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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Richard Hurndall

Synopsis: Doctor Who celebrated its 20th anniversary with the 90-minute special "The Five Doctors." The life of the present Doctor (Peter Davison) is jeopardized when his four previous incarnations -- played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, and Tom Baker -- are taken out of time by an Read More

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Three Doctors," the present Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his two predecessors (William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton) investigate the strange, roving black hole in space which has been depleting the Time Lords of their energy. It turns out that the Read More

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Three Doctors," the first, second, and third Doctor (played respectively by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, and Jon Pertwee) are still trapped in Omega's black hole, along with the third Doctor's friends Jo (Katy Manning), the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney Read More

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Three Doctors," the ancient and revered Time Lord Omega (Stephen Thorne) has vowed to destroy his brethren and take over the universe. To this end, he traps the current Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the two previous Doctors (William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton Read More

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney

Synopsis: Doctor Who celebrated its tenth year on television with the epochal four-part adventure "The Three Doctors." Attacked by an unknown entity, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee), Jo (Katy Manning), the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), and Sgt. Benton (John Levene) take refuge in the TARDIS. Worried that the Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 9

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Kevin Stoney, Jean Marsh, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: In the ninth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Meddling Monk (Peter Butterworth), a renegade Time Lord, unexpectedly offers to help the Doctor (William Hartnell) in his efforts to halt the Daleks' campaign of interplanetary destruction. More characteristically, however, the Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 12

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Robert Jewell

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," things come full circle as the TARDIS crew and the Daleks reconverge on the devastated, dust-covered planet Kembel. Will the Daleks finally succeed in their plans to wreak wholesale havoc with their Time Destructor? Or will the Doctor (William Hartnell Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 8

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Roy Evans

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) resumes his efforts to foil the mass-destruction schemes of the mutant Daleks. Unfortunately, he stymied by the unexpected appearance of his old enemy, the renegade Time Lord known as the Meddling Monk Read More

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, William Hurndell, Maurice Good

Synopsis: In the first episode of the four-part story "The Gunfighters," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) decide to take a well-deserved vacation. Unfortunately, the TARDIS crew ends up in Tombstone, AZ, just before the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Read More

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, William Hurndell, Maurice Good

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Gunfighters," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) may very well meet their doom as the Earps and the Clantons shoot it out at the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ. Complicating matters is Doc Holliday Read More

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Eric Thompson, David Weston

Synopsis: In the first episode of the four-part story "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and fellow TARDIS crewman Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) arrive in Paris in the year 1572, on the eve of the the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Doctor is prevented a quick getaway Read More

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, William Hurndell, Maurice Good

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Gunfighters," the Doctor and his companions encounter all manner of problems while making a stop at Tombstone, AZ, in the late 19th century. Dodo (Jackie Lane) has already been abducted by the notorious Clanton gang; Steven (Peter Purves), mistaken Read More

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, William Hurndell, David Cole

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Gunfighters," the plot continues to thicken in the hours just prior to the gunfight at the OK Corral. Rescued from a lynch mob, Steven (Peter Purves) faces a new threat in the form of gunslinger Johnny Ringo (Laurence Payne). The Doctor (William Hartnell Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 11

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Terence Woodfield

Synopsis: In the 11th episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor tries to stop the Daleks from destroying the universe without risking the lives of his travelling companions. Captured by the villains, Steven (Peter Purves) and Sara (Jean Marsh) are in for the biggest surprise of their Read More

Doctor Who: The Ark, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Terence Woodfield, Ralph Carrigan

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Ark," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has managed to isolate the source of the plague that may wipe out all remaining life forms from the devastated planet Earth. Alas, his solution may have come too late; it appears as though the "space ark" upon Read More

Doctor Who: The Ark, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Edmund Coulter, Frank George

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Ark," the Doctor (William Hartnell) discovers that the space ark upon which the survivors of a plague on Planet Earth are being transported is now under the control of the Monoids, a formerly servile alien race. The only hope for restoring the balance Read More

Doctor Who: The Ark, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Eric Elliot, Inigo Jackson

Synopsis: The four-part Doctor Who adventure "The Ark" began on March 5, 1966, with the episode titled "The Steel Sky." Attempting to stomp out a plague on the spaceship carrying the last human survivors of Earth to the planet Refusis II, the crew of the TARDIS rematerializes on the same ark 700 years in Read More

Doctor Who: The Ark, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Inigo Jackson, Kate Newman

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Ark," the Doctor (William Hartnell) continues to trace the origins of a plague that threatens to wipe out the last remaining denizens of Planet Earth. Unfortunately, he need not look any farther than the interior of the TARDIS. It turns out that Read More

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Michael Gough, Peter Stephens

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Celestial Toymaker," the title character (Michael Gough) tries to lead "human pawns" Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane) astray with the help of his gregarious henchman, Cyril (Peter Stephens). As for the Doctor (William Hartnell), he must Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 10

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: In the tenth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," things bode ill for the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions. Steven (Peter Purves) and Sara (Jean Marsh) are taken hostage by the Daleks, who then prepare to recapture the Taranium core and resume their orgy of Read More

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Michael Gough, Campbell Singer

Synopsis: Veteran horror film habitue Michael Gough guest stars as the Toymaker in this four-part Doctor Who adventure. The TARDIS is inexorably drawn to the Toymaker's domain, whereupon the Doctor (William Hartnell), Steven (Peter Purves), and Dodo (Jackie Lane) are forced to play a series of lethal games. Read More

Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Michael Gough, Campbell Singer

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Celestial Toymaker," the title character (Michael Gough) renders himself and the Doctor (William Hartnell) invisible as they play a deadly game of one-upsmanship. The pawns in this game are the Doctor's companions, Steven (Peter Purves) and Dodo (Jackie Lane Read More

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Eric Thompson, David Weston, Edward Finn

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve," the Doctor (William Hartnell), trapped in Paris on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, finds himself in a double bind because of his remarkable resemblance to the much-feared Abbott of Amboise. Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, David Dodimead, Dudley Jones

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Tenth Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions come face to face with the Cybermen from the Earth's twin planet Mondas. In his effort to prevent the aliens from taking over the world, the Doctor begins to undergo a very Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Robert Beatty, David Dodimead

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Tenth Planet," Ben (Michael Craze) at last figures out the Cybermen's weakness. For the moment, it appears as though the earth is saved from the alien villains. But the story isn't quite over yet, as proven when Ben and Polly (Annika Wills) come face Read More

Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, George A. Cooper, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Smugglers," the buried treasure that had set the plot in motion is finally discovered. In addition, the Doctor (William Hartnell) reveals a secret that will profoundly affect himself, his companions, and two sets of villains (one more villainous Read More

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Robert Beatty, Dudley Jones

Synopsis: Written by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, the four-part "The Tenth Planet" was the first "transitional" adventure in the Doctor Who canon. When the TARDIS docks at the South Pole in December 1986, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions find that they've arrived just in time to witness a Read More

Doctor Who: The War Machines, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Michael Craze, Annika Wills, Alan Curtis, William Mervyn

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The War Machines," the self-starting computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought Analogue) begins the first phase of its campaign to conquer the world. As a terrifying army of robot war machines descend upon London, the Doctor (William Hartnell) tries to Read More

Doctor Who: The War Machines, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Gerald Taylor, John Boyd Brent, John Rolfe

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The War Machines," the robot army created by power-hungry computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought Analogue) continues its devastating attack on London. The only hope for mankind's survival rests with the Doctor (William Hartnell), who reasons that the only Read More

Doctor Who: The War Machines, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, Alan Curtis, John Harvey, Annika Wills

Synopsis: Returning to modern-day London with Dodo (Jackie Lane) in tow, the Doctor (William Hatnell) discovers that a supercomputer called WOTAN (Will Operating Thought Analogue) has been invented by one Professor Brett (John Harvey). Though impressed by the fact that WOTAN can actually think for itself Read More

Doctor Who: The War Machines, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Jackie Lane, John Harvey, John Cater, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The War Machines," the Doctor (William Hartnell) discovers that the supercomputer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought Analogue) has exercised mind control over thousands of hapless Londoners. The hypnotized humans have been put to work building an army of Read More

Doctor Who: The Savages, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Ewen Solon, Patrick Godfrey

Synopsis: The TARDIS lands on a planet inhabited by an advanced civilization, which has walled itself against a race of primitive savages. Though the residents of this walled community insist that theirs is a "perfect" society, the Doctor (William Hartnell) is naturally suspicious -- and, as it turns out Read More

Doctor Who: The Savages, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Edward Caddick, Ewen Solon

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Savages," the Doctor (William Hartnell) wants to learn the secret of the "perfect" advanced civilization which has built huge walls to protect itself against a race of primitive savages. He eventually discovers that the so-called civilized Read More

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Annette Robertson, Barry Justice, Joan Young

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve," Steven (Peter Purves) overhears a plot that will profoundly effect the outcome of hostilties between the Catholics and the Huguenots in 16th century Paris. On another front, the Doctor (William Hartnell), still Read More

Doctor Who: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Annette Robertson, Andre Morrell, John Tillinger

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve," The religious differences that have suddenly cropped up between the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Steven (Peter Purves) serve to heighten Steven's feelings of isolation. Of far greater importance, the Catholic Read More

Doctor Who: The Savages, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jackie Lane, Norman Henry, Andrew Lodge

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Savages," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has learned that the residents of a highly advanced walled city have been drawing their strength and intelligence from a tribe of primitive savages. Intending to right past wrongs, the Doctor's companions Read More

Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Michael Godfrey, George A. Cooper

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Smugglers," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills) find themselves at the mercy of smugglers in 17th century Cornwall. But there's more danger ahead for all concerned when the smugglers are Read More

Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, John Ringham, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Smugglers," the crew of the TARDIS is still trapped in 17th century Cornwall. Threatened with extermination by both a team of smugglers and a band of pirates, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions find that their lives may well rest in Read More

Doctor Who: The Smugglers, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Annika Wills, Michael Craze, Terence de Marney, George A. Cooper

Synopsis: Doctor Who inaugurated its fourth season on September 10, 1966, with episode one of the four-part "The Smugglers." The TARDIS materializes in a cave off a seacoast, but the Doctor (William Hartnell) doesn't know where he is or what year he's in. Soon, however, the Doctor and his companions Ben Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Adrienne Hill, Brian Cant, Nicholas Courtney

Synopsis: "The Dalek Masterplan" was the longest of the early Doctor Who adventures, running a full 12 episodes and beginning on November 13, 1965. In the first episode, "The Nightmare Begins," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions act upon evidence gleaned by Special Agent Marc Cory in the Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Adrienne Hill, Kevin Stoney, Julian Sherrier

Synopsis: In the second episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor and his companions have landed in the jungles of Kembel, in hopes of thwarting the latest mass-destruction scheme of the mutant Daleks. The story takes an unexpected turn when the Doctor appears to align himself with the Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Walter Randall

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Crusade," the Doctor and his companions are still trying to figure out a way to return to the TARDIS and escape the intrigues of the Holy Crusades. Barbara has a fateful meeting with the legendary Knight of Jaffa, which takes an unexpected turn. Both Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Julian Glover

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Crusade," the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) are forcibly detained in the camp of King Richard the Lionhearted (Julian Glover). Ian manages to secure Richard's permission to leave so that he can rescue Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, George Little

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Crusade," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still marooned in the Holy Land at the time of the Crusades. The good news is that the Doctor and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) have caught up with Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), who had been Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Adrienne Hill, Nicholas Courtney, Kevin Stoney

Synopsis: In the third episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the crew of the TARDIS pursues the destruction-minded Daleks as they make their escape from the burning jungles of Kembel. The next destination for the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Katarina (Adrienne Hill), Steven (Peter Purves Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 7

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Clifford Earl, Norman Mitchell

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still locked in deadly combat with the dreaded Daleks. Though the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, the Doctor still manages to materialize in his favorite London Read More

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Cavan Kendall, Alan Haywood

Synopsis: In the first episode of the four-part story "The Myth Makers," the TARDIS lands on a sandy plain somewhere in Greece. Disembarking, the Doctor (William Hartnell) soon learns that his ship has been plunked in the middle of the Trojan War. Even sooner, the Doctor is mistaken for the great god Zeus Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, David Graham

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has aligned himself with the valiant Sara Kingdom (Jean Marsh) in his efforts to foil the mass-destruction plans of the dreaded Daleks. Things come to a head when the crew of the TARDIS is forced into a Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Adrienne Hill, Nicholas Courtney, Douglas Sheldon

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the TARDIS crew persists in its efforts to prevent the Daleks from unleashing their doomsday weapon, the Time Destructor. Captured by the villains, Katarina (Adrienne Hill) nonetheless manages to save the lives of her traveling Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, James Hall, Bill Metley

