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

2K votes

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

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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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