
Birthday:
04-29-1949
(75 years)
Birthplace:
Stepney, London, England, UK
Biography
Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949 in Stepney London) is an English Actress and singer. She is best known for playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap, Eastenders.
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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
Act like Self
event2016 star_border 8
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In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Act like Self
event2022 star_border 6.8
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The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from AIDS, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS. For the first time, Freddie's story is told alongside the experiences of those who tested positive for HIV and lost loved ones during the same period. Medical practitioners, survivors, and human rights campaigners recount the intensity of living through the AIDS pandemic and the moral panic it brought about.
Charlie
Act like Charlie's Mum
event2004 star_border 4
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Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
Act like Bella
event2023 star_border 5.7
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It's Christmas and Gemma has hired a lovely cottage in a quaint village. Terry spots that the village has a Santa competition, but things take a dark turn as competitors start being killed off in a host of warped and festive ways.
When 80s TV Goes Horribly Wrong
Act like Narrator
event2023
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Anita Dobson narrates a look at some '80s TV moments that many celebrities would rather forget, from a stunt that went wrong for Paul Daniels to Des O'Connor's dog bite on the nose.
Dodger Special: Christmas
Act like Bertha
event2022
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A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
London Road
Act like June
event2015 star_border 5.8
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London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Beyond Bedlam
Act like Judith
event1994 star_border 5
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An experiment gone awry places a neurologist and a homicide detective in a psychopath's nightmarish world.
Christmas at the Holly Day Inn
Act like Molly
event2023 star_border 6.9
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An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.
This Time Next Year
Act like Mrs. Mentis
event2024 star_border 6.2
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Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — they find themselves thrown together again in the same city on New Year’s Eve.
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death
Act like Mrs Flood
event2024 star_border 7.7
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The Doctor and Ruby Sunday have faced the Bogeyman, fought against Maestro, and survived the battlefield of Kastarion 3. In the epic two-part season finale, The Doctor and Ruby arrive at UNIT headquarters on a top-secret mission and a long-buried secret awaits…
Solitary
Act like Nurse Mary
event2016 star_border 4.2
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When party-girl Nora is forced to move back home with her aging father, it seems life can't get any worse. But inside her childhood home the ghosts of her past begin to haunt her, until the secret she has buried for so long is finally revealed.
Doctor Who at the Proms
Act like Mrs Flood
event2024 star_border 10
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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.
The Stretch
Act like Sam Greene
event2000
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When Terry (Grantham) is sentenced to a twenty-year stretch for a murder he did not commit, his wife Sam (Dobson) discovers that his apparently respectable business life has in fact been a cover for a vast criminal empire - drugs, protection, armed robbery, he was involved in it all. After the initial shock of the discovery has passed, Sam finds herself faced with a clear problem: should she leave it all behind, forget Terry and start her life afresh, or should she take charge of the business in her husband's absence?
The Revengers' Comedies
Act like Daphne Teal
event1998 star_border 5.8
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After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.
The Fight
Act like Gene Dunn
event2019 star_border 5.7
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Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the dysfunction and beat her inner demons, Tina puts on her fighting gloves - literally, stepping into the boxing ring to sweat out her anxieties and punch up her self-worth. But does she have what it takes to get her family off the ropes and emerge victorious?
The Tichborne Claimant
Act like Fanny Loder
event1998 star_border 8
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Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.
Torvill & Dean
Act like Miss Perry
event2018 star_border 6.7
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Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The World of Eddie Weary
Act like Roxanne
event1990
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Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in real-life: stuck up, pretentious and selfish, the constant focus of tabloid interest for his bad, usually drunken behaviour. But then he discovers he gets truckloads of mail from fans who think he really is Eddie Weary, asking for his help, so he decides to help them - with the aid of his assistant, Birdie.
Darkness Falls
Act like Mrs. Hayter
event1999 star_border 3.2
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With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.
Junk
Act like Mrs Lawson
event1999
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Bafta-winning drama. Following difficulties with her parents, teenager Gemma Brogan leaves home. She falls under the spell of a young woman who introduce her to the world of alternative youth culture and drugs. Initially her new life seems glamorous and exciting but she soon discovers its dark side as she slides uncontrollably into heroin addiction.
Tomorrow Morning
event2022
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The musical follows the relationships of what at first seems like two different couples separated by a span of time; one couple is getting married and the other is getting divorced. It turns out they are actually the same couple at two points in their relationship—a decade apart.
Christine
Act like Ruth Leyman
event2004 star_border 6
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Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.
EastEnders: 40 Years on the Square
Act like Herself
event2025
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Ross Kemp returns to EastEnders for its 40th anniversary, meeting iconic cast members and exploring the groundbreaking issues that defined the beloved British soap.
EastEnders
(1733 ep.)
event1985 star_border 4.1
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The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Today with Des and Mel
(1 ep.)
event2004
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Today with Des and Mel was a British television series hosted by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes. The show featured celebrity guests, phone-in competitions and chat between the hosts. It was produced by Carlton Television, at The London Studios. The show was previously produced at Teddington Studios for the first series.
Today with Des and Mel was loosely based on the format of the popular American television show, Live with Regis and Kelly.
