Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Jean Spriggs -Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress. Her roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company included Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude in Hamlet and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1978, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Arnold Wesker's Love Letters on Blue Paper. Her best known role in film was as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).

  • Title: Elizabeth Spriggs
  • Popularity: 7.446
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-09-18
  • Place of Birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Elizabeth Jean Williams, Elisabeth Spriggs, Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson, Елізабет Спріггс
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Elizabeth Spriggs Movies

  • 1984
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    Sakharov

    Sakharov

    7 1984 HD

    Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

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  • 1980
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    The Dybbuk

    The Dybbuk

    1 1980 HD

    A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.

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  • 1990
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    Survival of the Fittest

    Survival of the Fittest

    1 1990 HD

    Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best...

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  • 1996
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    The Secret Agent

    The Secret Agent

    5.3 1996 HD

    In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a...

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  • 2000
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    For My Baby

    For My Baby

    2 2000 HD

    A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.

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  • 1969
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    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    3 Into 2 Won't Go

    5 1969 HD

    Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get...

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  • 1979
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    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    8.5 1979 HD

    The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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  • 1998
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    The Barber of Siberia

    The Barber of Siberia

    7.1 1998 HD

    Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the...

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  • 1995
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    Sense and Sensibility

    Sense and Sensibility

    7.426 1995 HD

    The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When...

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  • 1974
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    Leeds United!

    Leeds United!

    1 1974 HD

    The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose...

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  • 1993
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    The Last Vampyre

    The Last Vampyre

    7 1993 HD

    Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.

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  • 1982
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    Intensive Care

    Intensive Care

    1 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    Afternoon Off

    Afternoon Off

    1 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.3 1999 HD

    Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy...

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.4 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1980
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    Richard's Things

    Richard's Things

    5 1980 HD

    Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in...

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  • 2004
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    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

    5.571 2004 HD

    Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable...

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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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  • 1981
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    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    5.403 1981 HD

    After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her...

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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...

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  • 1980
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    Fox

    Fox

    1 1980 HD

    The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

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  • 2009
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    Is Anybody There?

    Is Anybody There?

    6.2 2009 HD

    A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

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  • 2001
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    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    7.907 2001 HD

    Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful...

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  • 1983
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    Those Glory Glory Days

    Those Glory Glory Days

    4.6 1983 HD

    Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the...

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  • 1982
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    Spider's Web

    Spider's Web

    7.4 1982 HD

    Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the...

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  • 1999
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.904 1999 HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

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  • 1985
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    Parker

    Parker

    5.3 1985 HD

    An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.

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  • 1985
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    The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

    The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

    1 1985 HD

    A psychotic young man causes trouble during a Christmas gathering with his parents.

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  • 1991
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    Impromptu

    Impromptu

    6.018 1991 HD

    In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name...

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  • 1993
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    The Hour of the Pig

    The Hour of the Pig

    6.2 1993 HD

    In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and...

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  • 1968
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    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    3 1968 HD

    Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind...

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  • 1982
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    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    5.7 1982 HD

    After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of...

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  • 1999
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

    4.7 1999 HD

    Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the...

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  • 1994
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    A Pinch of Snuff

    A Pinch of Snuff

    1 1994 HD

    Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for...

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  • 1982
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    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    8 1982 HD

    When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....

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  • 1987
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    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple

    6 1987 HD

    Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In...

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  • 2007
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    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    1 2007 HD

    Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

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  • 2000
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    The Sleeper

    The Sleeper

    4 2000 HD

    Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are...

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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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  • 1982
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    The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

    The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

    1 1982 HD

    Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even...

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  • 1981
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    The Cause

    The Cause

    1 1981 HD

    "I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A...

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  • 1987
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    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    6.5 1987 HD

    The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far...

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  • 1984
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    The Cold Room

    The Cold Room

    3.3 1984 HD

    A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

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  • 1992
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    The Old Devils

    The Old Devils

    1 1992 HD

    An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated...

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  • 1982
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    Our Winnie

    Our Winnie

    1 1982 HD

    Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father...

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  • 1980
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    The Enigma

    The Enigma

    1 1980 HD

    When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant...

