Joanna LumleyFilmography

Clatterford [TV Series]

Synopsis: This quirky British sitcom follows the lives of the local Women's Guild in picturesque Clatterford, a cozy village in the English countryside where opinions are strong, and nobody's afraid to share them. The series stars Maggie Steed, as the head of the guild, and Dawn French as a peculiar worker Read More

Clatterford: Season 01

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: Tim Burton returns to the dark but fanciful animated style of The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stop-motion black comedy. Victor (voice of Johnny Depp) lives in a small European village in the 19th century, where he is pledged to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), a partnership Read More

Doogal

Actors: Tom Baker, Jon Stewart, Robbie Williams, Daniel Tay, Jimmy Fallon, Bill Nighy, William H. Macy, Jim Broadbent, Whoopi Goldberg, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: A plucky little girl and her dog join their magical pals to save the world in the computer-animated comedy-adventure for the whole family. The Enchanted Village is a happy place ruled by the good-natured wizard Zebedee where young Florence and her dog, Doogal, come to play with their friends Read More

Ella Enchanted

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Vivica A. Fox, Patrick Bergin, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Higham, Eric Idle

Synopsis: Adapted from author Gail Carson Levine's award-winning children's book of the same name, the Miramax-financed modern fantasy Ella Enchanted is directed by Tommy O'Haver and stars The Princess Diaries alumna Anne Hathaway. Ella (Hathaway) lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment Read More

Eurotrip

Actors: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester

Synopsis: Written and directed by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, Eurotrip is a teen comedy from the Montecito Picture Company (makers of similar movies Old School and Road Trip). Mainstream teenager Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) forms an online friendship with German student Mieke in order to get a Read More

The Cat's Meow

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich turns his sights on the 1920s for a fictitious look at the possible reasons for the death of silent movie producer Thomas Ince (played here by Cary Elwes) after spending a holiday with media tycoon William Randolph Hearst (played by Edward Herrmann). The film begins and ends on Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This two-hour spin-off of the raunchy British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous was originally telecast in the U.K. under the title Absolutely Fabulous: Gay. Now a buyer for Jeremy's, a trendy clothing store, hard-living and hard-drinking Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) comes to New York during Fashion Week Read More

Maybe Baby

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Dawn French, Tom Hollander, Hugh Laurie, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: In this light comedy directed by British writer-comedian Ben Elton, Sam and Lucy Bell (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) are an upwardly mobile London couple who are trying desperately to conceive a baby. Along for the ride, which is laden with sperm-count and hormone-injection jokes, is a cast Read More

The Cazalets

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hugh Bonneville, Stephen Dillane, Paul Rhys, Emma Griffiths-Malin, Catherine Russell, Frederick Treves, Ursula Howells

Synopsis: In the summer of 1937, wealthy timber importer William Cazalet (Frederick Treves) and his wife, Kitty (Ursula Howells), host their children -- Hugh, Edward, Rupert, and Rachel -- and grandchildren for an extended holiday at William's idyllic Sussex estate. At dinner, William invites Rupert (Paul Rhys Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Parralox

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Five years after the events of Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) has remodeled both her kitchen and her office, the former into a sleek modern room with a convenience-store freezer full of champagne, the latter into a paperless virtual meeting space. Partnering with Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Small Opening

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: During a drug binge, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) commiserates with Patsy (Joanna Lumley) about her lack of fame. Soon, though, notoriety comes knocking in the form of Saffy's debut as a playwright: "Self-Raising Flower," an autobiographical drama about the girl's troubled relationship with her Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Donkey

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) launches an all-out offensive on her body fat by prying the champagne glass out of her hand, adopting a boot-camp fitness program, and engaging in an intensive detoxification program -- all because of the shrewish comments of girlfriends Patsy (Joanna Lumley), Katy Grin Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Paris

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) is set to appear in a mother/daughter fashion spread to be shot in France for a glam magazine; after she fails to secure Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsdale, or Liv Tyler to play her daughter, she faces the realization that real-life daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha) will have Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Menopause

