John Cater

John Cater

Born: January 17, 1932
Died: March 21, 2009
in Hendon, London, England, UK

Movies for John Cater...

Title: Bonekickers
Released: July 8, 2008
Type: TV
Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah. It was produced by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen Ltd and co-produced with Monastic Productions. Archaeologist and Bristol University academic Mark Horton acted as the series' archaeological consultant. Adrian Lester has described the programme as "CSI meets Indiana Jones [...] There's an element of the crime procedural show, there's science, conspiracy theories – and there's a big underlying mystery that goes through the whole six-episode series." Much of the series was filmed in the City of Bath, Somerset, with locations including the University of Bath campus. Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House, Chavenage House for episodes 5 & 6 and Sheldon Manor. On 21 November 2008 Broadcast magazine revealed the show would not be returning for a second series.
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Legend of Hammer: Vampires
Title: Legend of Hammer: Vampires
Character: Grave robber
Released: May 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A journey through all Hammer Horror vampire films. From "Horror Of Dracula" to "Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires".
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Alien Autopsy
Title: Alien Autopsy
Character: Maurice
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Room 36
Title: Room 36
Character: Bert
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Room 36 is a low-budget British thriller shot in black-and-white from director Jim Groom. Hit man Conner is supposed to meet MP Helen Woods in a hotel room to exchange money for microfilm. Things get really messed up when a call girl accidentally arrives in room 38 instead of room 36. Starring Paul Herzberg, Portia Booroff, and Brian Murphy. Room 36 premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Drácula en la Hammer
Title: Drácula en la Hammer
Character: John Cater
Released: November 4, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: The Residents
Character: George
Released: May 9, 2001
Type: TV
Satirical drama about the residents of a suburban English street, including a racist bully, a single mum who works on a phone-sex line, a gay couple, a pair of spaced-out students, a cross-dressing teenage boy and a newly arrived family from hell.
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Title: Down to Earth
Released: August 6, 2000
Type: TV
Down to Earth was a BBC One television series first broadcast in 2000 about a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm. The early episodes of the series were based on a series of books written by Faith Addis about their real-life move from London to Devon. The music in the series was composed by Sheridan Tongue, and had the song "After All this Time" as its opening and closing credits in series 2 and 3.
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Title: Bad Girls
Character: Solicitor
Released: June 1, 1999
Type: TV
Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Jack Pearce
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Efim
Released: March 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Captain Rider
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Captain Rider (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Savage Hearts
Title: Savage Hearts
Character: Bernie
Released: May 20, 1995
Type: Movie
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dollars back.
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The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead
Title: The World of Hammer: Dracula and the Undead
Character: Grost
Released: August 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Explore Hammer's greatest legacy with clips from such classic films as The Horror of Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Dracula - Prince of Darkness, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, Scars of Dracula, Kiss of the Vampire and more.
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Title: Sitting Pretty
Released: November 19, 1992
Type: TV
Sitting Pretty is a 1992 BBC television sitcom written by John Sullivan. The series starred Diane Bull, David Ashford and John Cater and was directed by Susan Belbin and Angela De Chastelai Smith. The series followed the travails of a woman whose millionaire husband dies suddenly. She discovers that her husband's will has left her penniless and she is forced to move back in with her parents and sister on their farm. The lead role was originally intended to be played by a male lead, but was changed to become the first Sullivan sitcom to feature a female lead since Just Good Friends. However, John Oliver notes that it is also remembered as the writer's first notable failure.
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Title: Maigret
Released: February 9, 1992
Type: TV
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
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A Question of Attribution
Title: A Question of Attribution
Character: Restorer (Robertson)
Released: October 20, 1991
Type: Movie
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
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Title: 2Point4 Children
Character: Mr Tavener
Released: September 3, 1991
Type: TV
They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom.
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Life After Life
Title: Life After Life
Character: Dr. Trump
Released: December 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
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Title: The Upper Hand
Character: Attendant
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: Clam
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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Title: One Foot In the Grave
Released: January 4, 1990
Type: TV
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.
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The Woman in Black
Title: The Woman in Black
Character: Arnold Pepperell
Released: December 24, 1989
Type: Movie
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.
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Title: The Paradise Club
Character: Monsignor Flynn
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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Shalom Salaam
Title: Shalom Salaam
Character: Joe Astler
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college.
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Title: Shalom Salaam
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: TV
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Still Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Still Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Rockhill
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: The Dean
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
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 Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Unnatural Causes
Character: Perry
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: TV
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Bernard
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Lovejoy
Character: Sam
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: Home to Roost
Character: Shady Gray
Released: April 19, 1985
Type: TV
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Matthew. The premise is that Henry Willows is forty-something, who has been divorced from his wife for seven years and is perfectly happy living alone in London. That is, until his youngest child, Matthew arrives to live with him, after being thrown out by his mother. The plots generally revolved around Henry's annoyance at having his solitude disturbed, and the age gap clash. Henry employed two cleaners throughout the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
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 drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: Jack Of Diamonds
Released: June 3, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Dalgliesh
Character: Alfred Goddard
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: TV
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
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Title: Anyone for Denis?
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: TV
Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells. It is based on Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters, purportedly written by Denis Thatcher, the husband of Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister at the time. Set in Chequers, the play parodies the couple's relationship. The title is a punning reference to the more familiar question "Anyone for tennis?" The television production, for Thames Television was directed by Dick Clement and stars John Wells, Angela Thorne, John Cater and Nicky Henson.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Skebbins
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Thomas
Released: December 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
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Title: The Other 'Arf
Released: May 30, 1980
Type: TV
The Other 'Arf is a British television ITV sitcom series broadcast from 1980 to 1984. It stars John Standing as upper class Conservative politician Charles Latimer, MP, who begins a relationship with working class cockney Lorraine Watts. The series was produced by ATV, and was screened by ITV.
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Rising Damp
Title: Rising Damp
Character: Bert
Released: May 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.
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Title: Minder
Character: Tommy
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
Title: The House on Garibaldi Street
Character: Doctor
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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Henry VIII
Title: Henry VIII
Character: 1st Gentleman
Released: February 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.
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News from Nowhere
Title: News from Nowhere
Character: Richard Grosvenor
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socialist, flashbacks to Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, and glimpses of Morris stomping about Iceland.
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Title: I, Claudius
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Title: I, Claudius
Character: Narcissus
Released: September 20, 1976
Type: TV
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Mirror, Mirror
Title: Mirror, Mirror
Character: George
Released: January 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A TV production crew member becomes distracted while polishing a mirror. He turns his attention to the watching TV cameras, which now appear to have personalities of their own.
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The Naked Civil Servant
Title: The Naked Civil Servant
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
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Title: Madame Bovary
Released: September 22, 1975
Type: TV
Francesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic tale of one woman's attempts to mold her own unfulfilling life in the shape of her favorite romantic novels.
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If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Title: If It's a Man – Hang Up!
Character: Murchison
Released: April 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls.
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Further Up Pompeii
Title: Further Up Pompeii
Character: Pollux
Released: March 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
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Title: The Sweeney
Character: Alec Slemen
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: TV
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
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South Riding
Title: South Riding
Released: September 16, 1974
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Title: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Character: Professor Hieronymous Grost
Released: April 7, 1974
Type: Movie
When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness.
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The Stretch
Title: The Stretch
Character: Norman
Released: June 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Murchison
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: Seven of One
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: TV
Seven of One was a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. Starring Ronnie Barker, 7 of One is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms. Originally it was to be called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other. This was a BBC version of a similar showcase for LWT called Six Dates with Barker created in 1971.
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Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Title: Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Character: Superintendent Waverly
Released: July 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
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Title: Alcock and Gander
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: TV
Alcock and Gander is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1972. Starring Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan, it lasted for one series. It was written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, who later wrote Man About the House, where O'Sullivan was the lead male character. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Title: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Character: Superintendent Waverley
Released: May 18, 1971
Type: Movie
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Title: The Roads to Freedom
Character: Longin
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: TV
Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.
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Title: The Black Tulip
Character: Dirk
Released: September 13, 1970
Type: TV
The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.
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Loot
Title: Loot
Character: Meadows
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
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Title: Department S
Character: Charles Banjou
Released: September 9, 1969
Type: TV
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.
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Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Title: Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Character: Blackall
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
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Title: Virgin of the Secret Service
Character: Fred Doublett
Released: March 28, 1968
Type: TV
Set in the 1900s, when the British Secret Service was a new, unofficial arm of military activity, the series features Captain Robert Virgin - an officer and a gentleman who fights as a man of honour. Armed only with intelligence, ingenuity, physical strength and abundant charm, Virgin faces every sort of peril as he defends King and country - from industrial espionage to anarchist bomb plots, assassination attempts to kidnapping.
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Title: Rogues' Gallery
Character: Ezra
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: TV
Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.
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Doctor Who: The War Machines
Title: Doctor Who: The War Machines
Character: Professor Krimpton
Released: July 16, 1966
Type: Movie
The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue) can actually think for itself and is shortly to be linked up to other major computers around the world — a project overseen by civil servant Sir Charles Summer.
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Alfie
Title: Alfie
Character: Siddie's Husband
Released: March 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
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 training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Title: Dial RIX
Released: September 12, 1962
Type: TV
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Title: Out of This World
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: TV
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
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Title: Z-Cars
Released: January 2, 1962
Type: TV
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Olliphant
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
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 after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.