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The Magician (1969)
Character: Steve
The Gang engage Marvo the Magician for Peewee's birthday party, but unfortunately all his magic misfires, and he loses Stodger in his special cabinet. Still searching for Stodger, Marvo makes himself disappear.
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A Moment in Time (1979)
Character: Splodge
Young Elizabeth's quiet village life in Kent changes in the summer of 1940 with the arrival of a group of RAF officers. Adaptation of the novel by H E Bates.
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The Magnificent Six and ½: A Good Deed in Time (1969)
Character: Steve
When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of the window, not realising that his ladder has gone!
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The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape (1969)
Character: Steve
Toby tries on a dummy ape skin which is intended for the local jumble sale, and is mistaken for a real ape which has escaped from a travelling circus. Peewee manages to befriend the real ape by giving him a bunch of bananas.
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The Magnificent Six and ½: The Astronoughts (1969)
Character: Steve
Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk.
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The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (1983)
Character: Henry Dakins
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
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Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
Character: Idris
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
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A Mind To Kill (1991)
Character: John Hammond
A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
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if.... (1968)
Character: Machin
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Character: Master Plum
Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love — and Shakespeare's play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship intensifies, the comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Character: Mark Vespers
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.
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One Foot in the Grave: Endgame (1997)
Character: Rambler
The Meldrews make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbors; Victor buys a haunted caravan and accidentally kidnaps the mother of an Indian millionaire.
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Britannia Hospital (1982)
Character: Adrian
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
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