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) suffers a professional crisis while Patsy (Joanna Lumley) begins menopause in the final episode of Absolutely Fabulous series four. After Bubble (Jane Horrocks) accidentally emails Eddy's address book to rival PR impresario Claudia Bing (Celia Imrie), Eddy's client roster Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fish Farm

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Crispin Bonham Carter

Synopsis: After attending a Marilyn Manson concert, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) terrorize Saffy (Julia Sawalha) with their drugged-up behavior. Gran (June Whitfield) is also on hand to add to the chaos, along with fellow septuagenarians Dolly (Dora Bryan) and Brice (Tim Wylton). When Read More

Whispers: An Elephant's Tale

Actors: Angela Bassett, Joanna Lumley, Anne Archer, Debi Derryberry

Synopsis: Beverly Joubert and Derek Joubert, a husband-and-wife team who've won widespread acclaim (and a certain amount of controversy) for their beautiful but unflinchingly realistic wildlife documentaries (including Eternal Enemies and Wildlife Warriors), wrote and directed this feature-length drama that Read More

Nancherrow

Synopsis: This sequel to the 1998 British miniseries Coming Home was set in Nancherrow, the decaying family estate of the Carey-Lewis clan. Slapped with inheritance taxes, an ever-changing government, and an assortment of personal tragedies (including a bout with polio), heroine Diana Carey-Lewis (Joanna Lumley Read More

Foxbusters (Animated Series)

Synopsis: From the same folks who brought you such cartoon delights as Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, the animated British series Foxbusters was a spoof of the "maverick freedom fighter" genre. The title characters were three hens -- Ransome, Jeffries, and Sims -- who devoted their lives to protecting Read More

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Actors: Rowan Atkinson

Parting Shots

Actors: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Michael Winner directed this British comedy-thriller about the disappointing life of wedding photographer Harry Sterndale (singer-actor Chris Rea). Betrayed by his wife, Harry had his ideas stolen by his best friend Maurice Walpole (John Cleese), was fleeced by shady businessman Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins Read More

Absolutely Fabulous Moments

Synopsis: Jennifer Saunders wrote, directed, and compiled this collection of hilarious moments from the television series Absolutely Fabulous, in which Saunders (as Edina) and Joanna Lumley (as Patsy) play a pair of glamour-obsessed refugees from the late '60s and early '70s trying to stagger through the Read More

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Campbell Scott, Selina Boyack, John Kavanagh

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this razor-sharp retelling of the familiar Demon Barber legend, previously a Victorian penny-dreadful by Christopher Bond (The Story of Pearls), a stage play by George Dibdin-Pitt, a Tod Slaughter film (the 1936 Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street), and the Read More

Coming Home

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and 1941 as experienced by a brace of young and impressionable girls. Meeting in a boarding school, Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis became close friends, though they were Read More

A Rather English Marriage

Actors: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Joanna Lumley, John Light, Katie Carr

Synopsis: A sort of mannered, British version of The Odd Couple (1970), this drama won four of the seven major BAFTA Awards for which it was nominated. Albert Finney stars as Reggie Cunningham-Jarvis, a former Royal Air Force squadron leader who is utterly debilitated by the death of his wife, allowing his Read More

Mad Cows

Actors: Anna Friel, Joanna Lumley, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise

Synopsis: Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day that she goes out with her baby, she gets arrested at Harrods for shoplifting. While in detention at the Holloway Prison's Mother and Baby Unit, she smuggles Jack out in her Read More

James and the Giant Peach

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and surprisingly twisted animated adventure. A live-action framing device establishes the dark yet fanciful mood one might expect from an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, as young Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 1

Synopsis: Life continues apace for Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Patsy (Joanna Lumley), and Saffron (Julia Sawalha). Eddy has adopted a dolphin as both house pet and PR client; Pats has moved out of Odd Bins to make room for a new liquor aisle; and Saffy has finally found a boyfriend -- the wealthy Read More

