John Bluthal

John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1928 – 15 November 2018) was a comic actor best known for the role of Frank Pickle in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley and for his work with Spike Milligan in the Q series. He also appeared in several films including the Carry On movies, The Pink Panther movies, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, The Fifth Element and Hail, Caesar! He was born in Poland in 1929 and emigrated with his family to Australia when he was a child. In the early 60s, Bluthal moved to the UK to follow his acting career and returned to Australia in later years. He passed away on 15th November, 2018 at the age of 89.

  • Title: John Bluthal
  • Popularity: 4.526
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-08-12
  • Place of Birth: Malopolskie, Poland
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  • Also Known As: Τζον Μπλουθάλ
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John Bluthal Movies

  • 1997
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    The Fifth Element

    The Fifth Element

    7.6 1997 HD

    In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

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  • 1967
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    Carry on Follow That Camel

    Carry on Follow That Camel

    5.8 1967 HD

    Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow....

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  • 1964
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    Carry On Spying

    Carry On Spying

    6.5 1964 HD

    Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie...

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  • 1967
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1967 HD

    Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will...

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  • 1975
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    The Great McGonagall

    The Great McGonagall

    5.2 1975 HD

    In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who...

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  • 1965
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    Help!

    Help!

    6.862 1965 HD

    An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...

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  • 1977
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    That's Carry On!

    That's Carry On!

    5.762 1977 HD

    Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood...

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  • 2004
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    Love's Brother

    Love's Brother

    6.3 2004 HD

    Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy...

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  • 1968
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    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    6.7 1968 HD

    Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's...

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  • 1969
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    A Talent for Loving

    A Talent for Loving

    5 1969 HD

    This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler...

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  • 1984
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    Squaring the Circle

    Squaring the Circle

    5 1984 HD

    An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

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  • 1976
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    Escape to Entebbe

    Escape to Entebbe

    1 1976 HD

    A Pakistani reporter interviews Idi Amin.

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  • 1976
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    Meriel the Ghost Girl

    Meriel the Ghost Girl

    1 1976 HD

    Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?

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  • 1968
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    Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

    Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

    6.1 1968 HD

    George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over...

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  • 1992
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    Stan and George's New Life

    Stan and George's New Life

    1 1992 HD

    Stan is a mild-mannered, gentle, middle-aged man who still lives with his overbearing parents. One day, acting on a suggestion by his father, he...

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  • 1973
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.8 1973 HD

    The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...

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  • 1974
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    The Four Musketeers

    The Four Musketeers

    6.4 1974 HD

    The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

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  • 1983
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    The Return of Captain Invincible

    The Return of Captain Invincible

    5.8 1983 HD

    In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to...

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  • 1965
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    The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It

    5.9 1965 HD

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

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  • 1977
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    Spaghetti Two-Step

    Spaghetti Two-Step

    1 1977 HD

    A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.

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  • 1973
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    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    6.6 1973 HD

    Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.

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  • 1996
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    Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

    Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

    3 1996 HD

    Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of...

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  • 2000
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    Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns

    Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns

    4.7 2000 HD

    Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there....

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  • 1966
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    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    6 1966 HD

    A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

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  • 1968
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    The Brahmin Widow

    The Brahmin Widow

    1 1968 HD

    A British soldier returns to India to find the woman he fell in love wit

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  • 1963
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    Doctor in Distress

    Doctor in Distress

    6.2 1963 HD

    "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and...

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  • 2016
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    Hail, Caesar!

    Hail, Caesar!

    5.9 2016 HD

    When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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  • 1968
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    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    1 1968 HD

    good Samaritan who gives a stranded family a lift off the road, finds his life gets complicated when they move in on him.

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  • 1998
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    RPM

    RPM

    3 1998 HD

    A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

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  • 1967
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    A Ghost of a Chance

    A Ghost of a Chance

    6 1967 HD

    Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.

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  • 1981
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    Alison's Birthday

    Alison's Birthday

    5.4 1981 HD

    During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three...

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  • 1976
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    Fantasm

    Fantasm

    4.8 1976 HD

    Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female...

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  • 1972
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    Nightmare

    Nightmare

    1 1972 HD

    An edited version of the Pathfinders TV drama set in the Second World War, telling the story of the fictitious Royal Air Force 192 Pathfinder...

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  • 1980
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    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

    1 1980 HD

    Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.

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  • 1974
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    The Flying Sorcerer

    The Flying Sorcerer

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1975
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    Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

    Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

    1 1975 HD

    Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

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  • 2016
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    British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

    British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

    5.7 2016 HD

    Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a...

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  • 1973
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    Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

    Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

    4.6 1973 HD

    Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

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  • 1998
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    Dark City

    Dark City

    7.325 1998 HD

    A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic...

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  • 1995
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    Leapin' Leprechauns

    Leapin' Leprechauns

    3.2 1995 HD

    A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns.

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  • 1975
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    The Return of the Pink Panther

    The Return of the Pink Panther

    6.8 1975 HD

    The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...

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  • 1970
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    Doctor in Trouble

    Doctor in Trouble

    5.1 1970 HD

    Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise...

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  • 1964
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    A Hard Day's Night

    A Hard Day's Night

    7.348 1964 HD

    Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent...

