Written by Roy Clarke Keeping Up Appearances was a sitcom starring Patricia Routledge that ran on the BBC from 1990-1995. What was it all about? Hyacinth...
Lana Turner’s life story epitomizes the dark, dangerous side of Hollywood glamour. Supposedly discovered skipping school one day in a drugstore on Sunset Boulevard. She had...
EVERYTHING about silent screen comedian-producer-director Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was immense: his talent, his prodigious girth (he tipped the scales at 266 pounds), his paycheck (at the...
Weekend World was an ITV current affairs show broadcast on Sunday mornings. It was hosted by three political animals: Peter Jay, Brian Walden and Matthew Parris....
Sorry was a farcical BBC1 sitcom running from 1981-1988 with Ronnie Corbett as a pint-sized, sex-starved, moped-riding librarian who still lived at home at the age...
Classic 1930s set gangster series The Untouchables starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness’s and in which he and his men took on the gangsters of Chicago, including...
In his early films Burt Lancaster often played haunted, troubled characters – his career began in the brooding films of director Robert Siodmak. He then turned...
Good drama is good drama, right? Same goes for comedy, no? Well, not exactly. If it were that simple then David Mamet would have had a...
For ten years Ray Milland worked in Hollywood, a charming, romantic supporting actor in light comedy-dramas, steadily being groomed for better things. Fame came, but from...
Popular ITV comedy In Loving Memory, which ran from 1979-1986, was set in a Lancashire undertaker’s business in the ’20s and ’30s. Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny,...