The BEST episodes directed by James Hawes
#1 - The Challenger
BBC Documentaries - Season 2013 - Episode 42
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America
#2 - The Worsted Viper
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 5
Mrs. Bradley accompanies her chauffeur, George, to his daughter's wedding. Local fishermen discover the body of the vicar's daughter on the beach, with her hair shaved off and a worsted viper around her neck.
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#3 - Death at the Opera
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries - Season 1 - Episode 2
Mrs. Bradley returns to her old school to give the prestigious Evadne Flint Lecture, but the school music teacher is found dead during a performance of The Mikado. Mrs. Bradley investigates, and uncover bitter rivalries, a series of thefts, an illegitimate child, and a number of illicit affairs.
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#4 - The Murder at Road Hill House
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Season 1 - Episode 1
Detective Inspector Jack Whicher finds himself traveling to a remote country house where he investigates the murder of a young child. He soon manages to discover a web of lies and concealment amid the family living there, which he thinks vindicates the police's chief suspect in the murder case.
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#5 - Hated in the Nation
Black Mirror - Season 3 - Episode 6
A police detective and her geeky young sidekick investigate a string of grisly murders with a sinister link to social media.
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#6 - The Doctor Dances (2)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Child's plague is spreading throughout wartime London, and its zombie army is on the march. The Doctor and Rose form an alliance with the intergalactic con man, Captain Jack, but find themselves trapped in the abandoned hospital. The answer lies at the bomb site, but time is running out.
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#7 - The Empty Child (1)
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 1 - Episode 9
London, 1941, at the height of the Blitz. A mysterious cylinder is guarded by the army, while homeless children, living on the bombsites, are terrorised by an unearthly child. When Rose meets the dashing Captain Jack Harkness, has she found a hero better than the Doctor himself?
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#8 - Possession
Penny Dreadful - Season 1 - Episode 7
Sir Malcolm, Ethan and Sembene must deal with the aftermath of Vanessa's night of passion with Dorian, when she is possessed by the demon that haunts them... and who has ties to the Master who controls Mina.
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#9 - Grand Guignol
Penny Dreadful - Season 1 - Episode 8
After a vision of the Grand Guignol, Vanessa, Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Dr. Frankenstein and Sembene explore an empty theater - only to be confronted by their worst nightmares.
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#10 - Glorious Horrors
Penny Dreadful - Season 2 - Episode 6
Vanessa and Ethan give Sir Malcolm tragic news; Lavinia Putney is disturbed by an encounter with the Creature; Roper hunts down Ethan; Dorian hosts a lavish ball in Angelique's honor; a glorious night turns to horror for Vanessa.
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#11 - Follies
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 6
Taverner and the Slow Horses attempt different approaches to locate the kidnappers and Hassan. Ho makes a shocking discovery about Sid.
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#12 - Einstein: Chapter Seven
Genius (2017) - Season 1 - Episode 7
In the wake of the war, patriotism corrupts one of Albert Einstein’s closest friends, Fritz Haber, pitting them against each other.
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#13 - Episode 3
Undercover (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 3
A mystery witness makes contact with Maya, forcing her to re-examine everything she thought she knew about the case - what has she missed? Maya must put the past to one side in order to fight the US authorities, but her return brings a disappointment and a revelation that'll rock her marriage to the core. Nick is thrown sideways when a ghost from his past approaches him. Faced with the possibility that his secret life is going to be blown open, Nick makes a fateful decision to protect his family. Meanwhile, in 1996, the efforts of Maya's journalist best friend to shine a light on the Antwi story is thwarted, illuminating the lengths to which the establishment will go to protect their own.
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#14 - Fresh Hell
Penny Dreadful - Season 2 - Episode 1
Vanessa Ives is barraged by an onslaught of disturbing occult images brought on by the mysterious Evelyn Poole. Because of the massacre he committed in the Mariner’s Inn, Ethan Chandler decides to leave London. Under pressure from The Creature, Dr. Frankenstein works to bring Brona back to life. After Mina’s funeral, Sir Malcolm returns to London to discover that a whole new evil is hunting Vanessa.
