EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: BRIEF GLIMPSES
- 10.05.1938 The Provoked Wife – First Performance (missing, believed never to have been recorded)
- 11.05.1938 The Provoked Wife – Second Performance (missing, believed never to have been recorded)
BRITAIN IN BRIEF
- [untransmitted pilot] (missing)
- [untransmitted pilot] (missing)
- 01.11.1963 Episode No. 3 (missing)
- 08.11.1963 Episode No. 4 (missing)
- 15.11.1963 Episode No. 5 (missing)
- 22.11.1963 Episode No. 6 (missing)
THE BRIEF
- 26.06.1984 People
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 03.07.1984 Long Glyn
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 10.07.1984 Look at Me
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 17.07.1984 Can Kill, No One to Kill
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 24.07.1984 Nickels and Dimes
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 31.07.1984 Ghosts
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 07.08.1984 No Questions
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 14.08.1984 Terry
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 21.08.1984 And Then Where Do You Go?
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 28.08.1984 Landscape
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 04.09.1984 Keys
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 11.09.1984 On the Edge
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500). - 18.09.1984 Airstrip One
The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500).
THE DOCK BRIEF
- 16.09.1957 Episode No. 1 (missing)
PASSPORT TO DANGER
- 28.09.1956 The Brief Case (missing)
NORTHERN SHORT STORIES (RADIO)
- 11.09.1995 A Brief Encounter with Richard Wagner
Sound only exists – there is no picture.
MR JUSTICE DUNCANNON
- 25.01.1963 Brief to the Counsel (missing)
SUNDAY'S CHILD
- 02.08.1959 The Dog Brief (missing)
BROTHERS IN LAW
- 17.04.1962 The First Brief (missing)
THE LIKELY LADS
- 25.06.1966 Brief Encounter (missing)
These programmes, which exist complete, matched your search.
- STEPHEN HAWKING: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MINE (2013)
- BRIEF LIVES (1968)
- BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1976)
- BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (2005)
- BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1998)
- THE BRIEF (2004)
These productions, which exist in the archives, matched your search.
- CATHERINE: [Brief Lives] (15.07.1987)
- THE CELLULOID WORLD OF DEZMOND REZILLO: Brief Encounters (31.01.1997)
- LAW AND ORDER: A Brief's Tale (20.04.1978)
- AN EVENING'S DIVERSION: A Brief Revel (17.11.1953)
- TV HELL: Nul Points: A Brief History of the Eurovision Song Contest (31.08.1992)
- TIME SHIFT: A Brief Interlude (16.02.2003)
- WITHOUT WALLS: A Brief History of Slang (26.03.1996)
- BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISCS – DRAMA (RADIO): The Dock Brief by John Mortimer – Michael Hordern , David Kossoff
- STILL GAME: Brief (18.04.2003)
- THE LIKELY LADS (RADIO): Brief Encounter (23.06.1968)
- THIS LIFE: Brief Encounter (29.04.1996)
- THE TRAIN NOW STANDING...: Brief Encounter (27.07.1973)
- NOT ON YOUR NELLIE: Brief Encounter (24.01.1975)
- FRESH FIELDS: A Brief Encounter (12.09.1984)
- MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: Brief Re-Encounter (21.10.1978)
- INSIDE GEORGE WEBLEY: Brief Encounter (11.03.1970)
- BUDGIE: Brief Encounter (07.07.1972)
- THE AVENGERS: Brief for Murder (28.09.1963)
- COMEDY FEEDS: A Brief History of Tim (01.09.2016)
- 6 DAYS OF JUSTICE: The Brief Facts (19.05.1975)
- TIME SHIFT: Stephen Poliakoff: A Brief History of Now (15.01.2006)
- SHELLEY: Brief Encounter (05.01.1984)
- MIRANDA: A Brief Encounter (28.01.2013)
- THIS ENGLAND: Brief Encounter on Platform 1 (14.03.1986)
- 40 MINUTES: Brief Encounters (29.11.1990)
- WHERE THE HEART IS: Brief Encounters (07.08.2005)
- EASTENDERS: "Grant and Sharon have a brief encounter" (01.05.1995)
- BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Brief Encounter (18.10.1990)
- DOCTORS: The Crook, the Brief, His Wife and the Cover Up (21.02.2007)
- CASUALTY: Brief Encounters (23.07.2005)
- LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE: A Brief Excursion in the Fast Lane (06.01.2002)
- MY FAMILY: A Very Brief Encounter (16.04.2009)
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