Terry Hughes

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Terry Hughes

Terry Hughes is a British Emmy Award-winning television director. Hughes has directed or written for The Two Ronnies, The Golden Girls, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Friends, and series such as Ripping Yarns amongst other shows. In 1972 he was producer for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. Other than television Hughes has also directed films such as Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (which he co…

Known For

The Butcher's WifeThe Butcher's Wife · 1991
The Butcher's Wife
5.71991
MovieFantasyComedy
A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood BowlMonty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl · 1982
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
7.41982
MovieComedy
Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
Mrs. Santa ClausMrs. Santa Claus · 1996
Mrs. Santa Claus
6.21996
MovieFamilyFantasy
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the neighborhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street · 1982
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
8.21982
MovieMusicDrama
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Sunday in the Park with GeorgeSunday in the Park with George · 1986
Sunday in the Park with George
7.51986
MovieMusicComedy
The days leading up to the completion of his most famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat is struggling to make meaningful art and maintaining a relationship with his lover, Dot. Amid the scorn of the artistic community, Seurat's artistic ability thrives while his love diminishes. A century later, Seurat's descendant – named George and also an artist – finds himself burnt out and in search of what artistic path to follow, but he finds the answer to his future in the past.
For Love or MoneyFor Love or Money · 1984
For Love or Money
5.01984
MovieTV MovieComedy
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
Murder at Moorstones ManorMurder at Moorstones Manor · 1977
Murder at Moorstones Manor
8.51977
MovieComedy
Sir Clive Chiddingfield invites his family to his birthday party at lonely Moorstones Manor but in the course of the evening half of those present are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors except for Lady Chiddingfield each admit to being the killer,eventually shooting each other.
She Loves MeShe Loves Me · 1979
She Loves Me
8.81979
MovieComedyMusic
BBC production of the 1963 Broadway musical which was based on Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film "The Shop Around The Corner."

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The Gin GameThe Gin Game · 1981
The Gin Game
8.51981
MovieDramaTV Movie
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.

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PickwickPickwick · 1969
Pickwick
1969
MovieMusicDrama
Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the 1963 stage musical Pickwick, which in turn was based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens. It stars Harry Secombe as Samuel Pickwick and Roy Castle as Sam Weller. This television production was based on the stage musical Pickwick which had been a commercial success. It was adapted for the screen by James Gilbert and Jimmy Grafton. The musical had premiered in the West End in 1963, again with Harry Secombe in the lead role. Running at 90 minutes and made in colour, the TV musical again had lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and a score by Cyril Ornadel. The book was by Wolf Mankowitz and it was directed by Terry Hughes. The programme was first transmitted on 11 June 1969 and again on 26 December 1969. One of the better known songs from the score is "If I Ruled the World". The cast of this production differed somewhat from that of the stage musical.

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