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Search for a Star

Search for a Star (1964)

Search for a Star

1960s ITV talent show which sought to discover a star female all-round entertainer. The semi-finalists fared better than the eventual winner...

The Search Party

The Search Party (1951)

The Search Party

Another 'lost' BBC play from the early days of television. In this uproarious satire, an unhinged anarchist settles in a small Irish community, setting off a series of increasingly ridiculous events.

Second Verdict

Second Verdict (1976)

Second Verdict

Two fictional policemen scrutinise six real life historical murder cases and present evidence for and against the verdicts

The Secret Agent (1992)

The Secret Agent (1992)

The Secret Agent (1992)

A meticulously detailed psychological drama in which a mostly inactive spy is ordered by his superior to carry out a terrorist act.

Secret Army

Secret Army (1977)

Secret Army

An underground Resistance movement risk life and limb in their endeavours to smuggle Allied airmen past the Nazis and return them back to Britain.

The Secret Service (1969)

Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service, which was a mixture of live-action with marionettes, was his last Supermarionation series of the 1960s, mainly because it's awful concept made for an equally awful series