Don Henderson

Don Henderson

Born Donald Francis Henderson in Leystonstone, 1931, Don Henderson was an English actor of stage, television and screen. He was best known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in a trilogy of popular Granada Television police drama series; The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman. Following the end of Bulman, Henderson starred as the priest Frank Kane in the BBC drama series The Paradise Club, penned by Bulman creator Murray Smith. Henderson starred in several cult and sci fi serials and films, most notably in the first Star Wars movie in which he played General Tagge, and Doctor Who and Red Dwarf. Prior to acting, Henderson was a dental technician in the army and a detective sergeant in the Essex constabulary, but he resigned when he found he had sympathy for the criminals he was obliged to arrest. He was married twice, firstly to Hilary who died in 1977, and then to the actress Shirley Stelfox, whom he met filming The XYY Man. The pair set up home in Stratford-Upon-Avon and appeared together professionally many times until his death from throat cancer in 1997.

  • Title: Don Henderson
  • Popularity: 6.283
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1932-11-10
  • Place of Birth: Leytonstone, London, England, UK
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Don Henderson Movies

  • 1977
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    Star Wars

    Star Wars

    8.203 1977 HD

    Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker...

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  • 1980
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    The Island

    The Island

    5.2 1980 HD

    David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and...

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  • 1993
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    The Trial

    The Trial

    5.8 1993 HD

    Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and...

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  • 1975
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    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

    4.9 1975 HD

    A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.

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  • 1994
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    White Angel

    White Angel

    4.125 1994 HD

    Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of...

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  • 1994
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    Liberation: Between Two Fires

    Liberation: Between Two Fires

    1 1994 HD

    It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

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  • 1994
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    Liberation: Resurrection

    Liberation: Resurrection

    1 1994 HD

    It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

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  • 1994
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    Liberation: Beginning of the end

    Liberation: Beginning of the end

    1 1994 HD

    It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

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  • 1994
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    Liberation: Salvation

    Liberation: Salvation

    1 1994 HD

    It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

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  • 1994
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    Liberation: Flood of Blood

    Liberation: Flood of Blood

    1 1994 HD

    It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.

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  • 1992
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    As You Like It

    As You Like It

    5.5 1992 HD

    Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...

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  • 1974
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    Footsteps

    Footsteps

    1 1974 HD

    Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise,...

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  • 1987
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    The Secret World of Polly Flint

    The Secret World of Polly Flint

    1 1987 HD

    A young girl escapes her loneliness by retreating to The Magical World of Another Time, which can only be reached by using your imagination.

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  • 1991
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    Miss Queencake

    Miss Queencake

    4 1991 HD

    A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

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  • 1978
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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    5.9 1978 HD

    Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

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  • 1992
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    Black and Blue

    Black and Blue

    1 1992 HD

    When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the...

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  • 1997
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    Preaching to the Perverted

    Preaching to the Perverted

    6.1 1997 HD

    A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.

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  • 1994
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    No Escape

    No Escape

    6.272 1994 HD

    In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle...

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  • 1989
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    Tank Malling

    Tank Malling

    4 1989 HD

    Tank is an investigative reporter and jailbird, framed on scant evidence supplied by the London mob. Helen is the sensuous call-girl who offers Tank...

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  • 1976
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    The Littlest Horse Thieves

    The Littlest Horse Thieves

    6.9 1976 HD

    When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three...

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  • 1978
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    Danton's Death

    Danton's Death

    1 1978 HD

    Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794...

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  • 1994
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    Pat and Margaret

    Pat and Margaret

    7.5 1994 HD

    Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...

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  • 1977
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    The Finishing Line

    The Finishing Line

    5.6 1977 HD

    When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue....

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  • 1993
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    The Baby of Mâcon

    The Baby of Mâcon

    6.9 1993 HD

    Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman...

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  • 1985
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    Murder Elite

    Murder Elite

    8 1985 HD

    An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

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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...

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  • 1990
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    The Fool

    The Fool

    7 1990 HD

    A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

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  • 1984
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    Squaring the Circle

    Squaring the Circle

    5 1984 HD

    An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

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  • 1988
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    1 1988 HD

    Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a...

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  • 1975
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    Brannigan

    Brannigan

    5.876 1975 HD

    A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings...

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  • 1970
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    Across the Andes by Frog

    Across the Andes by Frog

    1 1970 HD

    Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able to climb mountains. Due to the Cup Final the...

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  • 1996
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    The Wind in the Willows

    The Wind in the Willows

    5.5 1996 HD

    Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels,...

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  • 1987
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    Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

    Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

    6 1987 HD

    The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday trip to Shangri-La aboard a Nostalgia Tours bus, only to get dragged into the battle against genocide of their...

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  • 1988
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    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    7 1988 HD

    An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

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  • 1995
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    The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

    The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond

    1 1995 HD

    More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its...

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  • 1997
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    Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Danielle Steel's Zoya

    5.1 1997 HD

    A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

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  • 1991
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    How's Business

    How's Business

    1 1991 HD

    During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.

