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1. Man with a Million (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
As part of a bet, two aristocrats offer a penniless American a loan, without telling him that the amount is £1,000,000 in the form of a single banknote.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Votes: 4,202
2. Pool of London (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Earl Cameron
Votes: 1,183
3. The Veil (1958)
25 min | Horror, Mystery
An anthology of horror stories hosted by actor Boris Karloff.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Robert Hardy, Harry Bartell, Ron Hagerthy
Votes: 541
4. Knave of Hearts (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A philanderer fakes suicide with unexpected consequences.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Margaret Johnston
Votes: 509
5. Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)
Crime, Drama
Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.
Stars: Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Geoffrey Adams, Arthur Rigby
Votes: 313
6. The Fugitive (1939)
76 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent, Mary Clare
Votes: 313
7. Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim
Votes: 267
8. The Good Companions (1933)
95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Musical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne
Votes: 238
9. The Delavine Affair (1955)
64 min | Crime, Drama
A man's death leads a local newspaperman and the man's girlfriend to seek the killer.
Director: Douglas Peirce | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson, Valerie Vernon
Votes: 185
10.
The Veil (1958)
Episode:
Jack the Ripper
(1958)
Not Rated | 25 min | Horror, Mystery
A clairvoyant, in dreams and visions, sees a series of grisly murders in London's Whitechapel district. But his knowledge of the details of the crimes makes him a suspect in the eyes of the police.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Boris Karloff, Niall MacGinnis, Dorothy Alison, Robert Brown
Votes: 163
11. Child's Play (1954)
68 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.
Director: Margaret Thomson | Stars: Mona Washbourne, Peter Martyn, Dorothy Alison, Ingeborg von Kusserow
Votes: 153
12. Angels (1975–1983)
50 min | Drama
Six student nurses start training in the NHS, facing challenges working with colleagues and patients while adapting to the hierarchy and procedures.
Stars: Carol Holmes, Shirley Cheriton, Joanna Monro, Sharon Rosita
Votes: 137
13. No Hiding Place (1959–1967)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and ... See full summary »
Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Johnny Briggs, Michael McStay
Votes: 97
14. Hot Girls for Men Only (1967)
43 min | Short, Comedy
A sophisticated London fashion columnist takes a job with a small-town publisher and "moral crusader", much to the dismay of her rich, jealous boyfriend. The "crusader", however, turns out to be not quite what he says he is.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: David Kernan, Andrea Allan, Derek Aylward, Tom Gill
Votes: 90
15. Hadleigh (1969–1976)
60 min | Drama
James Hadleigh is the squire of the village in this series created by Robert Barr.
Stars: Gerald Harper, Peter Dennis, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Alastair Hunter
Votes: 84
16. Missing Ten Days (1940)
82 min | Drama
Bob Stevens (Sir Rex Harrison) awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Rex Harrison, Karen Verne, C.V. France, Leo Genn
Votes: 67
17. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 66
18. Second Best Bed (1938)
74 min | Comedy, Romance
A newly-married couple runs into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Jane Baxter, Veronica Rose, Carl Jaffe
Votes: 51
19. This Man Is Mine (1946)
103 min | Comedy
One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Tom Walls, Glynis Johns, Jeanne De Casalis, Hugh McDermott
Votes: 47
20. Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
60 min
Fortnightly magazine program.
Stars: MacDonald Hobley, Ronnie Waldman, Leslie Welch, Lind Joyce
Votes: 32
21. Remember When (1939)
68 min | Comedy
In 1879 England, a solicitor helps a village blacksmith win a bicycle race on his new invention.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Claude Dampier, Helen Haye, John Garrick, Kathleen Gibson
Votes: 29
22. Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968)
30 min | Comedy
Rose Garvey, and her husband Gerald, live next door to her sister Lana Butt, and her husband Harry, in the fictional Larkworthy Road, Muswell Hill, North London. Gerald is an underpaid ... See full summary »
Stars: June Whitfield, Reg Varney, Pat Coombs, Desmond Walter-Ellis
Votes: 19
23. Knock on Any Door (1965–1966)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series with the premise that there is a story behind every door.
Stars: Ted Willis, Brenda Bruce, Helen Fraser, Peter Copley
Votes: 12
24. Cuckoo College (1949 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Stars: Mae Bacon, Max Bacon, Dennis Lawes, Joe Linnane
Votes: 10
25. Jubilee (1977)
50 min | Drama, History
A series of thirteen plays that attempt to reflect the British way of life between 1952 and 1977, the first twenty-five years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Stars: Ronald Herdman, Stephen Churchett, Honor Blackman, Ian Holm
26. His and Hers (1970–1972)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Ronald Lewis, Barbara Murray, Janie Booth, Tim Brooke-Taylor
27. It's a Living (1962– )
30 min | Comedy
It's a Living placed long-time comedy double-act Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss in a small general store who are hard-working, thrifty and law-abiding trying to make a living. They are assisted by Ben's wife Bertha and their daughter Betty.
