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David Spenser

David Spenser

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1934-03-12

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#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#3Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Thonmi

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#4The Saint

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • as Atar

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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#5BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Seyton

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#6BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Soldier

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#7BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Duke of Morocco

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#8No Hiding Place

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

4.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

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#9Z-Cars

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Drama

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

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#10Dixon of Dock Green

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Chatterjee

6.0 / 10
Drama

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.

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#11Softly, Softly

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaCrime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

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#12Espionage

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Pablo

10.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

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#13Sergeant Cork

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes • as Kulil

7.2 / 10
Drama

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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#14In Search of the Castaways

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as South American Guide

6.5 / 10
AdventureFamily

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

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#15Carry On Up the Khyber

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Bungdit Din's Servant

6.5 / 10
AdventureComedy

Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.

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#16The Stranglers of Bombay

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
ThrillerCrimeHorror

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.

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#17The Earth Dies Screaming

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Mel

6.3 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.

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#18The Cherry Orchard

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Soldier

7.0 / 10

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

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#19Battle Beneath the Earth

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Maj. Chai

4.8 / 10
Sci-FiThriller

Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.

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#20Some May Live

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Inspector Sung

4.3 / 10
Thriller

During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.

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#21Michael Regan

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Derek Patterson

8.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

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#22Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Thonmi

7.5 / 10
DramaAdventureSci-Fi

Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.

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#23Conflict of Wings

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Cpl. Flying Control

6.2 / 10
Comedy

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.

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