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1.
This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
Episode:
Peter Cushing, O.B.E.
(1990)
Documentary, Biography
Legendary star of Hammer Films Peter Cushing is the delighted subject, hosted by Michael Aspel.
Directors: John Birkin, Brian Klein | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Cushing, Ursula Andress, Peter Gray
Votes: 16
2. An Audience with Shirley Bassey (1995 TV Special)
60 min | Music
The Welsh star Shirley Bassey proves that she really is a diva of the show business world when she performs her most popular hits and answers questions from a celebrity audience.
Director: Nigel Lythgoe | Stars: Shirley Bassey, Lionel Bart, Mary Hayley Bell, Max Bygraves
Votes: 34
3. Here's Hollywood (1960–1962)
30 min | Talk-Show
Hollywood celebrities are interviewed, often at their homes.
Stars: Dean Miller, Helen O'Connell, Jack Linkletter, Joanne Jordan
Votes: 169
4. The Best of British Cinema (1987 Video)
25 min | Short, Documentary
Compilation of the five episodes which comprised Season Four of the TV series "Best Of British", originally shown on BBC 1 in 1990.
Star: John Mills
Votes: 14
5. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)
TV-14 | 105 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.
Stars: Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson
Votes: 4,242
6. Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001 TV Special)
120 min | Music
Television special celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Michael Jackson's solo career.
Director: Bruce Gowers | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Marc Anthony, Carroll Baker, Lance Bass
Votes: 1,134
7. Living Famously (2002– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Caroline Quentin, David Thomson, Patrick Allen, Sheridan Morley
Votes: 21
8. Best of British (1987–1994)
25 min | Documentary
Designed as entertainment for a broad audience, a comprehensive view of British cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s that examines a different theme and / or genre in each episode through the extensive use of film clips.
Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 11
9.
This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
Episode:
Douglas Bader
(1982)
Documentary, Biography
The legendary pilot and RAF flying Ace, immortalised in the book and film 'Reach For The Sky', is surprised by Eamonn Andrews, who then relates the story of his life, with the help of the 'Big Red Book'.
Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood | Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Douglas Bader, Joan Bader, 'Paddy' Barthropp
Votes: 11
10. The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1988)
TV-G | 90 min | Music, Talk-Show
This particular series combines several "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC: ABC This Morning/The Dick Cavett Show ABC Daytime March 1968 - January 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Primetime May 1969 - September 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night December 1969 - January 1975 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night September - December 1986
Stars: Dick Cavett, Bobby Rosengarden, Fred Foy, Mort Sahl
Votes: 944
11. Five O'Clock Club (1963–1966)
30 min | Family
Children's programme for the under-twelves.
Stars: Ollie Beak, Muriel Young, Fred Barker, Angela White
Votes: 17
12. Film Genre (2002)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Peter Firth, Donald Richie, Ridley Scott, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 27
13.
The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1988)
Episode:
David Lean and John Mills
(1971)
TV-PG | Music, Talk-Show
Stars: Dick Cavett, Bobby Rosengarden, David Lean, John Mills
Votes: 13
14. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
385 min | Drama
Old Martin Chuzzlewit is nearing his death. Who will inherit his riches? With such a prize to play for, the Chuzzlewit family bring forth all of their cunning, greed and selfishness. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Stars: Emma Chambers, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen, Philip Franks
Votes: 977
15. The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)
Comedy
The Morecambe & Wise Show was a long running and massively popular sketch series starring British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, plus a string of top-name international celebrity guests (of a bygone age), like André Prévin.
Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Ann Hamilton, Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
Votes: 1,057
16. Spit MacPhee (1988)
60 min | Drama
The authorities want to take Spit MacPhee (Philip Hancock) away from his grandfather, Fyfe MacPhee (Sir John Mills), and put him in a children's home, but the young whippersnapper has other ideas.
Stars: John Mills, Philip Hancock, John Bach, Elspeth Ballantyne
Votes: 21
17. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,172 | Gross: $52.77M
18. One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1988 TV Special)
50 min | Comedy
Director: David Bell | Stars: Barry Humphries, Jeffrey Archer, Barbara Bach, Mary Hayley Bell
Votes: 41
19.
Dundee and the Culhane (1967)
Episode:
The Cat in the Bag Brief
(1967)
60 min | Western
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: John Mills, Sean Garrison, Charles Bronson, Roy Poole
Votes: 6
20.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Episode:
Episode Six
(1994)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama
Jonas murders Montague and is exposed, so takes his own life. Old Martin's senility is seen to be a sham and at a family conference young Martin's inheritance is restored and a blessing given to wed Mary, while Pecksniff is punished.
Director: Pedr James | Stars: Philip Franks, Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, Emma Chambers, John Padden
Votes: 31
21.
A Tale of Two Cities (1989)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1989)
Drama, History, Romance
The similarity of a dissolute English lawyer to an exile from revolutionary France proves useful.
Stars: James Wilby, Xavier Deluc, Serena Gordon, John Mills
Votes: 10
22. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills
Votes: 11,587
23. The Danny Kaye Show (1963–1967)
60 min | Comedy, Music
Primary focus on the multi-talented Kaye - singing and dancing his way through comedy skits and monologues - assisted by semi-regular guests, singers, dancers and orchestra.
