In ITV sitcom Ours Is A Nice House, Thora Parker (Thora Hird) is the landlady of a north country boarding house. At the time Hird was...
Director Robert Hamer, best known for his Ealing films It Always Rains on Sundays and Kind Hearts and Coronets, used vivid location filming in and around...
Having grown out of an episode of the BBC’s legendary Comedy Playhouse series and written by the well respected Roy Clarke Last of the Summer Wine...
First Night was an anthology of dramas specially written for television. The series attracted some high profile names. The first one broadcast was The Strain written...
Comedy drama series The First Lady, created by Alan Plater, told stories of no nonsense northern independent councillor Sarah Danby. This being the 1960’s the BBC...
Festival was a BBC anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. The first production was Noel Coward’s Fallen...
Saturday Night Theatre was an anthology series with no real defining factor other than that the productions were all first broadcast on Saturday evening in a...
Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham and Thora Hird feature in Michael Winner’s pointless prequel to Henry James’ ‘The Turn Of The Screw’. Occasionally lurid but generally lame...
Charming British comedy about a young couple (DIRK BOGARDE, SUSAN STEPHEN) who struggle to make ends meet as they embark on married life together. EILEEN HERLIE...
David Farrar takes the lead in this British thriller as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Craig, desperately hunting for the kidnapped child of American diplomat Lee Cochrane...
Spring in Park Lane took more money at the British box office in 1948 than any other picture and leads Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding jointly...
In gentle culture-clash comedy A Day To Remember a group of British tourists descends on liberated France. They are the darts team of The Hand and...
The mother of all mother-in-law jokes. Peggy Mount raises the decibel levels of durable British farce Sailor Beware. She plays the formidable mater of delightful Shirley...
Went the Day Well is a fascinating Second World War Ealing propaganda film based on Greene’s short story The Lieutenant Died Last, published in June 1940...
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Thora Hird, Sid James and Bill Owen, British gem Once A Jolly Swagman was nominated for a BAFTA in 1949. Bogarde, in only...