Jimmy Jewel

Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more. The North of England has always enjoyed its own very particular brand of comedy, best seen today in Coronation Street. 80 years ago however Mancunian Studios produced feature films for the northern masses. Funny Up North tells the story of the Mancunian Studios, its eccentric owner John E Blakeley and its cavalcade of stars including such household names as Arthur Askey, Jimmy Jewell, George Formby and the legendary Frank Randle. Hosted by Professor Chris Lee, the authority on northern cinema, Funny Up North takes you on a journey from its humble beginnings to its sad demise in the 1960s.

A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to live without her

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.

런던 토박이임을 자랑으로 여기는 바이올렛(Violet Kray: 빌리 화이트로 분)은 1934년 쌍둥이 아들 로날드(Ronald Kray: 게리 켐프 분)와 레지날드(Reggie Kray: 마틴 켐프 분)를 낳는다. 전쟁의 혼란 속에서도 두 아이를 끔찍히 키웠지만, 성장한 두 아들은 거리를 주름잡는 불량배 조직의 두목으로 부상한다. 처절한 싸움 끝에 쌍둥이 형제가 런던을 장악한 것이다. 동생 레지날드는 양가집 규수와 결혼도 하지만, 아내 프란시스(Frances: 케이트 하디 분)가 암흑가 내부 생활에 적응하지 못해 자살한다. 레지날드는 폐인이 되다시피하고, 조직을 떠나 슬픔에 빠진다. 자연히 조직의 기강은 해이해지고 여지껏 쌍둥이의 위력에 숨죽이던 세력들이 기지개를 켜기 시작한다. 위기를 느낀 로날드는 동생과 조직을 구하기 위해 반대 세력의 소탕작전을 펴서 두 세력을 철저하게 응징한다. 그러나 쌍둥이도 결국은 법망에 걸려 종신형을 선고받고, 현재 수감 중인데..

The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.

England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests him, until he meets a mysterious woman in a van, who seems to be on the run from the authorities.

Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.

Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and Nellie Pledge dies, they are left in charge of his pickle empire. The two siblings are completely different and Eli wants out of the business, but he can't leave until Nellie is married. So Eli sets about finding a husband for his old-fashioned sister.

A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.

Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.

Two clumsy detectives investigating the murder of a singer scare themselves when they accidentally reveal the killer to be a respectable psychiatrist, secretly a notorious jewel-thief. A rare film venture by this top radio comedy team.

Northern comedy greats, Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, decide to enlist in the army. Their singing sergeant-major, the Irish tenor Josef Locke, misappropriates the mess funds. When he picks on Jewel and Warriss, the duo’s comic routines come thick and fast.