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
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...
Reality show in which contestants, known as "housemates", live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world
Miss Sophie has hosted the same dinner party for the same guests for a number of years, in spite of the fact that she has now outlived them all!
An updated review of the world's longest running soap opera
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
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
Another 'lost' BBC play from the 1950s. A doctor who has an interest in criminal behaviour, embarks on a crime spree in order to satisfy his curiosity
Innovative arts programme that broadened the genre's outlook - despite an uncertain start
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?
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.
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
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...
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
Jim Henson's live-action/puppet television series telling a variety of European folk tales which are retold in nine new stories
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?
Action adventure series featuring the further adventures of Robin Hood.
'Lost' BBC drama that was a forerunner to Z Cars, and one of the first police procedurals to be set outside of London
Sketch show featuring the incomparable Bernard Cribbins in which he portrays a variety of characters including a burglar, tramp, cowboy and more...
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
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
Excellent science fiction drama series that unflinchingly explores discrimination, exploitation and ghettoisation
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?
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...
A tangled web of political intrigue, prostitution and drugs unfold in this superb French police procedural drama
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.