Janet Henfrey

Janet Henfrey

Born: August 16, 1935
in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Janet E. A. Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective.

Movies for Janet Henfrey...

Title: Tales of the Tardis
Character: Miss Hardaker
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: TV
Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.
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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
Released: July 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
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Cruella
Title: Cruella
Character: Society Maven
Released: May 26, 2021
Type: Movie
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
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Title: The New Pope
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Title: The New Pope
Character: Lady Brannox
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
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Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
Title: Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
Character: The Adjudicator
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
An original drama from the world of BBCtv's Doctor Who, featuring Sil, the ruthless alien entrepreneur from planet Thoros Beta, played by Nabil Shaban. Sil is worried, very worried, which doesn't keep his reptilian skin in the best condition! Confined in a cold detention cell on the moon, awaiting a deportation hearing for trial on drugs offences on Earth, he faces a death sentence if the application is successful and he is found guilty. And his employers at the Universal Monetary Fund aren t pleased either. Not at all. As time runs out and friends desert him, Sil must use all of his devious, vile, underhanded, ruthless, and amoral business acumen to survive. Can he possibly slime his way out of this one?
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Title: The Crown
Character: Vita Sackville-West
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Title: Bridget Jones's Baby
Character: Mavis Enderbury
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: Movie
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. What could possibly go wrong? Then her love life takes a turn and Bridget meets a dashing American named Jack, the suitor who is everything Mr. Darcy is not. In an unlikely twist she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby's father.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Character: Dowager
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
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London Road
Title: London Road
Character: Ivy
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: Movie
London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
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Title: Wolf Hall
Character: Lady Margaret Pole
Released: January 21, 2015
Type: TV
Following the fact-based historical book of the same name, this drama follows the rise of Cromwell as he becomes Henry the VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Title: Father Brown
Character: Vera Thimble
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Metamorphosis
Title: Metamorphosis
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.
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Fairytale of London Town
Title: Fairytale of London Town
Character: Elsie Grindell
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: Movie
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National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Title: National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
Character: The Widow
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, All's Well That Ends Well, showed at a total of around 300 screens, and today, the number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown to around 700.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Mrs Pitt
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Tipping the Velvet
Character: Mrs. Jex
Released: December 9, 2002
Type: TV
A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexual discovery with Kitty Butler, a music hall male impersonator.
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Title: My Uncle Silas
Character: Aunt Tibby
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: TV
In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though 60 years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womanizer, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs. Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.
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Blow Dry
Title: Blow Dry
Character: Aerobics Teacher
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
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Title: Attila
Character: Palcharia
Released: January 30, 2001
Type: TV
Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe.
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Title: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: TV
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Title: The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
Character: Janice Waily
Released: March 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
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Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Title: Doomwatch: Winter Angel
Character: Julie
Released: December 7, 1999
Type: Movie
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.
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Title: The Worst Witch
Character: Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
Released: October 22, 1998
Type: TV
Mildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.
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EverAfter
Title: EverAfter
Character: Celeste
Released: July 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Danielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she was a young girl. Danielle's stepmother Rodmilla is a heartless woman who forces Danielle to do the cooking and cleaning, while she tries to marry off the eldest of her two daughters to the prince. But Danielle's life takes a wonderful turn when, under the guise of a visiting royal, she meets the charming Prince Henry.
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Swept from the Sea
Title: Swept from the Sea
Released: January 23, 1998
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Little
Character: Ms. Goldstein
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Title: Mrs. Dalloway
Character: Miss Pym
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Dual Balls
Title: Dual Balls
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend.
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The Moonstone
Title: The Moonstone
Character: Mrs. Yolland
Released: December 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
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The Treasure Seekers
Title: The Treasure Seekers
Character: Governess
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father.
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Dragonworld
Title: Dragonworld
Character: Miss Twittingham
Released: July 27, 1994
Type: Movie
A young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of an amusement park.
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The Count of Solar
Title: The Count of Solar
Character: Mlle Debierre
Released: February 2, 1992
Type: Movie
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
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Title: As Time Goes By
Character: Mrs. Bale
Released: January 12, 1992
Type: TV
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
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Bernard and the Genie
Title: Bernard and the Genie
Character: Miss Purse
Released: November 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
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Title: The Upper Hand
Character: Dorothy Cooper
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: TV
The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Miss Mapleton
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Title: Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
Character: Miss Hardaker
Released: November 15, 1989
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil from the Doctor's past prepares to make his final deadly move. As hideous vampires rise from the sea and Russian commandoes begin to close in, they are confronted not only with a mystery from the distant past but also a terrifying vision of mankind's future...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Alice
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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Title: Young Charlie Chaplin
Character: Sister Mills
Released: January 25, 1989
Type: TV
The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie must overcome a wayward life of poverty and familial chaos to reach the pinnacle of stardom.
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Title: The Singing Detective
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: November 16, 1986
Type: TV
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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Foreign Body
Title: Foreign Body
Character: Landlady
Released: September 26, 1986
Type: Movie
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Miss Frobisher
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: TV
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: TV
Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Martha
Released: October 13, 1985
Type: TV
Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions.
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Unfair Exchanges
Title: Unfair Exchanges
Character: Teacher
Released: January 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.
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Chocky
Title: Chocky
Character: Cranky Woman
Released: January 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically he arouses the suspicion of powerful groups who wish to tap into the amazing fund of knowledge to which he is now party.
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Title: She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Character: Lucy
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.
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The Weather in the Streets
Title: The Weather in the Streets
Character: Lady Blanche
Released: November 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Receptionist
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Fanny Hill
Title: Fanny Hill
Character: Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. This is the story, with many erotic asides, of her struggle to regain her pride in herself and find happiness in life once again.
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The Tamarind Seed
Title: The Tamarind Seed
Character: Embassy Section Head
Released: July 11, 1974
Type: Movie
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
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Title: The Jazz Age
Released: September 10, 1968
Type: TV
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Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Title: Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Character: Miss Tillings
Released: December 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
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Title: Martin Chuzzlewit
Released: January 19, 1964
Type: TV
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Miss Hardaker
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
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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It's All Happening
Title: It's All Happening
Character: April
Released: August 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.