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1. The Mikado (1973 TV Movie)
125 min | Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Hayes | Stars: Valerie Masterson, David Hillman, Philip Sommerscales, Ian Wallace
Votes: 6
2. H.M.S. Pinafore (I) (1981 TV Movie)
108 min | Comedy, Music
Ralph Rackstraw, a poor seaman, is in love with Josephine, the Captain's daughter, but she is too high above him in the social scale for him to even consider asking her to marry him. Also, ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Davidson | Stars: Dennis Olsen, Thomas Edmonds, Judith Henley, Roger L. Howell
Votes: 11
3. Trial by Jury (2005 TV Movie)
Musical
Director: Andrew Lord | Stars: Anthony Warlow, Ali McGregor, David Hobson, John Bolton-Wood
Votes: 45
4. The Mikado (2019)
144 min | Music
The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
Director: Andrew Morahan | Stars: Richard Suart, Anthony Gregory, Mary Bevan, Graeme Danby
Votes: 6
5. The Gondoliers (1990 TV Movie)
Comedy, Music
After gondoliers, Marco and Giuseppe, marry their sweethearts Gianetta and Tessa, they are informed that one of them is really the King of Barataria. However, there is a problem - nobody ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Coombes | Stars: Robert Gard, Graeme Ewer, David Hobson, Roger Lemke
Votes: 25
6. The Return of Gilbert & Sullivan (1952)
32 min | Short, Music
Directors: Irving Allen, Sid Kuller | Stars: The Sportsmen Quartet, Melville Cooper, Billy Gray, Tudor Owen
Votes: 7
7. H.M.S. Pinafore (2005 TV Movie)
Musical
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
Director: Andrew Lord | Stars: Richard Alexander, John Bolton-Wood, Roxane Hislop, David Hobson
Votes: 65
8. The Gondoliers (1984 TV Movie)
147 min | Musical, Comedy
Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri, the most favored of all the gondoliers, choose Gianetta and Tessa to be their brides. While celebrating their marriages, Marco and Giuseppe are informed that ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald | Stars: Marie Baron, John Keane, Karen Skidmore, Paul Massel
Votes: 38
9. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
10. H.M.S. Pinafore (1997 TV Movie)
Musical, Comedy
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
Directors: Peter Butler, Craig Schaefer | Stars: Jon English, Amanda Muggleton, Simon Gallaher, Rima Te Wiata
Votes: 83
11. The Mikado (II) (1983 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald | Stars: Gidon Saks, Henry Ingram, Eric Donkin, Richard McMillan
Votes: 133
12. Patience (1995 TV Movie)
130 min | Comedy, Music
Reginald Bunthorne is a poet, adored by all the ladies, except one - Patience. She cannot understand why all the other ladies feel the way they do, and wonders what love is. Despite her ... See full summary »
Director: Cameron Kirkpatrick | Stars: Christine Douglas, Dennis Olsen, Anthony Warlow, Heather Begg
Votes: 28
13. H.M.S. Pinafore (1973 TV Movie)
Musical, Comedy
The classic operetta of The Lass that Loved a Sailor by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Directors: Michael Heyland, Peter Riley, John Sichel | Stars: John Reed, Pamela Field, Michael Rayner, Malcolm Williams
Votes: 31
14. The Gondoliers (1982 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Marco and Giuseppe marry their sweethearts Gianetta and Tessa, but neither couple is allowed to leave for their honeymoon, because there is a problem. They are informed that one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Eric Shilling, Anne Collins, Francis Egerton, Tom McDonnell
Votes: 41
15. The Pirates of Penzance (1994 TV Movie)
115 min | Musical, Comedy
Frederic was sent in the care of his nursemaid, Ruth, to be apprenticed to a pilot. But she misunderstood her instructions, being hard of hearing, and apprenticed him instead to the Pirate King.
