Edwin Brown
Actor
Movies24
Movie5.0ComedyCrimeDetective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Inspector Clouseau
1968 · 103 votes
Movie7.3CrimeThrillerThe story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
10 Rillington Place
1971 · 222 votes
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeThree criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
Two-Way Stretch
1960 · 56 votes
Movie5.9FantasyDramaGreed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
The Pied Piper
1972 · 36 votes
Movie10.0TV MovieWhen an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
1968 · 1 votes
Movie7.3DramaA young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.
Family Life
1971 · 67 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieWhen a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
The Coming Out Party
1965 · 1 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieBoysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
The Man with the Power
1976 · 1 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaEarly adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965 · 1 votes
Movie6.5TV MovieMysteryAn opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
Nightmare for a Nightingale
1975 · 2 votes
- MovieDramaTV Movie
Steven is a beautiful, lovable little boy, but there is something about him that sets him apart.
Steven
1974
MovieDramaCrimePrison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.
- Movie7.0CrimeDrama
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
A Tap on the Shoulder
1965 · 1 votes
Movie7.0FantasyDramaProspero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to the island. Prospero contrives his revenge.
The Tempest
1980 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0
As a little girl is daydreaming out the window, her wicked father comes home. It's Christmas Eve. She tells her father that she was thinking about her Grandmother and of how nice Christmas was when she was alive. The father, angry and bitter, tells the girl that she must be out early to sell the matches or she can think about a beating. He tells her she needs to keep her mind on selling the matches and that she cannot come home until every one of them is sold. Then he laments about how, since her momma died, she is more than pain and trouble and is always in the way.
The Little Match Girl
1974 · 2 votes
MovieA court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property.
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieKate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
In Two Minds
1967 · 5 votes
Movie9.0DramaTV MovieKate lives fiercely alone, cut off the from present and haunted by the memories of grief from her past.
Kate: The Good Neighbour
1980 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyAn electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when he's sought to participate in a jewel heist.
Jazz Boat
1960 · 5 votes
Movie5.7DramaMysteryTulia, a young model, is invited to a photographer's country home for what purports to be a quiet weekend retreat - but soon appears to be anything but.
Whirlpool
1970 · 35 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaKen Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Three Clear Sundays
1965 · 4 votes
- Movie10.0TV Movie
The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner.
The Voices in the Park
1967 · 1 votes
MovieA personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
Strife
1965
- Movie
Four people intend to register a protest at their firm's outing and cricket match. But it proves a strain on their team spirit.
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TV7.4Action & AdventureCrimeSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
The Saint
1962 · 136 votes
TV7.1ComedyDramaRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Minder
1979 · 30 votes
TV7.8Action & AdventureCrimeA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Avengers
1961 · 156 votes
TV7.2DramaTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
TV5.2DramaAn anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
The Wednesday Play
1964 · 5 votes
TV7.0DramaJim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
Bergerac
1981 · 25 votes
TV7.0DramaA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974 · 1 votes
TV7.1DramaComedyRumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975 · 24 votes
TV8.0DramaIn Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
The Duchess of Duke Street
1976 · 14 votes
TV7.0DramaAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973 · 1 votes
TV9.0CrimeA BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
Detective
1964 · 1 votes
TV6.4DramaSci-Fi & FantasyDoomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Doomwatch
1970 · 6 votes
- TV8.0Drama
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Festival
1963 · 1 votes
TV6.3Action & AdventureThe Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
The Adventurer
1972 · 7 votes
TV7.8ComedyA father and son who work as rag-and-bone men live together in Shepherd's Bush, London. While Albert is content with their way of life, Harold aspires to better himself and build a life of his own, but his attempts are repeatedly thwarted by his father, leading to frequent clashes between the two.
Steptoe and Son
1962 · 39 votes
TV6.5MysteryComedySpirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983 · 18 votes
TV7.7ComedyTom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA.
The Good Life
1975 · 46 votes
TV8.2DramaWar & PoliticsThe Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
The Sandbaggers
1978 · 12 votes
- TV7.0Drama
A completely lost BBC1 drama series centred on the King family, who love, live, fight and work around a harbour in the Thames estuary.
King of the River
1966 · 1 votes
TV7.2ComedyBritish sitcom in which happy-go-lucky character Peter Barnes comically and haphazardly tries to deal with the daily frustrations his life throws at him.
A Sharp Intake of Breath
1977 · 6 votes
- TV7.3Comedy
Grundy is a British television sitcom starring Harry H. Corbett as puritanical newsagent Leonard Grundy who, after a divorce, opposes the idea of a 'permissive society' and befriends the wife of the man who left with his wife. It was initially scheduled for late 1979, but a ten-week industrial dispute and a subsequent heart attack by Corbett caused broadcast to be postponed until 1980.
Grundy
1980 · 3 votes
- TV7.0Comedy
A court that is frequently presided over by the increasingly amused Mr Justice Swallow and Mr Haddock's long-suffering adversary Sir Joshua Hoot QC.
Misleading Cases
1967 · 2 votes
TV7.0DramaA series of four feature-length episodes following the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926.
Days of Hope
1975 · 5 votes