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions discover that their plan to thwart the Dalek's rampage of destruction is being undermined by a hidden enemy. But there's more -- the enemy in question is utterly invisible. It is up Read More

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Stephanie Bidmead, Marina Martin

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of the four-part story "Galaxy 4," time is running out on the planet Galaxy, as it edges even closer to its inevitable destruction. If he hopes to escape with the lives of himself and his traveling companions, the Doctor (William Hartnell) must quickly negotiate a truce Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Robert Marsden

Synopsis: In the first episode of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor (William Hartnell) decides to experiment with the space-time visualizer which he had obtained in the previous adventure "The Space Museum." In so doing, the Doctor makes a horrifying discovery: The dreaded mutant Daleks have Read More

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Stephanie Bidmead, Marina Martin

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "Galaxy 4," the Doctor (William Hartnell) is pressured to choose sides in the ages-old feud between the two predominant races of the doomed planet Galaxy. The Rills demand the presence of the Doctor's companion Vicki (Maureen O'Brien), which bodes ill Read More

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Stephanie Bidmead, Marina Martin

Synopsis: The third season of Doctor Who began on September 11, 1965, with "Four Hundred Dawns," episode one of the four-part adventure "Galaxy 4." The TARDIS' arrival on the planet Galaxy coincides with the crash landings of spaceships carrying members of two alien races, the Rills and the Dravins. Knowing Read More

Doctor Who: Galaxy 4, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Stephanie Bidmead, Marina Martin

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "Galaxy 4," the Rills and the Dravins of the planet Galaxy continue their centuries-old feud as their planet draws nearer and nearer to destruction. Inasmuch as both races hope to use the TARDIS to make their escape, it is only logical that the Doctor's Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Ian Thompson

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor (William Hartnell), peering into the future, has learned of the mass-destruction plans of the mutant Daleks. He also knows that the villains intend to destroy the TARDIS and its crew. Feeling safer chasing after the Daleks than Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor and his travelling are thrown into a prison cell by the Mechanoids. Also incarcerated is another space fugitive, pilot Steven Taylor. With the help of their new friend, the Doctor and his friends are able to help determine the outcome Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, John Flint

Synopsis: The TARDIS travels to the time of the Holy Crusades. Upon arrival, the loyalties of the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) are forcibly divided between the Crusaders of Richard the Lionheart (Julian Glover) and the Saracens of Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Edmond Warwick

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions encounter terror in the jungles of the planet Mechanus, as the Daleks close in on the TARDIS. Crucial to the plotline is a master plan to replace the Doctor and his friends with robotic Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Anne Gordon

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are fully aware that the infamous Daleks intend to go on a rampage of destruction throughout space. Alas, the TARDIS has been immobilized, rendering the Doctor helpless. Even so, he tries to Read More

Doctor Who: The Chase, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, John Maxim

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "The Chase," the Doctor continues his desperate efforts to repair the TARDIS and prevent the Daleks from continuing their campaign of interplanetary destruction. This may prove even more difficult in the light of a new and terrifying weapon created by Read More

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Max Adrian, Barrie Ingram

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Myth Makers," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions find themselves in the unenviable position of determining the outcome of the Trojan War. For the moment, only the life of the Doctor is safe, inasmuch as he has been mistaken for the Read More

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Peter Butterworth, Michael Miller

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Time Meddler," the efforts of the Doctor (William Hartnell) to prevent a renegade Time Lord (Peter Butterworth) from altering the course of history in 11th century England are complicated when the TARDIS vanishes from sight. Sadly, there are even Read More

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Peter Butterworth, David Anderson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Time Meddler," the TARDIS crew finds itself in the thick of things at the Battle of Hastings. Meanwhile, a renegade Time Lord (Peter Butterworth) pulls strings to determine the outcome of the battle. Can the Doctor (William Hartnell) stop the course of Read More

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Peter Butterworth, Peter Russell

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Time Meddler," the Doctor arrives in 11th century England in hopes of finding out the plans of a renegade Time Lord (Peter Butterworth). Disguised as a monk, the Doctor begins to realize that the villain's scheme is somehow connected with the Read More

Doctor Who: The Space Museum, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Richard Shaw

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of the four-part story "The Space Museum," the Doctor (William Hartnell) is still struggling to avoid the fate in store for himself and his companions, as mummified exhibits in a Xeron space museum. In the course of events, the Doctor's travelling companion Vicki (Maureen Read More

Doctor Who: The Time Meddler, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Peter Butterworth, Alethea Charlton

Synopsis: Written by Dennis Spooner, the four-part story arc "The Time Meddler" began on July 3, 1965, with its first episode, Doctor Who: The Watcher. The Doctor (William Hartnell) discovers that a member of his own race has become a dangerous outlaw. This realization leads the Doctor and his friends into Read More

Doctor Who: The Web Planet, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Roslyn de Winter, Robert Jewell

Synopsis: In the first episode of the six-part story "The Web Planet," the Doctor and his traveling companions attempt to investigate an unknown force that has been consuming space vessels. They soon discover the source of this phenomenon when the TARDIS is sucked into the atmosphere of the planet Vortis. Read More

Doctor Who: The Web Planet, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Roslyn de Winter

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "The Web Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) is unsuccessful in his efforts to immobilize the Animus, the spider-ish parasite that controls the planet Vortis. Meanwhile, the butterfly-like Menoptra invade the planet, hoping to topple the ant-like Zarbi Read More

Doctor Who: The Hartnell Years

Synopsis: Though much of the acting was good, it can hardly be said that the enormously popular British sci-fi television series Doctor Who suffered from a budget surfeit. For all the handicaps under which the show labored in its early years (threatened constantly by cancellation, strangled by budget Read More

Doctor Who: The Web Planet, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Roslyn de Winter

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "The Web Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has penetrated the Web Centre of the planet Vortis. Here he discovers that the ant-like Zarbi, ostensibly the rulers of the planet, are actually the slaves of a spider-ish parasite called the Animus. Now Read More

Doctor Who: The Web Planet, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Roslyn de Winter

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "The Web Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his traveling companions come face to face with the two warring tribes of the planet Vortis: The ant-like Zarbi, who ruled the roost, and the butterfly-like Menoptera, who hope to return from years of Read More

Doctor Who: The Web Planet, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Maureen O'Brien, Roslyn de Winter, Robert Jewell

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "The Web Planet," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still mired in a power struggle on the planet Vortis. Aligning himself with the exiled butterfly-like race the Menoptera, the Doctor endeavors to free the planet from the rule of the Read More

