Hannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which had starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay.In the series, Powell reprised the role of Hannay, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with John Buchan's novels about the character, although some character names are taken from his other novels.There were two series, the first with six episodes, the second with seven. The combined 13 episodes ran for a total of 652 minutes.One episode, A Point of Honour, was based on a story of the same name by Dornford Yates that appeared in his 1914 book The Brother of Daphne, although Yates was not credited.Another episode used a plot device from the Leslie Charteris Saint story The Unblemished Bootlegger, from the 1933 book The Brighter Buccaneer, again uncredited.
Drama series set in Northern Ireland during the Second World War, about a family that is forever changed by a United States Army Air Force airfield with 4,000 service crew which lands in their rural parish in 1943.
An award-winning bilingual children's series set in a Latino community. Produced by KLRN-TV in Texas, it was the first Spanish and English educational TV program to be telecast nationally.
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
Ossie Davis and wife Ruby Dee produced, hosted and played several roles in this anthology series. Guest actors included Scatman Crothers and Angela Bassett.
The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse. The crcumstantial evidence is damning, so George Cording, the self-assured defense counsel, has his work cut out for him.