Annette Crosbie

When a young woman is forced to be her step-family’s servant after her father dies, her fairy godmother sends her to a royal ball to meet a prince.

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. Felicity Kendal and Sinead Cusack star in this adaptation, which is transferred to the time of the English Civil War. After Viola is parted from her twin Sebastian in a shipwreck, she poses as a manservant to Duke Orsino, but comical confusion arises when the Duke uses her as a mediator to woo the beautiful Olivia.

Twelve women give their traditional calendar a nontraditional twist.

A gay Scot living in London has AIDS. Against the advice of his partner, Ira, he decides on a trip home, back to the family that rejected him and the friends he was once close to. Ira has to rescue him from the resulting havoc. This is a sobering but joyful tale of estranged families, filial resentment, and love.

Problems arise when a maid becomes attached to the neglected mute son in a Victorian household.

The many adventures of the Prince of Tyre begin when the King of Antioch offers the hand in marriage of his beautiful daughter to any man who can answer his riddle.