Laurence Payne (Actor)

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date1963-11-23

Charactersd Johnny Ringo

Episode Count2

Vote Count701

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

Release Date1962-10-04

Charactersd Noel Bastion

Episode Count1

Vote Count128

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date1970-10-15

Charactersd Weaver

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

Release Date1979-03-24

Charactersd Collingwood

Episode Count1

Vote Count49

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Release Date1973-04-14

Charactersd John Jacey

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Ben-Hur

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.

Release Date1959-11-18

Charactersd Joseph (uncredited)

Vote Count3166

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

Release Date1971-09-20

Charactersd Prescott

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

Release Date1969-06-18

Charactersd James Galbraith

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Interpol Calling

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

Release Date1959-09-13

Charactersd Porton

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Release Date1992-11-09

Charactersd Duncan (voice)

Episode Count1

Vote Count16

Lady Killers

Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Presented by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

Release Date1980-07-20

Charactersd Victor Mishcon

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Cribb

Victorian England, the late 1800s: Detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb of the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.

Release Date1980-04-13

Charactersd Raymond Cromer

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Jubilee 1977

Jubilee 1977 is a thirteen-part 1977 BBC One television limited series produced by Pieter Rogers, an anthology centred around the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession on Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952. It was celebrated with large-scale parties and parades in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth throughout 1977, culminating in June with the official 'Jubilee Days', held to coincide with the Queen's Official Birthday.

Release Date1977-03-27

Charactersd Geoffrey

Episode Count1

On Trial

A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

Release Date1960-07-08

Charactersd Spencer Cowper

Episode Count1

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Release Date1956-02-22

Charactersd Delius

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

The Sandbaggers

The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

Release Date1978-09-18

Charactersd Sir Donald Hawkins

Episode Count1

Vote Count12

A Matter of Life and Death

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Release Date1946-12-15

Charactersd Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)

Vote Count470

Barabbas

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Release Date1961-12-23

Charactersd Disciple

Vote Count179

Ill Met by Moonlight

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Release Date1957-01-31

Charactersd Manoli

Vote Count44

Vampire Circus

After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.

Release Date1972-04-30

Charactersd Prof. Albert Mueller

Vote Count132

Train of Events

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Release Date1949-01-18

Charactersd Richard

Vote Count13

The Crawling Eye

A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.

Release Date1958-07-07

Charactersd Philip Truscott

Vote Count96

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo falls in love with the beautiful young Juliet, but their warring families spell tragedy for the lovers.

Release Date1976-09-26

Charactersd Capulet

Vote Count2

Psy-Warriors

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a new phase of military research modelling itself on the US example.

Release Date1981-07-17

Charactersd Weaver

Vote Count3

Sexton Blake

ITV aired Thames Television's Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named "The Grey Panther" and owned a bloodhound named Pedro. The show was originally produced by Ronald Marriott for Associated Rediffusion, with Thames Television taking over production in 1968.

Release Date1967-09-25

Charactersd Sexton Blake

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Dangerous Exile

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.

Release Date1957-12-12

Charactersd Lautrec

Vote Count6

The Singer Not the Song

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

Release Date1961-01-05

Charactersd Pablo

Vote Count19

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday...

Release Date1966-05-21

Charactersd Johnny Ringo

Vote Count6

The Tell-Tale Heart

A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

Release Date1960-12-14

Charactersd Edgar Marsh

Vote Count20

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.

Release Date1980-09-20

Charactersd Morix

Vote Count2

The Third Alibi

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

Release Date1961-03-15

Charactersd Norman Martell

Vote Count13

Crosstrap

In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up.

Release Date1962-01-01

Charactersd Duke

Vote Count8

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own existence in his present.

Release Date1985-03-02

Charactersd Dastari

Vote Count6

The Investigation

Television adaptation of Peter Weiss's play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.

Release Date1967-03-07

Charactersd Witness

Romeo and Juliet

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Release Date1955-05-22

Charactersd Mercutio

Vote Count1

Mystery Submarine

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

Release Date1963-03-03

Charactersd Lt. Seaton

Vote Count1

The Court Martial of Major Keller

Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.

Release Date1961-12-01

Charactersd Major Keller

Vote Count1

Plain Jane

A well-to-do family moves from the city to a country farmhouse, determined to make a go of things on their own, but the existence of an already present third generation housekeeper rather changes things somewhat. Set in 1973-76.

Release Date1977-06-14

Charactersd Geoffrey

Tender Touches

A very relatable soap opera wherein a love triangle leads to the ultimate discovery of self.

Release Date2017-12-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count4

Girl in the Headlines

Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.

Release Date1963-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count9

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

Release Date1960-10-31

Episode Count1

Vote Count15

The Hanged Man

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Release Date1975-02-15

Vote Count3

The Queen's Guards

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

Release Date1961-10-17

Vote Count5

One Deadly Owner

A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.

Release Date1974-02-16

Vote Count2