For me, the greatest pilot ever is Friday Night Lights. I love the rest of S1 of FNL (and the other seasons, to varying degrees), but I think the pilot is is a world of its own - Jason's injury and the devastating consequences are so unexpected and daring for the first episode of a show, and I always think of it as…

There was a BBC series of The Canterbury Tales a few years ago which used modern settings and "contemporary issues" (refugee status, etc.) - hopefully a few courtroom scenes were included! http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

"I'm a vegetarian sometimes". Poor Betty, politely trying to conceal the fact that her husband's drunken boss is eating her dinner. Of course, that's the best part of the evening, as far as her lot goes.

When Angel turned up in Forever, to comfort Buffy after Joyce's funeral, she must have told him all about Dawn and, let's say, brought him back to her house, where he met Dawn. Dawn, of course, knows Angel - she remarks to Reilly that when Buffy and Angel were together there was drama and crying and passion. So it's…

One thing that isn't mentioned in the reviews, but, for me, contributes to the spooky quality of the angels, is that the Doctor is one of their victims (I hope I'm remembering this correctly): he and Martha have been zapped into the past by the angels and are thus separated from the Tardis. That adds to the fright of…

Sapphire and Steel. Whether or not it was intended to be the final story, it's a chilling and haunting ending, with Sapphire and Steel apparently trapped in that motorway caff for ever.

The part played by Laura Fraser in Julie Taymor's 1999 film Titus!

Great film - very disturbing. It can be taken as a depiction of the aftermath of an assault or a rape (the characters have been mind-raped by the thief, after all, and their bodies violated) or a burglary, and it brilliantly captures the sense of wrongness that people feel after such a traumatic event and the anger…