The Mallens was a memorable Catherine Cookson adaptation about a Northern squire with a ruthless streak that aired on ITV between 1979 and 1980 starring John...
War! What Is It Good for? These military satires find the humor amidst the horror. Enlightened movie makers have long realised the satirical value in the...
From Sunset Boulevard to Swimming with Sharks, Hollywood has long cast a cold eye on itself… Hollywood movies — that is, movies about Hollywood — are...
The question isn’t so much “Who is Alan Smithee?” but rather “Who isn’t Alan Smithee?” Smithee is, in many ways, the ultimate filmmaker—John Frankenheimer, David Lynch,...
Classic TV Revisited takes a look at sitcom The Rag Trade which was created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney What was it all about? A comedy...
More cowardly than Lassie and more cuddly than Deputy Dawg, a certain Great Dane has remained one of TV’s most popular crime-fighting forces for the last...
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favorite movies was Shadow of a Doubt. In Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary short on the film, Hitchcock’s daughter, Pat, explains that her...
If Alfred Hitchcock brought evil to a prosaic town in Shadow of a Doubt, then in Rear Window, he brought the prosaic evil to the big...
From Cannon to Kojak, Rebus to Rockford, crime pays when it comes to TV. So here’s our A-Z guide of top telly sleuths and the occasional...
Peter Lawford heard the story first. He told it to Frank Sinatra. Sinatra bought the rights (giving Lawford a piece) and hired the screenwriters, Harry Brown...