Joan Hickson Movies

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

'Alice' and the children try to foil the attempt of thieves to steal the presents from a wedding reception, with hilarious results.

Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....

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...

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

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...

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

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

A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

Two male layout artists from a London advertising agency head off on holiday to the Isle of Wight in the hope of finding romance.