The Big Man Coughed and Died
Apr 13, 1966Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.
TV Movie
Larry Noble
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Up the Creek
May 13, 1958Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
Comedy
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Mar 31, 1983Dans les jours sombres de 1983, la Crimson Permanent Assurance, une société de comptables composée de travailleurs âgés, un peu comme un navire négrier, a été reprise par des entreprises soucieuses d'efficacité. Quand ils licencient un employé, il y a un soulèvement, et le bâtiment est libéré de ses amarres pour traverser l'océan (sec) et s'attaquer aux centres financiers du monde, en commençant par une attaque générale contre le grand gratte-ciel de The Very Big Corporation of America, avec ses canons pour classeurs, ses épée à ventilateur au plafond et ses épée à broche de papier.
Comedy
Further Up the Creek
Oct 28, 1958The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Comedy
Thark
Dec 22, 1957As legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow arranges for her large country house, Thark, to be sold to the nouveau riche Mrs Frush. Frush reports that the house is haunted and all and sundry investigate.
Comedy
The Return of the Soldier
Jan 06, 1983The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Drama
Not Wanted on Voyage
Nov 01, 1957The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated chief steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Brough and her secretary Pat. Soon Mrs. Broughs’ jewels are stolen…
Comedy
Reluctant Heroes
Feb 11, 1952This comedy is set in an army boot camp. It displays a drill sergeant who must somehow turn an inept group of recruits into real soldiers.
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
Justice
Aug 16, 1974Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Drama
Blake's 7
Dec 21, 1981A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
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
Quatermass
Nov 14, 1979In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
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
Man from Interpol
Oct 22, 1960From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in waif for Special Agent Smith. "MAN FROM INTERPOL" is a weekly adventure series starring Richard Wyler as Anthony Smith, special agent in Scotland Yard's Interpol Division, a member ol the world's mightiest international police organization. Working together, the member nations of Interpol wage a relentless war against International crime. In the thick of the most dangerous maneuvers of criminal society, Smith and others like him in many countries, work alone and then pool their efforts to bring international criminals to justice.
Drama
