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1. As You Like It (1963 TV Movie)
140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Directors: Michael Elliott, Ronald Eyre | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Allen, Max Adrian, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 160
2.
Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Episode:
She Stoops to Conquer
(1971)
Drama
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper. Hilarity ensues.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Thora Hird, Juliet Mills, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 26
3.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Ghosts
(1968)
Drama
A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Celia Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Donald Wolfit, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 11
4. Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Drama
Stars: Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Colin Blakely, Coral Browne
Votes: 7
5. Television Playwright (1958–1959)
Drama
Stars: Brian Peck, Peter Copley, Jack Allen, Helen Shingler
Votes: 14
6. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
7.
World Theatre (1959)
Episode:
Brand
(1959)
90 min | Drama
Brand, a priest, believes that Man's worst enemy is...himself. This is certainly true of him.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 63
8.
Drama 61-67 (1961–1967)
Episode:
Studio '64: The Crunch
(1964)
60 min | Drama
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Harry Andrews, Maxwell Shaw, Wolfe Morris, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 27
9. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 319
10. King Lear (1983 TV Movie)
158 min | Drama
Aging King Lear invites disaster when he abdicates to his two disloyal and obsequious daughters while rejecting the one who truly loves him.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 866
11. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
90 min | Drama
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason
Votes: 48
12. CBS Playhouse: The Glass Menagerie (1966 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Loden, Pat Hingle
Votes: 153
13. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 293
14. Festival (I) (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
An hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the BBC from 1963-64, with a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Stars ... See full summary »
Stars: David Garfield, Cyril Cusack, John Wood, John Welsh
Votes: 20
15. When We Dead Awaken (1970 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Alexander Knox, Irene Hamilton, Brian Cox
Votes: 6
16. Drama 61-67 (1961–1967)
60 min | Drama
Stars: Brian Haines, Robert Cartland, Alister Williamson, Joe Ritchie
Votes: 30
17. The Cherry Orchard (1962 TV Movie)
130 min | Comedy
Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin, Judi Dench
Votes: 65
18.
Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Year of the Sex Olympics
(1968)
105 min | Drama
Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed. ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Suzanne Neve, Tony Vogel, Brian Cox
Votes: 190
19. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
20. All the World's a Stage (1984)
55 min | Drama
One man's journey through the theatre.
Stars: Ronald Harwood, Ian Saynor, Peter Gale, Peter Hall
Votes: 5
21. World Theatre (1959)
Drama
In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.
Stars: Olive McFarland, John Southworth, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell
Votes: 14
22. 2nd House (1973–1976)
45 min | Talk-Show
BBC Arts program derived from Full House (1972).
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Edwin Mullins, Roger McGough, Struan Rodger
Votes: 18
23.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Twelfth Night (II)
(1957)
90 min | Drama
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino ... See full summary »
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Nicholas Amer, Newton Blick, Graham Crowden, George Hall
Votes: 10
24. Brand (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark
25. Antigone (1959 TV Movie)
75 min
Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Basil Sydney, Noel Willman, David McCallum
26. Saturday Playhouse (1958–1961)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
Stars: Elvi Hale, Madoline Thomas, George A. Cooper, Emrys Jones
28. Read All About It (1974–1979)
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Christopher Booker, Ronald Harwood, Antonia Fraser
29. Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
1,285 min | Drama
Stars: Catherine Lacey, Harold Scott, David Markham, Gertan Klauber
30. Nom-de-Plume (1956)
30 min | Drama
A series of short plays in which the real name of the main character is not revealed until near the end.
Stars: Peter Wyngarde, John Moffatt, Nicholas Amer, Michael Balfour
31. The New Inferno (1966 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary
Directors: Michael Elliott, Casper Wrede | Stars: Michael Elliott, James Maxwell, Kenneth Adams, Coral Atkins
32. Farewell to the Vic (1963 TV Movie)
55 min | Documentary
Directors: David Hugh Jones, Mary Evans | Stars: Robert Atkins, Michael Benthall, John Blatchley, Richard Burton
33. Cocktailparty (1967 TV Movie)
117 min | Drama
Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Sverre Hansen, Liv Ullmann, Wenche Foss, Claes Gill
34. The Hands (1957 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
Stars: George Howe, Robert Hunter, Raf De La Torre, Jennifer Phipps
35. The Bun House Wedding (1961 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Isabel Dean, Susan Burnet, Avril Elgar, Frank Finlay
36. Time Remembered (II) (1961 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
When a prince loses the woman he loves, his aunt recreates the special places of their romantic meetings and hires a local shop girl to play the part of his lover.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Edith Evans, Max Adrian, Barry Jones, James Maxwell
37. David & Broccoli (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
"Broccoli" Smith is a tough old pug hired by a school to give its pupils boxing lessons. But young David doesn't want to fight, and must overcome his fear of the old man by means of a cunning ruse.
Stars: Esmond Knight, George Benson, Peter Sallis, Diarmid Cammell
38. Out of the Box (1972)
35 min | Game-Show
Stars: Denis Norden, Rosalie Crutchley, Hattie Jacques, Beryl Reid
39. The Survivors (1957 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A man returns from war with a grudge which may lead him to murder.
Directors: Michael Elliott, Casper Wrede | Stars: John Abineri, Patrick Allen, Jean Anderson, Robert Ayres
40. Sing for Your Supper (1957 TV Movie)
75 min | Musical
Stars: Priscilla Morgan, Maggie Smith, George Howe, John Hewer
41.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Mrs. Wickens in the Fall
(1957)
90 min | Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Natalie Lynn, MacDonald Parke, Jacques Cey, Mollie Hare
42.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
View Friendship and Marriage
(1958)
Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Newton Blick, Lally Bowers, Avril Elgar, Albert Finney
43.
Read All About It (1974–1979)
Episode:
Episode #5.9
(1978)
Talk-Show
Stars: Ronald Harwood, William Davis, Michael Elliott, Marianne Faithfull
44.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Lower Depths
(1958)
Drama
In a Russian slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Alan Webb, Leo McKern, Esmond Knight
45.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Lady from the Sea (II)
(1958)
Drama
Stars: Rosalie Crutchley, Claes Gill, Robert Harris, Jill Dixon
46.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
Women of Troy
(1958)
Drama
Stars: Catherine Lacey, Colin Keith-Johnston, Dilys Hamlett, Rosalie Crutchley
47.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Letter
(1956)
Drama
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Stars: Celia Johnson, Roland Culver, Norman Wooland, Hilary Bays
48.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Mulberry Bush
(1957)
Drama
Stars: Ralph Michael, Mary Hinton, George Benson, Frederick Bartman
49.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Uncle Vanya
(1957)
Drama
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »
Stars: Mogens Wieth, Maxine Audley, George Voskovec, Ralph Michael
50.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
You Touched Me
(1956)
Drama
When Hadrian seeks permission to marry, is it for love or for an inheritance?
Stars: Fay Compton, Edward Dentith, Avril Elgar, Wilfrid Lawson