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1 form y separately published work icon Stark Ben Elton , ( dir. Nadia Tass ) Melbourne London Australia : Cascade Films BBC TV ABC Television , 1993 Z1689919 1993 series - publisher film/TV science fiction

Australian billionaire Sly Morgan is invited to join the Stark Conspiracy, a group of the world's richest people, who plan to save themselves from the Earth's impending environmental doom. Colin Dobson, or CD to his friends, tries to impress beautiful activist Rachel by joining her and a group of hippies on a mission to foil Stark's evil plan of environmental vandalism.
1 form y separately published work icon A Chance to Sit Down Meredith Daneman , ( dir. Paul Ciappessoni ) United Kingdom (UK) : BBC TV , 1981 Z1691751 1981 series - publisher film/TV A ballet dancer finds her career and marriage in jeopardy when she falls in love with the company's new male dancer.
1 form y separately published work icon The Swallow's Nest Graham Woodford , ( dir. Henric Hirsh ) London : BBC TV , 1968 Z1517549 1968 single work film/TV Based on Robert Wales's play The Cell, The Swallow's Nest is set in the convent of an order that cares for girls whom the court and welfare authorities consider redeemable. Although the girls are released into the bond of the nuns rather than being jailed, in appearance the convent is little different from a prison. It too is a place of high walls, shadows, locked doors, and carried keys.
1 y separately published work icon Man of two worlds Pino Bosi , United Kingdom (UK) : BBC TV , 1967 Z868247 1967 single work autobiography drama
1 form y separately published work icon The Man in the Mirror Lindsay Hardy , ( dir. Gerald Blake ) 1966 London : BBC TV , 1966 Z1394767 1966 series - publisher film/TV thriller crime

A man who is the exact double of an expert forger is recruited by treasury agents as part of an elaborate scheme to break a criminal organisation that is laundering counterfeit money.

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Film Details.
1 form y separately published work icon Theatre 625 BBC TV (publisher), 1964 London : BBC TV , 1964-1968 Z1651534 1964 series - publisher film/TV

Theatre 625 was a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) drama anthology series transmitted on BBC2 between 1964 and 1968. In all, 114 ninety-minute plays were produced. Some of the best-known productions were a 1965 production of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (using Nigel Kneale's 1954 theatrical adaptation); John Hopkins's four-part drama Talking to a Stranger (1966), which told the same story from four different viewpoints; and the 1968 science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics. Among the screenplays known to have been written by an Australian or Australian resident is The Swallow's Nest by Robert Wales (1968).
1 form y separately published work icon The Wednesday Play BBC TV (publisher), 1964 London : BBC TV , 1964-1970 Z1649155 1964 series - publisher film/TV

A British television series of one-off plays made by the BBC. The series gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, including Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins. Australia's Alan Seymour also had two of his plays produced in 1965 - The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne and Auto-Stop. Some of the more famous productions include Up the Junction; Cathy Come Home; Stand Up Nigel Barton; Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton; On the Eve of Publication; and Son of Man. The series often addressed controversial issues such as homelessness and abortion.
1 form y separately published work icon The Sleeper Lindsay Hardy , ( dir. Alan Bromly ) 1964 London : BBC TV , 1964 Z1394763 1964 series - publisher film/TV crime thriller

A British secret agent is reactivated and sent to Poland to investigate the crashing of a Moscow-bound plane allegedly carrying American classified documents.

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Film Details.
2 2 form y separately published work icon An Unearthly Child The Tribe of Gum; 100,000 BC Anthony Coburn , 1963 United Kingdom (UK) : BBC TV , 1963 Z1688634 1963 series - publisher film/TV science fiction fantasy

Two schoolteachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, become concerned by the unusual behavior of their fifteen-year-old student, Susan Foreman. When they follow her home, they meet her mysterious grandfather, the Doctor, and find themselves unwilling passengers on his time ship. The first episode deals with Ian and Barbara's discovery of the Doctor and the TARDIS in a junkyard in contemporary London. The following three episodes are set amid a power struggle between warring Stone Age factions.

Source : 'An Unearthly Child' - Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Unearthly_Child (Sighted 4/05/10)
1 form y separately published work icon Walk a Crooked Mile Lindsay Hardy , ( dir. David Rose ) 1961 London : BBC TV , 1961 Z1394741 1961 series - publisher film/TV detective crime

The police are called in to investigate a murder on a film set.

For a detailed, episode-by-episode synopsis, see Film Details.
1 form y separately published work icon A Mask for Alexis Lindsay Hardy , ( dir. Eric Fawcett ) 1959 London : BBC TV , 1959 Z1394729 1959 series - publisher film/TV crime

Condensed from the radio serial of the same name, the narrative concerns Christopher Knight, a man who is falsely accused of murder and who subsequently sets out to investigate the crime himself.

Further Reference:

'A Mask For Alexis'. Times, 22 September 1959, p.13.
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