Billy Budd

Adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare.

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

Married to a much older widower with daughters nearly her age, Ellida Wangel starts exhibiting strange and anxious behaviors. When her husband, a doctor, tries to find a cure for her, he finds out that she has a secret with the power to destroy everything they hold dear.

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.

The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.