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  • 1974
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    Regan

    Regan

    1 1974 HD

    Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major...

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  • 1992
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    Carry On Columbus

    Carry On Columbus

    3.8 1992 HD

    Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

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  • 1985
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    Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

    Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

    5.6 1985 HD

    Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world...

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  • 1974
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    Callan

    Callan

    6.9 1974 HD

    David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan...

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  • 1981
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    The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    1 1981 HD

    On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across...

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  • 1992
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    My Friend Walter

    My Friend Walter

    1 1992 HD

    Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh,...

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  • 1976
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    Voyage of the Damned

    Voyage of the Damned

    5.9 1976 HD

    A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

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  • 1985
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    Brazil

    Brazil

    7.7 1985 HD

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a...

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  • 1993
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    Tomorrow Calling

    Tomorrow Calling

    4 1993 HD

    A photographer hired to shoot photos of "futuristic Americana" starts having visions of an alternate reality that looks like the covers of pulp...

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  • 1988
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    Blanc de Chine

    Blanc de Chine

    1 1988 HD

    Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody...

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  • 1977
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    Gotcha / Campion's Interview

    Gotcha / Campion's Interview

    1 1977 HD

    Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a...

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  • 1977
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    One Day at a Time

    One Day at a Time

    1 1977 HD

    An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

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  • 1977
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    The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    6.1 1977 HD

    Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and...

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  • 1983
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    Atlantis

    Atlantis

    1 1983 HD

    Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a...

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  • 1989
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    The BFG

    The BFG

    6.4 1989 HD

    Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is...

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  • 1974
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    A Killer in Every Corner

    A Killer in Every Corner

    1 1974 HD

    A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. ...

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  • 1978
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    Strangers

    Strangers

    7 1978 HD

    Strangers is a UK police drama that appeared on ITV between 1978 and 1982. After the success of the TV series The XYY Man, adapted from books by...

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  • 1976
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    The XYY Man

    The XYY Man

    6 1976 HD

    The XYY Man began life as a series of novels by Kenneth Royce, featuring the character of William 'Spider' Scott, a one-time cat-burglar who leaves...

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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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  • 1985
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    Dempsey and Makepeace

    Dempsey and Makepeace

    6.4 1985 HD

    Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The...

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  • 1987
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    Knights of God

    Knights of God

    5 1987 HD

    Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by...

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  • 1980
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    The Enigma Files

    The Enigma Files

    5.5 1980 HD

    The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick...

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  • 1985
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    Bulman

    Bulman

    6.7 1985 HD

    Bulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major character from the earlier XYY Man and Strangers...

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  • 1988
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    Red Dwarf

    Red Dwarf

    8 1988 HD

    The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.

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  • 1975
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    Angels

    Angels

    3.7 1975 HD

    Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus...

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  • 1979
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    Dick Turpin

    Dick Turpin

    7.3 1979 HD

    Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

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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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    Warship

    Warship

    5.5 1973 HD

    Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy...

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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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  • 1986
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    Dead Head

    Dead Head

    5.3 1986 HD

    London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off...

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  • 1994
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    Dandelion Dead

    Dandelion Dead

    8 1994 HD

    This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of...

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  • 1975
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    Poldark

    Poldark

    6.6 1975 HD

    Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in...

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  • 1989
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    The Paradise Club

    The Paradise Club

    5.8 1989 HD

    The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were...

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  • 1993
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    Cracker

    Cracker

    6.5 1993 HD

    The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

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  • 1984
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    Annika

    Annika

    3 1984 HD

    Pete, an eighteen year old Isle of Wight deck chair attendant, meets fifteen gear old Swedish exchange student Annika. After a holiday romance, he ...

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  • 1973
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.6 1973 HD

    Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a...

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  • 1978
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    Scorpion Tales

    Scorpion Tales

    6 1978 HD

    Scorpion Tales was a British thriller television series, originally screened in 1978. Produced by ATV, the series was transmitted on the ITV network....

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  • 1989
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    Making Out

    Making Out

    5.8 1989 HD

    Making Out is a British television series, shown by the BBC between 1989 and 1991. The series, created by Franc Roddam, written by Debbie Horsfield,...

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  • 1981
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    Take the Stage

    Take the Stage

    1 1981 HD

    Reparatory theatre people compete against television actors in panel games of improvisation.

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.8 1979 HD

    This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye...

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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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  • 1991
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    2Point4 Children

    2Point4 Children

    7.194 1991 HD

    They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The...

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  • 1993
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    The Detectives

    The Detectives

    6.7 1993 HD

    The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when...

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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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  • 1987
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    The New Statesman

    The New Statesman

    7.511 1987 HD

    The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

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  • 1972
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    The Protectors

    The Protectors

    5.6 1972 HD

    The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as...

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  • 1994
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    Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

    Jo Brand Through the Cakehole

    1 1994 HD

    Jo Brand Through the Cakehole is a British stand-up comedy television series produced by Channel X, and starring Jo Brand as the show's host. It...

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