Roseanne: Satan, Darling

Actors: Roseanne

Synopsis: In this Halloween episode, Roseanne and Jackie go to a fancy Upper West Side party with Patsy (Joanna Lumley) and Edina (Jennifer Saunders, who co-wrote the episode with Roseanne) from Absolutely Fabulous. Strange things start to happen to the pregnant Darlene in a take on Rosemary's Baby. This Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout, Part 2

Absolutely Fabulous: The End

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) moves into a commune but chafes at the paternalistic attitudes of the charlatans who run it; she spends her time impatiently waiting for her turn with "the talking stick," dejected over her separation from best friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Pats, meanwhile, finds that her Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Happy New Year

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Patsy (Joanna Lumley), Bubble (Jane Horrocks), Saffron (Julia Sawalha), and Mother (June Whitfield) prepare for their respective New Year's festivities; Eddy and Pats plan to hit a Frankie Knuckles party while the others settle in for a night in front of the telly. Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fear

Synopsis: Our heroines find themselves at a mutual crossroads as Saffy (Julia Sawalha) heads off to college, leaving Edina (Jennifer Saunders) alone, and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) loses her job when her magazine folds. Pats soon moves in with Eddy, but their lack of domestic common sense spoils their otherwise Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Sex

Synopsis: Distraught over the size of her actually quite spacious wardrobe, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) attempts to annex Saffy's bedroom. Saffy (Julia Sawalha) refuses, suggesting that her mother take over long-lost son Serge's room instead. Saf, Eddy, and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) break into the room, which is Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Door Handle

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) becomes an over-scheduled mess when a computer organizer seizes control of her life. Obsessed with checking things off her list, she is unable to accomplish anything -- not even the refurbishment of her kitchen, which was burned down by friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley) in the Read More

Innocent Lies

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Gabrielle Anwar, Adrian Dunbar, Sophie Aubry, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Murder and double-dealing among the idle rich sets the stage for this drama. Alan Cross (Adrian Dunbar) is a British detective who travels to a wealthy community along the coast of France in 1938; he's there to attend the funeral of a friend and wants to find out more about the mysterious Read More

Cold Comfort Farm

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Ivan Kaye

Synopsis: Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a miniseries in 1971, then by director John Schlesinger in 1995. That version proved so popular that it was released to theaters in the U.S. The heroine of Gibbons' story, Flora Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Jealous

Synopsis: At a posh public-relations awards show, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) guzzles champagne with Patsy (Joanna Lumley), bosses Bubble (Jane Horrocks) around, chats up supermodel Naomi Campbell, and prepares to take home a prize. She's beaten to the punch, however, by Claudia (Celia Imrie), her Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Hospital

Synopsis: After a dalliance with a government official, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) becomes embroiled in a tabloid sex scandal and is irate to see her true age reported nationally. "Borrowing" the Monsoon house for an interview with Hello magazine, she is disappointed to learn that photos for the spread won't be Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Morocco

Synopsis: Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) head to Marrakesh to team up for a photo shoot. It seems Patsy's magazine is going to run a spread featuring Pop-Specs, a trashy little product represented by Eddy's PR firm. When Saffy (Julia Sawalha) tags along, she quickly learns her mum has Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Poor

Synopsis: Saffron (Julia Sawalha) cautions her mother to economize in gentle preparation for the revelation by Edina's accountant that she's been cut off by both of her ex-husbands; as revealed in series one's Absolutely Fabulous: Birthday, Edina's been double-dipping, and Justin and Marshall aren't having Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Birth

Synopsis: After Patsy (Joanna Lumley) manages to incinerate the Monsoons' kitchen, she and Edina (Jennifer Saunders) take to hanging out in the living room. The only problem is that Saffy (Julia Sawalha) has a rare, though clandestine, date planned for that very room. As Eddy and her monstrous friend Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Death

