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The Mystery Of Men
First broadcast on BBC1 on 30th August 1999
Synopsis: A black comedy-drama about four men who take out an insurance policy together. The aim is to ensure that whoever lives longest dies richest. However, with a little help from the women in their lives, fate throws a riotous chain of mishaps their way
Starring: Warren Clarke, Neil Pearson, Nick Berry and Robert Daws
Directed by: David Wheatley
Produced by: Steve Lanning
Executive producer: Mal Young
Screenplay by: Nick Vivian based on the book by Guy Bellamy
BBC Television / Valentine Productions

Guest House Paradiso Guest House Paradiso DVD cover
Nationwide UK cinematic release on 3rd December 1999. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: A comedy inspired by the television series 'Bottom'. In an undescribably bad holiday guest house, presided over by an equally awful proprietor, unsuspecting guests end up with more than they bargained for
Starring: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Bill Nighy, Fenella Fielding, Lisa Palfrey and Joseph Hughes
Directed by: Adrian Edmondson
Produced by: Phil McIntyre
Executive producers: Helen Parker, Marc Samuelson and Peter Samuelson
Written by: Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson
Universal Pictures / Phil McIntyre Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Blue Murder Blue Murder video cover
First broadcast on ITV on 23rd February 2000. Home-video release
Starring: Gary Mavers, Jemma Redgrave, Emma Cunniffe, Kevin McMonagle and Tim Woodward
Directed by: Paul Unwin
Produced by: Christopher Hall
Executive producer: Sharon Bloom
Written by: Nick Collins
Carlton Television Production

Essex Boys Essex Boys DVD cover
Nationwide UK cinematic release on 14th July 2000. Now on DVD
Synopsis: A dark and violent British gangster tale, loosely based on the 1998 'Range Rover Murders'. The story is told by a young cabby who works for a violent psychopath intent on becoming the premier crime lord of the Southend clubs. However, a contaminated consignment of ecstasy tablets blackens the psychotic ex-con's reputation, and a dramatic plot of murder and betrayal ensues
Starring: Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson and Larry Lamb
Directed by: Terry Winsor
Produced by: Jeff Pope
Executive producer: Pippa Cross
Written by: Jeff Pope and Terry Winsor
A Granada Film Production


March In Windy City
First broadcast on ITV on 25th March 1998
Synopsis: Tense espionage drama in which a former British secret agent is brought out of retirement to carry out one last assassination. One-time MI6 operative Steven March travels to Chicago in order to assassinate a Russian mafioso who has reinvented himself as a legitimate businessman and is running for the Senate. Despite unconventional methods, March proves more than a match for the FBI and the Mafia
Starring: David Jason and David McCallum
Executive producers: David Reynolds and David Jason
Yorkshire Television Production

Cadfael - The Holy Thief Cadfael: Complete Series 4 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 23rd June 1998. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael investigates more foul deeds against a backdrop of unrest in town and country. He is confronted by a double abduction when both a slave girl and the bones of the abbey's Saint Winifred go missing
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Anthony Green
Directed by: Ken Grieve
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producers: Rob Pursey and Rebecca Eaton
Screenplay by: Ben Rostul based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Productions and WGBH / Boston

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Potter's Field Cadfael: Complete Series 4 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 23rd December 1998. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: The monks of Shrewsbury discover a crude burial pot containing a woman's remains, and Cadfael is compelled to clear a fellow brother of the crime
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Peter Baldwin, Anthony Green, Mel Martin and John Bowler
Directed by: Mary McMurray
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producers: Rob Pursey and Rebecca Eaton
Screenplay by: Christopher Russell based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Carlton Production in association with WGBH / Boston

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - Pilgrim Of Hate Cadfael: Complete Series 4 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 28th December 1998. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael must discover who murdered an old man whose putrescent corpse is brought to the abbey in a sack by pilgrims. The abbot imprisons the travellers while Cadfael examines the body to find clues to the identity of the killer
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Anthony Green and Matt Patresi
Directed by: Ken Grieve
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producers: Rob Pursey and Rebecca Eaton
Screenplay by: Richard Stoneman based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Carlton Production in association with WGBH / Boston

N.B. A soundtrack was released

This Could Be The Last Time This Could Be The Last Time video cover
First broadcast on BBC TV. Home-video release
Starring: Joan Plowright, Penelope Wilton, Dorothy Tutin, Alain Doutey, Keith Barron and Jonathan Burteaux
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Produced by: Colin Ludlow
Executive producer: David M Thompson
Screenplay by: George Day
BBC Television Production

