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1. Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
30 min | Comedy
A comedy of the life of a divorced father and his two daughters.
Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 195
2. The Rag Trade (1961–1963)
30 min | Comedy
Fenner Fashions makes women's clothing. Reg Turner (Reg Varney) is the downtrodden foreman on the shop floor. The machinists are all women, led by their union rep, Paddy Fleming (Miriam ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Wanda Ventham
Votes: 96
3. Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
94 min | Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Eric Barker
Votes: 195
4. Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
30 min | Comedy, Family
Sykes and A - follows the life and times of an immature, often clumsy twin brother and sister as they deal with their eccentric life's.
Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis, Deryck Guyler
Votes: 28
5. Citizen James (1960–1962)
30 min | Comedy
In the first series of this comedy programme, Sid James played a rather immoral man whose schemes never worked out. In the second and third series, his character became more sympathetic and well-intentioned.
Stars: Sidney James, Sydney Tafler, Ronnie Brody, Bob Todd
Votes: 47
6. Seven Keys (1961)
57 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Jeannie Carson, Alan Dobie, Delphi Lawrence, John Carson
Votes: 116
7. Our Man at St. Mark's (1963–1966)
30 min | Comedy
The trials and tribulations of the Vicar of the village of Felgate.
Stars: Joan Hickson, Donald Sinden, Harry Fowler, Clive Morton
8. Father, Dear Father in Australia (1978–1980)
30 min | Comedy
Patrick Glover's brother, who is living in Australia, has to leave home suddenly in connection with his work. Worried about leaving his two teenage daughters alone to fend for themselves ... See full summary »
Stars: Patrick Cargill, Sally Conabere, Sigrid Thornton, Noel Dyson
Votes: 31
9. Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Crime drama about a homicide investigation.
Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, Christopher Beeny, Norman Mitchell
10. Dick Whittington (1963 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Peter Whitmore | Stars: Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, Reg Varney, Barbara von der Heyde
11. Bold as Brass (1963– )
25 min | Comedy
The exploits of brass band-mad Ernie Briggs and his put-upon wife, Bessie. The series grew out of a 60 minute one off called Man O' Brass shown on 28 Nov 1963 and produced by Douglas Moodie
Stars: Jimmy Edwards, Beryl Reid, Jill Hyem, Ronnie Barker
12. Carpets for Living (1971)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Victor Menzies | Star: Vernon Greeves
13. The Graham Stark Show (1964)
25 min | Comedy, Music
Stars: Graham Stark, Francis Matthews, Arthur Mullard, Rose Hill
14. Meeting Point (1957– )
25 min | Documentary
Stars: Alan Gibson, Jim Douglas Henry, John Betjeman, Tom Salmon
15.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
A Man About the House
(1970)
23 min | Comedy
Patrick is off on holiday so Anna and Karen invite their artist friend Leslie to stay after he has rowed with his wife. When Patrick comes back earlier than expected and Nanny tells him ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
16.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
An Affair to Forget
(1971)
25 min | Comedy
Patrick's married accountant Leo has had a fling with Felicity and Leo's wife Muriel has found a photo of Felicity signed and with kisses. To take the heat of him Leo gets Patrick to ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
17.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
(1969)
24 min | Comedy
Whilst touring in Ireland, Philip, Patrick's actor brother, finds a baby left outside his dressing-room and asks the Glovers to look after it while he tries to trace the mother. However a ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
18.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Brother, Dear Brother
(1972)
30 min | Comedy
Patrick slips whilst visiting his brother Philip in hospital, falls down a laundry chute and ends up as a patient on the same ward. The brothers' charts are accidentally switched and ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
19.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Divorce English Style
(1969)
24 min | Comedy
Mr. Byrde, the family solicitor, contacts Patrick. He is concerned that Patrick and Barbara may not be legally divorced, due to an oversight in the procedure, and asks to see them both. ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Sally Bazely
Votes: 9
20.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Home and Away
(1973)
24 min | Comedy
Bill has a younger girlfriend, Gloria, whom he is seeing at a holiday cabin and asks Patrick to keep his secret. Having mistaken a charity collector for Gloria, and attempted to hide her in... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
21.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
I Should Have Danced All Night
(1968)
25 min | Comedy
Patrick is being secretive about where he is going at nights and the girls fear that he may be the Hampstead Heath Romeo,who makes unwanted advances to lone women. It turns out that he is ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Sally Bazely
Votes: 8
22.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
In All Directions
(1973)
24 min | Comedy
Rather than go on a big family holiday the Glovers decide that each couple will go somewhere on their own but begin to regret it and ultimately they all change their tickets in order to ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 7
23.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
It Won't Be a Stylish Marriage
(1968)
25 min | Comedy
Anna has decided to marry her boyfriend for the week Cyril, but when Nanny is asked by Anna to soften Patrick up about the idea, Patrick misunderstands and thinks it is Nanny who is going ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Sally Bazely
Votes: 9
24.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
It's Never Too Late
(1970)
24 min | Comedy
When Patrick's mother reminds him that Karen never had a proper christening, Patrick - and Barbara - decide to rectify this and go to see their local vicar. The vicar is expecting a couple ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
25.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Nobody's Indispensible
(1970)
23 min | Comedy
