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Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century

Created for the radio in 1936 by 'Lone Ranger' inventor George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the Green Hornet aka Britt Reid was originally introduced as the son of Dan Reid, the masked man's nephew.

The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.

Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.

Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.

Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.

Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.

When Gary Sparrow makes a discovery in Ducketts Passage in London's East End his will become life far more complicated than he could ever have imagined - in two time-zones...

Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.

Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).