Diana Rigg

biography:
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2020) was an English actress. She played Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965-1968) and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-2017). She has also had a career in theatre, including playing the title role in Medea, both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama.

Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of Abelard & Heloise. Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlena Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989), and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in an adaptation of Rebecca (1997). Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), and the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) with her daughter, Rachael Stirling.

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Affairs of the Heart

overview: Affairs of the Heart is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1983 to 1985. Starring Derek Fowlds, it was written by Paul Daneman. It was made for the ITV network by Granada Television.

character: Grace Gracedew

original_name: Affairs of the Heart

Extras

overview: Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.

character: Diana Rigg

original_name: Extras

Hallmark Hall of Fame

overview: Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

character: Christine

original_name: Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

overview: Sophisticated woman-of-the world Adela Bradley and her chauffeur George Moody are an unlikely pair of investigators back in the England of the 1920s. Free from her boring husband, Adela tours England but always stumbles onto murder and mystery. Although she is the primary detective, she relies on George to get information to help her solve the case.

character: Adela Bradley

original_name: The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

Three Piece Suite

overview: Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.

original_name: Three Piece Suite

Rebecca

overview: Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an aristocratic social world her middle class upbringing did not prepare her for, and housekeeper Mrs Danvers despises her for taking her darling Rebecca's place. But these are not the only problems to face...

character: Mrs. Danvers

original_name: Rebecca

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Wogan

Mother Love

overview: A seemingly perfect couple's life unravels when the husband's eccentric mother acts on intense jealousy, seeking revenge through a series of incidents implicating her ex-husband, his new wife, and an old friend, then leading to murder.

character: Helena Vesey

original_name: Mother Love

Diana

overview: Diana is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season that was created by Leonard Stern, which ran from September 10, 1973 to January 7, 1974. The series was filmed in front of a live studio audience at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles.

character: Diana Smythe

original_name: Diana

The Avengers

overview: A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

character: Emma Peel

original_name: The Avengers

The Kumars

overview: Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop that Ashwin now runs. Sanjeev is divorced from his wife of nearly two years and Ashwin has manged to get a sponsorship deal that has allowed him to resurrect the family's talk show, which takes place in the living room of their flat.

original_name: The Kumars

Doctor Who

overview: The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

character: Mrs Gillyflower

original_name: Doctor Who

Game of Thrones

overview: Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

character: Olenna Tyrell

original_name: Game of Thrones

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

overview: Penn Zero is not your average kid - every day, he's zapped into another dimension with his friends to save the world.

character: Mayor Pink Panda (voice)

original_name: Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Victoria

overview: The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image and become “grandmother of Europe”.

character: Duchess of Buccleuch

original_name: Victoria

Murder in Mind

overview: A series of self-contained stories, each recounting a murder scene as seen from the chilling viewpoint of the killer. Explore the inner workings of a criminal's brain, revealing humanity at its darkest.

character: Jill Craig

original_name: Murder in Mind

You, Me and the Apocalypse

overview: When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.

character: Sutton

original_name: You, Me and the Apocalypse

character: Sutton (voice)

Detectorists

overview: The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

character: Veronica

original_name: Detectorists

In the Beginning

overview: In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered on NBC on November 12, 2000.

character: Mature Rebeccah

original_name: In the Beginning

Armchair Theatre

overview: Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

character: Anita Fender

original_name: Armchair Theatre

V.I.P. Schaukel

overview: V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.

original_name: V.I.P. Schaukel

original_language: de

The Serpent Son

overview: Adaptation of the Aeschylus trilogy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish.

character: Clytemnestra

original_name: The Serpent Son

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

overview: Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

character: Self - Participant

original_name: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Samson and Delilah

overview: Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One day, a mysterious stranger appears to Mara and promises her that she will bear a son whom she is to call Samson.

character: Mara

original_name: Samson and Delilah

Masterpiece Mystery

overview: Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies—most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources—to air on American television. In 2002, they added an American-produced series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman to their roster.

character: Self - Host

original_name: Masterpiece Mystery

Black Narcissus

overview: Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.

character: Mother Dorothea

original_name: Black Narcissus

The Mike Douglas Show

overview: The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

original_name: The Mike Douglas Show

All Creatures Great & Small

overview: The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

character: Mrs Pumphrey

original_name: All Creatures Great & Small

Victoria & Albert

overview: Lavish two-part dramatisation of the passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's marriage.

character: Baroness Lehzen

original_name: Victoria & Albert

origin_country: GB US

Parkinson

overview: Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

original_name: Parkinson

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.  It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.  Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.  For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.  The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

Bleak House

overview: Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.

