The 4 dramas Michael Bird wrote for the BBC in the 1970's that were all based in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Lotus Eaters, perhaps the best known of the four, is about British ex-pats on Crete.
Who Pays The Ferryman? came next and also takes place (and was filmed) on Crete. 30 years after WWII a former British soldier returns to Crete where he had been involved with a resistance group to find "ghosts from the past waiting for him".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Pays_the_Ferryman%3F
The Aphrodite Inheritence took place in Cyprus where "a man visiting Cyprus to investigate the death of his brother and subsequently being drawn into a strange conspiracy, with the narrative twists of the serial employing various supernatural and mythological motifs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aphrodite_Inheritance
These files are from a video tapes of an old UK Gold rebroadcast and it has never been commercially released.
The final program is one I posted here about a month ago. At the time I couldn't fnd much information about it. The Dark Side Of The Sun was set in Rhodes and you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Sun_%28television%29
As with the Aphrodite Inheritence, this is from old video tapes of a TV broadcast and it has never been commercially released.
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