Robert Hartley
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At the Stroke of Nine
Jun 01, 1957A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
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The Bass Player and the Blonde
Jun 14, 1977George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an engagement with Mrs Merino, a wealthy older woman, while on the run and owing money to gangsters who are after him for debts he owes them, life is not great for George. But it gets even more complicated when he literally bumps into Terry Weston, daughter of gangster Charlie Weston, who has run away from home with her marriage to the rich but nerdy Nigel only a few days away. Little do either realize just what trouble and turmoil lays ahead for both of them...
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Oct 01, 1969A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
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The Main Chance
Jul 11, 1975The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Feb 05, 1970Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes together with his dignified and magnetic performance as the mighty monarch.
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The Caesars
Oct 27, 1968The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
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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.
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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.
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Grange Hill
Sep 15, 2008Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
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Maîtres et Valets
Dec 21, 1975A l'étage : les riches et aristocratiques Bellamys. En bas : leurs fidèles et vifs serviteurs. Pendant près de 30 ans, ils partagent une maison de ville à la mode au 165 Eaton Place dans le quartier chic de Belgravia à Londres, survivant aux changements sociaux, aux bouleversements politiques, aux scandales et aux horreurs de la Première Guerre mondiale.
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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.
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Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
May 07, 1973Sherlock Holmes n'était pas le seul détective au travail à la fin de l'Angleterre victorienne. D'autres, parfois honnêtes, parfois peu dignes de confiance, mais tous très compétents, étaient à l'œuvre dans toute l'Angleterre, et aussi dans la vieille Europe. Dans chacun des 26 épisodes de cette série, un nouveau crime est mis en scène et un nouveau détective (rival de Sherlock Holmes) est chargé de le résoudre.
Crime
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
May 07, 1973Sherlock Holmes n'était pas le seul détective au travail à la fin de l'Angleterre victorienne. D'autres, parfois honnêtes, parfois peu dignes de confiance, mais tous très compétents, étaient à l'œuvre dans toute l'Angleterre, et aussi dans la vieille Europe. Dans chacun des 26 épisodes de cette série, un nouveau crime est mis en scène et un nouveau détective (rival de Sherlock Holmes) est chargé de le résoudre.
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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
The Onedin Line
Oct 26, 1980The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham.
The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
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