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  • 1981
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    Fothergill

    Fothergill

    1 1981 HD

    John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

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  • 1981
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    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

    1 1981 HD

    A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.

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  • 1977
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    Able's Will

    Able's Will

    1 1977 HD

    Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.

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  • 1990
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    Jeeves and Wooster

    Jeeves and Wooster

    8.014 1990 HD

    Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from...

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  • 1981
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    Bergerac

    Bergerac

    6.4 1981 HD

    Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.9 1963 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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  • 1989
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    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

    8 1989 HD

    Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 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...

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  • 1992
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    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    6.5 1992 HD

    At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Takin' Over the Asylum

    Takin' Over the Asylum

    8.2 1994 HD

    A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.

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  • 2000
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    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

    6 2000 HD

    A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner...

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  • 1987
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    Watching

    Watching

    7.8 1987 HD

    A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between Malcolm, a polite and friendly but dull man from...

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  • 1984
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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    8.1 1984 HD

    Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend...

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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.3 1986 HD

    The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a...

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  • 1980
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    Fox

    Fox

    5.7 1980 HD

    Fox is a British television drama series produced by Euston Films and Thames Television for the ITV network in 1980. The thirteen-part series was...

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  • 2005
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    Jericho

    Jericho

    6.3 2005 HD

    Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay...

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  • 1982
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    Shine on Harvey Moon

    Shine on Harvey Moon

    7.8 1982 HD

    Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived...

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  • 1968
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    The Expert

    The Expert

    9.5 1968 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...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 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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  • 1973
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    Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

    6 1973 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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  • 1963
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    Festival

    Festival

    1 1963 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 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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  • 1976
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    The Glittering Prizes

    The Glittering Prizes

    6 1976 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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  • 1975
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    Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

    Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1989
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    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    8.1 1989 HD

    From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule...

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  • 1988
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    Kind of Living

    Kind of Living

    5 1988 HD

    Trevor Beasley (Richard Griffiths), a schoolteacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past, despite having a new house, a new job, and a new baby....

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  • 1978
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    BBC Television Shakespeare

    BBC Television Shakespeare

    5.2 1978 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    Nice Guy Eddie

    Nice Guy Eddie

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1976
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    Victorian Scandals

    Victorian Scandals

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1989
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    Young Charlie Chaplin

    Young Charlie Chaplin

    1 1989 HD

    The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie...

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  • 1992
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    Anglo Saxon Attitudes

    Anglo Saxon Attitudes

    5 1992 HD

    Gerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and...

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  • 1994
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    Class Act

    Class Act

    1 1994 HD

    Class Act was a short-lived British comedy drama series produced in the early to mid-1990s by Verity Lambert. The series starred Joanna Lumley,...

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  • 1987
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    The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

    The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

    6.2 1987 HD

    The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

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  • 2005
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    Love Soup

    Love Soup

    7.75 2005 HD

    Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.

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  • 2003
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    The Royal

    The Royal

    7.6 2003 HD

    Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

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  • 1987
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    Simon and the Witch

    Simon and the Witch

    5 1987 HD

    Simon is a very sensible young schoolboy, who has a friend who is a real witch. She is very silly, and a huge showoff.

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    6 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 2002
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    Shackleton

    Shackleton

    6.909 2002 HD

    The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship...

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  • 1994
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    Martin Chuzzlewit

    Martin Chuzzlewit

    7.5 1994 HD

    When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

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  • 1994
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    Middlemarch

    Middlemarch

    7.846 1994 HD

    19th century Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brings both the promise and fear of change. In the provincial town of Middlemarch, the...

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  • 1999
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    Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters

    7.3 1999 HD

    Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth...

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  • 1990
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    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    6.65 1990 HD

    Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.5 1997 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...

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  • 1985
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    Time for Murder

    Time for Murder

    4 1985 HD

    Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no...

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Soldier Soldier

    Soldier Soldier

    6.4 1991 HD

    The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.5 1997 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...

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  • 1982
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    Objects of Affection

    Objects of Affection

    7 1982 HD

    A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 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
    imgS14 E16

    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 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
    imgS14 E16

    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.1 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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  • 1979
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    Tales of the Unexpected

    Tales of the Unexpected

    6.7 1979 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...

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