John Laurie Movies

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the...

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in...

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building

Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop. Despite...