Synopsis: While Saffy Monsoon (Julia Sawalha) mourns the death of her grandfather, her mother, Edina (Jennifer Saunders), is too busy mourning the failure of her latest weight-loss program: a bizarre scheme in which she is slathered in mud and then mummified for several hours. Gran (June Whitfield) handles Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fashion

Synopsis: In the inaugural episode of popular Brit-com Absolutely Fabulous, a drinking binge and a fashion event provide the framework in which to introduce several of the show's primary characters: slothful forty-ish PR exec Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders); her caustic, no-nonsense daughter, Saffron Read More

Absolutely Fabulous [TV Series]

Actors: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha

Synopsis: In this satirical British sitcom, which became a cult hit on American cable, a grotesquely self-centered fashion victim chain-smokes, swills champagne, abuses drugs, munches caviar, terrorizes her daughter, and tries in vain to mingle with the beautiful people -- all in the company of her sleek Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Iso Tank

Synopsis: Saffron (Julia Sawalha) meets at home with her fellow students to plan a school report while her mother, Edina (Jennifer Saunders), floats upstairs in the new aquatic isolation tank she's ordered from Los Angeles. This being Edina, of course, she doesn't brave the iso tank alone; best pal Patsy Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: France

Synopsis: Although she's trying to launch a new interior decorating venture, Eddy (Jennifer Saunders) decides to take a vacation in the French countryside with Patsy (Joanna Lumley). The pair become lost in Provence, then must suffer through their holiday in a second-class cottage, bored out of their minds. Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Fat

Synopsis: After struggling unsuccessfully to fit into a variety of unflattering outfits, Edina (Jennifer Saunders) tries to cook up yet another quick weight-loss plan, much to the annoyance of Saffy (Julia Sawalha), who points out that her mother eats, drinks, and smokes incessantly and takes no exercise Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Birthday

Synopsis: On the morning of her 40th birthday, a sullen Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) resists daughter Saffron's every attempt to cheer her up. Lashing out monstrously at Saffy (Julia Sawalha), Eddy is disappointed to learn that instead of a star-studded surprise party, the girl has planned a quiet Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: New Best Friend

Synopsis: Edina (Jennifer Saunders) gets in an uproar over the impending visit of Max (Patrick Barlow) and Bettina (Miranda Richardson), a pair of impossibly hip old friends. Terrified that her cluttered house won't be up to snuff with these chic minimalists, she chucks things -- and people -- right and Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Magazine

Synopsis: When Edina (Jennifer Saunders) takes up with her first boyfriend in ages, Patsy (Joanna Lumley) finds her role in her best friend's life suddenly reduced even though she's recently moved into the Monsoon household. Even worse, she actually has to show up at work for once -- to attend a meeting Read More

A Perfect Hero

Actors: Nigel Havers, James Fox, Fiona Gillies, Amanda Elwes, Bernard Hepton

Synopsis: A Perfect Hero, Christopher Matthews' novel about a grotesquely disfigured war hero, was transformed into a six-part British TV drama in 1991. Nigel Havers starred as Hugh Flemming, a Cambridge-educated bomber pilot who was shot down in flames during the 1940 Battle of Britain. The rest of the Read More

A Ghost in Monte Carlo

Actors: Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: A Ghost in Monte Carlo is based on one of the millions of romance novels penned by Barbara Cartland. True to the Cartland canon, the story is set long ago (1875) and far away (The Riviera). Sarah Miles is top-billed as a pompadoured former madam, while Oliver Reed dispenses tons of Armor Star as a Read More

Shirley Valentine

Actors: Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her work in the Chicago production). In the film version of Shirley Valentine, Pauline Collins Read More

That Was Tory

Synopsis: In this drama, a yuppie couple experiences renewed marital turmoil when the marriage of two close friends breaks up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Glory Boys

Synopsis: Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli scientist was targeted for assassination by two different terrorist organizations: one Irish, one Arab. After working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired Read More

Mistral's Daughter

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Stacy Keach, Timothy Dalton, Lee Remick

