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The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads (1964)

The Likely Lads

A Sharply scripted comedy of character and wryly observed social change both series held a perceptively laughter gilded mirror to the changing face of the work-deprived industrial North East and of British society during the middle nineteen-sixties and early seventies.

Life On Mars TV Series

Life on Mars (2006)

Life On Mars TV Series

"My name is Sam Tyler. I had an accident and woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened it's like I'm on a different planet. Now maybe if I can work out the reason...I can get home."

Lizzie Dripping

Lizzie Dripping (1973)

Lizzie Dripping

BBC children's series about a mischievous 12 year-old girl, Penelope Arbuckle, and her imaginary witch friend who only Penelope (and the TV audience) could see.

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Little Britain (2003)

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Surreal, disturbing, crossing the boundary of good taste, Little Britain features some of the most grotesque characters ever seen on television.

The Lotus Eaters

The Lotus Eaters (1972)

The Lotus Eaters

"To eat the fruit of the lotus is to lose the desire to return home. But everyone who does has a reason."

Lovejoy

Lovejoy (1986)

Lovejoy

Roguish but loveable antique dealer who would happily fleece the unscrupulous dealers he encountered, whilst ensuring that those who had fallen victim to the sharks received what was rightfully their due.

Kolchak

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)

Kolchak

Kolchak, a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, who investigates mysterious crimes, especially those involving the supernatural.

kung fu

Kung Fu (1972)

kung fu

US action-adventure drama in which a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, goes in search of his half-brother.