Cricklewood Greats

Cricklewood Greats is a spoof documentary and personal journey of discovery, which reveals the greatest forgotten stars of the legendary Cricklewood Film Studios, featuring clips from the many films that were produced in this iconic North London landmark.

Cricklewood Film Studios doesn't really exist. In fact, every frame of footage has been lovingly restored from the vaults of Peter Capaldi's fertile imagination.

The show will take viewers from the early silent movie experiments of Arthur Sim, through the 1930s comedies of Florrie Fontaine and the glory years of the "Thumbs Up" movies, to the 1970s exploitation horror movies starring Lionel Crisp, and the ultimate folie de grandeur of Terry Gilliam's Professor Hypochondria's Magical Odyssey which finally destroyed the studios in the early 1980s.

Peter Capaldi says: "It's weathered many a storm but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat. However, more than a few souls have been thrown overboard along the way and I'm therefore delighted that BBC Four has allowed me to explore the lives of some of these now forgotten icons of British cinema. Finally, the role of Cricklewood Studios and its greats will be recognised. It's a privilege to be able to shine the spotlight on them once more."