Joan Sims Movies
Mischievious blonde British actress Joan Sims spent most of her formative film days playing cameo roles as brash cockneys. Often her characters had cultural pretensions, making her East End accent all the more amusing. Sims came to films from the stage and television in the early '50s. As her roles increased in size, so did her waistline, allowing her to play a wider variety (no pun intended)... (read more) of comedy character parts. She joined up with the looney Carry On gang in 1960, remaining with the troupe for all but five of its films. She remained a regular with the comedy aggregation right through its tawdriest days in such non-epics as Carry on Emmanuelle (1978). When the Carry-On'ers packed it in after this film, so did Joan Sims, who for all her chumminess on camera was in reality a lonely and retiring person. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
As Time Goes By: Series 09
2002
The ninth and final season of As Time Goes By finds Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) trying to smooth the rocky romantic path for his stepdaughter Judy (Moira Brooker), who...
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the...
As Time Goes By: Series 08
2000
The eighth season of As Time Goes By finds golden-age sweethearts Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench) fretting over the breakup of the romance between...
As Time Goes By: Series 07
1998
Season seven of As Time Goes By details the future misadventures of golden-age lovers Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean (Judi Dench), beginning with Jean's...
As Time Goes By: Series 06
1997
The sixth season of As Time Goes By finds senior-citizen newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) more or less adjusted to their...
As Time Goes By: Series 05
1996
Season five of As Time Goes By picks up where the previous season left off: with sixtysomething newlyweds Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Jean Parteger (Judi...
The Canterville Ghost
PG 1996
This modern TV-movie update of the Oscar Wilde tale is noteworthy for a grandiose performance by Patrick Stewart as the melancholy spectre of Sir Simon Canterville, doomed...
As Time Goes By: Series 04
1995
The fourth season of As Time Goes By finds acerbic author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) upset over the fact that his sweetheart, Jean Parteger (Judi Dench),...
As Time Goes By: Series 03
1994
Season three of As Time Goes By finds sixtyish author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and like-vintage businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) deciding to...
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation, which originally aired on BBC2 from November...
As Time Goes By: Series 02
1993
In the second season of As Time Goes By, author Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and businesswoman Jean Parteger (Judi Dench) are still toying with the notion of...
Victoria Wood [TV Series]
1989
Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to the anthology format in this six-episode offering....
A Murder Is Announced
1987
Joan Hickson stars as Miss Jane Marple in this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery tales. An odd advertisement appears in the...
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 2
1986
In the second episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of a Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker) faces a death sentence unless he can prove that his breaking of...
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 3
1986
In the third episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of the Time Lord," the Doctor (Colin Baker), on trial for his life, is confronted with videotaped evidence...
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 1
1986
Returning to television after an overlong hiatus (save for a brief "revival" in the BBC radio serial "Slipback"), Doctor Who launched its 23rd season on September 6, 1986....
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord, Episode 4
1986
In the fourth episode of the season-long continuity "The Trial of the Time Lord," the Valeyard (Michael Jayston) uses videotaped evidence in hopes of proving that {%the...
Deceptions
1985
Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous globetrotter; Stefanie #2 is a drab New Jersey housewife. On a...
Born and Bred [TV Series]
1978
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Carry On Emmannuelle
R 1978
The Carry On series is living on fumes in this late entry. An unofficial burlesque of the Emmanuelle series (albeit with a single modification: the spelling of the name was...