All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring James Fleet, ranked

In 1945, former World War II nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank are visiting Inverness, Scotland, when she is carried from the standing stones at Craigh na Dun back in time to 1743. She falls in with a group of rebel Highlanders from Clan MacKenzie, who are being pursued by British redcoats led by Captain Jonathan Randall, who turns out to be Frank’s ancestor. Knowing that the Jacobite cause is doomed to fail, Claire tries to warn them against rebellion.

In 1919, a public auction is held to clear an abandoned opera theatre’s vaults in Paris. Viscount Raoul de Chagny bids against the elderly Madame Giry for a papier-mâché music box shaped like a barrel organ with the figure of a cymbal-playing monkey attached to it. The auctioneer presents a shattered chandelier, relating it to ‘the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera’. As it is hoisted up to the roof, the story moves back to 1870.

Taking place amid the London Blitz of 1940, this is a realm where individuals embrace the present moment. It is also a domain where criminals exploit the blackout and chaos to conceal their most sinister activities.

A World War II drama that follows the story of a young Scottish woman named Charlotte Gray, who becomes a spy for the British government after her lover, a Royal Air Force pilot, goes missing during a mission in France.

An ambitious butler harbors intentions for both his master’s affluent estate and the mistress. To secure everything he desires, he hatches a plan to frame his master for a murder.

The series is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. Set in the fictional Discworld’s principal city of Ankh-Morpork, The Watch was described by Terry Pratchett in 2012 as a Pratchett-style CSI; it was to have an episodic storyline, following the format of a crime of the week as tackled by the city’s police force under the command of Sam Vimes.