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1. Zero One (1962–1965)
30 min | Drama
Television series about International Air Security, whose call sign is "Zero One".
Stars: Nigel Patrick, William Smith, Katya Douglas, Hugh McDermott
Votes: 61
2. The Importance of Being Earnest (1946 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Stars: Alban Blakelock, Stringer Davis, Robert Eddison, David Horne
Votes: 20
3. London aktuell (1969– )
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Margret Dünser, Pan's People, Alfred Hitchcock, Roger Moore
Votes: 13
4. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
5. The Stately Ghosts of England (1965 TV Movie)
50 min | Mystery
Margaret Rutherford explores 3 haunted homes in England - Longleat, Beaulieu, and Salisbury Hall. Mysterious incidents, ranging from lights falling over to a cameraman losing his hearing in a room only to get it back when he walked out.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Tom Corbett, Mrs. Walter Goldsmith
Votes: 48
6. Murder She Said (1961)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 8,611
7. The Buccaneers (1956–1957)
30 min | Adventure, Drama
The Crown takes Tempest's stronghold. The ex-pirate wins a pardon and becomes a privateer. He and Deputy Gov. Beamish fight Spanish raiders despite their unease. They defend the Caribbean.
Stars: Robert Shaw, Paul Hansard, Brian Rawlinson, Edwin Richfield
Votes: 189
8. Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
Votes: 6,831
9. Reach for the Sky (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson
Votes: 2,994
10. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy
Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Richard Wattis
Votes: 1,888
11. Murder Most Foul (1964)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank
Votes: 6,328
12. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,373
13. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 94
14. Murder Ahoy (1964)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn
Votes: 5,819
15. Big Time Operators (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers
Votes: 2,266
16. Late Night Line-Up (1964–1972)
Talk-Show
Live, weekday show in which at first was a talk show on contemporary artistic events, but as the 1960s moved on (due to its nature of being late night and live) could get quite shambolic in presentation .
Stars: Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Denis Tuohy
Votes: 17
17. Miranda (1948)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives in to her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum
Votes: 1,145
18. Trouble in Store (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Norman, a stockroom worker at a London store, aspires to be a window dresser. Pursuing his dream, he falls for a shopgirl and they uncover a robbery plot, miraculously foiling the thieves.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Moira Lister, Derek Bond
Votes: 1,155
19. Midnight Episode (1950)
78 min | Crime, Mystery
A tramp gets involved with a mysterious crime when he finds a wallet in the street.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 57
20. Aunt Clara (1954)
84 min | Comedy, Family
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, A.E. Matthews, Fay Compton
Votes: 281
21. Mad About Men (1954)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns) swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on vacation. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden, Anne Crawford, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 612
22. The V.I.P.s (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
As fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 4,213 | Gross: $10.21M
23. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff
Votes: 1,923
24. Castle in the Air (1952)
89 min | Comedy
The near-bankrupt Earl of Locharne must contend with a government agent trying to requisition his ancestral Scottish castle, as well as a beautiful American woman who wants to buy the place - to say nothing of the resident ghost.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Kelly
Votes: 285
25. Curtain Up (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
In a small town in the 1950s, a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Smart | Stars: Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Kendall, Michael Medwin
Votes: 296
26.
The Buccaneers (1956–1957)
Episode:
Mr. Beamish and the Hangman's Noose
(1957)
TV-Y | 25 min | Adventure, Drama
A new acting governor arrives at the colony and immediately arrests Beamish on a string of charges that will require him to return to London for a court marshal. Tempest is convinced there ... See full summary »
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Paul Hansard, Edwin Richfield
Votes: 18
27. The Runaway Bus (1954)
78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 769
28. Just My Luck (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 702
29. Miss Robin Hood (1952)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Crime
Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy, Fanny Rowe
Votes: 327
30. Innocents in Paris (1953)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Monique Gérard
Votes: 530
31. The Alphabet Murders (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Maurice Denham
Votes: 1,896
32. Arabella (1967)
M/PG | 88 min | Comedy
Virna Lisi is at her peak using her womanly wiles to seduce Terry-Thomas (in multiple roles) to aid her debt-ridden grandmother, Dame Margaret Rutherford.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Virna Lisi, James Fox, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 160
33. The March Hare (1956)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Terence Morgan, Martita Hunt, Bernard Rook, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 123
34. The Day After Tomorrow (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Television play centering around pensioner Amy Carr (Dame Margaret Rutherford) and her day-to-day life and character and her budding friendship with old seaman Peter O'Connor (Noel Purcell).
Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Noel Purcell, Olive Sloane, Stringer Davis
35. The Man Who Was Thursday (1947 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A poet working as a police spy infiltrates a group of anarchists, only to find that they're not what they seem to be.
Stars: Harold Scott, Wilfred Fletcher, Don Gemmell, Campbell Singer
36. Exercise Bowler (1946 TV Movie)
Drama
Stars: Eric Berry, John Chandos, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Stringer Davis
37. Charles and Mary (1938 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
The lives of the essayist and poet Charles Lamb and his sister Mary
Stars: Marie Ney, Peter Ridgeway, John Ruddock, Philip Morant
38. All This Is Ended (1946 TV Movie)
Drama
Stars: Robert Webber, Hector Ross, Arthur Lovegrove, Stringer Davis
39. Query (1947 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Drama
Stars: Gordon Davies, Stringer Davis, Noel Howlett, Russell Napier
40. Perspective on the Better Half? (1963 TV Movie)
35 min | Documentary
Stars: Leonard Maguire, Wilfred Brown, Stringer Davis, Elaine Grand
41. Edward II (1947 TV Movie)
Director: Stephen Harrison | Stars: David Markham, Vivienne Bennett, Michael Caborn, Nigel Stock
42.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Noble Spaniard
(1958)
Drama
Director: Adrian Brown | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Maxine Audley, Robert Eddison, Kenneth Williams
43.
Zero One (1962–1965)
Episode:
The Liar
(1962)
Drama
When a young woman dies of an apparent heart attack during a plane trip, a woman known to be a notorious liar accuses the victim's husband of murder.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Katya Douglas, Margaret Rutherford, Susan Travers
44.
London aktuell (1969– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1970)
Documentary
Director: Edgar von Heeringen | Stars: Margret Dünser, Michael Caine, Ossie Clark, Dana
45.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
A Woman of No Importance
(1960)
Comedy, Drama
A witty but dissolute peer is about to engage as his secretary a young man who turns out to be his illegitimate son. Then he proceeds to make advances to the young man's fiancée.
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch | Stars: Marcia Ashton, Tony Bateman, Helen Cherry, Stringer Davis
46.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Miss Hargreaves
(1950)
Drama
Stars: Margaret Rutherford, George Benson, Robert Brown, Stringer Davis
47.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Shout Aloud Salvation (I)
(1951)
Drama
Stars: Virginia McKenna, Daphne Slater, Lewis Casson, Leslie Dwyer
48.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
Time Remembered
(1957)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Lionel Harris | Stars: Norman Bird, Wilfrid Brambell, Paul Daneman, Howell Davies
49.
Late Night Line-Up (1964–1972)
Episode:
Episode dated 12 February 1966
(1966)
Talk-Show
Stars: Stringer Davis, Margaret Rutherford