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Special episode in a British sitcom created by Johnnie Mortimer about two feuding ex-business partners and neighbours Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Windsor Davies (Olive Smallbridge) broadcast at the end of...
Variety show. A conceit of the show was Wise’s confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays which often parodied historical television plays or films. Wise’s character would write a play, complete...
Comedy sketch show and a one-off special. Sketches include: a hole in one from an invisible Irish golfer, a version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and a visit to the operations room of the Royal Army Medical...
Television awards ceremony for achievements in British stage drama over the year. Includes a specially filmed sequence of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello directed by Trevor Nunn with...
Comedy/variety show starring Benny Hill. Includes a sketch in which Hill plays Romeo to Rona Newton-John’s Juliet. In Elizabethan dress Hill recites some made-up Elizabethan verse ending ‘but soft, she...
Four-part psychological thriller. Anthony Skipling (McKellen) is an unassuming and seemingly harmless man who has neither friends nor enemies. He receives a tape cassette from a stranger on a train which...
Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...
Award show which includes extracts from Alan Howard in Coriolanus and Henry VI to illustrate his nominations for Best Actor. Howard won the Best Actor award for his title role in Coriolanus directed by Terry...
Rumpole defends Ronald Ransom, an English teacher accused of having had sexual relations with Francesca, a 15-year-old student in his class. Although he had written her several letters, which mysteriously...
Five-part television series for schools, presented by Mike Hall, which shows the preparation for a production of Twelfth Night. Episode 1 introduces the theatre in Shakespeare’s day and the characters who...
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