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Lynda La Plante

Also Known As: Lynda Marchal

Biography: Lynda La Plante, CBE, is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.

Department: Writing

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK

Adult: No

Birthday: March 15, 1943

Age: 82 years old

Gender: Female

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Overview: As ITV's move from its iconic base on Quay Street to the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK nears completion, this tribute looks back at 56 years of Granada television. Beginning from its inception in 1954, including rare archive footage of its co-founders, brothers Sidney and Cecil Bernstein, replays archive clips of some of the programmes and performances filmed and produced there - from Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, Jewel In the Crown, and Stars In Their Eyes, to the television debuts of The Sex Pistols, Take That, and the Beatles.

Genres: Documentary

Original Language: en

Release Date: 2013-06-15

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Overview: A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

Genres: Horror TV Movie Mystery Drama

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1976-10-16

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Overview: A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain's zaniest comedians.

Genres: Comedy

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1996-03-02

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Overview: A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Genres: History Mystery Drama

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1982-11-12

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Overview: This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.

Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1980-03-30

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Overview: A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

Genres: Adventure Drama History

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1983-03-18

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Overview: Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.

Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie

Original Language: en

Release Date: 1979-04-10

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