Schedule for British Screen Classics

Final Programme

Final Programme

In the far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay, but a group of scientists believe they have discovered a way of moving humanity onto its next level - to create an immortal. Adventurer Jerry Cornelius gets involved because his recently deceased father worked out a formula to help the final programme and it's on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of his mansion. But Jerry's brother won't let anyone get at it...

2026-01-14 01:19:08 +0000 UTC2026-01-14 02:56:47 +0000 UTC(1h37m)
Death at Broadcasting House

Death at Broadcasting House

When actor Sidney Parsons is murdered while taking part in a radio broadcast play, Detective-Inspector Gregory is called in to investigate and is quick to discover that the victim had many enemies amongst his fellow players in the cast. When his deductions lead him into a blind alley he decides to reconstruct the crime in the hope that this well-tried device will lead him to the killer. All the technical and human resources of Broadcasting House are brought to his aid.

2026-01-14 12:43:00 +0000 UTC2026-01-14 14:01:27 +0000 UTC(1h18m)
Kitchen

Kitchen

"The Kitchen" is adapted from Arnold Wesker's celebrated play. The action takes place in the kitchen of a restaurant, where a polyglot staff strive to cope with a superhuman task. Peter, the German cook, is in love with the waitress, Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The kitchen looms around and encloses them all it is a microcosm of the world. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and Peter realizes that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband. In his grief and pain he runs berserk ... and destroys the kitchen.

2026-01-14 09:53:42 +0000 UTC2026-01-14 11:16:02 +0000 UTC(1h22m)
Rainbow Jacket

Rainbow Jacket

Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the

2026-01-13 14:47:59 +0000 UTC2026-01-13 16:38:05 +0000 UTC(1h50m)