The BEST episodes directed by Rodney Bennett
#1 - The Verger
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 9 - Episode 4
Albert and Milly Dobson have given sixteen years of devoted service to their parish church, but a new Vicar arrives who does not like the old ways and has little time for the Dobsons. Following radical changes, a secret Albert has hidden for years causes consternation. In defiance, the couple build a new life... Of course, God moves in mysterious ways.
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#2 - Rumpole's Last Case
Rumpole of the Bailey - Season 4 - Episode 6
The Timsons are in trouble again, and in need of the services of their favourite 'brief'. The old firm is back in business, but as he unravels the mystery of who carried the gun in a bungled robbery Rumpole is unaccountably wearying of it all. After investing with his turf accountant on a valuable four-horse accumulator, Rumpole makes up his mind that it's time to hang up his wig for the last time - but not before telling a few home truths to his old adversary, Mr Justice 'Mad Bull' Bullingham. Meanwhile, the gods have ideas of their own. Hearthstoke is still giving Henry and Dianne a rough time and he even contrives to infuriate Phyllida.
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#3 - Rumpole and the Official Secret
Rumpole of the Bailey - Season 4 - Episode 3
Rumpole defends an elderly woman charged under the Official Secrets Act - she is claimed to have have leaked (so to speak) information revealing excessive British government expenditure on tea.
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#4 - The Ark in Space (4)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 8
The Doctor tries to protect the humans still in cryogenic suspension from the Wirrn, who are determined to use Earth as their new breeding ground.
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#5 - The Ark in Space (2)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 6
Deep space, the distant future: following Earth's devastation by solar flares, the survivors of mankind are in cryogenic suspension aboard the Nerva Beacon space station. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on board and are greeted with suspicion by the awakening survivors… just as the menace of the insectoid Wirrn becomes apparent.
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#6 - The Ark in Space (3)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 7
Knowing that Noah has been infected by the Wirrn, the Doctor persuades Vira to halt the reviving of her people, knowing it will place them in danger as well.
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#7 - The Sontaran Experiment (2)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 10
Earth, the distant future. Beaming down from the Nerva Beacon, the Doctor and his friends discover Earth is habitable once more. Unfortunately a Sontaran officer is conducting tests on a group of human colonists to determine their ability to withstand a full-scale invasion...
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#8 - The Ark in Space (1)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 5
Deep space, the distant future: following Earth's devastation by solar flares, the survivors of mankind are in cryogenic suspension aboard the Nerva Beacon space station. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on board to find the station suffering from mysterious damage and some manner of creature at large…
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#9 - The Sontaran Experiment (1)
Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 9
Earth, the distant future. Beaming down from the Nerva Beacon, the Doctor and his friends discover Earth is habitable once more. Unfortunately a robot is capturing a group of human soldiers on behalf of its mysterious alien master...
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#10 - Episode Two
The House of Eliott - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Eliott sisters are coming to terms with the lose of their father but the are still struggling for money.
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#11 - The Masque of Mandragora (4)
Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 4
Italy, 1492. As the leading scholars of the era assemble in the palace for the masque, Mandragora prepares to attack, intent on sending the world into a new dark age.
#12 - Episode One
The House of Eliott - Season 1 - Episode 1
In the spring of 1920, Beatrice and Evangeline Elliott are aghast to find that their late father has left them nearly penniless. They had always assumed that their father, a successful physician, was well-off but they learn that he also had a secret life and spent most of his fortune. The immediate problem is financial as they search for work but their father had forced them to live a very sheltered life and they're really not qualified to do much of anything. Through good luck, a new friend introduces them to her brother, Jack Maddox, a well-known society photographer who is in need of a receptionist
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#13 - The Masque of Mandragora (1)
Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 1
Italy, 1492. The Doctor and Sarah arrive in Renaissance Italy unaware that they have brought a deadly alien energy force with them.
#14 - The Masque of Mandragora (3)
Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 3
Italy, 1492. Tempted by the promises of ultimate power offered by Mandragora, Hieronymous plots to eliminate the threat posed by the Doctor and uses an unwitting Sarah as his weapon.
#15 - The Masque of Mandragora (2)
Doctor Who - Season 14 - Episode 2
Italy, 1492. The Mandragora Helix establishes its power base with the Brotherhood of Demnos, while Count Federico plots against his nephew Giuliano, unaware of the danger that threatens them all.
#16 - Edward the Conqueror
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 1 - Episode 7
An elderly couple, Edward and Louisa, find their life invaded by a stray cat. The cat's knowledgeable response to Louisa's piano playing, and the pattern of warts on its face, convince her that pussy is a reincarnation of Franz Liszt, the composer. Liszt, the cat, does not trouble to conceal his dislike for Edward, who is becoming dangerously jealous...
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#17 - The Finger of Suspicion
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 9 - Episode 8
American safe-cracker Steve Baker is married to a beautiful Arab, and they are leading an idyllic life together in a Middle Eastern country - but then Steve is threatened with extradition for a crime he says he didn't commit.