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#15 - 994 Cars Long
Snowpiercer - Season 1 - Episode 10
In the revolution's aftermath, Layton and Melanie realize the greatest threat to their survival is right over their shoulder.
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#16 - School Reunion
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 3
A London school is haunted by strange, bat-like creatures at night. When the Doctor investigates, he finds an old friend, Sarah Jane Smith, already working undercover. As they confront their past, Rose discovers the true legacy of being a Time Lord's companion.
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#17 - The Train Demanded Blood
Snowpiercer - Season 1 - Episode 9
The rebel forces are on their heels when a dangerous foe joins them. A plan is hatched to take the train, but it may destroy them all.
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#18 - Verbis Diablo
Penny Dreadful - Season 2 - Episode 2
Haunted by the witches, Vanessa seeks solace from Sir Malcolm. Scotland Yard Inspector Rusk searches for the sole survivor of the Mariner’s Inn Massacre. Evelyn Poole enchants Sir Malcolm. Dr. Frankenstein gives the re-born Brona a new identity. The Creature gets a new job. Dorian Gray meets an intriguing woman with a secret. Ferdinand Lyle reveals the disturbing backstory of the Verbis Diablo. Evelyn’s daughter, Hecate, hunts down a prize for her mother.
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#19 - Einstein: Chapter Six
Genius (2017) - Season 1 - Episode 6
Einstein moves his family for work, and to be closer to his new love, Elsa. He sets out to prove his theory as his marriage reaches a breaking point.
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The Mill - Season 1 - Episode 2
Esther Price shows up at at court in Manchester after having assaulted her overseer, Charlie Crout. Apprentice house manager Mr Timperley has been sent to the workhouse in Liverpool to collect a replacement apprentice and comes back two sisters called Lucy and Catherine Garner.
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#21 - Episode 2
Undercover (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 2
As Maya continues her fight to 'Go big', members of the establishment begin to fear the rigorous light she threatens to shine on areas they'd prefer to remain in the shadows. Elsewhere, sickened by his act of betrayal, Nick can only reflect on the actions that led him to this point. We join Nick in 1996 as a fearless undercover officer. When his hard work is undermined by a radical young lawyer, Nick is furious. Soon after he finds himself face to face with the lawyer, Maya, on his next assignment - spying on an anti-racist organisation. Nick struggles to keep the professional and the personal separate when his feelings for Maya develop and he questions his own beliefs as a black man within the police force. When a seemingly peaceful march gets out of hand, Antwi is attacked in a ferocious fight. Can he survive?
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#22 - Fiasco
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 5
The Slow Horses must disappear to avoid capture by MI5. Lamb and River head to The Park to outwit Taverner.
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#23 - New Earth
Doctor Who (2005) - Season 2 - Episode 1
The Doctor and Rose Tyler board the Tardis for new adventures in time and space. When they visit mankind's new home, far in the future, they find gruesome secrets hidden inside a luxury hospital. An enemy thought long dead, the paper-thin Cassandra, is out for revenge.
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#24 - Bad Tradecraft
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 3
Slough House is the unlikely venue for a secret romance, but events take a dark turn when a dangerous encounter becomes deadly.
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#25 - These Bloody Thoughts
The Alienist - Season 1 - Episode 4
Kreizler and Sara discuss the capacity to kill. Moore goes on a date. Byrnes and Captain Connor keep an eye on a potential suspect. Roosevelt finds himself under public scrutiny.
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#26 - Visiting Hours
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 4
Taverner sends the Dogs to hunt down Lamb and the Slow Horses. River holds the secret to saving the gang.
