Sydney Tafler
Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 - 8 November 1979) was an English actor.
Works
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 Mr. Leo Crowley
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
Charactersd Prime Minister
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
Charactersd Finkelstein
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
Charactersd Kugelmann
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Wednesday Play
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
Charactersd Arthur Bradshaw
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
The Sweeney
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Release Date1975-01-02
Charactersd Manny Bellow
Episode Count1
Vote Count27
Thirty-Minute Theatre
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Release Date1965-10-07
Charactersd Hans
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Danger Man
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
Release Date1960-09-11
Charactersd Radek
Episode Count1
Vote Count24
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 Sam Meadows
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Van der Valk
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Release Date1972-09-13
Charactersd Hoofd-commissaris Halsbeek
Episode Count3
Vote Count10
Sunday Night Theatre
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Release Date1950-01-01
Charactersd Harry Soames
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Spy Who Loved Me
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Release Date1977-07-07
Charactersd Liparus Captain
Vote Count2255
Churchill's People
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Release Date1974-12-30
Charactersd Haskelot
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Gideon's Way
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
Release Date1965-03-18
Charactersd Gabriel Lyon
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
The Adventurer
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
Release Date1972-09-29
Charactersd Wyvern
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The Larkins
'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 1964.
Release Date1958-09-19
Charactersd Sidney Foskett
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Survivors
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
Release Date1975-04-16
Charactersd Manny
Episode Count2
Vote Count25
Citizen James
At and around Soho cafe Charlie's Nosh Bar, Sidney Balmoral James ('Sid') is on the lookout for any get-rich-quick scheme. He is helped by William Montmorency Beaumont Kerr ('Billy the Kerr') and quite often frustrated by local bookmaker Albert Welshman. Meanwhile, Sid's long-suffering girlfriend Liz has been waiting for seven years for Sid to set the date.
Release Date1960-11-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Charactersd Charlie Davenport
Episode Count[ 32 ]
Vote Count5
Victorian Scandals
Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Release Date1976-09-03
Charactersd Achille Fould
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
W. Somerset Maugham
An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".
Release Date1969-06-03
Charactersd Sir Adolphus Bland
Episode Count1
The Saint's Return
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Release Date1953-10-12
Charactersd Max Lennar
Vote Count28
The Enigma Files
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.
Release Date1980-04-15
Charactersd Solly King
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
The World of Wooster
Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his invaluable manservant Jeeves. It starred Ian Carmichael as Wooster and Dennis Price as Jeeves. Wodehouse initially felt that Carmichael would be fine as Wooster, but later believed that Carmichael overacted; however, Wodehouse was satisfied enough with to later ask Carmichael to portray Bertie or Jeeves in a musical comedy. Carmichael declined, feeling too old to play Bertie again and that public perception prevented him from playing Jeeves. Wodehouse was far more positive about Price's Jeeves, stating that Price was the best Jeeves he had ever seen. Like many other series of the time, much of the episodes were wiped, leaving all but two now lost. In 2018, it was included at #51 in a list of the top 100 most wanted missing television programmes by TV archivist organisation Kaleidoscope.
Release Date1965-05-30
Charactersd Jas. Waterbury
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Venetian Bird
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Release Date1952-10-01
Charactersd Boldesca
Vote Count18
Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Release Date1960-02-11
Charactersd Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'
Vote Count121
Mystery Junction
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
Release Date1951-09-01
Charactersd Larry Gordon
Vote Count11
The Cannon & Ball Show
A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.
Release Date1979-07-28
Charactersd The Agent
Episode Count1
Scarlet Thread
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
Release Date1951-05-01
Charactersd Marcon
Vote Count8
Sam and Janet
Sam and Janet Marshall, a long-married couple with two children, find and welcome frequent obstacles to a peaceful and argument-free life they so claim to want.
