The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl...
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Sonya Winter
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1969
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While searching for a missing agent, Steed and Emma board a fast-moving train. Little do they know that the conductor harbors...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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A prestigious university is the site for skullduggery when a noted economist is murdered while working on a plan to eliminate...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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A series of unusual rainstorms have resulted in several deaths. Sent to investigate this phenomenon, Steed and Emma come...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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A series of elaborate practical jokes result in humilation for a number of top British and Iron Curtain officials. When one...
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Emma Peel
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1966
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Steed and Emma are put on the case when the body of an agent -- four inches taller than he was in life -- is discovered....
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1965
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Steed and Emma attend an auto rally where they participate in a car treasure hunt. But it isn't all fun and games: our hero...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Emma goes undercover as a department store clerk when a sales receipt is found on the body of a murdered agent. She is backed...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Discovered lying on the side of a road, an auto crash victim turns out to have a fortune in diamonds hidden in his stomach....
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1962
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During an important conference, a key delegate suddenly runs out of the building and into the street, where he is promptly...
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1967
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Another classic "Emma Peel" installment, this episode was first telecast in England on December 4, 1965. A series of...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Despite the silliness of its premise, this Avengers episode is a winner all the way, thanks in no small part to its...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Several notorious criminals have disappeared without a trace. Assigned to get to the bottom of this mystery, Steed and Emma...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Accused of treason, an agent cannot rely upon the sole witness to his innocence, who insists upon contradicting every one of...
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1969
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Steed and Emma are called on the scene when several members of the British Venusian Society, an astronomical organization,...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Several seemingly unrelated ex-military men are murdered, each while assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Steed and Tara soon discover...
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1969
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Several enemy agents escape from a top-security prison, determined to wreak vengeance against the persons responsible for...
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1969
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Much of this Avengers episode was comprised of footage from the never-seen installment "Invitation to a Killing," which was...
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1969
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The attempted assassination of a Middle Eastern potentate is tied in with a company specializing in making fantasies come...
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1966
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Steed and Emma investigate when several top executives are murdered, and their secretaries are given major promotions. The...
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1966
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No sooner has Steed inherited an ornate dagger from an unknown benefactor than he is besieged by mysterious characters who...
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1965
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Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically...
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1965
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Steed and Emma investigate when several top British horticulturists suddenly vanish. It's all part of a master scheme to take...
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1965
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The title sets the tone for what may well be the most incredible episode in the history of The Avengers. Steed and Emma are...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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A motor excursion with a childhood friend turns deadly for Emma when she arrives at the remote community of Little Storping...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Several board members of the Acme Precision Corporation are murdered, and Steed is on hand to witness each killing. The...
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1969
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1967
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Recovering from a broken leg at a private convalescent home, Steed soon learns that he is being stalked by a mysterious...
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1965
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The Avengers' sixth season opened with an exciting harkback to the classic third-season episode "The Cybernauts." The plot is...
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1967
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Missing for two years, a scientist suddenly returns to his home, only to immediate vanish again. Aware that the poor man had...
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1966
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1965
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The fourth season of The Avengers was the first season to be telecast in the United States, the first to be filmed rather...
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Emma Peel
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Emma Peel
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The Avengers' sixth season marks the first anniversary of the series' switchover from black-and-white to color -- and alas,...
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Emma Peel
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For reasons unknown, a certain species of birds -- the martlets -- is disappearing from the face of the earth. Investigating...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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When a British farmer lapses into a coma, it appears to be the byproduct of a voodoo curse. Sent to the jungles of Kalaya to...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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An apparent security leak takes on bizarre dimensions when the suspected traitors begin behaving like little children. It...
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1967
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Greeting Steed after his three-week vacation, Tara asks him if he enjoyed himself. Unfortunately, he can't say, because he...
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1969
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Steed pays a visit to some friends at their country estate, only to discover that the house has been taken over by enemy...
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1969
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X-rays of a car crash victim reveal that the man had a stomach full of valuable diamonds. Naturally, Steed and Emma are...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Future Oliver! costar Ron Moody adds most of the spice to this above-average fifth-season Avengers episode. Moody plays...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Steed is accused of masterminding the murders of several enemy agents. Calling a truce with the "other side," Steed tries to...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Steed is the latest in a long line of aristocrats who have been accused of crimes thanks to carefully planted evidence. He...
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1969
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A classic Avengers entry, this episode originally aired in England on October 16, 1965. Several industrialists are murdered...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Why are a group of otherwise reserved middle-aged military officers suddenly behaving like teenaged delinquents and...
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Emma Peel
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1966
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The gap between the British and American telecast of the individual Avengers episodes narrowed considerably during the...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Filmed during the production break between the sixth and seventh season of The Avengers, this episode served as the swan song...
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1968
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Though its title suggests a spoof of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., this Avengers episode actually concerns a young woman named...
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Emma Peel
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1966
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One of the most famous of all Avengers episodes, this is a loopy send-up of vintage movie serials. It all begins with the...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Steed and Emma are summoned to investigate when several businessmen and a few prize bulls are found mauled to death. The...
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Emma Peel
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1967
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Invited to attend a party at an air base, Steed and Emma arrive to find the place deserted. Suddenly, Steed is knocked...