Stars: Danny Kaye, Sally Stevens, Harvey Korman, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 211
24.
The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968–1977)
Episode:
Episode #6.4
(1971)
44 min | Comedy
Musical guests are Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Mrs. Mills and Trio Athénée. Eric has received a death threat, and then participates in a TV game show. John Mills stars as Major Faversham in Ernie's play called "Escape from Stalag 54".
Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, John Mills, Mrs. Mills
Votes: 10
25. Great Expectations (1946)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Director: David Lean | Stars: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons
Votes: 26,401
26. An Audience with Cliff Richard (1999 TV Special)
75 min | Music
The singer performs for and interacts with a small audience.
Stars: Cliff Richard, Elaine Paige, Russ Abbot, Bobby Davro
Votes: 30
27.
Nanny and the Professor (1970–1971)
Episode:
The Human Fly
(1971)
23 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Nanny's globe-trotting Uncle Alfred turns up busking in the park, and is invited to stay with the Everetts. He tries to coax her to join him on a south sea voyage, and he grants supposedly ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Juliet Mills, Richard Long, David Doremus, Trent Lehman
Votes: 34
28.
A Tale of Two Cities (1989)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1989)
Drama, History, Romance
To save Charles from the guillotine, Carton proposes a desperate measure.
Stars: James Wilby, Xavier Deluc, Serena Gordon, John Mills
Votes: 9
29. Hamlet (1996)
PG-13 | 242 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet
Votes: 40,048 | Gross: $4.41M
30. Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Approved | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Harry Andrews
Votes: 6,592
31. When the Wind Blows (1986)
16+ | 84 min | Animation, Drama, War
A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston, James Russell
Votes: 12,636 | Gross: $0.01M
32. Biography (1987– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
Stars: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Robert J. Thompson
Votes: 2,087
33. Hobson's Choice (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson
Votes: 8,798
34. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
35.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Episode:
Episode Two
(1994)
TV-PG | 52 min | Drama
Pecksniff returns to Wiltshire to carry out Old Martin's orders. After a tender parting from Mrs. Lupin, Mark Tapley helps Young Martin to a secret rendezvous with Mary Graham, before seeking his fortune in America.
Director: Pedr James | Stars: Emma Chambers, Keith Allen, Julia Sawalha, Paul Scofield
Votes: 36
36. 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: 2,499
37. Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium (1955–1967)
60 min | Comedy, Music
A revival of the British variety show Tonight at the London Palladium, it ran from 28 October 1973 to 28 October 1974.
Stars: Bruce Forsyth, Tommy Trinder, Norman Vaughan, Don Arroll
Votes: 48
38. Peace One Day (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
Director: Jeremy Gilley | Stars: The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Jeremy Gilley, Judi Dench
Votes: 148
39. Sir John Mills' Moving Memories (2000 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Marcus Dillistone | Stars: Harry Andrews, Richard Attenborough, Mary Hayley Bell, Dirk Bogarde
Votes: 37
40. Film Fanfare (1956)
Talk-Show
The goings on within the film industry.
Stars: Peter Noble, Paul Carpenter, John Fitzgerald, John Parsons
Votes: 13
41. An Invitation to Remember (1989–1995)
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Brian Johnston, Dulcie Gray, Michael Dennison, Brian Rix
Votes: 7
42.
This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
Episode:
Richard Attenborough
(1962)
Documentary, Biography
Eamonn Andrews tells the story of Richard Attenborough.
Director: Vere Lorrimer | Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough, John Boulting
Votes: 10
43.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Episode:
Episode Three
(1994)
TV-PG | 55 min | Drama
Jonas gives his father a lavish funeral and later proposes to Mercy Pecksniff, much to Charity's anger. Tom Pinch brings news of young Martin to Mary. Old Martin warns Mercy about entering into a marriage without love.
Director: Pedr James | Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Sam Kelly, Keith Allen
Votes: 36
44. King Rat (1965)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, War
Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal
Votes: 5,080
45. A Woman of Substance (1984)
300 min | Drama, Romance
Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.
Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Barry Bostwick, Deborah Kerr, Diane Baker
Votes: 1,132
46. Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 3,163
47. Tunes of Glory (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price
Votes: 4,557
48. The Dame Edna Experience (1987–1989)
Comedy, Talk-Show
An arrogant Australian TV host who mocks celebrity guests and abuses her sidekick Madge in a series of comedic talk show parodies.
Stars: Barry Humphries, Emily Perry, Robin Houston, Jeffrey Archer
Votes: 270
49. Dennis Pennis R.I.P. (1997 Video)
57 min | Comedy
Pennis lives, in Cannes, New York and London, or does he? Because someone wants to take him down...
Stars: Paul Kaye, David Walliams, Vicki Pepperdine, Matt Lucas
Votes: 178
50.
The Zoo Gang (1974)
Episode:
Revenge: Post-dated
(1974)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1973, in Nice, France, Thomas Devon, a jeweler, sees a man who enters his shop. He then goes to see Manouche Roget and tells her about the man he saw. It seems that they along with the ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Brian Keith, John Mills, Lilli Palmer, Barry Morse
Votes: 23