Lynda Bellingham

Lynda Bellingham

Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum". During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about how her career turned out, summarising its trajectory thus on her website: "Arrived in London at the Central School [for Speech and Drama] in 1966 and never looked back. I had a ball!" Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth's damned spot, left an indelible mark. "In many ways I was very proud of what we did, but there is no doubt that my credibility as an actress was knocked," she reflected. "Certain people in the industry would never employ me as a serious actress after it. On the other hand, it gave me the financial security to go off and work in the theatre for very little money." Her performances as Mrs Oxo were reportedly responsible for a 10% increase in stock cube sales.

  • Title: Lynda Bellingham
  • Popularity: 3.101
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1948-05-31
  • Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Lynda Bellingham Movies

  • 1977
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    Sweeney!

    Sweeney!

    6.8 1977 HD

    When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He...

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  • 2000
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    The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

    The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

    5.1 2000 HD

    The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

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  • 2004
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    Devil's Gate

    Devil's Gate

    1 2004 HD

    Laura Fraser stars as a young woman forced to return to her hometown and confront the demons in her past, in this British thriller.

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  • 1977
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    Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

    Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

    4.8 1977 HD

    Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.

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  • 1997
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    An Audience with Ronnie Corbett

    An Audience with Ronnie Corbett

    6.5 1997 HD

    Super-talented comic Ronnie Corbett pulls out all the stops to entertain a celebrity audience including on-screen sidekick Ronnie Barker, Damien...

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  • 1981
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    Riding High

    Riding High

    4 1981 HD

    Riding High is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ross Cramer and starring Eddie Kidd, Irene Handl and Murray Salem. The screenplay concerns a...

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  • 1999
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    Don't Go Breaking My Heart

    Don't Go Breaking My Heart

    4.9 1999 HD

    Well meaning friends try to persuade Suzanne, a beautiful widow, to remarry and the choice seems to be between Frank, a philandering dentist, and...

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  • 2001
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    Bodywork

    Bodywork

    3.5 2001 HD

    Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead...

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  • 1987
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    The Vision

    The Vision

    10 1987 HD

    Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a...

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  • 1998
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    The Scarlet Tunic

    The Scarlet Tunic

    4.5 1998 HD

    Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...

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  • 1976
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    Confessions of a Driving Instructor

    Confessions of a Driving Instructor

    4.9 1976 HD

    Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to...

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  • 1986
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    Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

    Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

    7.3 1986 HD

    As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer...

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  • 1986
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    Doctor Who: Mindwarp

    Doctor Who: Mindwarp

    6.3 1986 HD

    As the Doctor's trial continues, evidence is presented showing his most recent adventure, one where he faces an old adversary, Sil. As a scientist...

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  • 1986
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    Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

    Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe

    5.8 1986 HD

    Charged with genocide by the treacherous Valeyard at his trial, the Doctor receives help from an unlikely source to turn the tide of the High...

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  • 1986
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    Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

    Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet

    6.3 1986 HD

    The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmful interference to the course of events during...

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  • 1998
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    Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

    Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

    2 1998 HD

    'Hey, Mr Producer!' features selected scenes from the productions of the world's most successful musical producer, Cameron Mackintosh - classic songs...

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.65 1975 HD

    Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.5 1997 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 1988
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    This Morning

    This Morning

    5.7 1988 HD

    This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and...

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  • 1991
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    Second Thoughts

    Second Thoughts

    6.6 1991 HD

    Second thoughts is a British sitcom that ran from 3 May 1991 to 14 October 1994. It was broadcast on ITV and made by LWT. It was followed by a...

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  • 2006
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    The One Show

    The One Show

    4.6 2006 HD

    A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

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  • 1978
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    Blake's 7

    Blake's 7

    7.2 1978 HD

    A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

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  • 1980
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    The Gentle Touch

    The Gentle Touch

    7 1980 HD

    The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing...

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  • 1962
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    Z-Cars

    Z-Cars

    7 1962 HD

    Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

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  • 1979
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    Shoestring

    Shoestring

    6.8 1979 HD

    Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The...

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.4 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...

