Jack May

Jack May

Jack May was a mellifluous-voiced actor best known for playing butlers and establishment figures, often representing Britain's interests in far-flung corners of the empire. With regards the former, he memorably played William E. Simms, former music hall artise turned manservant to Gerald Harper's titular swashbuckling adventurer in '60s TV cult classic Adam Adamant Lives! as well as providing the voice of Igor, the long-suffering valet in Cosgrove Hall's 1980s animation Count Duckula. His film credits included the district commissioner in 1975's The Man Who Would Be King and the prosecuting naval attorney in the remake of The Bounty (1984). For many, May was Nelson Gabriel 'the most disreputable character in Ambridge' in BBC Radio 4's long-running soap The Archers. May took the role of the shady rogue, later antique dealer and wine bar owner, in 1952 and continued to play him right up until the year of his death, 1997. This 45 year stint made May, at the time, the fourth-longest serving soap opera star in the world. He died at the age of 75, on 19 September 1997, survived by his wife, the actress Petra Davies, his daughter Henrietta, and son David.

  • Title: Jack May
  • Popularity: 3.614
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-04-23
  • Place of Birth: Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Jack May Movies

  • 1975
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    The Man Who Would Be King

    The Man Who Would Be King

    7.5 1975 HD

    A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire...

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  • 1985
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    The Doctor and the Devils

    The Doctor and the Devils

    6.4 1985 HD

    In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple...

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  • 1945
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    Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter

    7.7 1945 HD

    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...

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  • 1984
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    The Bounty

    The Bounty

    6.7 1984 HD

    The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to...

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  • 1954
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    The Men of Sherwood Forest

    The Men of Sherwood Forest

    6.7 1954 HD

    Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from...

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  • 1943
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    The Gentle Sex

    The Gentle Sex

    7 1943 HD

    During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...

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  • 1970
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    Emma's Time

    Emma's Time

    1 1970 HD

    After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.

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  • 1960
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    1 1960 HD

    A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

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  • 1960
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    There Was a Crooked Man

    There Was a Crooked Man

    6.1 1960 HD

    When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight...

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  • 1958
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    A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    7.6 1958 HD

    The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

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  • 1969
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    Night After Night After Night

    Night After Night After Night

    5 1969 HD

    There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out...

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  • 1962
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    The Traitors

    The Traitors

    5.5 1962 HD

    The cat and mouse game between government agents and a spy ring that has taken secret documents from a plane crash in Germany, not far from an US...

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  • 1981
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    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

    7.175 1981 HD

    An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.

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  • 1950
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    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    6.538 1950 HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

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  • 1951
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    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    6.4 1951 HD

    Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

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  • 1969
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    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    6.7 1969 HD

    Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the...

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  • 1962
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    A Prize of Arms

    A Prize of Arms

    6.563 1962 HD

    A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

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  • 1972
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    The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

    The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

    1 1972 HD

    Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something...

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  • 1981
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    Friends and Other Lovers

    Friends and Other Lovers

    1 1981 HD

    Traces the history of Anna who leaves school and becomes a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at college in Oxford.

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  • 1970
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    Trog

    Trog

    4.4 1970 HD

    Anthropologist Dr. Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte -- an Ice Age "missing link": half-caveman, half-ape -- in a local cave. Through medical...

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  • 1965
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    Stranger in the Family

    Stranger in the Family

    1 1965 HD

    A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.

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  • 1973
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    Soap Opera in Stockwell

    Soap Opera in Stockwell

    1 1973 HD

    A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.

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  • 1962
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    Solo for Sparrow

    Solo for Sparrow

    1 1962 HD

    A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think...

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  • 1957
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    Cat Girl

    Cat Girl

    4.5 1957 HD

    A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

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  • 1958
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    The Silent Enemy

    The Silent Enemy

    5.4 1958 HD

    The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to...

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  • 1979
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    Whinfrey's Last Case

    Whinfrey's Last Case

    1 1979 HD

    In 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go...

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  • 1976
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    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

    6.209 1976 HD

    Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....

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  • 1981
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    The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

    The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

    1 1981 HD

    The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title...

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  • 1943
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    Deadlock

    Deadlock

    5 1943 HD

    A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.

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  • 1966
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    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    6 1966 HD

    A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

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  • 1979
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    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII

    6.5 1979 HD

    Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the...