Synopsis: A French model (Stefanie Powers) poses for an artist (Stacy Keach), and they begin an affair. It doesn't last, however, and the model moves on to a married man (Timothy Dalton), while the artist has an affair with his benefactor (Lee Remick). This TV miniseries is based on a novel by Judith Read More

The Weather in the Streets

Actors: Michael York, Lisa Eichhorn, Joanna Lumley, Rosalind Ayres, Faith Brook

Synopsis: Clichéd, slow-paced, and with a well-worn storyline, this melodrama revolves around the sad tale of Olivia (Lisa Eichhorn), a woman who falls in love with Rollo (Michael York), a married man, and then suffers torment when she becomes pregnant and realizes she has no choice but to abort the baby. Read More

Curse of the Pink Panther

Actors: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine

Synopsis: Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the inept Inspector Clousseau and the fabulous stolen Pink Panther diamond at the same time. In Curse, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is a New York retread of the bumbling Inspector Read More

The Trail of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Two years after the death of Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards tried to exhume his corpse in this pastiche of clips and out-takes from the old Pink Panther films. The plot concerns the legendary "Pink Panther" diamond which is once more stolen. Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is again enlisted to Read More

Sapphire and Steel [TV Series]

Actors: David McCallum, Joanna Lumley

The New Avengers: The Lion and the Unicorn

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jean Claudio, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Unicorn (Jean Claudio), a top enemy agent, is accidentally killed by his own comrades during a shootout. To fool the Other Side, the New Avengers arrange an elaborate hoax to make it appear as though Unicorn is still alive. Unfortunately, the villains have captured a foreign Prince in hopes of Read More

The New Avengers: Obsession

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Martin Shaw, Mark Kingston

Synopsis: Larry Doomer (Martin Shaw), ex-fiancee of New Avenger Purdey (Joanna Lumley), is determined to get even for the death of his father. To this end, Doomer has targetted an Arab diplomat for assassination. Unfortunately, Doomer's misguided missile will not only wipe out the diplomat, but all of the Read More

The New Avengers: Trap

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Terry Wood, Ferdy Mayne

Synopsis: Teaming up with CIA agent Marty Brine (Stuart Damon), the New Avengers foil a huge drug deal engineered by Mandarin crime boss Soo Choy (Terry Wood). In retaliation, Soo Choy lures Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) into his lair, then hunts them down like Read More

The New Avengers: Dead Men are Dangerous

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Clive Revill, Richard Murdoch

Synopsis: Season two of The New Avengers begins with another revenge-motivated episode. Ten years ago, John Steed (Patrick MacNee) was forced to shoot down his old friend and fellow agent Mark (Clive Revill), who had defected to the East. Since that time, Mark has been slowly dying from his wound, as the Read More

The New Avengers: Angels of Death

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Fifty secret agents and civil servants, all apparently healthy and robust, have died of unknown causes over a two-year period. Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Gareth Hunt) investigate the health farm where all of the victims had worked out before their untimely demises. Read More

The New Avengers: Medium Rare

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jon Fitch, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: An international swindler intends to destroy Steed (Patrick MacNee) by framing him as a turncoat and a murderer. Somehow or other, a fake spiritualist, Victoria Stanton (Sue Holderness), picks up on the villain's plans and warns Steed. It would seem that Victoria is able to anticipate the bad Read More

The New Avengers: Hostage

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, William Franklyn, Simon Oates

Synopsis: The title character in this episode is Purdey (Joanna Lumley), who has been abducted by the Other Side. In order to save Purdey's life, Steed (Patrick MacNee) must agree to hand over top-secret allied defense plans. Unaware that Purdey is in danger, Gambit (Gareth Hunt) reluctantly sets about to Read More

The New Avengers: The Gladiators

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Louis Zorich, Neil Vipond

Synopsis: In the second of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, a rogue KGB agent has trained a band of mercenary criminals to destroy a top-secret security installation, thereby hurtling the Canadian Intelligence system back to the 1950s. Worse still, the bad guys are all-powerful and virtually Read More

