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This historical drama series was not made, as you might expect, by the BBC, but by ATV (who also made Sapphire & Steel ) for showing on ...

So synonymous has Patrick Stewart become with his baldy-headed English-French captain of the Starship Enterprise, who he played from 1987 un...

The final part of Fall of Eagles is all about the last days of World War 1, as the German army is losing to the Americans and Germany is ...

The Secret War picks up from where Tell the King the Sky is Falling left off - Rasputin has been shot till he was dead, and this has en...

There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and w...

This episode introduces us to World War 1, which is an underrated war (usually it gets overshadowed by its more famous sequel) probably b...

Dress Rehearsal  is part 9 of 13 and yet is the first to feature all three "Eagles" within the same episode. Even then the focus ...

In a way almost the mirror image of  Absolute Beginners ,  The Appointment  is another episode heavy with politics, but this time showing th...

The middle of the series, and this is the first plot to properly crossover two of the countries. The framing device is Kaiser Wilhelm wri...

The opening narration by Michael "Gandalf" Hordern sets the scene: "Tsar Nicholas ii - sentimental, petulant - practises...

We've had two episodes on Austria, two episodes on Germany, and so now the series turns its attention to the third eagle: Russia. The...