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#1Out of This World

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • as Police Sergeant

5.8 / 10
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.

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#2Steptoe and Son

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes • as Rag 'n' Bone Man (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

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#3Blow-Up

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Homeless Man (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
DramaMysteryThriller

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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#4The Wrong Box

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Bonn's Vanmen

6.4 / 10
Comedy

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

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#5The Alphabet Murders

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Taxi Driver (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

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#6The Whisperers

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Man in N.A.B Office

6.5 / 10
DramaThriller

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.

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#7Trouble in Store

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Doorman (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyFamily

Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

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#8Burnt Evidence

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Police Sergeant (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
CrimeMysteryDrama

Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.

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