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Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and a... (1960–1965) and Sykes and a Big, Big Show (1971). Forty-three of the 1970s colour episodes were remakes of scripts for the 1960s black and white series, such as "Bus" based on 'Sykes and a Following' from 1964 and the episode "Stranger" with guest star Peter Sellers based on 'Sykes and a Stranger' from 1961.
Sykes had the same premise as Sykes and A... with Sykes, Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler reprising their former identical roles. The series was brought to an end by the death of Hattie Jacques of a heart attack on 6 October 1980.
With the same premise as Sykes and A..., unmarried twins Eric and Harriet (Hat) Sykes are now living at an end of terrace house, 28 Sebastopol Terrace, East Acton, two doors down from their house in the previous programme. As before, Eric is childish and accident-prone while Hattie is patient. Their neighbour is the snobbish unmarried Charles Fulbright-Brown, and PC Corky Turnbull is the local policeman. Corky's wife, Elsie, is unseen, except for one episode, Caravan, in which she appears with her face covered in porridge during a food fight between Corky and Eric. Deryck Guyler also played Corky's brother Wilfred Turnbull, a train attendant on the Glasgow to London sleeper train, in the episode Journey.
Actors: Kate Korbel (actress), Jim Sweeney (actor), Joe Rainbow (actor), Eric Colvin (actor), Ian McIntyre (actor), Simon Burbage (actor), Georgia Winters (actress), Amy Leyshon (miscellaneous crew), Marcelo Vianna (editor), Jake Hawkins (producer), Mike Duran (actor), Andy Phelps (actor), Danny Brown (actor), Leon King (actor), Jake Hawkins (actor),
Plot: Fifteen months after the zombie apocalypse, and a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they discover a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
Keywords: zombieActors: David Paris (miscellaneous crew), Jay Oliver (actor), Charlie French (miscellaneous crew), John Arbuckle (miscellaneous crew), Quentin Pierre (miscellaneous crew), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (actor), Trisha Burton (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Tom Cruise (actor), Melissa Leo (actress), Morgan Freeman (actor), Matthew H. O'Connor (miscellaneous crew), Marlene Stewart (costume designer), Claire Raskind (miscellaneous crew), David Allsberry (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Keywords: 2070s, aerial-drone, air-battle, aircraft, alien, alien-invasion, artificial-intelligence, bare-chested-male, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-bookActors: Cody Westheimer (composer), Frank Mosley (actor), Grant James (actor), Gabriel Horn (actor), Brandon Baker (producer), Gabriel Horn (miscellaneous crew), Brandon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Juli Erickson (actress), Frank Mosley (editor), Frederick Trevino (actor), Benjamin Wilbanks (actor), Reece Rios (actor), Jonny Cruz (writer), Jonny Cruz (director), Jonny Cruz (producer),
Plot: Three small-time crooks with dreams of hitting a big score just can't seem to get anything right. But when they accidentally stumble across a priceless erotic statuette known as Caesar's Phallus they find themselves on a whole new level of high-jinks and danger as they are pursued by a ruthless art collector and his hired hitman
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime,Actors: Michael Sheen (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), Michael Cochrane (actor), Sally Hawkins (actress), Branka Katic (actress), Jacek Koman (actor), Dermot Crowley (actor), Andy Callaghan (actor), Leanne Klein (producer), James Kent (director), Sias Wilson (producer), Nick Powell (composer), Gregor Lyon (editor), June Nevin (costume designer), Thomas-James Fisher (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Debbie Wiseman (composer), Paul Brooke (actor), Renée Glynne (miscellaneous crew), Jake West (actor), Norman Mitchell (actor), James Purefoy (actor), Christopher Adamson (actor), Don Warrington (actor), Tim Dennison (producer), Pat Kelman (actor), Bob Goody (actor), Rachel Shelley (actress), Christopher Dunne (actor), Gary Smith (producer), Paul Green (editor),
Plot: A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor has made it ashore before them. Murderous psychotic, Leo Rook, who not only had a hand in the ship's sinking but has decapitated all but one of the island's lighthouse crew. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they know that since they've learned that Leo survived going down with the ship he can't let any of them live and is hellbent on adding their severed heads to his collection.
Keywords: abandoning-ship, axe, bathroom, black-and-white-flashback, blood-on-face, blood-splatter, boat-on-fire, body-part, camera-shot-of-feet, chainsActors: Fernando Rey (actor), José Luis Chinchilla (miscellaneous crew), Esther García (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Myers (composer), Harry Alan Towers (producer), Frank Braña (actor), Harry Alan Towers (writer), Aldo Sambrell (actor), Donald Pleasence (actor), Robert Louis Stevenson (writer), Oliver Reed (actor), Ralph Brown (actor), Andrés Vicente Gómez (producer), Geoffrey Foot (editor), John Hough (director),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Anthony Perkins (actor), Ava Gardner (actress), Bill Hunter (miscellaneous crew), Frederic Knudtson (editor), Sam Freedle (miscellaneous crew), Stanley Kramer (producer), John Meillon (actor), Ernest Gold (composer), Stanley Kramer (director), Gregory Peck (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Guy Doleman (actor), Ray Marshall (actor), Delos Jewkes (actor), Gerry Duggan (actor),
Plot: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, anti-war, apocalypse, armageddon, australia, based-on-novel, blockbuster, car-explosion, champagneActors: John Trumper (editor), Richard Wattis (actor), Sean Barrett (actor), Mark Dignam (actor), Donald Ogden Stewart (writer), John Rae (actor), Alastair Sim (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), John Mills (actor), Rita Davison (miscellaneous crew), Philip Leacock (director), Marie Lohr (actress), Andrew Ray (actor), Bruce Montgomery (composer), Roger MacDougall (writer),
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Plot: In his will Langham leaves his ranch to his daughter Cody but makes Gene the executor. When Gene refuses to let her marry Cummings, Cummings tries to have Gene killed. Cummings now demands money and Cody stages a fake kidnaping to raise it. But the plan backfires when Cummings learns of the hoax and turns it into a real kidnaping.
Keywords: accident, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, cattle, chase, cowboy, dancing, extortion, female-impersonation, fistfight, gunfire