Clive Swift

Clive Swift

Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.

  • Title: Clive Swift
  • Popularity: 36.59
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-02-09
  • Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Clive Walter Swift
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Clive Swift Movies

  • 1972
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    Frenzy

    Frenzy

    7.108 1972 HD

    After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Jon Finch

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  • 1972
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    Death Line

    Death Line

    5.7 1972 HD

    There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Donald Pleasence

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  • 1965
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    Catch Us If You Can

    Catch Us If You Can

    5.2 1965 HD

    Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dave Clark

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  • 1987
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    Cause Célèbre

    Cause Célèbre

    6 1987 HD

    When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Helen Mirren

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  • 1971
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    The Stalls of Barchester

    The Stalls of Barchester

    6.333 1971 HD

    Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cathedral library takes an eerie turn when he comes...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Robert Hardy

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  • 1972
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    A Warning to the Curious

    A Warning to the Curious

    6.909 1972 HD

    Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Peter Vaughan

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  • 1988
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    Young Toscanini

    Young Toscanini

    5.9 1988 HD

    A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: C. Thomas Howell

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  • 1990
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    Othello

    Othello

    7 1990 HD

    Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ian McKellen

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  • 1968
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    5.3 1968 HD

    Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Derek Godfrey

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  • 1979
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    Henry IV Part 1

    Henry IV Part 1

    7 1979 HD

    Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jon Finch

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  • 1969
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    Birthday

    Birthday

    1 1969 HD

    Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.

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    Cast: Rosemary Leach

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  • 1980
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    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    5.5 1980 HD

    Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: David Hemmings

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  • 1970
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    Mad Jack

    Mad Jack

    1 1970 HD

    Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Michael Jayston

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  • 1974
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    South Riding

    South Riding

    1 1974 HD

    An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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    Cast: Dorothy Tutin

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  • 1973
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    The National Health

    The National Health

    6.6 1973 HD

    Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lynn Redgrave

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  • 1968
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    All's Well That Ends Well

    All's Well That Ends Well

    1 1968 HD

    An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Ashford

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  • 1973
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    Man at the Top

    Man at the Top

    5.1 1973 HD

    Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Haigh

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  • 1982
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    Praying Mantis

    Praying Mantis

    7 1982 HD

    A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jonathan Pryce

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  • 1981
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    Excalibur

    Excalibur

    6.948 1981 HD

    A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Nigel Terry

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  • 1975
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    The Breakthrough

    The Breakthrough

    1 1975 HD

    An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Simon Ward

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  • 1987
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    Pack of Lies

    Pack of Lies

    6.6 1987 HD

    A British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent Stewart shows up at their door and wants to use their...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Ellen Burstyn

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  • 1997
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    The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

    The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

    9 1997 HD

    Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 1988
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    Journey's End

    Journey's End

    7 1988 HD

    A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward Petherbridge

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  • 2007
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    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    7.6 2007 HD

    When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new...

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Cast: David Tennant

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  • 1984
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    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India

    6.8 1984 HD

    Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judy Davis

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  • 1985
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    The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers

    1 1985 HD

    The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nigel Stock

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  • 1970
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    Roll On Four O'Clock

    Roll On Four O'Clock

    6 1970 HD

    Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: George A. Cooper

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  • 1985
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    What Mad Pursuit

    What Mad Pursuit

    1 1985 HD

    If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Carroll Baker

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  • 1984
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    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    7 1984 HD

    When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mike Gwilym

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  • 1999
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    Aristocrats

    Aristocrats

    6 1999 HD

    18th-century England and Ireland viewed through the eyes of four beautiful high-born sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Serena Gordon

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  • 1985
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    Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

    Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

    9 1985 HD

    At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Colin Baker

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  • 1975
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    Goodbye

    Goodbye

    10 1975 HD

    "All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jeremy Kemp

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  • 1976
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    Buffet

    Buffet

    1 1976 HD

    A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tony Britton

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  • 2013
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    Excalibur: Behind the Movie

    Excalibur: Behind the Movie

    1 2013 HD

    This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Nigel Terry

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: The Dummy

    Beasts: The Dummy

    1 1976 HD

    A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Bernard Horsfall

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  • 2002
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    101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

    101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure

    6 2002 HD

    Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt,...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: Barry Bostwick

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  • 1986
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    All Together Now

    All Together Now

    1 1986 HD

    The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Colin Farrell

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  • 1972
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    Dead of Night: The Exorcism

    Dead of Night: The Exorcism

    7.5 1972 HD

    Four wealthy, middle-class friends gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Anna Cropper

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  • 2023
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    Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

    Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

    7 2023 HD

    Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 1976
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    5 1976 HD

    Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Christopher Neame

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  • 1978
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    The Sailor's Return

    The Sailor's Return

    6 1978 HD

    Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife....

