The Silent Playground
Dec 31, 1963Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
Thriller
Mollie Maureen
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Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Jan 01, 1986Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
Comedy
Our Lady Blue
Aug 12, 1987In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.
Drama
L'Héritier de la Panthère rose
Aug 12, 1983L’inspecteur Clouseau étant toujours absent, le Président français ordonne à son cinglé de supérieur hiérarchique, l’inspecteur en chef Dreyfus, de le retrouver. N’ayant aucune intention de le rechercher, Dreyfus imagine alors un plan presque parfait : il s’octroie les services du plus mauvais des détectives de New York pour retrouver la trace de Clouseau et s’assurer ainsi qu’il ne le reverra jamais. Mais son plan idyllique va vite tourner au cauchemar…
Comedy
La Dépravée
Apr 21, 1983Sir Ralph Skelton est sur un petit nuage. Il va se marier avec une jolie jeune fille à peine sortie de l'enfance dont il s'est occupé depuis sa prime jeunesse et qui porte le doux nom de Caroline. Tout irait pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes des petits nobliaux d'Angleterre s'il n'avait fallu que sa belle pucelle invite une amie à elle pour son mariage. Cette superbe femelle aux yeux verts est une sacrée arriviste et la pauvre Caroline se contentera de laisser sa place de Lady Skelton à sa meilleure amie. Cette dernière, à peine mariée, tombe follement amoureuse d'un superbe séducteur du nom de Kit. Elle se résout mal à sa vie campagnarde auprès de ce généreux propriétaire terrien qui lui sert de mari et la plus petite occasion fera d'elle un détrousseur de grand chemin. Oui, mais, voilà, elle est sur le territoire du brigand légendaire Jerry Jackson... Brigand, oui, mais brigand au grand cœur.
Drama
Little Dorrit
Dec 11, 1987A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film originally released in two parts.
Drama
Hands
Aug 20, 1980Pam receives an unusual birthday present from her 23 year old daughter, `The Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'.
La Vie privée de Sherlock Holmes
Oct 29, 1970Dans leur appartement de Baker Street, Holmes et Watson voient arriver une jeune veuve sauvée des eaux de la Tamise. Se nommant Gabrielle Valladon, cette dernière semble amnésique mais va vite retrouver la mémoire. Le fin limier et son équipier vont être entraînés dans une enquête hors du commun, où ils croiseront Mycroft Holmes, le frère de Sherlock, la reine Victoria et le monstre du Loch Ness.
Mystery
The Corvini Inheritance
Oct 15, 1984Unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed jewel that's being auctioned. Is he losing his mind or is the curse real?
Drama
The Orchard End Murder
Nov 01, 1981Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Comedy
Le Retour de la Panthère rose
May 21, 1975La Panthère rose, c'est le plus gros diamant du monde volé par un mystérieux personnage vêtu de noir. L'inspecteur Clouseau est à nouveau sur les dents.
Comedy
Kill Me Tomorrow
May 01, 1957A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Crime
Callan
May 23, 1974David Callan, agent secret, est rappelé au service après sa retraite, pour s'occuper de l'assassinat d'un homme d'affaires allemand, mais Callan refuse de coopérer jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre pourquoi cet homme est marqué pour la mort.
Thriller
Chance of a Lifetime
Jan 03, 1980Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.
Drama
Liza
Mar 28, 1978Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time
Sep 01, 1969When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!
Family
Shoestring
Dec 21, 1980Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station.
The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
Drama
The Venturers
Mar 11, 1975The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975.
The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients.
Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire.
The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
Drama
Please Sir!
Feb 26, 1972Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
Comedy
No Hiding Place
Jun 22, 1967No 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
Histoires Singulières
May 09, 1986Une anthologie d'histoires fantastiques et horrifiques, mêlant exorcisme, parapsychologie et satanisme.
Mystery
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Jan 18, 1988
The Edwardians
Jan 09, 1973It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".
Drama
Last of the Summer Wine
Aug 29, 2010Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
Comedy
Crown Court
Feb 02, 1984Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
All Creatures Great and Small
Nov 17, 1990Les 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
Public Eye
Apr 07, 1975Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Crime
Danger UXB
Apr 02, 1979Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers.
The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz has been made a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes.
The programme was titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London.
The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television.
Drama
The Comic Strip Presents...
Jan 20, 2016The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
Comedy
The Comic Strip Presents...
Jan 20, 2016The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
Comedy
Sykes
Nov 16, 1979Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.
Comedy
The Sweeney
Dec 28, 1978Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Action & Adventure
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
