Rik Mayall

biography: Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English comedian, writer and actor. He was known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s.

Believe Nothing

overview:
Believe Nothing is a British ITV sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views consulted by the government but he's bored and wants adventure so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world. Starring alongside Mayall is Michael Maloney as Brian Albumen, Cnut's faithful servant, and Emily Bruni as Dr. Hannah Awkward who becomes professor of pedantics.

The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, who give a twist to many of today's global issues.

Although much hyped by ITV, who were hoping to repeat the success of Gran and Marks' previous project with Mayall, the successful The New Statesman, the series failed to catch on, and was dropped after one series.

character: Professor Adonis Cnut

original_name: Believe Nothing

Shoebox Zoo

overview: Shoebox Zoo is an urban fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. The show centers on the story of a young girl named Marnie McBride, who is given a shoebox containing four toy animals by a mysterious old man at a junk shop, as a gift for her 11th birthday. These magical toys have the power to come alive on Marnie’s command, and they’re on a quest to find an ancient book that once belonged to a great and powerful wizard.

character: Edwin the Eagle (voice)

original_name: Shoebox Zoo

origin_country: GB CA

King Arthur's Disasters

overview:
King Arthur's Disasters is a British animated series which first aired on CITV, a now defunct programming block on ITV1. The series was Co-Created by Paul Parkes and Will Ashurst, the series follows and depicts attempts by King Arthur, assisted by the wizard Merlin, to woo the beautiful self-obsessed Princess Guinevere. Due to the popularity of the show, it was picked up for a second series which began transmission on CITV from 6 November 2005. Both were Executive Produced by Genevieve Dexter

King Arthur's Disasters was the highest rated new CITV show during Spring 2005. It regularly achieved an audience share of over 20% of kids and it regularly won its time slot against CBBC. In 2006 the show was nominated for a children's BAFTA for Best Animation, however lost to The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers.

original_name: King Arthur's Disasters

The Paul O'Grady Show

overview: The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4, where the show was produced by Olga TV. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, and occasionally viewer competitions.

original_name: The Paul O'Grady Show

Bottom

overview: Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

character: Richard Richard

original_name: Bottom

The Young Ones

overview: The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).

character: Rick

original_name: The Young Ones

The New Statesman

overview: The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

character: Alan B'Stard

original_name: The New Statesman

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

overview:
The comedy event of the year took place in April 1986 at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. All those taking part gave their services free in order to support the famine relief camp in Umbala in the west of Sudan.

Tonight Omnibus, in collaboration with Charity Projects, presents the best comic talents in Britain today. Among those appearing: Rowan Atkinson, Frank Bruno, Kate Bush, Graham Chapman, Billy Connolly, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Eddington, Ben Elton, French and Saunders, Stephen Fry, Bob Geldof, Terry Gilliam, Lenny Henry, Howard Jones, Terry Jones, Hugh Laurie, Hank Marvin, Rik Mayall, Michael Palin, Cliff Richard, Pamela Stephenson, Spitting Image, Midge Ure, The Young Ones.

original_name: Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Wood and Walters

overview: Wood and Walters is a British BAFTA nominated comedy sketch show starring Julie Walters and Victoria Wood for Granada Television and written entirely by Wood. The show was short-lived, with just one pilot in 1981 and seven episodes broadcast in 1982.

original_name: Wood and Walters

How to be a Little Sod

overview: Set in the baby's perspective of the first years of its life, almost an instructional video for baby's explaining how to be the worst infant you can be and why.

original_name: How to be a Little Sod

Grim Tales

overview: Grim Tales is an animated British television program based on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, featuring Rik Mayall as the storyteller dressed in his pyjamas and dressing gown. The twenty-two episodes were broadcast on ITV from 1989 to 1991,The series is rated TV-14 the released on video and audio cassette, with the slightly different title Grimm Tales.

original_name: Grim Tales

Rik Mayall Presents

overview: Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of dark humour spread over two series, where he plays such diverse roles as a paranoid TV show host, an uncontrollable liar who pretends to be a gangster and a man on a date who is trapped in a cycle of escalating comic violence!

original_name: Rik Mayall Presents

A Kick Up the Eighties

overview: Comedy sketch show taking an irreverent look at life in the eighties, starring Tracey Ullman, Miriam Margolyes and Richard Stilgoe, plus Rik Mayall as Kevin Turvey.

original_name: A Kick Up the Eighties

All About George

overview: A comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of a couple whose extended family never seem to fly the nest.

character: George Kinsey

original_name: All About George

The Cannon & Ball Show

overview: A comedy variety show featuring the double act  of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball.

character: Clerk

original_name: The Cannon & Ball Show

Man Down

overview:
Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse.

His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career that sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day, inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils, with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey, a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. To make matters worse, he is tormented daily by his willfully insane father, whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn.

character: Dad

original_name: Man Down

Blackadder

overview: Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.

character: Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart

original_name: Blackadder

character: Mad Gerald

name: Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

overview: If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.

character: Lt. Daniel Blaney

original_name: Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

Happy Families

overview: Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It starred Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred around Guy's attempts to find his four sisters - also played by Saunders, for a family reunion.

character: Priest

original_name: Happy Families

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

original_name: Wogan

Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

overview: Groundbreaking alternative comedy programme bringing the new wave of humour to television for the first time.

original_name: Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights

Agatha Christie's Marple

overview: The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

character: Alec Nicholson

original_name: Agatha Christie's Marple

Midsomer Murders

overview: 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.

character: David Roper

original_name: Midsomer Murders

Saturday Live

overview:
Saturday Live was a British television comedy and music show broadcast by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987, and in 1988 as Friday Night Live. Influenced by the American show Saturday Night Live, it was produced by Paul Jackson.

The series made stars of Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and featured appearances by Patrick Marber, Morwenna Banks, Chris Barrie, Emo Philips, Craig Ferguson, Craig Charles and many others. The show featured comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in their act The Dangerous Brothers.

All episodes were transmitted live, although some material was pre-recorded. Recordings of shows were edited into compilation repeats, retitled Saturday Almost Live.