Doctor Who: The Rescue, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of the two-part story "The Rescue," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions endeavor to rescue two spacecraft survivors from intergalactic murderer Koquillon. The plot thickens when it becomes apparent that one of the rescuees may be the Koquillon himself (or Read More

Doctor Who: The Romans, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Derek Sydney

Synopsis: In the first episode of the four-part story "The Romans," the Doctor (William Hartnell), Vicki (Maureen O'Brien), Ian (William Russell), and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) climb into the TARDIS and take a trip to ancient Rome. No sooner have they arrived at a picturesque villa than the Doctor and his Read More

Doctor Who: The Rescue, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: "The Powerful Enemy" is the first episode of the two-part Doctor Who adventure "The Rescue." Arriving on the planet Dido, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his fellow time travelers come across the remains of a crashed spaceship. Rescuing the two survivors, the Doctor endeavors to protect them and Read More

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Max Adrian, Barrie Ingram

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Myth Makers," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends are still trying to find a way out of their present dilemma, in which their actions may well determine the outcome of the Trojan War. Mistaken for the Greek god Zeus, the Doctor hatches a Read More

Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Max Adrian, Barrie Ingram

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Myth Makers," the crew of the TARDIS is still trapped in ancient Greece at the time of the Trojan war. Having disguised herself in contemporary garb, Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) has concluded her own personal quest and has reconnected with her travelling Read More

Doctor Who: The Romans, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Derek Sydney

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Romans," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions encounter great danger while on a pleasure excursion to ancient Rome. Ian (William Russell) is captured and sold as a galley slave, while Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) is auctioned off as a Read More

Doctor Who: The Space Museum, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Richard Shaw

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Space Museum," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions must travel back in time to prevent a horrible fate from befalling them. Their first obstacle is to elude capture by the Moroks and their slave warriors, the Xeron. Rendering himself Read More

Doctor Who: The Space Museum, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Richard Shaw

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Space Museum," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions have passed through the Fourth Dimension, the first step in their journey back in time. Having glimpsed into the horrible future that awaits them at a Morok-controlled space museum, the Read More

Doctor Who: The Space Museum, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Saunders

Synopsis: First telecast April 24, 1965, "The Space Museum" is the first episode of the four-part Doctor Who adventure of the same name. Jumping a time-track, the TARDIS materializes in a long-abandoned Morok space museum on the planet Xeros. Here, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends are shocked Read More

Doctor Who: The Romans, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Derek Sydney

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Romans," the Doctor (William Hartnell) is still in the court of Roman emperor Nero (Derek Francis), still trying to secure the release of his enslaved travelling companions Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill). As if this isn't peril Read More

Doctor Who: The Romans, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Derek Sydney

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Romans," Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) are at last reunited after suffering the ignominy of being Roman slaves. As the conspirators set their assassination plans in motion, the Doctor (William Hartnell) must act quickly to save Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Peter Walker

Synopsis: Doctor Who wound up its first season with episode one of "The Reign of Terror," written by Dennis Spooner. Assuming that they've returned to 1964 England, the TARDIS crew instead finds itself in 18th century France at the height of the Revolution. The first episode in this six-part story arc ends Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Robin Phillips

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the six-part story arc "The Keys of Marinus," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions have survived one peril after another, and have returned with the four keys necessary to keep alive the despotic Conscience of Marinus. Unfortunately, they discover that Arbitan (George Coulouris Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Jack Cunningham

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "The Reign of Terror," the Doctor (William Hartnell) arrives in the Paris of 1794, intending to save Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) and Susan (Carole Ann Ford). Meanwhile, Ian (William Russell) has managed to link up with a moderate underground revolutionary Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Howard Charlton

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "The Reign of Terror," the crew of the TARDIS has landed smack in the middle of the French Revolution. Separated from the Doctor (William Hartnell), his travelling companions -- Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), and Susan (Carole Ann Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Robin Phillips

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story arc "The Keys of Marinus," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends continue their search for the keys needed to keep alive the despotic Conscience of Marinus. They manage to find one of the keys in the city of Morphoton, barely escaping with their Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Robin Phillips

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story arc "The Keys of Marinus," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends are forced to locate four of the five keys needed to keep the dictatorial Conscience of Marinus in working condition. First stop for the time travellers is the mysterious city of Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Robin Phillips

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story arc "The Keys of Marinus," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions have managed to locate three of the four keys needed to sustain the omnipotent Conscience of Marinus. It hasn't been easy, what with the terrors inherent in the city of Morphoton Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Robin Phillips

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story arc "The Keys of Marinus," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions have managed to locate two of the four keys necessary to keep the evil Conscience of Marinus alive. Their odyssey has already taken them to the sinsiter city of Morphoton and the Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, John Barrard

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "The Reign of Terror," the Doctor (William Hartnell), still impersonating the Superintendent of Parisian Prisons, comes face to face with "the architect of the Revolution," the dreaded Robespierre (Keith Anderson). Meanwhile, with the help of underground Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "The Sensorites," the Doctor manages to emerge triumphant from his latest crisis. This impresses his Sensorite captors, but they are still convinced that the Doctor -- and by extension, all of mankind -- is somehow responsible for the mysterious disease Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "The Sensorites," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still the prisoners of the Sensorites, a dying race of telepaths. A new and unexpected enemy arrives on the scene to further imperil the TARDIS crew. And as if that weren't enough, Ian Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the final episode of the six-part story "The Sensorites," the Doctor (William Hartnell), still trapped in the 28th century, finds out who is really responsible for the disease that has been killing off the telepathic Sensorites. But neither the Doctor nor his companions are out of the woods yet Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "The Sensorites," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has made certain that the planet of the Sensorites will not die, as was previously feared. Nonetheless, the Sensorites are angry at the Doctor and his companions because of past misdeeds perpetrated by a Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Donald Morley

Synopsis: In the final episode of the six-part story "The Reign of Terror" -- which, incidentally, was also the final episode of Doctor Who's first season -- the crew of the TARDIS is still trapped in France at the time of the Revolution. Admidst much treachery, the Doctor (William Hartnell) makes a new Read More

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Edward Brayshaw

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "The Reign of Terror," a so-called friend of 18th century French underground leader Jules (Donald Morley) turns out to be a spy for the Revolutionary Tribunal and turns Ian (William Russell) over to the authorities. Likewise recaptured are Barbara (Jacqueline Hill Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "The Sensorites," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Ian (William Russell) are brought to the Sensorite headquarters via a telepathic link established with Susan (Carole Ann Ford), while Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) is left behind in the Sense-Sphere. Read More

