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Animated pre-school fun from two of Gerry Anderson's former employees, Cloppa Castle ran for 52 episodes over two series

As the shadows of war looms around them, an aging artist who lives a reclusive life in a dusused lighthouse in an Essex fishing village, assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose

From the steamy jungles of Malaya to the dusty and desolate outback of Australia, Nevil Shute's international bestselling novel is a story that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades

Hit Internet series of short films on the saddest, loneliest, drunkest bear in the world

American comedy mystery series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. Three strangers with a shared interest in true crime podcasts become friends whilst investigating suspicious deaths in their apartment building

Terry Jones and Michael Palin in a spoof retelling of the major events in Britain's history from as far back as 2564BC. This previously 'lost' series pre-dated Monty Python by several months

Scottish crime drama series set against a hauntingly beautiful landscape, following DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within a close knit island community

Epic drama following one family's personal and domestic life set against the backdrop of wider social and political events through twentieth-century German history

Classic Western series starring Chuck Connors about a veteran of the American Civil War who moves to a small town after his wife dies, and tries to bring up his son with important lessons in moral values

Dr. Gregory House is an antisocial, pain killer addict, witty and arrogant who helps his team of doctors solve puzzling cases

Science fiction streaming series loosely based on a series of stories by Isaac Asimov. Foundation is a complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire

Sitcom about a 27-year-old computer engineer who, after being killed in a car crash, has his consciousness uploaded into a virtual afterlife, only to discover he is still under the thumb of his possessive living girlfriend

French mystery thriller streaming series. Years after a tragic injustice, Assane seeks to settle a score — and a debt — by stealing a diamond necklace, but the heist takes an unexpected turn...

American spin-off series of The Boys follows the lives of hormonal, competitive Superheroes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test

The BBC's switchboard was jammed with complaints following the showing of its controversial play depicting the harsh realities of poverty, unwanted pregnancies, and the struggle for freedom amid societal constraints. Possibly the most important docudrama of all time...

American post-apocalyptic television miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, which poses the question - if we had a choice, would we choose good over evil?

With glamorous fashions, lavish sets and shoulder pads, Dynasty encapsulated everything that the self-indulgent 1980s was about

In the year 2003 humans have established a number of bases on the moon.

Sheila Sabatini is a brilliant surgeon, but her sharp tongue gets her into trouble with fellow consultant surgeons, mainly because she likes to unearth their lazy and hypocritical behaviour at every opportunity

Elizabeth Gaskell’s charming tale of a fictional Cheshire town and its eccentric characters has been adapted for TV three times by the BBC. In this review, we take a look at all three productions

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them in Mike Leigh's masterpiece on the comedic potential inherent in human behaviour

Dennis Potter's extraordinary and groundbreaking drama concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943 - the most striking feature of the play is that all the children are played by adult actors

A gothic fantasy based on the first two novels by Mervyn Peake that follows the life of Titus Groan, the heir of an ancient and decaying castle who faces threats and challenges, not least of all from an ambitious murderer

A nine-part series telling the story of Ancient Rome, based on three plays by Shakespeare

When a maverick academic attends a conference in Moscow about the newly opened Soviet Archives he uncovers a secret which could change the face of Russian history forever. A riveting British TV series that will keep you on the edge of your seat

American legal drama based on the books of Michael Connelly in which a defence attorney in Los Angeles works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Navigator

Danish crime drama revolving around an elite mobile task force which is dispatched across Denmark to solve challenging cases

Children’s television series hosted by the incomparable Ray Alan, a master ventriloquist who breathed so much life into his dummies that you’d swear blind they were living creatures

Part of the Star Wars franchise and a spin-off from the series The Mandalorian. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy...

Multi-award-winning British crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a resilient and determined police sergeant who tries to uphold the law whilst facing down her own demons