John Laurie

AKA: John Lawrie, John Paton Laurie
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1897-03-24

Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK

Biography

John Laurie was a noted Scottish stage, screen, and television actor.

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John the Crofter

1935-06-06 7.339

The 39 Steps

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Sco ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Archbishop

1979-08-17 5.7

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and swi ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Khalifa

1939-04-20 7.041

The Four Feathers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War, History

Private James Frazer

1971-03-12 4.9

Dad's Army

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episo ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Francisco

1948-12-10 7.422

Hamlet

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Jamieson

1954-05-01 5.2

Devil Girl from Mars

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breedi ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Murdoch

1943-07-26 7.5

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. Bu ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Pvt. Luke

1944-06-09 6.526

The Way Ahead

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered ca ...
Genre :Drama, War

Mad Peter

1966-03-06 6.041

The Reptile

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young wom ...
Genre :Horror

Peter Manson

1937-09-10 7.2

The Edge of the World

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Oliver

1936-09-02 5.1

As You Like It

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Angus

1951-04-13 6.634

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultim ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Fantasy

Dugald

1947-05-07 5.2

The Brothers

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited. ...
Genre :Drama

Darrow

1971-05-18 6.928

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies. ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy

Johnny Boyle

1930-06-29 4.7

Juno and the Paycock

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not rec ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Inspector MacDougall

1950-09-08 6.8

No Trace

A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Giles

1947-10-08 5.8

Uncle Silas

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery

Dr. McVitie

1946-12-23 7

School for Secrets

Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Wi ...
Genre :Drama, War

British Commander

1941-06-26 6.4

Dangerous Moonlight

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

John Campbell

1945-11-16 7.082

I Know Where I'm Going!

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to contin ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Mac

1957-09-03 5.8

Campbell's Kingdom

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove th ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Henry Mason

1953-09-25 5.5

The Fake

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Gaster

1939-01-11 0

Bees on the Boat-Deck

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley. ...
Genre :

Narrator

1952-01-01 6

Rig 20

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days. ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

6.2

Painter and Poet No. 1

An illustrated version of Twa Corbies made as the BFI’s contribution to the Festival of Britain. Enlivened by the distinctive voice of John Laurie, and paired with Michael Rothenstein’s delightfully t ...
Genre :

Angus McDonald

1952-12-01 5

Tread Softly

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre. ...
Genre :Mystery

William Hopwood

1944-05-08 5.7

Fanny by Gaslight

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Grimshaw

1952-03-20 4.8

Saturday Island

When their hospital ship sinks in the South Pacific during WWII, military nurse Elizabeth Smythe and Marine Michael Dugan find themselves stranded — and soon enough, falling in love — on an idyllic tr ...
Genre :Adventure, War, Romance

Mr. Bartleby ('Strange Mr Bartleby')

1953-01-01 0

Strange Stories

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

McAdam

1941-06-08 6.5

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Joe Drummond

1949-03-15 6

Floodtide

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Wounded Sailor

1943-11-18 6.3

The Demi-Paradise

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by h ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Narrator

1938-05-04 7

The Face of Scotland

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people. ...
Genre :

Tom Woodroofe

1947-08-13 5.4

Jassy

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately hom ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Blind Jamie

1948-10-26 4.7

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Mr. Hervey

1943-11-29 5.4

The Lamp Still Burns

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Ebenezer Balfour

1960-02-24 6.4

Kidnapped

Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the r ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Family

Gordon Webb

1951-06-01 6.5

Laughter in Paradise

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This ...
Genre :Comedy

Jamie

1941-04-01 6.6

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of ...
Genre :Comedy

Lovel

1955-12-13 7.177

Richard III

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nea ...
Genre :Drama, History

Mac Wells

1953-01-01 6

The Great Game

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. ...
Genre :

Hassan

1937-08-23 5.8

Jericho

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Henson - the Gamekeeper

1938-12-02 6.3

The Ware Case

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Mac North

1957-04-28 0

Murder Reported

Ace reporter Jeff Holly is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a trunk. Holly's enthusiasm soon wanes when his editor insists that he take his daughter A ...
Genre :

Merlin

1963-07-01 4.8

Siege of the Saxons

King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove ...
Genre :Adventure

John Knox

1936-09-01 8.1

Tudor Rose

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Newspaper Editor

1939-02-21 5.9

Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while ove ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Dr. James Garsten

1947-11-22 7

Mine Own Executioner

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1945-07-12 0

Steel

A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel. ...
Genre :Documentary

Judge

1969-07-14 0

Justice Is a Woman

Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Gates

1940-09-28 5.4

Convoy

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Abercrombie, Scottish Director

1958-08-04 8

Next to No Time

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his de ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1978-10-02 6.5

Return to the Edge of the World

Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the World (1937)'. ...
Genre :Documentary

Jock

1940-03-09 5.3

Laugh It Off

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the ...
Genre :Music

Dr. McFarlane

1954-04-19 7.332

Hobson's Choice

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploit ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

McNab

1944-11-06 6.5

Medal for the General

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII. ...
Genre :War, Drama

The voice of (voice)

1964-01-01 6

Eagle Rock

A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things. ...
Genre :Family

Mr. Moncrieff

1966-02-19 0

The Open Door

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not? ...
Genre :Horror

Tom Tetley

1945-01-24 6

The Agitator

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm ...
Genre :Drama

McNab

1940-12-14 7.2

Sailors Three

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that t ...
Genre :Comedy, War