The BAFTA Awards

overview: BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Festival

overview: An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

overview:
Charles II: The Power and the Passion is a four-part television miniseries, broadcast on BBC One from 16 November to 7 December 2003. The series depicts the reign of Charles II, covering the period just before his Restoration in 1660. It focuses on his conflicts with Parliament, his relationships with his mistresses—particularly Barbara Villiers—and his efforts to restore England after the Civil War.

When shown in the United States, as The Last King: The Power and the Passion of King Charles II, nearly an hour was removed for broadcast by the A&E Network. The edits often make little regard for either the full product's continuity or coherence.

Tony Awards

overview: The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.

name: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

overview: Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she isn't above picking a pocket or two! All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and she is soon facing the noose. As her execution approaches, she devises on last desperate ploy to save not only her own neck, but also the life of her one true love.

original_name: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

The Play on One

overview: A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Affairs of the Heart

overview: Anthology series of thirteen one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.

Deutsch

biography:
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (* 20. Juli 1938 in Doncaster, England), ist eine britische Schauspielerin. International bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Rollen als Emma Peel in der Serie Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone, als Teresa di Vicenco in James Bond 007 – Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät und als Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.

Weltweit bekannt wurde Diana Rigg ab 1965 in der britischen Fernsehserie Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone. An der Seite von Patrick Macnee spielte sie darin die scharfzüngige, schlagkräftige, emanzipierte und oft in Leder gekleidete Emma Peel. Ihre Interpretation der Rolle war das Vorbild für zahlreiche Nachahmerinnen. So gelten die unabhängigen, selbstbewussten Companions in Doctor Who als Antwort der Produzenten auf den Erfolg von Emma Peel.

Im Kino kam ihr Talent kaum zur Geltung. Am bekanntesten ist ihre Rolle als Ehefrau von James Bond in dem Film Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (1969), der ursprünglich beim Publikum als Enttäuschung innerhalb der Filmserie um den britischen Geheimagenten galt und erst Jahre später bei Kritik und Fangemeinde Anerkennung fand. In dem Film Hospital geriet 1971 eine Szene zum Skandal, in der sie einen vermeintlich impotenten Chefarzt durch verbale Erniedrigungen heilen sollte. Die Nackt- und Sexszene wurde dann zu einer jugendfreien Darstellung umgeschnitten. 1982 spielte sie in der Agatha-Christie-Verfilmung Das Böse unter der Sonne neben Peter Ustinov.

In der britischen Kult-Serie Doctor Who war Rigg 2013 in einer von Mark Gatiss geschriebenen Folge erstmals neben ihrer Tochter Rachael Stirling zu sehen; sie spielten Mutter und Tochter. Ebenfalls ab 2013 trat sie in der mehrfach ausgezeichneten Fantasy-Serie Game of Thrones ab der dritten Staffel als Lady Olenna Tyrell auf. Für ihre Darstellung wurde sie mehrfach für den Emmy als beste Gastdarstellerin nominiert.

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Français

biography:
Diana Rigg est une actrice britannique née le 20 juillet 1938 à Doncaster (Angleterre) et morte le 10 septembre 2020 à Londres.

Principalement actrice de théâtre, notamment à la Royal Shakespeare Company, Diana Rigg est cependant plus connue du grand public pour ses rôles au cinéma et à la télévision, notamment celui d’Emma Peel (aux côtés de Patrick Macnee) dans la série Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir au milieu des années 1960. Jouant dans la série durant seulement deux saisons et 51 épisodes, elle marque durablement les esprits dans ce rôle.

Elle est aussi remarquée pour son rôle d'une James Bond girl dans le film Au service secret de Sa Majesté (1969), ainsi que celui de Lady Olenna Tyrell de la série Game of Thrones dans les années 2010.

En 1994, elle reçoit le titre de Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) par la reine Élisabeth II.

Magyar

biography:
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (Doncaster, 1938. július 20. – London, 2020. szeptember 10.) Emmy- és Tony-díjas angol színésznő.

Diana Rigg dél-yorkshire-i Doncasterben született, Louis Rigg vasúti mérnök és Beryl Helliwell gyermekeként. Rigg az angol mellett még hindi nyelven beszél, mivel szüleivel együtt hosszabb időszakokon át az észak-indiai Bíkánér államban élt, ahol apja az indiai vasút tisztviselőjeként dolgozott.

