A few months into World War Two, the GPO Film Unit was transferred to the Films Division of the Ministry of Information. Its new name - the Crown Film Unit - reflected its special status as film ...

Lumping together filmmakers of any kind within a single cultural grouping is fraught with difficulty, so the term 'British-Asian' may, for example, fail to recognise individual artistic voices (such ...

Dr. Henry Jekyll begins searching for the elixir of life, and discovers that female hormones prolong a person's existence. The potion he devises transforms him into a woman he calls Hyde, who kills ...

After the death of her foster father, Fanny is employed by her real father (a Cabinet minister) as a servant, and uncovers various things about his wife and her lover Lord Manderstoke that might best ...

Following a mysterious white rabbit, Alice falls down a hole in the ground and finds herself in a strange topsy-turvy universe populated by wondrous creatures. Miller digs deep into the roots of ...

London is being terrorised by a Jack the Ripper-style murderer, the Avenger, who targets young blond-haired women. A mysterious new lodger arrives at the home of Mr and Mrs Bunting, whose daughter ...

When the oil tanker San Demetrio is hit by enemy fire, the crew abandon ship. But after several days adrift in a lifeboat, some of the crew find the ship miraculously still afloat. With courage and ...

A sceptical American psychologist visits England and investigates a fellow scientist's mysterious death. In so doing he encounters a black magician who has the power to invoke an ancient fire demon to ...

The bizarre adventures of a frustrated actor, who walks off a tired family sitcom into a world of talking dogs, and dancing advertisements. Unusually, the series was shot on film, marking it out from ...

The remarkably prolific television career of Brian Clemens is almost the history of the action-adventure genre of British television. His scripts have enlivened almost every action-drama series seen ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

Before the Circus flew: the hidden origins of the Python wit ...