Brian Glover

Brian Glover

Brian Glover was an English character actor, writer and wrestler. Glover was a professional wrestler (as 'Leon Arras the Man From Paris'), teacher, and finally a film, television and stage actor, and the voice of Tetley Tea. He was married to writer Tara Prem from 1954 until his death in 1997.

  • Title: Brian Glover
  • Popularity: 4.237
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1934-04-02
  • Place of Birth: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
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Brian Glover Movies

  • 1981
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    An American Werewolf in London

    An American Werewolf in London

    7.406 1981 HD

    American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a...

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  • 1991
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    Kafka

    Kafka

    6.4 1991 HD

    Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings...

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  • 1975
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    Waiting at the Field Gate

    Waiting at the Field Gate

    1 1975 HD

    Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?

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  • 1992
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    Alien³

    Alien³

    6.4 1992 HD

    After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility....

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  • 1984
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    The Company of Wolves

    The Company of Wolves

    6.329 1984 HD

    An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which...

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  • 1994
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    1942: A Love Story

    1942: A Love Story

    6.1 1994 HD

    The son of a politician loyal to the British rule falls in love with the daughter of a freedom fighter.

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  • 1970
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    Kes

    Kes

    7.5 1970 HD

    Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire...

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  • 1993
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    Leon The Pig Farmer

    Leon The Pig Farmer

    5.3 1993 HD

    An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial...

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  • 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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  • 1978
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    Absolution

    Absolution

    6.355 1978 HD

    At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges...

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  • 1976
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    Trial by Combat

    Trial by Combat

    7.7 1976 HD

    A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using...

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  • 1992
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    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    Six Characters in Search of An Author

    1 1992 HD

    Adaptation of Pirandello's play.

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  • 1977
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    Joseph Andrews

    Joseph Andrews

    4.7 1977 HD

    Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

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  • 1981
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    4 1981 HD

    Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the...

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  • 1975
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    The Old Curiosity Shop

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    4.5 1975 HD

    A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

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  • 1998
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    Up 'n' Under

    Up 'n' Under

    5.1 1998 HD

    The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten years. Ex-pro Arthur bets their boss that he could...

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  • 1976
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    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

    It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

    6 1976 HD

    Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town.

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  • 1972
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    The Fishing Party

    The Fishing Party

    10 1972 HD

    Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

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  • 1972
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    A Day Out

    A Day Out

    4.75 1972 HD

    Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey....

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  • 1986
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    The McGuffin

    The McGuffin

    6 1986 HD

    Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for...

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  • 1974
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    Initiation

    Initiation

    1 1974 HD

    In a bookbinding factory, Nobby, the foreman, is the master of his domain. Hector, a young new recruit, struggles. Ted, about to retire, refuses to...

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  • 1978
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    The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

    The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

    1 1978 HD

    TV Play by Henry Livings

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  • 1997
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    Snow White: A Tale of Terror

    Snow White: A Tale of Terror

    6.1 1997 HD

    When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of...

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  • 1996
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    Bob's Weekend

    Bob's Weekend

    1 1996 HD

    Robert Askew goes to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his extra ordinary life. But this is no ordinary weekend and a succession of...

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  • 1975
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    Brannigan

    Brannigan

    5.9 1975 HD

    A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings...

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  • 1971
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    The Rank and File

    The Rank and File

    5 1971 HD

    Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike,...

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  • 1973
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    Speech Day

    Speech Day

    1 1973 HD

    Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what...

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  • 1993
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    Anna Lee: Headcase

    Anna Lee: Headcase

    6 1993 HD

    A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy...

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  • 1994
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    Royal Deceit

    Royal Deceit

    5.6 1994 HD

    A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

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  • 1983
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    Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

    4.7 1983 HD

    British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some...

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  • 1978
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    The First Great Train Robbery

    The First Great Train Robbery

    6.7 1978 HD

    In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

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  • 1977
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    Jabberwocky

    Jabberwocky

    6 1977 HD

    A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures....

