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Brenda Bruce, the Glossary

Brenda Bruce OBE (7 July 1919Some sources cite 17 July 1919. – 19 February 1996) was an English actress.^[1]

118 relations: A Family at War, A Mad World, My Masters, A Perfect Spy, Aldwych Theatre, All Creatures Great and Small (film), Antonia and Jane, Armchair Theatre, Armchair Thriller, Aunt Dahlia, BBC, BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television Shakespeare, Bedtime Stories (1974 TV series), Behind the Mask (1958 film), Bergerac (TV series), Betsey Trotwood, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, Budgie (TV series), Carnival (1946 film), Casualty (TV series), Clement McCallin, Connie (TV series), Crown Court (TV series), David Copperfield (1986 TV serial), December Bride (film), Doctor Who, Doll Tearsheet, Don't Ever Leave Me, Douglas Fairbanks Presents, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, England, Goodbye Cruel World (TV series), Happy Days (play), Harnessing Peacocks (film), Honey for Tea, Host Planet Earth, Hugh Laurie, I Live in Grosvenor Square, I See a Dark Stranger, Jean Genet, Jeeves and Wooster, Knock on Any Door (TV series), Lancashire, Law and Disorder (1958 film), Little Dorrit (1987 film), Little Murders, ... Expand index (68 more) »
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A Family at War

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972.

A Mad World, My Masters

A Mad World, My Masters is a Jacobean stage play written by Thomas Middleton, a comedy first performed around 1605 and first published in 1608.

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A Perfect Spy

A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British-Irish author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer.

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Aldwych Theatre

The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster, central London.

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All Creatures Great and Small (film)

All Creatures Great and Small is a 1975 British film (copyrighted in 1974), directed by Claude Whatham and starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins as Yorkshire vets James Herriot and Siegfried Farnon.

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Antonia and Jane

Antonia and Jane is a 1990 comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and starring Saskia Reeves and Imelda Staunton in the title roles, shown in ScreenPlay on 18 July 1990.

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Armchair Theatre

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

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Armchair Thriller

Armchair Thriller is a British television drama series broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980 in two seasons.

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Aunt Dahlia

Dahlia Travers (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Light Programme

The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

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Bedtime Stories (1974 TV series)

Bedtime Stories was an anthology series of six plays that were '1974 versions of well-loved tales' and intended as a sequel to 1972's Dead of Night.

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Behind the Mask (1958 film)

Behind the Mask (also known as The Pack) is a 1958 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen and Lionel Jeffries.

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Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British crime drama television series.

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Betsey Trotwood

Betsey Trotwood is a fictional character from Charles Dickens' 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent trade association and charity that supports, develops, and promotes the arts of film, television and video games in the United Kingdom.

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British Academy Television Award for Best Actress

This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress. Brenda Bruce and British Academy Television Award for Best Actress are best Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners.

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Budgie (TV series)

Budgie is a British television series starring popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972.

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Carnival (1946 film)

Carnival is a 1946 British drama film about a ballet dancer of the Edwardian era, directed by Stanley Haynes and starring Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway and Jean Kent.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty (stylised as CASUAL+Y since 1997) is a British medical drama series that is broadcast on BBC One.

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Clement McCallin

Clement Schuyler McCallin (6 March 1913 – 7 August 1977) was a British actor from London.

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Connie (TV series)

Connie is a 1985 British television drama series.

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Crown Court (TV series)

Crown Court is a British television courtroom drama series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network.

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David Copperfield (1986 TV serial)

David Copperfield is a 10 episode BBC serial broadcast between 19 October and 21 December 1986 and based on the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

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December Bride (film)

December Bride is a film produced in Ireland in 1990 and released on 29 November 1991.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Doll Tearsheet

Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 2.

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Don't Ever Leave Me

Don't Ever Leave Me is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley.

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Douglas Fairbanks Presents

Douglas Fairbanks Presents is a 1953–1956 syndicated half-hour dramatic anthology series.