Money Kings - (aka Vig) Money Kings DVD cover
Made-for-TV film. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Powerful crime drama about a Korean War veteran who runs an illegal gambling operation from his Boston pub. As a result of a visit by the mob who want to muscle in on the old soldier's activities, a young mobster is dispatched to chase up his debtors. But things begin to get out of hand when one of the late-players has his life threatened, and the vet decides to risk his own life and take on the mob himself
Starring: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Freddie Prinze Jr., Tyne Daly, Paul Lazar, Tony Sirico, Steve Sweeney, Roger Robinson, Frank Vincent and Colm Meaney
Directed by: Graham Theakston
Produced by: F Miguel Valenti
Executive producers: Cis Corman, Erin Martin, John Dunning, André Link, Michael Paseornek and Jeff Sackman
Screenplay by: Paul Hapenny
A Lions Gate Films & Barwood Films & Angry Mob Production


Into The Blue Into The Blue DVD cover
First broadcast on ITV on 15th October 1997. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek island, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place
Starring: John Thaw, Matthew Marsh, Celia Imrie, Miles Anderson, Anton Lesser and Abigail Cruttenden
Directed by: Jack Gold
Produced by: Chris Burt
Executive producers: Ted Childs, Rebecca Eaton and Duncan C Weldon
Written by: Simon Burke based on the book by Robert Goddard
Carlton Productions in association with Triumph Proscenium Productions Limited and WGBH Boston

Sex & Chocolate
First broadcast on BBC1 on 26th October 1997
Synopsis: Drama about a contented wife and school teacher who is led into temptation by an old flame. She agrees to spend a weekend with him in Paris but succumbs to a taste for sex and chocolate
Starring: Dawn French, Phil Daniels and Michael Maloney
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Produced by: Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
Executive producers: Ruth Caleb and George Faber
Written by: Tony Grounds
BBC Television Production

The Stalker's Apprentice
First broadcast on ITV on 25th May 1998
Synopsis: Thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with a young woman he sees on a commuter train. Inspired by a manuscript at the publishing firm where he works, he begins to stalker her. But when he discovers she is engaged, his infatuation takes a murderous turn
Starring: Peter Davison, James Bolam, Paula Wilcox and Gideon Turner
Directed by: Marcus D F White
Produced by: Robert Love
Executive producers: Robert Love and J Nigel Pickard
Screenplay by: Gordon Hann from the novel by M S Power
Scottish Television Enterprises


Cadfael - A Morbid Taste For Bones Cadfael: Complete Series 2 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 25th August 1996. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: The monks of Shrewsbury go to Wales to recover the bones of a Saint, but encounter local opposition. When the local land owner is murdered, the monks become the prime suspects
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Anna Friel, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Mark Charnock and Terrence Hardiman
Directed by: Rick Stroud
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Christopher Russell based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Rose Rent Cadfael: Complete Series 3 DVD cover
Originally broadcast ITV on 12th August 1997. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael looks into a spate of murders that surround a rich and attractive widow. With the men of the locale of Shrewsbury scrambling to marry the rich merchant's widow, rivalry for her hand spirals out of control. Even the young monk who brings the annual rent from the abbey in the form of a rose falls for her charms, and soon pays dearly for his interest
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Mark Charnock, Crispin Bonham-Carter and Kitty Aidridge
Directed by: Rick Stroud
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Christopher Russell based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Raven In The Foregate Cadfael: Complete Series 3 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 26th August 1997. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael is consumed with guilt when a young pregnant girl he rejected in her hour of need is found dead, along with a priest who refused to take her confession. Determined to ease his own conscience and prove that her death was not suicide, the contrite cleric embarks on a double murder hunt
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Mark Charnock and Catherine Cusack
Directed by: Ken Grieve
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Simon Burke based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

The Pale Horse
First broadcast on ITV on 23rd December 1997
Synopsis: A murder mystery, set in the 1960s, about a young sculptor who is suspected of murdering a priest. As Mark Easterbrook sets out to uncover the truth - linking several other mysterious deaths - the life of a young woman is also put in danger
Starring: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips, Michael Bryne and Jean Marsh
Directed by: Charles Beeson
Produced by: Adrian Bate
Executive producer: Guy Slater
Screenplay by: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie
Anglia Television Entertainment

Space Truckers Space Truckers DVD cover
Cinematic and home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Colourful science fiction comedy about an interstellar trucker who agrees to carry an illicit shipment back to earth, unaware that the cargo comprises deadly biomechanical killing machines
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Charles Dance
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Produced by: Mary Breen-Farrelly
Executive producers: Guy Collins and Stephen Kay
Story by: Stuart Gordon and Ted Mann
Goldcrest Films International