The show was succeeded by Friday Night Live, a shorter and slightly more tightly-formatted show with Elton as the permanent host, which ran for a single series in 1988. The show's titles consisted of reforming clay animations, highly comparable to early MTV idents.

original_name: Saturday Live

The Comic Strip Presents...

overview: The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.

character: Carlos

original_name: The Comic Strip Presents...

character: Slug/General Erwin/Hovis

character: Jeremy

character: Richard

character: Colin Grigson

character: Tark

character: Tim

character: Toadstool

character: Ali Kitson

character: Dreamy Time Escort

character: Speaker/Hunchback

character: Lord Mayor

The Dangerous Brothers

overview: The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous". Originally appearing on stage in London at the comedy club 'The Comic Strip', the characters were well developed before appearing on TV. First appearing on television on a one off 1980 BBC TV show 'Boom Boom Out Go The Lights', they were also featured in a TV short 'documentary' film 'The Comic Strip', directed by Julien Temple, before they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the TV programme Saturday Live from 1985 on.

Filthy Rich & Catflap

overview: Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.

French & Saunders

overview: French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.

Watership Down

overview: Follows the lives of a group of rabbits as they leave their endangered warren in search of a safe new home. They travel across the English countryside, braving perilous danger, until they find a hill called Watership Down, where they begin a new warren. However, they face various threats and are soon forced to defend their home and lives.

Jellabies

overview:
The Jellabies is a television animation series that aired on the Australian television network ABC Kids. It was also shown in Germany, USA, The Netherlands, UK and many other territories. Its target audience is children in the age of 2–6 years old. The program is created using computer-generated imagery animation. The show is narrated by Rik Mayall. The Jellabies are jelly made people that live in the Jolly Jelly World, which is the magical land at the end of the rainbow, where their main job is to make rainbows. Although each Jellabie has its own vehicle to drive around in, their main use of travelling long distances around Jolly Jelly World is on the "Jelly train", a train that only consists of a cab and one passenger car. The show debuted in 1998 and ended in 2003.

For children the voice-over explains a lot of things from everyday life, either the objects, as well as basic culture,.

Crackanory

overview: Crackanory is a storytelling television series aimed at adults, inspired by the popular children's series Jackanory. Each episode features two 15-minute tales narrated by contemporary comedians and actors, containing a mix of live action and animation and all read from the same oversized chair.

Look at the State We're In!

overview: A satirical comedy-drama exploring the absurdities of modern life, politics, and society through a series of sketches and parodies.

Hardwicke House

overview:
Hardwicke House is a 1987 British sitcom produced by Central Independent Television for ITV. Seven spisodes were made, but the series was so poorly received that only the first two were transmitted.

In the large comprehensive school Hardwicke House, the staff of which are as dysfunctional as the pupils. One teacher is a multiple murderer while the deputy headmaster lusts after male pupils. One teacher, Moose Magnusson, is on an extended exchange placement because his own school in Iceland refuses to have him back.

In the Red

overview:
In the Red is a three-part BBC Two black comedy crime miniseries adapted by Malcolm Bradbury from Mark Tavener's novel of the same name, which had been inspired by the writer's early experiences working for the BBC and the Liberal Party.

The serial stars Warren Clarke as BBC Reporter George Cragge and Alun Armstrong as Police Superintendent Frank Jefferson, investigating a series of murders of London bank managers, a small political party contesting a by-election, and a plan to overthrow the Director-General of the BBC.

The Squad

overview: The Squad is a 1980 ITV children's TV series about the fictional exploits of a group of Police Cadets. The character of Cadet Alan Martin was played by actor Mark Botham who later went on to play PC Danny Sparkes in the TV series Juliet Bravo.

Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement

overview: Rik Mayall starred as the narrator, Ffine Carmody, in this series of dark, twisted stories from the heart of Edwardian England. Driven by Ffine Carmody’s barely suppressed fascism, each story explores a particular moral dilemma faced by a child. Ffine Carmody’s sick take on life leads a fat girl to be drowned in sweets, a liar to starve to death and a bully to find himself chained up in an Afghan Jail.

Wolcott

overview: Newly promoted Black detective Winston Churchill Wolcott is transferred to a troubled London borough, where he becomes embroiled in a drug war and police corruption, dealing with cross-racial tensions and a persistent journalist.

Deutsch

biography: Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall war ein englischer Comedian, Autor und Schauspieler. Er war bekannt für seine Comedy-Partnerschaft mit Adrian Edmondson, seine überdrehten, energiegeladenen Darstellungen von Charakteren und als Pionier der alternativen Comedy in den frühen 1980er Jahren.

title: An American Werewolf in London

overview: American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

title: Oh Marbella!

overview: Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.

title: Drop Dead Fred

overview: An unhappy housewife gets a lift from the return of her imaginary childhood friend, Drop Dead Fred.

title: Guest House Paradiso

overview: Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!

title: Whoops Apocalypse

overview: When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

title: Couples and Robbers

overview: Couples and Robbers is a 1981 English language comedy/crime film written and directed by Clare Peploe, starring Frances Low, Rik Mayall and Peter Eyre. Two couples -- one with all the riches that dreams are made of, the other with only dreams and schemes -- are brought together by the plotting of the poorer couple. A pair of newlyweds wander through the city streets, bickering about their poverty, until they are distracted by the opulent home of a lawyer. Impulsively, the couple makes off with the lawyer's vehicle for one night of extravagant indulgence. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

overview: Two alcoholic escorts suddenly find themselves involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer.

title: Kevin Turvey Investigates

overview: The Mad Kevin Turvey has been hired by the BBC to investigate things

title: Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

overview: Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour, Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson at their comedic finest. This time around Richie Richard (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson) are marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific.

title: Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

overview: Eddie has locked himself away in the toilet and Richie finds he's been inventing gadgets and only to find himself joining Eddie on a adventure through time and space on-board Eddie's time machine "The Turdis" which is a toilet cubicle.

original_title: Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour

title: Me & My Goldfish

overview: Rik Mayall and his goldfish go to the pub and meet death when they return. Cut-out animated short.

