Bringemovies
← Browse TV Shows
The December Rose
TITLE DETAILS

The December Rose

1986-03-12 · 30 min / episode · Not rated

Family · Drama

When young chimney sweep Absalom 'Barnacle' Brown stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy among London’s Victorian elite, he becomes the target of the menacing Inspector Creaker. Fleeing to the safety of a Thames barge, The Lady, under the care of kindly skipper Tom Gosling, Barnacle adapts to life on the river and befriends the formidable Mrs McDipper and her daughter Miranda. As Creaker’s gang closes in and a mysterious foreign vessel, The December Rose, docks with a perilous secret aboard, the story builds to a feverish climax in which Barnacle and his allies confront evil head‑on.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Creators
Leon Garfield, James Cellan Jones
Production companies
Friday Productions, BBC
Countries
United Kingdom
Status
Ended

Top Cast

Courtney Roper-KnightAbsalom 'Barnacle' Brown
Tony HaygarthTony HaygarthTom Gosling
Ian HoggIan HoggInspector Creaker

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Seasons & episodes

Recommendations

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
★ 8.2
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour2010Family · Drama

R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.

Holly Hobbie
★ 8.4
Holly Hobbie2018Family · Drama

Holly's a 13-year-old singer-songwriter who's got her best friends and close-knit family by her side, but she's dreaming of ways to save the world - even if it's starting in her own backyard.

Chesapeake Shores
★ 7.8
Chesapeake Shores2016Drama

A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

The Mysterious Benedict Society
★ 7.6
The Mysterious Benedict Society2021Family · Drama

Four gifted orphans are recruited by an eccentric benefactor to go on a secret mission. Placed undercover at a boarding school known as The Institute, they must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications, while creating a new sort of family along the way.

Miss Austen
★ 6.5
Miss Austen2025Drama

Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, while creating in Cassandra a character as captivating as any Austen heroine.

Father Brown
★ 7.7
Father Brown2013Drama

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

The Saddle Club
★ 6.4
The Saddle Club2001Family · Drama

The Saddle Club is a children's television series based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three teenage girls in training to compete in equestrian competitions at the fictional Pine Hollow Stables, while dealing with problems in their personal lives. Throughout the series, The Saddle Club navigates their rivalry with Veronica, training for competitions, horse shows, and the quotidian dramas that arise between friends and staff in the fictional Pine Hollow Stables. In each show, The Saddle Club prevails over its adversities, usually sending a message emphasizing the importance of friendship and teamwork.

Free Rein
★ 8.0
Free Rein2017Family · Drama

A 15-year-old from LA spends the summer at her mom's childhood home on an island off the coast of England, where she bonds with a mysterious horse.

The Next Step
★ 7.2
The Next Step2013Family · Drama

Follow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.

If Tomorrow Comes
★ 7.3
If Tomorrow Comes1986Drama

Tracy Whitney was in love, pregnant and engaged to marry into one of America's best family. And then, with one phone call, she lost everything. After 5 years of unjust imprisonment, Tracy emerges from prison a new woman. Cunning. Ruthless. Determined to survive. But there is one man as formidable as she is. As their paths crisscross, they eventually become daredevil partners in an adventure that climaxes their criminal careers.

Road to Avonlea
★ 8.1
Road to Avonlea1990Family · Drama

In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and Olivia King, to be near her late mother's side of the family.

Heidi
★ 7.2
Heidi1993Family · Drama

After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
★ 7.4
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder1987Drama

When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.

The Day of the Triffids
★ 6.5
The Day of the Triffids1981Drama

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Jane Eyre
★ 7.6
Jane Eyre2006Drama

Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.

Jane Eyre
★ 7.1
Jane Eyre1983Drama

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

H2O: Just Add Water
★ 7.8
H2O: Just Add Water2006Family · Drama

H2O: Just Add Water revolves around three teenage girls facing everyday teen problems with an added twist: they cope with the burden of growing a giant fin and transforming into mermaids whenever they come in contact with water.

Tales of the Unexpected
★ 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected1979Drama

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

The Book of Pooh
★ 7.1
The Book of Pooh2001Family

The Book of Pooh is an American television series that aired on the Disney Channel. It is the third television series to feature the characters from the Disney franchise based on A. A. Milne's works; the other two were the live-action Welcome to Pooh Corner and the animated The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which ran from 1988-1991. It premiered on February 9, 2001, and completed its run on July 8, 2003. The show is produced by Shadow Projects, and Playhouse Disney. This is the first Pooh show where Jim Cummings voices Tigger filling in for the late Paul Winchell. It was shown in U.K on a Channel 5 Block known as 'Milkshake!' as well as Playhouse Disney. It's run on Milkshake! ended around 2006 to 2007.

Reilly: Ace of Spies
★ 7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies1983Drama

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

Similar titles

Love in Summer
Not rated
Love in SummerDrama

After growing up side by side, two childhood friends must navigate years of separation and unspoken feelings before discovering that their love has always been mutual.

