Stars: Peter Wight, Sagar Arya, Sam Hazeldine, Ralph Brown, Archie Panjabi
Life in Mars is a police-mystery serial about a policeman named Sam Tyler, who has an accident one day and when he wakes up, he wakes up 35 years ago. Sam wants to figure out if he is in a coma and all this is a dream or if he has really been transported to 1973.
Stars: Patrick Allen, Ed Bishop, Rita May, Jane Hazlegrove, Paul Vaughan
Documentary-style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England, and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Stars: Jeffery Kissoon, Jimi Mistry, Richard Briers, Richard Attenborough, Timothy Spall
Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother married to the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, the war is escalating...
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Julia Ormond, Christopher Plummer, John Shrapnel, Mark Frankel
A German prince is chosen to marry the heir to the "Russian" empire, but faces intrigues and tricks against him...
Stars: Lisa Berry, Rita May, Simon Moorhead, Mick Jackson, Reece Dinsdale
The untold story of a movie that terrified a generation. On September 23, 1984, Strings was broadcast on BBC 2. This low-budget docudrama depicted the nuclear attack on the British city of Sheffield and was about an era gripped by the horrors of a nuclear apocalypse. With a firm approach, this film combined documentary aesthetics with kitchen drama, and terrifyingly...
Stars: Eric Allan, Saskia Reeves, Lee Ross, Richard Graham, Philip Glenister
Four cops go undercover to infiltrate a gang of soccer thugs in hopes of taking down their leader. But with the passage of time and their remaining in the gang, one of the four policemen is divided between "being an officer" and "staying in the gang" and...
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Jim Carter, Bill Paterson, Maggie Smith, Michael Palin
Britain, after the war. Food rationing continues, and this issue makes the idea of starting a pork black market come to the mind of a couple and...
