J. B. Priestley

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her.

어느 부잣집 저택에서는 약혼식으로 큰 파티가 열릴 예정이다. 그리하여 그 가족들은 파티 준비로 분주하게 움직이고 있는데 갑자기 '칼(고천락)'이라는 형사가 들이닥친다. 다름 아니라 2시간 전에 한 여자가 살충제를 마시고 자살하는 사건이 발생을 하여 용의선상에 오른 가족들을 조사하러 온 것이다. 그러나 그 가족들은 자살한 여자는 전혀 모르는 사람이고 이번 사건과 무관하다며 어리둥절하고 있는데, '칼' 형사가 한명씩 심문을 하는 과정에서 가족 구성원인 여섯명 전부 자살 사건과 연관이 있다는 것을 알게 된다.

A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide...

According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum. The playwright Martin Civerell expresses his doubts that the theater is able to regain its former charm. Left alone in the Green Room, Civerell sees the actors of the last century and becomes a witness to the drama that happened here a hundred years ago...

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring.

Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in the once wealthy bourgeois family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes.

An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft.

The life of Mr. Kettle, an executive of a single bank in a small provincial English town Brickmill, is strictly organized: 7 a.m. stand up, then breakfast, at 9 a.m. work, at 13 p.m. diner, then work, at 18 p.m.- the end of a workday, then club, home, sleep. But one dull English morning almost having reached his work, he stops near a shop window, trading toys. How is Mrs. Twigg, Kettle's housekeeper amazed when she sees seem at home with bags and hears him saying that he is not intended to go to work any longer. This is the day when Mr. Kettle suddenly meets his love, and after a series of funny and tragic situations both choose a new life free and joyful.

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century.

Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.

Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating revelations, revealing a hitherto undiscovered tangle of clandestine relationships and dark secrets, the disclosures of which have tragic consequences...

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.

Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.

농기구 회사의 영업사원인 버드(George Bird: 알렉 기네스 분)는 불치병 진단을 받는다. 의사는 외로운 그에게 주변을 정리하고, 여행을 다니면서 남은 인생을 보내라고 충고한다. 버드는 직장을 그만두고 그 동안 모아둔 돈을 찾아 유명 인사들이 출입하는 고급 호텔에 투숙한다. 사회적으로 상류층에 속하는 투숙객들은 돈도 많고 생활에 여유도 있지만 가식적이고 이중적인 모습을 보인다. 한편 순수하고 다정다감한 버드에게 투숙객 및 종업원들 모두 호감을 갖게되고, 버드는 호텔에 묵고 있는 발명가로부터 사업적인 제의를 받는다든가 정치가 등으로부터 여러 가지 제안을 받는다. 일상적인 욕심을 벗어나 인생을 정리하는 그에게는 행운도 따라주어 경마, 카드 등으로 돈을 벌게 되고 그 돈으로 어려움에 처한 주변 사람들에게 도움을 준다. 그리고 호텔 객실 관리원인 풀 부인(Mrs. Poole: 케이 월쉬 분)과의 애정도 싹튼다. 하지만 인생에서 처음 느껴보는 이런 행복도 죽음을 앞둔 버드에게는 진정한 행복으로 느껴지지 않는데...

농기구 회사의 영업사원인 버드(George Bird: 알렉 기네스 분)는 불치병 진단을 받는다. 의사는 외로운 그에게 주변을 정리하고, 여행을 다니면서 남은 인생을 보내라고 충고한다. 버드는 직장을 그만두고 그 동안 모아둔 돈을 찾아 유명 인사들이 출입하는 고급 호텔에 투숙한다. 사회적으로 상류층에 속하는 투숙객들은 돈도 많고 생활에 여유도 있지만 가식적이고 이중적인 모습을 보인다. 한편 순수하고 다정다감한 버드에게 투숙객 및 종업원들 모두 호감을 갖게되고, 버드는 호텔에 묵고 있는 발명가로부터 사업적인 제의를 받는다든가 정치가 등으로부터 여러 가지 제안을 받는다. 일상적인 욕심을 벗어나 인생을 정리하는 그에게는 행운도 따라주어 경마, 카드 등으로 돈을 벌게 되고 그 돈으로 어려움에 처한 주변 사람들에게 도움을 준다. 그리고 호텔 객실 관리원인 풀 부인(Mrs. Poole: 케이 월쉬 분)과의 애정도 싹튼다. 하지만 인생에서 처음 느껴보는 이런 행복도 죽음을 앞둔 버드에게는 진정한 행복으로 느껴지지 않는데...

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. This was the second television film version of the J.B. Priestley play made by the BBC.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

조스가 운영하는 자마이카 여인숙은 지나가는 배를 난파시켜 생존자들을 살해하고 물건들을 약탈하는 해적들의 근거지이다. 메리는 이모를 찾아 아일랜드를 떠나 자마이카 여인숙으로 오는 도중 험프리 경내에 머물게 된다. 메리는 자마이카 여인숙으로 갈 말을 빌려달라고 하나 험프리 경은 그녀에게 그곳에 가지 말라고 경고한다. 히치콕 감독이 미국으로 가기 전 영국에서 만든 마지막 작품으로 그의 최악의 영화로 알려졌으나 개봉당시 박스 오피스 히트작이었다.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.