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51. Colonel March Investigates (1953)
70 min | Mystery
Three episodes of "Colonel March of Scotland Yard" edited together for theatrical release.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Richard Wattis, Sheila Burrell
Votes: 172
52. Hell Is Empty (1967)
109 min | Crime, Drama
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.
Directors: John Ainsworth, Bernard Knowles | Stars: Martine Carol, Anthony Steel, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field
Votes: 35
53. Frost in May (1982– )
85 min | Drama
Adaptation of a series of novels by Antonia White about a young girl challenging her authoritarian Catholic environment as she grows up.
Stars: John Carson, Elizabeth Shepherd, Janet Maw, Daniel Day-Lewis
Votes: 34
54. Cloudburst (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley, Sheila Burrell
Votes: 720
55. The Pursuers (1961–1962)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Bollinger pursues criminals and scoundrels on the mean streets of London with the aid of his trusty German Shepherd dog.
Stars: Louis Hayward, Gaylord Cavallaro, Robert Gallico, Geoffrey Hibbert
Votes: 18
56. Patrol Car (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Dramatization of murder investigations and other criminal cases that Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian, a real-life Scotland Yard Inspector and the host of the show, worked on.
Stars: Bruce Seton, Robert Raglan, Philip Dale, Jack Melford
Votes: 23
57. Dancers in Mourning (1959– )
30 min | Crime, Drama
Dtetective Albert Campion investigates threats against stage star Jimmy Sutane.
Stars: Bernard Horsfall, Denis Quilley, Michael Gough, Sheila Shand Gibbs
58. Saturday Playhouse (1958–1961)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
Stars: Elvi Hale, Madoline Thomas, George A. Cooper, Emrys Jones
59. Spooky (1983)
25 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A precursor to the later Dramarama series, Spooky explores the supernatural, and ventures into the dark corners of the imagination.
Stars: Annabelle Lanyon, Wilfrid Brambell, Nicholas Ball, Faith Brook
Votes: 26
60. The Possessed (1969– )
Horror
Adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a provincial Russian town in the mid-nineteenth century.
Stars: Tim Preece, Joseph O'Conor, Keith Bell, Laurence Hardy
Votes: 14
62. The Man in Black (1950)
80 min | Thriller
A yogi seemingly dies while simulating death and his evil second wife, and her daughter, try to force his daughter into insanity for control of his estate.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood
Votes: 290
63. Doctors and Nurses (2004– )
30 min | Comedy
Adrian Edmonson stars as a heroic medic on a mission to save the National Health Service.
Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Madhav Sharma, Mina Anwar, David Mitchell
Votes: 18
64. Thirteen Against Fate (1966)
50 min | Drama
Maigret creator Georges Simenon writes thirteen psychological dramas in which a person's life is changed by a simple act of fate.
Stars: Joss Ackland, Frank Finlay, Lila Kedrova, Marius Goring
65. Black Orchid (1953)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood
Votes: 249
66. Women Without Men (1956)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Comedy and drama as three women, including one with her baby, escape from prison.
Directors: Elmo Williams, Bert Glazer | Stars: Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Thora Hird, Avril Angers
Votes: 87
67. Never Say Die (1987– )
30 min | Comedy
Jenny, separated and broke, takes up a post as warden of a block of sheltered flats for the elderly.
Stars: Irene Handl, Arthur English, Janette Legge, Nicholas Delve
Votes: 9
68. Lizzie's Pictures (1987– )
90 min
Lizzie was a promising photographer in the 1960s. By 1987, she is dissatisfied with her family and friends so she decides to resume her photographic career.
Stars: Lisa Harrow, Robert Stephens, Sheila Ruskin, Philip Jackson
Votes: 6
69. A Quiet Conspiracy (1989)
240 min | Thriller
A retired journalist finds that his life is in danger when he uncovers details of a secret NATO project.
