Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service, which was a mixture of live-action with marionettes, was his last Supermarionation series of the 1960s, mainly because it's awful concept made for an equally awful series
British television in the 1980s welcomed the first new national television service for twenty years, breakfast TV was launched and cable and satellite were established. For many, it was the last golden decade, for others it was best forgotten
A shape-shifting man who can turn himself into any animal he chooses uses this ability to help the police solve crimes
Nicole Kidman is a guest at a wedding weekend in Nantucket that gets disrupted when one of the guests turns up dead. Everyone is a suspect!
Ten years after a bloodless Soviet takeover of the United States, leading to slave-labour camps for some, collaboration or rebellion for others, a maverick politician is released from prison hoping to end the occupation
A professor in criminology at Nairobi University is temporarily attached to Scotland Yard. Jango is a 'funny, scruffy geezer with glasses, a dirty raincoat, tweed hat and a twisted walking stick who is operating a one-man law business.'
Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have
In an alternate 16th century England, Lady Jane Grey is coerced by her mother into marrying Lord Guildford Dudley, who just happens to turn out to be a shape-shifter who can take animal form
Glen A. Larson produced series that follows the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer who has created an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program
Despite portraying the 'very English' Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards, Ian Richardson, a leading stage actor, well known for his Shakespearean works, started out with a Scottish accent, having been born and brought up in Edinburgh
"Whilst the cases which made up the bulk of the show's episodes were often fun, ingenious riffs on the standard spy/caper craze of that particular decade, where the series really scored was in the interplay between the three central characters involved."
During one of the bloodiest phases of the French Revolution, Susan and Barbara are sentenced to death by Guillotine...The Doctor embarks on an audacious but perilous plan of rescue by impersonating a Regional Officer of the Provinces
Looking back on the fondly remembered third BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's classic novel of family, the thrill of adventure and the resilience of children, which has held the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1905
A divorced housewife and a spy begin an unusual partnership after encountering one another in a train station in this Emmy Award winning series