Release Date1967-06-27
Charactersd Mr. Spalding
Episode Count1
An Arabian Night
Release Date1960-06-09
Charactersd Samit
Alfie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Release Date1966-03-29
Charactersd Frank
Vote Count232
It Always Rains on Sunday
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Release Date1947-11-28
Charactersd Morry Hyams
Vote Count73
Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Release Date1956-07-05
Charactersd Robert Desoutter
Vote Count39
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
Release Date1952-07-01
Charactersd Joseph Spink
Vote Count5
The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Release Date1955-04-15
Charactersd Rorke
Vote Count12
The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
Release Date1970-03-25
Charactersd Col. Gutierrez (as Sidney Tafler)
Vote Count12
Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Release Date1949-10-26
Charactersd Fred Cowan
Vote Count99
Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Release Date1961-04-04
Charactersd Strip Club Manager
Vote Count56
The Bulldog Breed
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
Release Date1960-12-13
Charactersd Speedboat Owner
Vote Count18
The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Release Date1954-10-01
Charactersd Alex Fraser
Vote Count9
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Release Date1951-06-28
Charactersd Clayton
Vote Count287
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Release Date1966-07-15
Charactersd First Fish Porter
Vote Count8
The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Release Date1964-09-02
Charactersd Tom, Chief Petty Officer
Vote Count21
The Cockleshell Heroes
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Release Date1955-11-16
Charactersd Policeman
Vote Count33
The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Release Date1956-06-01
Charactersd Stone
Vote Count23
The Birthday Party
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Release Date1968-12-09
Charactersd Nat Goldberg
Vote Count20
Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Release Date1941-09-06
Charactersd RAF Officer (uncredited)
Vote Count23
Assassin for Hire
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
Release Date1951-04-01
Charactersd Antonio Riccardi
Vote Count3
Booby Trap
An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Release Date1957-07-01
Charactersd Mr Hunter
Vote Count4
Oy Vay Maria
Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?
Release Date1977-11-08
Charactersd Harry Perlman
Vote Count1
The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Release Date1953-07-13
Charactersd 1st Wiseacre
Vote Count8
Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Release Date1958-02-18
Charactersd Potter
Vote Count28
Promise Her Anything
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
Release Date1966-02-22
Charactersd Panel Participant
Vote Count9
Berserk!
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Release Date1967-11-01
Charactersd Harrison Liston
Vote Count47
Five Golden Hours
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Release Date1961-02-01
Charactersd Alfredo
Vote Count3
The Bank Raiders
A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
Release Date1958-10-01
Charactersd Bernie Shelton
Vote Count2
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Release Date1955-08-15
Charactersd Madam Rita
Vote Count28
Dance Hall
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Release Date1950-06-08
Charactersd Manager
Vote Count7
Interpol
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Release Date1957-04-02
Charactersd Curtis
Vote Count21
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.
Release Date1956-07-01
Charactersd Dr. Higgins
Vote Count38
Emergency Call
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Release Date1952-05-19
Charactersd Brett
Vote Count7
Once a Sinner
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Release Date1950-07-01
Charactersd Jimmy Smart
Vote Count5
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Release Date1954-06-01
Charactersd Cpl. Robb
Vote Count16
Make Mine Mink
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Release Date1960-08-09
Charactersd Lionel Spanager
Vote Count17
Hotel Sahara
In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area.
Release Date1951-07-09
Charactersd Pullar
Vote Count7
Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Release Date1959-03-08
Charactersd Solicitor
Vote Count23
The Counterfeit Plan
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Release Date1957-01-01
Charactersd Harry Flint
Vote Count3
Secret People
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Release Date1952-02-05
Charactersd Syd Burnett
Vote Count22
No Room at the Inn
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Release Date1948-11-22
Charactersd Stranger
Vote Count2
Runaway Railway
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Release Date1965-01-01
Charactersd Mr. Jones
Vote Count4
Light Up the Sky!
