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1. The John Thaw Story (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Tribute to the much-missed actor John Thaw, featuring reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues about both his private life and his public work.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Sally Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Richard Bates, Richard Briers
Votes: 55
2.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
The End of Law
(2001)
TV-MA | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kavanagh is considering being a justice, but government pressure tries to persuade him not to pursue an appeals case.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, David Allister, Daisy Bates, Samantha Bond
Votes: 72
3. Tonight (1957–1965)
40 min | Documentary
An early and influential BBC current affairs series.
Stars: Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Cy Grant
Votes: 9
4.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Remorseful Day
(2000)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An ailing Morse involves himself in a year-old cold-case of a murdered nymphomaniac, when persons of interest connected to it turn up dead.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Meg Davies, Eddie Webber
Votes: 982
5. Masterpiece (1971– )
Drama, History, Mystery
An anthology drama series featuring primarily British productions.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Laura Linney, David Bamber, Russell Baker
Votes: 578
6.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
The Lump
(1967)
75 min | Drama
Yorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Roy Minton, Neville Smith, Joe Gladwin, Jack Doughty
Votes: 13
7.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Care in the Community
(1998)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kavanagh and Peter travel to Kavanagh's hometown to defend a young unmarried couple on welfare from the murder of their young child.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Hal Cruttenden, Valerie Edmond, Oliver Ford Davies
Votes: 78
8. The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1972 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama, History
The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Nicol Williamson, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Frye, Al Mancini
Votes: 28
9. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 3,431 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chief Inspector Morse has an ear for Western classical music, a taste for beer, and a nose for crime. He and Detective Sergeant Robert Lewis solve intriguing cases in and around the Oxford area.
Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Grout, Peter Woodthorpe
Votes: 14,348
10. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.
Stars: Brenda Bruce, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards
Votes: 52
11. The War That Never Ends (1991 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Thucydides, Plato, and others.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Bennett, David Calder, Oliver Ford Davies, Don Henderson
Votes: 63
12. The Gravy Train (1990)
205 min | Comedy
Follows the misadventures of idealistic young Eurocrat Hans Joachim Dorfmann, who gets involved with EU politics, rotting plums, shady fixers, and the Machiavellian schemes of the self-serving British diplomat Michael Spearpoint.
Stars: Christoph Waltz, Ian Richardson, Almanta Suska, Alexei Sayle
Votes: 107
13. The Late Show (1966–1967)
Comedy
Stars: Barry Humphries, John Bird, John Wells, John Fortune
Votes: 12
14.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Blood Money
(1997)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The widow of an accident victim who unexpectedly dies from a heart attack during surgery suspects malpractice and asks Kavanagh to represent her.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Nicholas Boulton, Tom Brodie, Malcolm Browning
Votes: 79
15. The Naked Civil Servant (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 77 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge, Stanley Lebor
Votes: 1,901
16.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Marya
(1979)
120 min | Drama
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Michael Byrne, Lisa Harrow, Clive Revill, Paul Rogers
Votes: 12
17. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 392
18. Goodnight Mr Tom (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Family, War
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Nick Robinson, Annabelle Apsion, Thomas Orange
Votes: 4,915
19. Good and Bad at Games (1983 TV Movie)
82 min | Drama
Ten years after leaving school, Cox, bullied and constantly humiliated in his schooldays, seeks out his former classmates in order to be revenged.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Martyn Stanbridge, Anton Lesser, Laura Davenport, Dominic Jephcott
Votes: 102
20. Clapper Board (1972–1982)
25 min | Family
Children's television programme about cinema, hosted by Chris Kelly.
Stars: Chris Kelly, John Huntley, Derek Ware, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 58
21.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Bavarian Night
(1981)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
When the dynamic young head-master of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fund-raising social by hiring a Bavarian band, he little suspects the hidden passions that are about to be unleashed.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Bob Peck, Sarah Badel, Malcolm Terris, Arwen Holm
Votes: 9
22. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
Stars: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi
Votes: 1,087
23. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
24. Centre Play (1973–1977)
Drama
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Stars: John Barrett, Will Knightley, David Daker, Michael Gough
Votes: 15
25.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Mad Jack
(1970)
75 min | Drama
Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers protests the appalling and unnecessary sacrifice of men's lives in the First World War.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Michael Jayston, Michael Pennington, David Wood, Clive Swift
Votes: 14
26. Whicker's World (1959–1994)
Documentary
Renowned journalist John Whicker travels the globe, uncovering unique cultural, historical, and social stories in witty and insightful episodes.
Stars: Alan Whicker, Robert Arnott, Patrick Lichfield, Christopher Lee
Votes: 51
27. All for Love (1982–1983)
60 min | Romance
Anthology of stories about love, many adapted from short stories or novels.