title: Shock Treatment

overview: Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors?

title: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

overview: Richie and Eddie escapes from the island and try to get to the bar to have a drink, only to find themselves trapped in a underground chamber and Richie thinks they've been abducted by aliens.

title: Valiant

overview: Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

title: Bottom Mindless Violence

overview: The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25 years they have provided us with some unforgettable programs that left us on the floor such as The Young Ones, The Dangerous Brothers and of course, Bottom. The DVD contains the very best and violent bits from the live shows and TV programmes that have starred the two slapstick legends in the past 25 years. With the help of the great comedy writers such as Ben Elton, they have produced many great moments, such as the sprouts of doom and the towering inferno impression that went horrifically wrong. Here they are, all of the great moments on 1 disc. Here is what you can expect from the greatest compilation of slapstick moments of all time!!!

character: Rick / Richie Rich / Richard Dangerous / Dreamy Time Escort / Richie Richard / Richard Twat (archive footage)

title: The Princess and the Goblin

overview: The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom.

title: Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

overview: Queen Elizabeth is attending a parade in Hammersmith and Richie and Eddie plans on inviting the Queen to join them for supper. But their plan goes wrong.

title: Jesus Christ Superstar

overview: Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar first exploded onto the West End stage in 1971 and it was clear that the musical world would never be the same again. For the first time ever, Jesus Christ Superstar has been specially filmed for video.  Shot at Pinewood Studios, this brand new filmed stage version starring Glenn Carter and Rik Mayall captures one of the best score Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever written and is packed with hit songs including, 'I Don't Know How To Love Him', 'Gethsemane' and 'Superstar'.

title: Bottom Live: The Stage Show

overview: Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream.

title: Carry On Columbus

overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

title: The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision

overview: Starring Richard Dangerous (Rick Mayall) and Sir Adrian Dangerous (Adrian Edmondson) as the low-life, pervert siblings. Ultra violent slapstick comedy. See them consume cleaning products, snog crocodiles and indulge in kinkyness... particularly dangerous. Putting dynamite down their pants, flying zebras and consuming great quantities of Vim.

title: Merlin: The Return

overview: When Merlin cast a positive spell to protect the knights of the Round Table, he used ancient magic drawing on the power of Stonehenge, and the knights were put into a sort of suspended animation. The evil Morgana and her son Mordred were banished into another world for 1500 years, but a 20th-century scientist finds a gateway, and the dark lord has a vicious scheme to enslave King Arthur's world.

title: The Willows in Winter

overview: Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully animated feature-length classic. Join four of the best-loved characters in children's literature for their heart-warming and hilarious new adventure along the Riverbank, narrated by Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave.

title: The Wind in the Willows

overview: Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.

title: Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

overview: The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous". Although originating before the show, they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. Eventually being banned for being "too sexy and too violent", they staged a protest by returning as 'The Ben Elton Brothers', and blowing up the car park at LWT Studios. One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled 'Kinky Sex'. This fell foul of Channel 4 censors who banned it. The duo responded in the sketch Dangervision by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's logo was painted in graffiti art. The banned sketch, which by modern standards seems fairly tame, was finally released on a compilation video The Dangerous Brothers present: World of Danger.

original_title: Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

title: Errors of the Human Body

overview: Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.

title: Little Noises

overview: A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

title: ABBA - The Last Video

overview: ABBA - THE LAST VIDEO is the film about four hopeful musicians in search of a record contract. They pay a visit to the Big Record Company Boss and his oily assistant, performing one hit after the other, cheered on by their manager. But things don't really work out as planned...Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Frida look just like they did back then... or perhaps not.

title: Out Of My Head

overview: A teenager who's fed up with his uneventful life of social isolation decides to try drugs to get some excitement. He sets out to learn about their effects.

title: Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

overview: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities take turns championing their favourite of Dahl's 10 best-selling children’s books, culminating in a nationwide vote. Rik Mayall reads from George’s Marvellous Medicine.

title: The Itch of the Golden Nit

overview: Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.

title: Remember Me?

overview: A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

title: Don't Fear Death

overview: A fast-paced comedy arguing the joys of being dead, aided by a montage of corpses and a dance-crazed Grim Reaper.

title: Chaos and Cadavers

overview: Two young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies under bizarre circumstances.

title: Summer School

overview: A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.

title: Four Men in a Car

overview: Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve is perpetually sick and gets put in the boot, the C.D. player jams and they have a run-in with a Range Rover driver. When the car breaks down in a snowstorm they wind up in a deserted cottage with a shotgun-wielding, diabetic woman.

title: War

overview: 1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.

title: Four Men in a Plane

overview: Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa, they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen-hour coach journey to the conference.

title: The Beat Generation

overview: In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal existence in a large villa overlooking the sea. Dumped by his girlfriend Jeremy is anxious to be part of their circle until two girls from the outside world and a wild party open his eyes to what really matters.

title: Dirty Movie

overview: Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the cinema manager Terry Toadstool is using this as a smoke screen to view a pornographic film and that Bean's wife, traffic warden Monica, is the star.

title: Gino: Full Story and Pics

overview: A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

overview: Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.

title: Private Enterprise

overview: Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian. Together they have a chart hit with the 'mystery' group but complications arise when Brian wants a live tour.

title: Red Nose of Courage

overview: A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.

title: Five Go to Rehab

overview: The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles, and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.

title: Jellikins: Christmas Special

overview: One day in Jolly World something very strange happens. It begins to snow. Strum, Bouncey, Amber and friends, have never seen anything like this before and are most perplexed. Things get even stranger when a jolly old man with a white beard and red suit turns up. Who is he? What does he want with them? What does 'Ho ho ho' mean?

title: 30 Years of Comic Strip

overview: The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.

title: The Canterville Ghost

overview: 'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?

title: Blackadder: Back & Forth

overview: What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.

title: The Escape

overview: Julia has a good job and has two children with the caring Paul. But there are antidepressants in the kitchen drawer. She had imagined her life so differently when she was young and fantasized about it with her brother Jimmy. Their tragic farewell was twenty years ago, but still gnawing at her. After a fight with Paul, Julia decides to change course radically. She leaves - in the spirit of Jimmy - for the Portuguese Algarve. As she gets to know the mysterious gigolo Romeo, Julia's past comes closer than ever.

