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Derrick Branche
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The Comic Strip Presents...
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.
Blake's 7
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Father Ted
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Only When I Laugh
Only When I Laugh is an ITV1 sitcom broadcast from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982 for four series with seven episodes each, and a Christmas special in 1981. The title is the answer to the question, "Does it hurt?" A naïve middle-class man is admitted to an NHS hospital ward, shared with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. The trio never fail to cause a nuisance for the poor, unsuspecting staff.
The Jewel in the Crown
In India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
Life at Stake
A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
Into the Labyrinth
Three children stumble upon imprisoned sorcerer Rothgo and are drawn into a mysterious search through time for the magical Nidus, which has been stolen by the evil witch Belor.
Wipe Out
Prison psychologist John Fairling heads a secretive research project, aimed at controlling the inmates' minds but instead encouraging their evil urges. After three warders are murdered, Fairling disappears and all records of him are wiped.
Mitch
Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.
Black Silk
Black Silk is a ground breaking 8-part BBC drama series broadcast in 1985. Created by Mustapha Matura and Rudy Narayan, it stars Rudolph Walker as Larry Scott, a charismatic, politically ambitious, and fiercely driven Black barrister advocating for minority communities in London. The series primarily follows Larry Scott taking on tough, complex legal cases while balancing his career with pressing events in his personal and professional life. Alongside Scott, the show highlights key characters like his clerk Julie Smythe, played by Kika Markham, and his mother Marjorie Scott, portrayed by Mona Hammond
My Beautiful Laundrette
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
The Sicilian
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Bloodline
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.
Tai-Pan
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.