The Problematic Gaze
By David Moor and Lee Arnott
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Direct from PG Towers, join social historian Dr Lee Arnott and TV producer Dave Moor for a lighthearted look at the world of TV, Film and Popular Culture of yesteryear that has since been considered problematic. Each week we focus on a different piece of pop culture, and put it into context by looking at the news events and cultural landscape of the year it was released. Out and proud, Dr Lee and Our Dave present a humorous take on life as LGBTQ+ men of a glorious age, and present a digestible mix of academic social commentary, unflinching life lessons, media analysis, and hot takes on feminism, race, politics and cancel culture.
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE 'Riot Women', 'Carry On' and Awards Success!!! 🏆
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Winter Is Problematic: Gender, Race, and Ableism in 'Game of Thrones' (2011)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE Bonus Episode! Celebrity Traitors, Platonic and Things That Go Bump In The Night!!
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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'Are You Being Served?' from 1977 - Class and 'Cat'astrophe: Mrs. Slocombe’s Baby Bombshell
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE Bonus Episode! Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue, RIP Patricia Routledge
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Ballroom Blitz!: 'The Avengers' from 1966 with special guests Michael & Hilary Whitehall !!
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE Bonus Episode! Only Murders In The Building, Post Wedding Blues and Twix The Guinea Pig!!
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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In 1986, 'Cagney and Lacey' Took On Disability in 'The Gimp' — And It Was… Complicated
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE Bonus Episode! Awards, Special Guest Announcement, Molly Houses and Davina McCall !!!
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Satire or Just Offensive? Revisiting 'The Office' UK’s ‘Training’ Episode from 2001
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE Bonus Episode! Dr Lee's ready for his close up and Our Dave wants to live forever! Plus Alien Earth and Bake Off gripes
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Sex and the 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl' 2007: Billie Piper, Empowerment, and the Male Gaze
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE: Bonus Episode! The Great British Bake Off and Department Q
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Film the BBC Banned: Why 'The War Game' Was Too Real for TV in 1965
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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THE PROBLEMATIC GAZETTE: Bonus Episode! The Thursday Murder Club, Strictly Come Dancing and more!
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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'Only Fools and Horses': Del’s Big Lie and Rodney’s Little Life in 1989
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Perfectly Programmed: Deconstructing The Stepford Wives from 1975 and the Fear of Feminism
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Will, Grace, and the Closet: When Queer Pain Became Primetime Comedy
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Smize, Cry, Conform: The Messy Legacy of 'America’s Next Top Model'
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Monarchy’s Most Bizarre PR Stunt: What "It’s a Royal Knockout" Says About Power and Spectacle
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Angels or Objects? The 70s Show That Sold Feminism in a Bikini: 'Charlie's Angels'
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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'The Young Ones' UK Sitcom from 1984. Punks, Puke and University Challenge
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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'Sex And The City' from 2000. Staten Island, Firemen and Fairytales!
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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'Top Gun' Action Movie Blockbuster from 1986. Tom Cruise, Showers and 80's Power Ballads!
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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'Cabaret' Film Musical from 1972 PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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'But I'm A Cheerleader' US Comedy Film from '1999' PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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'Paris Is Burning' American Documentary Film from 1990. PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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'Gay Life' UK TV Magazine Show from 1980. PRIDE MONTH SPECIAL
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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'Brass Eye' UK Satirical TV Show from 1997. Drugs and fake Cake.
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May 27, 2025 |
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'The Stud' British Film from 1978. Joan Collins, Sex, Swings and Soho
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May 20, 2025 |
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'Blind Date' UK Gameshow from 1996. Cilla Black, Our Graham and a Lorra Lorra Laughs
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May 13, 2025 |
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'Prisoner: Cell Block H' Australian Soap Opera from 1982. Top Dogs and Black Leather Gloves
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May 06, 2025 |
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'The Royle Family' UK comedy from 2000. Ciggies, Chippy and Funerals
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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'The Wicker Man' from 1973. Virgins, Vegetation and Fiery Sacrifice
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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'The Year Of The Sex Olympics' BBC drama from 1968. Sex, Reality and Ratings
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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'Celebrity Big Brother' Featuring Davina McCall and our wonderful Gazers!
