John Bird
- Title: John Bird
- Popularity: 2.006
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1936-11-22
- Place of Birth: Nottingham, England, UK
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6 1977 HD
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures....
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Michael Palin
4.4 1991 HD
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...
Genre: Action
Cast: Emma Samms
4 1972 HD
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Warren Mitchell
7.5 1989 HD
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Bird
1 1995 HD
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. “marvelous, engrossing tribute” Allison...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Peter Cook
6.7 2003 HD
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend...
Genre:
Cast: Sinéad Cusack
1 1999 HD
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...
Genre: History
Cast: Paul Rhys
5.5 1970 HD
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Oliver Reed
1 1990 HD
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Edward Fox
2 1970 HD
The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Richard Warwick
1 2003 HD
The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....
Genre:
Cast: John Fortune
4.2 1968 HD
A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Dudley Moore
6 1982 HD
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums –...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rowan Atkinson
3.6 1969 HD
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: David Hemmings
1 1996 HD
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Clare Holman
7 1981 HD
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jonathan Pryce
6.5 1979 HD
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Colin Welland
5 1979 HD
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Zero Mostel
2.2 1969 HD
Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Victor Spinetti
1 1980 HD
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Alderton
8 1980 HD
Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Ian McShane
7 1970 HD
Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rory Bremner
7.24 1966 HD
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...
Genre: Family
Cast: Anne-Marie Mallik
6.2 1976 HD
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Alan Arkin
1 1985 HD
Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Patricia Hayes
7.8 1980 HD
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Simon Chandler
4.9 1985 HD
Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tim Curry
6 1982 HD
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Michael Hordern
1 1979 HD
When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Patrick Magee
1 1983 HD
Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...
Genre: History
Cast: Warren Clarke
1 1992 HD
David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anton Rodgers
5.5 1987 HD
The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Simon Fox
1 1981 HD
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...
Genre:
Cast: Robert Hardy
1 1988 HD
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.
Genre:
Cast: Gerald Scarfe
6.8 1968 HD
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is...
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Laurence Harvey
2.2 1973 HD
Genre: Crime
Cast: Jirō Tamiya
7 1970 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rory Bremner
6.6 1999 HD
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Dawn French
1 2001 HD
Comedy about a group of barristers who never let justice get in the way of making pots of money.
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Cast: John Bird
7.529 2005 HD
Stephen Fry and John Bird star as spin doctors Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe as they bring the popular and satirical Radio 4 comedy Absolute...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Bird
7.5 2014 HD
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Alan Davies
8 1988 HD
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: David Troughton
1 2008 HD
Rory Bremner takes a satirical look at the 2008 'credit crunch'. He spoofs politicians and other public figures to tell the story of the US and UK...
Genre:
Cast: Rory Bremner
7.8 1993 HD
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector...
Genre: Crime
Cast: John Thaw
5 2012 HD
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Cleese
6 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune
6.5 1985 HD
A British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julie Walters
7.1 1994 HD
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Imogen Stubbs
8.355 1988 HD
James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Paul Eddington
1 1968 HD
Genre:
Cast: Edward Hardwicke
6 1990 HD
British sitcom about a role reversed married couple.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Hannah Gordon
1 1983 HD
Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do...
Genre:
Cast: Charlotte Coleman
6 2025 HD
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind,...
Genre:
Cast: Clive Myrie
1 1965 HD
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965,...
Genre:
Cast: Roy Hudd
1 1992 HD
Genre:
Cast: John Fortune
1 1998 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Bird
1 1977 HD
Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
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1 1976 HD
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Cast: John Bird
5.2 1985 HD
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
1 2016 HD
Four famous volunteers agree to swap their lavish lifestyles, fame and fortune for a world of sleeping rough, soup runs and hostels.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Kim Woodburn
1 1967 HD
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Cast: John Bird
1 1975 HD
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Cast: Derek Fowlds
1 1967 HD
Genre:
Cast: Millicent Martin
7.9 1995 HD
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Stephen Fry
6 1998 HD
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Genre: Drama
Cast:
5 1984 HD
An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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1 2006 HD
Using witness testimony, archive and archaeological evidence, this three-part series reveals the untold story of the preparations to defend World War...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: John Bird
7.5 2014 HD
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Alan Davies
7.2 1998 HD
Second incarnation of the childrens puppet show, picking up almost directly where "The Sooty show" left off Sooty, Sweep, Soo and little cousin...
Genre: Kids
Cast: Matthew Corbett
5 1986 HD
Peter Bowles gives a memorable performance as Fleet Street's most successful gossip columnist, Neville Lytton. Co-created by Bowles, this highly...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Peter Bowles
7.3 1982 HD
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Richard O'Sullivan
8 1988 HD
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: David Troughton
1 1992 HD
Two British police officers uproot themselves and move to Spain. They watch ex-pat British mobsters.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Bird
6.2 1998 HD
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Warren Clarke
1 1969 HD
A British send-up of news magazine programmes, celebrities, and broadcasters that proudly declared “no matter where in the world news is being...
Genre:
Cast: Angela Thorne
7.1 2024 HD
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Paul Merton
4.2 1981 HD
Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ian McKellen
6.1 1984 HD
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
7 1983 HD
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
7.513 2000 HD
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Richard Wilson
4.2 1981 HD
Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ian McKellen
6.1 1984 HD
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
6.1 1984 HD
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
6.1 1984 HD
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
7.5 2003 HD
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
7.5 2024 HD
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Neil Dudgeon
6.4 1993 HD
Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Richard Madeley
1 1986 HD
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rik Mayall
6.6 1987 HD
Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Nigel Planer
6.3 1990 HD
Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Reece Dinsdale
7.5 1987 HD
Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Amelia Shankley
1 1989 HD
Drama centering on the cases of the celebrated London barrister of the Victorian era, Edward Marshall Hall.
Genre:
Cast: Jonathan Hyde
6 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune
1 1967 HD
Genre:
Cast: John Bird
6 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune