Dim the lights stoke up the fire and settle down for a classic chiller from the BBC's much loved A Ghost Story for Christmas series. Based on a story by the master of the supernatural tale M.R. James A Warning to the Curious tells the tale of three fabled crowns buried on the Norfolk coast which according to legend protect England from invasion. When an amateur archaeologist (Peter Vaughan) goes treasure hunting for the last remaining crown he digs up more than he bargained for.
When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944 Chinese factions the British government Hong Kong businessmen AND the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British does it his own way. But we see a new twinkle in his eye when he looks at sweet Su Yin... And can it be that pretty Inspector Hanna Bernstein is beginning to grow fond of Sean? Based on Jack Higgins' novel.
Married and supposedly retired from duty Sean Dillon (Rob Lowe) is dragged back into the dangerous world of international espionage when a plan is discovered by Brigadier Ferguson (Kenneth Cranham) to kill off the British Royal Family. Dillon must discover who is behind the plot but the suspects are many and varied. Is the IRA involoved Middle East fundamentalists or old guard Russian leaders tightening their fingers on the trigger that will set Britain on the road to a Republic? The stage is set for a deadly game of cat and mouse between former comrades turned adversaries. In such a barren climate of cold hearts can love survive and good finally triumph over evil?
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A ship approaches port on the wild coast of North Cornwall in the early 1800s. A lighthouse keeper is surprised and murdered; the guiding light is doused; and the vessel is lured to smash itself upon the savage rocks... Mary Yellan's father is among the crew massacred by wreckers desperate to plunder the ship's cargo. When her mother dies of grief shortly afterwards Mary leaves her village to join her only surviving relative Aunt Patience in a lonely Inn on Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn she discovers is a secret headquarters for he wrecking gangs a staging post for salvaged loot. But her Uncle Joss though a half-crazed murderer is not the ringleader... First broadcast in 1983 HTV's gorgeous production of Jamaica Inn stars Jane Seymour (Doctor Quinn) as the determined Mary Yellan Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner) as her demented uncle Joss and Trevor Eve (Waking the Dead) as her ally Jem Merlyn. Adapted from Daphne du Maurier''-s perennial novel this three part serial is directed by the award-winning Lawrence Gordon Clark (Harry''-s Game).
A romantic ghost story starring Helena Bonham Carter & Joe Searby Suzanna Hamilton & Stuart Mackenzie. What do you do when you start receiving ghostly warnings from another age? Dismiss them as hallucinations? Or take them seriously? It is a dilemma that faces Tim Ingram while recovering from glandular fever at his parents' weekend cottage. His visions begin to dominate his life. Through a turbulent winter of family conflict and personal indecision he finds himself falling in love. As he struggles to come to terms with powerful new emotions his life becomes shadowed by a story from the past - a story with a dark secret. Based on the novel by K.M. Peyton.
When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944 Chinese factions the British government Hong Kong businessmen and the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British does it his own way. Based on the novel by Jack Higgins.
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