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- After a near-fatal car accident, smart, savvy, sharp-suited detective Sam is mysteriously transported back to 1973. Confused by his new surroundings, Sam tries to return to the present, but the police force of long ago needs his help.
- A vivid drama which documents the notorious Moors murderers; Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
- Series of one-off dramas, each focusing on a different house within the same street.
- In the late 1930s, Nella Last, a 49 year old housewife living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast, agrees to send details of her routine to the Mass Observation Project; a non-governmental scheme designed to chronicle the lives of ordinary people. When war comes, Nella defies her over-protective husband to join the local Women's Voluntary Service. Initially diffident, she blossoms thanks to the dominant but kindly Mrs. Waite, and enjoys her independence as a useful war worker. The film also shows her relationship with her two sons, as well as the effect of the war on the community, and ends by explaining that Nella kept in touch with the Mass Observation project until her death in 1968.
- A British television drama with an interweaving plot based around a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse-effect of mobile phone radiation to health.
- Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.
- Jericho investigates the brutal murder of a young Jamaican in Notting Hill, and soon identifies it as a racial killing - but his work is interrupted when a wealthy businessman is kidnapped. But all is not as it seems - Sir Nicholas Wellesley has not been staying at his club or visiting his usual haunts.
- A young girl, 12 year-old Angela Fairley, is stabbed 38 times and dumped in a parking lot. The police are under pressure to get a conviction in the case and they focus their investigation on a local man, Jason Buliegh, who was convicted as a pedophile some years before. The autopsy shows that she was not sexually assaulted and some of the squad doubt that they have the right man. Two members of the team, Joe Payne and Chrissie Fairburn, are convinced that Buliegh is their man and set out to force a confession from him. Their plans go awry however and it all gets out of hand. Both policemen have problems of their own. Payne is known as a bit of a hothead who was responsible for mucking a major case some years before. Fairburn comes from a family of policeman and feels inadequate compared to his now retired father and successful older brother.
- Kafayat claims for a deposit, rent and emotional distress caused by her landlord's negative attitude to her sexual orientation. Amanda, who dresses like Jack Sparrow, wants an acquaintance to compensate her for a piece of lost jewellery.
- Sacked after an affair with the boss's wife magazine writer Tom Ronstadt returns from London to Bacup where his sister Nancy is caring for their father Sam, a former journalist,now suffering from Alzheimer's.Forced to stay and help Nancy, Tom finds it impossible to communicate with a father with whom, even in better days, there was plainly friction. Tom goes for a drink with old school friend Mike Eldridge, who is unaware that Tom slept with his wife Mandy, after picking her up in the pub where she works. Tom tells him he left home as a youngster when his father severely attacked him for opening a file he was working on, marked 'Metzler'. Metzler is now head of the local council. Nancy and Tom discover that huge sums of money have been paid into Sam's account and it would seem that Metzler was trying to bribe him to keep a secret. Tom's investigations are interrupted when Mike, learning of his one night stand with Mandy, punches him.
- Tom learns from a newspaper archive that Metzler was a doctor at Greenlake psychiatric hospital in the 1970s. He seeks out Wendy Smith,his father's former secretary who is cagey but tells him that J. Cleaver, who has paid the money into Sam's account, was probably a patient at the hospital. Hoping that familiar faces may jog his memory Tom takes his father to his old paper's charity dinner where Sam is cordial to Metzler but Richard, a colleague of Sam's,confirms to Tom that his father was indeed investigating Metzler for malpractice. When Sam gave up Richard assumed it was for lack of evidence. Tom resumes his relationship with Mandy after Mike moves out of the house and,after his car has been rammed and two policemen threatened him to return to London he receives an envelope. The document inside confirms that Tom's real surname is Cleaver.
- After Tom has shown Nancy his discovery they return to see Wendy, who sent the envelope. She reveals that Sam and his wife Edith, believing themselves unable to have children, adopted Tom. The siblings manage to get Sam to say that Metzler gave them a baby but Mandy's mother, a former nurse at Greenlake, believes that a ward orderly named Ricky Tulse, not Metzler,was the truly sinister figure who encouraged vulnerable patients to have sex whilst he watched. Tom tracks down Tulse, dying of cancer, who admits, before killing himself, that he is Tom's father, having raped his mother. He claims that Metzler was aware that patients were being sexually abused and their babies sold - Metzler being the man who paid Sam the money. Tom now has his evidence to bring down Metzler, do what is best for Sam and start a new life back home with Mandy and Nancy, following his exile.
- As the team investigates the gruesome death of an unknown male victim Rachel agrees to accommodate her young brother Dominic, who is homeless after being released from jail. Janet's elderly mother Dorothy moves in with her family after an operation but consistently argues with her son-in-law Adrian, who moves out. After the victim is identified as loner Darren Rigby, a man into child porn, a second body is discovered, that of married Keith Fleming. As Rachel resumes an affair with old flame Sean Nadia Hicks, the last person to see Darren alive, resists arrest but is pulled in for questioning.
- Nadia remains uncooperative when questioned about Liam Walsh, who used one of the victims' cash point card and another couple, Nikki Madden and Anthony Stainfield, linked to Nadia via a joyride in a stolen car, are equally evasive, as is Welsh when they are all arrested. However, when a further victim turns out to be Nadia's brother Janet persuades her to expose a gang who prey on men's sexual weaknesses. With the case closed Janet also finds herself warding off the friendly advances of Andy, who has just learned that Adrian has left her.