TV Adaptations (UK)
These feature films and TV movies are based on United Kingdom's live-action TV series and mini-series from the 1950s to present.
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- DirectorMartyn C. WebsterStarsRobert BeattyElizabeth SellarsPeter CokeA hit and run victim is operated on by Dr. Fenton (Robert Beatty) who becomes implicated after his patient is later murdered.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJack WarnerRichard WordsworthProfessor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
- DirectorJohn WarringtonStarsRuth DunningEdward EvansSheila SweetBob Grove needs building materials to finish a housing estate job. His son illegally obtains them. The council discovers this and calls the police. The Groves try to resolve the situation before the housing estate grand opening.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsBernard BresslawMichael MedwinAlfie BassA group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsJimmy EdwardsArthur HowardMartita HuntJimmy Edwards reprises his TV and radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter CushingRoy CastleJennie LindenAn eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks.
- DirectorGordon FlemyngStarsPeter CushingBernard CribbinsRay BrooksDr. Who and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJames DonaldAndrew KeirBarbara ShelleyA mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.
- DirectorNorman CohenStarsWarren MitchellDandy NicholsAnthony BoothThe film version of Till Death Us Do Part (1965) tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdPatrick CargillBill FraserRoman slave Lurcio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings, but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Vesuvius decides to erupt.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsReg VarneyDoris HareMichael RobbinsWhen the bus company finds itself short-staffed, Inspector Blake comes up with the brilliant idea of employing female drivers. The company is delighted, but the bus crews are horrified and try to get rid of the women.
- DirectorNorman CohenStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive DunnThe misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.
- DirectorMark StuartStarsJohn AldertonDeryck GuylerNoel HowlettIn this spin-off from the ITV television series "Please Sir!" which ran from 1968 to 1972, Mr Hedges takes his class on a field trip, with disastrous consequences.
- DirectorIan MacNaughtonStarsJohn CleeseMichael PalinGraham ChapmanAn anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdDavid KernanNora SwinburneQueen of England gives birth to twins, one kept in a pig sty, and the other hidden. Lurkalot, raised by pigs, fights to protect his daughter and her royal line.
- DirectorRonnie BaxterStarsIrene HandlWilfred PicklesBarbara MitchellSpin-off from the television series For the Love of Ada 1970. Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsReg VarneyDoris HareMichael RobbinsLondon bus driver Stan Butler wants to get married and takes his chance to earn more money when he is given a new job driving a tour bus on a safari park.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsWarren MitchellDandy NicholsAdrienne PostaBased on the BBC television series, and a sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part (1968)', it tells of the family relationship between Alf Garnett, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, all living in a council flat.
- DirectorCliff OwenStarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettCarolyn SeymourAlbert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers. Harold meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsSidney JamesDiana CouplandTerry ScottNeighborhood tensions arise when rambunctious Baines family moves next door to reclusive Abbots, clashing over home distillery and unruly teens while matriarch tries mediating the feud.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsFrankie HowerdBill FraserWilliam MervynFrankie Howerd stars as a cowardly boot-boy who goes to war in 1914 after being hypnotized to save England. With a German master plan tattooed, he tries to hand over plans to the British.
- DirectorJohn RobinsStarsBill FraserRaymond HuntleyDavid BattleyThe animosity between two rival undertakers is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsIan BannenJudy GeesonJohn PaulThe waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
- DirectorJohn RobinsStarsHylda BakerJimmy JewelEdward MalinOn their father's death, Eli and Nellie Pledge inherit a pickle factory in Colne, in the north of England. The warring siblings struggle to keep the decrepit "Pledge's Purer Pickles" afloat, hampered by severe lack of funds, zero business acumen and by having inherited a workforce that is a decade beyond retirement age. While Nellie works hard to keep the business going, Eli prefers to indulge in the delights of beer, cigarettes, gambling and women.The annual Summer holiday is soon upon them and the entire factory is closed down. Nellie takes Eli to a Blackpool boarding house run by landlady Mrs. Rowbottom, whose eyes light upon bachelor Eli. Eli though, only has eyes for the younger Freda. Complications ensue when Eli, Nellie, Mrs. Rowbottom and Freda all try to gain control of the factory, causing ensuing farcical mishaps. Eli's attempts to further his financial ambitions by marrying off Nellie to a colleague in the pickling business are challenged when Vernon Smallpiece is snatched from the altar by bailiffs for non-payment of his debts.