Ruby Head
Actor · 1916 – 1997 · Totnes, Devon, England, UK
Ruby Head was born on 14 November 1916 in Totnes, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Long Good Friday (1980), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1976) and Nobody's Perfect (1980). She died on 12 October 1997 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
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TV6.8Action & AdventureDramaDempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · 33 votes
TV6.9DramaPoldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.
Poldark
1975 · 17 votes
- TVDrama
Dramatisations of three different women, three different cases—Constance Kent (episodes 1–8), Mary Blandy (9–14), and Adelaide Bartlett (15–22)—all 18th- and 19th-century murderesses.
TV9.0ComedyThe Misfit is an ATV sitcom created by Roy Clarke, broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV. Basil Allenby-Johnson returns from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, a home he no longer recognises.
The Misfit
1970 · 1 votes
TV6.0DramaIn the aftermath of Upstairs Downstairs, chauffeur Thomas Watkins and housemaid Sarah Moffat have gone their separate ways. But when a near fatal auto accident reunites them, the duo team up to hatch get-rich-quick schemes, pose as wealthy investors, or take on various odd jobs—often at the expense of others.
Thomas & Sarah
1979 · 3 votes
TV8.0DramaMysteryDead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.
Dead of Night
1972 · 6 votes
TV6.4Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaBeasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected save for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. The series avoids typical monster horror clichès, more so focusing on psychological and supernatural themes.
Beasts
1976 · 8 votes
- TV
Love Story is a 60-minute British anthology television series produced by Associated Television (ATV). A total of 128 episodes aired on ITV from 1963 to 1974. Its guest stars included Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Stephanie Beacham, James Bolam, Dudley Moore, Wendy Hiller, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Macnee, John Hurt, Geoffrey Palmer, Judy Cornwell, Leo McKern, David Hemmings, Judy Parfitt, Anna Massey, Felicity Kendal, Edward Fox, Sam Wanamaker, Ian McShane, Michael Kitchen, George Maharis and Margaret Whiting.
Love Story
1963
- TVComedy
Bill Hooper is a middle-aged woman whose outspoken liberal views and strong personality frequently bring her into conflict with her family, friends, and neighbours. Living with her fourth husband, Sam, Bill also shares her home with her divorced daughter and young grandson. The series focuses on Bill's domestic life and its intersection with the social and political issues of the day.
Nobody's Perfect
1980
TV6.2DramaComedyTurtle's Progress is a British television series broadcast between 1979 and 1980. The offbeat humour of the show attracted a small but cult audience, and the show only ran for two series.
Turtle's Progress
1979 · 4 votes
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Movie7.2CrimeThrillerIn the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
The Long Good Friday
1980 · 454 votes
Movie4.2HorrorTV MovieA washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Beasts: The Dummy
1976 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaA young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
Up the Junction
1968 · 16 votes
Movie9.0FamilyDramaZena has been abandoned by her parents and left in the care of her aunt Bee Melvin. She is treated poorly by two of her cousins, and taking the lead from the story Peter and Wendy, she runs away from home with her younger cousin.
Never Never Land
1980 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
A man enters a house full of clocks and stars to talk to them.