John Blythe

John Blythe

  • Title: John Blythe
  • Popularity: 0.5354
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-10-31
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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John Blythe Movies

  • 1947
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    Dear Murderer

    Dear Murderer

    5.7 1947 HD

    When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

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  • 1944
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    Bon Voyage

    Bon Voyage

    5.5 1944 HD

    After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.

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  • 1948
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    River Patrol

    River Patrol

    4.8 1948 HD

    The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.

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  • 1952
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    The Frightened Man

    The Frightened Man

    6 1952 HD

    Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

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  • 1954
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    The Gay Dog

    The Gay Dog

    6.5 1954 HD

    Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.

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  • 1949
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    The Huggetts Abroad

    The Huggetts Abroad

    6.6 1949 HD

    Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.

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  • 1948
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    Here Come the Huggetts

    Here Come the Huggetts

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

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  • 1950
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    Lilli Marlene

    Lilli Marlene

    5.6 1950 HD

    Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.

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  • 1962
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    Gaolbreak

    Gaolbreak

    4.6 1962 HD

    An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.

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  • 1953
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    It's a Grand Life

    It's a Grand Life

    6.5 1953 HD

    Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.

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  • 1947
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    Holiday Camp

    Holiday Camp

    6.6 1947 HD

    The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.

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  • 1976
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    Keep It Up Downstairs

    Keep It Up Downstairs

    3.4 1976 HD

    The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the masters and the servants are prepared to co-operate in trying to find some cash - after all, most of them are enjoying liaisons of one kind or another among themselves, and none have any desire to give up their rewarding way of life...

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  • 1949
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    It’s a Wonderful Day

    It’s a Wonderful Day

    1 1949 HD

    A dance band takes a holiday in Devon, and discovers some talent amongst the locals.

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  • 1956
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    Doublecross

    Doublecross

    7 1956 HD

    A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

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  • 1961
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    The Devil's Daffodil

    The Devil's Daffodil

    5.7 1961 HD

    A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

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  • 1954
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    Meet Mr. Malcolm

    Meet Mr. Malcolm

    5.2 1954 HD

    Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country home -- and when his body is found, the hunt is on for a devious and twisted murderer. Sinister letters from London refer to a 'double crime'. Who will be the killer's next victim?

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  • 1951
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    Worm's Eye View

    Worm's Eye View

    1 1951 HD

    Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed

    7.2 1944 HD

    A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

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  • 1947
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    Sinfonia fatale

    Sinfonia fatale

    1 1947 HD

    An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.

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  • 1953
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    3 Steps to the Gallows

    3 Steps to the Gallows

    6.3 1953 HD

    A U.S. sailor docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

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  • 1965
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    A Tap on the Shoulder

    A Tap on the Shoulder

    1 1965 HD

    Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?

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  • 1955
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    As Long as They're Happy

    As Long as They're Happy

    7.7 1955 HD

    The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.

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  • 1965
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    Three Clear Sundays

    Three Clear Sundays

    5 1965 HD

    Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

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  • 1949
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    Diamond City

    Diamond City

    5.2 1949 HD

    Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".

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  • 1949
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    Boys in Brown

    Boys in Brown

    6.5 1949 HD

    Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

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  • 1948
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    Good-Time Girl

    Good-Time Girl

    6.1 1948 HD

    Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

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  • 1976
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    The Ups and Downs of a Handyman

    The Ups and Downs of a Handyman

    3.9 1976 HD

    A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.

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  • 1949
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    Vote for Huggett

    Vote for Huggett

    6.6 1949 HD

    A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.

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  • 1949
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    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    4.5 1949 HD

    The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

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  • 1981
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    The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

    1 1981 HD

    On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.

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  • 1948
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    Portrait from Life

    Portrait from Life

    5.9 1948 HD

    A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.

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  • 1963
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    A Stitch in Time

    A Stitch in Time

    7.4 1963 HD

    An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

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  • 1976
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    Love Among the Ruins

    Love Among the Ruins

    6.9 1976 HD

    An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.2 1960 HD

    Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

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  • 1948
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    Easy Money

    Easy Money

    6 1948 HD

    A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

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  • 1976
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    Practical Experience

    Practical Experience

    1 1976 HD

    'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat and sleep and be happy. But the rules of the game say before you can do that you've got to start a firm. Employ people. Turn it into a career. I like architecture. I hate careers. The minute you make it a career you build a ladder and people want to climb it. Sometimes they stand on your fingers. It's hard to draw with flattened fingers. Spoils your draughtsmanship.'

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  • 1962
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    On the Beat

    On the Beat

    7.6 1962 HD

    Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause

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  • 1956
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    They Never Learn

    They Never Learn

    1 1956 HD

    WPC Marie Watson goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters.

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  • 1961
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    No Love for Johnnie

    No Love for Johnnie

    6.2 1961 HD

    Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

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  • 1956
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    Hancock's Half Hour

    Hancock's Half Hour

    7.3 1956 HD

    Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

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  • 1972
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    Crown Court

    Crown Court

    5.4 1972 HD

    Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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  • 1980
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1980 HD

    Discontent with his home, his work and his football team, Jess Oakroyd tears up his insurance card and disappears into the night. Intent on going to Nuneaton, he instead finds himself on the ragged edges of showbusiness. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.

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  • 1985
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    Dempsey and Makepeace

    Dempsey and Makepeace

    6.5 1985 HD

    Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

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  • 1972
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1972 HD

    Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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  • 1972
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1972 HD

    Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.

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  • 1964
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    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.5 1964 HD

    An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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  • 1974
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    Playhouse

    Playhouse

    7 1974 HD

    A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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  • 1975
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    Looking for Clancy

    Looking for Clancy

    1 1975 HD

    Frank Clancy goes from penniless working-class idealist in the 1930s to superstar journalist and editor in the London of the swinging '60s — but at what cost to his integrity?

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  • 1967
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    The World of Wodehouse

    The World of Wodehouse

    1 1967 HD

    The World of Wodehouse was a comedy television series, based on the Blandings Castle and Ukridge comedy stories by P. G. Wodehouse. The series, which followed The World of Wooster, was shown on BBC Television during 1967 and 1968. Apart from one or more extracts from a solitary episode of Blandings Castle broadcast in February 1967, all episodes of both series are lost.

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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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  • 1985
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    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾

    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾

    6.7 1985 HD

    A British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend.

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