Nanny has met a gentleman friend - Mr. Bolton - and he has asked her to marry him. However she feels that, if she was to leave the Glovers, they would be unable to cope without her and so, ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
26.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
One Dog and His Man
(1970)
24 min | Comedy
Annoyed that his dog, H.G. has chewed up the manuscript of his latest book, Patrick gives him away to Ian, his publisher, earning the disapproval of Nanny and his daughters, who are shocked... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
27.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
The Right Hand Man
(1973)
25 min | Comedy
Film mogul Muswell Lemming is coming to talk about filming one of Patrick's books. Unfortunately, whilst discussing a theoretical literary situation involving handcuffs, Patrick and Tim get... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 7
28.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Show Me the Way to Go Home
(1969)
24 min | Comedy
Anna leaves home and moves into a tiny, dingy bedsit. Patrick comes to visit and, due to a misunderstanding, thinks she lives in the flat downstairs, occupied by Julia and Justin, a married... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 8
29.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
The Suitable Suitor
(1970)
24 min | Comedy
Patrick is disapproving of the type of boy with whom Anna is mixing and wants to encourage her to date clean-cut young Matthew Brockbank,whom he invites to dinner. Unfortunately Matthew's ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 7
30.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Thinner Than Water
(1969)
25 min | Comedy
The Glovers go to donate blood and Patrick is horrified to discover that he has a different blood group to his daughters,which clearly intimates that he is not their father. He suspects his... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Sally Bazely
Votes: 8
31.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
This Is Your Wife
(1970)
24 min | Comedy
Mr. Schulz, an American movie mogul, wants to make a film out of one of Patrick's books. However, he is a very religious man who does not hold with divorce so that, when he and his wife ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
32.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Unaccustomed as I Am
(1972)
24 min | Comedy
An old school friend of Patrick,Basil,asks him to give a speech at the school's founders day and a nervous Patrick practices by speaking into a tape recorder. On the day Patrick is ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
33.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
Unhappy Birthday
(1969)
24 min | Comedy
Patrick gets it into his head that he is terminally ill after his doctor, Nanny and the girls all begin to act in a very secretive manner. He develops a cold and goes to bed but further ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Sally Bazely
Votes: 9
34.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
We Can't Afford a Carriage
(1969)
24 min | Comedy
The girls want to buy a secondhand car. Patrick, beset by bills, tells them to earn the money themselves; so Anna gets a job as a Bunny girl in a nightclub. By coincidence Patrick then ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9
35.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
High Pitch
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Lloyd Lamble
36.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
The End of the Hunt
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Christopher Beeny
37.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
The Hot Piano
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Lloyd Lamble
38.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
The Long Night
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Lloyd Lamble
39.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
The White Cockerel-Bird
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, Christopher Beeny, Jennie Lynne
40.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
The Wine Tasters
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Christopher Beeny
41.
Outbreak of Murder (1962– )
Episode:
Thumb-Print
(1962)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Harry Carlisle | Stars: Glyn Houston, Betty McDowall, John Gabriel, Lloyd Lamble
42.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Bath
(1961)
Comedy, Family
Whilst in the bath Eric gets his big toe stuck in the plug.
Director: Philip Barker | Stars: Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler
43.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Golfer
(1965)
Comedy, Family
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Peter Alliss, Douglas Blackwell
44.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Haunting
(1962)
Comedy, Family
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Dick Emery, Tony Veale
45.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Log Cabin
(1964)
Comedy, Family
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Ronnie Barker, Jack Allen
46.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Stranger
(1961)
Comedy, Family
When Hat was 10 she said she would marry Tommy Grando. But decades on, Grando has come back from sea and still believes in the promise.
Director: Philip Barker | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Leo McKern, Marjorie Gresley
47.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and a Uniform
(1965)
Comedy, Family
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Roger Avon, Sydney Bromley
48.
Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode:
Sykes and an Elephant
(1962)
25 min | Comedy, Family
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Colin Douglas
49.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
A Book for the Bishop
(1971)
25 min | Comedy
'Snotty', an old school friend of Patrick, and now a high church bishop, gets in touch with him. He is heading an anti-pornography crusade the Clean Up London Campaign,and wants Patrick to ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 10
50.
Father, Dear Father (1968–1973)
Episode:
A Case for Inspector Glover
(1971)
25 min | Comedy
Patrick is researching for his latest thriller novel and goes to the local police station to inquire whether finger prints would be left after a person has been strangled. Some time ... See full summary »
Director: William G. Stewart | Stars: Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson
Votes: 9