Tanulmányait a Királyi Drámaművészeti Akadémián végezte.

1957-ben a yorki fesztiválon lépett fel először A kaukázusi krétakörben. 1958-1962 között a chesterfieldi és a scarborough-i színház tagja volt. 1960-ban vált leginkább ismertté, amikor főszerepet kapott a The Avengers című bűnügyi tévéfilmsorozatban. 51 epizód erejéig játszott e sorozatban, Emma Peel titkosügynököt alakította, Patrick Macnee (John Steed ügynök) állandó partnereként. 1962-1979 között a Royal Shakespeare Company tagjaként Stratfordban és Aldwych-ban játszott. Közben 1972-től a Nemzeti Színház tagja volt. 1982-től a United British Artists igazgatója volt. A Mother Love című tévéfilm-sorozatban nyújtott alakításáért BAFTA-díjat nyert.

A színésznőnél 2020 márciusában rákot diagnosztizáltak. 2020. szeptember 10-én, álmában, családja körében hunyt el.

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黛安娜·里格

biography: 黛安娜·里格（1938年7月20日-2020年9月10日），出生于英格兰约克郡唐卡斯特，英国演员。

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Дайана Ригг

biography: Леди Энид Дайана Элизабет Ригг - британская актриса, Леди-Командор ордена Британской империи. Энид Дайана Ригг родилась в городке Донкастер, Южный Йоркшир в семье инженера-железнодорожника Луиса Ригга (1903-1968) и Бэрил Хелливэлл (1908-1981). Когда ей было два месяца, она с матерью переехала в Индию, где её отцу ранее предложили работу управляющего на железной дороге. Спустя семь лет они вернулись на родину, где Дайана стала учиться в женской гимназии. Её брат Хью, родившийся в Индии, младше её на 4 года. В 12 лет родители взяли её с собой на постановку «Генрих VIII» Уильяма Шекспира и с того времени Дайана заинтересовалась театром. В следующем году она впервые вышла на сцену, исполнив роль Златовласки. В 1955 году она поступила в Королевскую академию драматических искусств. Учёба Дайане давалась с трудом, но она всё же нашла в себе силы окончить академию спустя 2 года. Её профессиональный дебют состоялся 24 июня 1957 года пьесой «Кавказский меловой круг», где она сыграла роль Нателлы Абашвили. После выпуска из академии в июле 1957 года она устроилась на непродолжительную работу, став моделью. Заработав достаточные средства, она подписала контракт с Chesterfield Repertory Company и в марте 1958 года дебютировала в постановке «Жилец с четвёртого этажа» Джером К. Джерома, сыграв роль Вивиан. Работая ассистентом менеджера сцены и появляясь в эпизодических ролях, она целеустремлённо занималась поиском серьёзной вакансии в театре. В 1959 году её пригласили работать в Королевский Шекспировский театр, где она оставалась вплоть до 1971 года. После Дайана играла различные роли в Национальном театре Великобритании и, начиная с 1976 года, выступала в различных театрах Англии и за рубежом. В последующее время она много снималась в кино и на телевидении. Её телевизионный дебют состоялся в апреле 1961 года показом второго акта театральной пьесы «Ондина». Первый кинофильм с её участием «Сон в летнюю ночь» вышел в 1969 году. Мировую известность ей принесли британский телесериал 1960-х годов «Мстители» и роль Трейси Бонд - девушки агента 007 в фильме «На секретной службе Её Величества». В 1973 году на экраны вышло её собственное шоу «Дайана», которое не имело успеха. С начала 1990-х годов она стала много играть на сцене. Среди её персонажей немало весьма трагических фигур, таких как Медея, Клеопатра и Вирджиния Вульф. В 1988 году стала командором ордена Британской империи, а в 1994 году - дамой-командором. В 1997 году Ригг получила премию «Эмми» за лучшую роль второго плана в телевизионном фильме «Ребекка». С 2013 по 2017 год снималась в популярном фэнтези сериале «Игра престолов», играла роль Оленны Тирелл, мудрой и коварной главы аристократического рода Тирелл. Дайана Ригг умерла в возрасте 82 лет в своём лондонском доме в окружении семьи. Причиной смерти стал рак, диагностированный в марте. Последней работой Ригг стала роль матери Доротеи в мини-сериале «Чёрный нарцисс».