title: One by One

overview: A cafe worker is violently jolted from her day-to-day existence when offered the startling revelation that this world may be on the brink of destruction, revolution—or both.

title: Sex Actually

overview: Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house, died mysteriously. Angie discovers that their neighbours, estate agent Roy and his wife Jane, high court judge Charles and his bickering wife Carol and Bilbo, a conceptual artist and his partner were all members of a wife-swapping circle who usually met at Ron and Helen's house. Luccio reveals himself to be a policeman and is curious as to how Ron and Helen died, lining up all the suspects.

title: Eat the Rich

overview: Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.

title: Churchill: The Hollywood Years

overview: A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I. to play the part of Winston Churchill. Their take on the war depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen

overview: Dancing Queen is a 1993 British romantic comedy film starring Rik Mayall and Helena Bonham Carter. It follows the misfortune of Neil (Mayall), a bridegroom trying to get back to his bride with the help of his newfound friend Pandora/Julie (Bonham Carter) the stripper. It was the third episode of the first series of the Granada Television series Rik Mayall Presents.

title: Bottom: Exposed

overview: Adrian Edmondson gives a first-hand account of making the hit show "Bottom" with the late, great Rik Mayall. His account comes alongside contributions from a host of the show's cast, crew and fans.

title: The Thief and the Cobbler

overview: Princess Yum Yum falls in love with Tack and saves him from being executed. Later, when the protective orbs of the palace get stolen, Tack and Yum Yum set out to find them and save the kingdom.

title: Jake's Journey

overview: A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.

title: Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

overview: A week in the life of Redditch investigative reporter Kevin Turvey. As you would expect, not a lot happens!

original_title: Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door

title: The Hunt for Tony Blair

overview: The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.

title: The Comic Strip

overview: A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

title: Day of the Sirens

overview: A serial killer goes out in a blaze of terror on a summer's day in London.

title: Sindy The Fairy Princess

overview: Sindy awakens in a fairytale land where an evil wizard is attempting to overthrow the royal family in order to stop this Prince Hugo must find his true love and marry her within the next day and receive his mother and father, the king and Queens magical powers in order to stop the wizard taking over. Sindy with the help of 3 fairies and a magical unicorn attempt to help Hugo achieve his destiny.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Briefest Encounter

overview: Having just met at a party, Siobhan brings back Greg to her flat for what might be a night of of unbridled passion. Greg really thinks his luck's in but things don't go quite according to plan as he doesn't account for Siobhan's pet dog putting a spanner in the works when it attacks him. Forced to defend himself Greg seemingly kills his beautiful hosts beloved pet and in attempting to cover up it's demise the night descends in to a chaotic night of misunderstood intentions which neither will ever forget...that's if either lives to remember it.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

overview: Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.

title: Eldorado

overview: The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.

title: The Strike

overview: Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.

title: The Orchard End Murder

overview: Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.

title: Snow White: The Sequel

overview: Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that she and the prince were meant to be, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature.

title: The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

overview: Go behind the scenes with the late, great Rik Mayall (Richie) and Ade Edmondson (Eddie) as they take us on a tour behind the scenes of Guest House Paradiso, the long-awaited movie based on the hit 90's BBC comedy 'Bottom'.

title: More Bad News

overview: Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits, beginning with a reunion gig at the Flying Horse.

title: Bad News

overview: A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.

title: Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

overview: Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's investigative nerd Kevin Turvey, Felicity Kendal-adoring student and 'People's Poet' Rik in The Young Ones, ruthless MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, seedy loser Richie in Bottom and larger-than-life characters Robin Hood and flying ace Lord Flashheart from Blackadder.  Narrated by Simon Callow, this programme salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK's comedy history using rare and unseen archive footage. It also features contributions from people who knew or admired him, including Michael Palin, Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Christopher Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Jools Holland, Ruby Wax and Greg Davies.

title: GLC: The Carnage Continues

overview: The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.

title: Completely Bad News

overview: A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.

title: Horse Opera

overview: Set in the badlands of the American west, where men were men and women got slapped a lot. Horse Opera is a strange journey through the mind of George, a minor clerk in the Tax office, and chairman of Nottingham cowboy society. As the boundry between fantasy and reality blur George stumbles through the myth of the heroic west.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

overview: A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One

overview: Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Clair de Lune

overview: Comedy thriller notable for the remarkably un-manic and restrained performance by Rik Mayall as single parent and part-time minicab driver Toby. Trying to juggle being Dad to seven -year old daughter Annie and study whilst also working at night for taxi controller Pete is hard enough. But when one night he crosses paths with mysterious femme fatal Clair, he finds himself plunged into a wild and hazardous adventure involving exploding manor houses, vengeful lovers and a magic medieval tournament.

title: Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

overview: Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.

title: Bottom Fluff

overview: Bottom Fluff is a collection of bloopers from all 3 series of bottom.

title: Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

overview: Part compilation/ part mockumentary on the first three Bottom live shows. Various characters around Hammersmith are interviewed on their relationships with Richard Richard and Edward Elizabeth Hitler, interspersed with footage from the live shows.

original_title: Big Bottom Live - The Best of Bottom Live

title: How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

overview: This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

title: The Snow Queen

overview: Far away, in her vast ice palace, the Snow Queen plots to rule the world by deflecting all the sun's warmth away from Earth so that it freezes over. But her mirror breaks, and on her mission to find all the missing pieces, she kidnaps Tom, who has part of the mirror in his body. Can his sister Ellie save Tom, and stop the evil Queen from achieving global dominance?

title: Blackadder Rides Again

overview: This documentary marks the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of The Black Adder in 1983 and reunites the iconic cast to give their opinions on all series and specials. Narrated by John Sergeant, this in-depth guide includes interviews from the cast and crew, a clip from the pilot episode, clips from all four series and the specials, opinions about certain moments in the show, and much more. With interviews by Rowan Atkinson, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, producer John Lloyd, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Tony Robinson and editor Chris Wadsworth.

