TV season
1988-08-10
Episode 1
1988-08-10 • 25 min
Highlights from some of the best-known literary adaptations British cinema has produced, including extracts from The Importance Of Being Earnest, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Card and The History Of Mr. Polly.
Episode 2
1988-08-10 • 25 min
Stars such as Oliver Reed, Stanley Baker, Howard Keel and Peter Finch feature in films highlighting thrills and action, including The Trap, Sea Fury, Floods of Fear and Robbery Under Arms.
Episode 3
1988-09-02 • 25 min
Among the films that feature sports are This Sporting Life with Richard Harris, Checkpoint with Stanley Baker, All For Mary starring David Tomlinson and The Lady Vanishes with cricket obsessives Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne.
Episode 4
1988-09-07 • 25 min
Celebrating young scene-stealers including John Howard Davies, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills in British movies such as Oliver Twist, Dangerous Exile, The Kidnappers, Tiger Bay and The History of Mr Polly.
Episode 5
1988-09-14 • 25 min
Comedy sequences from films such as The Early Bird, The Frozen Limits, The Intelligence Men, Band Waggon and Carry On Loving feature stars like Norman Wisdom, the Crazy Gang, Morecambe and Wise, Arthur Askey, and the Carry On team
Episode 6
1989-01-11 • 25 min
Featuring some of the most famous non-human stars of British cinema, including Tarka the Otter, An Alligator Named Daisy, Tawny Pipit and The Belstone Fox.
Episode 7
1989-01-18 • 25 min
Episode 8
1989-01-25 • 25 min
Episode 9
1989-02-01 • 25 min
Episode 10
1989-02-08 • 25 min
Episode 11
1989-02-15 • 25 min
Episode 12
1989-02-22 • 25 min
Episode 13
1989-03-01 • 25 min
Episode 14
1989-03-08 • 25 min
Episode 15
1989-03-15 • 25 min
Episode 16
1989-03-22 • 25 min
