Patrick Troughton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor. He was classically trained for the stage but became most widely known for his roles in television and film. His work included appearances in several fantasy, science fiction and horror films, and playing the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1972-1973, 1983 and 1985.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mill Hill, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 25, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 28, 1987
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The Omen
Overview: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-25
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Jason and the Argonauts
Overview: Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-19
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Hamlet
Overview: Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Overview: The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie’s faith in the Doctor is stretched to the limit as the Doctor appears to be collaborating with the Daleks. The Doctor has a few tricks up his sleeve, but then again so might the Daleks.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-26
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The Viking Queen
Overview: Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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The Black Knight
Overview: John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-26
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Overview: The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble upon an alien plot, centring upon the mysterious ‘Chameleon Tours’ - a low-price holiday company, whose young passengers have been vanishing in unexplained circumstances. The Doctor investigates further, but it isn’t long before his own friends start disappearing too.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-16
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Overview: The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many centuries ago. On arriving however, the Doctor is blamed for a series of brutal murders in the area. Jamie and Victoria discover the true culprits – the previously peaceful Yeti that live in seclusion on the mountainside have apparently turned violent.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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Scars of Dracula
Overview: The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-08
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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And Did Those Feet ?
Overview: Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-25
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The Black Torment
Overview: A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot ?
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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Escape
Overview: A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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The Red Shoes
Overview: In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-06
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White Corridors
Overview: White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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The Woman with No Name
Overview: This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Talking Doctor Who
Overview: As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doctor’s classic era.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Overview: Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Victoria meet a potential new ally - Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-16
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Overview: The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the people of Atlantis that he can raise their sunken city from beneath the sea. However, the Doctor discovers a terrible secret behind Zaroff's plan — a secret that could destroy all life on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-13
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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Overview: The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were lost soon after the programme’s original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this lost classic.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-25
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The Moonraker
Overview: After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-02
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-24
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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
Overview: In April 1983, Roger Stevens and James Russell were given “Access All Areas” passes to the BBC’s Doctor Who celebrations at Longleat. Armed with a Ferguson Videostar camera they set out to record as much of the event as they could. While the BBC’s official footage amounts to only a few minutes for news broadcasts, James and Roger recorded several hours, and their material includes interviews with both Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker. Some of this material has been used in other productions by both Reeltime Pictures and BBC Video, but the original tapes were thought to be lost forever – until rediscovered earlier this year. So now enjoy another chance to take a trip to Longleat in 1983. The sound may not be perfect and the pictures come from ageing VHS tapes – but the atmosphere is unmistakable. So avoid the queues, and get to the front of the line with a trip down memory lane!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Overview: Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
Overview: On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but why do his rivals keep disappearing? How can he predict so many natural disasters? The Doctor must expose Salamander's schemes before he takes over the world.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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The Gorgon
Overview: In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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The Franchise Affair
Overview: An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Overview: In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-23
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Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
Overview: A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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The Evil of the Daleks Episode 2: Commentary
Overview: Commentary of episode 2 of Evil of the Daleks by Deborah Watling
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Overview: Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-05
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Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Overview: Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers a band of archaelogists on a secret expedition to unearth the reason for his old enemies' extinction. In the underground shadowy depths, they find the icy tomb. A whole army in hibernation. A threat to no one, if the temperature remains low. But if the traitor in their midst gets his way, things could really heat up.
Genres: Adventure Horror Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It
Overview: A group of business enjoying a lavish night on expenses at the Atlantis Hotel fear it is the end of the road for their fradulent collaboration when they suspect a Fraud Squad investigator is in their midst. Comedy based on an idea from Gogol's play 'The Government Inspector'.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-04
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A Hitch in Time
Overview: Two children help an eccentric professor test his new time machine.
Genres: Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-05
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John Diamond
Overview: William Jones runs away from home, haunted by the memory of his father. To lay this ghost, he must search the back streets of London for a man called Diamond.
