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51. Maigret (1959–1963)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.
Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason
Votes: 375
52. Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973–1974)
30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
"Orson Welles' Great Mysteries" was a United Kingdom hosted anthology mystery and supernatural series, hosted by Orson Welles.
Stars: Orson Welles, Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 233
53.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Winslow Boy
(1977)
113 min | Drama
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Simon Chandler, Ann Beach, Eric Porter
Votes: 39
54.
Celebrity Playhouse (1981– )
Episode:
Pygmalion
(1981)
90 min | Drama
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Twiggy, Robert Powell, Mona Washbourne, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 32
55.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Death in Mind
(1962)
49 min | Crime, Drama
It's obvious that the penniless Heurtin murdered the old woman for her money - isn't it? Maigret doesn't think so, and deliberately allows him to escape from custody to learn the truth.
Director: John Elliot | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Anton Rodgers, John Ronane
Votes: 38
56.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Marquise
(1969)
Drama
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Celia Johnson, Philip Latham, Richard Vernon, David Griffin
Votes: 10
57.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Arrested in a Night Club (or, the Delayed Arrival)
(1993)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Aunt Dahlia aims to sell her ailing magazine to Scouse parvenu Mr. Trotter but hocks her pearls to afford to pay a famous female novelist to contribute a story to the magazine, to reel in ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Jean Heywood, Francesca Folan
Votes: 192
58.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Peter the Lett
(1963)
51 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret is alarmed to learn that one of the most dangerous criminals in Europe is newly arrived in Paris.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Marius Goring, Peter Illing
Votes: 35
59.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Raise Your Right Hand
(1961)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Due to give evidence at a murder trial, Maigret is unable to shake his conviction that the accused is actually innocent.
Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Patrick Troughton, Gene Anderson
Votes: 38
60.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Madman of Vervac
(1962)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret sets out on a fishing holiday but becomes personally involved in a rural murder case.
Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Laurence Payne, Pauline Yates
Votes: 39
61.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Voices from the Past
(1962)
49 min | Crime, Drama
When an elderly man is found dead in suspicious circumstances Maigret delves into the world of the aristocracy in search of an explanation.
Director: Gerard Glaister | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Fay Compton, Catherine Lacey
Votes: 37
62.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Maigret at Bay
(1969)
89 min | Drama
Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.
Director: William Slater | Stars: Rupert Davies, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason, Gillian Hills
Votes: 23
63.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
Light the Blue Touch Paper
(1966)
Drama
June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Anna Massey, Ronald Hines, Neil Stacy, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 12
64.
Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1987)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy
Cornelius Carrington comes to Porterhouse to make his film but it is an act of revenge for unhappy student days and he distorts the result to make the college seem like a salacious hotbed ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Charles Gray, Griff Rhys Jones
Votes: 22
65. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 392
66. Longitude (2000)
200 min | Drama, History
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Anna Chancellor, Emma Kay, Samuel West
Votes: 2,431
67. Love on a Branch Line (1994– )
198 min | Comedy, Drama
A civil servant is sent to dismantle a research unit at an eccentric lord's mansion. He meets the lord's daughters, who make him feel at home, causing him to reevaluate his future plans.
Stars: Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips, Maria Aitken, Graham Crowden
Votes: 246
68. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
69. W. Somerset Maugham (1969–1970)
50 min | Drama
An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".
Stars: Kim Kee Lim, Ken Nazarin, Ahmad Jamal, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 19
70. Tea Party (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just as he's about to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. He also starts to suffer mysterious problems with his eyesight and slowly becomes delusional.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Leo McKern, Vivien Merchant, Jennifer Wright, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 21
71.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!)
(1993)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Unwelcome familiar faces turn up to destroy Bertie's New York idyll, starting with Bingo Little, who wants to marry the English waitress at Art's Diner and persuades Bertie to impersonate ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Pip Torrens, Anastasia Hille
Votes: 199
72.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
A Crime for Christmas
(1961)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret does not welcome a visit from one of his neighbours on Christmas morning but her tale of a little girl mysteriously receiving a present from Father Christmas intrigues him.
Director: Campbell Logan | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Heather Chasen, Barry Foster
Votes: 43
73.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
A Man Condemned
(1963)
50 min | Crime, Drama
A man convicted of murdering his wife is to be executed in 12 hours but Maigret thinks the man is innocent.
Director: Terence Williams | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Trader Faulkner, Terence de Marney
Votes: 35
74.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Cellars of the Majestic
(1963)
50 min | Crime, Drama
The French wife of a visiting American millionaire is found murdered in the luxurious Majestic Hotel.
Director: Eric Tayler | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Redmond Phillips, Ivor Salter
Votes: 33
75.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Dirty House
(1962)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret interrupts his holiday to investigate the death of a young girl in the family of a man he was at school with but did not like.
Director: Terence Williams | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler, Beatrix Lehmann
Votes: 34
76.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Lost Life
(1963)
50 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman in evening dress is found dumped in the street having been murdered. Maigret tries to learn about her short life in the hope of finding her killer.
Director: Gilchrist Calder | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Henry Oscar, Olga Lindo
Votes: 34
77.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Flemish Shop
(1963)
49 min | Crime, Drama
The Peeters family are Flemish and disliked by the French locals. So, when a young unmarried mother goes missing, the villagers suspect foul play.
