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Royal Film Show

Date released

23 Feb 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1655A

NoS ID

023998

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Film Show (The Facts of Life). DESCRIPTION: Outside the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, very large crowds had collected on the occasion of the Royal Film Performance: waiting to...

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Face to Face (2009)

Subject

Art; Film studies; History; Literature; Media studies; Politics & government; Psychiatry

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1050 minutes), £128.00

All 35 episodes of the landmark FACE TO FACE series hosted by former politician John Freeman, broadcast between 1959-1962. Featuring guests from all backgrounds, the interview technique was insightful,...

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Bowmans, The (1961 Television)

Series

Hancock

Producer

Duncan Wood

Sitcom starring Tony Hancock. Hancock, playing Old Joshua Merryweather, is very unpopular with the cast and is unceremoniously sacked from the radio serial ‘The Bowmans’ (a spoof of ‘The Archers’)....

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Steve Jones show (1988)

Genre

Interview

Steve Jones interviews singer-songwriter Al Stewart, coinciding with a new single and a UK tour. On his song, Year of the Cat, which was inspired by the death of Tony Hancock; his inspirations; living in the...

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Who could forget Tony Hancock? (1984)

A tribute to Tony Hancock, the greatest British actor and comedian of the Sixties.

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Who could forget Tony Hancock? [Part 2] (1984)

A documentary about the life of Tony Hancock. Part 2

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Blackpool Show, The [31/07/1966] (1966 Television)

Series

Blackpool Show, The

Producer

Mark Stuart

Variety show from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool,introduced by Tony Hancock. This episode includes a ca. 5 min. sketch in which Tony Hancock, wearing costume and wig, performs a Shakespearean stand-up routine,...

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Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall (1966 Television)

Director

Derek Burrell-Davis

Comedian Tony Hancock performing in sketches at the Royal Festival Hall, London. In one sketch (c. 5mins) Hancock appears as Lear with Joe Ritchie as the Fool, both in cod Elizabethan costume (mid-way...

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Knighthood, The (1959 Television)

Series

Hancock’s Half Hour

Producer

Duncan Wood

British sitcom. In this episode Hancock craves a theatrical knighthood via a role at the Old Vic, so becoming the first Duke of Cheam. His ambition culminates in him reciting Hamlet’s ‘to be, or not to...

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Decision makers (1981)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Documentary on the deputy leadership of the Labour Party. Looking at the Labour Party conference, Brighton, where the main focus is the battle for party deputy leadership. The three main participants are...

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