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  • 1984
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    Surprise, Surprise

    Surprise, Surprise

    5.8 1984 HD

    Surprise, Surprise is a British television programme originally hosted by Cilla Black and produced by London Weekend Television for ITV. It ran for...

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  • 2009
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    Mister Eleven

    Mister Eleven

    4.5 2009 HD

    Mister Eleven is an ITV romantic drama starring Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. The two-part series was broadcast on 11 and 18 December 2009. It also...

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  • 1996
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    Dalziel & Pascoe

    Dalziel & Pascoe

    6.3 1996 HD

    British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The...

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  • 2001
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    Waking the Dead

    Waking the Dead

    7.237 2001 HD

    A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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  • 2006
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    Robin Hood

    Robin Hood

    6.8 2006 HD

    An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all...

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1978
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    Hazell

    Hazell

    5.3 1978 HD

    Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.

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  • 1995
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    Faith in the Future

    Faith in the Future

    6.333 1995 HD

    Faith in the Future is a British comedy television show running from 17 November 1995 to 27 February 1998. A sequel to the show Second Thoughts, it...

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  • 1975
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    Angels

    Angels

    3.7 1975 HD

    Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus...

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  • 2004
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    New Tricks

    New Tricks

    7.3 2004 HD

    New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service....

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  • 2007
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    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    3.7 2007 HD

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently...

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  • 2003
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    The Last Detective

    The Last Detective

    7.5 2003 HD

    "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged...

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  • 2003
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    One Life

    One Life

    1 2003 HD

    One life is a BBC ONE's documentary programme. Each episode is a high quality and compelling film which reflects life in contemporary Britain.

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  • 1974
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    Within These Walls

    Within These Walls

    5.3 1974 HD

    Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed...

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  • 1973
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    Tell Tarby

    Tell Tarby

    1 1973 HD

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  • 2007
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    Bonkers

    Bonkers

    1 2007 HD

    Bonkers is a British comedy series written by Sally Wainwright and starring Liza Tarbuck as a school teacher who discovers her husband is having an...

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  • 1994
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    Junior Masterchef

    Junior Masterchef

    5 1994 HD

    Junior MasterChef is a British TV cookery competition, broadcast by the BBC, in which nine- to twelve-year-olds compete to be crowned Junior...

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  • 1992
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    Gibberish

    Gibberish

    1 1992 HD

    Gibberish was a celebrity panel game show hosted by Kenny Everett. Two teams of celebrities had to answer questions.

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  • 2008
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    All Star Mr & Mrs

    All Star Mr & Mrs

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Pink Medicine Show

    The Pink Medicine Show

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2010
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    Odd One In

    Odd One In

    1 2010 HD

    Odd One In was a British comedy panel game show, broadcast on the ITV Network. It is hosted by Bradley Walsh. The regular Home Team are Peter Andre...

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  • 2001
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    My Uncle Silas

    My Uncle Silas

    7 2001 HD

    In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though 60 years old,...

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  • 1976
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    Yus, My Dear

    Yus, My Dear

    5.5 1976 HD

    Wally and Lil Briggs have moved from the caravan site where they lived for many years and now live in a council house. Wally has even got a well-paid...

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  • 1978
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    An Audience with...

    An Audience with...

    5.3 1978 HD

    An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian,...

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  • 2000
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    At Home with the Braithwaites

    At Home with the Braithwaites

    6.7 2000 HD

    At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban...

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    6 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 1982
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    Wogan

    Wogan

    4.5 1982 HD

    Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

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  • 1994
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    Martin Chuzzlewit

    Martin Chuzzlewit

    7.5 1994 HD

    When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.9 1963 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

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  • 1999
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    Loose Women

    Loose Women

    3.4 1999 HD

    A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

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  • 1999
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    Loose Women

    Loose Women

    3.4 1999 HD

    A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.

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  • 1987
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    Filthy Rich & Catflap

    Filthy Rich & Catflap

    6.6 1987 HD

    Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.

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  • 1985
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    Screen Two

    Screen Two

    6.8 1985 HD

    Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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