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The BBC's excellent award-winning historical drama on the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII

BBC/Netflix miniseries of Richard Adams' adventure novel. Fleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home

Heart warming and uplifting factual story of Doctor Guttmann who introduced sport into the rehabilitation of paralysed soldiers, which led to the foundation of the Paralympic Games

Yorkshire Television's dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily who each wrote some of the greatest works in English literature

Romantic British sitcom starring real life husband and wife John Alderton and Pauline Collins, as C.D. and Clara, reflecting on how they met and fell in love

It starts with a jaunty, jazz-tinged theme, then whisks you away on an journey of culinary arts - 1970s style

Netflix streaming series about a teenager with autism, that has gained a huge fandom for its honest, funny and heart-warming portrayal of living on the spectrum

The terrifying tale of two British Navy ships stranded in the icy waters of the Northwest Passage – and the dread that engulfs their crews

Funny, cuttingly satirical, and unafraid to tackle topical issues of social and political importance like drug abuse, body image, racism, and the environment - 'Dinosaurs' was way ahead of it's time

First transmitted in 1960, Sir Mortimer Wheeler embarks on an epic journey from Britain to Africa, to investigate the legacy of the Roman Empire

Quiet, thoughtful and a skilled observer of people, Detective Superintendent Wycliffe leads a team investigating the most serious and challenging of cases

Seven hour miniseries that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage

Trilogy of dark comedic plays about a man coming from nowhere, going nowhere, and about what happens to him in transit

US drama series set in a veterinary hospital. Featuring television's first paraplegic character

British sitcom with a difference - it was also a musical

In a universe where superpowered individuals work for a powerful corporation, their alter-egos are neither benevolent nor mild-mannered...

Sam has a magic ball which can take him anywhere his imagination wants to wander

Courtroom Drama: One of the most ground-breaking and, at times, controversial American television shows of the 1960s

Inspired by the original Star Trek and set in the 25th century, The Orville is a not-so-top-of-the-line Starship of Earth's interstellar fleet

Sitcom starring Reg Varney as a porter in Billingsgate fish market

Fantasy police procedural inspired by the Discworld series. Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized

Lauded by drama critics as a masterpiece of the modern stage, Mourning Becomes Electra with themes of murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, was the first substantial success of post-war television drama

British drama series described as a poignant masterpiece of humour and humanity, focusing on a group of gay friends, as they determine to live and love more fiercely than ever in the shadow of AIDS

Bafta-winning sitcom about the antics of a foul tempered and eccentric bookshop owner, his long-suffering assistant, and his one single friend

Classic British sitcom set in a Peckham barber shop, which is a gathering place for an assortment of local characters

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. "This is one of those programmes everyone, absolutely everyone, should see at least once"

"Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old"

In 43 AD, the Roman Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia

Friday's Watch With Mother offering in the 1960s was set on a family run farm

The misadventures of four teenage pupils at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive who are not exactly among the social outcasts, but nowhere near smooth enough to hang out with the cool kids