Mary Hignett

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Les Femmes préhistoriques
5
Dans la jungle, l'éclaireur David Marchand est kidnappé par une tribu de natifs qui veulent le donner en sacrifice à leur roi, un rhinocéros blanc. Au moment d'être tué, il est projeté en arrière dans le temps, une époque où le royaume était dirigée par des brunes dotées d'esclaves blondes. David rejette les avances de la reine Kari et de ses acolytes et se retrouve enfermé dans un donjon. Trouvera t-il un moyen de rejoindre son époque ?
Adventure
If Only the Trains Came
1
Play based on a story by Chekhov. For Gromov, behind the bars of a mental ward, the railway is the one hope of escape. For the doctor in charge, Andrei, it is the link with civilisation which alone could rose him from the lethargy of life in provincial Russia.
The Winter Ladies
1

The Winter Ladies

May 15, 1979
When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.
Les démons de l'esprit
5.4
En Bavière, vers 1830. Victime des superstitions et se croyant frappé de malédiction après la mort horrible de sa femme, le comte Zorn a interdit à ses enfants de quitter le château. Il fait appel à un spécialiste en sciences occultes, ce qui ne manque d'effrayer les villageois. Poussés par un prêtre fanatique, ces derniers ne tardent pas à assiéger le château...
Horror
Adam Adamant Lives!
7.5

Adam Adamant Lives!

Mar 25, 1967
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.
Drama
Dixon of Dock Green
5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

May 01, 1976
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.
Drama
All Creatures Great and Small
7.7
Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon. Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.
Comedy
No Hiding Place
3.7

No Hiding Place

Jun 22, 1967
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Crime
The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
5.5
Earnest new recruit PC Penrose has left his home town and joined the force in the Yorkshire town of Slagcaster. He's young and naive but seasoned officer Sergeant Flagg takes him under his wing and shows him the ropes, though his methods can be a little unconventional.
Comedy
Whack-O!
1

Whack-O!

Dec 15, 1959
Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972. The series ran on the BBC from 1956 to 1960 and from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school. The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle the children out of their pocket money to finance his many schemes.
Doomwatch
5.7

Doomwatch

Dec 16, 1999
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Drama