Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020) was an English actress. She played Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965-1968) and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-2017). She has also had a career in theatre, including playing the title role in Medea, both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama. Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of Abelard & Heloise. Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlena Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989), and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in an adaptation of Rebecca (1997). Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), and the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) with her daughter, Rachael Stirling. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Diana Rigg
  • Popularity: 10.748
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1938-07-20
  • Place of Birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
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Diana Rigg Movies

  • 1969
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    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    6.6 1969 HD

    James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women....

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  • 1989
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    Unexplained Laughter

    Unexplained Laughter

    1 1989 HD

    Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.

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  • 1982
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    Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun

    6.9 1982 HD

    An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the...

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  • 1982
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    Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

    6 1982 HD

    Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the...

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  • 1969
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    Shot On Ice

    Shot On Ice

    4 1969 HD

    A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

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  • 1982
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    The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

    The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

    8.5 1982 HD

    Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.

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  • 1986
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    The Worst Witch

    The Worst Witch

    6 1986 HD

    Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers....

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  • 1971
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    The Hospital

    The Hospital

    6.6 1971 HD

    Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a...

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  • 2002
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    Bond Girls Are Forever

    Bond Girls Are Forever

    5.8 2002 HD

    Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's...

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  • 1994
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    A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

    5.2 1994 HD

    Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish...

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  • 1973
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    Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

    6.737 1973 HD

    A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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  • 2006
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    The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

    7.245 2006 HD

    A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an...

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  • 1981
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    The Great Muppet Caper

    The Great Muppet Caper

    6.814 1981 HD

    Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is...

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  • 1987
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    A Hazard of Hearts

    A Hazard of Hearts

    8.1 1987 HD

    When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value:...

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  • 1969
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    The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

    6.4 1969 HD

    In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are...

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  • 1977
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    A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music

    6.3 1977 HD

    A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the...

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  • 1975
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    In This House of Brede

    In This House of Brede

    6 1975 HD

    Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in...

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  • 1987
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    Snow White

    Snow White

    6.6 1987 HD

    A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautiful...

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  • 2003
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    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

    7 2003 HD

    Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

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  • 1968
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    5.5 1968 HD

    Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare...

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  • 2001
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    Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

    7.7 2001 HD

    The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and...

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  • 1969
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    Minikillers

    Minikillers

    1 1969 HD

    W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Avengers comes into contact with deadly toy dolls

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  • 1994
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    Running Delilah

    Running Delilah

    6.3 1994 HD

    Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapon dealer Kercharian. But she's revived with high-tech medicine and artificial body parts. As...

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  • 1977
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    Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

    1 1977 HD

    Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.

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  • 1994
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    Genghis Cohn

    Genghis Cohn

    4.5 1994 HD

    In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is...

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  • 1982
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    Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

    6 1982 HD

    Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and...

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  • 1981
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    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

    7 1981 HD

    Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former...

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  • 1992
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    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    8 1992 HD

    Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but...

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  • 2002
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    Best Ever Bond

    Best Ever Bond

    5 2002 HD

    Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

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  • 1989
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    Black Leather Jacket

    Black Leather Jacket

    1 1989 HD

    Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings...

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  • 1964
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    The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

    1 1964 HD

    Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - is now over forty and...

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  • 1980
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    The Marquise

    The Marquise

    1 1980 HD

    The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young...

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  • 1983
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6.5 1983 HD

    An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

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  • 2015
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    Professor Branestawm Returns

    Professor Branestawm Returns

    7 2015 HD

    When Lady Pagwell dies, leaving a legacy to fund local inventing, Professor Branestawm thinks his money troubles are over. But scheming councillor...

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  • 1996
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    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    6.3 1996 HD

    After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male...

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  • 2015
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    Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

    Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

    1 2015 HD

    From the BBC archives, before their talents were recognised by royal decree, the early work and career defining moments of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith,...

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  • 2015
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    The Honourable Rebel

    The Honourable Rebel

    1 2015 HD

    A docu-drama about the life of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, a spy, screenwriter and worker in British cinema for Alexander Korda.

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  • 1996
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    Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

    6.5 1996 HD

    Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.

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  • 1999
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    Parting Shots

    Parting Shots

    6.1 1999 HD

    Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he...

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  • 2017
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    Breathe

    Breathe

    7.453 2017 HD

    Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

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  • 1997
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    Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Danielle Steel's Zoya

    5.1 1997 HD

    A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

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  • 2017
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    A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

    A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

    7.9 2017 HD

    The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a...

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  • 1970
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    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    5.7 1970 HD

    All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the...

