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The marriage of Deric and Diana Longden is a successful one, based on a shared sense of humour as well as love. It seems sure to survive even when Diana is struck down by a mysterious debilitating and, as it transpires, progressive illness. When Deric meets novelist Aileen Armitage matters become complicated, but not in predictable fashion.
This nostalgic comedy was written especially for Guinness by Roy Clarke, better known for successful series like Last of the Summer Wine and Keeping Up Appearances. Cyril takes Amos to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy Briggsy. While in Normandy they encounter Waldo, an American [D]-day veteran. Cyril and Waldo are determined to find their old girlfriend from 50 years before. Also in their party is the mysterious Lisa, whose secret is revealed only at the end of their journey.
Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant in Glasgow, is about to marry the daughter of a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation.
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner.
Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
A British high school bet between two friends, and a case of teenage love, take unexpected turns as a small deception called the 'October House Partnership' attracts increasingly bigger players in the property market on both sides of the Atlantic.
The comic offering for tonight's Screen One film is a transatlantic jaunt involving a schoolboy who bets his friend he'll be worth a million before the week is out.
Christien Anholt, recently seen as the young man investigating the death of his father in ITV's rerun of The Blackheath Poisonings, stars as the 16-year-old boy. His adventures lead him to New York, where he meets his match in tycoon Martin Short (best remembered here as one of the hilarious Three Amigos with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase.)
David Jason brings a master's touch and immaculate Scouse accent to this comic account of gold fever in wartime Liverpool by Jim Hitchmough, creator of the comedy series Watching.
In May 1940, just before Dunkirk, the governors of the Bank of England decided that the nation's bullion would be safer in the vaults of Martin's Bank in Liverpool. How easy It would have been for the gang of dockers who unloaded the cargo at Liverpool to "sample" the wares.... Jason (as dockers' leader
Billy Mac ) is joined by Gorden Kaye , veteran of 'Allo 'Allo!, and Tim Pigott-Smith (The Chief) as a dodgy dealer who tempts the bullion boys from the straight and narrow.