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戴安娜·烈

biography: 戴安娜·烈，女爵士，DBE（Dame Diana Rigg，1938 年 7 月 20 日 - 2020 年 9 月 10 日），出生於英格蘭約克郡唐卡斯特，英國演員。

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Diana Rigg

biography:
Diana Rigg (Doncaster; 20 de julio de 1938 - Londres; 10 de septiembre de 2020) fue una actriz británica. De 1965 a 1968 interpretó el papel de Emma Peel en la serie de televisión Los vengadores, en 1969 interpretó a la Condesa Teresa di Vincenzo, esposa de James Bond en la película On Her Majesty's Secret Service (007 al servicio de su Majestad) y entre 2013 y 2017 a Olenna Tyrell, la Reina de Espinas, en la serie Juego de Tronos. En teatro interpretó, entre otros, el papel de Medea, en Londres y Nueva York por el que ganó en 1994 el Premio Tony como mejor actriz principal en una obra de teatro. Por sus servicios al teatro fue reconocida con la Orden del Imperio Británico en 1988, y en 1994 se le nombró Dame.

Rigg hizo su debut profesional en el escenario en 1957 en El círculo de tiza caucasiano, luego se unió a la Royal Shakespeare Company en 1959. Hizo su debut en Broadway en la producción de 1971 de Abelardo & Eloisa. Sus papeles cinematográficos incluyen Helena en Sueño de una noche de verano (1968); Lady Holiday en The Great Muppet Caper (1981) y Arlena Marshall en Muerte bajo el sol (1982). Ganó el premio BAFTA TV a la mejor actriz por la miniserie de la BBC Mother Love (1989) y un premio Emmy por su papel de Mrs. Danvers en una adaptación de Rebecca (1997). Sus otros créditos televisivos incluyen You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015) y el episodio de Doctor Who «The Crimson Horror» (2013) con su hija, la también actriz Rachael Stirling.

also_known_as:
Dame Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Дайана Ригг
دایانا ریگ

title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

overview: With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

title: Unexplained Laughter

overview: Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.

title: Evil Under the Sun

overview: An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

title: Shot On Ice

overview: A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

title: The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

overview: Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.

original_title: The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

title: The Worst Witch

overview: Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard comes to the Academy for a Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!!

title: The Hospital

overview: Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor,  who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.

title: A Good Man in Africa

overview: Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

title: Theatre of Blood

overview: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

title: The Painted Veil

overview: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

title: The Great Muppet Caper

overview: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

title: A Hazard of Hearts

overview: When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.

title: The Assassination Bureau

overview: In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.

title: A Little Night Music

overview: A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When Desirée's show travels through Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles.

title: In This House of Brede

overview: Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in shock over her departure from his life. When Philippa arrives at Brede, a cloistered Benedictine monastery, the abbess who was responsible for convincing her to enter this vocation suddenly dies. Her successor is Catherine, a sensitive leader who's the first to tell the newcomer to the community that all nuns are to love without a preference for one over another. This becomes very difficult when Joanna, a young nun, singles Sister Philippa out and grows very attached to her.

title: Snow White

overview: A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautiful princess who was forced to run away from home after her jealous stepmother tried to have her killed. When she realizes that the girl is still alive and living with the dwarfs, she sets out to destroy her only rival once and for all.

title: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form.  Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood.  He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered.  They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve.  In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre.  This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.

original_title: Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

overview: Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

title: Victoria & Albert

overview: The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.

title: Minikillers

overview: W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Avengers comes into contact with deadly toy dolls

title: Running Delilah

overview: Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapons dealer Kasharian, but she's revived with high-tech medicine and artificial body parts. As an invincible superwoman, she returns and continues her fight against Kasharian, whose newest deal includes plutonium from Russia.

title: Three Piece Suite

title: Genghis Cohn

overview: In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

title: Little Eyolf

overview: Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.

title: Hedda Gabler

overview: Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide.  Then a former flame, the successful Eilert, enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind.

title: Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

overview: Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.

title: Black Leather Jacket

overview: Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.

character: Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)

title: The Hothouse

overview: Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - is now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.

title: The Marquise

overview: The only period comedy written by Noel Coward.  France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young couple are putting on a brave face, but neither is happy. Adrienne, daughter of the Compte, is secretly in love with her father's penniless secretary, while Miguel, the Duke's son, has lost his heart to a dancer in Paris. An unexpected visitor arrives on the scene.

