John Junkin

John Junkin

John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English actor and scriptwriter who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy. In 1960, Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop and played the lead in the original production of Sparrers Can't Sing. A few years later, he joined the Royal Court Theatre company, and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television. In 2006, he passed away from lung cancer in Aylesbury.

  • Title: John Junkin
  • Popularity: 6.722
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1930-01-29
  • Place of Birth: Ealing, London, England, UK
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John Junkin Movies

  • 1964
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    A Hard Day's Night

    A Hard Day's Night

    7.373 1964 HD

    Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Lennon

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  • 1967
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    The Plank

    The Plank

    6.2 1967 HD

    A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tommy Cooper

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  • 1978
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    Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse

    Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse

    3 1978 HD

    Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Debbie Ash

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  • 1970
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    Simon Simon

    Simon Simon

    6 1970 HD

    A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Graham Stark

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  • 2004
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    The Football Factory

    The Football Factory

    6.318 2004 HD

    The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Danny Dyer

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.5 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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Craig

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  • 1966
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    The Wrong Box

    The Wrong Box

    6.5 1966 HD

    In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Mills

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  • 1963
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    Heavens Above!

    Heavens Above!

    6.2 1963 HD

    A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Sellers

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  • 1978
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    Scully's New Year's Eve

    Scully's New Year's Eve

    8 1978 HD

    Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Andrew Schofield

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  • 1990
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    Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

    Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

    5.1 1990 HD

    During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Kiefer Sutherland

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  • 1964
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    The Pumpkin Eater

    The Pumpkin Eater

    6.7 1964 HD

    Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anne Bancroft

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  • 1964
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    Hot Enough for June

    Hot Enough for June

    6.119 1964 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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  • 1979
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    That Summer!

    That Summer!

    5 1979 HD

    A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ray Winstone

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  • 1967
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    How I Won the War

    How I Won the War

    5.457 1967 HD

    An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Crawford

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  • 1978
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    Brass Target

    Brass Target

    5.588 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?...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Sophia Loren

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  • 1963
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    Sparrows Can't Sing

    Sparrows Can't Sing

    5.167 1963 HD

    Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Booth

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  • 1976
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    Confessions of a Driving Instructor

    Confessions of a Driving Instructor

    4.9 1976 HD

    Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robin Askwith

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  • 1977
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    Confessions from a Holiday Camp

    Confessions from a Holiday Camp

    5.3 1977 HD

    Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robin Askwith

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  • 1988
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    A Handful of Dust

    A Handful of Dust

    6.149 1988 HD

    English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: James Wilby

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  • 1977
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    Wombling Free

    Wombling Free

    9.5 1977 HD

    The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a...

    Genre: Family

    Cast: David Tomlinson

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  • 1963
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    The Break

    The Break

    6.1 1963 HD

    A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Tony Britton

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  • 1966
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    Doctor in Clover

    Doctor in Clover

    6 1966 HD

    Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leslie Phillips

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  • 1966
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    4.8 1966 HD

    Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warren Beatty

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  • 1983
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    Down at the Hydro

    Down at the Hydro

    1 1983 HD

    Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Jean Simmons

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  • 2001
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    Chica de Río

    Chica de Río

    5.844 2001 HD

    Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hugh Laurie

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  • 1969
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    Journey to the Unknown

    Journey to the Unknown

    1 1969 HD

    TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor'...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 2002
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    When Steptoe Met Son

    When Steptoe Met Son

    1 2002 HD

    The difficult off-screen relationship between actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen....

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ray Galton

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  • 1966
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    The Sandwich Man

    The Sandwich Man

    6.1 1966 HD

    A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Michael Bentine

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  • 1981
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    The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box

    The Kenny Everett Naughty Joke Box

    1 1981 HD

    Old school comics join Kenny Everett for some old school comedy. Stand up routines are interspersed with sketches and stand up routines from Kenny...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kenny Everett

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  • 1960
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    And the Same to You

    And the Same to You

    5.6 1960 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Brian Rix

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  • 1973
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    Man at the Top

    Man at the Top

    5.1 1973 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kenneth Haigh

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  • 1972
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    Jason King

    Jason King

    7.333 1972 HD

    Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Peter Wyngarde

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  • 1994
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    Law and Disorder

    Law and Disorder

    6 1994 HD

    Law and Disorder is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1994. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, who had also written No Job...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Junkin

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  • 2023
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    Countdown

    Countdown

    5.6 2023 HD

    The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.

