The Gravy Train Goes East
A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.
James Cellan Jones
Malcolm Bradbury
Casts & Crew
Ian Richardson
Christoph Waltz
Judy Parfitt
Francesca Annis
Jeremy Child
Henry Goodman
Roger Lloyd Pack
James Villiers
Trevor Peacock
Michael Mehlmann
Maggie Steed
Peter Linka
Also Directed by James Cellan Jones
Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way.
BBC adaptation of Henry James's 1904 novel. The Golden Bowl. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses.
TV adaptation of the Henry James novel
A mother tries to keep her son’s affections but embarrasses him in front of others.
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. This beautifully remastered BBC production brings to life an uproarious comedy that still resonates in its critique of warfare and romance.
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by Verity Lambert. The series starred Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe.