Joan Hickson Movies

Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her...

Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some...

43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet...

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent...

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack...

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.