Directors: Peter Butler, Craig Schaefer | Stars: Jon English, Helen Donaldson, Toni Lamond, Derek Metzger
Votes: 168
16. Festival (1960–1969)
60 min | Drama
Festival is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television
Stars: Gillie Fenwick, Gerard Parkes, Eric House, Douglas Rain
Votes: 19
17. The Yeomen of the Guard (1957 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A presentation of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta taking place around the Tower of London. Phoebe is interested in prisoner Colonel Fairfax while his jailer is taken with the lovely Phoebe. Complications ensue.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Norman Atkins, Norman Barrs, Henry Calvin, Barbara Cook
Votes: 11
18. HMS Pinafore (2022 TV Movie)
107 min | Comedy, Music
Josephine, the daughter of Captain Corcoran, falls for lowly sailor Ralph Rackstraw. However, she's torn between her true love, and her father's desire for her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Stars: Les Dennis, John Savournin, Elgan Llyr Thomas, Henry Waddington
Votes: 15
19. The Pirates of Penzance (2006 TV Movie)
115 min | Adventure, Musical
A young man named Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Best | Stars: Anthony Warlow, David Hobson, John Bolton-Wood, Suzanne Johnston
Votes: 53
20. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 222
21. The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1968)
60 min | Music
The long-running television version of the long-running NBC radio series devoted to classical music as well as Broadway composers.
Stars: The Bell Telephone Orchestra, Mel Brandt, Donald Voorhees, The Buster Davis Singers
Votes: 49
22. H.M.S. Pinafore (II) (1981 TV Movie)
88 min | Musical, Romance
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
Directors: Paul Starkman, Leon Major | Stars: Paul Massel, Kenneth Baker, Avo Kittask, James MacLean
Votes: 13
23. The Pirates of Penzance (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Musical
A young man named Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must ... See full summary »
Directors: Wilford Leach, Joshua White | Stars: Kevin Kline, G. Eugene Moose, Rex Smith, Patricia Routledge
Votes: 456
24. Folio (1955–1959)
Drama, Musical
Stars: Douglas Rain, Jack Creley, Lloyd Bochner, Frank Peddie
Votes: 22
25. The Mikado (1996 TV Movie)
Musical, Comedy
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Butler, Craig Schaefer | Stars: Jon English, Derek Metzger, Terri Crouch, Bev Shean
Votes: 61
26. The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956–1961)
30 min | Comedy, Music
Hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the likeable singer, comedian, entertainer received his own variety show sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which gave Ernie the venue to entertain millions... See full summary »
Stars: Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Top Twenty, The Voices of Walter Schumann, Cliff Arquette
Votes: 70
27. The Mikado or the Town of Titipu (1987 TV Movie)
130 min | Comedy, Musical
A staging of "The Mikado" set in an English country hotel during the 1920s.
Director: John Michael Phillips | Stars: Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allan
Votes: 158
28. Iolanthe (1984 TV Movie)
137 min | Comedy, Music
25 years previous to the action of the movie, Iolanthe, a fairy, falls in love with the Lord Chancellor. Fairy law states that Iolanthe must die because of it but the Queen of the Faries ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Macdonald | Stars: Maureen Forrester, Eric Donkin, Marie Baron, Paul Massel
Votes: 30
29. The Pirates of Penzance (1985 TV Movie)
124 min | Comedy, Musical
Young Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must choose between the girl he loves and his sense of duty.
