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Fulton Mackay OBE (12 August 1922 - 6 June 1987) was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.
Total trailers found: 42
01 July 1952
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing.
13 May 1971
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
24 December 1975
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
27 May 1982
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself.
10 May 2007
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
14 March 1970
Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before man evolved.
06 September 1965
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.
05 July 1984
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
16 February 1973
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence.
04 October 1985
80-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honour of author Lewis Carroll.
17 February 1983
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery.
05 June 1981
Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
01 April 1953
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
21 March 1983
Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must venture out into Outer Space to look for him.
09 May 1986
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.
20 January 1984
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
01 January 1962
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
06 September 1987
Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks.
16 December 2022
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influenced Slade Prison’s characters.
09 March 1976
In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.
12 August 1979
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
18 October 1985
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
11 August 1959
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God.
11 January 1985
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
04 June 1973
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?
01 January 1957
A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
28 July 1980
A look at the causes, execution and legacy of the Highland Clearances in Scotland.
24 February 1976
Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land.
04 March 1981
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role.
29 April 1981
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland.
03 August 1980
Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you.
01 August 1952
At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine and flooding the pit shaft, resulting in 118 men being trapped, with nine missing.
01 January 1984
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
05 January 1969
Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian businessman as an old friend, but the Italian refuses to acknowledge the greeting and claims never to have met him.
01 November 1983
The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request.
24 December 1976
Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.
11 December 1962
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
29 November 1965
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him.
05 January 1986
A paper bag salesman in Bombay accidentally stumbles on to a film set and becomes involved in farcical and surreal game of hide and seek with a very officious police inspector.
06 August 1963
1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse on the battlefields is realized.
01 January 1974
Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats.
