Norma Shebbeare — Filmography & Biography

Known for

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Playhouse

1974

Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed.

Supernatural

1977

6.6

A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.

Just Good Friends

1983

6.6

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Women in Love

1969

6.6

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1990

No artwork available

NR

A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.

Life at Stake

1978

Film credits

1980s · 1 titles

7.5

The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.

The Dark Angel

1987

1970s · 2 titles

7.3

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

10 Rillington Place

1971

NR

Teenagers Susan and David live with their widowed mother Sheila. They wake up one morning to find no sign of their mother, and organise a party for the evening. They have doubts and worries about what has happened to their mother, which build when she has still not returned the following morning.

Mum, Where Are You?

1975

1960s · 2 titles

6.6

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Women in Love

1969

7.0

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

Inadmissible Evidence

1968

1950s · 1 titles

7.0

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

Brothers in Law

1957

Series credits

7.0

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Playhouse

1974

7.0

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Playhouse

1974

7.2

Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed.

Supernatural

1977

6.6

A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.

Just Good Friends

1983

6.6

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1990

No artwork available

NR

A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.

Life at Stake

1978

NR

Lovely and sensitive Maud Ruthyn is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings.

The Dark Angel

1989