Eileen Way
Nacimiento : 1911-09-02, New Malden, Surrey, England, UK
Muerte : 1994-06-16
Aunt Anna
Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.
Mama Sibilla
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Sra. Madera, Ramón's Mother
Jeff Marx quiere ser médico, pero sus notas están lejos de abrirle el camino hacia una buena facultad de medicina en los Estados Unidos. Entonces se le presenta la oportunidad de estudiar medicina en un pequeño país latinoamericano, una dictadura cuyo jefe es el Dr. Ramón Madera, que tiene un gran interés en el comportamiento de los estudiantes de medicina.
Ruf Grigorievna
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Second Witch
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Finn's Granny
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...
Aida
Una joven arqueóloga (Lesley-Anne Down) que está pasando unas vacaciones en El Cairo presencia un asesinato en una tienda de antigüedades y, al mismo tiempo, ve cómo los asesinos roban una estatua de gran valor. Llega a la conclusión de que alguien está saqueando una tumba, cuya existencia nadie conoce, y decide encontrarla por sus propios medios.
Karela
The Doctor and Romana follow a distress signal which leads to the jungle planet Chloris, whose ruthless ruler Lady Adrasta harbors a deadly creature in a pit.
Mrs. Phillips
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
Italian Dressmaker
Nick planea matar a su mujer, pero no sabe que ella alberga las mismas intenciones.
Old Woman
En Los Daleks invaden la Tierra (Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.), la Tierra es un lugar espeluznante y siniestro en el año 2150. Las ciudades están destrozadas y los humanos convertidos en muertos vivientes, los Robomen. El Dr. Who viaja al futuro. ¿Conseguirá destruir a los Daleks?
Landlady
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Old Mother
Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his police box time machine. Deciding that the pair knows too much about his otherworldly origins, they are whisked away on a journey through time and space.
Jennet Clouston
David Balfour, un muchacho atrevido y orgulloso (como el Jim de La isla del Tesoro), se ve envuelto en una doble serie de aventuras: las relacionadas con la herencia que le ha sido arrebatada y las derivadas de de las secuelas de la guerra civil inglesa del siglo XVIII. Adaptación de la novela homónima de Robert Luis Stevenson por la factoría Disney
Kitala
En la Alta Edad Media, los vikingos o normandos (hombres del Norte) adoraban a Odin, el dios pagano de la guerra, que los guiaba a través de los mares cada vez que emprendían sus habituales incursiones de saqueo. Einar y Eric, hijos ambos del rey vikingo Ragnar -aunque ignoraban su parentesco-, se odiaban profundamente, pero se vieron obligados a luchar juntos para rescatar a la princesa Morgana, de la que ambos estaban enamorados, de las garras del rey de Inglaterra.
Greek Woman
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial un comando aliado de diez hombres tiene la difícil misión de destruir un estrategico aeropuerto enemigo en una isla griega ocupada por alemanes e italianos.
Mrs. Thoms
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
Mme. Fernande
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Woman Detective
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Secretary
A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several days on being in the town, the citizens accept him as a harmless, though a bit daft, member of the community. He then pays a visit to the town's leading citizen and reveals himself as a man with the perfect plan for murder.