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Dr. Finlay's Casebook

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Goodbye Cruel World (TV series)

Goodbye Cruel World is a 1992 British drama starring Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong and Brenda Bruce.

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Happy Days (play)

Happy Days is a play in two acts, written by Samuel Beckett first performed in 1961.

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Harnessing Peacocks (film)

Harnessing Peacocks is a 1993 British television film directed by James Cellan Jones and starring Serena Scott Thomas, Peter Davison and John Mills.

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Honey for Tea

Honey for Tea is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 in 1994.

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Host Planet Earth

Host Planet Earth was a BBC radio serial consisting of six half-hour episodes which were originally broadcast on the Light Programme between July and September 1967.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician.

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I Live in Grosvenor Square

I Live in Grosvenor Square is a British comedy-drama romance war film directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox.

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I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger – released as The Adventuress in the United States – is a 1946 British World War II spy film with touches of light comedy, starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard.

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Jean Genet

Jean Genet (–) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

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Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.

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Knock on Any Door (TV series)

Knock on Any Door is a British television anthology series which aired for two series in 1965–1966 (nine episodes in first series, eleven episodes in second series).

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Law and Disorder (1958 film)

Law and Disorder is a 1958 British crime comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Joan Hickson, and Lionel Jeffries.

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Little Dorrit (1987 film)

Little Dorrit is a 1987 film adaptation of the 1857 novel Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.

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Little Murders

Little Murders is a 1971 American black comedy film directed by Alan Arkin, in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Love in Albania

Love in Albania is a comedy play by the British writer Eric Linklater, which was originally performed in 1949.

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Lovejoy

Lovejoy is a British television comedy-drama mystery series, based on the novels by John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash.

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Marry Me! (1949 film)

Marry Me! (alternative title: I Want to Get Married) is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh and David Tomlinson.

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Mary Britten, M.D.

Mary Britten, M.D. is a British television series which originally aired on ITV in 1958.

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Men of the World

Men of the World was a 1990s BBC1 situation comedy which starred David Threlfall and John Simm.

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Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail.

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My Brother's Keeper (film)

My Brother's Keeper is a 1948 British crime film in the form of a convicts-on-the-run chase thriller, directed by Alfred Roome for Gainsborough Pictures.

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Night Boat to Dublin

Night Boat to Dublin is a 1946 British thriller film directed and co-written by Lawrence Huntington.

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Nightmare (1964 film)

Nightmare is a 1964 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis and starring Jennie Linden.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Paradise Towers

Paradise Towers is the second serial of the 24th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 October 1987.

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Peeping Tom (1960 film)

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley.

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Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident is a 1946 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby and Leslie Dwyer.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Play of the Week (TV series)

Play of the Week is a 90-minute British television anthology series produced for the ITV network by a variety of companies including Granada Television, Associated-Rediffusion, ATV and Anglia Television.

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Prestwich

Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester, north of Salford and south of Bury.

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Quiet as a Nun

Quiet as a Nun is a thriller novel, written by Antonia Fraser.

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.

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Riders (1993 film)

Riders, also called Jilly Cooper's Riders, is a 1993 British television film based on Jilly Cooper's 1985 book of the same name in the Rutshire Chronicles series.

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Roy Rich

Roy Rich (16 September 1911 – 24 March 1970) was a British broadcaster and film and theatre director.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) (originally called the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre) is a Grade II* listed 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator.

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Screen Two

Screen Two is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing Screen 2 between April 1977 and March 1978).

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Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. The Cases of Sherlock Holmes) are two British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by the BBC in 1965 and 1968 respectively.

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Softly, Softly (TV series)

Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966.

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Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British black comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost.

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St James's Theatre

The St James's Theatre was in King Street, St James's, London.

