Joanna Lumley – MRQE https://mrqe.com Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Joanna Lumley – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 “Sapphire & Steel” https://mrqe.com/movie/sapphire-and-steel-tv-m100068181-2/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=253765 Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.

In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.

]]> “Sapphire & Steel” https://mrqe.com/movie/sapphire-and-steel-tv-m100068181/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sapphire-and-steel-tv-m100068181/ Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.

In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.

]]> Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/comic-relief-doctor-who-the-curse-of-fatal-death-m100038610/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=185712 Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death – the Master.

]]> The Making of a Lady (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-making-of-a-lady-m100118954/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=171505 1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,

]]> Nancherrow (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/nancherrow-m100059772/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/nancherrow-m100059772/ The basic story involves Loveday’s struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.

]]> “Mistral’s Daughter” https://mrqe.com/movie/mistrals-daughter-tv-m100120411/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/mistrals-daughter-tv-m100120411/ Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist’s model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral’s art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.

]]> “Amandaland” https://mrqe.com/movie/amandaland-tv-m100151119/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/amandaland-tv-m100151119/ Post her divorce, Amanda has had to downsize and up sticks to South Harlesden, or as the Estate Agent calls it SoHa (definitely not the area around Wormwood Scrubs prison). With both Manus and Georgie now at secondary school, Amanda has to try and get her head around raising teenagers, dealing with modern motherhood horrors like teenage drinking, fake Instagram accounts and eco anxiety. Spin off from Motherland.

]]> The Tale of Sweeney Todd (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/the-tale-of-sweeney-todd-m100012181/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-tale-of-sweeney-todd-m100012181/ The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. A young innocent (Selina Boyack) and the dashing inspector (Campbell Scott) who tries to solve the murders are also thrown into the mix.

]]> “Glory Boys, The” https://mrqe.com/movie/the-glory-boys-m100076696/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-glory-boys-m100076696/ Set in London, this three-part British miniseries was adapted by Gerald Seymour from his own novel. A visiting Israeli scientist was targeted for assassination by two different terrorist organizations: one Irish, one Arab. After working at cross-purposes for an extended length of time, the hired killers from both factions decided to join forces to carry out their murderous assignment.

]]> Cold Comfort Farm (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/cold-comfort-farm-m100000009/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=72928 In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders’ lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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