Stars: Alick Hayes, Dilys Worsfold, Joan Plowright, Geraldine McEwan
Votes: 16
28. The Collector (II) (2004)
Short, Drama, War
An English sniper in the trenches of the Great War collects the plans he finds and reflects on the horrors of his job.
Director: Lorne Guy | Stars: Thomas Arnold, Danny Brown, Simon Cole, Glenn Hirst
Votes: 10
29.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Last Romantics
(1992)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Ian Holm, Leo McKern, Sara Kestelman, Alan Cumming
Votes: 37
30.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Mute of Malice
(1997)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An army chaplain is accused of killing his brother after returning home from duty in Bosnia, but he will or cannot speak in his own defense.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Mac Andrews, Robert Ashby, Linda Bassett
Votes: 119
31.
All for Love (1982–1983)
Episode:
L'Elegance
(1982)
Romance
A lonely shop girl from Manchester saves all year for a luxury vacation in France among the rich, using her favorite fashion/lifestyle magazine as a guide to sewing her wardrobe and the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Jean-François Stévenin, Graham Rogers, Brigitte Kahn
Votes: 11
32. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
75 min | Drama
Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John ... See full summary »
Stars: Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones
Votes: 131
33.
The Brief (2004–2005)
Episode:
So Long, Samantha
(2004)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Personal and financial problems plague Henry as he tries to prove that the Anglo-Greek girl who fell to her death in Jakarta was not a suicide or accident.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Rebecca Santos, Stanley Townsend, Nick Barber, Russell Barr
Votes: 50
34.
The Brief (2004–2005)
Episode:
The Road to Hell
(2004)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Struggling under tons of gambling and alimony debt, criminal defense attorney Henry Farmer takes on a raft of cases all at the same time. Worse still, he's up against some tough judges--including his own estranged father.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Christopher Fulford, Linda Bassett, Robert Whitelock, Zara Turner
Votes: 57
35. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War
German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
Votes: 9,820
36. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Family, Romance
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental Lord, who oversees the trust.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely
Votes: 5,255
37. The Brief (2004–2005)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Henry Farmer is a clever criminal law barrister whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading cases that only he can win.
Stars: Alan Davies, Cherie Lunghi, Christopher Fulford, Linda Bassett
Votes: 482
38. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.
Stars: Robin Chadwick, Donald Sinden, Helen Lindsay, Paul Moriarty
Votes: 58
39.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Stocker's Copper
(1972)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
It's not easy being a striker with a strike-breaking policeman billeted in your home but Manuel Stocker and Herbert Griffith manage to make a go of it. Until events turn violent.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Gareth Thomas, Bryan Marshall, Jane Lapotaire, Tony Caunter
Votes: 41
40. 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: 294
41. The Merchant of Venice (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 157 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Franklyn-Robbins, John Rhys-Davies, Alan David, John Nettles
Votes: 296
42. Super Sleuths (2006– )
60 min | Documentary
This special documentary examines Inspector Barnaby - his methods and techniques of investigation, from his time in the original novels through his translation to television.
Stars: George Baker, Anthony Horowitz, Val McDermid, David Suchet
Votes: 16
43. The Solitary Billionaire: J. Paul Getty (1963 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Alan Whicker interviews billionaire J. Paul Getty, who discusses reports of his meanness, his unsuccessful marriages, why he keeps working and what he's had to sacrifice to become the world's richest man.
Stars: Jean Paul Getty, Alan Whicker
Votes: 12
44. Praying Mantis (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Cherie Lunghi, Carmen Du Sautoy, Pinkas Braun
Votes: 190
45. The Unforgettable John Thaw (2012 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A tribute to one of British television's biggest ever stars.
Director: Verity Newman | Stars: John Thaw, Martin Glyn Murray, Sheila Hancock, Melanie Thaw
Votes: 10
46. Film '72 (1971–2018)
30 min | Talk-Show
The BBC's flagship cinema review television programme featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the programme changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Stars: Barry Norman, Danny Leigh, Claudia Winkleman, Jonathan Ross
Votes: 535
47. Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage (1989 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Joe and Sarah Marriot is a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Jack Shepherd, Zoë Wanamaker, Katerina Hadjimatheou, Jamie Groves
Votes: 104
48. Heavy Weather (1995 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth cares only about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is willfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Judy Parfitt, Roy Hudd, Richard Briers, Peter O'Toole
Votes: 183
49. The Medusa Touch (1978)
PG | 109 min | Drama, Mystery
A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews
Votes: 7,489
50. The Tenth Man (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who, while imprisoned by the Germans during the occupation, trades his material ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 1,906