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Steaming (film)

Steaming is a British drama film directed by Joseph Losey, released in 1985, the year after his death. The last film that Losey directed, it was adapted by Nell Dunn and Patricia Losey from Dunn's play of the same name. The film was screened out of competition at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The story is about the women who meet regularly in a Russian-style Steam bath and decide to fight its closure.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.

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Swallows and Amazons (1974 film)

Swallows and Amazons is a 1974 British film adaption of the 1930 novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome.

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That'll Be the Day (film)

That'll Be the Day is a 1973 British coming of age drama film directed by Claude Whatham, written by Ray Connolly, and starring David Essex, Rosemary Leach and Ringo Starr.

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The Balcony

The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet.

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The Beaux' Stratagem

The Beaux' Stratagem is a comedy by George Farquhar, first produced at the Theatre Royal, now the site of Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707.

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The Devil's Crown

The Devil's Crown is a BBC television series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard I and John.

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The Final Test

The Final Test is a 1953 British sports film written by Terence Rattigan, directed by Anthony Asquith, and starring Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph and Ray Jackson.

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The First Lady (British TV series)

The First Lady is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1968 and 1969.

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The Mad Death

The Mad Death is a television serial made by BBC Scotland.

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The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)

The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1977 television film loosely adapted from the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas and presenting several plot similarities with the 1939 film version.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

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The Motorola Television Hour

The Motorola Television Hour is an hourlong anthology series that alternated biweekly with The United States Steel Hour on ABC.

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The New Statesman (1987 TV series)

The New Statesman is a British sitcom made in the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative government of the period.

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The Return of the Antelope

The Return of the Antelope was a UK TV series aired on ITV between 1986 and 1988 written by Willis Hall, directed and produced by Eugene Ferguson and composed by Wilfred Josephs.

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The Riff Raff Element

The Riff Raff Element is a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC One.

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The Tenth Man (novel)

The Tenth Man is a 1985 short novel by the British novelist Graham Greene.

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The Uncle

The Uncle is a 1965 British drama film directed by Desmond Davis and starring Rupert Davies.

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The Virgin Soldiers

The Virgin Soldiers is a 1966 comic novel by Leslie Thomas, inspired by his own experiences of National Service in the British Army.

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The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970.

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

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Theatre Night

Theatre Night is the umbrella title under which adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays were usually broadcast on BBC 2 between 15 September 1985 and 21 July 1990.

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They Came to a City

They Came to a City is a 1944 British black-and-white film directed by Basil Dearden and starring John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley, Renee Gadd and A. E. Matthews.

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Bruce

, London, Love in Albania, Lovejoy, Marry Me! (1949 film), Mary Britten, M.D., Men of the World, Millions Like Us, My Brother's Keeper (film), Night Boat to Dublin, Nightmare (1964 film), Order of the British Empire, Paradise Towers, Peeping Tom (1960 film), Piccadilly Incident, Play for Today, Play of the Month, Play of the Week (TV series), Prestwich, Quiet as a Nun, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Riders (1993 film), Roy Rich, Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Samuel Beckett, Screen Two, Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series), Softly, Softly (TV series), Splitting Heirs, St James's Theatre, Steaming (film), Stephen Fry, Sunday Night Theatre, Swallows and Amazons (1974 film), That'll Be the Day (film), The Balcony, The Beaux' Stratagem, The Devil's Crown, The Final Test, The First Lady (British TV series), The Mad Death, The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Motorola Television Hour, The New Statesman (1987 TV series), The Return of the Antelope, The Riff Raff Element, The Tenth Man (novel), The Uncle, The Virgin Soldiers, The Wednesday Play, The Winter's Tale, Theatre Night, They Came to a City, Thirty-Minute Theatre, Two on the Tiles, Ubu Roi, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vaudeville Theatre, Weekend Playhouse, When the Bough Breaks (1947 film), When the Wind Blows (comics), While the Sun Shines, White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), Worlds Beyond (TV series), 1962 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, 1985 New Year Honours.

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