Innes Lloyd and Louis Marks' long-forgotten anthology series from 1974, featuring stories from Alan Plater, Nigel Kneale and Andrew Davies.
Edward Woodward and Charles Kay star in an adaptation of Poe’s celebrated murder mystery, transmitted on 1st September 1968 as part of BBC-2’s Detective series.
An exhaustive account of the Terry Nation’s Drama Playhouse from 1972 – a story intended as a pilot for a series that never materialised.
The first series ever made in colour, this long-forgotten 1967 horror anthology series has its origins and production methodology examined in detail.
From a script by the celebrated Richard Matheson, can a rational mind defeat inbred superstition when what appear to be a series of vampire attacks take place...
Adapted by Roald Dahl from his own short story, this darkly sinister story of science and revenge starred Brenda Bruce and Donald Sinden.
Proving that children are, indeed, little monsters, this play was critised in the press for its horrifying content.
Directed by the acclaimed Rudolph Cartier, this haunted house tale stars Claire Bloom as the companion of a wicked spinster.
Something terrible is happening at the seaside resort of Holihaven, its climax occurring the same night the Bansteads arrive for a few days peace and quiet.
Reuniting the team that made the previous year's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series, this tale of a cuckold's revenge features a sparkling script by the late John Hawkesworth.
Arthur Lowe, Robert Lang and Milo o'Shea star in a drama-documentary about the medical revolution that went on throughout the 19th century, produced by the Horizon team.
Donald Houston and Ralph Bates star in Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts' flawed, but very enjoyable 1973 series, which was purged from the archives in the mid-70s and recovered from America twenty years later.
Colin Cutler's 'In Focus' series of articles on the third year of acclaimed sci-fi anthology Out of the Unknown:
Transmitted on Friday, 16th March 1962, this BBC adaptation of August Strindberg’s celebrated play starred Jeremy Brett, Robert Helpmann and Beatrix Lehmann.
National Service draftees and military hardliners get the 'jungle jitters' in this 1962 play about the action serviceman saw in Malaya. Stars Ray Smith and Philip Bond.
Nigel Kneale and Rudolph Cartier's revolutionary science-fiction drama serial from 1953.
Arguably the last great single play to be made by the BBC, Arthur Ellis's blackly comedic borderline telefantasy stars Sean Chapman, Kenneth Cranham and Ralph Brown.
John Hawkesworth and Richard Martin’s tremendous Conan Doyle adaptation and series opener for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first transmitted in January 1967.
A padre is detailed to keep a young soldier company the night before he is due to be executed for desertion. Rudolph Cartier's first BBC production, from 1952.
Donald Sinden and Wilfred Pickles star in Rudolph Cartier’s 1958 adaptation of an Edgar Wallace story.
Rudolph Cartier both adapted and produced this play set on the eve of World War I. Transmitted live in February 1953, it stars André Morell, John Robinson, Douglas Wilmer and Greta Gynt.
A costume drama with a long history of being a difficult production, this 1953 Rudolph Cartier play is notable as the one that nearly got him sacked.
Rudolph Cartier's groundbreaking 1954 production, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell and André Morell.
Christopher Barry directs Ernest Clark, Derek Newark and Geoffrey Palmer in a controversial tale of political assassination in this Thirty Minute Theatre play, shown on BBC-2 on 30th September 1968