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  • 1988
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    To Kill a Priest

    To Kill a Priest

    6 1988 HD

    A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

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  • 1992
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    Masters of the Canvas

    Masters of the Canvas

    1 1992 HD

    When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes...

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  • 1990
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    The World of Eddie Weary

    The World of Eddie Weary

    1 1990 HD

    Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV...

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  • 1979
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    Black Jack

    Black Jack

    7 1979 HD

    When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two...

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  • 1973
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    Shakespeare or Bust

    Shakespeare or Bust

    1 1973 HD

    Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

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  • 1982
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    Britannia Hospital

    Britannia Hospital

    6.4 1982 HD

    Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

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  • 1985
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    Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

    Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

    6.2 1985 HD

    An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot to change the course of history.

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  • 1974
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    Three for the Fancy

    Three for the Fancy

    1 1974 HD

    Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the...

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  • 1973
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    O Lucky Man!

    O Lucky Man!

    6.804 1973 HD

    An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

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  • 1984
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    Laughterhouse

    Laughterhouse

    5 1984 HD

    A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

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  • 1984
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    Ordeal by Innocence

    Ordeal by Innocence

    4.5 1984 HD

    Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed...

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  • 1998
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    Stiff Upper Lips

    Stiff Upper Lips

    6.1 1998 HD

    Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties....

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  • 2003
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    Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

    Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

    7.7 2003 HD

    The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast...

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  • 1976
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    Sunshine in Brixton

    Sunshine in Brixton

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1973
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    If a Man Answers

    If a Man Answers

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1974
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    Pig Bin

    Pig Bin

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1976
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    Summer Season

    Summer Season

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1984
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    Laughterhouse

    Laughterhouse

    5 1984 HD

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  • 1975
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    Keep an Eye on Albert

    Keep an Eye on Albert

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1980
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    Thicker Than Water

    Thicker Than Water

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.7 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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  • 1973
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    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

    7.5 1973 HD

    Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour...

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.864 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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  • 1977
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    Secret Army

    Secret Army

    7.6 1977 HD

    World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the...

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  • 1991
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    Bottom

    Bottom

    7.9 1991 HD

    Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped...

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  • 1955
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.3 1955 HD

    Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police...

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  • 1977
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    Raffles

    Raffles

    8 1977 HD

    Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and...

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  • 1994
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    Anna Lee

    Anna Lee

    7.071 1994 HD

    Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five...

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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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  • 1977
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    Target

    Target

    6.5 1977 HD

    A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

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  • 1995
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    Rumble

    Rumble

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1989
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    Campion

    Campion

    5.6 1989 HD

    Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989...

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  • 1974
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    Porridge

    Porridge

    8.1 1974 HD

    Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also...

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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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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1975
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    Quiller

    Quiller

    1 1975 HD

    Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series...

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  • 1978
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    The Famous Five

    The Famous Five

    7 1978 HD

    The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series...

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

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  • 1987
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    Daytime Live

    Daytime Live

    3.5 1987 HD

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  • 1969
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    Paul Temple

    Paul Temple

    5 1969 HD

    Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis...

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  • 1972
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    The Regiment

    The Regiment

    1 1972 HD

    The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and...

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.7 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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  • 1969
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    Sez Les

    Sez Les

    4.5 1969 HD

    Sez Les was a British comedy sketch show that starred Les Dawson, produced by Yorkshire Television, airing on ITV from 1969 to 1976. Roy Barraclough...

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  • 1985
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    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    1 1985 HD

    National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4

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  • 1989
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    Press Gang

    Press Gang

    7.3 1989 HD

    The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.

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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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  • 1978
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    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint

    7 1978 HD

    Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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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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  • 1986
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    Lost Empires

    Lost Empires

    4 1986 HD

    In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling...

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  • 1988
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    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

    1 1988 HD

    This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik...

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  • 1972
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    The Protectors

    The Protectors

    5.6 1972 HD

    The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as...

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