The New Avengers: Emily

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Les Carison, Richard Davidson

Synopsis: In the third of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) are assigned to guard an antique automobile known as Emily. It seems that the old car contains the only known fingerprints of an elusive secret agent known only as Read More

The New Avengers: Forward Base

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Jack Creley, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this fourth Canadian-filmed episode of The New Avengers, Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna Lumley) doggedly search for a missing circuit, following such clues as a drowned corpse in an evening gown. The trail leads to the bottom of Lake Ontario, where our heroes Read More

The New Avengers: K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes

Actors: Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac, Charles Millot

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story filmed in France, a Russian "K" agent, imbedded as a "sleeper", commits mass murder and then drops dead, aging rapidly as he expires. This occurs in 1965; twelve years agent, another long-imbedded "K" agent is likewise reactivated and likewise launches a Read More

The New Avengers: K is for Kill: Tiger by the Tail

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Pierre Vernier, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the two-part story, a malfunctioning Soviet satellite has reactivated Russian "K" agents throughout France and England, transforming the agents into homicidal zombies. The New Avengers think they can rest easy upon confirming that all 250 K agents are dead--until they learn Read More

The New Avengers: Complex

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: The first of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada finds our dauntless trio of dogooders in Toronto, on the trail of an elusive Russian agent known as Scapina. Getting separated from her colleagues, Purdey (Joanna Lumley) finds herself trapped in a computerized building. Even worse: The Read More

The New Avengers: Gnaws

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Julian Holloway, Peter Cellier

Synopsis: The New Avengers wrapped up its first season with an episode which writer Dennis Spooner has confessed was based on "Attack of the Alligators",an installment of the "Supermarionation" series Thunderbirds (with, it would seem, a bit of "Monty Python" thrown in). An illicitly developed growth liquid Read More

The New Avengers: Three Handed Game

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, David Wood, Stephen Grief

Synopsis: The gimmick on this episode is a mind-transfer machine which drains all conscious thoughts from people, leaving them in a vegetative state. The villain of the piece steals the machine, hoping to harvest a secret code from the minds of three captured agents, each of whom knows only a portion of the Read More

The New Avengers: Dirtier by the Dozen

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, John Castle, Shaun Curry

Synopsis: The New Avengers investigate when a high-ranking military officer (Michael Barrington) disappears. Our heroes come across a band of mercenaries led by rogue colonel "Mad Jack" Miller (John Castle), who intends to launch an invasion of the Middle East and thus trigger World War 3. Ah, but Miller Read More

The New Avengers: The Midas Touch

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, John Carson, Ed Devereaux

Synopsis: The touch of Midas (Gilles Millinaire) is hardly golden in this episode. It seems that the young called Midas is a carrier of every known disease, and can kill with the slightest contact of his fingertips ("They died of everything!" is the diagnosis whenever one of his victims is found). Enticed Read More

The New Avengers: Cat Amongst the Pigeons

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Vladek Sheybal, Matthew Long

Synopsis: Blackballed by his peers, crackpot conservationist Zacardi (Vladek Sheybal) intends to get even with his highly trained birds, which swoop down and kill on his orders. Steed (Patrick MacNee), Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) endeavor to stop Zacardi in his plan to take over the Read More

The New Avengers: The Last of the Cybernauts...??

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Robert Lang, Oscar Quitak

Synopsis: Previously seen on two episodes of the original Avengers, those malevolent metallic menaces, the Cybernauts, are at large again. This time, the man behind the Cybernaut invasion is Kane (Robert Lang), a crippled and disfigured double agent who has a score to settle with John Steed (Patrick Read More

The New Avengers: The Eagle's Nest

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cushing, Derek Farr

Synopsis: The New Avengers begins its two-season run with "old" avenger John Steed (Patrick Macnee), as fastidious and gentlemanly as ever, teamed with two new, young, and attractive partners: Purdey (Joanna Lumley), a sexy, cool-headed martial arts expert (sound familiar?), and Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), a Read More