Doctor Who: The Sensorites, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Stephen Dartnell

Synopsis: In the first episode of the six-part story arc "The Sensorites," the TARDIS materializes in a 28th century Earth spacecraft. The Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions soon discover that the craft is trapped in an enormous Sense-Sphere, controlled by a race of telepathic aliens called the Read More

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Landing on an island surrounded by a sea of acid, the TARDIS is captured by Arbitan (George Coulouris), the Keeper of the Conscience of Marinus. If the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends intend to reclaim the TARDIS, they must collect four of the five keys needed by Aribtan to keep his Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the third episode of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the treacherous Tegana (Derren Nesbitt) intends to leave Marco Polo (Mark Eden), the Doctor (William Hartnell), and their traveling companions to die of thirst in the desert. Seeking shelter not only from the elements but also from the Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the Doctor and his companions reluctantly accompany Marco Polo (Mark Eden) on a long journey to the Peking stronghold of Kublai Khan. The first leg of their journey requires them to cross the Gobi Desert, known as "the singing sands" Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: The current unavailability of the entire first-season Dr. Who story arc "Marco Polo" is perhaps the most frustrating of the many gaps in the series' chronology. Written by John Lucarotti, this seven-part adventure began on February 22, 1964, with the episode titled "The Roof of the World." The Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the Doctor's (William Hartnell) granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford), is terrified by the phantoms which seem to haunt the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes. Meanwhile, Tegana (Derren Nesbitt) returns to advise Marco Polo (Mark Eden) to rid Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 7

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Kublai Khan (Martin Miller) play a high-stakes game of backgammon. Whoever wins the game will be allowed to lay claim to the TARDIS -- and of course, the Doctor and his friends need the vessel to return Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his friends, still the reluctant traveling companions of Marco Polo (Mark Eden), arrive at Shang-Tu, where stands the opulent summer palace of the all-powerful Kublai Khan (Martin Miller). Fascinated Read More

Doctor Who: Marco Polo, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Mark Eden

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the seven-part story arc "Marco Polo," the lives of the Doctor (William Hartnell), Marco Polo (Mark Eden), and their combined companions are imperiled not only by bandits, but also by a traitor in their midst, the warlord Tegana (Derren Nesbitt). Still, the entourage Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Martyn Huntley

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "Dalek Invasion of Earth," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and Ian (William Russell) are captured by the Daleks, who rule the Earth of the 22nd century. Rescued by freedom fighters, the two time travelers learn of the plague that has enslaved all of Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Bernard Kay

Synopsis: The six-part Dr. Who adventure "Dalek Invasion of Earth" gets under way when the TARDIS materializes in 22nd century England. Trapped outside of their time-traveling vessel, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions quickly learn that the Earth has been taken over by the mutant Daleks from Read More

Tomorrow at Ten

Synopsis: Tomorrow at Ten stars Robert Shaw as a desperate criminal who kidnaps a small boy. He locks his victim in a room with a time bomb set to go off at 10 AM, then posts his ransom demands. When the police catch up with the kidnapper, he dies without revealing the bomb's location. With precious little Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Alan Judd

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "Dalek Invasion of Earth," the Doctor (William Hartnell) is rescued from a Dalek operating table by his traveling companions. By now thoroughly dedicated to fomenting a revolt against the Daleks, the Doctor must first discover why the evil mutants have Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, David Graham

Synopsis: In the final episode of the six-part story "Dalek Invasion of Earth," the conquering Daleks put their plan to convert the Earth into a giant space vessel into effect. In order to stop the Daleks, the Doctor is forced to release a powerful, magnetically energized bomb -- which may very well destroy Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Nicholas Evans

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "Dalek Invasion of Earth," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has finally tumbled onto the Daleks' scheme to convert the earth into a huge space vessel. Racing against time, the Doctor must find a way to foil the mutants' plans. He receives help in this Read More

Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Peter Fraser

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "Dalek Invasion of Earth," the crew of the TARDIS tries to find out why the conquering Daleks have turned the British community of Bedfordshire into a huge mine. At last, the horrible truth is revealed: The Daleks intend to destroy the earth's magnetic Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, John Lee

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still faced with the twin dilemmas of escaping back to the 20th century and preventing the mutant Daleks from detonating a neutron bomb that will destroy the planet Skaro. With all Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Alan Wheatley

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still on the dead planet Skaro, again in the clutches of the mutant Daleks. In attempting to escape, Ian (William Russell) is paralyzed, and the Doctor and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, John Lee

Synopsis: In the third episode of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), and Susan (Carole Ann Ford) join forces to rescue Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) from the mutant Daleks. In his efforts to find out why the Daleks want to resume their nuclear war with Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Philip Bond

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," Susan (Carole Ann Ford) has successfully returned to the TARDIS, whereupon she formulates a plan to rescue the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) from the Daleks. Meanwhile, the mutant Read More

Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the two-part story arc "The Edge of Destruction" (aka "Inside the Spaceship"), the TARDIS has been thrown off course and its occupants are hurtled to the beginning of time, or, as the Doctor (William Hartnell) refers to it, Event One. In a surprising display of ill will, the Read More

Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis: Escaping the planet Skaro, the Doctor (William Hartnell) puts the TARDIS in "fast return." Unfortunately, the switch gets stuck, hurtling the TARDIS and its occupants to "Event One," otherwise known as the Dawn of Time. Complicating matters is the inexplicably bizarre -- and potentially Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 7

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Philip Bond

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) escape their Dalek captors with the help of Susan (Carole Ann Ford). Aligning himself with the humanoid Thals, the Doctor makes a last-ditch effort to Read More

Doctor Who: Planet of Giants, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In the final episode of the three-part story arc "Planet of Giants," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions have finally managed to reach the authorities with their story of a diabolical germ-warfare plot hatched by businessman Forester (Alan Tilvern). Unfortunately, no one listens Read More

Doctor Who: Planet of Giants, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In the second episode of the three-part story arc "Planet of Giants," the crew of the TARDIS, still shrunk to a height of one inch, tries to alert the authorities to the evil plans of Smithers (Reginald Barrett) and Forester (Alan Tilvern) to spread the deadly pesticide DN6 throughout the world. Read More

Doctor Who: Planet of Giants, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: Season Two of Doctor Who commenced on October 31, 1964 with the first episode of the three-part adventure "Planet of Giants." Finally arriving in England in 1964, the TARDIS crew discovers that a malfunction has shrunk them to the height of one inch. In these "reduced" circumstances, the Doctor (William Hartnell Read More

