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Dick Barton - Special Agent

Dick Barton - Special Agent (1979)

Dick Barton - Special Agent

1970s Television series of the most popular British action-adventure radio series of the 1940s with rip-roaring escapades and tales of derring-do...

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

A witty, light South Korean comedy drama about an autistic 27-year-old lawyer with an IQ of 164, impressive memory, and creative thought process, who graduated at the top of her class from a prestigious law school

Search for a Star

Search for a Star (1964)

Search for a Star

1960s ITV talent show which sought to discover a star female all-round entertainer. The semi-finalists fared better than the eventual winner...

Party of Five

Party of Five (1994)

Party of Five

Multi-award nominated and winning American drama series about the Salinger family - five youngsters who are trying to deal with the tragic loss of both parents in a car accident

House of the Dragon

House of the Dragon (2022)

House of the Dragon

HBO's prequel to Game of Thrones going back approximately 200 years to centre on the beginning of the end of the once all-powerful dynasty

Oh Happy Band tv series

Oh Happy Band! (1980)

Oh Happy Band tv series

British sitcom starring Harry Worth as the leader of a brass band in a small town that is being threatened with the development of an airport that would go right through it

Come Fly With Me

Come Fly With Me (2010)

Come Fly With Me

British mockumentary series that debuted to 10 million viewers but attracted thousands of complaints, and was eventually removed from all streaming services because of its perceived stereotyping

Suburra: Blood on Rome

Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)

Suburra: Blood on Rome

In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican

Potter

Potter (1979)

Potter

Arthur Lowe's last television series may well have laid the ground for Keeping Up Appearances

SAS Rogue Heroes

SAS Rogue Heroes (2022)

SAS Rogue Heroes

Six-part BBC drama series based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name, charting the creation of the famed Special Forces unit

Number 10 tv series

Number 10 (1983)

Number 10 tv series

A whole host of stars feature in this historical anthology series telling the stories of seven Prime Ministers and their time in office at London's most famous address

Disraeli TV series 1978

Disraeli (1978)

Disraeli TV series 1978

Ian McShane stars in this four-part series about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Good Old Days TV show

The Good Old Days (1953)

The Good Old Days TV show

Mock Edwardian entertainment that proved so successful that it ran for 30 years and in the process introduced around 2000 performers

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (2022)

The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power

Set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power covers all the major events of Middle-Earth's Second Age - the forging of the Rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron and the last alliance between Elves and Men

Taggart

Taggart (1983)

Taggart

Ground-breaking, intelligent and immensely watchable crime series set on the grey and rainy streets of Glasgow, 'Taggart' became one of the UK's longest running thriller series

Family Matters

Family Matters (1989)

Family Matters

Revolving around the Winslow family, a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, 'Family Matters' was the last live-action scripted primetime show that debuted in the 1980s to leave the air, outlasting all other primetime network debuts of the 1980s with the exception of 'The Simpsons'

Money Heist

Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) (2017)

Money Heist

International Emmy Award winning (Best Drama Series) Spanish crime caper in which a gang of robbers take 67 hostages as part of their daring and dangerous assault on the Royal Mint of Spain, where they plan to print and escape with €2.4 billion

Narcos: Mexico

Narcos: Mexico (2021)

Narcos: Mexico

US crime drama originally intended as the fourth season of 'Narcos' but instead developed as a companion series, with events prequelling the original

Kelly Monteith

Kelly Monteith (1979)

Kelly Monteith

The affable American comedian made such a hit with the British public that the BBC gave him his own stand-up comedy and sketch show, which featured a host of well-known stars

Petrocelli

Petrocelli (1974)

Petrocelli

Harvard-educated lawyer Anthony Petrocelli turns his back on the courtrooms of Manhattan for a quieter legal career in a small Arizona town, but seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend

Bottom tv series

Bottom (1991)

Bottom tv series

Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, misogynistic, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat. Perpetually bored and broke, they waste their days thinking about sex, money, and trying not kill one another

The Sandman

The Sandman (2022)

The Sandman

After numerous failed attempts to bring it to the screen, Neil Gaiman's fantasy drama comic book is finally brought to the screen in an enthralling Netflix series

Dear John USA

Dear John (USA) (1988)

Dear John USA

A rarely successful adaptation from Britain to America in this sitcom concerning a divorced man who tries to get his life back in order after losing everything to his ex-wife

The Survivors

The Survivors (1957)

The Survivors

In this ‘lost’ BBC play - the long-drawn and bitterly contested American Civil War is over, but there is a legacy of hatred left over from the fighting - hatred which comes slowly to a climax in a bar in Decker City

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox (1966)

The Tinderbox

One of Hans Christian Andersen's first fairy tales, 'The Tinderbox' came to British television screens in 1966 as a three-part series, having been made as a full length feature in 1959

Narcos

Narcos (2015)

Narcos

Set and filmed in Colombia, Netflix's crime drama is based on the story of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who became a billionaire through the production and distribution of cocaine