Pete Murray
Actor
Movies22
Movie7.5HorrorThrillerLoner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Peeping Tom
1960 · 929 votes
Movie6.7ComedyA comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of trouble. Lots of celebrity appearances.
Simon Simon
1970 · 3 votes
MovieDocumentaryA celebration of Coventry's history & rich industrial heritage.
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British television horror movie from 1950.
The Poltergeist
1950
MoviePete Murray takes you along his travels through the picturesque and historical coastal town of Hastings.
Movie7.2DramaHistoryIn 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Captain Boycott
1947 · 10 votes
MovieDocumentaryThis documentary is about the first five years of BBC Radio 1 and contains interviews with the disc jockeys and other folk who were involved in the station's inception. It also contains footage from the previous pirate radio era as a means of explaining why Radio 1 came about.
Radio Wonderful
1973
Movie10.0MusicA spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.
6.5 Special
1958 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaJonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
My Brother Jonathan
1948 · 6 votes
Movie6.7RomanceAdventureDuring the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
Caravan
1946 · 6 votes
MovieDocumentaryA revelatory documentary uncovering amazing stories about what really goes on behind the scenes at Eurovision. With contributions from former winner Cheryl Baker, former loser Andy Abraham and former host Jan Leeming.
Movie6.5DocumentaryThe story of the British pop charts from their beginnings on the 50s through the heyday of the 70s and 80s to their re-emergence in a digital world.
Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10
2012 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaLife becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Hungry Hill
1947 · 6 votes
Movie6.8AdventureCrimeA man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
The Man Within
1947 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyThrillerA petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Otley
1969 · 24 votes
Movie6.0ComedyScience FictionThe Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Time Flies
1944 · 4 votes
Movie9.0MusicComedyIn this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.
The Cool Mikado
1963 · 1 votes
MovieTV MovieFantasyA Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
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An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
Escort for Hire
1960 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DramaMysteryA British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
Portrait from Life
1948 · 9 votes
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An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
A Taste of Money
1960 · 2 votes
Movie9.0Celebrating the life and career of legendary British blonde bombshell Diana Dors, who died in 1984. Friends remember her affectionately and film clips illustrate her big screen movie roles.
Blondes: Diana Dors
1999 · 1 votes
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TV6.6RealityThe biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.
Top of the Pops
1964 · 44 votes
TV5.3Talk ShowChat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Wogan
1982 · 7 votes
TV4.8CrimeDramaNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
No Hiding Place
1959 · 4 votes
TV7.1CrimeDramaBBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
Maigret
1960 · 15 votes
TV6.8DramaAction & AdventureThe origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
Nautilus
2024 · 109 votes
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The Six-Five Special is a British television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain.
Six-Five Special
1957 · 1 votes
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Second Time Around
1974 · 1 votes
TV7.2ComedyAlexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
1988 · 5 votes
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Mum's Boys
1968