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marjorie and men

Marjorie and Men (1985)

marjorie and men

Patricia Routledge in her first starring comedy role as Marjorie Belton who, despite a bitter and hurtful divorce, is still hoping to find the type of romance one would only come across in a Mills and Boon novel.

Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful (2014)

Penny Dreadful

Dark, mysterious and suspenseful, featuring the most terrifying characters from classic horror literature, Penny Dreadful goes to the darkest corners of Victorian London with blood-curdling results.

Suburban Shootout

Suburban Shootout (2006)

Suburban Shootout

Little Steppington is a small suburb which is, on the face of it, calm, cozy, quiet and crime-free. But in this dark satirical British comedy, it's the housewives who are keeping this outward appearance - by killing each other.

The Young Ones

The Young Ones (1982)

The Young Ones

Anarchic sitcom about four mismatched university students who appear to have no interest in their university life, and their surreal antics sharing a house together.

Arena

Arena (1975)

Arena

Multi award-winning British documentary series produced since 1975 and voted as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time.

The New Statesman

The New Statesman (1987)

The New Statesman

The most selfish, greedy, dishonest, devious, lecherous, sadistic, self-serving ultra-right-wing Conservative of them all, plots to achieve his megalomaniacal ambitions.

Duty Free

Duty Free (1984)

Duty Free

David and Amy Pearce have been married for some years but the spark appears to have gone from their relationship. They hope that a holiday may help. In Spain, they meet Robert and Linda Cochran. Robert is largely oblivious to his wife and things are about to get complicated.

Rome

Rome (2005)

Rome

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Have I Got News For You

Have I Got News For You (1990)

Have I Got News For You

John Winterson Richards reviews the BBC's eternal, totally-irreverent, often controversial satirical quiz show that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in the pursuit of laughs.

Hazell

Hazell (1978)

Hazell

Private Eye James Hazell is an East End lad, once a copper. He is not the type to play with physical violence. He does not like fighting, but he is no coward. A rough and ready cockney, he may drop his aitches, but he never loses his determination.

Andromeda

Andromeda (2000)

Andromeda

After being frozen for several centuries, Dylan Hunt, the captain of the spaceship Andromeda Ascendant, is horrified to discover that the Systems Commonwealth has collapsed and the known galaxies have descended into barbarism.

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989)

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Possessing a genius intellect and an eidetic memory, Doogie Howser becomes a qualified doctor at the age of fourteen.

Hot Metal

Hot Metal (1986)

Hot Metal

The Crucible is a new muck-raking tabloid newspaper in London and managing editor Russell Spam is always on the lookout for the latest dirt and gossip.

Summerton Mill

Summerton Mill (2005)

Summerton Mill

Down at the bottom a very pretty valley, there's a magical place called Summerton Mill. And when the waterwheel turns at Summerton Mill, a little bit of magic takes place. And, for a little while, everything goes back to how it used to be...

The Young Pope - HBO series

The Young Pope (2016)

The Young Pope - HBO series

HBO series following the early years of young American-born Pius XIII's pontificate. Pius XIII quickly demonstrates that he will not be a mere figurehead for the Vatican. Instead, Pius XIII is arrogant, self-serving, and power hungry.

The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons (1975)

The Jeffersons

Developed by ground-breaking television producer Norman Lear, The Jeffersons follows a successful African-American couple as they "move on up" from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment.

Whoops Apocalypse

Whoops Apocalypse (1982)

Whoops Apocalypse

It is election year on both sides of the Atlantic and with the world in a state of nuclear jumpiness, US president Johnny Cyclops is currently as popular as rabies. His chances of re-election are threatened by two major crises - one in Russia and another in the Middle East. Where will it all end?

Rhodes

Rhodes (1996)

Rhodes

8-part drama series about Cecil Rhodes, a 19th century empire-builder who became one of the world's wealthiest men. Over £10 million in the making, 'Rhodes' was largely ignored by viewers and panned by the critics.

Police Surgeon

Police Surgeon (1960)

Police Surgeon

A socially conscious doctor works with the Metropolitan Police and often gets too involved in his cases.

Ash vs Evil Dead

Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)

Ash vs Evil Dead

Ash has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind - and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.

AfterMASH

AfterMASH (1983)

AfterMASH

After returning from Korea, three prominent members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital try to adjust to civilian life.

Mr Bean

Mr. Bean (1990)

Mr Bean

They say actions speak louder than words, and that's never been truer than in the case of a certain Mr Bean, one of Britain's most popular comical television characters, the taciturn, clumsy, conniving and ever ingenious "child in a grown man's body."

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not The Nine O'Clock News (1982)

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Sketch show that single-handedly revived political satire on British television in the 1980s. Had it not been for one M. Thatcher, it might never have come to fruition.

V 2009 reboot

V (reboot) (2009)

V 2009 reboot

Reboot of the classic 80s series about a race of technologically advanced alien species who claim to come in peace, but actually has sinister motives.

Chelmsford 123

Chelmsford 123 (1988)

Chelmsford 123

In the year 123AD, a Roman aristocrat finds himself exiled to Britain after insulting the Emperor's girlfriend. He is appointed Governor of the provincial capital of Chelmsford, but it is the surly local chieftain Badvoc who is really running things.

The Last Ship

The Last Ship (2014)

The Last Ship

Following a pandemic that wipes out 80 per cent of the world's population, one US naval ship and its crew try to save humanity from extinction.

The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line (1995)

The Thin Blue Line

Anarchy reigns at a police station in the small English town of Gasforth - as dyed-in-the-wool conventionalist Inspector Raymond Fowler finds himself at loggerheads with modern policing methods, and in particular CID Inspector Derek Grim.