Alan Tilvern

Alan Tilvern

Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945

  • Title: Alan Tilvern
  • Popularity: 1.0683
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1918-11-05
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Alan Tilvern Movies

  • 1988
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    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    7.534 1988 HD

    'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

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  • 1958
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    6.7 1958 HD

    Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

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  • 1958
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    Chase a Crooked Shadow

    Chase a Crooked Shadow

    7 1958 HD

    A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

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  • 1966
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    Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    5.8 1966 HD

    Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.

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  • 1966
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    Khartoum

    Khartoum

    6.3 1966 HD

    English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

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  • 1974
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    Percy's Progress

    Percy's Progress

    3.5 1974 HD

    Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

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  • 1950
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    Night and the City

    Night and the City

    7.496 1950 HD

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

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  • 1953
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    Knights of the Round Table

    Knights of the Round Table

    6 1953 HD

    In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

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  • 1956
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    Bhowani Junction

    Bhowani Junction

    5.9 1956 HD

    Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

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  • 1977
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    The Stick Up

    The Stick Up

    5.2 1977 HD

    Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For some reason, he believes that his larcenous ways will bring him prosperity in the country which at one time or another has had rulership over a large portion of the globe. While there, he meets Rosie McCratchit (Pamela McMyler), a lovely Irish gal who could do with some improvement in her fortunes as well. Together, they have a series of legal, quasi-legal and definitely illegal adventures, including Duke's cow-roping and Rosie's response to the mud-wrestling challenge of the Amazon Lady, as well as an attempted armored-car robbery.

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  • 1966
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    The Frozen Dead

    The Frozen Dead

    5 1966 HD

    A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.

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  • 1956
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    House of Secrets

    House of Secrets

    5.9 1956 HD

    Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

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  • 1984
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    Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

    Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

    6.5 1984 HD

    Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The Miracle Continues follows Helen through her youth and early adulthood – from her school days at the Perkins Institute to her academic career at Radcliffe College to her first public appearances as an author and activist.

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  • 1985
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    Nineteen Nineteen

    Nineteen Nineteen

    1 1985 HD

    Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.

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  • 1955
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    The Bespoke Overcoat

    The Bespoke Overcoat

    6.3 1955 HD

    A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him to return as a ghost, determined to claim the garment with the help of a tailor friend.

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  • 1962
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    Danger by My Side

    Danger by My Side

    5.1 1962 HD

    A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.

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  • 1950
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    Cairo Road

    Cairo Road

    5.8 1950 HD

    In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.

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  • 1975
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    Love and Death

    Love and Death

    7.486 1975 HD

    In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

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  • 1951
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    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

    6.9 1951 HD

    Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

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  • 1987
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    Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri

    Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri

    2 1987 HD

    A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal.

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  • 1954
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    The Master Plan

    The Master Plan

    6 1954 HD

    Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.

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  • 1986
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    Little Shop of Horrors

    Little Shop of Horrors

    6.96 1986 HD

    Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for it’s supper.

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  • 1965
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    No Place Like Earth

    No Place Like Earth

    1 1965 HD

    Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.

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  • 1978
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    Superman

    Superman

    7.2 1978 HD

    Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

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  • 1958
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    Tank Force!

    Tank Force!

    6.2 1958 HD

    During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

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  • 1978
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    The Lord of the Rings

    The Lord of the Rings

    6.6 1978 HD

    Young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is thrown into an amazing adventure when he's tasked with destroying the One Ring, created by the dark lord Sauron. Frodo must travel in a small fellowship of nine warriors and accomplices. But it won't be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-earth of evil.

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  • 1961
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    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    6.5 1961 HD

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

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  • 1982
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    Firefox

    Firefox

    6.051 1982 HD

    The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.

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  • 1963
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    Shadow of Fear

    Shadow of Fear

    5.5 1963 HD

    An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.

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  • 1964
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    Hot Enough for June

    Hot Enough for June

    5.6 1964 HD

    A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

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  • 1978
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    Brass Target

    Brass Target

    5.4 1978 HD

    General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.

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  • 1970
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    The Revolutionary

    The Revolutionary

    5 1970 HD

    "A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.

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  • 1964
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    Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

    Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

    7.1 1964 HD

    When the TARDIS malfunctions, it and its travellers land on Earth at the size of insects. They uncover a murderous plot involving a new insecticide, but how can they stop the crime in their miniaturised condition?

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  • 1978
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    One Bummer News Day

    One Bummer News Day

    1 1978 HD

    What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

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  • 1959
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    The Siege of Pinchgut

    The Siege of Pinchgut

    6 1959 HD

    An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

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  • 1961
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    Adventure Story

    Adventure Story

    6 1961 HD

    The story of Alexander the Great.