Stars: Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss, Lance Percival, Fanny Carby
28. The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935)
60 min | Comedy
Henry, an unemployed London street entertainer, gets his big break when he is engaged to perform as the opening act of a cabaret in local pub. He proves a huge success and his popularity ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Mainwaring | Stars: Leonard Henry, Betty Frankiss, George Mozart, Wally Patch
29. When We Are Married (1938 TV Movie)
145 min | Comedy
Director: Philip Dorté | Stars: Mae Bacon, Ernest Butcher, George Carney, Ethel Coleridge
30. Educated Evans (1957–1958)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Charlie Chester, Michael Balfour, Jack Melford, Myrtle Reed
31. The Dancing Bear (1954)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Norman Wooland, Willoughby Goddard, Geoffrey Sumner, Ingeborg von Kusserow
32. The Lady in Lace (1925)
Short, Drama
Directors: Edwin Greenwood, W.P. Kellino | Stars: Mae Bacon, Laurence Ireland, Norman Le Strange, Haddon Mason
33. Double or Quits (1938)
72 min | Crime, Drama
A reporter on a transatlantic cruise finds himself accused of the theft of valuable stamps. Knowing that he didn't do it, he sets out to find the real thief, but isn't prepared for what he discovers.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Frank Fox, Patricia Medina, Hal Walters, Ian Fleming
34. Chick (1936)
72 min | Comedy
Director: Michael Hankinson | Stars: Sydney Howard, Betty Ann Davies, Fred Conyngham, Cecil Humphreys
35. Up for the Cup (1950)
76 min | Comedy
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Albert Modley, Mae Bacon, Helen Christie, Harold Berens
36. The Big Man (1954 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Music
Stars: Fred Emney, Una Venning, Edwin Styles, Rawicz and Landauer
37. Alibi Children (1955 TV Movie)
Crime, Drama, Family
Stars: Mary Allen, Gerald Andersen, Mae Bacon, Joyce Chancellor
38. Dear Dotty (1954)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Avril Angers, Naomi Chance, Jack Melford, Stephen Hancock
39.
Angels (1975–1983)
Episode:
My Patient
(1976)
Drama
Director: Tristan de Vere Cole | Stars: Julie Dawn Cole, Clare Clifford, Patricia Denys, Linda Polan
40.
Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)
Episode:
Rock, Rattle and Roll
(1957)
Crime, Drama
Director: Douglas Moodie | Stars: Frank Atkinson, Mae Bacon, Peter Byrne, Ronald Clarke
41.
Hadleigh (1969–1976)
Episode:
The Sealed Offer
(1971)
51 min | Drama
Colonel Winstanley is a retired war hero. When his second-hand bookshop comes under threat of compulsory purchase, he seeks Hadleigh's aid.
Director: Brian Parker | Stars: Gerald Harper, Jane Merrow, Clive Morton, John Stratton
42.
No Hiding Place (1959–1967)
Episode:
The By Boys
(1964)
Crime, Drama
A member of a pop group appearing on television is murdered during the performance. Even though the performance is recorded, the police are still puzzled by how the murderer struck.
Director: Ian Fordyce | Stars: Raymond Francis, Johnny Briggs, Michael McStay, Allan O'Keefe
43.
Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968)
Episode:
At Home on Saturday
(1967)
Comedy
Stars: Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Reg Varney, Pat Coombs
44.
His and Hers (1970–1972)
Episode:
Engagement
(1972)
Comedy
Director: Ian Davidson | Stars: Ronald Lewis, Barbara Murray, Mae Bacon, Janie Booth
45.
Educated Evans (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Return of Evans
(1957)
Comedy
Director: Eric Fawcett | Stars: Charlie Chester, Mae Bacon, Michael Balfour, John M. East
46.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
Ladies in Ermine
(1956)
Drama
Director: Cyril Butcher | Stars: Mae Bacon, Robin Bailey, Katie Boyle, Peter Bull
47.
Knock on Any Door (1965–1966)
Episode:
The Machine Minder
(1965)
Drama
Director: Bill Stewart | Stars: Margaret Whiting, David Collings, George Sewell, Edward Burnham
48.
Jubilee (1977)
Episode:
Street Party
(1977)
50 min | Drama, History
Director: Paul Ciappessoni | Stars: Georgina Hale, Julian Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Walter Sparrow
49.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
Buy Me Blue Ribbons
(1956)
Drama
Director: Cyril Butcher | Stars: Maidie Andrews, Mae Bacon, Roland Brand, Richard Caldicot
50.
Educated Evans (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Proud Horse
(1957)
Comedy
Stars: Charlie Chester, Mae Bacon, Michael Balfour, David Barry