I, Claudius Robert Graves’ realistic Roman recreation – a red extravaganza, with blood and wine flying around like togas in a tumble dryer was broadcast to...
Claude Rains had a high reputation as a stage actor when, in his mid-forties, he made the oddest of all film debuts. James Whale cast him...
Popular 1960’s medical drama Dr Kildare starred Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey. Diagnosis? Impetuous young Dr Kildare worked at Blair General Hospital, under the watchful eye...
As much as we love new Doctor Who it’s the classic series return to whenever we think about classic villains associated with the show. So it’s...
Basil Rathbone, the American screen’s most distinguished villain was British to the core even though he was born in South Africa. He moved to Hollywood in...
During a 10 year period from the mid 1960’s to the mid 1970’s the Amicus studios really gave the famed Hammer studios a run for its...
Hollywood has had a longtime fixation with depicting the life and times of geniuses in film. And often, these characters aren’t as we’d expect groundbreakers and...
Syd and Eddie’s old-fashioned appeal in the Little and Large show first reached our screens on ITV in 1976 before the pair moved to the BBC...
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII was a slice of period drama that aired on BBC Two in 1970 and starred Keith Michell, Annette Crosbie, Dorothy...
Rawhide was a black and white western adventure based on the lives of a cattle-driving team heading for Kansas.Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood and Sheb Wooley. Famed...