Variety Parade (1953) Reviews
Variety show that attempted to bring back the music-hall spirit of the Victorian era.
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Variety show that attempted to bring back the music-hall spirit of the Victorian era.
When their family business is threatened with financial ruin, a family go into bitter battle - with themselves.
When a school housemaster's wife becomes interested in a young student, a scandalous situation that could jeopardise his entire future, is not far away. 'Young Woodley' so outraged the Lord Chamberlain, that he banned it from every theatre in England.
"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty, and our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed is not to be poor."
It is 1915. Young Annie Hudd, in spite of her family's jeers, is determined to go to France to help the wounded soldiers. She is to suffer many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse is realised.
Frederick James Parsons is fanatical, dedicated, sincere; with his willing but slow-witted accomplice, Harry Warblow, he has planned a crime so sensational that it will surely call world-wide attention to his aims.
The rich and attractive Lady Pruella writes to a marriage bureau for a husband and a most surprising candidate turns up...
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Johnny Foster is a junior reporter on the Redstone Chronicle, a job that introduces him to some interesting people, some funny and some frightening.
Alison and Mike think their cash troubles are over when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate. There's one catch: The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.
The meanest villain in the West falls for a pretty schoolteacher and tries to change his ways. A forgotten television movie that might possibly have been the inspiration for 'Blazing Saddles'
'Lost' British soap opera launched by the BBC in 1958 in an attempt to rival ITV's 'Emergency-Ward 10'
Commercial Television's first Science Fiction production: The world stands on the brink as a runaway freighter rocket, containing high explosives, is due to detonate over London at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999...
Eugene O'Neill's controversial five-hour play, an exploration of loose morals and their consequences, was banned in many theatres. Produced by the BBC in 1958 in two parts, it used an experimental technique that is today commonplace
The super-hero series from the 1970s that sadly lacked anything super or heroic
Another 'lost' BBC play. Anton Chekov's celebrated play concerns the lives of an aristocratic family who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world.
Excellent science fiction drama series that unflinchingly explores discrimination, exploitation and ghettoisation
Another 'lost' BBC play from the 1950s. A doctor who has an interest in criminal behaviour, embarks on a crime spree in order to satisfy his curiosity
British drama series described as a poignant masterpiece of humour and humanity, focusing on a group of gay friends, as they determine to live and love more fiercely than ever in the shadow of AIDS
Trilogy of dark comedic plays about a man coming from nowhere, going nowhere, and about what happens to him in transit