In 1964, at the height of Beatlemania in the UK, The Beatles took America by storm when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. And nothing would ever be the same again.
Parody
For 30 years ITV's principal sports presenter and football commentator, to a generation of fans, there was "only one Brian Moore!"
Another delve into daytime television in which Andrew Cobby looks at art programmes and asks - whatever happened to art for art's sake?
Going...going...but not gone! There's a plethora of antique shows on television these days and they don't look like going anywhere soon. Andrew Coby bangs his critical gavel over the best buys and the bargain basement productions.
After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.
Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.
In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.
Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.
All the clocks have stopped. Rob and Helen's parents have vanished. Two mysterious strangers arrive unannounced and tell the children they are their only hope of escaping from the ghosts that have invaded their isolated country house. And then there's that nursery rhyme...
When the ghost of a World War One soldier begins to haunt an old railway station, Sapphire and Steel suspect the location is a recruitment ground for the dead. But what do the forces of darkness want with these lost souls?
The time agents receive a puzzling assignment at an apartment block where time is poised to attack. The occupants look like two normal 1980s residents...but they are not all they seem.
Last night, as I was walking up the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away.
As events unfold in 1980 Time itself is trying to change history. Sapphire and Steel must play out a scenario that happened fifty years before - to avoid the destruction of the entire human race.
In their final serial Sapphire & Steel arrive at a seemingly abandoned roadside café where time has stopped and the only clue is two humans who claim to be from 1948. How they got there, they don't know.
"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer."
The emotional stakes are raised as Buffy and Angel fall in love. But their union will lead to the unleashing of terrifying and deadly consequences...
Buffy returns to Sunnydale only to discover that her friends have been battling the forces of darkness without her. And there's a new Slayer in town - but can Faith be trusted?
With some of the most iconic episodes in its run, Season 4 follows the 'Scoobies' as they move into the next phase of their lives. Leaving the past behind means discovering new relationships, new goals...and new monsters
A season of huge change that unashamedly pulls on viewers heartstrings with brilliantly realised and unexpected developments as Buffy must deal with personal tragedy, a sister who appears from nowhere, and the Prince of Darkness himself...
The 'Scooby Gang' hope to bring Buffy back from the dead, but they haven't considered the consequences. When further tragedy strikes, Willow turns to the dark side and plans to destroy the world. And everyone dances for a grim reaper! Once more...with feeling
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's spin-off took a while to settle, but when it did, it proved to be as popular as its parent series. The stakes are as high in L.A. as they were in Sunnydale
When Darla turns up pregnant with Angel’s child, the team embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery behind this seemingly impossible pregnancy and decipher its significance
One year after the events of the first season, everything seems back to normal... but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins
It’s 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer’s heating up. School’s out, there’s a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood
