Peter Jones

Peter Jones

Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 - 10 April 2000) was a distinguished British actor and radio personality known for his distinctive voice and narration. He gained recognition for his role as The Book in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," providing the voice of the eponymous guidebook in both the radio series and subsequent adaptations. Jones's soothing and authoritative voice lent a unique charm to the character, guiding audiences through the whimsical and absurd universe created by Douglas Adams. His contributions to the series as the voice of The Book became iconic and memorable for fans of the series.

  • Title: Peter Jones
  • Popularity: 3.556
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-06-12
  • Place of Birth: Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones
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Peter Jones Movies

  • 1961
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    Nearly a Nasty Accident

    Nearly a Nasty Accident

    7 1961 HD

    The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on

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  • 1967
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    Carry On Doctor

    Carry On Doctor

    6.4 1967 HD

    Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his...

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  • 1976
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    Carry On England

    Carry On England

    4.6 1976 HD

    Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy...

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  • 1960
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    School for Scoundrels

    School for Scoundrels

    6.9 1960 HD

    Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car...

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  • 1981
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    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

    7.156 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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  • 1966
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    Press for Time

    Press for Time

    5.6 1966 HD

    Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible...

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  • 1951
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    The Browning Version

    The Browning Version

    7.6 1951 HD

    Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his...

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  • 1949
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    Forbidden

    Forbidden

    6.9 1949 HD

    Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling...

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  • 1951
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    Home to Danger

    Home to Danger

    6 1951 HD

    A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.

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  • 1952
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    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    4.7 1952 HD

    A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

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  • 1973
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    The Mansion of Madness

    The Mansion of Madness

    4.625 1973 HD

    The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place...

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  • 1952
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    Miss Robin Hood

    Miss Robin Hood

    7.4 1952 HD

    In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition...

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  • 1955
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    John and Julie

    John and Julie

    4.8 1955 HD

    The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

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  • 1950
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    Cairo Road

    Cairo Road

    5.8 1950 HD

    In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.

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  • 1953
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    The Long Memory

    The Long Memory

    6.5 1953 HD

    An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

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  • 1966
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    The Sandwich Man

    The Sandwich Man

    6.1 1966 HD

    A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

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  • 1953
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    The Yellow Balloon

    The Yellow Balloon

    5.6 1953 HD

    A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

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  • 1961
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    Romanoff and Juliet

    Romanoff and Juliet

    5.4 1961 HD

    Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling...

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  • 1953
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    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember

    7.125 1953 HD

    A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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  • 1960
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    Never Let Go

    Never Let Go

    6.5 1960 HD

    John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic...

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  • 1949
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    The Blue Lagoon

    The Blue Lagoon

    6 1949 HD

    In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...

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  • 1956
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    Private's Progress

    Private's Progress

    6.4 1956 HD

    Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be...

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  • 1951
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    The Franchise Affair

    The Franchise Affair

    6.7 1951 HD

    An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

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  • 1952
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    Angels One Five

    Angels One Five

    6 1952 HD

    The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...

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  • 1967
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    Just Like a Woman

    Just Like a Woman

    5 1967 HD

    Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show...

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  • 1993
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    Tender Loving Care

    Tender Loving Care

    1 1993 HD

    Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her...

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  • 1953
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    Innocents in Paris

    Innocents in Paris

    5.1 1953 HD

    Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

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  • 1976
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    Seven Nights in Japan

    Seven Nights in Japan

    6.5 1976 HD

    Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated...

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  • 1999
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    Milk

    Milk

    2 1999 HD

    Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

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  • 1975
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    Confessions of a Pop Performer

    Confessions of a Pop Performer

    5.1 1975 HD

    Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group,...

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1959
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    Operation Bullshine

    Operation Bullshine

    5.1 1959 HD

    During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary...

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  • 1967
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    Smashing Time

    Smashing Time

    6.2 1967 HD

    Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

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  • 1975
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    The Return of the Pink Panther

    The Return of the Pink Panther

    6.802 1975 HD

    The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The...

