Joan Hickson
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London. Making her stage debut in 1927, she worked for several years throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End, including the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original production of See How They Run, at the Q Theatre in 1944, and then at the Comedy Theatre in January 1945. She made her first film appearance in 1934. The numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse and Mrs May in Carry On Constable. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carry On Nurse
as MatronIn Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital...
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Murder She Said
as Mrs. KidderMiss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no...
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The Million Pound Note
as MaggieAn impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
as Miss Jane MarpleTravelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train -...
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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
as Miss MarpleFaced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is...
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The Horse's Mouth
as Lady in Gallery Queue (uncredited)Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of...
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Yanks
as Mrs. MoodyDuring WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort....
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Friends
as Lady in BookstorePaul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote...
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The Man Who Never Was
as LandladyThe true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before...
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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
as Miss MarpleA town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg....
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Clockwise
as Mrs. Ellie TrellisSchool headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian...
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Theatre of Blood
as Mrs. SproutA Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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The Wicked Lady
as Aunt AgathaCaroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara...
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The Card
as Mrs. CodleynA charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in...
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Carry On Loving
as Mrs GrubbThe Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of...
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mrs GibbonsEscaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord...
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
as Miss MarpleAt the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is...
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Carry On Constable
as Mrs. MayWith a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills...
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The House Across the Lake
as Mrs. HardcastleSensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the...
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Carry On Regardless
as MatronAfter a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a...
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
as Mrs. RadlettYoung Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that...
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Heavens Above!
as HousewifeA naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class...
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The 39 Steps
as Miss DobsonIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after...
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Carry On Girls
as Mrs. DukesLocal councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown...
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King of the Wind
as Duchess of MarlboroughIn 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...
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Dracula
as Mrs WestonA asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as...
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The Taming of the Shrew
as WidowBaptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's...
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Mrs. RivingtonThis intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby...
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
as Miss MarpleWhile on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the...
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The Magic Box
as Mrs StukelyNow old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...
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Please Turn Over
as SaleswomanThe orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged...
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Lost
as ChemistU.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that...
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The Magnet
as Mrs WardA classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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Doctor at Sea
as Mrs. ThomasThe second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...
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Barnacle Bill
as Mrs. KentA seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S....
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No Kidding
as CookA young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a...
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Nurse on Wheels
as Mrs. WoodQuietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take...
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
as EffieAn ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers...
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The Rake's Progress
as Miss ParkerVivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and...
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That's Carry On!
as Various CharactersCelebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth...
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Simon and Laura
as BarmaidA couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Doctor in Love
as Nurse (uncredited)Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice,...
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An Alligator Named Daisy
as Piano Customer (uncredited)Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another...
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Hindle Wakes
as Mrs HawthornDuring a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting...
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Angels One Five
as Housekeeper (Uncredited)The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
as RosemaryOn marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in...
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Doctor in the House
as Mrs. GroakerThe first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...
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I See a Dark Stranger
as Hotel ManageressProud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During...
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Seven Days to Noon
as Mrs. Emily Georgina PeckettWhen Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a...
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Child in the House
as CookA lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...
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In the Doghouse
as Miss GibbsAfter 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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Bond Street
as SeamstressCharts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond...
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What Every Woman Wants
as Polly Ann HadleyYoung couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in...
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Mad About Men
as Mrs. ForsterFlirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is...
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The Guinea Pig
as Mrs. ReadA working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two...
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High Treason
as Mrs. EllisMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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The Crowded Day
as Mrs. JonesOne day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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Port of Escape
as Rosalie WatchettTwo sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man...
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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
as LandladyHerman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from...
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A Time to Kill
as Miss EdingerA man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins...
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Chain of Events
as BarmaidWhen a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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I Thank a Fool
as LandladyAfter mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical...
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Raising the Wind
as Mrs. Bostwick'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
as Minor role (uncredited)The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London....
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I See Ice
as ReceptionistGeorge Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
as GraceA couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly...
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Carry on Admiral
as MotherTwo friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the...
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Tall Headlines
as The WaitressA family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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Law and Disorder
as Aunt FlorenceWhen Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great...
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The Last Man to Hang
as Mrs. PrynneA man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Century
as Mrs. WhitweatherTurn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
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Rough Shoot
as Station AnnouncerAn American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful...
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The Extra Day
as Mrs. WestDirector William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various...
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Love from a Stranger
as EmmyAnn Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after...
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Crooks Anonymous
as uncreditedA former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods...
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Don't Take It to Heart
as Mrs. PikeA stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A...
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As Long as They're Happy
as BarmaidThe suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his...
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No Time for Tears
as Sister DuckworthThe interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors...
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His and Hers
as PhoebeAuthor-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding...
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Value for Money
as Mrs. PerkinsA wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides...
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Freedom Radio
as KatieHitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be...
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Dance Little Lady
as Mrs. MatthewsWhen a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband...
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Deadly Nightshade
as Mrs. FentonEscapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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South Riding
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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So Well Remembered
as Mother (uncredited)A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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Sailors Don't Care
as Woman Carried AshoreBoat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
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Just William's Luck
as Mrs. LaneComic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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This Was a Woman
as Miss JohnsonThe woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she...
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
as MotherFriends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom...
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Curtain Up
as Harry's LandladyIn a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the...
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Love in Pawn
as Woman in Telephone Box (Uncredited)A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money...
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Happy Is the Bride
as Mrs. BowlesIn a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the...
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Come Back Peter
as Mrs. HarrisThere's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
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Second Thoughts
as EllenA chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
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Daylight Robbery
as BeaNeglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea...
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Jumping for Joy
as Lady Emily CranfieldAt the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound,...
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
as Emily HaldaneAn actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly...
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Crown Court
as Elizabeth PennCrown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...
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Budgie
as Edith BroughtonBudgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was...
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Play for Today
as MotherPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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No Hiding Place
as uncreditedNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by...
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Danger Man
as Mrs. CurtisDanger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again...
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Miss Marple
as Miss MarpleMiss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English...
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Sykes
as NurseClassic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to...
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The BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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Lady Killers
as Carrie Esther RapleyCompelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
as Miss MarpleAmateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found...
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Dixon of Dock Green
as Elsie FrancisCreated by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities...
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The Gentle Touch
as uncreditedThe Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television...
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
as Mrs. ChambersWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January...
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Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
as Miss MarpleThe residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife...
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Within These Walls
as uncreditedWithin These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for...
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Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye
as Miss Jane MarpleWhen a handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman, Miss Marple seeks a...
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Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
as Miss Jane MarpleThere's a murder at the elegant hotel where Miss Marple is staying and international adventurer...
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Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
as Miss Jane MarpleAn advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of...
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Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Miss Jane MarpleWhen a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a...
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Barnaby Rudge
as uncreditedBarnaby Rudge is a British drama television series which originally aired on the BBC in thirteen...
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Mystery and Imagination
as uncreditedMystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and...
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Miss Marple: Nemesis
as Miss Jane MarpleMr. Jason Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a crime but, he does gives her any details. In fact,...
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Time for Murder
as Miss WainwrightWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
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Great Expectations
as Miss HavishamViolence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest...
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From a Bird's Eye View
as Hilda TuttleFrom a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United...
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Our Man At St Mark's
as uncreditedTrials and tribulations of the priest of Felgate village.
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