Masterpiece Theater

Watson persuades Sherlock Holmes to come out of retirement to hunt a serial killer. The pattern is that the murderer kills young ladies by gagging them with one of their stockings and then strangling them with the other.

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, with them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

After escaping from the bounty hunters, Davie and Alan run into an old friend of Alan's, now the leader of a guerrilla band fighting the Redcoats. Soon after, though, the bounty hunters are on their tail once again, and Davie goes to Queensferry, near Edinburgh, to seek out his old family lawyer - with a view to tackling his Uncle Ebenezer.

The Virgin Queen is the more or less true story of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1557-1603). The production begins in the Tower of London, where Elizabeth has been imprisoned by Queen Mary, her half-sister, who hopes to bring England back to the Roman Catholic Church and who sees Elizabeth as a rallying-point for the supporters of the protestant Church of England. After the death of Mary, Elizabeth inherits the throne as Queen of England in her own right. Elizabeth sets out with high hopes, but she is soon torn between her love for Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (a married man) and her duties as Queen.

The continuing story of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Elizabeth is under constant pressure to marry and secure the future of the crown by providing an heir, but she fears the loss of power that might come from having a husband and refuses to be forced into a political marriage. Meanwhile, the Queen becomes a strong ruler, and in the Age of Elizabeth her England even begins to become a player on the world stage.

The Durrells, an eccentric English family, move to the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930's, and the young Gerald Durrell becomes fascinated with the island's wildlife.

A coming-of-age story set in the UK during the second world war. Fourteen-year old Carrie Willow and her young brother Nick are evacuated from London during the Blitz and sent to a small Welsh town, where the strict Mr Samuel Evans and his sister take them in

TV film. Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's romantic tale of mid 19th century village life. Fancy Day, a new schoolteacher in a Dorset village, is put under pressure by her family to marry well. However, she falls for the poor Dick Dewy.