Ted Carroll
Actor · 1920 – 1998 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Ted Carroll was an actor, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Dracula (1979) and Kes (1969). He died in 1998 in England, UK.
Movies9
Movie6.3Science FictionAdventureA football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Flash Gordon
1980 · 1.1K votes
Movie7.4DramaBullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
Kes
1970 · 463 votes
Movie6.4RomanceDramaIn 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.
Dracula
1979 · 294 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 · 57 votes
Movie7.5DramaA boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation. The so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face.
The Nature of the Beast
1988 · 2 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieA watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieIn the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
The Spongers
1978 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaComedyA father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
Kisses at Fifty
1973 · 2 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieWhen Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they find that the picture is not quite as he painted.
Steps Back
1973
Series8
TV4.3SoapDramaThe lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Emmerdale
1972 · 100 votes
TV6.6DramaPlay 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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
TV8.2CrimeDramaSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · 271 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
TV6.2KidsSci-Fi & FantasyWorzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.
Worzel Gummidge
1979 · 13 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaThe XYY Man is a 1976–77 British crime thriller television series created by Kenneth Royce, based on his novel series about reformed cat burglar William 'Spider' Scott, recruited by British intelligence for secret missions due to his unique genetic makeup (an extra Y chromosome), which supposedly predisposes him to crime. The plot follows his reluctant work for the secret service and his constant pursuit by the dogged Detective Sergeant George Bulman, leading to spin-offs like Strangers and Bulman.
The XYY Man
1976 · 4 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
- TV9.0Comedy
Di Dorkins, aka 'Big D', runs a large textile company called Garsley Garments and also manages of the local rugby league team. Always at the bottom of the league, she renames the team Frilly Things and sets about reviving their fortunes.
All Our Saturdays
1973 · 2 votes