Barbara Flynn
Also Known As: Barbara Joy McMurray
Biography: Barbara Joy Flynn (born 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993–1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007–2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adopted mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. In her own words, she tends to play "feisty, strong women"
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
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Miss Potter
Overview: Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-03
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The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
Overview: On 7 July 2005 Britain experienced its first ever suicide attack. Four bombs exploded in central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700. When Scotland Yard launched one of the biggest investigations in its history, another first was quickly uncovered: the suicide bombers were home-grown, they were young British men, attacking their own country. Ariel Merari interviewed the friends and family of suicide bombers, as well as those who were stopped before their bombs went off. He tried to piece together a personality type capable of such acts. The unsettling finding that emerged was that suicide bombers weren't mad, weren't psychopaths, in fact they did not have any psychological flaws that set them apart.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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The Escort
Overview: Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make ends meet by working as a male escort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Christmas at the Riviera
Overview: The assistant manager of a seaside hotel is left to run the building over the Christmas period.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-23
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Dear Nobody
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Overview: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-07
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Just Henry
Overview: Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-18
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Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
Overview: This powerful documentary delves deep into Diana's difficult upbringing, exploring how her parents' explosive relationship shaped the child that would become a Princess.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-14
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King Lear
Overview: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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The Christmas Candle
Overview: Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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Benefactors
Overview: Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
Overview: Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold story of the iconic Flying Scotsman-the very best in the engineering of its time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-04
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Hornblower: Loyalty
Overview: Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-05
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You're Dead...
Overview: A veteran bank robber and his sidekicks plan a heist that goes awry.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Season's Greetings
Overview: Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought. Alan Ayckbourn's stage play adapted for BBC TV, 1986
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
Overview: A documentary about Rosalind Franklin, the scientist who first photographed and discovered the shape of DNA.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-27
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Lorna Doone
Overview: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of Monmouth. On the king's death, conflict is inevitable... Over seven days journey from London, Exmoor is a primitive and lawless area. Here, farmer Jack Ridd lives with his wife Sarah, son John, and two daughters. The only shadow over their simple life is cast by the notorious outlaw family the Doones. The aristocratic Doones were banished from their ancestral lands and now live through looting, theft, and murder. Their brutality is legendary...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-11
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The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
Overview: The documentary recounts Alan Conway's deception as Stanley Kubrick, exploiting misconceptions about Kubrick's appearance and people's desire for contact with a celebrity. It features an interview with Conway from 1996 and Alexander Walker's insights, aiming for objectivity. The narrator also addresses Conway's criminal past and allegations of sexual misconduct, linked to Kubrick's name. Conway died shortly before Kubrick. Cook and Frewin later made "Colour Me Kubrick," a comedy starring John Malkovich, inspired by Conway's story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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Day To Remember
Overview: Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his memory during the festive season.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-21
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The Flight Fund
Overview: Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-14
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Hornblower: Duty
Overview: Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Genres: War Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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1978: The Winter of Discontent
Overview: Documentary telling the story of seven bleak months of industrial chaos that changed Britain forever. Featuring memories and anecdotes from famous faces.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-02
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George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Overview: Dramatised biography of writer George Orwell.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Burlesque Fairytales
Overview: A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Marchioness Disaster
Overview: A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Night Flight
Overview: Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Cracker: Nine Eleven
Overview: After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-30
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Love on a Gunboat
Overview: In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-04
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The Vanishing Man
Overview: While Nick Cameron is returning to England from the continent with mysterious cargo in the cabin section of his small aircraft, he is thrown off-course by a severe electrical storm and loses radio contact. To his surprise and horror, he is arrested upon landing and accused of being a traitor in connection with the cargo he has been carrying - which, unknown to him, contained plutonium. Although he pleads innocent, Nick is not believed and is sentenced to a long term in prison. While in prison, he is subjected to special experimentation at a mysterious laboratory - with one unnerving, and unexpected, side-effect of the experiments being intermittent invisibility. —David McAnally
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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No Visible Scar
Overview: A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form of interrogation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-17
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A Mother Like Him
Overview: A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-16
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Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Standing in for Henry
Overview: At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Bosses From Hell
Overview: John Cleese training video about bosses.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Lion Called Christian
Overview: In 2008, a clip posted on YouTube featuring an emotional reunion between a young lion and his owners became an internet sensation. Overnight people wanted to know more about what lay behind this clip. The two men in question, Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall, have published an updated best-selling version of their account of how they came to buy Christian the lion from a London department store in the late 60s. They explain how they lived with the lion whilst working in a furniture shop down the King's Road in what was then the tail end of the swinging 60s and how they eventually came to introduce their lion into the wild under the watchful eye of lion expert, George Adamson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-28
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