
Flickers (1980)

Fresh from a third-rate career in the music halls, forty-year-old Arnie Cole (Bob Hoskins) has turned movie pioneer, showing single-reel films in makeshift cinemas during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Fresh from a third-rate career in the music halls, forty-year-old Arnie Cole (Bob Hoskins) has turned movie pioneer, showing single-reel films in makeshift cinemas during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.
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Ground-breaking Golden Globe and double Emmy Award-winning sketch comedy in which the star became the first black entertainer to be the host of a successful weekly variety show on network television
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Afternoon TV series about four youngster pilot a narrow boat along the canals from North Wales to London and their adventures on Britain's inland waterways.
Bill and Ben were the Flowerpot Men who lived in a shed at the bottom of a garden and in between their large flowerpot homes lived Little Weed.
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Drama profile of Aneurin Bevan, noted for his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Atlee's government which spearheaded the creation of the National Health Service
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Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.
Special tribute show to the late presenter, actor, comedian and tireless supporter of numerous charities and the legacy he leaves
A young boy is in possession of a secret formula that could spell disaster for the entire world.
The last major British serial to be filmed in black and white...The series chronicled the saga of a London merchant family between 1879-1926.
At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.
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Satirical comedy that follows the chaotic and farcical production of a fictional superhero film and the crew of an unloved franchise who are fighting for their place in a savage and unruly cinematic universe