Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

1974 · 1 season · 6 eps · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

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An anthology of six plays, contemporary twists on well-loved tales with dark endings.

Created by Innes Lloyd

Network: BBC Two

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Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
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C₂H₅OHC₂H₅OH · 1980
C₂H₅OH
★ 8.01980
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Play on the problems of alcoholism.
Dead of NightDead of Night · 1972
Dead of Night
★ 8.01972
SeriesDramaMystery
Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.
Objects of AffectionObjects of Affection · 1982
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★ 8.01982
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A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.
Doctor Who: The Tenth PlanetDoctor Who: The Tenth Planet · 1966
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
★ 7.91966
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the base personnel's suspicions are roused, the Doctor informs them that the space capsule is being affected by the gravitational pull of another planet — a tenth planet in the Solar system.
Doctor Who: The Enemy of the WorldDoctor Who: The Enemy of the World · 1968
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★ 7.91968
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On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but why do his rivals keep disappearing? How can he predict so many natural disasters? The Doctor must expose Salamander's schemes before he takes over the world.
Doctor Who: The Faceless OnesDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones · 1967
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
★ 7.91967
MovieDramaAdventure
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
Doctor WhoDoctor Who · 1963
Doctor Who
★ 7.91963
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The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Match of the DayMatch of the Day · 1964
Match of the Day
★ 7.61964
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BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.
Doctor Who: The Abominable SnowmenDoctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen · 1967
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★ 7.51967
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Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.
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★ 7.51981
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Doctor Who: The War MachinesDoctor Who: The War Machines · 1966
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★ 7.41966
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The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world — a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer.
Doctor Who: The Ice WarriorsDoctor Who: The Ice Warriors · 1967
Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
★ 7.31967
MovieDramaAdventure
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.
Doctor Who: The MoonbaseDoctor Who: The Moonbase · 1967
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
★ 7.21967
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The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack.
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