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Carry On Sergeant
1958 • Comedy • War
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
The Mouse That Roared
1959 • Comedy
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion…
Why matched: genres Comedy
This Sporting Life
1963 • Drama
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Why matched: genres Drama
Private's Progress
1956 • Comedy • War
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends w…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
Hell Drivers
1957 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 • Science Fiction • Adventure
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reache…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Adventure
Footsteps in the Fog
1955 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Holly and the Ivy
1952 • Drama
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Why matched: genres Drama
Heavens Above!
1963 • Comedy
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman a…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 • Drama • History • War
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 • Science Fiction • Adventure
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the D…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Adventure
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 • Drama • Science Fiction • Comedy
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he fi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Science Fiction
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
2008 • Mystery • Science Fiction • Adventure
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alt…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Science Fiction
The Magic Box
1952 • Drama
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so…
Why matched: genres Drama
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013 • Drama
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were…
Matched on: Hartnell