Maureen O'Brien
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Biography: Maureen O'Brien is a British actress and novelist. She is perhaps most famous for her role as Vicki, the companion to William Hartnell's First Doctor in Doctor Who, becoming the first change to the original cast line up in 1965. She also played Elizabeth Straker in the second series of the long running BBC drama Casualty in 1987.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England
Birthday: June 29, 1943
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Gender: Female
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Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Overview: The TARDIS lands on a planet on the verge of total annihilation as it drifts too close to the three suns which its orbits.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-15
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Overview: After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-13
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Falling for a Dancer
Overview: Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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The Closer You Get
Overview: Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Zina
Overview: Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in the 'thirties. Meanwhile Trotsky is in exile in Prinkipo having been driven from power by Stalin. The Nazis rise to power in Germany and Austria and Zina commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
Overview: As the very first Doctor, William Hartnell created the character that made Doctor Who a success. No other actor made such a lasting contribution to the programme or influenced it so greatly. In this special Myth Makers, Nicholas Briggs meets William’s friends, colleagues and family and explores the personality of this shy, complex and private man. With contributions from William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Maureen O’Brien, Peter Purves, Verity Lambert, Michael Craze, Anneke Wills, Donald Tosh, Christopher Barry and a revealing interview with Jack Pitt, who was an extra in Doctor Who and shared William’s flat in London. Also featured is Jessica Carney, who has written a biography of the grandfather’s life titled Who’s There? This is not just a Myth Makers tribute… it’s almost a chance to meet the man himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-02
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Doctor Who: The Storyteller
Overview: Vicki is telling one of her stories.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-16
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Nocturne
Overview: Nocturne is a taut chamber drama, set in a musty suburban estate to which a pretty but drab-looking woman returns upon the death of her mother, who in flashback we discover was a fiercely proper and dominating woman. Eichhorn's depressed reveries are abruptly interrupted with the unexpected arrival of a pair of hitchhikers, amoral, free-spirited young lesbian lovers seeking shelter from the rain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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The Double Agent
Overview: In London, a traitor is selling information. In Moscow, a Yorkshire cloth salesman is approached by the KGB, who believe he has more to sell than cloth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-12
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Doctor Who: The Rescue
Overview: On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara meet two survivors from a crashed spaceship who are terrorised by the monster Koquillion.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-09
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Doctor Who: The Romans
Overview: The TARDIS crew take up residence near Rome in 64AD, where Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, and the Doctor's imitation of Maximus Pettulian sees him taken to the court of Emperor Nero where he inadvertently plays a part in deciding the course of history...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-06
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Doctor Who: The Web Planet
Overview: On the planet Vortis, the Doctor and his companions aid the butterfly-like Menoptra in their battle against the parasitic Animus and its mind-controlled minions, the ant-like Zarbi.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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Doctor Who: The Crusade
Overview: In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin.
Genres: History Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Doctor Who: The Space Museum
Overview: On the planet Xeros, the TARDIS crew discover their own future selves frozen in time as exhibits in a galactic museum and must avert this potential future.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Doctor Who: The Chase
Overview: The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet Aridius and beyond.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
Overview: In England, 1066, the Doctor confronts a mysterious Monk who is attempting to change history.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Overview: The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills. Each has crash-landed after a confrontation in space. The Rills are friendly, compassionate explorers. The Drahvins are dull-witted, cloned soldiers, terrorised by the intelligent, warlike matriarch Maaga.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Overview: When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greeks to prove she is not a spy.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-06
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A Royal Scandal
Overview: The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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The Lost Boys
Overview: The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-11
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Overview: A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Land Girls
Overview: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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C2H5OH
Overview: Play on the problems of alcoholism.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-28
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John David
Overview: Patrick and Judith have everything prepared for the arrival of their first child but when he is born, they are quite unprepared for the crisis they must face.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-23
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Needle
Overview: Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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