title: The Best of Cannon & Ball

overview: Double act Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball entertain us with their own unique brand of humour. The programmes feature various sketch shows along with many celebrity guests.

title: Just for the Record

overview: A year after the collapse of a low-budget British rom-com, documentary maker Andy Wiseman sets out to find out what went wrong. He speaks to the producer, Nicholas Johnson, an alcoholic whose office is a lap-dancing club, the writer, Flynn Beatty, living in a suburban semi, and the deluded 'visionary' director, Harlan Noble, dwelling in deserved obscurity. But as the cast and crew tell their tale, will Andy ever get to the bottom of the farrago that was 'Just for the Record'?

title: Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

overview: A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.

title: Chilly Dogs

overview: A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.

title: Eye of the Needle

overview: Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.

title: A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

overview: Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.

title: Employees From Hell

overview: John Cleese training video about employees.

title: The Rocky Horror Treatment

overview: A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment".

title: The Making of 'The Young Ones'

overview: A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused.

title: Northern Lights

overview: A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.

title: Filthy Rich & Catflap

overview: A satire about three losers: a failed actor, his sleazy agent, and a permanently drunk bodyguard.

title: What's a Carry On?

overview: Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.

character: Sultan Abdul the Benevolent (archive footage) (uncredited)

title: Who Shot Alan B'Stard?

overview: An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to politics and helps reinstate capital punishment—until the tables turn and he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit. This standalone special serves as the eighth episode of the series and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best British Comedy.

title: Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

overview: It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Dinner is not up to Michelin standard, but Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of God.

title: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse

overview: "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 7. Two stories about homes: the first tells about two mice creating havoc in a lovely dollhouse, while the second focuses on the friendship between a country mouse and a town mouse.

original_title: The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse

title: Believe Nothing

overview: Believe Nothing is a British sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut,[1] the cleverest man in Britain, and Oxford's leading moral philosopher. He is paid huge amounts of money for his views, consulted by the government, but he is bored and wants adventure, so he joins the shadowy organization The Council which controls everything going on in the world.

title: Happy Families

overview: Guy Fuddle lives with grandma who's ill and wants to see her granddaughters sent away as kids before dying. Guy searches for his four sisters. When reunited, grandma's real motives are uncovered.

title: All About George

overview: All About George is a British family sitcom which follows the extended family of George Kinsey. The show includes five generations, from George's grandmother to his first granddaughter, Jasmine.

title: The Legend of Harrow Woods

overview: With the aim of investigating the disappearance of horror novelist George Carney, a group of students, encouraged by Gary, enter the forest Harrow Woods where he was last seen two years ago. Uncovering more than they had bargained for, the students soon find themselves in a battle for survival.

title: The Turnip

overview: Animation made by Mike Walker for the TV series "Grim Tales".

title: Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

overview: From early sketches to standout performances, Mayall's fearless comedy bursts with energy and intent, capturing a pivotal moment in British comedy while delivering pure entertainment.

title: Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen

overview: A selection of rarely seen comic moments from the actor and comedian, who rose to fame as Kevin Turvey and as Rick in The Young Ones, a show he helped create. Rik Mayall later achieved more widespread fame in Bottom, and The New Statesman.

title: Guest House Paradiso

title: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

title: Dirty Movie

title: A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

title: Kevin Turvey Investigates

title: Me & My Goldfish

title: The Comic Strip

title: Churchill: The Hollywood Years

title: Filthy Rich & Catflap

title: Oh No, Not Them

overview: The untransmitted pilot of the failed American remake of The Young Ones

title: Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

title: Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid

overview: Two low-life idiot flatmates seek to get some action after purchasing a sexual enhancing cream claimed to make them irresistable to women.

title: Guest House Paradiso

title: Drop Dead Fred

title: An American Werewolf in London

title: Oh Marbella!

title: Drop Dead Fred

title: Guest House Paradiso

title: Whoops Apocalypse

title: Couples and Robbers

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

title: Kevin Turvey Investigates

title: Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island

title: Me & My Goldfish

title: Shock Treatment

title: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

title: Valiant

title: Bottom Mindless Violence

title: The Princess and the Goblin

title: Bottom Live 2: The Big Number 2 Tour

title: Jesus Christ Superstar

title: Bottom Live: The Stage Show

title: Carry On Columbus

title: The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision

title: Merlin: The Return

title: The Wind in the Willows

title: The Willows in Winter

title: Errors of the Human Body

title: Little Noises

title: ABBA - The Last Video

title: Out Of My Head

title: Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

title: The Itch of the Golden Nit

title: Remember Me?

title: Don't Fear Death

title: Chaos and Cadavers

title: Summer School

title: Four Men in a Car

title: War

title: Four Men in a Plane

title: The Beat Generation

title: Dirty Movie

title: Gino: Full Story and Pics

title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

title: Private Enterprise

title: Red Nose of Courage

title: Five Go to Rehab

title: Jellikins: Christmas Special

title: 30 Years of Comic Strip

title: The Canterville Ghost

title: Blackadder: Back & Forth

title: The Escape

title: One by One

title: Sex Actually

title: Eat the Rich

title: Churchill: The Hollywood Years

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dancing Queen

title: Bottom: Exposed

title: The Thief and the Cobbler

title: Jake's Journey

title: The Hunt for Tony Blair

title: The Comic Strip

title: Day of the Sirens

title: Sindy The Fairy Princess

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Briefest Encounter

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

title: Eldorado

title: The Strike

title: The Orchard End Murder

title: Snow White: The Sequel

title: The Making of 'Guest House Paradiso'

title: Bad News

title: More Bad News

title: Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule

title: GLC: The Carnage Continues

title: Completely Bad News

title: Horse Opera

title: Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

title: Rik Mayall Presents: Clair de Lune

title: Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis

title: Bottom Fluff

title: How The Young Ones Changed Comedy

title: The Snow Queen

title: Blackadder Rides Again

title: The Best of Cannon & Ball

title: Just for the Record

title: Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

title: Chilly Dogs

title: Eye of the Needle

title: A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

title: Employees From Hell

title: The Rocky Horror Treatment

title: The Making of 'The Young Ones'

title: Northern Lights

title: Filthy Rich & Catflap

title: What's a Carry On?

