John Bennett

  • 1978
    Watership Down

    Watership Down

    Watership Down

    7.2 1978 HD

    When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

    Watership Down
  • 1976
    The Message

    The Message

    The Message

    7.3 1976 HD

    Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.

    The Message
  • 1963
    Sunday-Night Play

    Sunday-Night Play

    Sunday-Night Play

    0.0 1963 HD

    BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

    Sunday-Night Play
  • 1967
    The Forsyte Saga

    The Forsyte Saga

    The Forsyte Saga

    8.2 1967 HD

    The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.

    The Forsyte Saga
  • 1977
    Porridge

    Porridge

    Porridge

    8.1 1977 HD

    Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.

    Porridge