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Britannia

Britannia (2018)

Britannia

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

The Inbetweeners

The Inbetweeners (2008)

The Inbetweeners

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

Friday Night Dinner

Friday Night Dinner (2011)

Friday Night Dinner

The Goodman family get together around the dinner table every Friday night. When they do, madness and mayhem is guaranteed to be on the menu...

Big Brother

Big Brother (2000)

Big Brother

Reality show in which contestants, known as "housemates", live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (2006)

Waterloo Road

A melting pot of class and race set in a challenging comprehensive school, where the day-to-day troubles of its students spill out in dramatic ways

The Expanse

The Expanse (2015)

The Expanse

Hundreds of years in the future the solar system has been colonized by humanity. A disparate band of protagonists place themselves between the political tension of a cold war and unravel the single greatest conspiracy of all time

Tempo

Tempo (1961)

Tempo

Innovative arts programme that broadened the genre's outlook - despite an uncertain start

FlashForward TV series

FlashForward (2009)

FlashForward TV series

Everybody in the world experiences an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes them lose consciousness. Can they change the future?

Stay Lucky tv series

Stay Lucky (1989)

Stay Lucky tv series

Thomas Gynn is on the run from London when he runs into feisty Yorkshire lass Sally Hardcastle, who very quickly decides she wants nothing to do with him. But the unlikely couple will be seeing a lot more of each other.

Shirley Bassey

The Shirley Bassey Show (1976)

Shirley Bassey

Best known for her full-blooded vocal delivery in a career spanning more than 60 years, Shirley Bassey, the girl from Tiger Bay, has a longevity and status almost unsurpassed by any other major performer. In the 1970s she made two series for the BBC

Romany Jones

Romany Jones (1972)

Romany Jones

Bert Jones and his wife Betty live on a caravan site. They both have ideas above their station. Betty has told her mother she lives in luxury rather than squalor. Can Bert get them out of it? Not while he has a distinct aversion to working...

Send in the Girls

Send in the Girls (1978)

Send in the Girls

Short-lived female-led series following the adventures of a group of ‘girls for hire’ as promoters for live sporting events or sales promotions, to add a bit of glamour to proceedings

The Storyteller

The Storyteller (1987)

The Storyteller

Jim Henson's live-action/puppet television series telling a variety of European folk tales which are retold in nine new stories

Brush Strokes

Brush Strokes (1986)

Brush Strokes

Jacko is a wisecracking house painter who enjoys life, is an incorrigible womaniser, and spends his spare time 'appreciating' the fairer sex. Will he ever find true love?

Who, Me?

Who, Me? (1959)

Who, Me?

'Lost' BBC drama that was a forerunner to Z Cars, and one of the first police procedurals to be set outside of London

Cribbins TV Series

Cribbins (1969)

Cribbins TV Series

Sketch show featuring the incomparable Bernard Cribbins in which he portrays a variety of characters including a burglar, tramp, cowboy and more...

Leonardo tv series 2021

Leonardo (2021)

Leonardo tv series 2021

Amazon Prime's bio-series dramatizing Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, and through the stories hidden within those works

Singles

Singles (1988)

Singles

Four characters, who have been on the relationship merry-go-round time and again, are coping with the various levels of frustration that go with their single life, when their lives intertwine

The Aliens

The Aliens (2016)

The Aliens

Excellent science fiction drama series that unflinchingly explores discrimination, exploitation and ghettoisation

The Other 'Arf

The Other 'Arf (1980)

The Other 'Arf

Sir Galahad comes in many guises, and in the case of beautiful model Lorraine Watts he's in the form of Tory MP Charles Latimer. But what is his fiancé going to say?

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979)

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

After the success of her long running sitcom, Mary Tyler Moore was ready for a new challenge. But things didn't go as well as was hoped for...

Spiral

Spiral / Engrenages (2005)

Spiral

A tangled web of political intrigue, prostitution and drugs unfold in this superb French police procedural drama

Three Sisters

Three Sisters (1954)

Three Sisters

Another 'lost' BBC play. Anton Chekov's celebrated play concerns the lives of an aristocratic family who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world.

Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)

Everybody Loves Raymond

To the rest of the world Ray Barone seemingly has it all - he's a successful sportswriter with a wonderful wife, a beautiful family, and a nice house. And if that wasn't enough, everybody loves him!

Chigley

Chigley (1969)

Chigley

"Are you going to Trumpton? Camberwick Green? Chigley? Can we come with you?"