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  • 2017
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    Jungle

    Jungle

    6.62 2017 HD

    In 1981, an enthusiastic young adventurer follows his dreams into the Bolivian Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past....

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  • 1980
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    Franklin River Journey

    Franklin River Journey

    1 1980 HD

    Follows amateur botanist Antonius Moscal's raft journey down the Franklin River (Tasmania, Australia).

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  • 1994
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    A Pinch of Snuff

    A Pinch of Snuff

    1 1994 HD

    Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for...

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  • 1979
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    Design for Living

    Design for Living

    1 1979 HD

    Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love...

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  • 1978
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    Revenge of the Pink Panther

    Revenge of the Pink Panther

    6.4 1978 HD

    Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in...

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  • 1974
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    The Over-Amorous Artist

    The Over-Amorous Artist

    4.7 1974 HD

    Sexploitation comedy about an aspiring artist. Alan and Sue switch roles: she goes out to work while he looks after the home and concentrates on his...

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  • 1996
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    Spike

    Spike

    1 1996 HD

    Spike personally tells the story of his life from India, World War II to The Goons and his Q series

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  • 1964
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    This Is My Street

    This Is My Street

    6.1 1964 HD

    A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

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  • 1986
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    Labyrinth

    Labyrinth

    7.3 1986 HD

    When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah...

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  • 1964
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    Father Came Too!

    Father Came Too!

    5.955 1964 HD

    When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up...

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  • 1963
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    The Mouse on the Moon

    The Mouse on the Moon

    5.9 1963 HD

    Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new...

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  • 1983
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    Superman III

    Superman III

    5.495 1983 HD

    Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which...

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  • 2021
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    The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

    The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

    1 2021 HD

    Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look back at their favorite Dibley moments, and for the first...

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  • 1978
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    The Irishman

    The Irishman

    1 1978 HD

    Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman,...

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  • 1974
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    The Cafeteria

    The Cafeteria

    1 1974 HD

    An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father

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  • 1976
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    The Joke

    The Joke

    1 1976 HD

    Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.

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  • 1978
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    Renoir, My Father

    Renoir, My Father

    1 1978 HD

    A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.

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  • 1993
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    Blue Heelers

    Blue Heelers

    6.6 1993 HD

    Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional...

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  • 1969
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    Q...

    Q...

    7.2 1969 HD

    Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first...

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  • 1997
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    Jonathan Creek

    Jonathan Creek

    7.458 1997 HD

    Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...

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  • 1983
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    Taggart

    Taggart

    6.316 1983 HD

    Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.701 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1994
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    The Vicar of Dibley

    The Vicar of Dibley

    7.423 1994 HD

    Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.

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  • 1987
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.818 1987 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

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  • 1970
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.5 1970 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

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  • 1975
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    Rumpole of the Bailey

    Rumpole of the Bailey

    7.063 1975 HD

    Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.315 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1962
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    Fireball XL5

    Fireball XL5

    6.1 1962 HD

    Fireball XL5 is a science fiction-themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve...

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  • 1990
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    One Foot In the Grave

    One Foot In the Grave

    7.513 1990 HD

    One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret....

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.344 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 1992
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    Virtual Murder

    Virtual Murder

    6.5 1992 HD

    John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his...

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  • 1961
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    It's a Square World

    It's a Square World

    1 1961 HD

    It's a Square World was a groundbreaking British comedy show starring Michael Bentine and produced by the BBC. It ran from 1960 till 1964. The series...

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  • 1967
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    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    3.5 1967 HD

    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British television sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the Armchair Theatre anthology...

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  • 1967
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    Man in a Suitcase

    Man in a Suitcase

    7 1967 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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  • 1980
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    Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home

    5 1980 HD

    Home Sweet Home is an Australian comedy television series created by Vince Powell and produced by Michael Mills, the Australian Broadcasting...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.315 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1982
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    There's A Lot Of It About

    There's A Lot Of It About

    1 1982 HD

    Spike Milligan sketch series created after the BBC apparently thought another 'Q' would confuse people - continues in the same anarchic & often...

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  • 1956
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    Hancock's Half Hour

    Hancock's Half Hour

    7.5 1956 HD

    Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The...

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  • 1974
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1974 HD

    BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by...

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  • 2010
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    Spirited

    Spirited

    6.9 2010 HD

    Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. Uptight dentist Suzy Darling leaves her egotistical husband...

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  • 1964
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    The Protectors

    The Protectors

    1 1964 HD

    Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.783 1979 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

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  • 1960
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    Citizen James

    Citizen James

    7.6 1960 HD

    Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James...

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  • 1976
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    Bluey

    Bluey

    6 1976 HD

    At Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, Sgt. "Bluey" Hills, unable to work within the existing police squads, oversees Department B....

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  • 1985
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    Super Gran

    Super Gran

    6.538 1985 HD

    Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner...

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  • 1958
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    The Larkins

    The Larkins

    7 1958 HD

    'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to...

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  • 1974
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1974 HD

    BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1972
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1972 HD

    Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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  • 1983
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    Reilly: Ace of Spies

    Reilly: Ace of Spies

    7.1 1983 HD

    Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever...

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  • 1989
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    Birds of a Feather

    Birds of a Feather

    6.048 1989 HD

    Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson...

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