Robert Urquhart

Robert Urquhart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career. He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947. He starred in many shows of the detective/special-agent type, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the 1965 episode of Danger Man titled "English Lady Takes Lodgers". He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion His first film role was in 1952 in You're Only Young Twice. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Urquhart (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Robert Urquhart
  • Popularity: 2.756
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-10-16
  • Place of Birth: Ullapool, Scotland, UK
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  • Also Known As: Robert Urquhart Laing
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Robert Urquhart Movies

  • 1963
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    Murder at the Gallop

    Murder at the Gallop

    7 1963 HD

    Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened....

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  • 1957
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    The Curse of Frankenstein

    The Curse of Frankenstein

    6.8 1957 HD

    Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature...

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  • 1985
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    Restless Natives

    Restless Natives

    6.7 1985 HD

    Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of...

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  • 1960
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    The Bulldog Breed

    The Bulldog Breed

    5.7 1960 HD

    Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life,...

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  • 1957
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    Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

    Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

    7.2 1957 HD

    While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...

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  • 1963
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    The Break

    The Break

    6.1 1963 HD

    A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.

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  • 1982
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    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

    P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang

    7 1982 HD

    Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally...

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  • 1970
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    The Looking Glass War

    The Looking Glass War

    5.5 1970 HD

    When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to...

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  • 1958
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    Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

    6.7 1958 HD

    A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain...

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  • 1984
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    Puccini

    Puccini

    1 1984 HD

    In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...

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  • 1980
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    An Enemy of the People

    An Enemy of the People

    1 1980 HD

    Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a direct response to the public's outcry over his earlier play Ghosts. Channeling his feelings into on Dr....

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  • 1970
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    Brotherly Love

    Brotherly Love

    5.9 1970 HD

    Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.

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  • 1955
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    The Dark Avenger

    The Dark Avenger

    6 1955 HD

    Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect...

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  • 1951
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    You're Only Young Twice

    You're Only Young Twice

    4.8 1951 HD

    Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by...

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  • 1988
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    Testimony

    Testimony

    5.7 1988 HD

    The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

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  • 1954
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    Isn't Life Wonderful!

    Isn't Life Wonderful!

    5.6 1954 HD

    Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It...

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  • 1953
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    The House of the Arrow

    The House of the Arrow

    6.5 1953 HD

    A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.

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  • 1952
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    Paul Temple Returns

    Paul Temple Returns

    5.6 1952 HD

    A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...

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  • 1993
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    The Long Roads

    The Long Roads

    1 1993 HD

    An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform...

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  • 1988
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    The Kitchen Toto

    The Kitchen Toto

    6.6 1988 HD

    The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

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  • 1963
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    55 Days at Peking

    55 Days at Peking

    7 1963 HD

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...

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  • 1954
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    Happy Ever After

    Happy Ever After

    5.2 1954 HD

    The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary,...

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  • 1987
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    Playing Away

    Playing Away

    5.6 1987 HD

    To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South...

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  • 1987
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    The Shutter Falls

    The Shutter Falls

    1 1987 HD

    A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking...

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  • 1960
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    Foxhole in Cairo

    Foxhole in Cairo

    5.5 1960 HD

    A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions.

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  • 1975
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    England, Summer, Sunday

    England, Summer, Sunday

    1 1975 HD

    A play from 1976

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  • 1956
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    The Tamer Tamed

    The Tamer Tamed

    1 1956 HD

    Elaine Morgan’s imaginative sequel to The Taming of the Shrew.

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  • 1956
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    You Can't Escape

    You Can't Escape

    5 1956 HD

    Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a...

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  • 1954
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    Golden Ivory

    Golden Ivory

    5.3 1954 HD

    Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in...

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  • 1968
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    The Syndicate

    The Syndicate

    1 1968 HD

    Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium...

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  • 1960
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    Danger Tomorrow

    Danger Tomorrow

    5.5 1960 HD

    A woman with extra-sensory perception has a vision of a murder.