    Genre: Reality

    Cast:

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  • 1995
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    Mr. Bean

    Mr. Bean

    7.95 1995 HD

    Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rowan Atkinson

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  • 1985
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    Odd One Out

    Odd One Out

    1 1985 HD

    Odd One Out is a weekly quiz programme that was hosted by Paul Daniels and was broadcast on BBC1 from 16 April 1982 to 19 April 1985.

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    Cast: Paul Daniels

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  • 1966
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    Cooperama

    Cooperama

    1 1966 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Tommy Cooper

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  • 1969
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    It's Marty

    It's Marty

    1 1969 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  • 1971
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    On The House

    On The House

    5 1971 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Tommy Godfrey

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  • 1976
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    Hello Cheeky

    Hello Cheeky

    5 1976 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Barry Cryer

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  • 2010
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.771 2010 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Simon Rouse

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  • 1969
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.702 1969 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Patrick Macnee

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  • 1982
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.523 1982 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  • 1974
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    The Adventures of Black Beauty

    The Adventures of Black Beauty

    6.222 1974 HD

    Black Beauty is a pure black, thoroughbred horse in late 19th Century rural England who is adopted into the household of James Gordon, a local doctor...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Judi Bowker

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  • 1971
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    Catweazle

    Catweazle

    7.5 1971 HD

    A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast: Geoffrey Bayldon

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  • 1967
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1967 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Johnny Briggs

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  • 1965
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    A Slight Case Of...

    A Slight Case Of...

    1 1965 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Roy Kinnear

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  • 1975
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    Looking for Clancy

    Looking for Clancy

    1 1975 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Robert Powell

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  • 1997
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    Noel's Telly Years

    Noel's Telly Years

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1967
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    Blandings Castle

    Blandings Castle

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1988
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    The Kenny Everett Television Show

    The Kenny Everett Television Show

    7 1988 HD

    Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kenny Everett

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  • 1968
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    Thingumybob

    Thingumybob

    1 1968 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Kate Williams

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  • 1978
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    Out

    Out

    7 1978 HD

    Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tom Bell

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  • 1983
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.402 1983 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...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Lewis Collins

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  • 1978
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    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney

    7.684 1978 HD

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

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 2000
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    Sins

    Sins

    0.5 2000 HD

    Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertakers run by his uncle. However, his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pete Postlethwaite

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  • 1990
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    All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    7.6 1990 HD

    All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lynda Bellingham

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  • 1982
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    The Goodies

    The Goodies

    7.523 1982 HD

    A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Brooke-Taylor

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  • 1964
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    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.2 1964 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for...

    Genre:

    Cast: Herbert Lom

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  • 1987
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    Terry and June

    Terry and June

    6.182 1987 HD

    Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Terry Scott

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  • 1993
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    Inspector Morse

    Inspector Morse

    7.822 1993 HD

    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Thaw

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  • 1985
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    Juliet Bravo

    Juliet Bravo

    5.8 1985 HD

    Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Anna Carteret

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  • 1975
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    Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings

    Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings

    1 1975 HD

    Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.

    Genre:

    Cast: Ian Carmichael

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  • 2024
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    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street

    5.322 2024 HD

    The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: William Roache

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  • 1979
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    Sykes

    Sykes

    6.4 1979 HD

    Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Eric Sykes

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  • 1984
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    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.9 1984 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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1976
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    Softly Softly: Task Force

    Softly Softly: Task Force

    6 1976 HD

    Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off...

    Genre:

    Cast: Norman Bowler

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  • 1973
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    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    3.8 1973 HD

    Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1972
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    The Troubleshooters

    The Troubleshooters

    5 1972 HD

    The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Geoffrey Keen

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  • 1969
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.702 1969 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Patrick Macnee

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  • 1976
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.333 1976 HD

    Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jack Warner

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  • 1972
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    Both Ends Meet

    Both Ends Meet

    1 1972 HD

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast:

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