Waris Hussein

Waris Hussein

Waris Hussein (né Habibullah; born 9 December 1938) is a British-Indian television and film director. At the beginning of his career, he was employed by the BBC as its youngest drama director. He directed early episodes of Doctor Who, including the first serial, An Unearthly Child (1963), and later directed the multiple-award-winning Thames Television serial Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978).

  • Title: Waris Hussein
  • Popularity: 8.749
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1938-12-09
  • Place of Birth: Lucknow, United Provinces, British India
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Waris Hussein Movies

  • 1989
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    Cult People

    Cult People

    1 1989 HD

    In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films....

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  • 2005
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    Mrs. Henderson Presents

    Mrs. Henderson Presents

    6.691 2005 HD

    Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety...

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  • 2010
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    Mr. Nice

    Mr. Nice

    6.101 2010 HD

    Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as...

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  • 2023
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    Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

    Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals

    4.7 2023 HD

    Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew...

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  • 2012
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    Tales of Television Centre

    Tales of Television Centre

    8 2012 HD

    Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce...

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  • 2006
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    Doctor Who: Origins

    Doctor Who: Origins

    1 2006 HD

    A 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who, including a rare interview with creator Sydney Newman, and new interviews with...

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  • 2006
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    Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"

    Over the Edge: The Story of "The Edge of Destruction"

    1 2006 HD

    Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, "The Edge of Destruction". It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.

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  • 2006
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    Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS

    Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS

    1 2006 HD

    A feature on Doctor Who: The Beginning box set which tells the stories of the Doctor's time machine - the TARDIS.

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  • 1980
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    Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    1 1980 HD

    A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other...

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  • 1972
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    The Possession of Joel Delaney

    The Possession of Joel Delaney

    5.7 1972 HD

    Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a...

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  • 1985
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    Copacabana

    Copacabana

    6.8 1985 HD

    In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge,...

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  • 1981
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    Callie & Son

    Callie & Son

    7 1981 HD

    A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to...

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  • 1971
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    Melody

    Melody

    7.2 1971 HD

    Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.

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  • 1972
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    Henry VIII and His Six Wives

    Henry VIII and His Six Wives

    5.8 1972 HD

    Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back...

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  • 1970
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    Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

    Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx

    4.5 1970 HD

    In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's...

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  • 1991
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    Switched at Birth

    Switched at Birth

    6 1991 HD

    This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not...

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  • 1993
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    The Summer House

    The Summer House

    5.3 1993 HD

    Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David...

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  • 1995
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    The Face on the Milk Carton

    The Face on the Milk Carton

    6.3 1995 HD

    Based on the book by Caroline B. Cooney, a girl happens to look down at a milk carton one day and she sees herself on the back! Could her parents...

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  • 1969
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    A Touch of Love

    A Touch of Love

    6.4 1969 HD

    Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair...

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  • 1989
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    The Shell Seekers

    The Shell Seekers

    7.333 1989 HD

    After a mild heart attack at 63, Penelope Keeling is not ready to be an invalid yet...despite her children's attempts to take control of her life....

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  • 1982
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    Coming Out of the Ice

    Coming Out of the Ice

    7 1982 HD

    A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

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  • 1980
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    The Henderson Monster

    The Henderson Monster

    1 1980 HD

    A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discovers a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the...

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  • 1990
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    Forbidden Nights

    Forbidden Nights

    5.7 1990 HD

    Judith Shapiro's dream has come true. Due to the process of opening to the west in China she has been invited to stay for two years in Shang Sa,...

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  • 1998
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    Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

    Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

    1 1998 HD

    Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous...

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  • 1978
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    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    10 1978 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

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  • 1994
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    Murder Between Friends

    Murder Between Friends

    1 1994 HD

    True story about two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse.

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  • 1980
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    Baby Comes Home

    Baby Comes Home

    1 1980 HD

    In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years...

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  • 2002
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    Her Best Friend's Husband

    Her Best Friend's Husband

    5.1 2002 HD

    Would you betray your best friend for your own happiness? This is the moral dilemma one woman faces after she is called upon to help save her best...

