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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1978
Cilla
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Cilla
Three-part biopic of the Liverpudlian songbird who would later find fame and fortune. It tells of her rocky road to fame and captures the essence of 1960s Liverpool.
Cilla 2014
Bloodlands
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Bloodlands
Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.
Bloodlands 2021
The Field of Blood
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The Field of Blood
Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her investigations place her in mortal danger.
The Field of Blood 2011
Thorne
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Thorne
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. It stars David Morrissey who plays the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne created by crime writer Mark Billingham. The supporting cast includes Aidan Gillen, Eddie Marsan and Natascha McElhone.
Thorne 2010
Cannes Confidential
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Cannes Confidential
Gutsy French detective Camille Delmasse loves her job and her family fiercely. After her father, the former police chief, is accused of corruption, Camille is determined to clear his name. She coerces help from suave con man Harry King, who's in Cannes on a secret quest of his own. Can the sparring duo work together to uncover a conspiracy?
Cannes Confidential 2023
Helen West
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Helen West
Helen West is crusading senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service. Her life is complicated by her ongoing affair with a senior police officer.
Helen West 2002
Place of Execution
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Place of Execution
On a freezing December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. As the entire country watched, newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett turned up enough evidence to see his suspect hanged and was hailed a hero by the people of Scardale. More than four decades later, the lingering cloud left by the missing body of Alison Carter compels controversial filmmaker Catherine Heathcote to turn her camera to Bennett.
Place of Execution 2008
Cloudstreet
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Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim Winton. It was filmed in 2010 in Perth with Matthew Saville as the director, and script written by Tim Winton and Ellen Fontana.
Cloudstreet 2011
Deep Water
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Deep Water
Follow three women as they each make life-changing mistakes regarding their children and husbands, which lead to unpredictable criminal consequences. Based on Paula Daly's best selling novel, Windermere.
Deep Water 2019
Stephen
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Stephen
Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of Stephen.
Stephen 2021
Recipes for Love and Murder
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Recipes for Love and Murder
Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.
Recipes for Love and Murder 2022
Anne
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Anne
Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Anne stood defiantly alongside other parents and their families who fought for justice for the 96 loved ones who lost their lives at a football match.
Anne 2022
The Promised Life
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The Promised Life
The Promised Life 2018
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
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Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Meera Syal stars in this poignant story of friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural conflict based on her hit novel. Three childhood friends, now in their 30s, find themselves at a crossroads & struggling to come to terms with shocking revelations.
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee 2005
For Her Sins
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For Her Sins
Lawyer and mother of two Laura seems to have it all and when she meets charming newcomer Emily in the playground, they become firm friends - but all is not what it seems.
For Her Sins 2023
The Invisibles
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The Invisibles
The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The Invisibles 2008
The Murdoch Mysteries
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The Murdoch Mysteries
In 1890s Canada, a police inspector applies the latest scientific methods of deduction, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
The Murdoch Mysteries 2004
Acceptable Risk
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Acceptable Risk
When her husband, Lee, is murdered, Sarah Manning comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. Sarah begins to question who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need to carry a gun?
Acceptable Risk 2017
Single-Handed
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Single-Handed
Single-Handed is an Irish television drama series, first broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. Set and filmed in the west of Ireland, it focuses on the life of a member of the Garda Síochána, Sergeant Jack Driscoll. Three two-episode, single-story series aired one each on consecutive nights in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Series Four, consisting of three stories told over six episodes, began in RTÉ One November 2010. The series is partially inspired by garda corruption in County Donegal.
Single-Handed 2007
Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
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Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
In swinging 60’s Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.
Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries 2019
Mayflies
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Mayflies
A friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news.
Mayflies 2022
The South Westerlies
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The South Westerlies
Environmental consultant Kate Ryan goes undercover in a small town to quell objections to a wind farm. But Kate has a complicated history with Carrigeen. Soon after arriving with her son, she runs into an ex-friend and an old flame and realizes her task won't be a breeze.