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  • 1980
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    Invasion

    Invasion

    10 1980 HD

    Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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  • 1960
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    The Malpas Mystery

    The Malpas Mystery

    6 1960 HD

    After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.

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  • 1993
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    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

    7 1993 HD

    The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the music, with only one major cut.

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  • 1980
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    High Rise Donkey

    High Rise Donkey

    1 1980 HD

    The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by providing a temporary stable for the donkey in the block of high-rise flats.

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  • 1960
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    Sands of the Desert

    Sands of the Desert

    6.3 1960 HD

    In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end

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  • 1959
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    Desert Mice

    Desert Mice

    6 1959 HD

    A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.

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  • 1985
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    Reunion at Fairborough

    Reunion at Fairborough

    4.8 1985 HD

    World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mitchum

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  • 1958
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    The Long Knife

    The Long Knife

    1 1958 HD

    Young nurse Jill Holden gets involved with an extortion gang targeting Mrs Cheam, one of her patients. When Mrs. Cheam is murdered, Jill becomes a suspect and must clear her name.

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  • 1975
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.9 1975 HD

    Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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  • 1970
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    UFO

    UFO

    7.7 1970 HD

    A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

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  • 1977
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    Citizen Smith

    Citizen Smith

    6.5 1977 HD

    Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation.

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.4 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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  • 1955
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.3 1955 HD

    Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.

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  • 1959
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    Interpol Calling

    Interpol Calling

    6.7 1959 HD

    The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

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  • 1971
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    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    7.4 1971 HD

    An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

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  • 1968
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    The Expert

    The Expert

    10 1968 HD

    The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.

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  • 1960
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    Maigret

    Maigret

    7.2 1960 HD

    BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

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  • 1959
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    The Third Man

    The Third Man

    6.9 1959 HD

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  • 1965
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    Out of the Unknown

    Out of the Unknown

    7 1965 HD

    Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

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  • 1970
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    6.3 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.5 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.5 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.891 1963 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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  • 1963
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    Crane

    Crane

    1 1963 HD

    The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion sidekick Orlando, waitress Halina, and local cop Colonel Mahmoud.

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  • 1957
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    Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

    Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

    1 1957 HD

    The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world.

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  • 1960
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    The Odd Man

    The Odd Man

    1 1960 HD

    The first of a trilogy of police procedurals produced in the 1960s by Granada TV, linked by the presence of pompous but increasingly genial police Chief Inspector Charles Rose, The Odd Man initially dealt with the investigations of theatrical-agent-cum-detective Steve Gardiner, and his encounters with the police in the form of Chief Inspector Gordon and DS Swift. By season three, Rose takes Gardiner's place.

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  • 1975
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    Poldark

    Poldark

    6.8 1975 HD

    Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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  • 1962
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    Studio 4

    Studio 4

    6 1962 HD

    Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

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  • 1955
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.3 1955 HD

    Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.

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  • 1964
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    Detective

    Detective

    1 1964 HD

    A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

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  • 1968
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    Dad's Army

    Dad's Army

    7.4 1968 HD

    Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.

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  • 1959
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    Edgar Wallace Mysteries

    Edgar Wallace Mysteries

    7 1959 HD

    The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 46 films in the series, made between 1960 and 1965. The films were loose adaptations of Edgar Wallace's books and stories. Very few used his original titles, and there was no attempt to set them in the period in which Wallace wrote, probably to obviate the need for elaborate costumes and sets. A 1962 article in Scene magazine quotes £22,000 as the budget for an episode then in production.

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  • 1970
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    Edgar Wallace Mysteries

    Edgar Wallace Mysteries

    3 1970 HD

    Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together went on to devise Crossroads. In contrast to the kitchen sink realism of Coronation Street, Compact was a distinctly middle-class serial, set in the more "sophisticated" arena of magazine publishing. An early "avarice" soap, it took the viewer into the business workplace, and aligned the professional lives of the characters with more personal storylines. The show was scheduled for broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with ITV's Coronation Street on Mondays and Wednesdays. When Compact began, the editor was a woman, Joanne Minster, yet it was not long before she was replaced by Ian Harmon, the son of the magazine's owner. Despite being largely criticised by reviewers, Compact was popular with the general public, and in 1964 a regular omnibus edition was introduced, broadcast on Sundays. Morris Barry, a some-time actor and BBC director – he directed several Doctor Who stories in the 1960s – took over as producer and was given a brief to spice the series up in view of the criticism it had received from the national press. But the BBC, never comfortable with the concept of soap opera, quietly dropped the series in 1965.

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