Stars: Joss Ackland, Hartmut Becker, Sarah Winman, Stuart Milligan
Votes: 11
70. Hour of Mystery (1957)
60 min | Mystery
Hour of Mystery is an hour-long UK mystery anthology television series. Donald Wolfit introduced each of the episodes, which aired on the ITV (TV Network) in 1957.
Stars: Donald Wolfit, Kevin Stoney, Gladys Henson, Tony Quinn
71. The Rossiter Case (1951)
75 min | Drama, Mystery
A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin, Sheila Burrell, Frederick Leister
Votes: 63
72. Charlesworth (1959–1960)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Wensley Pithey, Tony Church, Neil Wilson, William Mervyn
73. The Carnforth Practice (1974– )
50 min | Drama
Drama series dealing with a solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.
Stars: Michael Elwyn, Pamela Salem, Caroline Whitaker, Brian Gilbert
74. Television Playwright (1958–1959)
Drama
Stars: Brian Peck, Peter Copley, Jack Allen, Helen Shingler
Votes: 15
75. Can You Keep a Secret (1976 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Michael Bryant, Mary Peach, Sheila Burrell, Peter Tuddenham
76. Under Western Eyes (1962 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
Stars: Daniel Massey, John Phillips, Richard Pearson, Mary Morris
77. The Dawn Killer (1959)
107 min
Sheepdog Glen, accused of sheep killing on the Romney Marshes, is cleared by the efforts of his two youthful owners in time for the Sheepdog Trials.
Director: Donald Taylor | Stars: Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch, Suzan Farmer, David Markham
78. The River Flows East (1962– )
25 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
An adventure serial in six episodes by Terence Dudley. Who has kidnapped Rhona Spencer? Andrew Giddings answers a call for help.
Stars: Gary Watson, Judy Cornwell, Sheila Burrell, Richard Gale
79. Ways with Words (1965– )
30 min | Family
TV Series for younger Secondary School Children for learning English grammar.
Stars: Geoffrey Russell, Howard Bennett, Diane Grayson, Michael Craze
80. Body Found (1959 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Gilchrist Calder | Stars: Nade Beall, A.J. Brown, Sheila Burrell, Paul Cole
81. The Alien Sky (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: John Jacobs | Stars: Gordon Bell, Robert Brown, Sheila Burrell, Maureen Connell
82.
Thirteen Against Fate (1966)
Episode:
The Judge
(1966)
60 min | Drama
Director: Naomi Capon | Stars: Alexander Knox, John Ronane, Peter Howell, Sheila Burrell
83.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Fall of the Goat
(1967)
75 min | Drama
A husband decides to impose a novel and outrageous arrangement on his wife.
Director: Gilchrist Calder | Stars: Joss Ackland, Patricia Lawrence, John Stratton, Christine Hargreaves
84.
Trial & Retribution (1997–2009)
Episode:
Trial & Retribution III - Part One
(1999)
TV-14 | 196 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Teenager Cassie Booth disappears whilst on her paper round and her clothes are found in a boat house belonging to Karl Wilding, a business with an alcoholic wife Rebecca. Wilding is the ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Johnson | Stars: Candice Mandeville, Theresa Petts, Sheila Burrell, Jo Dow
Votes: 234
85.
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode:
Gaudy Night: Episode One
(1987)
154 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Peter is on a governmental mission, Harriet attends a reunion at Oxford and is recruited to find the author of a rash of vicious poison pen letters there.
Directors: Michael Simpson, Michael Simpson | Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Sheila Burrell
Votes: 224
86.
W. Somerset Maugham (1969–1970)
Episode:
The Unconquered
(1970)
50 min | Drama
A French farmgirl is assaulted by a German soldier, but he begins to become obsessed by her.
Director: Gilchrist Calder | Stars: Michael Pennington, Caroline Mortimer, Sheila Burrell, Jack Woolgar
87.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
When We Are Married
(1975)
75 min | Drama
At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Stuart Wilson, John Stratton, Beryl Reid, Eric Porter
Votes: 13
88.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Naked Sun
(1969)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a planet where physical proximity is taboo but nudity is not.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Paul Maxwell, Trisha Noble, David Collings, Frederick Jaeger
Votes: 20
89.