The South Westerlies 2020
Keeping Faith
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Keeping Faith
Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.
Keeping Faith 2017
The Detective from Beledweyne
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The Detective from Beledweyne
The Detective from Beledweyne 2023
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I may be remembered as the greatest monarch to rule England, but during her lifetime she was beset by enemies and hers was a life of constant battling.
Elizabeth I 2017
In Deep
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In Deep
Lying, cheating, thieving—they’re the best undercover cops in the business. Liam Ketman (Nick Berry, Heartbeat) and Garth O'Hanlon (Stephen Tompkinson, Wild at Heart) take on false identities to infiltrate society’s underbelly and stop crime at its core. As they put their lives on the line, Liam tries desperately to hold his marriage together, while Gareth keeps his personal life a mystery.
In Deep 2001
The Irish R.M.
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The Irish R.M.
The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Ireland.
The Irish R.M. 1983
London Kills
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London Kills
With a documentary style delivery, this drama tells the story of a team of top murder detectives with each episode featuring a different murder while also following a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.
London Kills 2019
Inconceivable
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Inconceivable
Inconceivable is the story of two women who've been best friends since high school, now at the centre of a group of female friends, all in their mid-thirties and facing the first few years of getting pregnant and child-rearing while each holding down their demanding jobs. In the midst of this friend group is a lingering affair, a struggle with infertility, fierce competitiveness, even fiercer love and something unthinkable.
Inconceivable 2020
Mrs Biggs
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Mrs Biggs
Sheridan Smith steps into the role of Charmian, the wife of the infamous great train robber, Ronnie Biggs. Chronicling Charmian's dramatic life, from that fateful moment when her path crossed with Ronnie as a teenager, to the devastating consequences of the Great Train Robbery in 1963. An event which left Charmian and her family on the run with one of the world's most wanted men. Facing an uncertain future in foreign lands, how long will they be able to avoid capture, with their young children in tow?
Mrs Biggs 2012
Deadwater Fell
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Deadwater Fell
When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.
Deadwater Fell 2020
Deep Water
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Deep Water
Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances of gay men throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.
Deep Water 2016
Midwinter of the Spirit
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Midwinter of the Spirit
Country vicar Merrily Watkins just happens to be one of the few women priests working as an exorcist. When a man is found murdered by crucifixion, the police, aware of her knowledge of the paranormal underworld, turn to the Vicar for assistance. Before long Merilly is convinced Satanists are behind the crime and the investigation takes them into a very dark and dangerous world.
Midwinter of the Spirit 2015
The Secret
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The Secret
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.
The Secret 2016
Cuffs
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Cuffs
Cuffs is a fresh, authentic and visceral drama that will take the audience on an exhilarating ride through the challenges of front-line policing. Adrenalized and vibrant, the show is packed full of dramatic incidents and colourful characters. From a booby trapped cannabis farm in a suburban semi to an elderly farmer's wife with a shotgun, the stories are surprising and exciting. There will be more absurd altercations - such as a middle-class dog-napping or fisticuffs between pensioners - as well as the daily grind of speeding drivers, city-centre shoplifters and Saturday night drinkers.
Cuffs 2015
Outlier
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Outlier
A young girl is found killed at a camping resort and criminal psychologist Maja Angell believes that the police have arrested the wrong man....
Outlier 2020
Brief Encounters
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Brief Encounters
In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.
Brief Encounters 2016
Chasing Shadows
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Chasing Shadows
Chasing Shadows follows a team of special operatives who are tracking down serial killers.
Chasing Shadows 2014
Spirit of Winter
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Spirit of Winter
At Christmas, Nathalie is haunted by an ominous premonition about Alice, adopted 14 years earlier. While her husband and in-laws are present, a closed-door situation develops in which her daughter's behavior changes abruptly.
Spirit of Winter 2022