A Country Editor follows the gathering and preparation of material for the Christmas edition of the 112 year old weekly Northumberland newspaper, the Hexham Courant, through to production. Includes action at Hexham Auction Market. Editor Michael Sharman interpolates his observations. This Tyne Tees TV documentary was first broadcast as part of the ITV About Britain series on 10 March 1976.
A Country Editor follows the gathering and preparation of material for the Christmas edition of the 112 year old weekly Northumberland newspaper, the Hexham Courant, through to production. Includes action at Hexham Auction Market. Editor Michael Sharman interpolates his observations. This Tyne Tees TV documentary was first broadcast as part of the ITV About Britain series on 10 March 1976.
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
A medieval English knight is magically transported to present day where he ends up falling for a high school science teacher.
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?