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The Hour

  • 2 Series
  • 12 Episodes
  • Category: Period Drama
  • High Definition available
  • Subtitles available

Cold War drama series following two BBC reporters who join a brand-new investigative news programme and become involved in a dark and dangerous conspiracy.

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All episodes for series 1 of The Hour

  • S1 E1 · Pilot

    BBC reporters Bel Rowley and Freddie Lyon are asked to join a weekly news show.

  • S1 E2 · Failure at Launch

    Bel sees an opportunity to pull off a major interview.

  • S1 E3 · A Country Affair

    Hector invites the team for a weekend shooting party.

  • S1 E4 · Crises at Home and Abroad

    Another death leads MI6 to become a regular presence in the newsroom.

  • S1 E5 · Bright Stones

    McCain pressures the show to toe the line concerning the Suez Crisis.

  • S1 E6 · Truth Will Out

    The team prepares to defy government instructions and air a controversial episode.

  • Home Fires

    Description: Drama about a group of Women's Institute members during the Second World War.; Category: Period Drama; 12 episodes available.

  • Miss Scarlet and the Duke

    Description: Crime drama set in Victorian London, starring Kate Phillips.; Category: Crime Drama; 24 episodes available.

  • Father Brown

    Description: Drama series based on the stories by GK Chesterton about a crime-solving priest.; Category: Crime Drama; 13 episodes available.

  • Tenko

    Description: The lives of British women in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp; Category: Period Drama; 30 episodes available.

  • Outrageous

    Description: Six aristocratic sisters come of age during the turbulent 1930s.; Category: Period Drama; 6 episodes available.

  • Sister Boniface Mysteries

    Description: Sister Boniface - nun, moped rider, wine maker - and part-time forensic scientist.; Category: Crime Drama; 36 episodes available.

  • The Great Train Robbery

    Description: Drama series based on the most infamous heist in British history.; Category: Period Drama; 4 episodes available.

  • Lark Rise to Candleford

    Description: Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood.; Category: Period Drama; 40 episodes available.

  • Whitechapel

    Description: Crime thriller starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton.; Category: Crime Drama; 18 episodes available.

  • Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    Description: Australian mystery series about the adventures of sleuth Phryne Fisher in the 1920s.; Category: Crime Drama; 34 episodes available.

  • Happy Valley

    Description: Drama set in West Yorkshire following police sergeant Catherine Cawood.; Category: Crime Drama; 9 episodes available.

  • New Tricks

    Description: Drama series about a police unit made up of retired detectives looking at unsolved crimes.; Category: Crime Drama; 107 episodes available.