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Joan Sims - what members say
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
brilliant...... 28 October 2006
review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
6 May 2004
review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales
Not quite as funny as some 13 June 2005
Joan Sims - filmography
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The Canterville Ghost
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Neve Campbell, Donald Sinden
Director: Sydney Macartney
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Oscar Wilde's tale of action, comedy, magic and suspence comes to the screen in this classic film, featuring and array of outstanding stars. When American millionaire Hiram B. Otis and his family move into the historic Canterville Chase, they waste no time in announcing some changes. But little do ..read more »
 
68%
from 255 members
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The Thief And The Cobbler
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Clinton Sundberg, Joan Sims, Stanley Baxter
Director: Richard Williams
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Richard Williams directs this animated Arabian adventure about a lowly cobbler who falls in love with a Princess. Brought to the royal palace after incurring the wrath of evil sorcerer Zigzag (voice of Vincent Price), shy cobbler Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) quickly falls for the charms of ..read more »
67%
from 24 members
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On The Up - Season 2
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Joan Sims, Dennis Waterman, Dennis Waterman
Director: Gareth Gwenlan
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Complete second series of the British television comedy drama, following the trials and tribulations of Tony Carpenter (Dennis Waterman), a self-made millionaire from a working-class background who finds that money doesn't solve everything when he has to deal with a snobbish wife, a tearaway ..read more »
72%
from 382 members
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Miss Marple - A Murder is Announced
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Joan Hickson, Renee Anderson, Joan Sims
Director: David Giles
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The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisment in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday 29th October, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm.' Is it a hoax? As the time approaches, the crowds gather at ..read more »
77%
from 959 members
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Carry On England
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Joan Sims, Judy Geeson, Diane Langton
Director: Gerald Thomas
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In 1940, the commanding officer of a mixed-sex, anti-aircraft battery is powerless to stop his company from fooling around, on and off duty. Another bawdy offering from the 'Carry On' crew, with Patrick Mower and Judy Geeson.
59%
from 1,423 member
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Carry On Behind
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Elke Sommer
Director: Gerald Thomas
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A beautiful Russian archeologist joins a British dig with chaotic results. Things are further complicated by the presence of hordes of glamorous campers at the caravan park next door. Elke Sommer, Kenneth Williams, Windsor Davies and Joan Sims star.
63%
from 1,746 member
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Love Among the Ruins
(1975)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Director: George Cukor
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An ageing actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to destroy her reputation.
90%
from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Joan Sims, Derek Nimmo, Peter Ustinov
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Classic comic espionage caper from Disney studios starring Peter Ustinov and Derek Nimmo. Lord Southmere (Nimmo) hides a top-secret microfilm containing the formula for the mysterious 'Lotus X' in a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London after narrowly escaping from a gang of ..read more »
65%
from 1,525 member
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Carry On Dick
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Sid James
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The notorious highwayman Dick Turpin disguises himself as a vicar to avoid capture in this 'Carry On' costume outing. Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Willliams and Hattie Jacques head the cast.
64%
from 1,750 member
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Not Now, Darling
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Joan Sims, Julie Ege, Moira Lister
Director: David Croft, Ray Cooney
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Madcap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley (Leslie Phillips) plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to 'close the deal'. However, instead of ..read more »
52%
from 118 members
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Carry On Girls
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Jack Dou, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The 'Carry On ' team send up the 'Women's Lib' movement in this outing. Sid Fidler (Sid James) convinces Fircombe council to hold a beauty contest, but the local women's lib action group opposes the idea. With Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Connor and June Whitfield.
51%
from 2,637 members
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Carry On Abroad
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sidney James, June Whitfield., Joan Sims
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The 'Carry On' team put their talents to sending up package holidays in this film. When a group of British tourists arrive on the island of Elsbels, they discover their hotel bears little resemblance to the one on the brochure. Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor and Joan Sims star.
67%
from 2,049 members
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Carry On Matron
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sidney James, Terry Scott, Joan Sims
Director: Gerald Thomas
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A gang of crooks, intent on stealing a huge supply of birth control pills, invade a hospital. Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor star.
66%
from 1,894 member
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Carry On Henry
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Sidney James, Terry Scott, Joan Sims
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The Carry On team present a seaside postcard view of English history, with Sid James as the lecherous Henry VIII, and the likes of Kenneth Williams and Terry Scott providing the background 'ooh-ers'.
65%
from 1,640 member
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Doctor In Trouble
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Joan Sims, Irene Handl, Harry Secombe
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Last in the 'Doctor' series. Troubles befall Dr Burke (Leslie Phillips) when he stows away on an ocean liner and poses as a female photographer. Once more the young doctor runs into the authorative figure of a Spratt, but this time it is Sir Lancelot's brother Captain Spratt (Robert Morley).
62%
from 386 members
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Carry On Loving
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Sid James and Hattie Jacques run a dubious marriage agency in this 'Carry On' outing, which features mistaken identities, mixed-up dates and a custard pie fight. With Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey.
