Thora Hird

AKA: Dame Thora Hird
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1911-05-28

Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

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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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {115}

Ivy

1942-12-07 7.2

Went the Day Well?

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. Once the vi ...
Genre :War, Thriller

Rosie Wrigley

1955-08-26 6.529

The Quatermass Xperiment

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery

Visitor in Tussauds

1948-02-23 5.77

Corridor of Mirrors

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Mystery

Mrs. Rothwell

1962-04-12 7.043

A Kind of Loving

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 l ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Rosa

1949-12-20 5.9

Madness of the Heart

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. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mrs. Grose

1972-02-15 5.685

The Nightcomers

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Thriller

Mrs. Doyle

1954-06-20 5.6

For Better, for Worse

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 £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The ne ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Cook

1955-01-04 6.1

One Good Turn

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. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is ...
Genre :Comedy

Hotel Maid

1952-09-01 3.8

The Big Frame

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. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Nanny's friend

1950-10-01 6.3

The Magnet

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Ada Lapford

1960-07-25 6.317

The Entertainer

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs Pewsey

1953-01-23 6.6

The Long Memory

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Broaders

1949-07-28 5.9

Conspirator

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mrs. Taylor

1962-08-16 5.9

Term of Trial

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. When the lovely young Shir ...
Genre :Drama

Alice Crouch

1952-07-01 8

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 ...
Genre :Comedy

Ma Fox

1949-02-02 5.4

Once a Jolly Swagman

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mrs. Usher

1953-10-20 6.2

Personal Affair

A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mrs. Rowan, landlady

1953-04-29 6.2

Turn the Key Softly

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Kelly's landlady

1956-01-31 7

Lost

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. He was last seen with their nanny, and the coupl ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

'Granny' Ramsey

1956-04-01 4.8

Blonde Bait

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. Angela has refused t ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Adventure

Agnes Russell

1970-04-01 4.8

Some Will, Some Won't

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joyce

1942-02-23 7.8

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Knowles

1949-12-01 6.5

Boys in Brown

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than a ...
Genre :Crime

Maggie the Maid (uncredited)

1956-09-10 7

Now and Forever

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Mrs. Galloway

1958-10-28 6

Further Up the Creek

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Gordon

1988-04-06 8

Consuming Passions

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidenta ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Cornelius

1952-05-19 6.5

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. ...
Genre :Thriller

Sal Brown

1955-02-01 7.125

The Love Match

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered thoug ...
Genre :Comedy

Jim's Mother

1994-09-11 7.5

Pat and Margaret

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, Margar ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Mrs. Trott

1953-11-10 6.9

A Day to Remember

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. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Annie Longden

1999-01-03 7

Lost for Words

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. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Gran' Rafferty

1956-06-01 6

Women Without Men

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. When her employer refuses to dissolve h ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mrs. James

1950-07-01 6.6

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, ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Skinner

1948-12-01 5.9

Portrait from Life

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Mrs. Winthram

1964-12-20 5.5

Rattle of a Simple Man

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Ac ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Ada Larkin

1957-07-03 6

These Dangerous Years

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Music

Elsie

1942-01-01 10

Go to Blazes

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Bates

1949-05-23 4.9

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Miss Rawlings

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 :

Mrs. Speck

1989-12-28 0

The Tailor of Gloucester

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. ...
Genre :Family

Aunty Kitty

1982-11-09 0

Intensive Care

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousn ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Ada

1948-02-05 6.6

My Brother Jonathan

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 Blac ...
Genre :Drama

Blanche Hoskins

1966-02-09 0

Who's a Good Boy Then? I Am!

The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by Richard Harris (not the actor, but the future creator ...
Genre :TV Movie

Mrs. Hopkins

1978-12-02 0

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mrs Beevers

1979-02-03 0

Afternoon Off

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 c ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Mrs. Coot

1949-05-23 6

Fools Rush In

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul turns out to be just the opposite when he arrives for ...
Genre :Comedy

1988-04-19 5

Talking Heads

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderl ...
Genre :Drama

1998-10-06 7

Talking Heads 2

A series of monologues. ...
Genre :Drama

Julie's grandmother

1999-01-01 0

Julie and the Cadillacs

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men... ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Jessie

1955-11-02 5.6

Simon and Laura

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Humphries

1953-11-09 6

Background

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. When John's old friend Bill professes his love fo ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (UK)

1983-08-19 0

Emma and Grandpa

Filmed in rural Sussex in 1982 and re-edited in 2008 with a new sound track, the charm of this period piece does not date. Each month there is a different story, told in rhyming couplets and highlight ...
Genre :Family

Agnes O'Connor

1954-01-01 0

Don't Blame the Stork

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has au ...
Genre :Comedy

ATS drover with puncture

1942-06-15 5.7

The Next of Kin

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 ta ...
Genre :Drama, War, Thriller, Mystery

Derek's Charwoman

1948-09-14 5.6

The Blind Goddess

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 ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Jessup

1963-03-08 6.2

Bitter Harvest

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high? ...
Genre :Drama

Nurse

1967-03-12 0

Romeo and Juliet

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

Deric's Mother

1993-09-05 6

Wide-Eyed and Legless

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 a ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Romance, Comedy

