Direction: Bill Bain
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bill Bain. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Upstairs, Downstairs (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain · Christopher Hodson · Raymond Menmuir · Derek Bennett
Cast Gordon Jackson · David Langton · Jean Marsh · Angela Baddeley
Plot TV Series (1971-1975). 5 Seasons. 68 Episodes. The series follows the lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place. Richard Bellamy, the...
7.8
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7.8
2K votes
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Antony Kearey · Viktors Ritelis · Max Varnel · Bill Bain
Cast Peter Cushing · Douglas Wilmer · Nigel Stock · Peter Madden
Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 2 seasons. The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never...
6.7
170 votes
6.7
170 votes
The Avengers (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills
Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson
Plot TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Public Eye (TV Series)
1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Leaver · William G. Stewart · Kim Mills · Douglas Camfield
Cast Alfred Burke · Ray Smith · Pauline Delaney · Brenda Cavendish
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Elephant Boy (TV Series)
1972 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain · James Gatward · Chris McCullough · Henri Safran
Cast Uwe Friedrichsen · Esrom Jayasinghe · Isobel Black · Margot Léonard
Plot The story of 12 year old, Toumai, his younger brother Ranjit, and their great friend the elephant Kala Nag.
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Enemy at the Door (TV Series)
1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain · Jonathan Alwyn · Christopher Hodson · Martyn Friend
Cast Alfred Burke · Bernard Horsfall · Antonia Pemberton · Simon Cadell
Plot TV Series (1978-1980). 26 episodes. Drama about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War.
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Callan (TV Series)
1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Mitchell · Peter Duguid · Jim Goddard · Mike Vardy
Cast Edward Woodward · Russell Hunter · Lisa Langdon · Anthony Valentine
Plot TV Series (1967-1972). 4 seasons. David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and...
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Within These Walls (TV Series)
1974 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Hodson · Paul Annett · Philip Casson · Bryan Izzard
Cast Jerome Willis · Mona Bruce · Denys Hawthorne · Googie Withers
Plot Drama inside a women's prison.
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The Duchess of Duke Street (TV Series)
1976 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction John Hawkesworth · Bill Bain · Cyril Coke · Simon Langton
Cast Gemma Jones · Victoria Plucknett · John Welsh · John Cater
Plot (1976-1977). 2 seasons. Louisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the Queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her...
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What Became of Jack and Jill?
1972 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain
Cast Vanessa Howard · Mona Washbourne · Paul Nicholas · George Benson
Plot In order to collect inheritance money, a slacker tries to induce a heart attack in his invalid grandmother by convincing her that she's become the target of youth supremacists who...
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett
Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines
Plot This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown...
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The Gold Robbers (TV Series)
1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain · Cyril Coke · Don Leaver · Lionel Harris
Cast Peter Vaughan · Artro Morris · Richard Leech · Frederick Bartman
Plot TV Series (1969). 13 episodes. Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down and bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and half...
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Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
1956 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Philip Saville · Charles Jarrott · Guy Verney · Ted Kotcheff
Cast Billie Whitelaw · Harry H. Corbett · Neil McCallum · Paul Whitsun-Jones
Plot "Armchair Theatre" is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation,...
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Redcap (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Raymond Menmuir · Guy Verney · Bill Bain · Laurence Bourne
Cast John Thaw · Keith Barron · David Battley · Garfield Morgan
Plot The cases and adventures of tough Sergeant John Mann, officer of Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch.
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Mystery and Imagination (TV Series)
1966 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bill Bain · Robert Tronson · Kim Mills · Patrick Dromgoole
Cast David Buck · Freddie Jones · Robert Hunter · Mark Moss
Plot TV Series (1966-1970). 5 seasons. 24 episodes. A British anthology series based on classic ghost stories and chillers from M. R. James, Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Sheridan Le Fanu and others;...
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