Genres: Thriller Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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1984
Overview: In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-06
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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Overview: Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-05
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Doctor Who: The Invasion
Overview: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and become embroiled in the schemes of Tobias Vaughn. They meet up with an old friend, Colonel (now Brigadier) Lethbridge-Stewart, and some old enemies, the Cybermen.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Doctor Who: The Krotons
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
Overview: The TARDIS lands in a space museum on Earth in the late 21st century, where the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe learn that contact has been lost between Earth and the Moon. In this era, instant travel — T-Mat — has revolutionised the Earth. Its people have lost interest in space travel. The Doctor and his companions travel to the Moon in an old-style rocket and reach the Moonbase, control centre for T-Mat, only to find a squad of Ice Warriors have commandeered the base and plan to use the T-Mat network to their advantage.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Overview: The TARDIS materialises in Earth's future on a space beacon just before it is attacked by pirates. The travellers find themselves trapped in a sealed section of the beacon. It is blown apart and flown to where the pirates will plunder it of the precious mineral argonite. They witness a conflict between the pirates and the Interstellar Space Corps, led by General Hermack and Major Warne. The ISC are convinced that the pirates' mastermind is an innocent yet eccentric space mining pioneer named Milo Clancey, while their true leader is a man named Caven. Caven has a secret base on the planet Ta. He is assisted by Madeleine Issigri, daughter of Clancey's ex-partner Dom, who - unknown to her - is now his captive. When Madeleine discovers Caven's full treachery, she helps to bring him to justice. The time travellers are given a lift back to the TARDIS by Clancey in his rickety old ship, the LIZ 79.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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Doctor Who: The War Games
Overview: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-21
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Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Overview: Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own existence in his present.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-02
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Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Overview: The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-07
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Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on an extinct volcanic island. Before long, the travellers are captured and taken into the depths of the Earth, where they find a hidden civilisation — the lost city of Atlantis.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
Overview: Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-20
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Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Overview: The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-04
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Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Overview: When the Second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly happy place. Yet a shadowy presence soon makes them realise that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on Earth in July, 1966, on a runway at Gatwick Airport. Polly witnesses a murder in a nearby hangar and is then kidnapped by the perpetrator, Spencer of Chameleon Tours. Ben also vanishes. The Second Doctor and Jamie are left to convince the sceptical airport Commandant there has been foul play.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
Overview: The Daleks draft the Second Doctor into distilling the Human Factor. Once implanted, it will make the Dalek race invincible. Jamie's faith in the Doctor is stretched to the limit as the Doctor appears to be collaborating with the Daleks. The Doctor has a few tricks up his sleeve, but then again so might the Daleks.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Overview: Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-04
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Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
Overview: The TARDIS arrives on Earth in a new ice age. The travellers make their way into a base where scientists, commanded by Leader Clent, are using an ioniser device to combat the advance of a glacier.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-16
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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Overview: The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of which are being overrun by the web and by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti. The time travellers learn this crisis was precipitated when Professor Travers, whom they first met in the Himalayas some thirty years earlier, accidentally caused one of the Yeti to be reactivated, opening the way for the Intelligence to invade again.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Overview: When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam as well as a major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas” What is really happening at "Euro Sea Gas." Can the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria survive "The Fury from the Deep"!
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-20
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Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
Overview: The Second Doctor and Jamie arrive on what appears to be a space station called the "Wheel in Space" it's here that they meet Zoe Herriot a young parapsychology librarian, The Doctor hits his head concussing him leaving Jamie and Zoe to defend off the Cybermen from taking over "The Wheel in Space."
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Doctor Who: The Dominators
Overview: When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet Dulkis planning to drop a radioactive seed into the planet's core to refuel their spaceship, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe must attempt to inspire the pacifist Dulcians to resist.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
Overview: To escape from the volcanic eruption on Dulkis, the Second Doctor uses an emergency unit. It moves the TARDIS out of normal time and space. The travellers find themselves in an endless void where they are menaced by white robots. Having regained the safety of the TARDIS, they believe they have escaped — until the ship explodes. They find themselves in a land of fiction, where they are hunted by life-size clockwork soldiers and encounter characters like Rapunzel, the Karkus, and Swift's Lemuel Gulliver.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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R.U.R.
