Daphne Oxenford
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Biography: Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work. She was the voice ("Are you sitting comfortably ...?") of BBC radio's Listen with Mother from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster Esther Hayes, she was part of the original cast of Coronation Street.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barnet, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 31, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 21, 2012
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Sweet William
Overview: William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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The Reluctant Dragon
Overview: A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-31
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Dawson's Electric Cinema
Overview: A comedy set in the 1920s with Les Dawson (as his own grandfather) and family running a flea-pit cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-03
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Jimmy Somerville: The Video Collection 1984/1990 (Featuring Bronski Beat and The Communards)
Overview: Collection of music videos by Jimmy Somerville, both as solo artist as well as with the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-24
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The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Overview: Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-10
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Who Pays?
Overview: After a scout troupe is tragically mowed down by a truck, responsibility passes around the driver, the poorly sited roadworks and the scout master for allowing his charges on the main road.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-19
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The Waiting Game
Overview: A henpecked trade union leader tries to bully and then bribe a vulnerable housing manager into letting him jump the queue and have a new council flat.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Girl from the South
Overview: ANNE is the daughter of well-to-do parents in the South of England.One morning, bored with Granny's attempts to entertain her, she leaves the safety of the rich suburbs and sets out towards 'the poorer part of town' determined to meet her own real-life, tall dark stranger. Walking up a street of back-to-back houses – and still in her daydream – ANNE bumps into an old woman sending her shopping flying. A lucky accident as the old woman's grandson, RALPH, turns out to be exactly the boy she is looking for... well, nearly – he does have a strange penchant for art galleries and Elgar. But ANNE doesn't only fall in love. Discovering that not everyone is as rich as her, she determines to balance things out by persuading RALPH to take part in an unusual form of burglary. She assures him that if things go wrong, she will own up and say it was her fault. "They'll never believe you!" says Ralph. And they don't.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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Doctor Who: Dragonfire
Overview: As trouble brews on the space trading colony of Iceworld, the Doctor and Mel encounter their sometimes-ally Sabalom Glitz and a new friend who goes by the name "Ace".
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-07
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That'll Be The Day
Overview: Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-13
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Prince William
Overview: Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-29
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Jingle Bells
Overview: Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-13
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All Creatures Great and Small
Overview: James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Models
Overview: Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together, is tormented in a dream by his memories of this most tempestuous partnering.
Genres: Animation Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Fothergill
Overview: John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Beloved
Overview: When Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-15
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Overview: Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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