James Bolam
1) Dirty tricks
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Part bawdy bedroom farce, part zany crime caper. The story about a charming underachiever on the run from the law. Sure, he's manipulative, money-grubbing, and completely amoral. But is he a murderer? Absolutely not, he insists, despite the pesky corpses piling up. After befriending an accountant, he beds the man's randy wife Karen before a wealthy widow next catches his eye. When Karen meets an untimely demise, a plodding police detective gets involved,...
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Superintendent Sandra Pullman leads the unsolved crimes unit of the Metropolitan Police. Her team includes three aging former detectives lured out of retirement. Can a curmudgeonly trio of crime busters learn new tricks to crack tough crimes? Or are old-fashioned hunches and footwork still best?
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As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old murder conviction which has suddenly come into question due...
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With old-school detective work and a little state-of-the-art forensics, the veterans unearth a range of baffling crimes, including the murder of a lawyer, a racially motivated attack on an Asian bride, and a mysterious unidentified human torso. Includes the complete 8-episode second season.
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"Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her team of aging cops tackle cold cases abandoned by the Metropolitan Police. Each detective is has a fair share of personal demons: Jack Halford is haunted by his wife's murder, Gerry Standing has a troubled relationship with his daughter, Brian Lane battles the bottle, and Sandra seeks the truth about her family's shady past"--Container.
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For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad--veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam, The Beiderbecke Affair), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong, Garrow's Law), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman, The Sweeney)--have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman, Sexy Beast)their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie....
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Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne have settled into domestic bliss when a barkeep gives Trevor a jazz tape. Only it's not jazz after all, but a top-secret conversation about dumping nuclear waste into the scenic Yorkshire dales. Soon Trevor and Jill are pursued by those who want the tape back.
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Ex sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War I. It is a time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world.
15) To kill a king
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1645: After years of civil war, King Charles I is overthrown and two heroes have emerged-- Lord General Thomas Fairfax and his best friend and deputy General Oliver Cromwell. Their friendship is threatened when Fairfax and his wife conspire to return the King to power, and Cromwell instead orders his execution, seizing control. His armies spread violence and fear throughout the country, and Fairfax realizes Cromwell must be stopped, and their bond...
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The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friends, Georgiana Lambe, Tom and Mary Parker, Alexander Colbourne, Lady Susan and the other beloved residents of the seaside resort town. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else, romance, await them?
17) As you like it
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Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, a pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France.
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For eight years the retired police officers of the Unsolved Crimes and Open Case Squad have been a close knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie. Then Jack drops a bombshell: he's quitting and this time he means it. Before long, Sandra finds a replacement for him in Steve McAndrew, a chatty, enthusiastic Scot that treads on toes but helps the team get...
19) Macbeth
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Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes.
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In times of war, courage is necessary for survival. Alex is an 11-year-old Jewish boy who lives in the Polish ghetto with his father and great-uncle, during WWII. When Nazis come to his city and clear the town, Alex manages to escape with the help of his family, but is left with only his pet mouse. Finding refuge in an abandoned building on Bird Street, Alex seeks inspiration from his favorite book while he and his pet await his father's return.