title: King Lear

overview: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

title: Professor Branestawm Returns

overview: When Lady Pagwell dies, leaving a legacy to fund local inventing, Professor Branestawm thinks his money troubles are over. But scheming councillor Haggerstone insists  an inventing contest be held to decide who gets the cash.

title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

overview: After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.

original_title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

title: Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

overview: From the BBC archives, before their talents were recognised by royal decree, the early work and career defining moments of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren. David Tennant narrates the story of our dames of classic drama, from a golden age of British television drama.

title: The Honourable Rebel

overview: A docu-drama about the life of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, a spy, screenwriter and worker in British cinema for Alexander Korda.

title: Parting Shots

overview: Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he decides that since he is dying anyway, he will kill or destroy all the people that ever crossed or hurt him during his life - after all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry hires an assassin to finish himself off in style, and even has time to fall in love with Jill. However, there's just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen wanting to talk to him about some murders...

title: Breathe

overview: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

title: Danielle Steel's Zoya

overview: A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

title: A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

overview: The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay.

title: Julius Caesar

overview: All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

title: The American

overview: After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.

title: The Haunting of Helen Walker

overview: TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.

title: Last Night in Soho

overview: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.

title: The Snail and the Whale

overview: A half hour animated film for all the family based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.  The Snail and the Whale is the much loved classic that shows us a restless young snail who has ambitions to travel the world. The other snails think she should stay put, but she puts out a call for a “Lift wanted around the world”. Eventually her call is answered by a great big grey-blue humpback whale! She sets off with him across the seas. On their journey the snail and the whale discover towering icebergs and far-off lands, fiery mountains and golden sands. The snail is delighted by the wonderful world around her, until she realises how small it makes her feel.

title: The World of Jim Henson

overview: In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a five-season run on ABC of The Muppet Show to several theatrically released films, including five Muppet movies, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

title: Swiss Movement

title: Heidi

overview: Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.

title: The Diadem

overview: Secret agent Emma has to carry out a special assignment in Germany. Her job is to protect a mysterious box, the key to which she wears as a chain around her neck. But a murderer is hot on her heels!

title: Our Man in the Caribbean

overview: A compilation of two episodes from two separate but connected series: "The Sentimental Agent" (106, Man of the World) and "A Very Desirable Plot" (109, The Sentimental Agent).

title: The Lark Ascending

overview: Dame Diana Rigg explores the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

title: Witness for the Prosecution

overview: An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

Dark Wings, Dark Words

overview: Sansa says too much. Shae asks Tyrion for a favor. Jaime finds a way to pass the time, while Arya encounters the Brotherhood Without Banners.

Kissed by Fire

overview: The Hound is judged by the gods. Jaime is judged by men. Jon proves himself. Robb is betrayed. Tyrion learns the cost of weddings.

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken

overview: Arya trains. Jorah and Tyrion run into slavers. Trystane and Myrcella make plans. Jaime and Bronn reach their destination. The Sand Snakes attack.

The Broken Man

overview: The High Sparrow eyes another target. Jaime confronts a hero. Arya makes a plan. The North is reminded.

title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service

title: Unexplained Laughter

title: Evil Under the Sun

title: Shot On Ice

title: The Worst Witch

title: The Hospital

title: A Good Man in Africa

title: Theatre of Blood

title: The Painted Veil

title: The Great Muppet Caper

title: A Hazard of Hearts

title: The Assassination Bureau

title: A Little Night Music

title: In This House of Brede

title: Snow White

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

title: Victoria & Albert

title: Minikillers

title: Running Delilah

title: Three Piece Suite

title: Genghis Cohn

title: Little Eyolf

title: Hedda Gabler

title: Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

title: Black Leather Jacket

title: The Hothouse

title: The Marquise

title: King Lear

title: Professor Branestawm Returns

title: Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

title: The Honourable Rebel

title: Parting Shots

title: Breathe

title: Danielle Steel's Zoya

title: A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

title: Julius Caesar

title: The American

title: The Haunting of Helen Walker

title: Last Night in Soho

title: The Snail and the Whale

title: The World of Jim Henson

title: Swiss Movement

title: Heidi

title: The Diadem

title: Our Man in the Caribbean

title: The Lark Ascending

title: Witness for the Prosecution