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Dead Head

Dead Head (1986)

Dead Head

Petty criminal Eddy Cass is drifting through life on minor scams and bad decisions. When he agrees to courier a package across London and then decides to open it, he is horrified by its contents. His life will soon spiral out of control...

An Englishman's Castle

An Englishman's Castle (1978)

An Englishman's Castle

Set in an alternate history where Nazi Germany won World War II, An Englishman's Castle focuses on a soap opera writer's oblivious life under a fascist regime until a personal revelation forces him to confront the moral implications of his work

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields (1984)

Fresh Fields

Lively, warm‑hearted sitcom where a middle‑class couple navigate everyday chaos with wit, charm, and gentle absurdity, turning suburban routine into a wonderfully funny celebration of marriage, mishaps, and muddling through

Grady

Grady (1970)

Grady

A principled but volatile ex-prisoner is drawn back into industrial conflict. This 1970s series explores the personal cost of militancy, shifting union politics and one man’s refusal to fit ideological labels in a tense, changing Britain

The Death of Bunny Munro

The Death of Bunny Munro (2025)

The Death of Bunny Munro

A grief‑stricken salesman spirals through a chaotic Sussex road trip with his young son, confronting guilt, masculinity, and haunting memories. Matt Smith leads with intensity, while Rafael Mathé delivers a breakout, emotionally resonant performance

Fallen Hero

Fallen Hero (1978)

Fallen Hero

A respected ex‑rugby star's life unravels after a tragic accident ends his career. Struggling with guilt, fading fame, and strained relationships, he searches for redemption while confronting the consequences of past choices

The Hanged Man

The Hanged Man (1975)

The Hanged Man

Lew Burnett is a self-made man who owns a huge construction company. However, his success has bred resentment, and after the third attempt on his life he sets in motion a daring and dangerous plan to discover who is trying to kill him and why - by playing dead!

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe (1970)

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe returns to England from the Crusades after serving alongside King Richard I, who is believed to be imprisoned abroad. Disguised as a pilgrim Ivanhoe navigates a divided kingdom where Prince John plots to usurp the throne

Terri McIntyre

Terri McIntyre (2001)

Terri McIntyre

Simon Carlyle's comedy drama series about Glaswegian Terri McIntyre, who is the owner of a tanning salon Fan of the Tan but spends most of her time cavorting with other colourful characters in the "Whippet Inn"

A Pyre for Private James

A Pyre for Private James (1966)

A Pyre for Private James

A jungle clearing in the Far East. A solitary hut. Inside, four soldiers retreat from an all consuming fire. Beyond a burning curtain, stretched out, the blanketed form of a human being

The Tripods

The Tripods (1984)

The Tripods

Long before dystopian epics dominated television, The Tripods marched across BBC screens with eerie elegance—an unsettling vision of humanity subdued by towering machines. Sadly, The Tripods is a trilogy that was never realised...

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was (1966)

The Man Who Never Was

An American Cold War thriller following a supposedly dead agent who assumes the identity of his unwitting doppelganger, killed in his place. As he steps into another man’s life, he must convince friends, family—and most perilously, a suspicious wife

Smallville

Smallville (2001)

Smallville

The coming-of-age story of Clark Kent as he navigates his teenage years, struggles with his emerging superpowers, his relationships with friends and family, and his journey toward becoming the iconic superhero; Superman

Hannay

Hannay (1988)

Hannay

After thirty years in Southern Africa, Richard Hannay is returning to Britain to seek a bride, a home and a quiet life. But Europe is a cauldron of political intrigue and, amongst the old empires, a new power is rapidly making its way...

