The BEST episodes directed by Patrick Lau

#1 - Episode 11

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 3 - Episode 11

As Mischief Night approaches Fisher Bloom returns, intent on winning Laura back.

#2 - Episode 4

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 3 - Episode 4

When an epidemic hits Lark Rise during harvest time, help comes from an unlikely source.

#3 - Episode 10

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 2 - Episode 10

Patterson's wife is struck with illness, and gives him permission to seek a new wife.

#4 - Episode 4

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 4 - Episode 4

The locals celebrate the arrival of the fair, while Dorcas struggles to cope with Gabriel.

#5 - Episode 10

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 3 - Episode 10

When Mrs Mullins discovers Emily is pregnant, she assumes that Daniel is the father.

#6 - Episode 3

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 3 - Episode 3

Alf throws a party to celebrate moving into a cottage of his own.

#7 - The Man with the Twisted Lip

Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 6

Neville St Clair works in the City of London and is a man of very regular and respectable habits. One day, his wife goes into town for lunch and is shocked to see her husband in the window of an opium den. That evening, he fails to return home, and Mrs St Clair decides to consult Holmes.

#8 - Houdini's Ghost (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 2

Dalziel is crushed by betrayal and his own naivety when faced with the cover up of the mass murder of innocent people. Will Pascoe be there to pick up the pieces?

#9 - Shoscombe Old Place

Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 5 - Episode 3

Sir Robert Norberton stakes a huge amount (much of it borrrowed) on his horse Shoscombe Prince winning a race. His trainer thinks Sir Robert has gone mad and consults Holmes. Then one of the many creditors disappears and human bone is found in a furnace...

#10 - Houdini's Ghost (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 10 - Episode 1

An old flame causes a rift between Dalziel and Pascoe following the death of a powerful entrepreneur.

#11 - A Game of Soldiers

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 8 - Episode 1

An American woman tracing her family appears in a graveyard. The only person she meets is the gravedigger. Next time she's seen she is found dead by a bunch of squaddies. Dalziel comes to investigate and bumps into another old flame, Jenny Ettrick. Later, one of the squaddies kills himself after being harassed by his sergeant As Dalziel starts investigating, they find that the victim may have drunk in the squaddies bar. Another squaddie turns up dead and while investigating that murder they find out that there might be a case of mistaken identity

#12 - Dialogues of the Dead (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 7 - Episode 5

Wetherton CID struggles to track down a serial killer with a penchant for words, as Messrs Dalziel and Pascoe take on their most puzzling and challenging case to date. The sublimely confident killer leaves a dialogue for the police to find after each murder. These chilling documents, carefully written and lovingly illustrated, describe each killing in detail and, at the same time, are strewn with tantalising hints and clues. To celebrate the opening of a refurbished library and a new Heritage Centre, a short story competition is attracting reams of entries, one of which is so graphic that it prompts the police to revise their initial views of a recent fatal accident. This is just the first dialogue: worse is to come as the cocky killer starts writing about and executing a series of murders, in front of the police. So begins a desperate game of cat and mouse between a sinister killer and an increasingly concerned and apprehensive Dalziel and Pascoe, for whom the murders are getting agon

#13 - Death by Water (1)

Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 3

Now Sam has left, Leo is faced with the decision of whether to take over her job as Professor. Meanwhile he and Harry clash over an investigation when they look into an outbreak of disease among school children on the South Coast.

#14 - The Unwanted

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 7 - Episode 1

Pascoe returns home for the grand country wedding of a school friend. Soldier Ian Henslowe is marrying Jill Lowry, favourite daughter of wealthy farmer Ted Lowry. The reception is disrupted by the discovery of a dead body in the Lowry's pig sheds. The victim is Ian's best friend, fellow soldier Martin Wilkie. Dalziel, who's just returned from a hospital check-up for his dodgy heart, arrives to investigate. Ian's devastated when Jill admits that she was having an affair with Wilkie. Dalziel and Pascoe visit Wilkie's regiment and his home, only to find that it has just been ransacked and set on fire by an intruder; Dalziel tells Pascoe he is too close to the suspects to stay on the case; instead he can remain at his parents' and hope to pick up gossip. Pascoe does not get on with his father, who has always resented his son's decision not to go into farming, especially after the recent hardships of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. Instead, Bill Pascoe has relied for help on Pascoe's cousin, T

#15 - Let the Games Commence

Robin Hood - Season 3 - Episode 5

Gisborne returns with Prince John's Elite Guards and a secret new weapon. Little John finds himself separated from the others and ends up in a Gladiator circus. Robin finds himself helping a mysterious woman.

#16 - Episode 3

Lark Rise to Candleford - Season 4 - Episode 3

Thomas is euphoric when he lands the job of organising the church bazaar.

#17 - Dead Meat (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 4

Dalziel is determined to prove the missing Lord Harper is still alive. Pascoe is convinced the tigers are hiding something.

#18 - Dead Meat (1)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 9 - Episode 3

Tigers at a private zoo are being fed a diet of human flesh. Could it be something to do with the mysterious Lord Harper who disappeared 20 years ago?

#19 - Only the Dead

Invasion: Earth - Season 1 - Episode 3

While they manage to get some of the UFO's systems working, the pilot finally tells his story.

#20 - Do You Love Me?

Robin Hood - Season 3 - Episode 6

Prince John causes mischief when he shows up in Nottingham. Gisborne and the Sheriff are assigned on a royal mission.

#21 - Death by Water (2)

Silent Witness - Season 8 - Episode 4

#22 - The Big Freeze

Hamish Macbeth - Season 1 - Episode 3

Major Maclean stages a robbery to make a false insurance claim. Before Hamish can settle things quietly, Inspector Bruce instigates a major surveillance operation.

#23 - Dialogues of the Dead (2)

Dalziel and Pascoe - Season 7 - Episode 6

#24 - Valentine Gautier

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Season 1 - Episode 2

Second of three feature-length dramas based on the character created by Baroness Orczy. The Pimpernel is called upon to track down Helene, the daughter of the Marquis de Rochambeau. However, Chauvelin is also looking for her, and so is Gabrielle Damiens, the head of the local revolutionary regime. Sooner or later, their paths are bound to cross. (A.K.A. "The Scarlet Pimpernel Meets Madame Guillotine.")

#25 - The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Season 1 - Episode 1

In 1793, the terror of the French Revolution is at its height, and the guillotines are busy. But a mysterious figure is staging daring rescues, and Citizen Chauvelin, the head of the Central Committee of Surveillance, is determined to discover his true identity, and uses a number of informants, including the popular actress Minette Roland. (A.K.A. "The Scarlet Pimpernel: Book 1.")

#26 - The Fourth Dimension

Invasion: Earth - Season 1 - Episode 2

After a yellow portal appears for a short time trying to drag in the UFO pilot, they decide to remove the implant discovered in his teeth. But as the implant is taken for analysis another portal appears which draws Friday, Tucker and three soldiers into it. Frustrated at his inability to stop it, Reece condones a brutal interrogation of the pilot.

#27 - The Last War

Invasion: Earth - Season 1 - Episode 1

A UFO is shot down over Scotland while it was sending a signal into space. Frustrated by the RAF cover-up, the pilot who downed the craft teams up with a scientist who caught its transmission to find out what craft was.