David Purcell

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.

An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.

When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

リチャード・ハリス、オマー・シャリフほか豪華俳優陣の共演で描くパニックサスペンス。“ジャガーノート”と名乗る男に時限爆弾を仕掛けられた豪華客船・ブリタニック号。政府より派遣された爆弾処理班が、乗客の命を救うために決死の解体作業に挑む。