The Best of British Cinema - Season 2
1 - Classic Tales
Air Date: August 10, 1988
Highlights from some of the best-known literary adaptations British cinema has produced, including extracts from The Importance Of Being Earnest, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Card and The History Of Mr. Polly.
2 - Action Men
Air Date: August 10, 1988
Stars such as Oliver Reed, Stanley Baker, Howard Keel and Peter Finch feature in films highlighting thrills and action, including The Trap, Sea Fury, Floods of Fear and Robbery Under Arms.
3 - All in the Game
Air Date: September 2, 1988
Among the films that feature sports are This Sporting Life with Richard Harris, Checkpoint with Stanley Baker, All For Mary starring David Tomlinson and The Lady Vanishes with cricket obsessives Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne.
4 - Kids
Air Date: September 7, 1988
Celebrating young scene-stealers including John Howard Davies, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Hayley Mills and Juliet Mills in British movies such as Oliver Twist, Dangerous Exile, The Kidnappers, Tiger Bay and The History of Mr Polly.
5 - Film Fun
Air Date: September 14, 1988
Comedy sequences from films such as The Early Bird, The Frozen Limits, The Intelligence Men, Band Waggon and Carry On Loving feature stars like Norman Wisdom, the Crazy Gang, Morecambe and Wise, Arthur Askey, and the Carry On team
6 - Animal Antics
Air Date: January 11, 1989
Featuring some of the most famous non-human stars of British cinema, including Tarka the Otter, An Alligator Named Daisy, Tawny Pipit and The Belstone Fox.
7 - Love Story
Air Date: January 18, 1989
8 - All at Sea
Air Date: January 25, 1989
9 - Doctors and Nurses
Air Date: February 1, 1989
10 - Heaven and Earth
Air Date: February 8, 1989
11 - New Frontiers
Air Date: February 15, 1989
12 - Woman's Own
Air Date: February 22, 1989
13 - English Gentlemen
Air Date: March 1, 1989
14 - Reel Lives
Air Date: March 8, 1989
15 - Going Places
Air Date: March 15, 1989
16 - Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance
Air Date: March 22, 1989