Small Town Remedy
★ 8.3
Small Town Remedy2026Drama

After losing his job at a top-tier hospital due to an unexpected incident, Liu Zhengliang returns to his hometown and begins working in the emergency department of a local community hospital. While healing patients one after another, he finds himself continually healed by their resilience and humanity, creating a mutual journey of recovery and growth between caregiver and those in need.

Time Flies
★ 8.5
Time Flies2026Drama

Fresh out of prison and low on options, two women run a fumigation business — until a shady client pulls them back into the life they fought to escape.

Centennial
★ 7.7
Centennial1978Drama

The economic and cultural growth of town of Centennial, Colorado, through the intertwining lives of the brave men and women inhabiting it. Spanning two centuries from the settling of the area in the 1700s, to the late 1970s.

A Time to Dance
★ 3.8
A Time to Dance1992Drama

A fiftysomething English banker falls for and has an affair with an Irish waif from the wrong side of the tracks, causing him grief both professionally and personally.

The English Game
★ 7.4
The English Game2020Drama

Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
★ 6.2
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016Drama

An anthology for Sky Arts, adapting four standalone, surreal, and dark fantasy short stories by Neil Gaiman.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Going to Ride The WindsDrama

After being reborn, Lingluo, a fearsome demoness once unrivaled across the three realms, finds her path changed by her longtime rival Yue Liangze and sets out to lead those who have lost their way to reclaim their destinies and follow their own path.

The Bronx Is Burning
★ 7.2
The Bronx Is Burning2007Drama

In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife, and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big Apple was burning. Rising out of this troubled urban landscape to bring hope and inspiration came one of baseball's most storied franchises, The New York Yankees.

Anna Karenina
★ 1.0
Anna Karenina2013Drama

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Das Bernstein-Amulett
★ 8.5
Das Bernstein-Amulett2004Drama

Paris Is Always a Good Idea
Not rated
Paris Is Always a Good Idea2026Drama

Career-driven nonprofit executive Chelsea Martin travels to Paris with her confident rival-turned-ally, Jason Knightly to secure a major donation but a heartfelt message from her late mother – and a loving push from her sister Annabelle – sends her on an unexpected journey to reconnect with the three great loves she once left behind. From the rolling hills of Ireland to the magic of Paris and the sun-kissed vineyards of Spain, Chelsea retraces old footsteps and discovers that sometimes moving forward means first looking back.

Kiss in the Wind
Not rated
Kiss in the WindDrama

Six years after a passionate but destructive romance tore them apart, glamorous top actress Fu Xueli and cold, disciplined forensic doctor Xu Xingchun unexpectedly reunite. As old feelings resurface, their carefully guarded lives begin to unravel, drawing them back into a complicated struggle between love, desire, and the painful past they once left behind.

Hollywood Wives
★ 4.7
Hollywood Wives1985Drama

Hollywood Wives is an American television miniseries based on Jackie Collins' 1983 novel of the same name and produced by Aaron Spelling. Broadcast on ABC in February 1985, it follows several women connected to the entertainment industry in Hollywood and capitalized on the public's taste for opulent melodramas that dominated ratings in the 1980s.

Murder in Eden
★ 7.0
Murder in Eden1991Drama

In rural County Donegal, Ireland, a pub landlord murders his barman and is then blackmailed by an anonymous 'Bogmailer', leading to a dark, quirky mystery with a charismatic police sergeant investigating.

The Scarlet Letter
★ 4.5
The Scarlet Letter1979Drama

The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the novel of the same name that aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each. Part 2 won the 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Video Tape Editing for a Limited Series or Special for film editors Ken Denisoff, Janet McFadden, and Tucker Wiard. In 1979, when most literary programs were being produced in the United Kingdom, Boston public television station WGBH decided to produce a homegrown literary classic of its own. The result is this epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes, the nature of sin, social hypocrisy, and community repression, still reverberate through American society. Meg Foster brings a quiet strength to the role of Hester, the adulteress condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for the rest of her life. As her partner in crime, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, John Heard writhes in private torment most convincingly. Kevin Conway completes this grim triangle as the mysterious, maleficent Roger Chillingworth. The costumes and scenery are simple, so as not to detract from the dialogue as each character grapples with the meaning of sin, forgiveness, and redemption.

Le Grand Charles
★ 10.0
Le Grand Charles2006Drama

Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.

Hibana: Spark
★ 8.2
Hibana: Spark2016Drama

Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian, when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya, and asks if he can become his apprentice. Kamiya is a genius type of comedian, who is full of human kindness. He accepts Tokunaga’s proposition on the condition that he will write his biography.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Be with MeFamily · Drama

A mismatched couple's secret divorce plan is derailed by a matriarch's interference and an unexpected family scandal, forcing them to confront their marriage while their siblings navigate their own chaotic lives.

Ghost Hunt
★ 8.0
Ghost Hunt2006Drama

Telling ghost stories is a favorite past time of Mai Taniyama and her friends—that is, until she meets 17-year-old Kazuya Shibuya, the man sent by Shibuya Psychic Research Center to investigate paranormal activity at a supposedly haunted school. When Mai gets caught in a dangerous situation, she is rescued by Kazuya's assistant. Saving her lands the assistant incapacitated, and Kazuya demands that Mai become his assistant, instead...

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.