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1965
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Originally telecast in England on March 5, 1966, this was one of the first Avengers episodes to show up on home video (albeit...
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Emma Peel
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1966
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Having written a book on bridge, Emma is invited to the country home of a fellow bridge enthusiast. It soons becomes...
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1967
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The plot of this episode is set in motion by the intense rivalry between FOG ("Friends of Ghosts") and SMOG ("Scientific...
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1967
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A highly respected government minister is caught trying to steal top-secret documents. Figuring that there's more to the...
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1965
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This time the villain is a treacherous double agent named Merlin (Peter Barkworth), who uses sleeping gas to elude his...
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1969
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Steed and Emma investigate when several clients of a marriage bureau are suddenly and inexplcably murdered. It turns out that...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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A top-secret government project to broadcast electricity on radio waves is suddenly cancelled. Even so, several people are...
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1967
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A runaway baby carriage rolls to a halt, revealing that it carries a dead body. Following the trail of clues, Steed and Emma...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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This time around, Steed and Peel come up against an "invisible man." Actually, he only feigns invisibility, but his deception...
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1967
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Invited to an airborne costume party, Steed and six other guests find themselves stranded on a desert island. The castaways...
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1967
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Steed and Tara investigate the murder of an agent from Cypher HQ. Their progress is stunted by the other Cypher personnel,...
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1969
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A golf course turns into a killing ground for an unfortunate British agent. Investigating, Steed and Emma discover that the...
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1966
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Diana Rigg made her first Avengers appearance as lissome "amateur agent" Emma Peel in this episode, which was originally...
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1965
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A spoof of the superhero craze of the late 1960s, this episode gets under way when several businessmen are found clawed to...
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1967
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Originally (and appropriately) telecast in England on December 25, 1965, this episode was written by Tony Williamson. Plagued...
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1965
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Regular viewers were in for a jolt when, early in the proceedings of the December 18, 1965, episode "Two's a Crowd," hero...
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Emma Peel
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1965
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Steed infiltrates a school for butlers in order to unmask a traitor. While he is being drilled in the finer points of silent...
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1966
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The Avengers' fifth season came to a rousing finale with this episode. Steed and Emma are impersonated by a pair of enemy...
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1967
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An organization specializing in extortion manages to extract money from nervous millionaires by demonstrating how easy it...
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1967
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This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt...
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1985
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(Women Beware Women episode)
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1965
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Melissa Gilbert stars in the title role of this made-for-television adaption of the novel by Danielle Steel. Gilbert stars...
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1995
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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1981
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Many years before, police commissioner Otto Schatz (Robert Lindsay) was an ardent participant in the Nazi experience, and he...
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Frieda von Stangel
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1993
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Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political,...
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1994
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The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie,...
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Lady Holiday
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1981
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Previously and brilliantly filmed by director Jack Clayton as The Innocents in 1961, Henry James' classic...
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1995
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Hazard of Hearts was adapted for television from a 1948 bodice-ripper by Barbara Cartland. Set (where else?) in 1810 England,...
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Lady Harriet Vulcan
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1987
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Hedda Gabler
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1981
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2005
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Barbara Drummond
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1971
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A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part...
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2000
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1975
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Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells...
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1970
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Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in...
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Regan
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1984
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When the forces of the English Revolution unseated -- and beheaded -- his father, Charles II fled to the Netherlands, only to...
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Queen Henrietta Maria
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2004
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Rita Allmers
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1982
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Charlotte
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1977
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Based on a Noel Coward comedy, this is a story set in 1735 at a chateau outside of Paris. The Compte de Vriac is celebrating...
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1980
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British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the...
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1968
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Written in 1712, Daniel Defoe's bawdy novel Moll Flanders was given a slick movie treatment with Kim Novak in the lead in...
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Mrs. Golightly
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1996
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Diana Rigg won the BAFTA Best Actress award for her bravura performance in the British miniseries Mother Love. Light-years...
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Helena Vesey
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1989
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1992
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Diana Rigg stars as the indefatigable female sleuth Mrs. Bradley in this mystery produced for British television. Mrs....
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1998
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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her...
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Tracy Di Vicenzo
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1969
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1962
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A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based...
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Mother Superior
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2006
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Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale...
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1998
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Based on Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel, this romantic made-for-television drama centers on the beautiful young bride of...
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1997
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A recently deceased lady spy is outfitted with robotic body parts and is revived to become a super secret agent in this...
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Judith
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1992
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1996
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The highlights of this classic children's story are the performances of Diana Rigg as the Mean Queen and Billy Barty as Biddy...
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Evil Queen
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1987
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly...
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Edwina Lionheart
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1973
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Diana Rigg was virtually the whole show on this flexible British anthology series. In each of the six half-hour episodes of...
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1977
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In this British made-for-TV movie, a reporter stumbles across an intriguing mystery while visiting in Wales with a friend. ~...
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1989
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While 18-year-old Victoria (Victoria Hamilton) struggles to escape the rule of her domineering mother (Penelope Wilton), King...
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2001
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From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a...
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Christine Vole
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1982
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Jill Murphy's children's story The Worst Witch is given satisfactory treatment in this amiable film fantasy. The scene is a...
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Miss Hardbroom
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1986
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