Doctor Who: The Aztecs, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Keith Pyott

Synopsis: The TARDIS materializes in pre-Columbian Mexico, within the walls of an ancient tomb. Escaping, the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions -- Ian (William Russell), Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), and Susan (Carole Ann Ford) -- discover that the tomb was that of Aztec hight priestess Yetaxa Read More

Doctor Who: The Aztecs, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Keith Pyott

Synopsis: In the final episode of the four-episode story arc "The Aztecs," Barbara's misguided efforts to alter the course of history have discredited her in the eyes of the Aztec worshippers, who no longer believe that she is the reincarnation of the high priestess Yetaxa. Consequently, Barbara, Susan, and Read More

Doctor Who: The Aztecs, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Keith Pyott

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story arc "The Aztecs," the followers of high priestess Yetaxa are still convinced that Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) is the reincarnation of their deity. Accordingly, Barbara is forced to mete out punishment when her travelling companion Susan (Carole Ann Ford) Read More

Doctor Who: The Aztecs, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Keith Pyott

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story arc "The Aztecs," Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) has been proclaimed the divine reincarnation of the Aztec goddess Yetaxa. Hoping to use her new-found powers to the good, Barbara endeavors to change the course of history -- with disastrous results. Read More

Heavens Above!

Actors: Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also Read More

This Sporting Life

Actors: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell, Colin Blakely

Synopsis: Adapted by David Storey from his own novel, This Sporting Life stars Richard Harris as Frank, an athletic coal miner who aspires to the greener pastures of professional rugby. Soon establishing himself as one of the most brutal and arrogant players in the business, Frank begins to amass a fortune. Read More

The World Ten Times Over

Actors: Sylvia Syms, Edward Judd, June Ritchie, William Hartnell, Sarah Lawson

Synopsis: Released in England under the title The World Ten Times Over, this dour drama is about the misfortunes of two aging single women. Billa (Sylvia Sims) and Ginnie (June Ritchie) live together in an apartment, and each works as a hostess at a night club. Billa is jaded and fed up with men, while Read More

To Have and to Hold

Synopsis: A police detective succumbs to a seductive beauty who convinces him to help murder her husband so she can collect on his insurance policy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis: The Doctor Who saga began on November 23, 1963, with the first episode of the four-part story arc known variously as "An Unearthly Child," "100,000 BC," and "The Tribe of Gum." Curious about their secretive pupil Susan (Carole Ann Ford), schoolteachers Ian Chesterson (William Russell) and Barbara Read More

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Eileen Way

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story arc "An Unearthly Child," Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and his companions, Ian and Barbara (William Russell, Jacqueline Hill), have managed to escape the Cave of Skulls. But they have not yet managed to escape the prehistoric-earth surroundings -- and Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, David Graham

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part story arc "The Daleks," the Doctor (William Hartnell) deliberately sabotages the TARDIS so that he can join his granddaughter, Susan (Carole Ann Ford), and companions Ian and Barbara (William Russell, Jacqueline Hill) in exploring the devastated planet Read More

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Howard Lang

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story arc "An Unearthly Child," Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and his companions, Ian and Barbara (William Russell, Jacqueline Hill), are still stranded in the era of the Great Cold some 100,000 years ago. Having managed to escape both the Cave of Skulls and the Read More

Doctor Who: The Daleks, Episode 1

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis: Also known as "The Dead Planet" and "The Survivors," "The Daleks" is perhaps the most fondly remembered of the first-season Doctor Who story arcs, and one of the few that has survived intact. In episode one, "The Dead Planet," the First Doctor (William Hartnell) endeavors to return his Read More

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Derek Newmark

Synopsis: In this second episode of the four-part story arc "An Unearthly Child," Doctor Who (William Hartnell) and schoolteachers Ian and Barbara (William Russell, Jacqueline Hill) have journeyed some 100,000 years back time. Captured by a pre-civilized race, the Doctor and his companions are thrown into Read More

And the Same to You

Synopsis: An A.P. Dearsley stage play was the basis for the seven-reel British comedy And the Same to You. Brian Rix stars as the pugnacious nephew of clergyman Sydney Mullett. Stuck with the name "Dickie Dreadnought," Rix feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. To mollify his uncle, Rix Read More

Jackpot

Synopsis: A man recently released from prison is anxious to get on with his life and wants to go straight. Unfortunately, the right woman can be either a help or a hindrance, and in this case he is forced back into his old ways by a woman too cold and insensitive to care whether he stays out of crime or Read More

Piccadilly Third Stop

Actors: Terence Morgan, Yoko Tani, John Crawford, Mai Zetterling, William Hartnell

Synopsis: This fast-paced, standard crime story about a caper gone awry is directed by Rilla Wolf and stars Terence Morgan as Dominic, a petty crook with minor crimes on his agenda until he sees a chance for a big haul. Dominic's associates include tough guy Pready (John Crawford) and Edward (Dennis Price) Read More

Night We Dropped a Clanger

Actors: Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn

Synopsis: Perhaps in an earlier era or in some remote village, this comedy would work, but this story about two mixed-up identities during World War II is comedically outdated. Brian Rix has the dual role of an Air Force officer who is going on an important military mission to France. The brass decide to Read More

Strictly Confidential

Actors: Richard Murdoch, Maya Koumani, William Hartnell, Colin Rix

Synopsis: A talented director (Charles Saunders) and cast cannot do very much with this weak story about an odd double deception. Two con-men, former Commander Binham-Ryley (Richard Murdoch) and former Major Rory McQuarry (William Kendall), are just out of prison for their dubious money-making schemes. They Read More

The Desperate Man

Synopsis: In this drama, a reporter and his girlfriend pursue a jewel thief through rural Sussex. The tables turn when the thief abducts the girlfriend and holds her hostage in a castle forcing the reporter to assist him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Make Mine a Double

Synopsis: In this British comedy, two look-a-likes, an airman and a secret agent, find double trouble when they are assigned a top-secret task by their government. The airman is to impersonate the agent to confuse the Nazis while the real agent sneaks into France to investigate the new buzz bombs. Read More

The Mouse That Roared

Actors: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, David Kossoff, William Hartnell, Leo McKern, Timothy Bateson

Synopsis: The economy of the teeny-tiny European duchy of Grand Fenwick is threatened when an American manufacturer comes up with an imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled wine. Crafty prime minister Count Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) comes up with a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United Read More

