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Dame Thora Hird, DBE was an English actress and comedian of stage and screen, presenter and writer. In a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in more than 100 film and television roles, becoming a household name and a British institution.
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01 April 1956
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison.
04 January 1955
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for.
23 January 1953
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
19 May 1952
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.
12 April 1962
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
26 December 1990
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
22 June 1942
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
07 May 1951
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.
22 April 1957
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
01 September 1952
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
04 September 1956
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
19 September 1955
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray.
14 September 1948
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
28 December 1989
An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.
20 December 1949
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
20 June 1954
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.
06 November 1944
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
19 January 1944
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
23 February 1942
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
15 June 1942
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
02 December 1978
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
23 February 1948
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
03 February 1979
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
01 December 1948
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
29 November 1977
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.
01 July 1950
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.
11 April 1947
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society.
24 May 1949
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon.
11 September 1994
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister.
03 January 1999
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own.
23 May 1949
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
07 December 1942
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion.
29 April 1953
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
17 February 1972
A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
28 October 1958
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather.
01 October 1950
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
05 February 1948
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country.
01 January 1958
George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.
19 April 1992
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths.
17 March 1953
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
01 April 1970
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
29 April 1971
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth.
10 September 1956
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him.
05 September 1993
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis.
01 June 1956
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen.
10 November 1953
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
16 August 1962
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna.
20 October 1953
A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
09 November 1953
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children.
12 March 1967
BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
01 July 1952
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister.
01 January 1953
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
11 October 1948
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
25 July 1960
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
31 January 1956
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London.
01 January 1999
Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men.
01 March 1952
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