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  • 1981
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    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire

    6.778 1981 HD

    In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

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  • 1953
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    The Good Beginning

    The Good Beginning

    1 1953 HD

    After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one...

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  • 1950
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    Chance of a Lifetime

    Chance of a Lifetime

    6.3 1950 HD

    The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

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  • 1950
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    Last Holiday

    Last Holiday

    7.3 1950 HD

    George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive...

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  • 1953
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    Albert R.N.

    Albert R.N.

    7.2 1953 HD

    The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy...

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  • 1956
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    On Such a Night

    On Such a Night

    1 1956 HD

    An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to...

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  • 1952
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    Time, Gentlemen, Please!

    Time, Gentlemen, Please!

    8 1952 HD

    Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The...

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  • 1999
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    Adventures in Space and Time

    Adventures in Space and Time

    1 1999 HD

    A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.

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  • 1987
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    The Children Of Dynmouth

    The Children Of Dynmouth

    5.5 1987 HD

    The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...

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  • 1957
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    Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

    Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

    6.4 1957 HD

    With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However,...

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  • 1964
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    Father Came Too!

    Father Came Too!

    5.955 1964 HD

    When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up...

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  • 1946
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    I See a Dark Stranger

    I See a Dark Stranger

    6.3 1946 HD

    Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...

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  • 1959
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    Danger Within

    Danger Within

    6.2 1959 HD

    Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a...

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  • 1945
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    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night

    7.2 1945 HD

    Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....

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  • 1944
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    Fanny by Gaslight

    Fanny by Gaslight

    5.7 1944 HD

    Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

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  • 1968
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    Hot Millions

    Hot Millions

    6.6 1968 HD

    A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.

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  • 1948
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    Vice Versa

    Vice Versa

    6.3 1948 HD

    Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young...

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  • 2002
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    Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

    Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence

    6 2002 HD

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  • 1997
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    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders

    7.6 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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  • 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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  • 1969
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    Q...

    Q...

    7.2 1969 HD

    Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 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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  • 1982
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    Whoops Apocalypse

    Whoops Apocalypse

    7.2 1982 HD

    Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and...

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  • 1967
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    Beggar My Neighbour

    Beggar My Neighbour

    6 1967 HD

    Beggar My Neighbour was a black-and-white British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and Desmond Walter-Ellis. It...

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  • 1970
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.5 1970 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

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  • 1975
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    Rumpole of the Bailey

    Rumpole of the Bailey

    7.067 1975 HD

    Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

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  • 1970
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    From a Bird's Eye View

    From a Bird's Eye View

    5.5 1970 HD

    From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the...

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  • 1969
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    Mr Digby, Darling

    Mr Digby, Darling

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    Kindly Leave The Kerb

    Kindly Leave The Kerb

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1966
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    Mild And Bitter

    Mild And Bitter

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1976
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    Star Turn

    Star Turn

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1984
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    I Thought You'd Gone

    I Thought You'd Gone

    1 1984 HD

    Just when they were beginning to enjoy life alone, a middle-aged couple find their grown-up children wanting to return home.

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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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  • 1976
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    One-Upmanship

    One-Upmanship

    9 1976 HD

    A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined...

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  • 1951
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Rag Trade

    The Rag Trade

    6.5 1977 HD

    Follows the humorous struggles of workers in a London clothing factory.

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  • 1984
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    Saturday Review

    Saturday Review

    1 1984 HD

    A BBC TV cultural review show featuring celebrity interviews.

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  • 1983
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    ITV Christmas Comedy

    ITV Christmas Comedy

    1 1983 HD

    Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas...

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  • 1979
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    Minder

    Minder

    6.7 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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  • 1990
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    The Upper Hand

    The Upper Hand

    7.3 1990 HD

    The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from...

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  • 1970
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.5 1970 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

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