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Join transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme (Katy Manning) for a series of eight brand-new half-hour episodes as she travels through time and space aboard her trusty double-decker bus, accompanied by her new friend, Captain Turner!

Across the planet, the silver legions stand impassive in every city; mankind has sacrificed its freedoms for the sake of a distant conflict against its android creations, and now the price must be paid. On the streets, in the depths of space, a web of lies and deceit draws ever tighter, and the lines between human and android, between enemy and ally, are blurred. Only one choice remains - resist or surrender.

Newlywed Maggie Haskell has started a life away from Collinsport with her husband, Joe. But before their honeymoon can start, Maggie finds herself trapped in a cabin in the woods with a strange man. A strange man with a familiar face. With time running out, Maggie has to buy her freedom. But her captors will accept only one thing. Who are the faceless men holding her captive, and what do they want? Where is Joe Haskell? And who is the man with the face of Burke Devlin?

Collinsport is broken after recent events. David Collins is intent on rebuilding the town he almost helped to destroy and enlists the help of his old friend Amy Cunningham. As these two childhood companions begin to reconnect and discover feelings they never knew existed, another woman from David's past is about to make her own timely return.

Fully recovered from her hospital stay and back behind the bar of The Blue Whale, Jessica Griffin welcomes Nate, a stranger in town claiming to be just passing through. But how come he knows so much about her, and why is he so keen to lure her back to the house she hasn't set foot in since the death of her husband? And he really is so very familiar....

'The further into the antique shop she explored, the darker it seemed to get, until Lela couldn't see the walls at all....' Lela Quick is a busy woman. She's got essays to mark, journals to edit, books to write.... But every night she is tormented by the same dream: a nightmare of pursuit through a dark forest, the air filled with haunting music. A chance meeting with Quentin Collins, the enigmatic owner of Pandemonium Antiques, adds to her growing sense of unease.

Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo return with a second series about being an 'older' mother. Cass Mason is finding motherhood age 47 tough. She barely has time to blog with a new baby who won't sleep; she fears she may be turning into a zombie. Not only does Cass have to deal with Florence, the rest of the family aren't much help. Will Ken ever get a job, will her designer-clad sister even offer to hold a drooling baby and are her two grown children really contemplating moving back home?

A comic and heart-warming play about teenager Michael Croxley. Michael's stammer has contributed to his fear of public speaking. But then the girl he adores, Lynne Hargreaves, reads a composition of his in double English, and discovers he's a whizz with words and his spelling is stupendous. When she asks him to be part of the school spelling-bee team, how can he refuse? He accepts gallantly.

Psychological drama by David Hodgson. Greg Drake is just getting his life back together after the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into when he is asleep. Nothing is taken, but his peace of mind is destroyed. Starring Kevin Doyle as Greg, with Fiona Clarke, Helen Longworth, Beth...

One of a series of plays by British screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce looking at the punk generation three decades on, with each play telling a different, but connected, story. In Parallel Lines, Julie is a singer in an ageing Blondie tribute band. An invitation to the reunion of the audience at an Adverts gig in 1977 brings some skeletons dancing from the cupboard. Starring Doon Mackichan as Julie, with Sian Reeves, Rosie Cavaliero, Ivan Kaye, Paul Viragh, Joseph Tremain, Sarah Bedi, John Rowe and Ben Crowe.

From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and...

Auf dem Südfriedhof wird die heimlich verscharrte Leiche einer Frau gefunden. Noch ahnen Rose Bailey und Charles Morgan nicht, dass sie hier einen Fall vor sich haben, in den auch Freunde von Ihnen verwickelt sein könnten... Teil 1 des spannenden Zweiteilers.

When the war ended, Dr. Samuel Knight went home to Texas—but the life he expected was in ruins, his wife married to a carpetbagger. Trying to defend what’s left of his previous existence, the good doctor is branded an outlaw and driven from Texas. Now he’s lying low in New Mexico, with his image on wanted posters everywhere. But when the town explodes in violence, Knight will risk his neck to save innocent lives.

Idina Moorfield isn’t the only one on her team with unusual powers. Her buddy, Stop remembers everything he sees, and Cake is a new kind of man of steel. That’s the last two, which means everyone in Idina’s unit has a unique talent. Why would the Army want to bring them all together? Her commander, Hines is still refusing to answer her questions. She’s on a need-to-know basis, and right now, she doesn’t need to know. But Idina’s untapped powers are getting stronger and more aggressive.

Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take.

Das kleine Hotel wird auch Herberge der Ertrunkenen genannt, weil öfter Autos im nahen Fluss landen. Als ein junges Paar die Böschung herabstürzt und verschwindet, deutet alles auf einen Unfall hin. Doch als im Kofferraum eine Leiche gefunden wird, wittert Kommissar Maigret ein Verbrechen.

Der junge Florio kann sein Glück kaum fassen, als er in Lucca nicht nur sein Idol, den Sänger Fortunato, trifft, sondern auf einer Feier auch die Liebe der wunderschönen Bianka gewinnt. Auf dem nächtlichen Heimweg traut er seinen Augen kaum, als in einem Park eine marmorne Venusstatue zum Leben erwacht. Sie lockt ihn mit ihrem Gesang in ihren Palast und immer tiefer zieht es Florio in den Spuk ihrer Verführung... In seiner Novelle spielt Joseph von Eichendorff mit den Grenzen zwischen Realität und Einbildung, zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit.

Im viertklassigen Hotel Nordstern wird ein Mann mit einem Dolch ermordet. Am Tatort entdeckt Kommissar Maigret einen seidenen Damenstrumpf unter dem Bett. Auf der Suche nach dem fehlenden zweiten Strumpf macht er sich auf eine Reise durch die Damenwelt des Hotels, um die Mörderin oder den Mörder zu finden.

Eine Schneiderin schickt Maigret einen verzweifelten Hilferuf. Denn ihr Geliebter, Albert, soll bei einem Einbruch auf dem Boulevard Beaumarchais jemanden erschossen haben und die verzweifelte junge Frau erhält seitdem Drohbriefe.

Kommissar Maigrets Frau Pauline grämt sich wegen eines verpatzten Abendessens. Dabei stecken noch ganz andere Qualitäten in ihr: Denn als der Buchbinder Steuvels durch eine anonyme Anzeige beschuldigt wird, eine Leiche in seinem Heizofen verbrannt zu haben, und als ein kleiner brauner Koffer auftaucht und auf mysteriöse Weise wieder verschwindet, ist Maigret mit seiner Weisheit am Ende. So beginnt Pauline, das Rätsel hinter einem Brief ohne Unterschrift und Absender, Maigrets Geisterkoffer und einem weißen Hütchen selbst zu lösen.