The ABC has gone back into its archives to pull out the TV footage of this remarkable series, one that has long claimed to have changed the way Test cricket was played. With the game stagnating because of poor run rates and a lack of entertainment the two teams embarked on an ambitious campaign to […]

Michael Wood is an historian who has an unbelievable knowledge of the life and times of Alexander the Great, a Macedonian who conquered most of the know world in the fourth century BC. Wood planned a project where he was to follow, literally, in the footsteps of Alexander and his army in their great travels […]

This is an extensive piece of work that runs to a staggering 670 minutes. It is a personal view of what goes to make up civilisation, or more narrowly, the civilisation of Western Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. Kenneth Clark is an art historian who was given the brief by David Attenborough, […]

Egan has pulled together a series of film and TV footage dating back from the early 1900s to 1961 to showcase the talent that has graced the cricket fields for Australia. It is presented as a 4-part series with different eras making up each episode. Much of the footage comes from the Australian Broadcasting Commission […]

This is an eight-part series that looks at the various natural forces that let to the creation of the British Isles as we know it today. It explores the history of the islands from earliest know history to today and even looks into the future.Alan Titchmarsh is perhaps best known for his role in the […]

The blurb on the front cover talks about this being ?Sketches and clips from his greatest television comedy performances?. There are bits from The Two Ronnies, Porridge, Open All Hours and other lesser known shows. It is rather difficult to talk too much about the plot as the jokes are the main feature. It would […]

A lone rider stops at a well on the outskirts of a Mexican town and witnesses a sadistic beating for a father and his child. But the rider doesn?t intervene, even when it becomes apparent that the child was trying to see his mother who appears to be a captive of the bad guys. […]

This is a mini-series that reviews the events surrounding the 1932-33 Ashes cricket games in Australia that became known as the Bodyline series. The series is woven around the three key players ? Douglas Jardine, the English Captain, Don Bradman, the Australian who was best batsman in the world at the time (and retains that […]

Our hero Jackie plays the part of a cop whose last job ended in plenty of cost to the Hong Kong Police Department but a successful outcome. He is admonished for the expense and sent back to being a traffic cop for a while. While on the job directing traffic he is threatened by the […]

This mini-series follows the trials and tribulations of the Whitlam Government in Australia between 1972 and 1975. One of the key things about the series is the way the producers went to a great deal of trouble to seek out actors who closely resembled the true players in the story and it does add a […]