Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.

  • Title: Thora Hird
  • Popularity: 2.989
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1911-05-28
  • Place of Birth: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Dame Thora Hird
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Thora Hird Movies

  • 1942
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    Went the Day Well?

    Went the Day Well?

    7.189 1942 HD

    The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

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  • 1955
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    The Quatermass Xperiment

    The Quatermass Xperiment

    6.523 1955 HD

    The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

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  • 1948
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    Corridor of Mirrors

    Corridor of Mirrors

    5.7 1948 HD

    A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

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  • 1962
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    A Kind of Loving

    A Kind of Loving

    7 1962 HD

    As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to...

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  • 1949
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    Madness of the Heart

    Madness of the Heart

    5.9 1949 HD

    A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

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  • 1972
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    The Nightcomers

    The Nightcomers

    5.6 1972 HD

    Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1955
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    One Good Turn

    One Good Turn

    6.1 1955 HD

    Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The...

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  • 1952
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    The Big Frame

    The Big Frame

    3.8 1952 HD

    An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

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  • 1950
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    The Magnet

    The Magnet

    6.2 1950 HD

    A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

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  • 1960
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    The Entertainer

    The Entertainer

    6.1 1960 HD

    Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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  • 1953
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    The Long Memory

    The Long Memory

    6.5 1953 HD

    An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

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  • 1949
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    Conspirator

    Conspirator

    5.9 1949 HD

    A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

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  • 1962
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    Term of Trial

    Term of Trial

    5.7 1962 HD

    A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

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  • 1952
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    Time, Gentlemen, Please!

    Time, Gentlemen, Please!

    8 1952 HD

    Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The...

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  • 1949
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    Once a Jolly Swagman

    Once a Jolly Swagman

    5.4 1949 HD

    A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

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  • 1953
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    Personal Affair

    Personal Affair

    6.2 1953 HD

    A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

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  • 1953
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    Turn the Key Softly

    Turn the Key Softly

    6.2 1953 HD

    A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

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  • 1956
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    Lost

    Lost

    7 1956 HD

    U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

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  • 1956
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    Blonde Bait

    Blonde Bait

    4.8 1956 HD

    Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is...

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  • 1970
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    Some Will, Some Won't

    Some Will, Some Won't

    6 1970 HD

    Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

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  • 1942
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    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    The Black Sheep of Whitehall

    7.2 1942 HD

    A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

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  • 1949
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    Boys in Brown

    Boys in Brown

    6.5 1949 HD

    Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

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  • 1956
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    Now and Forever

    Now and Forever

    7 1956 HD

    A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

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  • 1958
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    Further Up the Creek

    Further Up the Creek

    6 1958 HD

    The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...

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  • 1988
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    Consuming Passions

    Consuming Passions

    8 1988 HD

    Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless...

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  • 1952
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    Emergency Call

    Emergency Call

    6.5 1952 HD

    A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...

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  • 1955
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    The Love Match

    The Love Match

    7.8 1955 HD

    After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

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  • 1994
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    Pat and Margaret

    Pat and Margaret

    7.5 1994 HD

    Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...

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  • 1953
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    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember

    7.125 1953 HD

    A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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  • 1999
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    Lost for Words

    Lost for Words

    7 1999 HD

    Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her...

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  • 1956
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    Women Without Men

    Women Without Men

    6 1956 HD

    In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

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  • 1950
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    Once a Sinner

    Once a Sinner

    6.5 1950 HD

    Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...

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  • 1948
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    Portrait from Life

    Portrait from Life

    5.9 1948 HD

    A 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...

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  • 1964
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    Rattle of a Simple Man

    Rattle of a Simple Man

    4.8 1964 HD

    Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho...

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  • 1957
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    These Dangerous Years

    These Dangerous Years

    6 1957 HD

    A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

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  • 1942
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    Go to Blazes

    Go to Blazes

    10 1942 HD

    Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

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  • 1949
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    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    4.9 1949 HD

    The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

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  • 1953
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    The Great Game

    The Great Game

    6 1953 HD

    The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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  • 1989
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    The Tailor of Gloucester

    The Tailor of Gloucester

    1 1989 HD

    An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

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  • 1982
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    Intensive Care

    Intensive Care

    1 1982 HD

    When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be...

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  • 1948
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    My Brother Jonathan

    My Brother Jonathan

    6.75 1948 HD

    Jonathan 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...

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  • 1966
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    Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

    Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

    1 1966 HD

    The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by...

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  • 1978
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    Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    1 1978 HD

    A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

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  • 1979
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    Afternoon Off

    Afternoon Off

    1 1979 HD

    Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

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  • 1949
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    Fools Rush In

    Fools Rush In

    6 1949 HD

    Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul...

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  • 1988
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    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    5 1988 HD

    Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a...

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  • 1998
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    Talking Heads 2

    Talking Heads 2

    7 1998 HD

    A series of monologues.