Overview: A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Overview: As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Nurse Will Make It Better
Overview: A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to steer the young girl down the path of evil.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-11
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Waterfront
Overview: When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Overview: Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Overview: The Doctor's TARDIS lands at the Snowcap space tracking station in Antarctica in December 1986. A routine space mission starts going wrong. When the base personnel's suspicions are roused, the Doctor informs them that the space capsule is being affected by the gravitational pull of another planet — a tenth planet in the Solar system.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Overview: Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission of 'The Five Doctors', the media interest and the BBC Enterprises' event at Longleat House. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin and Caroline John, writer Terrance Dicks, director Peter Moffatt, visual effects designer Mike Kelt, new series writers Paul Cornell and Gareth Roberts, prominent fans Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Overview: Video footage telling the story of the biggest Doctor Who (1963) convention ever in the UK, "Longleat 83", which was put together to celebrate the 20th anniversary in 1983.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-20
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Patrick Troughton in America
Overview: This video details the legendary Patrick Troughton's convention appearances in America using rare and unseen footage, plus interviews from Doctor Who (1963) fans who met him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Overview: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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Doctor Who: Earthshock
Overview: The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-16
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Love Letters on Blue Paper
Overview: Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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No Defence
Overview: Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Reluctant Chickens
Overview: Malcolm and Jo are eagerly anticipating a quiet retirement but find that their adult children are in no hurry to leave the family home.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-12
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P.Q. 17
Overview: "That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A British Allied convoy designated for the Soviet Union comes under attack from German forces during World War II.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-15
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Richard III
Overview: Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-13
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Amy
Overview: The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-02
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Cardboard Cavalier
Overview: Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-31
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The Pigman's Protege
Overview: In 1919 the carnage of the First World War has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara to be married, and a husband could provide a strong pair of hands around the place. Stan the pigman seems to fix most things, why not this?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-05
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The Sinking of the HMS Victoria
Overview: Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is sunk in a collision resulting in a grievous loss of life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
Overview: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-23
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Doctor Who at the Proms
Overview: Doctor Who fan favourite Catherine Tate presents a concert of music, monsters and mayhem featuring soundtracks from the iconic series, a specially shot feature for the Fifteenth Doctor and a host of scary aliens as they thrill a packed audience at London's Royal Albert Hall. In a concert like no other in time and space, the much-loved music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is accompanied by specially edited sequences from the series.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-24
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Devious
Overview: The Second Doctor has been partially regenerated by the Time Lords as punishment for breaking the non-interference policy, but the process is stopped halfway, leaving the Doctor an amalgam of his second and as-of-yet future incarnation...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-06
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The Fatal Floor
Overview: Polish a floor and put a rug on it--you might as well set a man-trap.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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30 Years in the TARDIS
Overview: A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-29
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Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Overview: The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Mystery Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Overview: It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Overview: A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a treacherous schoolboy named Turlough. But why does the Doctor's old friend, the Brigadier, not remember him at all?
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-09
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Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
Overview: Guerillas time-jump back from the 22nd century to assassinate Sir Reginald Styles - a diplomat working for World Peace, The Doctor discovers they are from a future where the Daleks have invaded the Earth (Following wars precipitated by Styles's destruction at the peace conference). With the Daleks desperate to maintain their version of history, The Doctor and Jo find themselves in a totalitarian future, where they must discover who really happened and prevent it.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-22
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Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
Overview: Mad scientist Mehendri Solon is building a body from spare parts to house the disembodied brain of the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fancies the Doctor's head as the final piece...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-24
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Overview: Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth, diverted by the Doctor's oldest enemy - the Daleks. It is here the true purpose of the time corridor becomes apparent: after ninety years of imprisonment, Davros, the ruthless creator of the Daleks, is to be liberated to assist in the resurrection of his army. Not even the Daleks foresee the poisonous threat of their creator. Indeed, who would suspect Davros of wanting to destroy his own Daleks - and why? Only the Doctor knows the truth. Will he descend to Davros' level of evil to stop him?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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