Episodes

1. True Confessions

Trouser-dropping Robin Asquith reveals how Confessions of a Window Cleaner became the hit British movie of 1974, making his backside the most famous in British history

2. Sex Sells

The films face a backlash from morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and the arrival of home video marks the end of an era for the great British sex comedy.

Overview

In the mid-1960s, the British film industry was in danger and unable to compete with the rise of television. Therefore, in order to survive, distributors decided to offer viewers something that television could not: sex. The story of the intrepid filmmakers and actors who transformed British cinema.

Details

Cast

Samantha Boffin

Robin Askwith

Barry Stokes

Pete Walker

Kenneth Williams

Stephen Lewis

Norman Wisdom

Charles Hawtrey

Diana Dors

Jon Pertwee