Shake Hands with the Devil

Actors: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a brilliant medical professor who doubles as head of the Irish Republican Army. Cagney convinces one of his more pacifistic students, Don Murray, to join the underground struggle Read More

Carry on Sergeant

Actors: William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan

Synopsis: This first entry in the long-running (some would say interminable) British "Carry On" series is at base a collection of motheaten army jokes, albeit served up with freshness and energy. Future Doctor Who star William Hartnell plays Sergeant Major Grimshaw, whose fondest wish is to win the coveted Read More

The Yangtse Incident

Actors: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke

Synopsis: The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The British government tries to reclaim the Amethyst, only to run up against a Great Wall of Red bureaucracy and propaganda. It is up to Lieutenant Commander Kearns (Richard Todd Read More

Scotland Yard Dragnet

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a psychiatrist is fond of using hypnotism to help his clients. One day a test pilot comes in. He is troubled by blackouts that are affecting his job. This is the perfect opportunity for the psycho shrink who has been looking for someone to murder his wife. He places the pilot Read More

Hell Drivers

Actors: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Jill Ireland

Synopsis: In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found it when he takes a job as a truck driver, but he soon discovers that the trucking firm he's signed on with is not playing by the rules. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company's Read More

Date with Disaster

Synopsis: In this crime melodrama, a car salesman (and suspected safecracker) saves his fiancee from those who would kidnap her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tons of Trouble

Synopsis: In this comedy, a custodian names the apartment boilers he maintains "Mavis and Ethel." The trouble begins when he loses his job and then finds himself sought after by a wealthy man who needs him so he can close an important deal. Meanwhile, temperamental Ethel begins to go haywire. Fortunately Read More

A Private's Progress

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones

Synopsis: The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his country Read More

On the Run

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a boxer ignores gangsters' threats and refuses to throw a fight. While hiding out from the crooks, he starts working at a garage. After falling in love with the boss's daughter, he listens to her advice and decides to stand up to the bullies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Cross

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, Soviet spies use a Cornish salmon poacher to ferry them across the English Channel. When the man realizes who they are, he maroons them. He becomes a hero. Then he finds himself up on poaching charges. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Footsteps in the Fog

Actors: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers, Finlay Currie, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Footsteps in the Fog is a cat-and-mouse Victorian melodrama in the grand tradition. Jean Simmons plays scheming servant girl Lily Watkins, who was hired by sinister nobleman Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) and his ailing wife. The wife dies of "natural causes," but Lily knows better, and uses this Read More

Josephine and Men

Actors: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always champion the underdog causes her endless romantic woes. It all begins when she breaks up with her fiance on the eve of their wedding so she can marry and help out a Read More

The Holly and the Ivy

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott, Hugh Williams

Synopsis: Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed, aging country vicar who hosts a family Christmas and learns a valuable lesson about keeping his own homefires alight before spending too much time tending the fires of others. Read More

Will Any Gentleman?

Actors: George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Jon Pertwee, James Hayter, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: Based on the stage farce by Vernon Sylvanie, Will Any Gentleman? stars George Cole as milquetoast bank clerk Henry Sterling. While attending a music hall show, Sterling accidentally falls under the spell of stage hypnotist Mendoza (Alan Badel). Undergoing a complete change of character, Sterling Read More

The Pickwick Papers

Actors: James Hayter, James Donald, Alexander Gauge, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Murton, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick club, a scholarly league operating in mid-19th century London. The club's avowed purpose is to scrupulously study everyday life in England-not to improve or Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

The Dark Man

Actors: Edward Underdown, Maxwell Reed, Natasha Parry, William Hartnell, Barbara Murray

Synopsis: The Dark Man is a killer who opens the film by committing double murder. This is witnessed by young aspiring actress Molly Lester (Natasha Parry). The rest of the picture concerns Dark Man's efforts to put Molly out of the way. The plot is nothing new, though the settings--a provincial repertory Read More

The Ringer

Synopsis: That deathless Edgar Wallace thriller The Ringer was taken out of cold storage once more in 1951. Donald Wolfit, whose legendary thespic excesses were later fictionalized in the stage play The Dresser, is perfectly cast as a vengeance-seeking master of disguise. He announces publicly that he Read More

Double Confession

Actors: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double Confession. It all begins when the wife of Jim Medway (Derek Farr) turns up dead. Since the evidence points to murder, the embittered Medway does his best to pin the "killing" on his wife's lover Read More

The Lost People

Synopsis: The Lost People is a pedantic British drama set in a large, abandoned German theatre just after the War. A disparate group of homeless refugees huddle together within the structure. As they get to know each other, old wounds are opened, social and religious clashes break out, recriminations melt Read More

Now Barabbas Was a Robber

Actors: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray

Synopsis: A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture. Richard Greene heads the cast as Turnfell, a murderer facing a death sentence. Turnfell is but one of several inmates whose joys and sorrows are detailed in anecdotal fashion: others Read More

The Lost People

Actors: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed

Synopsis: Shortly after the end of World War II, a pair of British soldiers hold an increasingly hostile group if refugees in a German theater in preperation for returning them to their homelands. Confused by the seemingly constant struggle that still surrounds them despite the official declaration that the Read More

Escape

Actors: Jacqueline Clarke, Peter Croft, Peggy Cummins, Cyril Cusack, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a policeman. He pushes the abusive cop away during the tussle; the cop falls, hits his head, and dies. The former flier is promptly tried and given a three-year prison sentence. He Read More

Brighton Rock

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Harcourt Williams

Synopsis: This unsparing, brutal look at the British criminal underbelly stars Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, a pock-marked gang leader. While leading his men in a racetrack robbery, Pinkie kills a man. He convinces pretty waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) to provide him with an alibi, promising to marry Read More

Temptation Harbour

Actors: Margaret Barton, Kathleen Boutall, Marcel Dalio, Leslie Dwyer, Irene Handl

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later finds $20,000 floating in the harbor. The trouble begins when he decides to take the money and leave town with his daughter and a gold digger. The killer is in hot pursuit Read More

Odd Man Out

Actors: James Mason, Robert Newton, Fay Compton, Robert Beatty, Maureen Delaney, Kathleen Ryan, W.G. Fay, F.J. McCormick, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but idealism forces him out of hiding in order to raise Read More

Murder in Reverse

Actors: William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, John Slater, Brefni O'Rourke

Synopsis: Future Doctor Who star William Hartnell plays the leading role in the British second feature Murder in Reverse. Hartnell portrays a man who has spent 15 years in prison on a murder charge. Not only is he innocent, but the murder never took place. Once released, Hartnell tracks down his "victim" Read More

