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Hosted by the charismatic Hughie Green, Double Your Money gave away the biggest cash prize on British television in the 1950s.

A frighteningly believable look at the near future.

When Tessa Piggott vows never to trust men again, she doesn't plan on meeting Frank Carver...

Action adventure series featuring the exploits of the men and women who work for the official government investigation department of Customs and Excise.

The first televised episodic series on television, Ann and Harold followed the courtship to the eventual wedding of a society couple.

On a wild, dark night in 1770, a storm-lashed ship crashes helplessly on the treacherous rocks of Dead Eye, lured to its doom by a flickering light on the coast. It's sole survivor now has to fear for her life as a gang of desperate men try to silence her.

It's 1981: the year of the Royal Wedding, the Brixton riots, Bucks Fizz winning the Eurovision Song Contest – and the year that Gene Hunt takes the Met by storm.

Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker in a long-lost and (possibly) best forgotten sitcom.

Ground-breaking television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. 'The Guardian' ranked the series at number 13 in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time".

David Brent thinks he's the coolest, funniest, and most popular boss ever. He isn't.

A family man turns to crime after a lung cancer diagnosis unravels his simple life. Recruiting a former student and small-time dealer to be his partner in crime, he rises to the top of the meth trade, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

A six-part prequel to Treasure Island which explains how Ben Gunn became a pirate, where the buried treasure in Treasure Island came from, and how John Silver lost his leg.

When their family business is threatened with financial ruin, a family go into bitter battle - with themselves.

Judi Dench starred in this single play presentation about two daughters who are expected to marry men in 'their own class.'

A comedic take on 'Upstairs Downstairs', the hugely successful drama centred around the aristocratic home of a member of parliament and the staff employed to keep the home functioning in accordance with social standing of the time, set as it was in the early decades of the 20th century.

An American classic starring the unforgettable Sid Caesar. Your Show of Shows was the template for the modern American sketch show.

Oh, Dr Beeching! was a hit with its pilot show, its viewing figures unrivalled for a new comedy for some years afterwards. Unfortunately, due to the expense of its location shooting, it was somewhat over budget at a time when the BBC purse strings were largely welded shut.

Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties.

A housewife wins a prize to visit a spaceship. While she is there, it spontaneously goes into orbit. Following hot on the heals of Are You Being Served? Mollie Sugden starred in this excellent David Croft sitcom which is now sadly overlooked.

Timothy Lumsden leads a dull life - he works in a public library and lives at home with his domineering mother and self-effacing father. Timothy Lumsden is sorry...

There's no police like Holmes. But not all his TV exploits have been a success. Here's a classic example.

When Ronald Craven attempts to unravel the truth behind the murder of his daughter his investigations soon lead him into a murky world of government and corporate cover-ups and nuclear espionage, pitting him against dark forces that threaten the future of life on Earth.

Remaking a classic: Included in Time Magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best Shows of All Time", Sanford and Son was based on the BBC Galton and Simpson sitcom Steptoe and Son.

1960s legal and courtroom drama series

A teenager stows away aboard a rocket in order to visit her brother on another planet. But her actions put everyone else's safety in jeopardy.

In 1960 the BBC embarked on their most ambitious television production up until then, a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential historical plays of William Shakespeare.

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The Battle of Culloden, which took place on April 16th, 1746, was the last battle fought on British soil. This docudrama blurred the distinctions between documentary and drama and proved to be ground-breaking television.

Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill-health, and Taplow, one of his pupils, brings him a present on the eve of his retirement in this Terence Rattigan play from 1966.

"We are all conceived in close prison: in our mother's wombs, we are close prisoners all...and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death..." John Donne.