Cadfael - The Virgin In The Ice Cadfael: Complete Series 2 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 26th December 1995. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: More mystery as Brother Cadfael investigates the rape, murder and encasement in ice of a nun. The man of the cloth's probing reveals not only a murderer but the fact that he himself has fathered a son, despite now being a celibate vessel of God
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Mark Charnock, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Amelia Curtis
Directed by: Malcolm Mowbray
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Russell Lewis based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Leper Of St Giles Cadfael: Complete Series 1 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV in 1995. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: A great wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Shrewsbury, for a beautiful young girl and a powerful Baron - but he's only interested in the contents of her dowry, not her heart. On the eve of her wedding he rides off into the night - and is never seen alive again
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Tara Fitzgerald
Directed by: Graham Theakston
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Paul Pender based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Central Films Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - St Peter's Fair Cadfael: Complete Series 3 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 19th August 1997. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Against the backdrop of an England ravaged by civil war, a tangled web of deceit and murder is unravelled when a merchant is killed at the annual St. Peter's fair in Shrewsbury. With a cobbler's son standing accused, Cadfael's friend Hugh Beringar finds he must choose between loyalty to the King and his regard for Cadfael
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Mark Charnock,
Directed by: Herbert Wise
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Russell Lewis based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Devil's Novice Cadfael: Complete Series 2 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV on 18th August 1996. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael and his colleagues welcome into the Abbey a young man who expresses an urgent wish to join the order. But when Canon Eluard arrives to question the newcomer about a disappearance, Cadfael looks into the real reasons behind the young man's unexpected arrival
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Ian McNeice
Directed by: Herbert Wise
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Christopher Russell based on the novel by Ellis Peters
Carlton Television Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Body Language - (aka Pro Bono) Body Language video cover
Home-video release
Synopsis: Tense drama about a lawyer who meets a seductive stripper, who convinces him to kill her abusive husband. But the more he gets involved with her, the more he realises all is not what it seems as he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous blackmail plot
Starring: Tom Berenger, Nancy Travis, Robert Patrick, Eddie Jones, Dana Gladstone and Heidi Schanz
Directed by: George Case
Produced by: Bill Borden and Diane Nabatoff
Executive producers: Ted Field, David Madden and Robert W Cort
Written by: Eric Harlacher
HBO Pictures / Interscope Communications


Pat & Margaret Pat & Margaret DVD cover
Originally broadcast on BBC TV on 11th September 1994. Now on DVD
Starring: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Thora Hird and Don Henderson
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Produced by: Ruth Caleb
Written by: Victoria Wood
BBC Television Production

Captives Captives video cover
Cinematic and home-video release
Synopsis: A young female dentist starts working in a high security prison when her marriage breaks up. Before long, she is drawn into an intense, secret affair with a convicted criminal. Consumed by obsessive passion, she embarks on a dangerous journey from which there is no turning back
Starring: Tim Roth, Julia Ormond, Keith Allen, Siobhan Redmond, Peter Capaldi and Colin Salmon
Directed by: Angela Pope
Produced by: David M Thompson
Executive producers: Anant Singh and Mark Shivas
Screenplay by: Frank Deasy
Majestic Films

The Puppet Masters The Puppet Masters DVD cover
Cinematic and home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Andrew Nivens leads a team of top-level government agents who make a shocking discovery: bizarre extraterrestrial beings have landed and are quickly taking control of the residents of a small farm town - manipulating their bodies and minds like puppets! Faced with an escalating crisis as the creatures multiply and spread, the team must somehow eliminate the seemingly unstoppable aliens...
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner and Yaphet Kotto
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Produced by: Ralph Winter
Executive producer: Michael Engelberg
Screenplay by: Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio and David S Goyer based on the novel by Robert A Heinlein
Hollywood Pictures

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Wide Eyed And Legless - (aka The Wedding Gift)
Originally broadcast on BBC TV
Synopsis: A witty and spirited middle-aged British couple try to cope with the wife's mysterious illness. When their son announces his upcoming wedding, they find themselves more determined than ever to live life to the fullest in this uplifting, bittersweet drama
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Peter Whitfield, Martin Wenner and Thora Hird
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Written by: Jack Rosenthal
BBC Television Production

