Released: 14 Honourable 2000 (source: Fake of Books)
Publisher: Carlton Video Ltd
Discs: 1
Separate No.: 37115 00943
EAN: 5 037115 009432
BBFC Certification: PG
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Arrival • The Chimes of Approximate Ben A. B. put up with C. • Free Instruct All
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Released: 14 August 2000 (source: World make acquainted Books)
Publisher: Carlton Telecasting Ltd
Discs: 1
Catalogue No.: 37115 00953
EAN: 5 037115 009531
BBFC Certification: PG
Region Code: 2
Design: Adam Tobias
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The Schizoid Guy • Representation General Patronize Happy Returns • Advise of
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❉ Thirty years after her death, Nina Bea looks back at Carol White’s work to explore what defined her cinematic presence.
As a teenager in the early 1990s, I began to stay up late with my mother to share the joy of watching the films of her youth. As the 1960s nostalgia machine whirred into action, pictures from that era were being dusted down again for TV repeats (before the DVD boom or streaming came along). For us, catching a modern classic in the late-night schedules was event TV.
While I loved the films that depicted the aspirational lifestyles of the ‘Swinging’ London scene, my attention was mostly piqued by those that focused on realism. And for me, no figure I saw on screen epitomised realism quite as well as Carol White.
It was 30 years ago this autumn that Carol White died in her adopted home of the USA – and it was 30 years ago that I first saw the film that could arguably be described as both her career high and the role she was defined by: Cathy Come Home.
Some years passed before I watched Cathy Come Home a second time, but I could always vividly recall the scene that underscored the central characters’ descent into abject poverty: Cathy and Reg (Ray Brooks) barricading themselves inside a dilapidated terraced house, toddlers screaming, as
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The Prisoner
British science fiction television series (1967–1968)
This article is about the 1967 British TV series. For other uses, see Prisoner (disambiguation).
The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein.[2] McGoohan portrays Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position.[3] The allegorical plotlines of the series contain elements of science fiction, psychological drama, and spy fiction.[4] It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.[4]
A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968, with exterior location filming primarily taking place in the Welsh seaside village of Portmeirion. Interior scenes were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 5 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968.[5] Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mould of Danger Man, McGoohan's previous series, its surreal and Kafkaesque setting and reflection of concern