27 October 1986 Drama, TV Movie 72 mins
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
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Shaughan Seymour as Cecil Madden
Nicholas Farrell as David
Caroline Embling as Florence
Nicola King as Wendy
Jill Balcon as Miss Stanley
Mike Lewin as Mr Thomas
Roger Booth as Commissionaire
Leila Hoffman as Ellen Townsend
Graham Cull as Mr Kingsley
Anthony Calf as Leslie Mitchell
Dave Hill as Mr Bliss
Ron Meadows as Stage Manager
Maev Alexander as Jasmine Bligh
Nadio Fortune as Toni
John Flint as Gerald Cock
Leon Lissek as Isaac Shoenberg
United Kingdom 27 October 1986
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Reconstituição dos primórdios do serviço de Televisão da BBC de Londres. Em 1986 por ocasião do aniversário de 50 anos das primeiras transmissões de ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1986:
23 December 1986
Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby at any moment, is anything but thrilled.
16 May 1986
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true.
24 December 1986
The paths of many people cross before Christmas Eve. Each of them has their own special story to tell on this day.
25 September 1986
An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
01 January 1986
A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.
06 December 1986
What are Ilona Herfurt and her boyfriend Dietmar Freistrath doing in the old mine? Where does the money come from that her son Jimmy finds under the newspaper? Where have the unique and intricately carved works of art, often passed down for generations, disappeared to from the village in the Ore Mountains? What do the carver Gerlach and his foster daughter llona have to do with it? Questions upon questions that are burning under the detective's nails.
01 December 1986
Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an underground car park, devoutly believing that "a new Messiah for a New Age" will appear there before dawn - and their wait does not go unrewarded.
01 January 1986
In this daring follow-up to The History of White People in America, comedian Martin Mull takes us on an in-depth look at such topics as White Religion, White Stress, White Politics, and White Crime.
06 February 1986
The three athletes Holger, Jens, and Ralf are fighting in the Nordic combined for a place in the junior national team.
12 October 1986
Georgia Benfield, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1986 BBC.