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  • 1988
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    Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

    Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

    6.3 1988 HD

    Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and...

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  • 2002
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    Her Best Friend's Husband

    Her Best Friend's Husband

    5.1 2002 HD

    Would you betray your best friend for your own happiness? This is the moral dilemma one woman faces after she is called upon to help save her best...

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  • 1992
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    She Woke Up

    She Woke Up

    5 1992 HD

    A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.

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  • 1997
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    A Child's Wish

    A Child's Wish

    6.2 1997 HD

    A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start.

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  • 1985
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    Arch of Triumph

    Arch of Triumph

    4.9 1985 HD

    Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previously adapted...

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  • 1985
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    Surviving

    Surviving

    5 1985 HD

    Lonnie and Rick seem to be complete opposites, at first glance. A survivor of suicide, Lonnie is introverted and ill at ease around her parents, Lois...

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  • 1988
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    Killer Instinct

    Killer Instinct

    6.5 1988 HD

    Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence. One...

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  • 1989
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    Those She Left Behind

    Those She Left Behind

    5 1989 HD

    Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned...

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  • 1983
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    The Winter of Our Discontent

    The Winter of Our Discontent

    4 1983 HD

    This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.

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  • 1965
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    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    1 1965 HD

    The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard,...

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  • 1972
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    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

    1 1972 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.

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  • 1986
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    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks

    5.5 1986 HD

    A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found...

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

    Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

    7.5 1963 HD

    Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his...

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  • 1964
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    Doctor Who: Marco Polo

    Doctor Who: Marco Polo

    7.2 1964 HD

    The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the...

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  • 1978
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    Daphne Laureola

    Daphne Laureola

    6 1978 HD

    A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

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  • 1993
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    For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story

    For The Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story

    5.5 1993 HD

    Based on a true story, this drama centers on a mother and father who decide to have another child in hopes of providing a bone-marrow donor for their...

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  • 1997
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    Sixth Happiness

    Sixth Happiness

    4 1997 HD

    Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

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  • 1966
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    Macready's Gala

    Macready's Gala

    1 1966 HD

    The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

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  • 1966
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    The Connoisseur

    The Connoisseur

    1 1966 HD

    George Stoupe, successful housemaster at the public school, has an eye to the main chance against his retirement. He chooses the boys for his house...

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  • 1966
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    A Man on Her Back

    A Man on Her Back

    1 1966 HD

    John is an aspiring composer and pianist at a club and Mary is a single girl that he meets there. When friendship turns to romance, John has to...

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  • 1973
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    Rust

    Rust

    1 1973 HD

    A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family...

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  • 1968
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    1 1968 HD

    An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.

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  • 1994
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    Fall from Grace

    Fall from Grace

    1 1994 HD

    Fall from Grace describes the war of the young English-French Catherine, her mother is killed in 1940 during the German campaign against France,...

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  • 1979
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    And Baby Makes Six

    And Baby Makes Six

    1 1979 HD

    A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from...

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  • 1987
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    Downpayment on Murder

    Downpayment on Murder

    6 1987 HD

    About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.

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  • 1976
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    Love Letters on Blue Paper

    Love Letters on Blue Paper

    1 1976 HD

    Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper,...

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who Confidential

    Doctor Who Confidential

    8.063 2005 HD

    Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary series created by the British Broadcasting Corporation to complement the revival of the long-running British...

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  • 1962
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    7.864 1970 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    4.2 1970 HD

    Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    3 1970 HD

    Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    6.2 1970 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    8.8 1970 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    5.9 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    6 1970 HD

    Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    5 1970 HD

    The incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored with a particular focus on her romance with the famed musician Frédéric Chopin.

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    5 1970 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    3.8 1970 HD

    Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    1 1970 HD

    Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    7.3 1970 HD

    The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram....

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    6 1970 HD

    The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    6.8 1970 HD

    The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and...

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    5 1970 HD

    The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    2 1970 HD

    A self-satisfied, upper-middle-class husband discovers that his marital infidelities have caused him to contract AIDS.

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  • 1970
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    Corrigan Blake

    Corrigan Blake

    5 1970 HD

    The lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.

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