Barry Humphries’ Scandals was Humphries first starring TV series introducing Mrs Edna Everage (yet to be made a Dame) as well as other characters like Vicar...
Silent comedy The Plank was a remake of a 1967 cinema short, also by Sykes in which two bumbling workmen try to transport a plank of...
By the late 1970’s the iconic film studio Hammer was no longer the force it once was, deciding that TV would be a new avenue to...
Based on popular US game show Hollywood Squares and hosted brilliantly by Bob Monkhouse, Celebrity Squares was a version of old favourite noughts and crosses. ATV...
In drama Face to Face Angel, a young stage performer in a song and dance act falls in love with a rich older businessman and runs...
A Scotland Yard special investigator (Christopher Lee) discovers that the wealthy trustees of an exclusive orphanage are transplanting their personalities into children to ensure a second...
Romping sex comedy with PETER SELLERS as Robert Danvers, a celebrated 40-year-old TV food and wine critic whose bon vivant lifestyle finds ultimate expression in the...
In the tongue in cheek horror Theatre of Blood Vincent Price portrays a Shakespearean actor who gets even with eight critics, who have all panned his...
The Weak and the Wicked was a liberally minded women’s prison drama from the ’50s. Glynis Johns and Diana Dors are locked up with a great...
In Yield to the Night Diana Dors, convicted of the murder of socialite Mercia Shaw, who’s dumping of Dors’ lover Michael Craig caused his suicide, reflects...
In season opener Messenger of the Gods, Regan and Carter have pulled in small time villain Lukey Sparrow the day before his wedding. Sparrow is believed...
Variety entertainment series Big Night Out was seen once or twice monthly and mainly appeared from various seaside resorts. The first short run series (only six...
Period horror. In 1980 the BBC broadcast a feature length period adaptation of Stevenson’s proto horror classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, pulling out all the...
Period comedy. An alternate view of history showing what happened to Helen of Troy following the Trojan War. UK / BBC2 / 1×30 minute episodes /...
In a school essay written at the tender age of nine years, plain Diana Fluck declared she was going to be a movie star. She made...