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Release Date1960-07-05
Charactersd Ted Green
Vote Count7
A Weekend with Lulu
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
Release Date1961-04-10
Charactersd Stationmaster
Vote Count10
Follow a Star
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Release Date1959-01-01
Charactersd Pendlebury
Vote Count15
Way Off Beat
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Release Date1966-06-08
Charactersd Arthur Bradshaw
Vote Count1
Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Release Date1960-03-25
Charactersd Sid Biggs
Vote Count10
The Woman for Joe
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
Release Date1955-08-25
Charactersd Butch
Vote Count4
No Kidding
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Release Date1960-11-01
Charactersd Mr. Rockbottom
Vote Count9
Wide Boy
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
Release Date1952-04-01
Charactersd Benny
Vote Count6
Dial 999
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
Release Date1955-12-01
Charactersd Alf Cressett
Vote Count10
The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Release Date1951-05-07
Charactersd Mr. Leon
Vote Count9
Uneasy Terms
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Release Date1948-07-06
Charactersd Maysin
Vote Count7
There Was a Young Lady
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Release Date1953-01-01
Charactersd Johnny
Vote Count4
The Monkey's Paw
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Release Date1948-06-01
Charactersd Freeman, the Dealer
Vote Count10
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Release Date1948-11-05
Charactersd Night Club Receptionist
Vote Count15
Guilty?
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Release Date1956-04-10
Charactersd Camino
Vote Count3
Blind Man's Bluff
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
Release Date1952-01-01
Charactersd Ricky Martin
Vote Count1
The Crowning Touch
Several stories linked by a hat.
Release Date1959-06-01
Charactersd Joe
Vote Count1
Nightmare for a Nightingale
An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
Release Date1975-10-02
Charactersd Sam Meadows
Vote Count2
The Surgeon's Knife
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Release Date1957-10-01
Charactersd Dr. Hearne
Vote Count1
Operation Diplomat
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Release Date1953-12-01
Charactersd Wade
Vote Count9
Pews
Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town is empty.
Release Date1980-01-12
Charactersd Kugelmann
Baby Blues
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
Release Date1973-12-06
Charactersd Mr. Crowley
Vote Count1
The Floating Dutchman
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
Release Date1954-02-01
Charactersd Victor Skinner
Vote Count3
Chelsea Story
Fletcher Gilchrist offers £100 to anyone who will break into a house. Journalist Mike Harvey accepts the bet but he and another man are caught when the latter murders the owner of the house. Harvey escapes custody, determined to seek revenge on Gilchrist.
Release Date1951-07-30
Charactersd Fletcher Gilchrist
Vote Count1
Crown Court
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Release Date1972-10-11
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Z-Cars
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Release Date1962-01-02
Episode Count3
Vote Count7
No Hiding Place
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Release Date1959-09-16
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
The Third Man
Release Date1959-10-02
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Man in a Suitcase
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.
Release Date1967-09-27
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone.
Release Date1973-02-15
Episode Count1
Vote Count47
A World Of His Own
"A World of His Own" is the title of a British comedy television series starring Roy Kinnear and Anne Cunningham, which aired on the BBC in 1964 and 1965. It was created as a vehicle for Kinnear, who played an absent-minded dreamer named Stanley Blake. The series ran for 13 episodes which all are believed to be lost.
Release Date1964-07-31
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Waugh on Crime
Release Date1970-12-04
Episode Count1
Danger Point
Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in the shape of a sea-mine.
Release Date1971-01-02
Vote Count2
A Slight Case Of...
Roy Kinnear plays a seedy and incompetent private detective named H A Wormsley.
Release Date1965-09-08
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Vienna 1900
Release Date1973-12-08
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Alexander the Greatest
Alexander the Greatest was a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren, it was written by Bernard Kops and made for the ITV network by ATV.
Release Date1971-07-15
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Children of Rage
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. They are the Children of Rage
Release Date1975-05-28
Vote Count3
Johnny on the Run
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 encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
Release Date1953-06-01
Vote Count3
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
Release Date1970-03-04