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  • 1998
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    The American

    The American

    5.8 1998 HD

    After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get...

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  • 1995
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    The Haunting of Helen Walker

    The Haunting of Helen Walker

    4.333 1995 HD

    TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children...

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  • 2021
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    Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

    7.3 2021 HD

    A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But...

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  • 2020
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    The Snail and the Whale

    The Snail and the Whale

    6.3 2020 HD

    A half hour animated film for all the family based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The Snail...

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  • 1994
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    The World of Jim Henson

    The World of Jim Henson

    7.3 1994 HD

    In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to...

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  • 1969
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    Swiss Movement

    Swiss Movement

    6 1969 HD

    Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a particular focus on the principal actors and the...

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  • 2005
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    Heidi

    Heidi

    7.5 2005 HD

    Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder...

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  • 1969
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    The Diadem

    The Diadem

    1 1969 HD

    Secret agent Emma has to carry out a special assignment in Germany. Her job is to protect a mysterious box, the key to which she wears as a chain...

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  • 1983
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    Affairs of the Heart

    Affairs of the Heart

    6 1983 HD

    Affairs of the Heart is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1983 to 1985. Starring Derek Fowlds, it was written by Paul Daneman. It was made for...

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  • 2005
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    Extras

    Extras

    7.764 2005 HD

    Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter...

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  • 1985
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    Bleak House

    Bleak House

    6 1985 HD

    Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1963
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    The Sentimental Agent

    The Sentimental Agent

    5.5 1963 HD

    The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated...

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  • 2003
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    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    6.4 2003 HD

    Charles II: The Power and the Passion is an award-winning British television mini-series, broadcast on BBC One in 2003, and produced by the BBC in...

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  • 1977
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    Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1998
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    The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

    The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

    6.9 1998 HD

    Sophisticated woman-of-the world Adela Bradley and her chauffeur George Moody are an unlikely pair of investigators back in the England of the 1920s....

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  • 1997
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    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    5.9 1997 HD

    Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only...

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  • 1982
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    Wogan

    Wogan

    4.5 1982 HD

    Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

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  • 1989
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    Mother Love

    Mother Love

    6.3 1989 HD

    Christopher "Kit" Vesey and Angela Vesey, a British yuppie couple, enjoy a seemingly idyllic life. Yet there is one troubling factor in their lives -...

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  • 1973
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    Diana

    Diana

    5 1973 HD

    Diana is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1973-1974 television season that was created by Leonard Stern, which ran from September 10,...

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  • 1996
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    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    9 1996 HD

    Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

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  • 2014
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    The Kumars

    The Kumars

    5 2014 HD

    Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop that Ashwin now runs. Sanjeev is...

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  • 2005
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.5 2005 HD

    The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 2011
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    Game of Thrones

    Game of Thrones

    8.5 2011 HD

    Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very...

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  • 2014
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    Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

    Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

    7.1 2014 HD

    Penn Zero is not your average kid - every day he's zapped into another dimension with his friends to save the world.

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 2016
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    Victoria

    Victoria

    7.3 2016 HD

    The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years...

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  • 2001
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    Murder in Mind

    Murder in Mind

    8.444 2001 HD

    Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of...

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  • 1982
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    Wogan

    Wogan

    4.5 1982 HD

    Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

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  • 2015
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    You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

    6.948 2015 HD

    When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events...

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  • 2015
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    You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

    6.948 2015 HD

    When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events...

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  • 2014
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    Detectorists

    Detectorists

    8.2 2014 HD

    The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by...

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  • 2000
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    In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

    6 2000 HD

    In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered...

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  • 1956
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    Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

    5.8 1956 HD

    Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...

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  • 1971
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    V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

    6 1971 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Serpent Son

    The Serpent Son

    9 1979 HD

    Adaptation of the Aeschylus trilogy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish.

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  • 2011
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    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

    5 2011 HD

    Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1988
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    The Play on One

    The Play on One

    5.5 1988 HD

    A series of plays specially written for television.

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  • 1996
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    Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

    1 1996 HD

    Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One day, a mysterious stranger...

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  • 1980
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    Masterpiece Mystery

    Masterpiece Mystery

    8 1980 HD

    Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large...

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  • 2020
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    Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

    6.7 2020 HD

    Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.8 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 2020
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    All Creatures Great & Small

    All Creatures Great & Small

    8.2 2020 HD

    The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 2001
    imgS1 E2

    Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

    6 2001 HD

    Lavish two-part dramatisation of the passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's marriage. Two-part drama chronicling the...

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  • 1998
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    Parkinson

    Parkinson

    1 1998 HD

    Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

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