Joan Hickson Movies

East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-law, and an amiable but uncomprehending husband in...

Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.

43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet...

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent...

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her...

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes...

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy...

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet...

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.