Bugs

Bugs (1995)

Bugs

A high-octane team battles cybercrime and biotech threats in a slick, near-future London. Expect explosive action, ingenious gadgets, and relentless suspense as Bugs attempts to redefine British techno-thrillers for a new digital age

Breaking Point

Breaking Point (1966)

Breaking Point

A brilliant but volatile metallurgist, has perfected a form of steel immune to metal fatigue. But ruthless industrialists and foreign agents are prepared to push this vulnerable man to his psychological and physical limits in pursuit of their own agenda

Hattytown

Hattytown (1969)

Hattytown

A father’s bedtime tales for his six‑year‑old grew into a 39‑episode stop-motion animated series, delighting a generation with its world of anthropomorphic hats whose designs reflect each character’s culture, profession, and personality

Bachelor Father

Bachelor Father (1970)

Bachelor Father

A gentle, almost forgotten BBC sitcom, Bachelor Father blends an unlikely real-life inspiration about a bachelor who adopts twelve children. Ian Carmichael’s understated charm, offers a warm, polished slice of early 1970s family comedy

The Scarf

The Scarf (1959)

The Scarf

After the body of a local actress has been discovered on farmland, bearing clear signs of strangulation, suspicion soon extends beyond the village widening the circle of suspicion before steadily tightening the net around one suspect

Mannix

Mannix (1967)

Mannix

Bone-crunching action, relentless suspense and a bruised but unbowed hero defined Mannix, a gripping, compulsively watchable detective drama often condemned for its violence and abruptly cancelled at the height of its popularity

Murder Most English

Murder Most English (1977)

Murder Most English

A softly spoken detective in a deceptively peaceful seaside town, Inspector Walter Purbright navigates Flaxborough’s polite façades to uncover the scandals simmering beneath. Murder Most English blends wry humour with sly intrigue as Colin Watson’s understated sleuth quietly gets his man

Chocky

Chocky (1984)

Chocky

Matthew Gore is an unusually intelligent and sensitive boy who is selected by a mysterious extra-terrestrial presence as a conduit for information about human life. As this unseen visitor begins to educate Matthew, his schoolwork and artistic abilities improve at an alarming rate

Fair Game

Fair Game (1958)

Fair Game

An ex-Army officer armed with savings but no street sense stumbles into post-war Britain’s civilian jungle, becoming easy prey for spivs and schemers in this witty, lost 1958 BBC comedy-drama

It’s Murder. But Is It Art?

It’s Murder. But Is It Art? (1972)

It’s Murder. But Is It Art?

Another 'lost' TV series, this time featuring Arthur Lowe, off-duty from Warmington-on-Sea, sporting a beard, and playing eccentric amateur detective Phineas Drake, in a whodunnit drama with comedic overtones

Star Maidens

Star Maidens (1976)

Star Maidens

Star Maidens delivers a gleefully camp slice of 1970s sci‑fi, built on a bold role reversal premise where men flee a matriarchal planet after it is knocked out of orbit and drifts into Earth's solar system

Virgin of the Secret Service

Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)

Virgin of the Secret Service

In the Edwardian twilight of 1907, English Captain Robert Virgin of the Royal Dragoons, is intent on defending the British Empire, or what remains of it, on behalf of the British Secret Service

Oil Strike North

Oil Strike North (1975)

Oil Strike North

"The toughest sea in the world" - that's how the oilmen look upon the North Sea. Cold, grey, stormy - Triumph Oil are up against a deadline. Time, weather, supplies - everything is against them. Is it an impossible deadline?

A Time of Day

A Time of Day (1957)

A Time of Day

A family already strained by ambition, resentment, and emotional fatigue unravels when young Janet Freeman vanishes, forcing Clive and Lucy into a desperate reckoning as their collapsing marriage becomes the backdrop to a deepening mystery

Gemini Man

Gemini Man (1976)

Gemini Man

A laid‑back secret agent gains the power of temporary invisibility after a radiation accident, using a wrist‑mounted "DNA stabilizer" to vanish for 15 minutes a day while tackling high‑risk missions for a government agency

The War Between the Land and the Sea

The War Between the Land and the Sea (2025)

The War Between the Land and the Sea

A hidden ocean civilisation rises to challenge humanity, plunging the world into panic as one man races to stop a catastrophic war between land and sea—where ancient grievances, political chaos, and fragile diplomacy decide the planet’s fate