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed

    7.087 1944 HD

    In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs....

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  • 1943
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    Millions Like Us

    Millions Like Us

    5.3 1943 HD

    When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

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  • 1973
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    Big Zapper

    Big Zapper

    4 1973 HD

    A female private detective, Harriet Zapper, is hired by a rich old man to find his missing children, and becomes involved in counterfeiting and...

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  • 1967
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    How I Won the War

    How I Won the War

    5.5 1967 HD

    An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

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  • 1985
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    The Shooting Party

    The Shooting Party

    6.6 1985 HD

    1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal...

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  • 1945
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    Johnny Frenchman

    Johnny Frenchman

    6 1945 HD

    The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

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  • 1983
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    The Return of the Soldier

    The Return of the Soldier

    6.2 1983 HD

    The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife,...

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  • 1988
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    Hard Road

    Hard Road

    4 1988 HD

    When Kelly and Max, two 13-year olds from widely different social backgrounds, form an unlikely alliance and take off in Max's father's Ferrari for...

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  • 1994
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    Willie's War

    Willie's War

    1 1994 HD

    When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in...

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  • 1983
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    A Swarm in May

    A Swarm in May

    6 1983 HD

    John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be...

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  • 1969
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    Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

    Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

    6.5 1969 HD

    The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by pirates. The travellers find themselves trapped in a sealed...

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  • 1968
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    A Twist of Sand

    A Twist of Sand

    4 1968 HD

    A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly...

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  • 1966
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    The Last Invasion

    The Last Invasion

    1 1966 HD

    A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings

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  • 1954
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    The Gay Dog

    The Gay Dog

    6.5 1954 HD

    Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.

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  • 1953
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    Behind the Headlines

    Behind the Headlines

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1948
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    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    5.9 1948 HD

    Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...

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  • 1966
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    Adam Adamant Lives!

    Adam Adamant Lives!

    7.5 1966 HD

    Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that...

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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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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    8 1981 HD

    Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth...

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  • 1966
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    Softly, Softly

    Softly, Softly

    5 1966 HD

    Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

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  • 1979
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    Shoestring

    Shoestring

    6.8 1979 HD

    Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The...

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  • 1988
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    Count Duckula

    Count Duckula

    7.8 1988 HD

    Count Duckula is a vegetarian vampire duck, coming into the world as an accident. Unlike his family and ancestors, he has no bloodlust, as when he...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.701 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1970
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    UFO

    UFO

    7.6 1970 HD

    A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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  • 1983
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    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    6.4 1983 HD

    Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and...

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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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  • 1962
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    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    6 1962 HD

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...

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  • 1972
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    Van der Valk

    Van der Valk

    5.8 1972 HD

    Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1983
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    The Cleopatras

    The Cleopatras

    3 1983 HD

    Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.

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  • 1977
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    Target

    Target

    6.5 1977 HD

    A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

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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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  • 1960
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    An Age of Kings

    An Age of Kings

    4.7 1960 HD

    A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

    7.6 1955 HD

    The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.

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  • 1969
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    The Main Chance

    The Main Chance

    8 1969 HD

    The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden...

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  • 1957
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    Nicholas Nickleby

    Nicholas Nickleby

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1975
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    Dawson's Weekly

    Dawson's Weekly

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1978
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    A Horseman Riding By

    A Horseman Riding By

    5 1978 HD

    Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's...

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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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  • 1980
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    Escape

    Escape

    1 1980 HD

    Escape is an American anthology series that aired on the NBC network from February 11 to April 1, 1973. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark...

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  • 1966
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    You Can't Win

    You Can't Win

    1 1966 HD

    You Can't Win was a 1966 British television series made by ITV as an adaptation of the novels Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Married...

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  • 1982
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    The Agatha Christie Hour

    The Agatha Christie Hour

    6.7 1982 HD

    This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had...

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  • 1971
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    Brett

    Brett

    5 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Main Chance

    The Main Chance

    8 1969 HD

    The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden...

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  • 1978
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    Hawkmoor

    Hawkmoor

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1978
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.641 1978 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

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  • 1971
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    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    7.3 1971 HD

    Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

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  • 1958
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    Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1961
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    A for Andromeda

    A for Andromeda

    5 1961 HD

    Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful...

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  • 1971
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    Budgie

    Budgie

    7 1971 HD

    Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and...

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