Mary Whitehouse
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
The Dame Edna Experience
Character: Self
The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials. The first seven aired for the first time in 1987, the next seven in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television. Regulars on the program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop and Robin Houston who was the announcer, with orchestra conducted and arranged by...
Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how successful was the original ‘cancel culture’ warrior?...
Movie Credits
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
30 Years in the TARDIS
Character: Herself
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material....
Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2
Character: Herself
An investigation of UK video censorship after the video recordings act was introduced....
Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals
Character: Self - archive
Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brought monsters to life, as well as revelations about how some storylines proved to be so scary the BBC were forced to re-edit episodes....
Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
Character: Self
In 1977 the Old Bailey saw the start of the first trial for blasphemy in this country for over half a century. Begun by Mary Whitehouse against the homosexual newspaper Gay News, it ended in a conviction, heavy fines and a suspended prison sentence for the editor. An appeal is pending. Was this prosecution an attack on free speech? Or was it a necessary defence of the principle that, even in a permissive society, some things must remain sacred? This dramatised documentary reconstructs the cruci...
Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
Character: Self (archive footage)
Explores the salacious career of mysterious British filmmaker and distributor David Hamilton-Grant, who was the only supplier to be sent to prison for releasing a "video nasty". Hamilton-Grant navigated loopholes in the law in the 70s in order to produce and screen smut in an extremely censorship restricted Britain. When the home video boom hit in the 80s he was one of the first to capitalize on the initially far less regulated format... but he would pay the price. Then things get really dark a...
Ban the Sadist Videos!
Character: Self
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....
Serial Thrillers
Character: (archival footage)
In 2004 a documentary was commissioned by the BBC looking back at the Philip Hinchcliffe era of British Television Series Doctor Who and what made those years some of the most popular in the series history....