzzler. Alice Whittaker goes to visit her old friend Nesta after her husband's... Read more