Shirley Stelfox

Frank (Larry Lamb) and his brother Len (John Benfield) meet on the day of their father's funeral. Together, with the help of Len's son Sean (John Simm) and Jean (Shirley Stelfox), a mysterious woman connected to the deceased, they will set off on a rather peculiar journey.

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of a man close to the new emperor, Vespasian. Hired by the victim's sister to discover the truth, Falco and his newly acquired slave, the gladiator Justus, uncover plots involving a cult which reaches into the Imperial household.

Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

Christine Painter es una madre soltera que trabaja como camarera, se saca un dinero extra alquilando dos pisos que tiene en su poder. Como nunca puede pagar a su casero porque sus inquilinos nunca le pagan a ella, Christine acaba por dejar que su casero se cobre en especies. Cuando una de sus inquilinas se marcha, ella decide incorporarse al negocio, hasta que gracias a un par de locas aventuras abre un burdel en las afueras de la ciudad.

El futuro, año 1984. Winston Smith (John Hurt) soporta una abyecta existencia bajo la continua vigilancia de las autoridades en la Oceanía totalitaria. No obstante, su vida se convierte en una pesadilla cuando prueba el amor prohibido y comete el crimen de pensar libremente.

"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." But Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.

This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...

Un doctor llega al extremo -incluso a asesinar- para restaurar el rostro quemado de su novia.