Sling Your Hook
Apr 02, 1969A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
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Joe Gladwin
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La Force des Ténèbres
Mar 18, 1964Mrs. Bramson est une vieille lady percluse dans son fauteuil roulant, avec auprès d'elle sa nièce Olivia et une demoiselle de compagnie, Nora, fiancée à un dénommé Danny. Le jeune homme fait rapidement irruption dans la vie cloîtrée de ce petit monde et arrive, à force de séduction et de salamalecs, à s'imposer dans cet environnement fermé et féminin...
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Platonov
May 23, 1971The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
Drama
The Mind of Mr. Soames
Jul 01, 1970Un homme de 30 ans, dans le coma depuis sa naissance, est finalement revenu à la conscience par une opération cérébrale révolutionnaire. Bien que physiquement adulte, l'homme «renaît» avec les yeux d'un enfant; et les médecins qui s’occupent de lui doivent lui apprendre à marcher, parler et se préparer à la vie dans le monde extérieur. La tension monte alors qu'il s'échappe de l'hôpital, se promène parmi les gens qui ne se rendent pas compte de son identité et est poursuivi par la police.
Drama
Paper Roses
Jun 13, 1971Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
Drama
Les Petits Voleurs de Chevaux
May 26, 1976En 1909, la révolution industrielle fait rage en Angleterre et la mécanisation des industries est de plus en plus banale. Dans une petite ville minière du Yorkshire, lorsque le directeur de la compagnie décide de remplacer les chevaux de mine par des machines pour accélérer le rendement, les habitants ne voient pas d’objection au changement. Mais quand ce même directeur décide de se débarrasser des chevaux en les faisant abattre, trois enfants de la ville vont s’indigner et tout faire pour les mettre à l’abri.
Family
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Jan 09, 1972Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Comedy
All This, and Christmas Too!
Dec 24, 1971Sid's daughter may be pregnant, but he is more interested in catching a pesky mouse. Things are further complicated by visits from an assortment of strange neighbours and relatives.
Comedy
Initiation
Dec 30, 1974In a bookbinding factory, Nobby, the foreman, is the master of his domain. Hector, a young new recruit, struggles. Ted, about to retire, refuses to be intimidated. Lorna, a young female employee, attempts to help Hector, but Nobby has other ideas.
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.
Drama
Faith and Henry
Dec 06, 1969A coming of age story of an interracial relationship. Lancashire lad Henry finds himself attracted to Faith, an independent-thinking black school friend of Jamaican heritage in this captivating exploration of interracial friendship. Director Jack Gold and writer Julia Jones gently and unselfconsciously explore the couple's budding romance as they walk home along the canal, through an industrial landscape of factories and viaducts. The racial conflict of the 1960s is abandoned for an engaging drama that is refreshingly free of stereotypes.
Romance
Yanks
Sep 01, 1979Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les États-Unis ont installé des bases militaires en Grande-Bretagne dans le cadre de l'effort de guerre. Contre leur propre sensibilité, de nombreux Britanniques n'aiment pas beaucoup les Yanks impétueux, surtout en ce qui concerne les IG qui font des progrès sur les filles britanniques seules. Une relation qui se développe est entre John marié, un capitaine de l'armée, et l'aristocratique Helen, dont le mari de la marine est en guerre. Helen aime son mari, mais Helen et John recherchent un certain réconfort pendant les moments difficiles.
Romance
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Sep 15, 1968Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Comedy
Charlie Bubbles
Feb 11, 1968Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
Comedy
The Lump
Feb 01, 1967The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Drama
The Reckoning
Jan 31, 1970Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Drama
The Merchant of Venice
Dec 17, 1980A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Comedy
No Hard Feelings
Jun 13, 1976This short feature, an early directing credit for Alan Parker, shows the reality of life during the WWII air raids with none of the traditional 'Blitz spirit' so often portrayed. Eric spends the nights crammed into a brick shelter with his dad, sister and her screaming kids, and every bombardment brings tears over the loss of his mother in an earlier raid. When he learns his sweetheart is to be evacuated, he finally buckles under the stress.
Drama
Three Hats for Lisa
Jan 01, 1965French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
Comedy
Un amour pas comme les autres
Apr 12, 1962As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
Drama
The Chauffeur
Apr 30, 1976Joe, the chauffeur to an unnamed South American embassy, enjoys the small prks of privilege that his job provides him. When a coup in the country results in the ambassador's recall, his halycon life is upended.
Liza
Mar 28, 1978Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and joins the group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
Renoir, My Father
Dec 12, 1978A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.
The Artful Dodger
Nov 02, 1959The Artful Dodger was a short-lived black-and-white British sitcom starring Dave Morris and Gretchen Franklin. It ran for one series in 1959. It was written by Frank Roscoe and Dave Morris.
Le Prisonnier
Feb 02, 1968Après sa démission, un agent secret est enlevé pour être emmené dans ce qui semble être un village idyllique, mais s'avère être une prison étrange. Son gardien veut des informations. Il ne dira rien mais va tenter de s'échapper.
Drama
Budgie
Jul 14, 1972Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972.
The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.
Gideon's Way
Jul 09, 1967Les enquêtes du commandant George Gideon de Scotland Yard d'après les romans de John Creasey.
Drama
Bizarre, bizarre
May 13, 1988Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires horrifiques et fantastiques inspirées de l'oeuvre de Roald Dahl.
Drama
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
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
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
Nearest and Dearest
Feb 07, 1973Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 46 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome and 28 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, was set in Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England.
Comedy
The Losers
Dec 17, 1978The Losers is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1978. Written by Alan Coren, it stars Leonard Rossiter and Alfred Molina. The Losers was made for ITV by ATV and was produced and directed by Joe McGrath.
In The Losers, Rossiter plays Sydney Foskett, a wrestling promoter who discovers a young new wrestler called "The Butcher", played by Molina, who Foskett ensures loses to get the public's love.
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Apr 27, 1985La BBC Television Shakespeare est une série d'adaptations télévisées britanniques des pièces de théâtre de William Shakespeare. Elle a été créée par Cedric Messina et produite par la BBC Television. Elle a été diffusée au Royaume-Uni du 3 décembre 1978 au 27 avril 1985 et s'est étendue sur sept saisons. Le développement de la série a commencé en 1975 lorsque Messina a remarqué que le château de Glamis serait un lieu parfait pour une adaptation de la pièce de Shakespeare "Comme il vous plaira". De retour à Londres, il a imaginé une série entière consacrée exclusivement aux œuvres dramatiques de Shakespeare. Après avoir rencontré de nombreux problèmes pour produire la série, Messina a finalement présenté l'idée aux responsables de la BBC et la série a été approuvée. Dans l'ensemble, la série a reçu des critiques généralement négatives de la part des critiques.
Drama
The Wackers
Apr 23, 1975Her Majesty's Pleasure
Mar 27, 1969
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
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
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
