Myra Frances

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Myra Frances

Born March 10, 1943

Died March 30, 2021 · aged 78

Myra Frances was born in 1943 in the UK. She was an actress, known for Survivors (1975), Heidi (1974) and Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! (1974). With Alison Steadman she went down in history as portraying the first lesbian kiss on British TV in the 1974 Second City Firsts play Girl. She was married to Peter Egan, with whom she had a daughter, the actress Rebecca Egan. She died of cancer on 3…

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Doctor Who: The Creature from the PitDoctor Who: The Creature from the Pit · 1979
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
★ 6.01979
MovieActionAdventure
The Doctor and Romana follow a distress signal which leads to the jungle planet Chloris, whose ruthless ruler Lady Adrasta harbors a deadly creature in a pit.
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! · 1973
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
★ 4.21973
MovieComedy
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
Night PeopleNight People · 1978
Night People
1978
MovieDramaTV Movie
A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.
Red ShiftRed Shift · 1978
Red Shift
★ 7.71978
MovieDramaMystery
Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
RemembranceRemembrance · 1982
Remembrance
★ 4.51982
MovieDrama
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.
GirlGirl · 1974
Girl
★ 5.51974
MovieDrama
An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts. Jackie is leaving the army. While waiting for her car to arrive, she encounters Corporal Harvey, the woman who used to be her lover.
Doctor WhoDoctor Who · 1963
Doctor Who
★ 7.91963
SeriesDramaAction & Adventure
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Play for TodayPlay for Today · 1970
Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! · 1973
Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!
★ 4.21973
MovieComedy
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.

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