title: Who Shot Alan B'Stard?

title: Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

title: Believe Nothing

title: Happy Families

title: All About George

title: The Legend of Harrow Woods

title: The Turnip

title: Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

title: Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare And Unseen

title: Guest House Paradiso

title: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity

title: Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

title: Dirty Movie

title: A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

title: Kevin Turvey Investigates

title: Me & My Goldfish

title: The Comic Strip

title: Churchill: The Hollywood Years

title: Filthy Rich & Catflap

title: Oh No, Not Them

title: Holy - Bottom: Christmas Special

title: Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid


Joanna Barnes

biography:
Barnes' initial appearance on television was in the episode "The Man Who Beat Lupo" on Ford Theatre. She made guest appearances on many television series, including the ABC/Warner Bros. programs 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, What's My Line, and the crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective. In 1960-61, she guest-starred on The Untouchables episode "90 Proof Dame" as the wife of a French exporter of brandy.

Barnes appeared as Kate Henniger, with Bing Russell and Arthur Space in the 1958 episode "Ghost Town" of the ABC/WB Western series Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. In 1959, she portrayed Lola in the NBC detective series 21 Beacon Street.

In the 1960s, Barnes worked for producer Martin Ransohoff and appeared in episodes of his The Beverly Hillbillies ("Elly Goes to School" and "The Clampett Look") and was billed as special guest-star. Barnes played Peter Falk's former wife on the 1965–1966 CBS series The Trials of O'Brien and was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967.

She was also a frequent panelist in the early years of the syndicated version of What's My Line?. On December 19, 1972, Barnes appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dan Martino (founder of the Dan Martino School for Men).

Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films. Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year. Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man, with Denny Miller as Tarzan.

In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the child-hating gold-digger and fiancee Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). As well, she appeared in The War Wagon, a western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.

Barnes was also a writer and columnist. In 1973, she told newspaper columnist Dick Kleiner that she liked writing because "it is something you do yourself. With acting, if you win an Oscar or an Emmy, you have to thank everybody. If you write a book, it is completely your own."

She wrote a book, titled Starting from Scratch, about home decorating and several novels, including The Deceivers, Who Is Carla Hart?, Pastora, and Silverwood. She wrote a weekly book review for the Los Angeles Times, and her column "Touching Home" was carried by The Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.

Planet of the Apes

overview:
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.

Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.

character: Carsia

original_name: Planet of the Apes

original_language: en

Cheyenne

overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.

CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

original_name: Cheyenne

Maverick

overview: The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

character: Mary Shane

original_name: Maverick

Remington Steele

overview: Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

character: Claudette Crockett

original_name: Remington Steele

Cain's Hundred

overview: A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.

character: Carol Tredman

original_name: Cain's Hundred

Trapper John, M.D.

overview: Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986.

original_name: Trapper John, M.D.

Mr. Lucky

overview:
Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes.

Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

original_name: Mr. Lucky

The Beverly Hillbillies

overview: Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

character: Cynthia Fenwick

original_name: The Beverly Hillbillies

Quincy, M.E.

overview: Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

character: Margo Bentley

original_name: Quincy, M.E.

Alias Smith and Jones

overview: Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaws trying to reform. The governor offers them a conditional amnesty, as he wants to keep the pact under wraps for political reasons. The condition is that they will still be wanted— until the governor can claim they have reformed and warrant clemency.

original_name: Alias Smith and Jones

Charlie's Angels

overview: Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

character: Julia Lathrop

original_name: Charlie's Angels

Mannix

overview: Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.

original_name: Mannix

Arrest and Trial

overview: Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.

character: Melinda Parsons

original_name: Arrest and Trial

Hawaiian Eye

overview: Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.

original_name: Hawaiian Eye

General Electric Theater

overview: General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

character: Princess Camilla

original_name: General Electric Theater

Philip Marlowe

overview:
Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond Chandler.

The private detective Marlowe of Carey, departed very much from the original character.

The show first aired October 6, 1959 with the episode: "The Ugly Duckling" with Virginia Gregg and Rhys Williams.

original_name: Philip Marlowe

Target: The Corruptors!

overview: Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

original_name: Target: The Corruptors!

Nanny and the Professor

overview: Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.

original_name: Nanny and the Professor

The Millionaire

overview: An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

character: Karen Summers

original_name: The Millionaire

S.W.A.T.

overview:
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976.

Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

overview: Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

character: Joyce Long

original_name: Richard Diamond, Private Detective

M Squad

overview: Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

character: Tammy Worth

original_name: M Squad

The Real McCoys

overview:
The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963.

The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.

original_name: The Real McCoys

Adventures in Paradise

overview: Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.

character: Diane Winthrope

original_name: Adventures in Paradise

Laramie

overview: Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert L. Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman.

original_name: Laramie

Ellery Queen

overview: Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.

original_name: Ellery Queen

Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

overview:
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season.

In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish and two of his lieutenants, William Storm and Michael Rhodes. Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible British accent.

original_name: Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

Vacation Playhouse

overview: The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.

original_name: Vacation Playhouse

Dr. Kildare

overview: The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

character: Dr. Suzanne Shary

original_name: Dr. Kildare

When the Whistle Blows

overview: Short-lived comedy about construction workers enjoying themselves. The crew was all male except for Lucy – Randy the college grad; Buzz the extrovert; Martin the hunk; Norm, an older man married to Dottie; Bulldog the foreman; Hanrahan; and Darlene, who runs the bar that's "their place."

original_name: When the Whistle Blows

Matt Helm

overview: Matt Helm is an American mystery television series which aired on the ABC Network during the 1975-1976 season. The title character was played by Anthony Franciosa.

character: Hannah Bigelow

original_name: Matt Helm

Cheyenne

character: Alice Claney

Have Gun, Will Travel

overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958.

The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel.

Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

character: Penelope Lacey

original_name: Have Gun, Will Travel

Maverick

character: Mrs. Baxter

character: Abby Taylor

The Trials of O'Brien

overview:
The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife.

The series ran for only 22 episodes.

Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake, David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Roberts and Martin Sheen.

Falk often said that he actually liked this financially unsuccessful series much better than his later smash-hit Columbo.

character: Katie O'Brien

original_name: The Trials of O'Brien

The Tab Hunter Show

overview: The Tab Hunter Show is an American situation comedy starring Tab Hunter. The series ran new episodes on NBC from September 18, 1960, to April 30, 1961; rebroadcasts then aired from May until September 18.

original_name: The Tab Hunter Show

21 Beacon Street

overview:
21 Beacon Street was an American detective television series that originally aired on NBC from July 2 to September 10, 1959.

Produced by Filmways, the summer replacement series consisted of 11 black-and-white 30-minute episodes starring Dennis Morgan as private investigator Dennis Chase. Other cast members included Joanna Barnes as Lola, his aide; Brian Kelly as Brian, a law school graduate; and James Maloney as Jim, a scientific and dialect specialist.

The title was the Boston address of Chase, who would pass each case to the police after solving the crime.

The show aired on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and was then carried by ABC-TV in reruns on Sundays at 10:30 p.m. from December 27, 1959 to March 20, 1960 as a replacement for Dick Clark's World of Talent. The producer was Al Simon.

character: Joanna

original_name: 21 Beacon Street

The Name of the Game

overview: The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

character: Ardith Williams

original_name: The Name of the Game

The Betty White Show

overview: The Betty White Show is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 12, 1977, to January 2, 1978. Fourteen episodes were broadcast. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises.

original_name: The Betty White Show

Marcus Welby, M.D.

overview: Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.

77 Sunset Strip

overview: Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

The Untouchables

overview: Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

Barney Miller

overview: Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.

Murder, She Wrote

overview: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Cheers

overview: The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Cool Million

overview: A globe-trotting adventurer takes on cases to track down shady individuals who want to stay hidden, earning a million dollars per assignment.

Fantasy Island

overview: A magical island hosted by Mr Roarke and Tattoo where weekly guests learn valuable life lessons in their pursuit of fulfilling their dreams. Not all dreams are fulfilled as expected.

Sam Benedict

overview:
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman.

Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.

Hart to Hart

overview: Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Alcoa Theatre

overview:
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre.

In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.

The Investigators

overview: The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS from October 5, to December 28, 1961.

McCloud

overview: Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a special investigator.

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biography: Joanna Barnes (15 de novembre de 1934 - 29 d’abril de 2022) va ser una actriu i escriptora nord-americana.

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Joanna Barnes

biography:
Barnes hatte ihren ersten Fernsehauftritt in der Folge „Der Mann, der Lupo besiegte“ der Serie „Ford Theatre“. Sie war in zahlreichen Fernsehserien zu sehen, darunter die ABC/Warner Bros.-Produktionen „77 Sunset Strip“ und „Maverick“, die CBS-Serien „Have Gun – Will Travel“, „What’s My Line“ und das Krimidrama „Richard Diamond, Privatdetektiv“. 1960/61 spielte sie in der Folge „90 Proof Dame“ der Serie „Die Unbestechlichen“ die Frau eines französischen Brandy-Exporteurs.

1958 verkörperte Barnes Kate Henniger an der Seite von Bing Russell und Arthur Space in der Folge „Geisterstadt“ der ABC/WB-Westernserie „Colt .45“ mit Wayde Preston in der Hauptrolle. 1959 spielte sie Lola in der NBC-Krimiserie „21 Beacon Street“.

In den 1960er Jahren arbeitete Barnes für den Produzenten Martin Ransohoff und hatte Gastauftritte in Episoden seiner Fernsehserie „The Beverly Hillbillies“ („Elly Goes to School“ und „The Clampett Look“), wo sie als besonderer Gaststar angekündigt wurde. Von 1965 bis 1966 spielte Barnes in der CBS-Serie „The Trials of O’Brien“ die Ex-Frau von Peter Falk und moderierte 1967 die ABC-Talkshow „Dateline: Hollywood“.

Sie war außerdem in den Anfangsjahren der Syndication-Version von „What’s My Line?“ regelmäßig als Gast in der Talkshow zu sehen. Am 19. Dezember 1972 trat Barnes in der „Merv Griffin Show“ mit Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor und Dan Martino (Gründer der Dan Martino School for Men) auf.

Kurz nach ihrem Studienabschluss zog Barnes nach Los Angeles und unterschrieb einen Vertrag bei Columbia Pictures. Sie wirkte in über 20 Filmen mit. Zu ihren bekanntesten Rollen zählt die der hochnäsigen Gloria Upson in dem Film „Tante Mame“, für die sie eine Golden-Globe-Nominierung als Beste Nachwuchsschauspielerin erhielt. Barnes war die 13. Schauspielerin, die Jane verkörperte, als sie in „Tarzan, der Affenmensch“ an der Seite von Denny Miller als Tarzan zu sehen war.

In Disneys Originalverfilmung von „Ein Zwilling kommt selten allein“ aus dem Jahr 1961 mit Hayley Mills spielte Barnes die Goldgräberin Vicki Robinson, die sich vorübergehend zwischen Maureen O’Hara und Brian Keith drängt. In der Neuverfilmung von 1998 mit Lindsay Lohan verkörperte sie Vicki Blake, die Mutter der kinderfeindlichen Goldgräberin und Verlobten Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). Außerdem wirkte sie in dem Western „The War Wagon“ mit John Wayne und Kirk Douglas mit.

