Cedric Messina — Producer
Episodes 87
Where Angels Fear to Tread
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
Read MoreMake Me an Offer
Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
Read MoreDeath of a Salesman
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Read MoreThe Devil's Eggshell
The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...
Read MoreDefection! The Case of Colonel Petrov
A dramatisation of the defection of Soviet intelligence officer Vladimir Petrov, who, fueled by disillusionment with the Soviet system and his fear of returning, led to a Royal Commission investigating Soviet espionage in Australia, marking a significant impact on Australian politics.
Read MoreDays to Come
Set in a future where people peacefully coexist in a sealed bubble, they are divided into four levels — Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and deviants unable to conform. Elizabeth hails from a Beta family and her father seeks to pair her off with Bindon, a civil servant with prospects. Elizabeth, however, is in love with Jon, a modest rocket pad official. When Elizabeth's father decides to have her mind altered to remove feelings for Jon, the lovers flee, discovering fresh air and the beauty and cruelness of nature for the first time.
Read MoreCorridors of Power
Concerns the attempts of an English MP to influence the country's policy on nuclear weapons in the 1950s.
Read MoreThe Making of Jericho
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The Cabinet Makers
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Girls in Uniform
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The Moon and Sixpence
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, Charles Strickland is a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Read MoreRomeo and Juliet
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Read MoreCyrano de Bergerac
Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
Read MoreThe Corn Is Green
A schoolteacher mentors a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.
Read MoreThe Tempest
The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island – but a storm brings visitors from the past.
Read MoreThe Old Ladies
A trio of middle-aged women set up housekeeping together.
Read MoreMan and Superman
John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
Read MoreThe Male Animal
The Midwestern University trustees have forced three teachers out for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild-mannered English professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the Homecoming.
Read MoreThe Seagull
Aging actress Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Sorin and son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings with her Trigorin, a successful novelist. Meanwhile, Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls for Trigorin.
Read MoreWaters of the Moon
Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.
Read MoreMary, Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart, named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She's imprisoned at 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later, Mary's life is to end on the scaffold and with her execution, the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.
Read MoreMaigret at Bay
Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.
Read MoreRelatively Speaking
Ginny plots to keep her affair with the much older (and married) Philip from her regular boyfriend Greg.
Read MoreJulius Caesar
Highly-placed Romans plot the murder of Julius Caesar.
Read MoreAn Ideal Husband
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously
Read MoreThe Heiress
A naive young woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
Read MoreCharley's Aunt
Charley and Jack pressure classmate Fancourt to pose as Charley's aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of not only old Spettigue but also Jack's grandfather.
Read MoreThe Marquis
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In Good King Charles's Golden Days
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Separate Tables
The stories of several people are told as they stay at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth.
Read MoreHowards End
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
Read MoreThe Rivals
A glittering "fancy-dress" comedy that bubbles over with the wit and humour of Richard Sheridan, and characters like Mrs Malaprop and Sir Anthony Absolute, "the very pineapple of perfection".
Read MoreMacbeth
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
Read MoreUncle Vanya
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother—Uncle Vanya—has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself.
Read MoreFive Finger Exercise
A long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence of a handsome young tutor complicates and sensitizes the savage domestic tensions which arise as the secret emotions of members of the family are shockingly revealed.
Read MoreAct of Betrayal
Mr. Norton asks the Jacksons to let someone be a lookout for a mystery man. When Gordon Lonsdale is seen visiting the Krogers across the road, MI5 decides to use the Jacksons' home as a base to trap the Portland spy ring.
Read MoreThe Wild Duck
A loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.
Read MoreDon Juan in Hell
In Hell, Don Juan argues with the Devil, and confronts a woman from his past.
Read MoreA Midsummer Night's Dream
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Read MoreSummer and Smoke
A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
Read MoreLady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
Read MoreTrelawny of the "Wells"
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she elopes with a wealthy young man from the other side of town.
Read MoreThe Millionairess
An Indian doctor meets a willful and arrogant heiress stuck in a dull marriage in order to satisfy the conditions of her father's will.
Read MoreHedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.
Read MoreKing Oedipus
Resolving the riddle of the Sphinx makes Oedipus the king of Thebes, but he also resolves another mystery — and it destroys him.
Read MoreThe Magistrate
A widow weds a magistrate and makes her 19-year-old son act as a boy.
Read MoreA Room with a View
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Read MoreThe Caucasian Chalk Circle
Grusha sacrifices her happiness and dignity for the sake of an abandoned child she takes as her own.
Read MoreThe Love Girl and the Innocent
Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
Read MoreThe Recruiting Officer
Scoundrels are put on notice and women (literally) wear the pants in this uproarious comedy. Recruiting officers travel from port to port wooing men into service at sea, and women into their beds. Two such men, Worthy and Plume, land in Shrewsbury each in love with a woman who lives there.
Read MoreThe Common
An exploration of the relationship between two couples from different social classes: one wealthy and Conservative, one poor and socialist.
Read MoreThe Changeling
A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
Read MoreThe Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
Read MoreThe Deep Blue Sea
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Read MoreThe Skin Game
The rivalry between a wealthy businessman and his lower-class, self-made rival gets very personal indeed.
Read MoreThe Linden Tree
In 1947 England, in the home of Professor Robert Linden, chair of modern history at the provincial University of Burmanley, rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunism, escapism and confrontation within the Linden family, gathered to celebrate Robert's 65th birthday and each of whom is struggling with their own crises.
Read MoreThe Wood Demon
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen.
Read MoreRobinson Crusoe
An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
Read MoreThe School for Scandal
Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
Read MoreChips with Everything
Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.
Read MoreLove's Labour's Lost
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Read MoreWhen We Are Married
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
Read MoreLoyalties
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The Chester Mystery Cycle
A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.
Read MoreFrench Without Tears
The romantic and comic adventures of a quintet of young Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
Read MoreThe Picture of Dorian Gray
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Read MoreLondon Assurance
Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt Courtly in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace. When his father appears on the scene, he has to convince him that there is a case of mistaken identity and he is somebody else.
Read MoreLook Back in Anger
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Read MoreThe Winslow Boy
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Read MoreThe Country Wife
Pinchwife brings his simple young wife to London for his sister's wedding. Lest she falls prey to the town's temptations, he keeps her under lock and key.
Read MoreThe Ambassadors
Strether is sent to Europe to rescue a young American from the charms of a mysterious French beauty. But he is soon under the liberating influence of Europe himself.
Read MoreOn Approval
Wealthy widow Maria invites long-time dinner companion Richard to spend a month at her house in Scotland. If she still likes him after a month together, they will marry. Mutual friends George, Duke of Bristol and his companion Helen decide to make it a foursome.
Read MoreDangerous Corner
An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft.
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