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The Mill - Season 1 - Episode 1
During the 1830s, children worked 12-hour shifts in the mills, and the new class of mill-owning families prospered. A third of the workforce at Quarry Bank are apprentices, sold by different workhouses to the Greg family. The apprentices have no choice but to work at the mill until they reach adulthood.
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#28 - Hildebrandt's Starling
The Alienist - Season 1 - Episode 5
The team learns more about the killer. Moore and Sara share an intimate moment. Kreizler seeks advice from an old mentor. Roosevelt takes action.
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#31 - Umbilical
Raised by Wolves (2020) - Season 1 - Episode 9
Determined to keep the children safe, Sue grapples with whether or not she can trust Mother. Meanwhile, Tempest confronts her trauma, Hunter continues his attempts to restore Father, and when a new threat arises, the Mithraic begin to question an increasingly erratic Marcus.
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#33 - The Dragon's Call
Merlin - Season 1 - Episode 1
Merlin is told by the Great Dragon that it is his destiny to make sure that the young Prince Arthur is kept safe. Anybody caught performing magic is punished with death and Merlin is not a fan of Arthur. When Arthur's life is endangered Merlin finds himself tested.
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#35 - Work Drinks
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 2
River and Sid join forces. A misfired gun has dire consequences.
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#38 - First, the Weather Changed
Snowpiercer - Season 1 - Episode 1
Snowpiercer, the great ark train, circles a frozen earth keeping humanity's last survivors until a murder onboard threatens the established order.
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#39 - Failure's Contagious
Slow Horses - Season 1 - Episode 1
River Cartwright is ousted from MI5 and finds himself in a place worse than purgatory: Slough House, dumping ground for failed spies.
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#40 - Smithereens
Black Mirror - Season 5 - Episode 2
A London rideshare driver ignites an international crisis when he kidnaps a worker from a social media company.
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#41 - Episode 1
Undercover (2016) - Season 1 - Episode 1
For the past twenty years Maya Cobbina has defended Rudy Jones, a man falsely imprisoned for murder. Today he is to be executed by lethal injection in Louisiana. Rudy's parting words are "Go big" - he wants her to change the system that allows such injustices to occur. With Rudy's appeal ringing in her ears, Maya returns to London and discovers that she's been pegged to take the role of director of public prosecutions, a prominent position that might allow her to finally bring to justice the death of her friend Michael Antwi, a charismatic anti-racism campaigner. Maya's husband Nick Johnson is a man dedicated to his wife and children. When a hidden past threatens to destroy his world, to what lengths will he go to protect his family?
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#43 - Staying Alive (1)
Holby City - Season 1 - Episode 8
Sunny Sunderland enters a radio phone-in competition, winning a large sum of money - for charity. Victoria Merrick risks throwing away her medical career by continuing taking drugs. Muriel McKendrick finds the ideal recipient for her latest breakthrough in medical procedures - unfortunately, the patient is a former colleague, who passes on some revealing insights into McKenrick's past to Kirstie Collins, much to Collins's delight. Two visiting friends of a young patient, Darren Ingram, deliberately disturb his medical equipment, with near fatal results. When they steal some drugs, they are chased by Jasmine Hopkins, and they stab her in order to escape.
#44 - Never Judge a Book...
Holby City - Season 1 - Episode 5
Nick Jordan has to assist Anton Meyer on a heart operation on a new-born baby, but he expresses his reservations to him. Julie Fitzjohn helps a young mother with a heart-breaking dilemma. Meanwhile, the pressure is building on house officer Victoria Merrick, after she saves the life of a patient, Chris Woodhouse, and she resorts to taking drugs at work.
#45 - Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World
PBS Specials - Season 2003 - Episode 10
Courage, guilt, betrayal and triumph; the story of T.E. Lawrence has it all. How one man inspired an Arab army but could not prevent their betrayal. Filmed in England and the Middle East, this two-hour epic charts the real-life story of a twentieth century hero.
#46 - You Pays Your Money
The Bill - Season 14 - Episode 2
A family are strangely silent about the death of their landlord.