Mrs. Perkins

1953-03-17 5.8

Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

First Murder Victim Katie (uncredited)

1944-01-19 6.3

The Lodger

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Mrs. Burtshaw

1944-11-06 6.9

Two Thousand Women

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France. ...
Genre :War, Comedy, Drama

Doctor's Housekeeper

1952-01-01 6.3

The Magic Box

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more im ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs Lack

1956-09-04 7

Sailor Beware

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs Oakroyd

1957-04-22 0

The Good Companions

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Margie Groves

1956-09-04 7

Home and Away

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 h ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Gaye

1948-10-11 6

The Weaker Sex

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama

Mary

1955-09-19 5.6

Tiger by the Tail

On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she has pulled on ...
Genre :Crime

Janet

1949-05-24 5.3

Maytime in Mayfair

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief de ...
Genre :Drama

Doris

1972-02-17 0

The Villa Maroc

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Gwen

1971-04-29 0

The Fox Trot

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. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the worl ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Maud

1947-04-11 4.9

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

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. The film then follows their family through four generations, wi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Vera

1952-03-01 6.2

The Frightened Man

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Jean Taylor

1992-04-19 6.2

Memento Mori

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths... ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Comedy, Mystery

Mrs. Dorbell

1949-12-29 6

The Cure for Love

Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he falls in love with a charming new lodger Milly Southern i ...
Genre :Comedy

Barmaid

1942-06-22 6.6

The Foreman Went to France

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. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Vera Watson

1958-01-01 0

A Clean Sweep

George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again. ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Betsy

1990-12-26 0

The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

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 o ...
Genre :Family

Olive Major

1977-11-29 0

The Mayor's Charity

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 ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

1982-12-17 0

Say Something Happened

An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but ends up learning just as much about herself. ...
Genre :

Tea Stall Woman (uncredited)

1951-05-07 6

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs Carter

1961-11-01 0

Over the Odds

A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self, Various Characters (archive footage)

2003-03-30 0

Thora Hird Tribute

Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame Thora Hird, who died in 2003 at the age of 91. ...
Genre :Comedy

Customer

1954-10-01 5.4

The Crowded Day

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...
Genre :Drama

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

Ivy Unsworth

1969-11-04 6.8

In Loving Memory

In Loving Memory is a British period sitcom set in an undertakers business that starred Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny. A pilot was transmitted in 1969 by Thames Television who rejected the idea bef ...
Genre :Comedy

Hannah Stockdale

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

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

Edie

1973-01-04 7.1

Last of the Summer Wine

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their ...
Genre :Comedy

1979-01-18 4.6

Blankety Blank

Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977–1979 Australian game show Blankety Blanks. The British version ran from 18 January 1979 to 12 March 1990 on BBC One, hosted first by Ter ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Captain Emily Ridley

1981-06-03 6

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! was a British sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and was broadcast from April 1983 to December 1984. The series was set in a Salvation Army citadel in the fictional Y ...
Genre :Comedy

1968-04-07 0

The First Lady

The series starred Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby and was set around the fictional borough of Furness in Lancashire. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First ...
Genre :Drama

1963-12-28 6

Meet the Wife

Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to f ...
Genre :

Enid

1998-11-12 7.4

dinnerladies

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in ...
Genre :Comedy

Ada

1955-09-26 6.1

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were origin ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Family

Olive Major

1970-10-15 6.3

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Clare Soppitt

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

Martha

1990-04-22 6

Perfect Scoundrels

Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their money ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Doris

1988-04-19 6.2

Talking Heads

A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Violet

1988-04-19 6.2

Talking Heads

A series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1983-04-23 0

ITV Christmas Comedy

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas dinner and the Queen's speech, and the ITV network hav ...
Genre :

Mrs Harrington

1993-03-24 0

Goggle Eyes

Kitty struggles to accept her divorced mother embarking upon a new relationship; her attempts to thwart this relationship are hampered by her younger sister's acceptance of this "new dad" in their liv ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Clarke

1978-01-08 7.7

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Nurse

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

2000-01-02 0

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Comedic British History ...
Genre :

Elizabeth Mary Rhodes

1982-11-12 7

Objects of Affection

A series of plays written by Alan Bennett. ...
Genre :Drama

Doris

1970-10-15 6.3

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt KItty

1970-10-15 6.3

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 tel ...
Genre :Drama

Alice Leggett

1955-07-09 5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were l ...
Genre :Drama

Herself

1976-05-18 8

Tell Me Another

Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills. ...
Genre :

Self

1998-01-09 0

Parkinson

Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show. ...
Genre :Talk

Jean Taylor

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Self - Winner

1949-05-29 10

The BAFTA Awards

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA. ...
Genre :Reality

Postmistress

1995-11-15 7

Queen's Nose

Children's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes. ...
Genre :Comedy

Blanche Hoskins

1964-09-30 4.5

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. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Baines

1963-10-09 8

Festival

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. ...
Genre :Drama

Self

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Esther

Esther is a British talk show presented by Esther Rantzen. It was aired on BBC Two between 1995 and 2002 and over 600 episodes were made. ...
Genre :