At one stage, the show was given the green light for an evening version to be made. For a short time in January 2005, the show appeared in a 5 p.m. slot, but this was soon dropped, and a full prime-time version never came about.
ITV announced on 12 May 2006, that the show had been axed.
Red Dwarf
Act like Captain Tau (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 8.1
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The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
New Tricks
Act like Elaine Wanless (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.4
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New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 3.7
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The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
(22 ep.)
event1983 star_border 5.3
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Up the Elephant and Round the Castle was an ITV sitcom which aired from 1983 to 1985, starring comedian Jim Davidson, who played the role of Jim London. The show spawned a sequel, Home James, which was also made by Thames Television. Home James ran from 1987 to 1990. "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle" also gave early exposure to Anita Dobson. The show was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
(1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 6.1
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Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
Get Well Soon
Act like Mrs Osborne (6 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6
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Comedy set in an English Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947.
The Last Detective
(1 ep.)
event2003 star_border 7.5
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"Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
Live from Studio Five
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 3.3
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Live from Studio Five was an early-evening British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. It was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness news and celebrity gossip, after originally covering stories from a popular news agenda. It aired its final edition on 4 February 2011 and was replaced by OK! TV in February 2011 which lasted just nine months on air before itself being axed.
Sunburn
Act like Joyce Potts (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 4
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Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.
Inside No. 9
Act like Frances (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8
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An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
The Paul Daniels Magic Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 7.5
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A British magic show and variety show that aired on BBC1 from 9 June 1979 to 18 June 1994. Daniels' assistant throughout the series was Debbie McGee, whom he married in 1988. At its peak in the 1980s, the show regularly attracted viewing figures of 15 million and was sold to 43 countries.
Ghosts
Act like Suzi Rudkin (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6
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British anthology series of ghost stories.
Moving On
Act like Kate Marr (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.1
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Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Act like Queen Elizabeth I (3 ep.)
event2015
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Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
Urban Gothic
Act like Fenella (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 5.2
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Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel.
Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
Casualty
Act like Elaine Carrington (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6
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Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Split Ends
Act like Cath (6 ep.)
event1989 star_border 4
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Split Ends is a British Sitcom which ran for one series on ITV in 1989. It was written by Len Richmond and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.
Cath is a beautiful woman in her thirties, who runs a hairdresser's shop. Each episode sees Cath trying to decide if she wants to be with Clint or David. The series also featured Barbara New and Nimmy March in supporting roles.
Generation Z
Act like Janine (6 ep.)
event2024 star_border 5.4
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Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire.
Little Crackers
Act like Nan (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 6.8
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Little Crackers is a series of Christmas short films featuring stars of British and Irish comedy.
Call the Midwife
Act like Mabel Tillerson (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.5
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Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Doctor Who
Act like Mrs Flood (3 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.5
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The Doctor and his companion travel across time and space encountering incredible friends and foes.
Murder, They Hope
Act like Bella (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.4
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After their trip to Middlesbrough turned a little more explosive than they thought, Gemma and Terry finally decide to pack up the smouldering remains of their coach tour business and set out on a new adventure as fully-fledged private detectives.
Pompidou
(6 ep.)
event2015 star_border 4.2
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In an old caravan parked in front of his crumbling estate lives Pompidou - a tubby, pompous, penniless, eccentric, yet lovable aristocrat. He is an elderly oddball who has fallen on hard times.
Great British Menu
Act like Self - Guest Judge (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.4
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Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.
Going Live!
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6
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Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene.
Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher.
The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking.
In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.
Highlander: The Series
Act like Molly Kingsley (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.4
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Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
Curfew
Act like Janet (6 ep.)
event2024 star_border 4.6
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Set in a society where all men live under 'The Women’s Safety Act', meaning they are bound by a strict curfew from 7PM to 7AM every night, with their movements tracked by an ankle tag 24 hours a day. When a woman's body is discovered, brutally murdered during curfew hours and left on the steps of the Women's Safety Center, veteran Police officer Pamela Green believes that a man is responsible. But in a world where men are bound by the curfew system, her theory is rejected.
The Long Call
Act like Grace Stephenson (4 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.5
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Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in.
Doctor Who: Unleashed
Act like Mrs Flood (archive footage) (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 8
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Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell takes audiences behind the scenes of each episode of BBC's Doctor Who.
Loose Women
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 3.4
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A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.
The Rebel
Act like Margaret (9 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.5
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Simon Callow stars as a cantankerous senior in this sitcom inspired by Andrew Birch's long-running cartoon strip in Oldie Magazine.
Last of the Summer Wine
Act like Anita Dobson (1 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7.1
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Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
Smokescreen
Act like Gertie (6 ep.)
event1994
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Its the summer of 1907, and cinema is in its infancy. In a northern industrial town two very different movie moguls are battling for the hearts, minds and purses of the local population. In this six-part drama, Timothy West stars as Frank Sheringham , an enterprising film-maker determined to woo audiences away from the local flea-pit run by the villainous Albert Gold. The whole town becomes involved in the vendetta and three local children are at the eye of the storm.
Father Brown
Act like Eunice Lytton (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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