Tony Haygarth – MRQE

Class of ’76 (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious “faceless child.”

Gracie! (TV)

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1939 Gracie Fields, the ‘Queen of Hearts’, is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy’s entry into the war Monty is in danger of being interned so Gracie consents to his moving to America whilst she tours Canada, fund-raising for the war effort. She is accused of deserting the country which made her famous and booed offstage, though she later tours battlefields as a singer. With the war over she regains popularity, performing ‘Take Me To Your Heart Again’ at the London Palladium. Banks dies in 1950 and, though still a successful singer, Gracie never regains her pre-war iconic status.

The Infiltrator (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.

Hornblower: Duty (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower’s wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon’s troops are engaged in covert activities.

Hornblower: Loyalty (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Under the Greenwood Tree (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.

Ghostboat (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy’s expertise to retrace the course and mission that led to her original disappearance. But what’s waiting for them under the grey waters of the Baltic Sea turns out to be much worse than the Russian submarines they’re expecting. Wherever Scorpion has been all this time, it’s brought some very bad luck back with it…

Dracula

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

“Chiller”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chiller is a five-part British horror fantasy anthology television series, produced by Yorkshire Television, that first broadcast on ITV on 9 March 1995.

Described by The Guardian as ITV’s “answer to The X Files”, the series was inspired by, but unconnected to, the 1991 Channel 4 thriller Gray Cray Dolls, which broadcast under the Chiller banner, the series featured writing contributions from renowned playwrights Stephen Gallagher, Glenn Chandler and Anthony Horowitz.

The Dressmaker

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.