Summer Season
Nov 14, 1976Blackpool usually means sun and sand, and a ride on the big dipper; but Ricky and Michelle are working. Dave is hard at work too - getting in on their act.
TV Movie
Paula Tilbrook
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Effie's Burning
Aug 29, 1991An elderly lady suffers from the mysterious condition of spontaneous combustion.
Drama
Walter
Nov 02, 1982A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
Drama
Gaskin
Jan 01, 1983Drama based on the case history of a Liverpool boy, Graham Gaskin, who spent most of his youth in care.
Pit Strike
Sep 22, 19771972: striking miners converge on London's power stations. Among them, the huge, dignified figure of Joshua.
Butterfly Kiss
Aug 18, 1995Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
Crime
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
The Final Frame
Apr 12, 1990When the notorious rock star, East, is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.
Drama
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Sep 04, 1982Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Documentary
Hard Labour
Mar 12, 1973All Day on the Sands
Feb 24, 1979Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.
Drama
Porc Royal
Nov 09, 19841947. L'Angleterre a gagné la guerre, mais semble sur le point de perdre la paix. L'heure est à l'austérité : les files d'attente, les tickets de rationnement, le marché noir composent la réalite quotidienne de millions de citoyens britanniques. Le traditionnel bacon manquait, et les gens s'adonnaient à l'élevage clandestin du porc.
Comedy
Thicker Than Water
Jan 24, 1980The Black Pudding Festival in Normandy, France, brings competitors from all over Europe. The British contingent is there for all the fun of the fair-and determined to win!
Drama
The O'Hooligan File
Feb 08, 1978' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
The New Statesman
Oct 17, 1985George Vance, custodian of an agricultural museum near Aylesbury, receives news that is about to change his life. Much to his surprise, George inherits the Earldom of Ynys Enlli.
Comedy
Once Upon A Time In The North
Jun 07, 1994Whimsical tales of the Tollit family, who live in the picturesque Northern town of Sutton Moor. The husband, Len, is a soft-hearted, well-meaning chap who holds strong views on certain subjects and is fiercely proud of his working-class roots. But his determination to prove himself the equal of those who may consider themselves his betters often leads to confrontation and infuriates his wife, Pat. They have two children, the pre-teen Sean and the sexually-maturing Siobhan, who, at 15, is at that 'awkward age'. Living in the granny flat in their yard is Mr Bebbington, who had been Len's late mother's boyfriend but has remained with them for six months since her death. Pat constantly cajoles Len into getting Bebbington out but he is quite content to let him stay and treats him as one of the family. Len's brother, Morris, who lives nearby, is a spiritual man who comes across as half-hippy and half-witted.
Comedy
Play for Today
Aug 28, 1984Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
Bizarre, bizarre
May 13, 1988Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires horrifiques et fantastiques inspirées de l'oeuvre de Roald Dahl.
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
