Patrick Malahide

It's spring 1948 and Inspector Alleyn joins a weekend party at Frantock Hall. The host, Sir Hubert Handesley, tries to liven up the scene with a game of murder but one guest really does end up dead. Alleyn has to solve more than one mystery when he finds that, in addition to the murder, an enormously valuable silver chalice has gone missing.

The British Home Secretary dies after an operatin for abdominal pains, but his wife insists he's been murdered. When Alleyn investigates her claim, he finds a great many things at the nursing home are not as they should be. He also finds a great many suspects, including a surgeon with a grievance, a nurse crossed in love, a betrayed wife, and a bewildering array of political enemies.

Hairdresser Joy Miller thinks she's been hired as a beautician in the land of Slovetzia, but gruff, widowed dictator Boris Pochenko thinks she's been hired to tutor his three children.

Recounts how John Harrision discovered the concept of longitude in the 18th century, thus making the waters safe for navigation.

A mystery series featuring Inspector Alleyn, an aristocratic detective who is both a romantic hero and a thoroughly modern cop, whose keen intelligence and subtle persistence are complemented by his lady friend Agatha Troy and his loyal partner Detective Inspector Fox.

A schoolteacher learns that she was once a lethal assassin for the CIA, and teams up with a wise-cracking detective to uncover her past before a hi-tech army of corrupt government renegades kills them both.

Arthur Chipping is the Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpected falls in love. His new wife ignites his passion and brings him out of his shell. But after tragedy strikes, Mr. Chips' true character is...

The BBC has worked tirelessly to bring the works of playwright Henrik Ibsen to the screen. Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately,...

Two war-weary young veterans go to the peaceful town of Oxgodby ; their work at a village church brings them in contact with the pastor's young wife and forces one man to face his own dark desires.

Explores the intersection of the private and public life of Elizabeth I in the latter half of her reign, offering a personal look at her allies, her enemies, and her suitors as she struggles to survive in a male-dominated world.