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1. ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
78 min | Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale
Votes: 98
2. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
3. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 87
4. Angel (1937)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,209
5. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Frank Morgan
Votes: 1,641
6. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Approved | 91 min | Western
A lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.
Directors: H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler, William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,820
7. Forever and a Day (1943)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, History
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »
Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon
Votes: 792
8. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 93
9. Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A daily anthology show, featuring original material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.
Stars: John Conte, Peter Hansen, Sarah Churchill, Johnny Crawford
Votes: 132
10. The Devil to Pay! (1930)
TV-G | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence
Votes: 813
11. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 66
12. The Passionate Plumber (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Irene Purcell
Votes: 553
13. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
14. The Law and the Lady (1951)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
A beguiling international jewel thief loses her heart.
Director: Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Greer Garson, Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main
Votes: 575
15. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
This live series featured adaptations of other works (novels, plays, et cetera) plus original works for the show. It was primarily dramas, but a few musicals also were presented. The show ... See full summary »
Stars: Luis Van Rooten, Robert Emhardt, Loïs Bolton, Robert Dryden
Votes: 98
16. On Approval (1944)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Director: Clive Brook | Stars: Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers, Roland Culver
Votes: 720
17. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston
Votes: 579
18. The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20-year absence. His wife Dolores, with whom he hasn't lived in five years, still loves him. He refuses to ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bruce Winston, Benita Hume
Votes: 771
19. Theatre Night (1957–1961)
45 min | Drama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Evelyn Laye, Dora Bryan, Hugh Williams
Votes: 69
20. A Kiss in the Dark (1925)
60 min | Comedy
Walter Grenham, who has a weakness for women, persuades an old friend, Janet Livingstone, to marry him, promising to remain faithful to her. They then prepare to embark for New York in the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Aileen Pringle, Lillian Rich, Kenneth MacKenna
Votes: 23
21. The Fast Set (1924)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Richard Sones a novelist, enjoys the company of his books and intellectual friends, however, his wife, Margaret, loves the party life of a fast set. Adept at sympathizing with neglected ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Betty Compson, Adolphe Menjou, Elliott Dexter, Zasu Pitts
22. Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
This syndicated show presented adaptations of Broadway shows.
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Ernest Truex
Votes: 37
23. Lovers Courageous (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Aspiring playwright jumping from job to job falls for admiral's daughter.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 231
24. The Lady of Scandal (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 259
25. Do You Remember? (1978– )
60 min | Drama
Short series of plays by leading British dramatists.
Stars: Richard Vernon, Brenda Bruce, Ian Holm, Gwen Watford
26. Aren't We All? (1932)
80 min | Comedy
A honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Gertrude Lawrence, Hugh Wakefield, Owen Nares, Wallace Geoffrey
Votes: 10
27. Un cattivo soggetto (1933)
63 min | Comedy
A young man, Willy, breaks off his engagement with a girl from a noble family, because he is entranced with a night-club starlet. Misunderstandings, jealousies and quarrels - will end with a wedding.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Giuditta Rissone, Laura Nucci, Irina Lucacevich
28. Women Who Play (1932)
78 min | Comedy
Richard Sones is jealous of his wife and thinks she may be starting an affair. His plan to thwart it involves hiring an actress to live with them. Will it work? Or backfire? Or just result in some good comedy?
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Mary Newcomb, Benita Hume, George Barraud, Joan Barry
29. Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
80 min | Comedy
The Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Cathleen Nesbitt, Athole Stewart
30. On Approval (1964 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
At Helen's home, Maria suggests to Richmond that they live together in Scotland for one month. The Duke of Bristol and Helen come along.
Stars: Michael Duffield, Joan Harris, George Whaley, Felicity Young
31. Leave It to Smith (1933)
69 min | Comedy
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles, with an eye toward marrying off her daughter. The pair are invited to stay at ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Carol Goodner, Anne Grey, Allan Aynesworth
Votes: 16
32. The Maid of the Mountains (1932)
80 min | Musical
Director: Lupino Lane | Stars: Nancy Brown, Harry Welchman, Betty Stockfeld, Albert Burdon
33. Mrs. Cheney's Ende (1965 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Erik Ode | Stars: Agi Prandhoff, Almut Eggert, Gretl Schörg, Eckart Dux
Votes: 14
34. Mrs. Cheneys Ende (1957 TV Movie)
60 min
Director: Peter Beauvais | Stars: Sonja Sutter, Friedrich Schoenfelder, Helmuth Lohner, Friedrich von Bülow
Votes: 10
35. The Fake (1927)
Drama
An MP forces his daughter to marry a titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Henry Edwards, Elga Brink, Juliette Compton, Norman McKinnel
36. On Approval (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Stars: Jan Pilbeam, Avice Landone, Alec Finter, Howieson Culff
37. Frau Cheneys Ende (1961)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Franz Josef Wild | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Carlos Thompson, Martin Held, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 58
38. On Approval (1930)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Winifred Shotter, Edmund Breon
39. Sind wir das nicht alle? (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Director: Bertold Sakmann | Stars: Willy Birgel, Adolf Beinl, Gerlinde Locker, Gabriele Reismüller
40. Sind wir das nicht alle? (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Director: Wilm ten Haaf | Stars: Claus Biederstaedt, Lotte Ledl, Thomas Reiner, Käthe Haack
41.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
On Approval
(1982)
Drama
Maria, a wealthy widow, invites her long-time dinner companion Richard to spend a month at her house in Scotland. If she still likes him after a month together, they will marry. Their ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Penelope Keith, Jeremy Brett, Lindsay Duncan, Benjamin Whitrow
Votes: 80
42.
The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Original Miss Chase
(1957)
Drama
A singer becomes a socialite in the ultimate scam of deceit.
Stars: Nanette Fabray, Henry Lascoe, Darren McGavin, Hiram Sherman
43.
Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
Episode:
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(1953)
Comedy, Drama
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
Stars: John Baragrey, Vicki Cummings, Tom Helmore
44.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
On Approval
(1957)
Drama
Two upper-class couples try to discover if they can simply live with each other, without any romantic complications. It proves difficult.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Ann Firbank, Daniel Massey, Cyril Raymond, Marian Spencer
45.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
On Approval
(1968)
Comedy, Drama
Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.
Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Moray Watson
46.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
Aren't We All?
(1969)
Drama
Stars: Ann Bell, Judy Campbell, Maurice Quick, Corin Redgrave
47.
Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
Episode:
On Approval
(1958)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two couples about to be married agree to wait until they can make a more thorough evaluation.
Stars: John Conte, Lisa Daniels, Donald Harron, Tom Helmore
48.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(1956)
Comedy, Drama
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Barbara Couper, Graham Crowden, Gwenda Ewen, Peter Graves
49.
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
Episode:
Twentieth Century Theatre: Aren't We All
(1960)
Drama
A honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.
Stars: Diana Wynyard, Walter Fitzgerald, Jack Watling, Diane Hart
50.
Do You Remember? (1978– )
Episode:
Aren't We All
(1978)
Drama
A honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.
Director: John Frankau | Stars: Richard Vernon, Gwen Watford, Nicola Pagett, Richard Morant