Rebecca

Cataclysmic events are re-created in this series. Included are train wrecks, industrial mishaps and natural catastrophes.

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. After fighting in the American War of Independence a British soldier, Ross Poldark, returns to Cornwall, his home. However, a lot has changed during his three years away. His father has passed away, his lands are now ruined and his only true love is soon to marry his cousin. He also attracts unwanted attention of the neighbours who question his decision of hiring a run-away miner's daughter as a maid as she's now considered the black sheep of her family.

Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs.

Susan Hampshire won an Emmy as Thackeray's social-climbing heroine Becky Sharp in a 'Masterpiece Theatre' adaptation. Hampshire had previously won Lead Actress Emmys for 'The Forsyte Saga' and 'The First Churchills.'

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994.In the pilot episode Detective Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams. William Simons played Alleyn's righthand man and "Watson" figure, Detective Sergeant Fox, and Belinda Lang starred as the painter Agatha Troy, Alleyn's love interest.Williams was unavailable when the first series was made, so whilst Simons and Lang reprised their original roles, the lead character was henceforth played by Patrick Malahide.The BBC made nine episodes in all, each based on a separate novel. The eight episodes featuring Malahide are available on DVD in the USA and UK. An Australian set has all nine episodes.

Nancy Drew, a detective for the NYPD, uses her sharp observational skills to solve crimes while also navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.