The Best of British Cinema Season 2

Season 2

Air date: 1988-08-10

Episodes: 16

Episodes

E1: Classic Tales

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.

Air date: 1988-08-10

E2: Action Men

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.

Air date: 1988-08-10

E3: All in the Game

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.

Air date: 1988-09-02

E4: Kids

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.

Air date: 1988-09-07

E5: Film Fun

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

Air date: 1988-09-14

E6: Animal Antics

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.

Air date: 1989-01-11

E7: Love Story

Air date: 1989-01-18

E8: All at Sea

Air date: 1989-01-25

E9: Doctors and Nurses

Air date: 1989-02-01

E10: Heaven and Earth

Air date: 1989-02-08

E11: New Frontiers

Air date: 1989-02-15

E12: Woman's Own

Air date: 1989-02-22

E13: English Gentlemen

Air date: 1989-03-01

E14: Reel Lives

Air date: 1989-03-08

E15: Going Places

Air date: 1989-03-15

E16: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance

Air date: 1989-03-22