Cadfael - One Corpse Too Many Cadfael: Complete Series 1 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV in 1995. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: The sleuthing medieval monk's quiet, monastic life is shattered when the Abbey of Shrewsbury becomes embroiled in a war raging between King Stephen and Empress Maud
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Christian Burgess
Directed by: Graham Theakston
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Russell Lewis based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Central Films Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - The Sanctuary Sparrow Cadfael: Complete Series 1 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV in 1995. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: When the town's goldsmith is robbed and left for dead, the local citizens launch a witch hunt. Pursued by an angry mob, the prime suspect is forced to take refuge at the abbey. But when a second body is found in the river, Cadfael dons his habit to investigate
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Roy Barraclough
Directed by: Graham Theakston
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Russell Lewis based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Central Films Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Cadfael - Monk's Hood Cadfael: Complete Series 1 DVD cover
Originally broadcast on ITV in 1995. Home-video release. Now on DVD
Synopsis: Cadfael is called in to investigate when a wealthy landowner, who cut his son out of his will to leave his inheritance to Shrewsbury Abbey, is found poisoned. The dashing monk discovers that the man's wife is the childhood sweetheart he has not seen for 40 years. Cadfael promised he would be back to marry her after leaving for the crusades, but never returned to honour his pledge
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley, Michael Culver, Julian Firth and Jonny Lee Miller
Directed by: Graham Theakston
Produced by: Stephen Smallwood
Executive producer: Ted Childs
Screenplay by: Russell Lewis based on the novel by Ellis Peters
A Central Films Production

N.B. A soundtrack was released

Sin Bin
Originally broadcast on BBC TV
Synopsis: A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but does not come forward
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, George Costigan, Kathy Burke, James Cosmo and Anna Keaveney
Directed by: George Case
Produced by: Charles Pattinson
Written by: Catherine Johnson
BBC Television Production


Curacao - (aka A Circling Of Sharks; aka Deadly Currents) Curacao DVD cover
Cinematic and home-video release
Synopsis: A former sea captain whose ship exploded and now the owner of a bar in the Bahamas is friendly with the head of security for the American embassy - who gets an observer assigned to him by the CIA, a task complicated by the fact that they are former lovers. Some uncomfortable secrets are soon revealed
Starring: George C Scott, William Petersen, Julie Carmen, Alexei Sayle, Trish Van Devere and Maria Ellingsen
Directed by: Carl Schultz
Produced by: Art Levinson
Executive producer: Philip D Fehrle
Screenplay by: James David Buchanan based on his novel The Prince Of Malta
Jones Entertainment Group Limited

A Question Of Guilt
Originally broadcast on BBC TV
Starring: Cherie Lunghi, Derrick O'Connor and Malcolm Sinclair
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Written by: Ted Whitehead
BBC Television Production

Don't Leave Me This Way
Originally broadcast on BBC TV
Synopsis: Tense thriller about a pair of friends, Loretta and Bridget, who cannot accept as accidental the death of a friend who is found off the English coast in a wrecked car. Helped by the dead woman's daughter, they follow the trail to a deserted house on the Norfolk Fens, where a terrible truth is revealed
Starring: Janet McTeer, Imelda Staunton, John Fortune, Bill Nighy, Jerome Flynn, Ian McNeice, Pamela Salem and Philip Anthony
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Written by: Catherine Buchanan based on the novel by Joan Smith
BBC Television Production


City Boy
Cinematic release
Synopsis: Powerful drama, set towards the end of the 19th century, about a young man who leaves his Chicago orphanage to find his natural parents. Travelling in the wilds of the north western states, he befriends a petty criminal, but the two are destined to clash when one is hired to protect a forest from illegal felling, and the other falls in with some shady lumberjacks whose axes are poised
Starring: James Brolin, Wendel Meldrum, Christopher Bolton, Sarah Chalke, David Glyn-Jones, Victor A Young, Matthew Walker, Alan C Peterson and Christian Campbell
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Produced by: Colleen Nystedt
Executive producers: Andras Hamori and Susan Cavan
Written by: John Kent Harrison and Coralee Elliott Testar based on the novel Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
New City Productions Inc


Journey To Knock
Starring: John Hurt
Directed by: David Wheatley
BBC Television Production


Hands Of A Murderer
Synopsis: Detective film set in Victorian London, featuring the famous violin playing sleuth and his amiable companion, Dr Watson. After months of painstaking investigation, Inspector Lestrade has allowed Moriarty to escape. Holmes finds himself tangled in a web of intrigue and double bluff
Starring: Edward Woodward, John Hillerman, Anthony Andrews, Kim Thomson, Peter Jeffrey and Warren Clarke
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Produced by: Robert E Fuisz
Executive producer: William F Storke
Written by: Charles Edward Pogue
Yorkshire International Films Limited

Danger Adrift
Starring: Penny Lang
CBS Special

Smack & Thistle
Originally broadcast on Channel 4 (UK)
Directed by: Tunde Tkoli
Working Title Production

Frankenstein's Baby
Starring: Nigel Planer, Kate Buffery, William Armstrong, Yvonne Bryceland and Richard Haddon Haines
Directed by: Bob Bierman
Produced by: Ruth Baumgarten
Written by: Emma Tennant
BBC Television Production

Gaia - (aka Tattoo)
Directed by: Maxim Ford


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