Une femme disparaît
Apr 30, 1979Au cours d'un voyage en train dans l'Allemagne des années 30, un couple se rend compte que l'une des passagères a disparu mystérieusement.
Mystery
Gerald Harper
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Hold-up a Londres
Apr 15, 1960Récemment mis à la retraite, le lieutenant-colonel Hyde décide de se venger et réunit sept officiers renvoyés de l'armée pour commettre un casse.
Comedy
Tiger in the Smoke
Nov 27, 1956In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Thriller
Les Briseurs de barrages
May 16, 1955En 1942, alors que l'Angleterre ne cesse d'être victime des raids aériens allemands, l'ingénieur Barnes N. Wallis étudie le moyen de faire sauter les trois barrages de la Moehne sur la Ruhr. Seule une bombe explosant au fond de l'eau pourra, l'onde de choc aidant, ébranler la formidable maçonnerie. Wallis parvient à ses fins en imaginant un engin cylindrique de cinq tonnes qui, lâché à une vitesse précise et une distance bien déterminée, rebondira par ricochets sur la surface de l'eau pour couler au pied du barrage. Après plusieurs tentatives infructueuses sur des maquettes, Wallis réussit à faire adopter son projet par la R.A.F. grâce à l'intervention du général Arthur Harris. Aidé du commandant Whitworth, le lieutenant-colonel Gibson, à la tête d'un imposant groupe d'aviateurs, met au point la technique très délicate du bombardement...
Drama
Strangler's Web
Aug 01, 1965What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
Drama
If It's a Man... Hang Up!
Apr 11, 1975A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.
Thriller
The Punch and Judy Man
Apr 08, 1963Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
Comedy
Princely Toys: One Man's Private Kingdom
Dec 24, 1976A made for TV BBC documentary exploring Jack Donovan's antique automaton collection. The documentary focuses on the toys themselves, displaying their range of movements in plain settings while the narrator weaves stories and comments about them to the synth sounds of library music.
Documentary
L'Admirable Crichton
Jun 11, 1957Cricthon , un majordome attaché au respect des conventions sociales, a beaucoup de mal à accepter les idées progressistes de son maitre : Lord Loam. Quand celui-ci provoque un scandale en voulant traiter ses domestiques comme ses égaux, il est décidé que la famille partira en croisière. Mais un soir de tempête, le bateau fait naufrage, et le petit groupe se retrouve sur une île perdue. Rapidement, les codes sociaux vont s’inverser...
Adventure
Les Souliers de saint Pierre
Nov 14, 1968Les années 1960. L’archevêque ukrainien Kiril Lakota est enfin libéré après avoir été prisonnier politique en Sibérie pendant deux décennies. Il se rend à Rome pour y être fait cardinal par le pape qui meurt peu après. Élu pape lors d'un conclave, il doit faire face aux tensions politiques venant à la fois de la Chine communiste et des pays occidentaux.
Drama
Atlantique, latitude 41°
Jul 03, 1958Le 10 avril 1912, le nouveau transatlantique britannique Titanic, luxueux paquebot de 269 mètres de long, quitte Southampton pour une traversée inaugurale à destination de New York, emportant à son bord quelque deux mille deux cent huit passagers. Le 14 avril, vers 23 h 40, le vapeur file dans l'Atlantique alors que la fête bat son plein à tous les niveaux des classes sociales, quand la vigie signale un iceberg droit devant. Malgré le changement de cap immédiat, l'énorme masse de glace éventre la coque sur une longueur de 100 mètres. Après avoir rapidement évalué les dégâts, les ingénieurs rendent leur verdict sans appel : le Titanic est condamné à couler dans les délais les plus courts... L'équipage fait alors mettre à l'eau les canots de sauvetage, tout en étant conscient que tout le monde ne pourra y prendre place. Au loin, l'équipage du Californian assiste au naufrage sans saisir la gravité de la situation.
Drama
Wonderful Life
Jun 03, 1964Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.
Music
The Young Ones
Dec 19, 1961Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
Comedy
Verity Lambert: Drama Queen
Apr 05, 2008A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.
Documentary
Adam Adamant Lives!
Mar 25, 1967Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.
Drama
Thriller
May 22, 1976Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires dans le registre de l’horreur, sur des thèmes très divers comme la sorcellerie, la maladie mentale, la possession, la télépathie...
Drama
Gideon's Way
Jul 09, 1967Les enquêtes du commandant George Gideon de Scotland Yard d'après les romans de John Creasey.
Drama
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
Out of This World
Sep 22, 1962Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Les Champions
Apr 30, 1969Les Champions (The Champions) est une série télévisée britannique en 30 épisodes de 50 minutes, créée par Monty Berman et Dennis Spooner et diffusée entre le 25 septembre 1968 et le 30 avril 1969 sur le réseau ITV. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 17 juillet 1971 sur la deuxième chaîne de l'ORTF et rediffusée en 1993 sur M6.
Craig, Richard et Sharon, trois agents secrets appartenant à une organisation appelée Nemesis, s'écrasent en avion dans l'Himalaya lors d'une mission. Recueillis par des moines tibétains, qui sont en réalité des êtres issus d'une civilisation très avancée, les trois héros se retrouvent dotés de pouvoirs surhumains qu'ils vont mettre au service du renseignement britannique et, ainsi, affronter des ennemis hors du commun.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
No Hiding Place
Jun 22, 1967No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.
It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Crime
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.
Drama
The Joe Baker Show
Jul 03, 1965
Hadleigh
May 28, 1976Hadleigh was a British television series made by Yorkshire Television which originally ran from 1969 to 1976. Developed by Robert Barr, it was a sequel to the writer's earlier Gazette for the same company. The theme music was composed by Alan Moorhouse and, from series 3, Tony Hatch.
James Hadleigh played by Gerald Harper, was "the perfect squire, paternalistically careful of his tenantry's welfare, beloved in the village, respected in the council." A "knight in a shining white Aston Martin V8, he sets about correcting local injustices." His wife, from a lower-class background, was played by Hilary Dwyer. The series attracted around 17 million viewers at its peak.
Drama
Cilla
Apr 17, 1976
A Game of Murder
Apr 02, 1966The once famous athlete Bob Kerry dies mysteriously on a golf course. His son Jack, a detective, suspects murder and decides to investigate the case. He gets caught up in a web of intrigue set in the Soho red-light district in London, with its pimps and prostitutes.
Gazette
Oct 25, 1968London millionaire playboy, James Hadleigh, returns to his Yorkshire birthplace and buys a local newspaper his father founded and decides to turn it into a relevant force for change against the wishes of its plodding editor, Frank Walters.
