Reg Lever
Actor · 1903 – 1985 · Chasetown, Burntwood, Staffordshire, England, UK
Movies10
Movie6.8FantasyDramaA musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Scrooge
1970 · 171 votes
Movie5.7Science FictionActionThe travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, immortal entity who forces them to play a series of games, failure at which will render them his playthings for all eternity.
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
1966 · 6 votes
Movie4.8ThrillerHorrorSoldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.
The Beast in the Cellar
1971 · 39 votes
Movie7.0AdventureTV MovieRobert of Locksley is harbouring a runaway serf. A warrant is then issued for Robert's arrest: he is now an outlaw. Stars David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron and Ciaran Madden
Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood
1973 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaSuccessful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship with an inspirational orphan and a beautiful singer. Learning from them what truly matters in life, Rod regroups and returns to form.
Yesterday's Hero
1979 · 6 votes
Movie6.1HorrorScience FictionThe waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Doomwatch
1972 · 26 votes
MovieDramaComedyEvery man needs just one night out, off the leash. Willie's attempt to prove himself provides a painfully funny and painfully sad comment on the battle of the sexes.
Movie6.0ComedyDreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968 · 2 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaKen Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Three Clear Sundays
1965 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0TV MovieHorror
In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole, investigate.
The Road
1963 · 1 votes
Series7
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 · 723 votes
TV5.2DramaA BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 8 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
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
TV6.7ComedyDramaDr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962 · 3 votes
- TVDrama
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
Drama 61-67
1961
TV7.6DramaPennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs. During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Pennies from Heaven
1978 · 17 votes