Mrs. Benson
A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
Maid
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Doreen
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Anne Chaplet
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
Alfred Jarry
Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
Fran
This once controversial British movie that was filmed in ‘62 but released in ‘65 involves the fiancé of a depressed American heiress searching for her whereabouts amongst the Chelsea “beatnik” scene. Answers are hard to come by from the nihilistic hedonist youth that know her - but they provide mysterious hints to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
Phoebe
Cuando su novia Ingrid queda embarazada, Vic se siente obligado a casarse con ella, pero entre ellos no hay amor, sólo atracción física. La situación se complica cuando la madre de Ingrid se va a vivir con ellos.
Barbara
Nicky y sus amigos corren peligro de perder su club juvenil, porque va a ser derruido para construir un nuevo complejo de oficinas, a menos que paguen 1500 libras a su propietario, el despiadado magnate Hamilton Black. Para reunir el dinero, Nicky graba una canción, que sus amigos transmiten por una emisora pirata. Pero Nicky guarda un secreto que no puede confesar ni a su novia: Hamilton Black es su padre..
Mary Lockwood is left an island in the Scillies but it does not look as though she can afford to keep it until she finds the Lockwood jewels and the radio-active sands of Jacob's Reach.
