Philip Bird

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Shakespeare's Globe: As You Like It
8
Thea Sharrock's irresistible 2009 production of Shakespeare's popular romantic comedy stirs wit, sentiment, intrigue and love into a charming confection which challenges the traditional rules of romance. At its heart, a feisty but feminine Rosalind (Naomi Frederick), in love with the endearingly naïve Orlando (Jack Laskey), uses her disguise as Ganymede to counsel him playfully in the art of wooing. Distraction is provided by Dominic Rowan, a remarkably funny Touchstone, and Tim McMullan, whose sonorous tones are perfectly suited to the lugubrious wit of Jaques. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.
Comedy
Virtual Sexuality
5.2

Virtual Sexuality

Jul 02, 1999
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Comedy
Northanger Abbey
5.7

Northanger Abbey

Feb 15, 1987
A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting, remastered dramatization captures the romance of Jane Austin's classic novel "Northanger Abbey".
Drama
Wet Job
4.5

Wet Job

Sep 02, 1981
S.I.S. agent David Callan is brought out of retirement for one last assignment.
Drama
Imagine Me & You
7.6

Imagine Me & You

Jan 27, 2006
Le mariage de Rachel et de Heck s'annonce comme le plus beau jour de leur vie. Tout est parfait. Pourtant, l'heure venue, il suffit d'un regard pour que Rachel tombe irrémédiablement amoureuse... mais pas de celui qu'elle doit épouser. Certains sentiments vous dépassent, vous submergent et font exploser tous les plans prévus. Contre ceux qu'elle aime, contre les préjugés, contre elle-même, Rachel va vivre la plus incroyable des aventures, celle que l'on n'attend jamais mais que l'on espère toujours...
Drama
Sweet As You Are
1

Sweet As You Are

Jan 24, 1988
A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.
Drama
Mises en scène
1

Mises en scène

Jun 13, 1997
Trois amies en vacances se serrent les coudes quand l'une d'entre elles les inscrit en cachette à un concours de talents pour impressionner un homme.
Comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor
5.7
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
Comedy
Fresh Fields
6.6

Fresh Fields

Oct 23, 1986
Fresh Fields is a British situation comedy written by John T. Chapman and produced by Thames Television for ITV between 7 March 1984 and 23 October 1986. A ratings success at the time, the show is well remembered for its opening titles featuring a silhouette of a person in a rocking chair. It stars Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers as Hester and William Fields, a devoted middle-class couple with an idyllic suburban lifestyle. William works while Hester keeps home. The crux of the show was that she was always looking to try new hobbies or find ways to improve her life, much of which exasperated her hard-working husband. The family home had a granny flat attached, in which Hester's mother Nancy lived. She was divorced from Hester's father Guy although remarried him as the series progressed. The couple had a daughter called Emma who frequently telephoned but never appeared. Her husband Peter did appear often. They later had a son — the Fields' first grandchild — whom they named Guy, after his great-grandfather. Perhaps, the best remembered supporting character was Sonia Barrett who would frequently pop round to borrow items to replace hers due to breakage, theft or mislaying. Hester was not perturbed by this, as the two were close friends, but it used to irritate William. Sonia had the show's only catchphrase — she would always knock on the back door of the Fields' home and then say It's only Sonia! as she walked in. This would sometimes lead to applause of recognition from the studio audience, a phenomenon more regularly seen within American sitcoms. Sonia's husband John appeared on occasion, as did William's secretary Miss Denham, played by Daphne Oxenford.
Comedy
The Wild House
1

The Wild House

Mar 31, 1999
The Wild House was a serialised children's programme produced between 1997 and 1999 broadcast by the BBC. The idea was created by Jean Buchanan, and later series were written partially by Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It follows the life of Natalie Wild and the other members of the Wild family.
Kids
French Fields
7.2

French Fields

Oct 08, 1991
French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. The series starred Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as husband and wife William and Hester Fields and followed the series Fresh Fields, which ran from 7 March 1984 to 23 October 1986. At the end of the last series of Fresh Fields, William accepted a position with a French company. French Fields follows Hester and William after they make the move to Calais. Other regular cast included their French real estate agent Chantal, who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left. On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux, an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles — where they all lived. Also, popping in on a regular basis, were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax and his daughter Marie-Christine, to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the Marquis.
Comedy
Tripper's Day
3