Barnes war zudem als Autorin und Kolumnistin tätig. 1973 erklärte sie dem Zeitungskolumnisten Dick Kleiner, dass sie das Schreiben mochte, weil es „etwas ist, das man selbst macht. Wenn man als Schauspieler einen Oscar oder Emmy gewinnt, muss man sich bei allen bedanken. Wenn man ein Buch schreibt, ist es ganz allein das eigene Werk.“

Sie schrieb ein Buch mit dem Titel „Starting from Scratch“ über Inneneinrichtung und mehrere Romane, darunter „The Deceivers“, „Who Is Carla Hart?“, „Pastora“ und „Silverwood“. Sie verfasste wöchentliche Buchrezensionen für die Los Angeles Times, und ihre Kolumne „Touching Home“ erschien in der Chicago Tribune und im New York News Syndicate.

title: Spartacus

overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

title: Don't Make Waves

overview: Carlo Cofield vacations to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easy-going local culture, getting entangled in two beachside romances.

title: The War Wagon

overview: An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.

title: Auntie Mame

overview: Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

title: The Parent Trap

overview: Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.

title: Goodbye Charlie

overview: When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.

title: No Time to Be Young

overview: A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.

title: I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

overview: Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?

title: Violent Road

overview: Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.

title: Tarzan, the Ape Man

overview: An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

title: Philbert (Three's a Crowd)

overview: In this live-action sitcom with animated elements, a cartoonist named Griff draws Philbert comics. Philbert has the ability to come to life in the form of a six-inch-tall cartoon character. Philbert tries to cause trouble between Griff and his girlfriend Angela when he overhears her plans to marry Griff.

title: Home Before Dark

overview: A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.

title: Too Many Thieves

overview: When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things.  Compiled from the series "Trials of O'Brien" episodes "The Greatest Game Parts 1 & 2".

title: The Garment Jungle

overview: Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.

title: Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

overview: This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

title: Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

overview: A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).

title: The Purple Hills

overview: When a bounty hunter kills an outlaw for the reward, he has to deal with both a man falsely claiming he made the kill, and the revengeful brother of the dead man.

title: The Parent Trap

overview: Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins who were separated at a young age due to their parents' divorce. Unbeknownst to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp, where they meet, discover the truth about their relationship, and come up with a plan to switch places in an effort to reunite their mother and father.

title: Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

overview: When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]

title: B.S. I Love You

overview: When young advertising exec Paul Bongard gets involved with his attractive female boss, he discovers that the affair has fast-tracked his climb up the corporate ladder. Paul's career gets another boost when he starts up with the boss's daughter. Meanwhile, his childhood sweetheart, Ruth, is patiently wondering when, if ever, he'll propose to her.

title: A Down Home Country Christmas

overview: Dolly Parton celebrates the holidays Tennessee-style with special guests Mac Davis and Burl Ives.

title: Spartacus

title: Don't Make Waves

title: The War Wagon

title: Auntie Mame

title: The Parent Trap

title: Goodbye Charlie

title: No Time to Be Young

title: I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

title: Violent Road

title: Tarzan, the Ape Man

title: Philbert (Three's a Crowd)

title: Home Before Dark

title: Too Many Thieves

title: The Garment Jungle

title: Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away

title: Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

title: The Purple Hills

title: The Parent Trap

title: Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

title: B.S. I Love You

title: A Down Home Country Christmas


Lou Morheim

Rawhide

job: Writer

overview: The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

department: Writing

original_name: Rawhide

The Big Valley

job: Producer

overview: The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.

department: Production

original_name: The Big Valley

origin_country: FR US

The Outer Limits

overview: The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

original_name: The Outer Limits

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

title: Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

overview: A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.

character: Self

title: Quarantined

overview: A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses to cooperate with her treatment.

original_title: Quarantined

job: Screenplay

title: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

overview: The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.

original_title: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

job: Story

title: The Hunting Party

overview: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

original_title: The Hunting Party

title: Rumble on the Docks

overview: A Brooklyn-born 17-year-old's loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.

original_title: Rumble on the Docks

title: Big Leaguer

overview: John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract.

original_title: Big Leaguer

job: Teleplay

title: Wild Women

overview: Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840

original_title: Wild Women

job: Co-Producer

title: Wild Women

title: The Tijuana Story

overview: Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.

original_title: The Tijuana Story

title: For Men Only

overview: A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident.

original_title: For Men Only

title: The Hunting Party

title: Scream, Pretty Peggy

overview: A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

original_title: Scream, Pretty Peggy

job: Associate Producer

title: The Unknown

overview: After two women poison the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.

original_title: The Unknown

title: Smart Woman

overview: A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

original_title: Smart Woman

title: Larceny

overview: Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss, who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

original_title: Larceny

title: The Hunting Party

title: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

overview: A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

original_title: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

title: Smuggler's Island

overview: An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.

original_title: Smuggler's Island

title: Pier 23

overview: Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.

original_title: Pier 23

title: The Magnificent Seven

overview: An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

original_title: The Magnificent Seven

title: S.O.S. Titanic

overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

title: The Last Blitzkrieg

overview: The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces.

title: Roaring City

overview: A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.

title: Ring of Passion

overview: Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.

title: A Cry in the Wilderness

overview: The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...

title: Skyway to Death

overview: The passengers in an aerial tramway are trapped when the tramway breaks down 8,500 feet in the air.

title: Egypt by Three

overview: Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception.  Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the culture, attitudes and religion of the Middle East. First, a knife thrower's affair threatens his mistress. Then, the plague tests a band of pilgrims journeying to Mecca. Finally, two con men learn a lesson at a Coptic church.

title: The Immortal

overview: A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him, basically, immortal. A dying multi-millionaire also finds out about the racer's blood, and is determined to get it to keep himself alive. This pilot film preceded the later TV series.

title: The Immortal

title: Danger Zone

overview: A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.

title: Quarantined

title: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

title: The Hunting Party

title: Rumble on the Docks

title: Big Leaguer

title: Wild Women

title: Wild Women

title: The Tijuana Story

title: For Men Only

title: The Hunting Party

title: Scream, Pretty Peggy

title: The Unknown

title: Smart Woman

title: Larceny

title: The Hunting Party

title: Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

title: Smuggler's Island

title: Pier 23

title: The Magnificent Seven

title: S.O.S. Titanic

title: The Last Blitzkrieg

title: Roaring City

title: Ring of Passion

title: A Cry in the Wilderness

title: Skyway to Death

title: Egypt by Three

title: The Immortal

title: The Immortal

title: Danger Zone