Classic Drama

Top Ten Single-Season Dramas

The Top Ten Single-Season Drama Series of All Time

Top Ten Single-Season Dramas

These ten single‑season dramas reveal television at its most precise and daring, delivering unforgettable characters, bold ideas and cultural impact—inviting readers to rediscover how much power a single, perfectly crafted season can hold

Raffles

Raffles - The Pilot

Raffles

As Raffles - The Amateur Cracksman, Anthony Valentine gave one of his finest performances. A role that was seemingly tailor-made for him began in 1975 as a single play by Philip Mackie before becoming a major drama series in 1977

Cottage-core

How period dramas fuel our obsession with rural English lifestyle

Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner

What Way Out for the Free Agent?

Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner

A look at how episodes of 'Danger Man' influenced 'The Prisoner' "From its beginning to its end, there is a near-palpable, mythological aura surrounding this cult series."

The Shakespeare Collection

The Shakespeare Collection

The Shakespeare Collection

In 1978, Cedric Messina persuaded the British Broadcasting Corporation to take on the task of filming the whole canon of William Shakespeare's plays for television, under the title The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.