Tripper's Day

Oct 29, 1984
Tripper's Day is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV. The plot involved Leonard Rossiter as Norman Tripper, a Northern manager assigned to a London supermarket with a problematic staff. The programme is largely remembered for the negative critical reviews it received, and mainly for the fact that it was Rossiter's final television work, the actor dying between the broadcast of the second and third episodes. The series was brought back two years later with Bruce Forsyth in the lead role, under the new title Slinger's Day. In Canada and United States the series had a remake under the title Check it Out!, whilst in Sweden, comical duo Stefan & Krister starred in Full Frys, a TV series largely based on Tripper's Day and Check it Out!.
Comedy
Slinger's Day
5

Slinger's Day

Oct 14, 1987
Slinger's Day is a British sitcom that aired for two series from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of Tripper's Day, which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter's death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff. Like Tripper's Day, it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and Sorry! creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Slinger's Day represented Forsyth's only ever situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up routines and gameshows.
Comedy
Sapphire & Steel
7.4

Sapphire & Steel

Aug 31, 1982
Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read. In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.
Drama
Campion
5.6

Campion

Mar 16, 1990
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
Mystery
The Royal
7.6

The Royal

Jul 31, 2011
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Drama
Heartbeat
7

Heartbeat

Sep 05, 2010
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
Inspecteur Barnaby
7.6

Inspecteur Barnaby

Jul 23, 2024
L'inspecteur Barnaby, accompagné de son adjoint, enquêtent sur les crimes commis dans la région anglaise fictive du Midsomer...
Crime
Call the Midwife
7.5

Call the Midwife

Mar 03, 2024
East End, Londres, 1957. Sage-femme fraîchement diplômée, la jeune Jenny Lee s'apprête à entrer dans la vie active. Mais en lieu et place de l'hôpital où elle croit avoir été embauchée, c'est un couvent qui l'attend : Nonnatus House. Elle va y découvrir l'âpre réalité d'un quartier défavorisé, mais aussi faire la connaissance de femmes qui sont de véritables héroïnes.
Drama
Year of the Rabbit
7.2

Year of the Rabbit

Jul 15, 2019
Londres, 1887. L’inspecteur Rabbit, qui s'emploie à combattre la criminalité depuis de nombreuses années, n’est plus tout jeune. Et pour cause, son cœur cesse de battre à des moments inopportuns. Son supérieur, l’inspecteur en chef Wisbech, lui assigne alors un partenaire. Fraîchement sorti de Cambridge, le jeune sergent Strauss, malgré tout son enthousiasme, n'a pas l'expérience du terrain. Très vite, Mabel, la fille du chef de police, qui ambitionne de devenir la première femme officier, leur prête main forte.
Comedy
Heartbeat
7

Heartbeat

Sep 05, 2010
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
The Fades
7.2

The Fades

Oct 26, 2011
Paul est hanté par d'épouvantables cauchemars, et ni son thérapeute ni son meilleur ami, Mac, sont en mesure de l'aider. Pire, le jeune homme commence à voir les fantômes des morts partout, quand l'un des esprits - avide de vengeance - trouve une brèche dans la barrière qui sépare le monde des vivants et celui des morts. Mac et Paul réalisent qu'il leur faut intervenir pour empêcher les fantômes de semer le trouble !
Drama
Inspecteur Barnaby
7.6

Inspecteur Barnaby

Jul 23, 2024
L'inspecteur Barnaby, accompagné de son adjoint, enquêtent sur les crimes commis dans la région anglaise fictive du Midsomer...
Crime
Reilly: Ace of Spies
7.1

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Nov 16, 1983
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
Crime
Agatha Christie - Dix brèves rencontres
6.714
Dix brèves rencontres est un recueil de dix drames basés sur des nouvelles de la romancière la plus populaire de l'histoire. Mettant en vedette un mélange enivrant de romance, d'aventure surnaturelle et passionnante, les épisodes mettent tous en valeur le flair inégalé de Christie pour le dramatique. Avec des stars invitées telles que John Nettles, Roy Kinnear, Amanda Redman, Rupert Everett et Cherie Lunghi, les épisodes de cet ensemble sont:
Action & Adventure
Murder in Mind
8.4

Murder in Mind

Jun 29, 2003
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Drama