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The Real Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Real Marigold Hotel (2016)

The Real Exotic Marigold Hotel

A group of pensionable aged celebrities travel to India to see if retirement there is more rewarding than in the UK. Along the way they begin to understand the gulf between rich and poor and the impact of the caste system

Last Laugh in Vegas

Last Laugh in Vegas (2018)

Last Laugh in Vegas

How a group of celebrated British entertainers from the 1960s, 70s and 80s united to perform a showcase in Las Vegas, and the reception they got...

Top Gear

Top Gear (1977)

Top Gear

High-Octane factual television programme centred round the world of motoring, 'Top Gear' is one of the most widely viewed factual tv shows in the world

Lockwood & Co. (2023)

Supernatural detective thriller set in an alternate version of present-day Britain where ghosts, who are deadly to the touch, are rising from their graves

Family Ties

Family Ties (1982)

Family Ties

US sitcom that made a household name of Michael J. Fox and also gave early parts to Courtney Cox and Tom Hanks

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

This hit US sitcom spin-off about an incompetent southern bumpkin who is enlisted into the Marine Corps was a top-ten hit throughout its entire five-season run

Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster (1990)

Jeeves and Wooster

The misadventures of the dapper but dim-witted idle millionaire Bertie Wooster and his indispensable gentleman’s gentleman, the incomparable Jeeves

Gidget (1965)

This US sitcom starring future Hollywood star Sally Field as a surfing, boy-crazy teenager and her widowed father was a spin-off from a 1959 Sandra Dee movie and its two sequels

B.J. and the Bear tv series

B.J. and the Bear (1978)

B.J. and the Bear tv series

American action comedy about a truck driver and his pet chimpanzee, made the same year as the movie 'Convoy', when the CB radio and 'trucking' craze was at its peak

Mr Benn

Mr Benn (1971)

Mr Benn

Mr. Benn tries on a costume in the changing room of a shop before proceeding through 'the door that always led to adventure'

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

The Andy Griffith Show

Hit sitcom that stayed at the top of the ratings through its entire 8-year run. Set in small-town America where traditional values were upheld and people knew and cared for each other

I'm Dickens...He's Fenster

I'm Dickens...He's Fenster (1962)

I'm Dickens...He's Fenster

Comedy series about two construction workers who are constantly getting into dangerous situations on and off the job. Sitcom gold for the critics but prematurely cancelled by the Network. When they realised their mistake, it was too late...

Bodyguard tv series

Bodyguard (2018)

Bodyguard tv series

A heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for London's Metropolitan Police Service is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises

The Addams Family

The Addams Family (1964)

The Addams Family

Living at 0001 Cemetery Lane, like The Munsters that began at around the same time, the Addams' were a family of misfits that viewed the outside world as strange and their own peculiar lifestyle as perfectly normal

The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)

Imagine the horror of reaching middle age, losing your looks, your husband, your lover, only to be confronted with a terrifying, incomprehensible truth - your youthful self, three times over, is living and loving somewhere else in the country

Fraud Squad 1969 TV series

Fraud Squad (1969)

Fraud Squad 1969 TV series

Detective Inspector Gamble and his aide, Detective Sergeant Vicky Hicks are Metropolitan officers on the trail of the con-men and fraudsters who operate at all levels of society

Wednesday

Wednesday (2022)

Wednesday

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates a murder spree while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy

The Laughing Policeman

The Laughing Policeman (1974)

The Laughing Policeman

Deryck Guyler with an assortment of musically minded puppets in a fun lunchtime music show aimed at pre-school children from Yorkshire Television

Soldier, Soldier TV series

Soldier, Soldier (1991)

Soldier, Soldier TV series

Hugely successful drama series following the men of the King’s Own Fusiliers, their wives and families and the trials and tribulations they face at home and on their tours of duty to the far flung fields of Hong Kong, Germany, Cyprus, New Zealand and Australia

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman (1975)

Wonder Woman

Raven haired Amazonian Princess Diana leaves her idyllic island paradise to battle evil in the war-torn 1940s

Kleo tv series

Kleo (2022)

Kleo tv series

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge in this action thriller series that will appeal to fans of 'Killing Eve'

Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy (2021)

Star Trek: Prodigy

Having received a Children's Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Production Design, and nominated for the award for Outstanding Animated Series, Star Trek: Prodigy is an excellent addition to the Star Trek canon

Watching

Watching (1987)

Watching

A young couple, who at first appear to be completely mis-matched, have an on-off relationship in this hit sitcom that ran for seven series

This Land of Ours

This Land of Ours (1950)

This Land of Ours

'Lost' BBC drama set on a farm between 1938 and 1944 which tells of turmoil within a family as their whole livelihood is threatened

Mad About You

Mad About You (1992)

Mad About You

A successful documentary filmmaker and his wife, a hard-working PR administrator, try to find the correct work, life, balance in this hugely popular 90s sitcom