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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'Nighty Night' UK Dark Comedy from 2004. Cancer, Asthma and Backless Chaps!
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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'Mommie Dearest' from 1981. Faye Dunaway, Wire Hangers and Camp Classics
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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'Reservoir Dogs' from 1993. Blood, Guns, Severed Ears and Masculinity in the '90's.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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'Rita, Sue and Bob Too' UK Film from 1987. Sex, Schoolgirls and Dirty Old Men
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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'The Substance'. Horror film from 2024. Demi Moore, Oscar Buzz and Ageing in the World of Entertainment.
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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'The BRIT Awards' Most Controversial Moments. From Michael Jackson to Bananarama. From Stormzy to Madonna.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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'The Naked Civil Servant' from 1975. Celebrating LGBT+ History Month
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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'Bridget Jones's Diary' from 2001. Cigarettes and Chardonnay with Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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'The Comeback' US TV Comedy from 2005. Plus Demi Moore and Pamela Anderson's recent comebacks.
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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'Till Death Us Do Part' UK TV Sitcom from 1967. Empire, Politics and the 60's Revolution.
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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'Cruising' movie from 1980. Sex, slings and murder. New York and the Gay Underground Scene.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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'The Girlie Show' UK Chat Show from 1997. Ladettes, Lads and cynical marketing
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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'Grease' Movie Musical from 1978. T-Birds, Pink Ladies, Sex and Slut Shaming
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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'The Gaze Year In Review' A look back at our first year in podcasting! Feminism, LGBT representation, toxic masculinity, Shakey and Love Actually!
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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'The Holiday'. Christmas Film from 2006. Kate, Cameron, Jack and Jude.
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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'Aladdin & The 40 Thieves' BBC Pantomime from 1984
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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'Do They Know It's Christmas?' by Band Aid from 1984. Will there be snow in Africa? Yes, actually.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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'Educating Rita' from 1983. 'There must be better songs to sing than this!'
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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'Doctor Who - City Of Death' from 1979. Mona Lisas, Green Wormy Monsters and Paris High Jinks
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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'Friends' US Sitcom from 2001. Speeding tickets, pink knickers and Kathleen Turner
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie' British film from 1969. Maggie Smith, Girls and Mussolini
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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'Fawlty Towers: The Germans' from 1975: Torquay, we have a MAJOR problem!
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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'An American Werewolf In London' from 1981. Nurses, Curses and Piccadilly Circus!!!
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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'Absolutely Fabulous' from 1994. Champers alright for you, Pats?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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'Threads' TV movie from 1984. Sheffield, shelters and nuclear winters.
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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'Heartstopper" Teen Drama from 2024. The Kids are Alright!
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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'Love Island' Smash Hit Reality Show from 2022. Innocent Love Story or Cynical Manipulation?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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'Steptoe and Son' TV Comedy from 1972. Rag and Bone and Nostalgia Porn.
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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'Love Actually' from 2003. Romantic Loveliness or Misogynistic Mess?
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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'The Terminator' Film from 1984. Mullets, Guns and Arnie's Bum!
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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'The Golden Girls' Sitcom from 1987. Sicily, Sin and St Olaf.
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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'Fat Slags' Movie from 2004. Sex, Vice and Ginger Spice.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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'Ghostwatch' BBC TV Drama from 1992. Parky, Pipes and Brown Pants!
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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'Pretty Woman' from 1990. Big Mistake, Huge!!
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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'Men Behaving Badly' TV Comedy from 1994. Lads Lads Lads!!!
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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'Carry On Girls' from 1973. Man In A Frock, Bikini Wrestlers and Itching Powder.
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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'Justify My Love' Madonna's Video from 1990. I Wanna Kiss You In Paris.
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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'Man About The House' TV Sitcom from 1973. There's A Strange Man In Our Bath!
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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'Bullseye' UK Gameshow from 1988. Nothing In This Game For Two in A Bed!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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'Victim' The British Film Thriller from 1961. Brave and Heartbreaking.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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'Allo Allo!" British Comedy from 1982. Gaslighting Edith!
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Jun 18, 2024 |