Directors: Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald | Stars: Brent Carver, Jeff Hyslop, Caralyn Tomlin, Douglas Chamberlain
Votes: 72
30. English National Opera: The Pirates of Penzance (2015)
135 min | Musical
Mike Leigh directs ENO's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Director: Andrew Morahan | Stars: Joshua Bloom, Andrew Shore, Jonathan Lemalu, Claudia Boyle
Votes: 27
31. Patience (1982 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Reginald Bunthorne is a poet, adored by all the ladies - except one. Patience, a dairymaid, cannot understand what all the other ladies see in him and wonders what love is. However, despite... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Donald Adams, Derek Hammond-Stroud, John Fryatt, Sandra Dugdale
Votes: 39
32. Ruddigore (1966)
54 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse -- commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has... See full summary »
Director: Joy Batchelor | Stars: John Reed, David Palmer, Kenneth Sandford, Ann Hood
Votes: 52
33. The Mikado (1992 TV Movie)
Musical, Comedy
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Directors: John Michael Phillips, Andrew Wickes | Stars: Fenton Gray, Julian Jensen, Jill Pert, Gary Montaine
Votes: 24
34. The Mikado (1967)
122 min | Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Donald Adams, Philip Potter, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford
Votes: 102
35. The Sorcerer (1982 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
The villagers of Ploverleigh are celebrating the marriage of Alexis, son of Sir Marmaduke Poindextre, to Aline, daughter of Lady Sangazure, who just happens to be Sir Marmaduke's old flame.... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Clive Revill, David Kernan, Donald Adams, Nuala Willis
Votes: 32
36. Iolanthe (1982 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Strephon, a shepherd (the son of a Fairy, Iolanthe, and a mortal), is in love with Phyllis, a shepherdess. He wants to marry her, but, although Phyllis also loves Strephon, she has a ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Derek Hammond-Stroud, Beverley Mills, Anne Collins, Alexander Oliver
Votes: 28
37. Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models (1998)
11 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together, is tormented in a dream by his memories of this most tempestuous partnering.
Director: Barry Purves | Stars: Sandra Dugdale, Daphne Oxenford, Anna Burford, David Holt
Votes: 38
38. The Pirates of Penzance (1993 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Frederic has been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Having reached his 21st year, his indentures are now over and he can return to normal ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Butler | Stars: Jeffrey Black, Bradley Daley, Elizabeth Campbell, Michael Terry
Votes: 6
39. The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
G | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After a young man leaves a band of pirates, hilarity ensues.
Director: Wilford Leach | Stars: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose
Votes: 3,921 | Gross: $0.69M
40. The Mikado (2011 TV Movie)
Musical
The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
Director: Stuart Maunder | Stars: Richard Alexander, Mitchell Butel, Samuel Dundas, Warwick Fyfe
Votes: 11
41. Princess Ida (1982 TV Movie)
114 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Princess Ida and Prince Hilarion were betrothed when the Prince was two years old and the Princess just one year old. Twenty years have now passed, and the time has come for Hilarion to ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Frank Gorshin, Neil Howlett, Laurence Dale, Bernard Dickerson
Votes: 38
42. Musical TV Theater (1970– )
Musical
Stars: Sándor Palcsó, György Melis, Péter Korcsmáros, Dénes Gulyás
Votes: 15
43. The Yeomen of the Guard (1982 TV Movie)
Musical
Colonel Fairfax has been falsely accused of sorcery by a jealous relative who covets his estates and money. The Colonel is condemned to death for his 'crime' and waits in the Tower of ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Alfred Marks, Joel Grey, Elizabeth Gale, Claire Powell
Votes: 31
44.
The Bell Telephone Hour (1959–1968)
Episode:
The Mikado
(1960)
60 min | Music
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Campbell, Martyn Green | Stars: Martyn Green, Groucho Marx, Robert Rounseville, Stanley Holloway
Votes: 50
45. The Mikado (I) (1983 TV Movie)
116 min | Comedy, Musical
Escaping from a distasteful marriage, Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, arrives in the town of Titipu - disguised as a musician. He has chosen Titipu because a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: William Conrad, Clive Revill, Kate Flowers, John Stewart
Votes: 107
46. Foul Play (1978)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.
Director: Colin Higgins | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts
Votes: 17,016 | Gross: $45.00M
47. Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
Not Rated | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green
Votes: 273
48. The Mikado (1987 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, leaves home and disguises himself as a musician to escape a distasteful marriage - and meets a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with whom he falls in love. He ... See full summary »
Director: Virginia Lumsden | Stars: Graeme Ewer, Gregory Yurisich, Heather Begg, Anne Maree McDonald
Votes: 32
49. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After her sex offender husband gets caught in the act and kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against one of her husband's victims and the woman's family.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson
Votes: 49,202 | Gross: $88.04M
50. Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done (1975)
G | 81 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Victor Spinetti, Peter Reeves, George A. Cooper, Miriam Karlin
Votes: 90