A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
Basada en la novela homónima del escritor inglés Henry Fielding. Hijo ilegítimo de una pobre mujer que se vio obligada a abandonarlo poco después de nacer, Tom Jones (Albert Finney) fue adoptado y educado por el bondadoso señor Allworthy, en cuya casa creció feliz y despreocupadamente junto a Blifil, el sobrino de su protector. Con el tiempo, ambos se enamoraron de su encantadora vecina Sophie Western (Susannah York). Dominado por los celos, Blifil, el único heredero de la hacienda familiar, decidió expulsar a Tom de la casa.
Colin Smith es un joven de clase obrera que vive en los alrededores de Nottingham. Un día comete un robo en una panadería y es enviado a un reformatorio. Una vez allí, empieza a correr y, gracias a sus cualidades como corredor de fondo, va ganando puestos en la institución penitenciaria. Durante sus entrenamientos reflexiona sobre su vida anterior y empieza a comprender que se encuentra en una situación privilegiada.