The New Avengers: House of Cards

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Jeffrey, Frank Thornton

Synopsis: Steed (Patrick MacNee), Purdy (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) foil the latest mission of Soviet agent Perov (Peter Jeffrey). In retaliation, and in defiance of his superiors, Perov reactivates several "sleeper" agents who have been squirreled away throughout the U.K. for the past 20 Read More

The New Avengers: Faces

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, David de Keyser, Edward Petherbridge

Synopsis: Steed (Patrick MacNee) Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) go undercover in one of the seamier neighborhoods of London. The Reason? Several prominent governmnet officials, including a friend of Steed's, have turned up dead. It turns out that someone is using disguised derelicts to Read More

The New Avengers: Sleeper

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Keith Buckley, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Government scientists develop a knockout gas, designed to peacefully quell terrorist uprisings. The gas, and its antidote, inevitably fall into the Wrong Hands, those hands belonging to a gang of crooks who plan to send all of London off to slumberland so that they can embark upon a wholesale Read More

The New Avengers: The Tale of the Big Why

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Derek Waring, Jenny Runacre

Synopsis: In exchange for providing valuable information to the government, a convict is set free. But no sooner has the prisoner set foot on the "outside" than he is mowed down by enemy gunfire. The New Avengers try to find out what he was going to tell, and why he was killed--with a tattered paperback Read More

The New Avengers: Target!

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Keith Barron, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Purdey (Joanna Lumley) heads to an obstacle-laden firing range in hopes of breaking Steed's (Patrick MacNee) perfect marksmanship record. Five of Steed's previous associates have attempted the same thing at the same range, have fallen short of a perfect score by a mere fraction--and have promptly Read More

The New Avengers: To Catch a Rat

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Ian Hendry, Edward Judd

Synopsis: Ian Hendry, who as Dr. David Keel had been one of the original stars of the original Avengers, is here cast as Gunner, an amnesiac secret agent. Having been missing for seventeen years, Gunner suddenly shows up, and just as suddenly recovers his memory, providing a strange coded message. This new Read More

Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride

Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The final installment in Hammer Studios' Dracula series is also the least interesting of the lot. A fairly direct follow-up to Dracula A.D. 1972, this sequel finds the Count (Christopher Lee) developing a potent strain of bubonic plague which he and his devil-worshipping disciples plan to release Read More

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Actors: Katy Manning

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on a stage play, a randy politician gets in trouble for sleeping with his secretary and another woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Breaking of Bumbo

Synopsis: This film, set in London during the 1960's, chronicles the exploits of a British guardsman who gets involved with anti-war demonstrators. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Devil's Widow

Actors: Peter Hinwood, Oliver Norman

Synopsis: In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers who surround her. The story is also known as The Devil's Widow and The Ballad of Tam-Lin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Games That Lovers Play

Synopsis: While the title suggests that we're in for a bawdy bodice-ripper involving two of more notorious ladies of British fiction, the softcore sex comedy Lady Chatterly vs. Fanny Hill is actually set during the 1920s. Mrs. Hill (Diane Hart) and Lady Evelyn Chatterly (Nan Munro) are two competing brothel Read More

The House That Dripped Blood

Actors: John Bennett, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee

Synopsis: This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A review of the files of the local policeman (John Bennett) shows that everyone who has owned the mansion has died in a horrible fashion. In the first episode, "Method for Read More

Some Girls Do

Actors: Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar, James Villiers, Vanessa Howard

Synopsis: Detective Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called on to investigate the activities of his arch enemy Carl Peterson (James Villiers). Carl tries to stop the British from testing a new and improved fighter plane. Drummond travels to Morocco to check into rumors of attempted tampering and espionage by Carl Read More

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: 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 Majesty's Secret Service was the finest of the James Bond movies and also arguably the last truly great movie in the series. James Bond, portrayed here by George Lazenby (in his Read More

The New Avengers: Season 01

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

The New Avengers: Season 02

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

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