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All posts tagged "Stiff upper lips being tested in adversity"
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7.4K9TV: F is for...Fairly Secret Army
GEOFFREY PALMER more or less exported Jimmy off of FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN into Harry Truscott
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8.7K7TV: F is for...
Famous Five, The
MUCH-TRUMPETED “prestige” adaptation of the venerable Blytonian underage derring-do saga
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6.1K4TV: T is for...
Tenko
DIRTY-FACED FEISTY POWS of the fairer sex see out the Second World War in an internment camp in Malaya.
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4.1KFilms: E is for...84 Charing Cross Road
A celebration of London and friendship gets off to a slow, stiff-upper-lipped start
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6.0K13TV: D is for...
Department S/Jason King
ORIGINAL WAS a top MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE UK-style Bentleys and fist-fights spy thrillah
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7.8K8TV: S is for...
Singing Detective, The
THE PINNACLE of Potterism.
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3.7K2TV: R is for...
Reilly, Ace of Spies
TRUE-LIFE ESPIONAGE yarn adapted for the small screen by masterful TROY "EDGE OF..." KENNEDY MARTIN.
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6.1KTV: F is for...
Fortunes of War
TWO COCKTAIL-SIPPING Auden-spouting flappers move to Hungary
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9.3K4TV: W is for...
When the Boat Comes In
JAMES BOLAM laid the memory of THE LIKELY LADS to rest with this grisly 1920s depression-quest.
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7.7KTV: T is for...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ALEC GUINNESS unearths a mole in the British Secret Service very very slowly
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6.4K4TV: S is for...
Secret Army
STIRRING TREMBLE-LIPPED stoicism from the Second World War
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2.9K1TV: B is for...
Bluebell
SUNDAY NIGHT past-your-bedtime Nazi/nightclub confection
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3.5KTV: B is for...
Behind the Lines/Fighter Pilot/The Paras
DEFTLY SURFING the wave of post-Falklands yomp-inspired rejoicing
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3.1KTV: C is for...
Colditz
SUPERLATIVE RECREATION of famed Nazi uber-jail
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3.3K2TV: M is for...
Monocled Mutineer, The
DAILY MAIL-BOTHERING armchair general-alarming Beeb-bashing yarn
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3.0K2TV: M is for...
Man Called Intrepid, A
DAVID NIVEN. Of course.
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2.3KTV: W is for...
Wings
TIM "SON OF EDWARD" WOODWARD and NICHOLAS "BROTHER OF GEMMA" JONES lead dull canter through life in the Royal Flying Corps during...
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4.2K1TV: M is for...
Manhunt
ROISTERING RESISTANCE tales from World War Two France
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4.0K2TV: M is for...
M*A*S*H
"YOUR WEDNESDAY night entertainment on BBC2 continues at 9pm with another helping of..."
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2.4KTV: F is for...
Flight of the Heron, The
MORE PERIOD PALAVER.
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2.3KTV: F is for...
Fourth Arm, The
ANOTHER LOOK-IN on the "real heroes" of World War Two: the undercover ops, preparing for many a-challenging mission snipping telephone lines and...
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5.2K8TV: D is for...
Duncan Dares
POST-BLUE PETER green chequered trouser era PETER DUNCAN daredevil portfolio
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2.8KTV: H is for...
Hogan’s Heroes
HOMER SIMPSON-IDOLISING Hunathon involving dopey Nazi kommandants getting their arse kicked by wise-cracking wacky Yanks for 168,000 episodes.
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2.9KTV: D is for...
Danger UXB
SMASHING WWII bomb disposal expert saga with ANTHONY "BRIDESHEAD" ANDREWS and MAURICE ROEVES heading a team of sappers clearing up Adolf's mess...
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3.9K4TV: S is for...
Spy Force
SECOND WORLD war adventures of a bunch of characters played by actors who seemed to star in every other Australian film and...
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2.5KTV: S is for...
Secret War
MINUTE DETAILS of Messherschmitts, hush-hush plots and assorted explosive devices in the Wednesday evening documentary slot after the news.
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