Jean Anderson

Jean Anderson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the 1980s Second World War series Tenko . She is also notable for playing the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957. Other TV credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Man, The Man in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Jean Anderson
  • Popularity: 22.918
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-12-12
  • Place of Birth: Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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Jean Anderson Movies

  • 1979
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    The Lady Vanishes
    The Lady Vanishes

    6.044 1979 HD

    On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady,...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Cybill Shepherd

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  • 1963
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    The Three Lives of Thomasina
    The Three Lives of Thomasina

    6.784 1963 HD

    Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Patrick McGoohan

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  • 1953
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    The Kidnappers
    The Kidnappers

    6.7 1953 HD

    After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jean Anderson

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  • 1971
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    The Road Builder
    The Road Builder

    6.4 1971 HD

    The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patricia Neal

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  • 1956
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    A Town Like Alice
    A Town Like Alice

    6.297 1956 HD

    In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Virginia McKenna

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  • 1948
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    Elizabeth of Ladymead
    Elizabeth of Ladymead

    6 1948 HD

    Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Neagle

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  • 2000
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    Endgame
    Endgame

    6.8 2000 HD

    Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Gambon

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  • 1957
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    Robbery Under Arms
    Robbery Under Arms

    5.4 1957 HD

    During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Finch

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  • 1957
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    Lucky Jim
    Lucky Jim

    5.3 1957 HD

    Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ian Carmichael

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  • 1951
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    The Franchise Affair
    The Franchise Affair

    6.7 1951 HD

    An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Michael Denison

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  • 1954
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    Lease of Life
    Lease of Life

    7.4 1954 HD

    The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Donat

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  • 1994
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    The Whipping Boy
    The Whipping Boy

    6.4 1994 HD

    A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Truan Munro

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  • 1952
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    The Brave Don't Cry
    The Brave Don't Cry

    5.8 1952 HD

    The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Gregson

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  • 1973
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    Dear Parents
    Dear Parents

    6 1973 HD

    An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Florinda Bolkan

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  • 1992
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    The Bogie Man
    The Bogie Man

    6 1992 HD

    A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Robbie Coltrane

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  • 1993
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    Diana: Her True Story
    Diana: Her True Story

    1.7 1993 HD

    Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Serena Scott Thomas

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  • 1991
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    Do Not Disturb
    Do Not Disturb

    1 1991 HD

    When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 1951
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    Life in Her Hands
    Life in Her Hands

    1 1951 HD

    A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kathleen Byron

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  • 1953
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    Street Corner
    Street Corner

    5.6 1953 HD

    London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Anne Crawford

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  • 1999
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    Simon Magus
    Simon Magus

    7.3 1999 HD

    Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Noah Taylor

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  • 1954
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    The Weak and the Wicked
    The Weak and the Wicked

    6 1954 HD

    Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Glynis Johns

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  • 1983
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    Screamtime
    Screamtime

    4.3 1983 HD

    Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Vincent Russo

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  • 1993
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    Leon The Pig Farmer
    Leon The Pig Farmer

    5.3 1993 HD

    An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mark Frankel

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  • 1959
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    SOS Pacific
    SOS Pacific

    6.7 1959 HD

    A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Richard Attenborough

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  • 1948
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    Bond Street
    Bond Street

    6.8 1948 HD

    Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jean Kent

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  • 1961
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    Spare the Rod
    Spare the Rod

    6 1961 HD

    It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Max Bygraves

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  • 1953
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    Johnny on the Run
    Johnny on the Run

    7 1953 HD

    A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Eugeniusz Chylek

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  • 1958
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    Heart of a Child
    Heart of a Child

    6.5 1958 HD

    A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Jean Anderson

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  • 1967
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    Half a Sixpence
    Half a Sixpence

    6 1967 HD

    "If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Tommy Steele

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  • 1962
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    Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights

    10 1962 HD

    Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Keith Michell

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  • 1959
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    Solomon and Sheba
    Solomon and Sheba

    6.287 1959 HD

    Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Yul Brynner

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  • 1962
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    The Inspector
    The Inspector

    6.7 1962 HD

    At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephen Boyd

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  • 1951
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    White Corridors
    White Corridors

    6.2 1951 HD

    White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a...