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  • 1999
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    Julie and the Cadillacs

    Julie and the Cadillacs

    1 1999 HD

    Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

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  • 1955
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    Simon and Laura

    Simon and Laura

    5.5 1955 HD

    A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

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  • 1953
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    Background

    Background

    6 1953 HD

    Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

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  • 1970
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    Emma and Grandpa

    Emma and Grandpa

    1 1970 HD

    Filmed in rural Sussex in 1982 and re-edited in 2008 with a new sound track, the charm of this period piece does not date. Each month there is a...

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  • 1954
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    Don't Blame the Stork

    Don't Blame the Stork

    1 1954 HD

    When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced...

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  • 1948
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    The Blind Goddess

    The Blind Goddess

    5.6 1948 HD

    Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...

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  • 1942
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    The Next of Kin

    The Next of Kin

    5 1942 HD

    Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

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  • 1963
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    Bitter Harvest

    Bitter Harvest

    6.2 1963 HD

    A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...

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  • 1967
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    1 1967 HD

    BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

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  • 1993
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    Wide-Eyed and Legless

    Wide-Eyed and Legless

    6 1993 HD

    Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty...

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  • 1953
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    Street Corner

    Street Corner

    5.6 1953 HD

    A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

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  • 1944
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    The Lodger

    The Lodger

    6.335 1944 HD

    In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

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  • 1944
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    Two Thousand Women

    Two Thousand Women

    6.8 1944 HD

    During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1956
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    Sailor Beware

    Sailor Beware

    7 1956 HD

    Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

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  • 1956
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    Home and Away

    Home and Away

    7 1956 HD

    When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in...

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  • 1948
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    The Weaker Sex

    The Weaker Sex

    6 1948 HD

    A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

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  • 1955
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    Tiger by the Tail

    Tiger by the Tail

    5.6 1955 HD

    On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

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  • 1949
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    Maytime in Mayfair

    Maytime in Mayfair

    6 1949 HD

    Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as...

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  • 1972
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    The Villa Maroc

    The Villa Maroc

    1 1972 HD

    A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

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  • 1971
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    The Fox Trot

    The Fox Trot

    1 1971 HD

    The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...

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  • 1947
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    The Courtneys of Curzon Street

    The Courtneys of Curzon Street

    4.9 1947 HD

    On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film...

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  • 1952
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    The Frightened Man

    The Frightened Man

    6.2 1952 HD

    Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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  • 1992
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    Memento Mori

    Memento Mori

    6.2 1992 HD

    Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

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  • 1949
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    The Cure for Love

    The Cure for Love

    1 1949 HD

    Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he...

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  • 1942
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    The Foreman Went to France

    The Foreman Went to France

    6.2 1942 HD

    Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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  • 1958
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    A Clean Sweep

    A Clean Sweep

    1 1958 HD

    George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.

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  • 1990
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    The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

    The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

    1 1990 HD

    Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into...

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  • 1977
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    The Mayor's Charity

    The Mayor's Charity

    1 1977 HD

    Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as...

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  • 1982
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    Say Something Happened

    Say Something Happened

    1 1982 HD

    An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but ends up learning just as much about...

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  • 1951
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    The Galloping Major

    The Galloping Major

    6 1951 HD

    A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they...

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  • 1961
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    Over the Odds

    Over the Odds

    1 1961 HD

    A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.

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  • 1962
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    Z-Cars

    Z-Cars

    7 1962 HD

    Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

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  • 1969
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    In Loving Memory

    In Loving Memory

    6.8 1969 HD

    In Loving Memory is a British period sitcom set in an undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot was transmitted in...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1979
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    Blankety Blank

    Blankety Blank

    4.6 1979 HD

    Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977–1979 Australian game show Blankety Blanks. The British version ran from 18...

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  • 1981
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    Hallelujah!

    Hallelujah!

    6 1981 HD

    Hallelujah! was a British sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and was broadcast from April 1983 to December 1984. The series was...

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  • 1968
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    The First Lady

    The First Lady

    1 1968 HD

    The series starred Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby and was set around the fictional borough of Furness in Lancashire....

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  • 1963
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    Meet the Wife

    Meet the Wife

    6 1963 HD

    Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with...

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  • 1998
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    Dinnerladies

    Dinnerladies

    7.387 1998 HD

    Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of...

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play 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...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1990
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    Perfect Scoundrels

    Perfect Scoundrels

    6 1990 HD

    Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people...

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  • 1988
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    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    6.2 1988 HD

    A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett.

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  • 1988
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    Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    6.2 1988 HD

    A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett.

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  • 1983
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    ITV Christmas Comedy

    ITV Christmas Comedy

    1 1983 HD

    Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas...

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  • 1993
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    Goggle Eyes

    Goggle Eyes

    1 1993 HD

    An adaptation of Anne Fine's 1989 children's novel about a one-parent family.

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 2000
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    The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

    The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

    1 2000 HD

    Comedic British History

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  • 1982
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    Objects of Affection

    Objects of Affection

    7 1982 HD

    A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play 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...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 1970 HD

    Play 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...

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  • 1955
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.3 1955 HD

    Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.1 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1976
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    Tell Me Another

    Tell Me Another

    8 1976 HD

    Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills.

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  • 1998
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    Parkinson

    Parkinson

    1 1998 HD

    Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

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