Ursula Howells

Ursula Howells

Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. In 1947 she appeared in the comedy Jane at the Aldwych Theatre. After several years in the West End, and a brief stint on Broadway where she appeared in Springtime for Henry in 1951, she began to appear in films. After the death of her father in 1983, Ursula Howells instigated the "Herbert Howells Society" and became a standard bearer for the promotion of his work. She financially supported the recording of his compositions and did much to encourage the publishing and promotion of church music.

  • Title: Ursula Howells
  • Popularity: 4.106
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-09-17
  • Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Ursula Howells Movies

  • 1968
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    Assignment K

    Assignment K

    6 1968 HD

    Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...

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  • 1965
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    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    6.4 1965 HD

    Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An...

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  • 1970
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    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    6.1 1970 HD

    A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the...

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  • 1986
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    Time After Time

    Time After Time

    1 1986 HD

    'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his...

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  • 1957
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    Now Let Him Go

    Now Let Him Go

    1 1957 HD

    A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily...

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  • 1957
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    Account Rendered

    Account Rendered

    5.8 1957 HD

    Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.

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  • 1969
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    Crossplot

    Crossplot

    5.5 1969 HD

    A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an...

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  • 1973
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    Father Dear Father

    Father Dear Father

    4.8 1973 HD

    After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary agent, only to then mistakenly propose to the...

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  • 1955
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    Track the Man Down

    Track the Man Down

    5.8 1955 HD

    A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

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  • 1955
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    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage

    5.2 1955 HD

    Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...

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  • 1952
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    The Cocktail Party

    The Cocktail Party

    1 1952 HD

    Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.

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  • 1963
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    80,000 Suspects

    80,000 Suspects

    6.5 1963 HD

    A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

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  • 1974
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    Miss Nightingale

    Miss Nightingale

    1 1974 HD

    The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.

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  • 1956
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    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    7 1956 HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

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  • 1957
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    West of Suez

    West of Suez

    1 1957 HD

    In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.

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  • 1967
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    Torture Garden

    Torture Garden

    6 1967 HD

    Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises...

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  • 1980
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    Gentle Folk

    Gentle Folk

    1 1980 HD

    An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts - including a young man...

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  • 1962
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    Two Letter Alibi

    Two Letter Alibi

    5 1962 HD

    Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as...

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  • 1972
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    Franklin's Farm

    Franklin's Farm

    1 1972 HD

    A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.

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  • 1974
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    Little Fears

    Little Fears

    1 1974 HD

    Four people are circling each other. But for what? - for love or for terror?.

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  • 1963
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    The Sicilians

    The Sicilians

    5.5 1963 HD

    An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a...

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  • 1998
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    A Rather English Marriage

    A Rather English Marriage

    5.7 1998 HD

    A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night....

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  • 1955
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    They Can't Hang Me

    They Can't Hang Me

    6 1955 HD

    A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

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  • 1951
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    Flesh and Blood

    Flesh and Blood

    1 1951 HD

    Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various...

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  • 1998
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    The Tichborne Claimant

    The Tichborne Claimant

    8 1998 HD

    Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American...

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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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  • 1953
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    The Oracle

    The Oracle

    5 1953 HD

    An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

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  • 1955
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    The Constant Husband

    The Constant Husband

    6.9 1955 HD

    Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his...

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  • 1954
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    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    5.9 1954 HD

    Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

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  • 1956
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    Keep It Clean

    Keep It Clean

    4.5 1956 HD

    A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.

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  • 1963
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    The Madhouse on Castle Street

    The Madhouse on Castle Street

    1 1963 HD

    A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried...

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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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  • 1952
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    I Believe in You

    I Believe in You

    6.1 1952 HD

    A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers...

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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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  • 1978
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    When the Actors Come

    When the Actors Come

    1 1978 HD

    On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....

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  • 1953
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    The Blakes Slept Here

    The Blakes Slept Here

    1 1953 HD

    The story of a family house through four generations

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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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    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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  • 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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  • 1986
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    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy

    7.4 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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  • 1954
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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    7.1 1954 HD

    The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories...

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  • 1968
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    Father, Dear Father

    Father, Dear Father

    5 1968 HD

    Patrick Glover is a divorced thriller novelist attempting to raise and keep the peace between his two teenage daughters.

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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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  • 1959
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    Interpol Calling

    Interpol Calling

    6.7 1959 HD

    The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

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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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  • 1974
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    Fall of Eagles

    Fall of Eagles

    6.8 1974 HD

    "Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing...

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  • 1967
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    Man in a Suitcase

    Man in a Suitcase

    7 1967 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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  • 1955
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    Lilli Palmer Theatre

    Lilli Palmer Theatre

    1 1955 HD

    A half-hour anthology series.

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  • 1977
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    Hard Times

    Hard Times

    5 1977 HD

    Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest and hard fact. His raising of his children to this way of thinking...

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  • 1970
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    Ryan International

    Ryan International

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Many Wives Of Patrick

    The Many Wives Of Patrick

    5 1976 HD

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  • 2001
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    The Cazalets

    The Cazalets

    8 2001 HD

    The Cazalets is a 2001 five-episode television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action...

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  • 1963
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1963 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.125 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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  • 1968
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    Ooh La La!

    Ooh La La!

    1 1968 HD

    Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken...

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  • 1971
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    Upstairs, Downstairs

    Upstairs, Downstairs

    7.7 1971 HD

    Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at...

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  • 1985
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    Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

    Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced

    7.2 1985 HD

    An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.

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  • 1971
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    Cousin Bette

    Cousin Bette

    3.5 1971 HD

    Adaptation of the Balzac novel. A poor and homely spinster, who feels she's been walked on all her life, teams up with a scheming courtesan to wreak...

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  • 1992
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    Jewels

    Jewels

    5.6 1992 HD

    Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a chateau in France and...

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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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  • 1984
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    Miss Marple

    Miss Marple

    8 1984 HD

    Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan...

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  • 1978
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    Father, Dear Father

    Father, Dear Father

    5 1978 HD

    The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny...

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  • 1960
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    Sunday-Night Play

    Sunday-Night Play

    1 1960 HD

    BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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  • 1964
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    A Choice of Coward

    A Choice of Coward

    7 1964 HD

    Series of four Noël Coward plays from ITV's 1964 "Play of the Week" slot.

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  • 1950
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    Sunday Night Theatre

    Sunday Night Theatre

    3.5 1950 HD

    Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The...

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