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The badly beaten body of 18-year-old clerk Sylvia Kane is found in a pub car park by her boyfriend John Sanders. Called in to investigate, Morse finds a coded letter in her bag and sets about trying to decipher it, gradually unravelling a tangled web of hidden passion and corruption at the insurance office where she worked. John Thaw and Kevin Whately star, with Anthony Bate, Terrence Hardiman, Jill Baker, Holly Aird and Ingrid Lacey

The detective and his team investigate a series of bizarre events in the aftermath of a wedding which boasted a most unusual guest list. It transpires the couple had only met three weeks before the ceremony, and the honeymoon in a luxury hotel ends in a brutal killing. Drama, starring Jack Shepherd, with Ronald Hines and Josephine Butler

Charles investigates the fatal stabbing of a businessman in a pub car park - and gradually discovers the victim was not the upstanding pillar of the community he appeared to be. Jack Shepherd and Sharon Duce star

The season of goodwill descends on the Larkin household, and the family celebrates the 'perfick' Christmas. Drama, based on the characters created by HE Bates, starring David Jason, Pam Ferris and Catherine Zeta-Jones

Aunt Joan reveals she has a rare bird nesting on her land but wants to keep it a secret to deter prospective egg thieves. Sure enough, her tactless nephew opens his mouth to the local baker, who spies an opportunity to save his ailing business by making it a new attraction. Before long the peaceful community of Portwenn is over-run by twitchers eager to catch a sight of the bird, and Dr Ellingham finds himself in the locals' bad books yet again. Martin Clunes stars in this Christmas special of the comedy drama, originally shown in 2006

Martin Clunes stars as an earnest Latin master working at the Brookfield School of the 1880s, where he meets and marries his true love Kathie and finds himself touched by politics, grief and the utter devastation of World War One. Charting more than 50 years of one man's extraordinary life, the story ends in the 1930s, as a wise, elderly and much-loved Mr Chipping lives out his last days in retirement. Frank Delaney's adaptation of James Hilton's timeless classic, which has never been out of print since first appearing as a magazine serialisation in 1934, and for which Robert Donat whipped an Oscar from under the nose of Gone with the Wind's Clark Gable in the 1939 film production. Also starring Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill and Patrick Malahide

Hard-hearted Victorian miser Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to join in with the spirit of the festive season - until a succession of spectral visitors turn up to teach him the error of his ways. Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, starring Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Kenneth More, Edith Evans and Paddy Stone

The dapper detective accepts an invitation to spend yuletide at the house of an elderly millionaire who seems intent on provoking his money-grubbing sons into murdering him. At first he tries hard to ignore the strained atmosphere and relax - but soon finds himself with a gruesome mystery on his hands. Agatha Christie whodunit, starring David Suchet and Philip Jackson

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell present the stories of two men, both of them born in Ireland to unmarried mothers at a time when having children outside of marriage was seen as sinful and the Catholic Church went to great lengths to cover it up. When Arthur Fitzharris's adoptive parents died he decided to find out about his birth family, and was dismayed to discover that his birth certificate falsely recorded early foster parents as though they were his biological parents. Bernard McGrath discovered his adoptive parents were falsely named as his biological parents on his birth certificate and no other records seemed available to him

Stan offers to redecorate Arthur and Olive's bedroom, taking the distinctive green and yellow paint from the depot. However, once the paint is applied, it becomes clear there is a problem. Reg Varney stars

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