James

1954-08-26 6.2

The Black Knight

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as th ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Self (archive footage)

2001-10-01 0

The Best of Morecambe and Wise

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty in the Bounty' with Arthur Lowe, the famous 'Singi ...
Genre :Comedy

Jamy - Captain in the English Army

1944-11-24 6.635

Henry V

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. ...
Genre :History, Drama, War

Pvt. McAllister

1937-01-05 5

Farewell Again

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robe ...
Genre :Drama

Harry Fyfe

1943-01-01 0

The New Lot

A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit. ...
Genre :War, Drama

M. Coutard

1937-09-13 0

The Windmill

The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps the ...
Genre :Drama

Wilson - the Valet

1938-09-04 0

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wea ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lt.Comdr. Reid

1941-11-10 4

Ships with Wings

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin ...
Genre :War, Drama

Blind Pew

1950-07-19 6.578

Treasure Island

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Dr. Fergusson

1936-08-26 0

East Meets West

The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with the wife of a notorious criminal. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mr McCutcheon

1953-11-23 6.5

Love in Pawn

A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem he ...
Genre :Comedy

McTavish

1936-07-29 0

Born That Way

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand. ...
Genre :Drama

Andrews, Engineer

1951-06-11 6.1

Encore

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Campbell

1950-10-10 6.3

Trio

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles. ...
Genre :Drama

John - Ex-Newspaper Editor

1945-04-08 4.6

Read All About It

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease ac ...
Genre :Drama

Robb

1935-10-21 6

Her Last Affaire

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes im ...
Genre :Drama

McTavish

1946-07-15 5.5

Gaiety George

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Scots Corporal

1943-05-23 7

The Gentle Sex

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Doctor MacGregor

1963-11-01 7

Ladies Who Do

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Wages Accountant

1934-06-17 5.6

Red Ensign

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship bu ...
Genre :Drama

Scotsman

1967-01-01 4.2

Mister Ten Per Cent

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, when he wants to stage a ...
Genre :Comedy

Jock

1975-07-09 5.7

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller

Scots Divine

1950-02-16 6.7

Madeleine

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Capt. MacKechnie

1958-10-19 6

Rockets Galore

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch sit ...
Genre :Comedy

1st. Auxiliary Sentinel

1945-12-11 6.175

Caesar and Cleopatra

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

Taxi Driver

1961-05-28 5.1

Don't Bother to Knock

An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a ho ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Policeman

1953-06-01 7.5

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 ...
Genre :Family, Adventure

Scottish officer in pub

1945-07-09 7.3

Great Day

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems. ...
Genre :Drama

Joseph Bonaparte

1938-09-21 0

A Royal Divorce

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Self - Commentator (voice)

1942-01-02 0

Teeth of Steel

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel". ...
Genre :Documentary

Dr. MacFarlane

1962-09-25 0

Hobson's Choice

Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop. Despite Willie's objections, they marry and set up for thems ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

1967-11-29 0

Queen of Scots

A dramatised account of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, performed and broadcast live on Scottish Television on 29th November 1967 to mark STV's tenth anniversary. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1946-01-01 0

Kelvin: Master of Measurement

Dramatised account of the achievements of Glasgow's William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. ...
Genre :Drama, History

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Thank You and Goodnight

Starring Spike Milligan, John Laurie, and Mike Harding. This has music, comedy, tricks, and storytelling. ...
Genre :

Mr Potter

1953-01-01 6

Mr Beamish Goes South

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday. ...
Genre :Crime

Jonskill

1951-03-06 5.9

Happy Go Lovely

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe vi ...
Genre :Music, Romance, Comedy

Private James Frazer

1968-07-31 7.4

Dad's Army

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion. ...
Genre :Comedy

1962-01-02 7

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 J ...
Genre :Drama

Crewe

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1962-08-16 6

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

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 Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice i ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Allen Campbell

1950-01-01 3.5

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Lord MacBracken

1970-09-18 5.5

From a Bird's Eye View

From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pu ...
Genre :Comedy

1966-01-29 5.5

Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Tham ...
Genre :

1961-03-29 6

Tales of Mystery

Tales of Mystery was a British supernatural television drama anthology series based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood. It was broadcast by ITV and ran over three seasons from 1961-1963. Produ ...
Genre :Mystery

Dr. Dufay

1955-09-28 7.6

The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League. ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Dr. Brandeis

1956-02-22 7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

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

Insp. MacGillivray

1952-06-21 0

The Three Hostages

An adaptation of the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan. ...
Genre :Drama

Pte. James Frazer

1961-10-12 6.5

Morecambe & Wise

The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in col ...
Genre :Comedy

Juniper

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Doctor Macfarlane

1955-09-27 4

ITV Play of the Week

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorpor ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Peter Quince

1965-10-19 5

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 stag ...
Genre :Drama

The Reverend Ingram

1957-06-15 0

Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world. ...
Genre :

The MacGillie

1962-09-29 7

Man of the World

Michael Strait is a world-renowned photographer whose assignments lead him into investigating mysterious goings-on amongst the rich and glamorous and intrigue from far-flung places as Iraq, French Ind ...
Genre :Crime, Drama