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Ten single television plays based on the works of the celebrated science fiction writer who wrote over 40 novels and 120 short stories

As cinematic as television gets, with astonishingly beautiful location work, Around the World in 80 Days is a roaring adventure

Danish political drama about a prime minister's rise to power

A 'lost' ITV play starring Coronation Street's William Roache as a soldier stationed in Germany who gets a local girl pregnant

American time travel superhero television series

Depicting the lives of the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham, Empire Road was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by artists of colour

Untypical 1970s police drama set in a small provincial town. More 'Dixon of Dock Green' than 'The Sweeney'

The Roy family control the biggest media and entertainment company in the world, but the family begins to disintegrate when their patriarch refuses to name a successor

Quirky sitcom centred around two cultured ladies, Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket who reside together in the genteel and picturesque village of Stackton Tressel

British made adult animated series which revolves around a middle class 40-year-old divorcee who is permanently stressed due to family and work - in fact all aspects of life cause him stress

George C. Scott stars as Benito Mussolini in a biographical miniseries about the rise, rule, and downfall of the Italian dictator

Modern sketch comedy show at its very finest, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb

Marty Feldman's series of madcap sketches only burned brightly for two series but won him the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for the Best Light Entertainment Series, and a BAFTA for Best Script

Award winning American Crime drama starring Kate Winslet as Mare, a detective sergeant in the small community of Easttown, Pennsylvania. Mare has been unable to solve the case of a missing young girl for a year. Then another girl is found murdered...

Exciting, heartbreaking, and sometimes scary, Netflix's 'Stranger Things' pays homage to vintage 1980s film and television - Think 'ET', 'The Goonies', 'Back to the Future' and 'Gremlins' and you're on the right track. But best of all - is the music

13-part anthology series featuring Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories encompassing many genres, including comedy, romance, crime, medicine, and the supernatural.

Have you ever had one of those days when every decision you seem to make, however logical or well intentioned it may seem, backfires on you? Welcome to the world of Todd Margaret

In a London talent agency, a scramble is on to keep star clients happy and the business afloat after the sudden death of its founder. But does this British version of the acclaimed French series 'Dix Pour Cent' have what it takes to keep its viewers happy?

Margery Allingham's 1930s private detective, Albert Campion, has had several versions on BBC television. Here's a rundown on each of them...

US sitcom set round the daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana

1980s children's sitcom written by Andrew Davies which revolves round Marmalade Atkins - 'The Worst Girl in the World'

David Janssen as an embittered and revenge-seeking ex-cop who has been pensioned out of the service following an injury, turns private investigator, in the popular actor's final long-running TV series

Dark, adult-orientated fantasy series in which a human detective and an immigrant fairy rekindle a dangerous affair, in a dangerous Victorian England fantasy world of murder and monsters

British spy thriller in which a spy hunts down an assassin. But while the hunter becomes obsessed with the hunted, the hunted becomes obsessed with the hunter

A female private detective agency is a front for a Home Office security team.

Richard Burton starred in John Osborne's first play for television, which was turned down by commercial television before it was snapped up by the BBC in 1960

Stylish, epic gangster saga centring on a gang led by fierce boss Tommy Shelby. Beginning on the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham, Tommy sets about creating an empire for himself and his family, and stop anyone who gets in their way

Series based on Bernard Cornwell's 'The Saxon Stories' series of novels, set in the ninth century, 'The Last Kingdom' is the story of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, born a Saxon but raised a Viking after his father’s death in battle.

How would the survivors react to a total collapse of civilisation? Stephen King's epic post-Apocalyptic tale got a remake in 2020

US sitcom loosely based on the real life adventures of its star, the much troubled actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, Brett Butler