Director: Eric Tayler | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Margaret Tyzack, Joyce Carey
Votes: 39
78.
Behaving Badly (1989– )
Episode:
The Horse May Talk
(1989)
51 min | Drama
Bridget finds herself increasingly attracted to the considerably younger Giles and decides to move with him to San Diego, where he was born, and start a new life there together.
Director: David Tucker | Stars: Judi Dench, Ronald Pickup, Frances Barber, Gwen Watford
Votes: 15
79. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
80. The Best of Friends (1991 TV Movie)
81 min | Biography
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique twenty-five-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Sir Sydney Cockerell (museum ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Patrick McGoohan, Amma Asante
Votes: 122
81. Festival (I) (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
An hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the BBC from 1963-64, with a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Stars ... See full summary »
Stars: David Garfield, Cyril Cusack, John Wood, John Welsh
Votes: 20
82. Billy Cotton Band Show (1956–1968)
Music
Stars: Billy Cotton, Kathie Kay, Alan Breeze, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Votes: 12
83.
Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Episode:
The Duchess of Malfi
(1972)
Drama
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her. He fails ... See full summary »
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Michael Bryant, Charles Kay, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 37
84.
Stage 2 (1971–1973)
Episode:
Mrs. Warren's Profession
(1972)
109 min | Drama
A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey
Votes: 80
85.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Candide
(1973)
93 min | Drama
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" - young Candide's travels teach him just how dangerous his naive philosophy is.
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Angela Richards, Frank Finlay, Emrys James
Votes: 14
86.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Murder on Monday
(1962)
51 min | Crime, Drama
Murders never happen on a Monday - every policeman knows that. But now it is a Monday, and there has been a murder. But who's the victim?
Director: Terence Williams | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Sylvia Kay, Madge Ryan
Votes: 37
87.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Death of a Butcher
(1961)
50 min | Crime, Drama
A successful and ruthless businessman is sure that someone is out to kill him and asks Maigret for protection. The Chief Inspector dislikes the man and disbelieves the threat but events force Maigret to think again.
Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason
Votes: 40
88.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997– )
Episode:
The Thirties
(1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Jenkins reconnects with Stringham and Widmerpool and meets Quiggan. Widmerpool is articled to a solicitor but intends to go into business and politics as well.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Sarah Badel, Robin Bailey, Gillian Barge, Paul Brooke
Votes: 28
89. Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
Stars: Roald Dahl, Andrew Ray, Forbes Collins, Richard Johnson
Votes: 2,500
90. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
60 min | Drama
This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum
Votes: 246
91. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978)
60 min | Drama
The series tells the story of an educator's effect on impressionable young ladies at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, revealing the challenges they face growing up in 1930s Scotland.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Lynsey Baxter, Amanda Kirby, Vivienne Ross
Votes: 138
92.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Lady Florence Craye Arrives in New York (or, the Once and Future Ex)
(1993)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
In a New York Bookshop where he is buying Jeeves a birthday present Bertie meets forceful old flame Lady Florence Craye who has rowed with fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright and decides she ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Nicholas Palliser, Francesca Folan
Votes: 199
93.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
Shadow Play
(1961)
52 min | Crime, Drama
A body and an open safe seem to suggest murder in the course of robbery but Maigret realizes that the case is not so simple as he uncovers bitterness and unhappiness in the lives of the suspects.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Robert Bernal, Anne Pichon
Votes: 40
94.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Crooked Castle
(1962)
51 min | Crime, Drama
When a diamond merchant is murdered in a small town north of Paris, Maigret finds himself in opposition to the locals.
Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Gerard Heinz, Lisa Daniely
Votes: 35
95.
Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Amateurs
(1962)
49 min | Crime, Drama
Maigret is working round the clock on a baffling spate of bank robberies. When an intriguing murder occurs, Maigret is ordered to concentrate on the robberies but, being Maigret, can't help taking an interest in the murder.
Director: Terence Williams | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Mervyn Johns, Edwin Richfield
Votes: 34
96.
Love on a Branch Line (1994– )
Episode:
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
(1994)
49 min | Comedy, Drama
Lionel almost sabotages the cricket match when he lures Jasper into the "dungeon" for a drinking binge.
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips, Maria Aitken, Graham Crowden
Votes: 14
97. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
75 min | Drama
Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John ... See full summary »
Stars: Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones
Votes: 132
98. A Dance to the Music of Time (1997– )
Not Rated | 416 min | Drama
Anthony Powell's twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatized for television.
Stars: Gillian Barge, Nicholas Jones, Simon Russell Beale, Robin Bailey
Votes: 518
99. Home at Seven (1957 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Preston always returns home from work by seven o'clock, and tonight is no different from any other - except that it's a full day later than he thinks it is, and he can't account for the previous 24 hours.
Stars: Peter Cushing, Helen Shingler, Arnold Bell, Richard Caldicot
Votes: 45
100. Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Not Rated | 200 min | Comedy
Social satire on life on Cambridge College - from the headmaster to the students and even one memorable bedder...
Stars: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Paul Rogers, John Woodnutt
Votes: 512