63%
from 1,580 member
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Carry On Camping
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Sidney James, Terry Scott, Joan Sims
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Sid (Sid James) and Bernie (Bernard Bresslaw) attempt to trick their girlfriends into attending a nudist camp with them. Fellow holiday-makers include Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), his matron Miss Haggerd (Hattie Jacques), and their school of overdeveloped young girls (including Barbara Windsor). ..read more »
70%
from 2,223 members
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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sidney James, Joan Sims, Sid James
Director: Gerald Thomas
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In the grim days of the French revolution, citizens Camembert and Bidet are no match for the 'Black Fingernail'. Sid James stars as the heroic Englishman in the 'Carry On' spoof of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. With Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Jim Dale.
68%
from 1,896 member
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Carry On Follow That Camel
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Phil Silvers
Director: Gerald Thomas
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An English gentleman joins the Foreign Legion after having been accused of fraud, and saves a fort from marauding Arabs. Phil Silvers guest stars with Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale and Joan Sims. Originally this was not set to be part of the 'Carry On' series, but the prefix was tacked on to improve ..read more »
66%
from 1,489 member
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Carry On Doctor
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sidney James, Joan Sims, Sid James
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Crazy goings-on in a hospital form the basis of this comedy, in which one man thinks he only has a week to live, while the rest of the patients lead a revolution against the staff. Frankie Howerd joins Sid James and most of the 'Carry On' regulars.
68%
from 1,846 member
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Carry on Screaming
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Joan Sims, Harry H. Corbett, Kenneth Williams
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Twelfth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Detective Bung (Harry H. Corbett) investigates a mad professor (Kenneth Williams) and his sister, who are turning their victims into shop window dummies. Those hamming it up in this Hammer horror spoof include Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan Sims and Fenella ..read more »
70%
from 2,571 members
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Doctor In Clover
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Terry Scott, Joan Sims, Arthur Haynes
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Another entry in the long line of Doctor comedies, this time focusing on the character of Gaston Grimsdyke (Leslie Phillips). A chance meeting with Sir Lancelot Spratt leads the young doctor to a position in a new hospital, which eventually leads to chaos.
62%
from 422 members
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Carry On Cleo
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Joan Sims, Sid James, Kenneth Williams
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Ninth entry in the 'Carry On' series. Ancient British slaves save Caesar (Kenneth Williams) from assassination in Rome, 50 B.C. Meanwhile, Mark Antony (Sid James) romances Egyptian Empress Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie). Revolting Britons include Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey, while Warren ..read more »
68%
from 2,144 members
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Carry on Cowboy
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Joan Sims, Sid James, Kenneth Williams
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Eleventh entry in the 'Carry On' series. Marshall P. Knutt (Jim Dale), a former sanitary engineer, becomes the sheriff of Stodge City in the Wild West and must help a young woman beat the Rumpo Kid (Sid James), the outlaw who shot her father. Those getting off their horses and drinking their milk ..read more »
63%
from 1,706 member
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The Big Job
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Sid James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The Big Job stars James as George the Brain, leader of a gang of inept bank robbers who end up in prison for 15 years, with only the thought of the stolen money that remains hidden keeping them going until their release. However, when the time comes, it seems the tasking of recovering the loot won'..read more »
72%
from 524 members
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Carry On Regardless
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Bill Owen, Joan Sims, Sid James
Director: Gerald Thomas
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Fifth entry in the 'Carry On' series. The head of a temp agency (Sid James) finds that all the people on his books are incapable of performing the odd jobs they are hired for. Eager employees include Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims.
64%
from 1,569 member
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His and Hers
(1961)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
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Thomas stars as Reggie Blake, a novelist who literally lives his stories before then putting pen to paper to retell the crazy adventures that his editor sends him on. After returning from one such experience in the desert a changed man, Blake finds his wife is less than overjoyed with his ..read more »
18%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Doctor In Love
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Irene Handl, Joan Sims, Michael Craig
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Hospital-romance comedy, part of a series of films, with Michael Craig starring as Dr Richard Hare (taking over from Dirk Bogarde's lead role of Simon Sparrow). Hare finds himself a patient at his own hospital and falls for the charms of Nurse Nightingale (Moira Redmond)... and then Dr Barrington (..read more »
62%
from 375 members
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Our House
(1960)
Starring: Joan Sims, hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey
Director: Ernest Maxin
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The three surviving episodes of the 1960s comedy created by Norman Hudis, a prominent scriptwriter on the early 'Carry On' films. The series, which follows a group of eccentric characters who share a house, also features a number of 'Carry On' stars including Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan ..read more »
41%
from 7 members
Not available for rental
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Carry On Teacher
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Joan Sims, Rosalind Knight, Hattie Jacques
Director: Gerald Thomas
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The third film in the 'Carry On' series. Trouble erupts at a secondary school when inspectors arrive to evaluate the teachers' work. A group of pupils (led by a youthful Richard O'Sullivan) who don't want their teacher transferred to a different job play up. Teachers attempting to keep order ..read more »