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    Cast: Tom Bell

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  • 1977
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    The Kitchen

    The Kitchen

    1 1977 HD

    Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his...

    Genre:

    Cast: Dimitri Andreas

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  • 1991
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    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    1 1991 HD

    The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Bennett

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  • 1984
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    The Gentle Touch

    The Gentle Touch

    7.2 1984 HD

    The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Jill Gascoine

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  • 1989
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.855 1989 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sylvester McCoy

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  • 1988
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    A Very Peculiar Practice

    A Very Peculiar Practice

    7.75 1988 HD

    A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Troughton

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  • 2010
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 2010 HD

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

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Derek Fowlds

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  • 1993
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.81 1993 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1992
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    The Ray Bradbury Theater

    The Ray Bradbury Theater

    7 1992 HD

    A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Ray Bradbury

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  • 1989
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    Gentlemen and Players

    Gentlemen and Players

    5 1989 HD

    Gentlemen and Players is a British television series produced by TVS Television for the ITV network. An aspirational late 1980s drama series,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nicholas Clay

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  • 2005
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    Born and Bred

    Born and Bred

    8.5 2005 HD

    Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jenna Russell

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  • 2010
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    The Old Guys

    The Old Guys

    6 2010 HD

    The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden. The pair live across the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jane Asher

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  • 1985
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1985 HD

    The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1995
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    Keeping Up Appearances

    Keeping Up Appearances

    7.579 1995 HD

    Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Patricia Routledge

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  • 1988
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1988 HD

    A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 2011
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 2011 HD

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

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1976
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    Beasts

    Beasts

    6.75 1976 HD

    Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast:

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  • 1979
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    Hazell

    Hazell

    5.3 1979 HD

    Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Nicholas Ball

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  • 2013
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    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    3.7 2013 HD

    The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently...

    Genre: Talk

    Cast: Ellie Harrison

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  • 1972
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    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night

    7 1972 HD

    Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1971
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    Waugh on Crime

    Waugh on Crime

    1 1971 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Clive Swift

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  • 1976
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    Victorian Scandals

    Victorian Scandals

    1 1976 HD

    Genre:

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  • 1980
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    The Nesbitts Are Coming

    The Nesbitts Are Coming

    1 1980 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Arthur White

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  • 1981
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1981 HD

    BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1985
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    The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers

    5.5 1985 HD

    Mr Pickwick, Tupman, Winkle, Snodgrass and Sam Weller begin their travels through the England of stage-coaches and coaching inns.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Clive Swift

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  • 1981
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    Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

    Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years

    5 1981 HD

    Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Robert Hardy

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  • 1981
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    Bless Me Father

    Bless Me Father

    6.2 1981 HD

    Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Arthur Lowe

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  • 2012
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    Hustle

    Hustle

    7.609 2012 HD

    A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Adrian Lester

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  • 2023
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    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    7.5 2023 HD

    A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1978
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    Shadows

    Shadows

    5.667 1978 HD

    Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1982
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    The Barchester Chronicles

    The Barchester Chronicles

    7 1982 HD

    Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Gwillim

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  • 2015
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    Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

    Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

    10 2015 HD

    Valentine is famous for writing parenting guide books and being the perfect woman, wife and mother. But out of the blue, her husband announces he...

    Genre:

    Cast: Rupert Graves

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  • 1976
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    The Expert

    The Expert

    10 1976 HD

    The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Marius Goring

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  • 1986
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    First Among Equals

    First Among Equals

    1 1986 HD

    First Among Equals is a ten-part serial based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jeremy Child

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  • 2002
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    Peak Practice

    Peak Practice

    5.5 2002 HD

    Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Maggie O'Neill

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  • 2024
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.569 2024 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Neil Dudgeon

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  • 2021
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.5 2021 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Jodie Whittaker

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  • 2019
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    Cuckoo

    Cuckoo

    6.736 2019 HD

    Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Greg Davies

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  • 1969
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    Dombey and Son

    Dombey and Son

    1 1969 HD

    Charles Dickens' classic novel is given its first television adaptation in this classic 1969 BBC production. Paul Dombey is a well-to-do shipping...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Carson

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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