Ian Collier
Actor · 1943 – 2008 · Lewisham, London, England, UK
Ian Gordon Arthur Collier (25 January 1943 – 1 October 2008) was a British actor. Collier appeared on stage in Tony Richardson's production of Hamlet in 1969 at London's Roundhouse, and at the Lunt-Fontanne theater in New York City. Other repetory work includes appearances in Barrow-in-Furness and Liverpool, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also appeared in various television programmes including Rentaghost, Hi-de-Hi! and Howards' Way as well as in the Doctor Who serial The Time Monster. Collier portrayed the villain Omega in the Fifth Doctor serial Arc of Infinity and later in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Omega. He played Bernice Summerfield's father, Isaac Summerfield, in Death and the Daleks, and he guest starred in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio drama Excelis Decays. Among his other television appearances was a guest part in an episode of Are You Being Served? in 1985. Collier's film credits included roles in Hamlet (1969), The Next Man (1976), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) and Heritage Africa (1989).[10] Collier died on 1 October 2008 of unspecified causes.
Series19
TV4.3SoapDramaThe everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
EastEnders
1985 · 230 votes
TV7.9DramaAction & AdventureThe 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 spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Doctor Who
1963 · 724 votes
TV7.1ComedyDramaRoguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Minder
1979 · 30 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
TV7.8ComedyDramaThe trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
All Creatures Great and Small
1978 · 49 votes
TV8.1Action & AdventureDramaJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
The Sweeney
1975 · 28 votes
TV8.1ComedyJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Jeeves and Wooster
1990 · 132 votes
TV7.7ComedyA snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.
Keeping Up Appearances
1990 · 178 votes
TV5.9DramaSoapThe BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.
Howards' Way
1985 · 11 votes
TV7.0Action & AdventureFollow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
Return of the Saint
1978 · 10 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
TV7.0DramaCrimeA crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Target
1977 · 4 votes
TV5.8CrimeDramaRockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.
Rockliffe's Babies
1987 · 5 votes
TV6.8Sci-Fi & FantasyFamilyAfter his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up 'Rentaghost', a supernatural service for wanted hauntings.
Rentaghost
1976 · 8 votes
TV8.0MysteryCrimeVictorian England, the late 1800s: Detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.
Cribb
1980 · 5 votes
TV8.0DramaDanger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.
Danger UXB
1979 · 8 votes
TV8.1War & PoliticsComedyFrustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
House of Cards
1990 · 165 votes
TV7.7DramaWith Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins. An anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
Shades of Darkness
1983 · 3 votes
TV7.5MysteryDramaRebecca is a four-part British television miniseries dramatised by Hugh Whitemore, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1938 mystery novel (which had famously been interpreted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940). A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca.
Rebecca
1979 · 4 votes
Movies12
MovieDocumentaryScience FictionA look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
MovieComedyTV MovieIt's Julie's last night as a mini-cab driver and it's a night full of adventures she'll never forget.
Shift Work
1986
Movie6.0CrimeComedyAn American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1980 · 19 votes
Movie6.2DramaThe story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
Heritage Africa
1989 · 5 votes
Movie5.9Science FictionDramaThe Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time. The creature is summoned but proves to be uncontrollable.
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972 · 5 votes
Movie4.6ActionThrillerKhalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?
The Next Man
1976 · 12 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaIn 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
The Happy Valley
1987 · 7 votes
Movie10.0DramaHorrorBased on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.
The Lady's Maid's Bell
1983 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
Thin Air
1988 · 1 votes
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A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler of the Tangier Straits who happens to be a stiff
Tangiers
1982 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaJohn Wain adapts his own novel, about a young man who accompanies his feuding parents to Portugal for the memorial service of his sister, who died in a plane crash with her entire class.
Young Shoulders
1984 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryWriters and actors look at the character and motivation of the renegade Time Lord, Omega.
The Omega Factor
2007