The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.

该剧改编自 John McGahern 的小说，故事发生在 1950 年代的爱尔兰，讲述了莫兰和他的孩子们，尤其是他的女儿们，发现很难摆脱专制父亲的影响并开始过自己的生活的故事

1968 年至 1973 年间，奥兰群岛作家安妮·布洛姆奎斯特出版了五部小说，记录了斯托姆斯凯里·玛雅的一生。斯托姆斯凯里·玛雅是一位朴实的农家妇女，她的生活漫长而又辛苦，她谦逊地信仰上帝，随着岁月的流逝，她逐渐获得了一些独立性。

A trooper with the British Special Air Service (SAS) infiltrates a radical political group who are planning a terrorist operation against American dignitaries. A glamourized look at the methods and tactics of the famed British anti-terrorist squad.The SAS are a elite army unit which as well as its Anti terrorist role also performs covert and overt training of friendly countries armed forces and operates enemy lines