Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Frank Wheatley

1. Doctor Who (1963–1989)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.

Stars: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker

Votes: 39,559

2. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: The Cave of Skulls (1963)

TV-G | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The TARDIS takes its new passengers back to the dawn of history. There, the Doctor and his party are captured by a tribe who are trying to rediscover the secret of fire.

Directors: Waris Hussein, Douglas Camfield | Stars: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Votes: 1,539

3. Maigret (1959–1963)

50 min | Crime, Drama

Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.

Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason

Votes: 377

4. Ghost Squad (1961–1964)

60 min | Crime, Drama

The adventures of the agents of Scotland Yard's secret undercover crime unit, dubbed "The Ghost Squad".

Stars: Anthony Marlowe, Claire Nielson, Michael Quinn, Neil Hallett

Votes: 77

5. 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: 67

6. Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode: The Madman of Vervac (1962)

50 min | Crime, Drama

Maigret sets out on a fishing holiday but becomes personally involved in a rural murder case.

Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Laurence Payne, Pauline Yates

Votes: 39

7. Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode: The Flemish Shop (1963)

49 min | Crime, Drama

The Peeters family are Flemish and disliked by the French locals. So, when a young unmarried mother goes missing, the villagers suspect foul play.

Director: Eric Tayler | Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Margaret Tyzack, Joyce Carey

Votes: 39

8. Maigret (1959–1963)
Episode: The Countess (1962)

49 min | Crime, Drama

Maigret returns to the village where he was born, and becomes convinced that the Countess De Saint-Fiacre has been murdered.

Director: Andrew Osborn | Stars: Rupert Davies, William Franklyn, Helen Shingler, Clive Morton

Votes: 38

9. Sykes and A... (1960–1965)

30 min | Comedy, Family

Sykes and A - follows the life and times of an immature, often clumsy twin brother and sister as they deal with their eccentric life's.

Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis, Deryck Guyler

Votes: 28

10. Festival (I) (1963–1964)

60 min | Drama

An hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the BBC from 1963-64, with a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Stars ... See full summary »

Stars: David Garfield, Cyril Cusack, John Wood, John Welsh

Votes: 20

11. Ghost Squad (1961–1964)
Episode: Mr. Five Per Cent (1963)

Crime, Drama

A shady minor crook is persuaded to assist Miller in uncovering an international drug and arms smuggler's operations in Rome, where a shipment of high-powered rifles are destined for some revolutionaries in southeast Asia.

Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Neil Hallett, Guy Deghy, Edwin Richfield, Naomi Chance

Votes: 7

12. Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
Episode: Sykes and a Following (1964)

Comedy, Family

Sykes and his sister Hattie start work as a bus driver and his conductor, but when they start adding their own personal touches to their bus the company finds the public will only use the Sykes bus, and all their other buses remain empty.

Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Harry Locke, William Kendall

13. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode: The Reading Room (1963)

60 min | Drama

Suspicious characters who keep hanging around a library and a young couple who meet regularly inside. Is there a connection?

Director: Michael Currer-Briggs | Stars: John Cater, Margo Cunningham, Susan Hampshire, Marion Mathie

14. Festival (1963–1964)
Episode: Lysistrata (1964)

Drama

A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

Director: Prudence Fitzgerald | Stars: Diane Cilento, Alec Clunes, Ann Bell, Frederick Jaeger