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A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system.

Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her attention to the conniving Lionel Filmore who's determined to marry into the family no matter what.

Amongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking. As they both face the death penalty, their relatives travel to Penang to come to their rescue. However, they soon find out that there is nothing they can do to save the boys' lives. In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their racism becomes more than apparent. The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real barbarians are. Wall's play is based on a true story and featured David Jason's first straight acting role on TV.

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

Ace returns to Perivale to visit her friends, only to find they have been abducted to an alien planet by a race called the Cheetah People who were shown the way to Earth by the Master. The Doctor must find a way off the planet before they all succumb to its savage influence.

Ace returns to Perivale to visit her friends, only to find they have been abducted to an alien planet by a race called the Cheetah People who were shown the way to Earth by the Master. The Doctor must find a way off the planet before they all succumb to its savage influence.

The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...

África do Sul, 1976. Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) é um professor que, gradativamente, toma consciência da terrível realidade do seu país, na qual os negros são assassinados sem o menor motivo e os assassinos são protegidos pelo regime dominante. Diante deste quadro, ele resolve enfrentar o sistema.

O arqueólogo Indiana Jones tem acesso à um misterioso envelope que contém informações sobre a localização do lendário Santo Graal, o cálice que Jesus Cristo teria utilizado na Última Ceia. Quando seu pai, o professor Henry Jones, é sequestrado pelos nazistas, o aventureiro irá embarcar numa missão perigosa para salvá-lo e impedir que a relíquia sagrada caia em mãos erradas.

O arqueólogo Indiana Jones tem acesso à um misterioso envelope que contém informações sobre a localização do lendário Santo Graal, o cálice que Jesus Cristo teria utilizado na Última Ceia. Quando seu pai, o professor Henry Jones, é sequestrado pelos nazistas, o aventureiro irá embarcar numa missão perigosa para salvá-lo e impedir que a relíquia sagrada caia em mãos erradas.

An ex-SAS officer and an ex member of the Special Boat Services, team up to search for £ 2 million worth of diamonds which go missing when an aircraft is hijacked. Ruthless terrorists seize a London embassy residence. The SAS are called in. There's intense political pressure for a quick resolution. The worst fears of David Barber, the officer in command, are tragically realised. With a brilliant career in ruins, the prospects for ex-Major Barber seem grim until he meets Colonel Patrick Ansell, Managing director of Saracen systems Ltd.

Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Cinquenta e quatro anos após escapar da "Nostromo", a tenente Ripley é encontrada a flutuar, perdida no espaço, ainda adormecida. De volta ao nosso planeta, ela conta tudo o que lhe aconteceu, mas ninguém acredita realmente nela, ou lhe parece dar crédito, até que uma colónia de humanos, entretanto criada no planeta onde ela encontrou o primeiro Alienígena, deixa de emitir comunicações subitamente. Ela então é convocada para auxiliar uma expedição militar ao local, sendo a única aparentemente consciente de que o pesadelo está longe do fim.

Paul Kersey volta a Nova York para ver um amigo, Charley. Mas, ao chegar, o vê morrendo, pois fora barbaramente surrado por membros de uma gangue que se considera "dona" daquele território. Isto fez a vizinhança chamar a polícia e Kersey, com sua "sorte" habitual, é preso como suspeito, pois os policiais o acharam ao lado da vítima. Kersey só continua preso pois o chefe de polícia, Richard S. Shriker, conhece seu passado de justiceiro e assim quer usá-lo para limpar a área em troca da sua liberdade.