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  • 1960
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    Trouble with Eve

    Trouble with Eve

    1 1960 HD

    What happens when an attractive girl from Paris arrives in a sleepy riverside village.

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  • 1979
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    Father's Day

    Father's Day

    1 1979 HD

    Teenager Philip has a day out with his father, whom he has not seen since he was two years old. His mother is not keen to hand her son over to the...

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  • 1980
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    Fox

    Fox

    1 1980 HD

    The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

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  • 1953
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    Knights of the Round Table

    Knights of the Round Table

    5.9 1953 HD

    In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen...

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  • 1985
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    Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil

    Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil

    4.5 1985 HD

    The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a...

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  • 1980
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    5.7 1980 HD

    Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles...

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  • 1981
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    The Dollar Bottom

    The Dollar Bottom

    6.5 1981 HD

    Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting...

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  • 1972
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    The Reporters

    The Reporters

    1 1972 HD

    Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed...

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  • 1975
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    Just Another Saturday

    Just Another Saturday

    8 1975 HD

    It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns...

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  • 1984
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    Sharma and Beyond

    Sharma and Beyond

    6.5 1984 HD

    A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite author.

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  • 1987
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    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

    6.4 1987 HD

    A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips...

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  • 1952
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    Tread Softly

    Tread Softly

    5 1952 HD

    Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.

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  • 1980
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    A Gift from Nessus

    A Gift from Nessus

    1 1980 HD

    Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.

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  • 1994
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    Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor

    Ruth Rendell: Master of the Moor

    7 1994 HD

    Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.

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  • 1980
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    Children of the Full Moon

    Children of the Full Moon

    6.5 1980 HD

    A married couple, lost in the woods, stumbles across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman and deadly wolf children that...

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  • 1976
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    Gator

    Gator

    5.2 1976 HD

    After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp....

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  • 1976
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    The Button Man

    The Button Man

    1 1976 HD

    ' Whatever you think of me doesn't change what you are. Rabble who've heard of socialism and think it's ten pints a night. Go on, vote me out ...'

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  • 1969
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    Department S

    Department S

    4.9 1969 HD

    Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 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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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 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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  • 1967
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    Callan

    Callan

    7 1967 HD

    Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later...

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  • 1981
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    Brideshead Revisited

    Brideshead Revisited

    7.9 1981 HD

    Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years...

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  • 1968
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    The Champions

    The Champions

    6 1968 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1962
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    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    6 1962 HD

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1983
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    The Old Men at the Zoo

    The Old Men at the Zoo

    5 1983 HD

    An incompetently managed zoo becomes a metaphor for the state of Britain as a nuclear crisis looms over Europe.

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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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  • 1966
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    Mystery and Imagination

    Mystery and Imagination

    5.5 1966 HD

    Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to...

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  • 1972
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    Pathfinders

    Pathfinders

    6 1972 HD

    During the second world war, the Pathfinder squadrons of RAF Bomber Command were the elite. All volunteers, their dangerous task was to fly in...

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  • 1973
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    Helen: A Woman of Today

    Helen: A Woman of Today

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1961
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    Jango

    Jango

    1 1961 HD

    Jango is a crime-comedy series produced in 1961 by Associated Rediffusion for British television. It starred Robert Urquhart in the lead role of...

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  • 1959
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    International Detective

    International Detective

    7 1959 HD

    The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star...

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  • 1979
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    Quest of Eagles

    Quest of Eagles

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    1 1978 HD

    Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978...

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  • 1974
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    The Aweful Mr. Goodall

    The Aweful Mr. Goodall

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    1 1974 HD

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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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  • 1980
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    Hammer House of Horror

    Hammer House of Horror

    7.1 1980 HD

    Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.125 1970 HD

    Play 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...

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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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  • 1970
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    1 1970 HD

    Jango is a crime-comedy series produced in 1961 by Associated Rediffusion for British television. It starred Robert Urquhart in the lead role of...

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