65%
from 1,725 member
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Life In Emergency Ward 10
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joan Sims, Dorothy Allinson
Director: Robert Day
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Based on the successful TV series, this medical drama follows the doctors and patients in a busy Oxbridge hospital. When an American surgeon arrives to pioneer radical new techniques in heart surgery, he finds his British colleagues suspicious, and when his heart-lung machine fails to save an ..read more »
65%
from 42 members
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The Captain's Table
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: June Jago, Joan Sims, Maurice Denham
Director: Jack Lee
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Comedy from director Jack Lee, in which Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) is delighted to win his dream job at the helm of a luxury liner, only to find that it is riddled with disastrous complications. Ebbs has been a lowly cargo-ship captain his entire life, but dreams of a more glamorous title. When he ..read more »
58%
from 45 members
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Carry On Nurse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Joan Sims, Bill Owen, hattie Jacques
Director: Gerald Thomas
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This was the second 'Carry On' film, and a hit in the United States. The patients in a men's hospital ward decide to revolt against the staff, as led by the indomitable Matron (Hattie Jacques). Troublesome patients include Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. ..read more »
60%
from 2,225 members
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Just My Luck
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
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Determined to win the heart of his beautiful neighbour, Norman (Norman Wisdom) decides he wants to buy her a diamond necklace - but how can he possibly afford it? A solution offers itself when he goes to a bookmaker's, learns the intricacies of the accumulator bet, and sets out on a major winning ..read more »
66%
from 771 members
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The Naked Truth
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Joan Sims, Irene Handl
Director: John Boulting, Mario Zampi, Mari
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Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is an unscrupulous tabloid publisher who is making himself rich by approaching celebrated personages with scandalous stories and offering not to print them for a certain fee. But some of his targets have had enough of this and are drawing up plans to do away with the ..read more »
67%
from 895 members
Currently unavailable
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Keep It Clean
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Joan Sims, Bert Brownhill, Denis Shaw
Director: David Paltenghi
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Classic comedy in which an ad man attempts to promote his brother-in-law's new cleaning machine. He is backed by a member of the Purity League. It isn't easy, but he eventually helps the product go public.
53%
from 85 members
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Doctor At Sea
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Joan Sims, Brigitte Bardot, Jill Adams
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Second in the long-running series of 'Doctor' films. This time Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) becomes a ship's doctor on a sea-going freighter, runs into trouble with the Captain and performs an impromptu appendix operation. Brigitte Bardot appears, in her first British film role, as the love interest.
62%
from 454 members
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San Ferry Ann
on DVD
Starring: Joan Sims, David Lodge, Ron Moody
Director: Jeremy Summers
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Wordless comedy about a British family who embark on a tour of France in a rusty Dormobile. The camper-van family, led by Mum (Joan Sims) and Dad (David Lodge) create chaos from the moment their tyres touch the shore, resulting in frequent run-ins with the Gendarmerie, while lewd Grandad (Wilfred ..read more »
61%
from 59 members
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Tickle On The Tum - Series 1
on DVD
Starring: Joan Sims, Nerys Hughes, John Wells
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The complete first series of the 1980s' ITV pre-school series set in the fictional village of Tickle-on-the-Tum. The series features special guest appearances by Bill Oddie, Tim Healy, John Wells, Burt Kwouk, Mollie Sugden, Nerys Hughes, Penelope Keith and Joan Sims as the local town residents who ..read more »
56%
from 12 members
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The Goodies - At Last A Second Helping
(2 discs)
Starring: Joan Sims, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Frank Windsor
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Eight classic episodes of the anarchic British comedy series, starring Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor. In these episodes the gang open their own pirate radio station, go prospecting for gold, and become punk rockers. Episodes are: 'Radio Goodies'; 'Come Dancing'; 'The Movies'; '..read more »
67%
from 1,323 member
Not available for rental
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Victoria Wood Presents
on DVD
Starring: Joan Sims, Deborah Grant, Anne Reid
Director: Kevin Bishop, Geoff Posner
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After two series of her 1985-6 sketch show 'As Seen on TV', Victoria Wood returns to longer narratives with these slices of comic observation. Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters. ..read more »
70%
from 601 members
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Lord Tramp - Series 1
on DVD
Starring: Joan Sims, Hugh Lloyd, George Moon
Director: Peter Croft
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All six episodes of the 1970s ITV sitcom starring Hugh Lloyd as Hughie Wagstaffe, a down-and-out tramp who is suddenly propelled into the echelons of the landed gentry when he discovers that he has inherited a huge country estate, complete with title and a full complement of servants. Joan Sims co-..read more »
32%
from 22 members
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As Time Goes By - Series 6
on DVD
Starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Philip Bretherton
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In the early 1950s a young army officer and a student nurse fell in love. Meeting up again after 38 years, older, wiser but still capricious, Jean and Lionel discover that love has a different pace and new priorities as time goes by, but that the heat of old flames can be rekindled. Jean thinks ..read more »
70%
from 455 members
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Joan Sims facts
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...Sid James as Mark Anthony. Also included in the cast are Amanda Barrie as Cleo, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Kenneth Connor as well as guest appearances from Sheila Hancock and ...