Adam Adamant Lives! (1966–1967)
Episode:
Death Begins at Seventy
(1967)
50 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Adam investigates strange happenings at an old people's home.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer, Jack May, George Benson
Votes: 13
90.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
Bizarre
(1969)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Found wandering in a snowy field Helen Pritchard claims to have seen a man who was supposed to have been a corpse but was very much alive. This leads Steed to investigate the Happy Meadows ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 203
91.
The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode:
For Interest Only
(1998)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama
Ch Supt Brownlow attempts to solve an old jewellery robbery with the help of a criminal on his deathbed and DCI Meadows, although Ch Insp Conway doesn't prove much assistance.
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Peter Ellis, Ben Roberts, Simon Rouse, Colin Tarrant
Votes: 36
92.
The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode:
Found Offending
(1989)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
PC Stamp tries to help a young girl being abused by her father.
Director: Eva Kolouchova | Stars: Graham Cole, Seeta Indrani, Jeff Stewart, Colin Blumenau
Votes: 40
93.
Bramwell (1995–1998)
Episode:
Episode #3.2
(1997)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama
Robert enjoys a weekend of shooting at Mrs. Costigan's country estate, although he recognizes another guest, noted physician Aubrey Savier, as an entrenched rival for Mrs. Costigan's ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Unwin | Stars: Jemma Redgrave, David Calder, Harry Saks, Maureen Beattie
Votes: 25
94.
Brush Strokes (1986–1991)
Episode:
Episode #2.2
(1987)
Comedy
Lionel and Veronica try to make Lesley curb her extravagant spending so that Lionel can afford his own loan for expansion, with the result that Lesley decides to move into her own flat. ... See full summary »
Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Elizabeth Counsell, Mike Walling
95.
Brush Strokes (1986–1991)
Episode:
Episode #5.1
(1991)
Comedy
Everybody goes to Giles and Gloria's country mansion. Veronica and Marcello return to Leslie's dismay. Mr. Morella tells Jacko that he cannot marry Lucia as she is to marry somebody else. Paulette convinces Elmo to buy her a country house.
Director: John B. Hobbs | Stars: Karl Howman, Mike Walling, Nicky Croydon, Jackie Lye
Votes: 7
96.
The Carnforth Practice (1974– )
Episode:
Undue Influence
(1974)
Drama
Lady Mary is keen to stage a play about witchcraft. Dr. Helen Rheinman struggles to convince psychosomatic Ann Pollock that she can walk. She learns Ann is obsessed with witch Martha Webb and talks of a mysterious masked man.
Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Michael Elwyn, Aimée Delamain, Janice Anthony, Colin Baker
97.
Casualty (1986– )
Episode:
Mother's Day
(1999)
TV-PG | Drama
Sean faces a tough time as an injured fireman and his pregnant girlfriend land him with a moral dilemma, while Penny helps Josh to cope with his gambling addiction. (UKTV PLAY).
Director: Julian Holmes | Stars: Derek Thompson, Ian Bleasdale, Jonathan Kerrigan, Rebecca Lacey
Votes: 13
98.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Death in the Dressing Room
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Javanese dancer is murdered after alerting Colonel March of danger.
Director: Donald Ginsberg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sheila Burrell, Richard Wattis
Votes: 61
99.
Crown Court (1972–2007)
Episode:
The Long-Haired Leftie: Part 1
(1973)
TV-14 | Drama
A militant trade union activist is accused of stirring up trouble on a picket line outside a newspaper headquarters. The defense are suggesting that there is a political motive behind his ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Currer-Briggs | Stars: William Mervyn, David Ashford, Bernard Brown, Ron Pember
Votes: 7
100.
The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993)
Episode:
Stranger at the Gates: Part 1
(1992)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
Whilst Pop buys the adjacent quarry to stock as a trout farm and Charley considers buying a hop farm to supply the local brewery the main news in the village is the arrival of Pieter, a ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Goldie | Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Philip Franks, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 74