Appointment with Crime

Actors: William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard

Synopsis: Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is a low-level member of a smash-and-grab gang run by shady dance-club owner Loman (Raymond Lovell), who is cajoled into a risky job on a major jewelry store. When the robbery goes wrong, and Martin is caught (and his wrists broken), the hood keeps silent and does his Read More

Strawberry Roan

Actors: William Hartnell, Carol Raye, John Ruddock, Sophie Stewart, Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis: In this drama, a farmer marries an uptown chorus girl and tries to help her settle down to the simplicity of farm living by giving her a little heifer. Unfortunately, she does not settle down right away and begins spending their money so freely that the farmer soon loses everything. When it looks Read More

The Agitator

Actors: William Hartnell, Mary Morris, John Laurie, Moore Marriott

Synopsis: Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell heads the cast of the 1949 sociopolitical melodrama The Agitator. Set in a British industrial town, the film stars Hartnell as idealistic union organizer Peter Pottinger. His value as an agitator is compromised when Peter falls heir to the very factory where he Read More

Query

Actors: William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, John Slater, Brefni O'Rourke

Synopsis: Future "Doctor Who" star William Hartnell dominates the proceedings in the British drama Query. The story concerns a young stevedore who is falsely accused of manslaughter, and is shipped off to prison. Upon his release, the now-elderely protagonist wreaks vengeance on the man responsible for Read More

The Way Ahead

Actors: David Niven, Raymond Huntley, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway, James Donald

Synopsis: The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army what In Which We Serve had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Read More

The Dark Tower

Actors: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom, Frederick Burtwell

Synopsis: Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in this crime drama that contains the feature film debut of distinguished character actor Herbert Lom who plays a recently hired hypnotist who falls in love with a female Read More

Suspected Person

Actors: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Suspected Person was one of several Associated British Pathe productions released in the U.S. by PRC pictures. Clifford Evans stars as Jim Raynor, one of a trio of American bank robbers. When Raynor flees to England with the loot, he leaves his two accomplices at the mercy of the Law. Winning Read More

Headline

Synopsis: Headline serves as a vehicle for handsome David Farrar, who in 1943 was Britain's fastest-rising leading man. Farrar is cast as Broogle, a crime reporter who'll do anything-ANYTHING-for a story. When the wife of the publisher disappears after witnessing a murder, Broogle ignores Scotland Yard's Read More

The Bells Go Down

Actors: Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Mervyn Johns, Phillip Friend, Philippa Hiatt, William Hartnell, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: The Bells Go Down is a dramatization of London firefighting efforts during the 1940 Blitz. In structure, the film is very much like any other smoke-eating melodrama, with perhaps more emphasis on comedy than usual. The omnipresence of the Luftwaffe gives the film an urgency that others in its Read More

The Peterville Diamond

Synopsis: In this comedy, a work-aholic husband pacifies his complaining, neglected wife by buying her the fabulous Peterville Diamond while they are on vacation in Mexico. He then returns to his work. Meanwhile, a jewel thief learns of her acquisition and begins courting the lonely wife so he can steal the Read More

Flying Fortress

Actors: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart, Charles Heslop

Synopsis: Produced by Britain's Teddington Studios on behalf of Warner Bros., The Flying Fortress stars Richard Greene, who had to be furloughed from the Army to participate in this wartime morale-booster. Greene plays millionaire playboy Jim Spence, a carefree aviation enthusiast whose avocation becomes Read More

Sabotage at Sea

Synopsis: Set during WW II, this drama follows the travails of a cargo ship captain as he launches a desperate search of his vessel for a possible saboteur. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wings and the Woman

Synopsis: Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy, whose fame in the 1930s is such that songs are written about her and a worldwide fan club is organized. See RKO Book. Ms. Johnson's fame exacts a toll on her marriage to Read More

Murder Will Out

Too Dangerous to Live

Actors: Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam, Reginald Tate, Greta Gynt, Ronald Adam

Synopsis: It took two directors to bring this modest British thriller to the screen. The story concerns a gang of international jewel thieves, headed by a "mystery man" who is never seen and who communicates with his minions through a microphone. Rival criminal Jacques LeClerq (Sebastian Shaw) gains the Read More

They Drive by Night

Synopsis: Not to be confused with either Nicholas Ray's melancholic 1949 crime tale They Live by Night or Raoul Walsh's 1940 action-melodrama (which borrowed only its title), this British thriller concerns one flawed man's attempts at clearing his name. They Drive by Night stars Emlyn Williams as Shorty, a Read More

Nothing Like Publicity

Synopsis: In this comedy of mistaken identity, an over-eager press agent "helps" the career of an aspiring actress by having her pretend to be an American heiress. Unfortunately, a female thief is also posing as the heiress. When the real Mc Coy turns up, mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight at the Wax Museum

Synopsis: Largely filmed on location inside Madame Tussaud's Wax museum, this horror movie centers on a banker who bets that he can spend an entire night in the London attraction's notorious Chamber of Horrors. Unfortunately, once there, he discovers himself to be a potential murder victim. ~ Sandra Read More

While Parents Sleep

Synopsis: In this British drawing room comedy, a poor-but-plucky shopgirl decides to teach a prominent family the true meaning of social graces when she begins dating one of the son's. During the relationship, she discovers that his brother has been having an illicit affair with a society matron. The clever Read More

Swinging the Lead

Synopsis: A bungling band of bandits steal a new drug that alters the personalities of those who take it in this comedy. The trouble begins when the gang finds themselves pursued by rivals and the police. A riotous chase ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Perfect Flaw

Synopsis: In this drama, a clerk and another get involved in an easy-money scam. Unfortunately things go horribly awry and the clerk must murder a stockbroker if he is to stay out of jail. Unfortunately, he can't do that either. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Seeing is Believing

The Lure

Synopsis: In this mystery, two men, in love with the same woman go to a house party and trouble ensues. The woman, a widow, is also there. When one of the friends steals a rare gem from his rival's brother, the two begin to argue heatedly. The thief is murdered that night. It is his rival that devises the Read More

I'm an Explosive

Synopsis: In this comedy, everything gets blown out of proportion after a young man, believing that he has drunk an explosive chemical concoction created by his brother begins suing the government. In truth the drink was harmless, but the brother tells no one, leading all to believe that the other brother Read More

Say It with Music

Synopsis: In this musical drama, an amnesiac composer is comforted by a helpful bandleader who uses music and reminiscences to help his friend remember his past. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

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