    Genre:

    Cast: Googie Withers

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  • 1962
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    Waltz of the Toreadors
    Waltz of the Toreadors

    5.167 1962 HD

    General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Sellers

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  • 1953
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    Time Bomb
    Time Bomb

    5.6 1953 HD

    When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Glenn Ford

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  • 1949
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    Naughty Arlette
    Naughty Arlette

    5.1 1949 HD

    Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Hugh Williams

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  • 1991
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    The Black Velvet Gown
    The Black Velvet Gown

    5.4 1991 HD

    In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bob Peck

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  • 1990
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    Survival of the Fittest
    Survival of the Fittest

    1 1990 HD

    Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Timothy West

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  • 1951
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    Out of True
    Out of True

    6 1951 HD

    A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jane Hylton

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  • 1990
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    Circles Of Deceit
    Circles Of Deceit

    1 1990 HD

    Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward Fox

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  • 1963
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    The Silent Playground
    The Silent Playground

    4.7 1963 HD

    Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Bernard Archard

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  • 1969
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    Run a Crooked Mile
    Run a Crooked Mile

    8 1969 HD

    A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Louis Jourdan

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  • 1970
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    Brotherly Love
    Brotherly Love

    5.9 1970 HD

    Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter O'Toole

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  • 1990
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    O.M.
    O.M.

    1 1990 HD

    Drama based on the life of Owen Morgan Edwards, one of the main benefactors and campaigners for the Welsh language and Welsh culture in a period of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bryn Fôn

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember
    A Night to Remember

    7.579 1958 HD

    The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth More

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  • 1989
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    Back Home
    Back Home

    5 1989 HD

    During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hayley Mills

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  • 1953
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    The Pleasure Garden
    The Pleasure Garden

    6 1953 HD

    People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lindsay Anderson

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  • 1971
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    Father's Help
    Father's Help

    1 1971 HD

    A father who ditched his family life to be free and single again finds some unexpected guests left on his doorstep by his wife who has now done the...

    Genre:

    Cast: Michael Craig

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  • 1956
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    Laughing in the Sunshine
    Laughing in the Sunshine

    1 1956 HD

    Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jean Anderson

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  • 1993
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    Inspector Morse
    Inspector Morse

    7.798 1993 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1970
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    Codename
    Codename

    1 1970 HD

    Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alexandra Bastedo

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  • 1976
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    The Brothers
    The Brothers

    4 1976 HD

    The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Derek Benfield

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  • 1951
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    The Railway Children
    The Railway Children

    1 1951 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Jean Anderson

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  • 1995
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    Keeping Up Appearances
    Keeping Up Appearances

    7.576 1995 HD

    Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 1985
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    Q.E.D.
    Q.E.D.

    6.8 1985 HD

    Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Sam Waterston

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  • 1997
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    The Uninvited
    The Uninvited

    6 1997 HD

    The Uninvited is an ITV science fiction television mini-series first shown in 1997 as four fifty minute episodes. The series was made by Anglia...

    Genre:

    Cast: Oliver Ford Davies

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  • 2010
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    Heartbeat
    Heartbeat

    7 2010 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Derek Fowlds

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  • 1984
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    Tenko
    Tenko

    7.95 1984 HD

    Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Stephanie Cole

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  • 1967
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    No Hiding Place
    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1967 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Johnny Briggs

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  • 1963
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    Lorna Doone
    Lorna Doone

    5 1963 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Jane Merrow

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  • 1963
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    Maigret
    Maigret

    6.909 1963 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Rupert Davies

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  • 1971
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    Fathers and Sons
    Fathers and Sons

    1 1971 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: David Wood

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  • 1997
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    Rebecca
    Rebecca

    5.9 1997 HD

    Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Dance

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  • 1996
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    Doctor Finlay
    Doctor Finlay

    6 1996 HD

    Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Annette Crosbie

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  • 2024
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    Casualty
    Casualty

    5.8 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 2024
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    Casualty
    Casualty

    5.8 2024 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Beck

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  • 1987
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    Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
    Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

    7.3 1987 HD

    When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Hickson

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  • 1991
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    G.B.H.
    G.B.H.

    6.4 1991 HD

    GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Palin

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  • 1960
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    Interpol Calling
    Interpol Calling

    6.667 1960 HD

    The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Korvin

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  • 1971
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    Dr. Finlay's Casebook
    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    6 1971 HD

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bill Simpson

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  • 1998
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    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
    Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

    6.923 1998 HD

    Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 1963
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    Suspense
    Suspense

    5.5 1963 HD

    Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.

    Genre:

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  • 1998
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    Keeping Mum
    Keeping Mum

    1 1998 HD

    Sitcom about an elderly woman who's starting to find her memory wandering while being watched over by her son and his wife.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Haig

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  • 1993
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    The House of Eliott
    The House of Eliott

    5.429 1993 HD

    Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Louise Lombard

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  • 1990
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    Campion
    Campion

    5.625 1990 HD

    Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Peter Davison

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  • 1987
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    Miss Marple
    Miss Marple

    8.3 1987 HD

    Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Hickson

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