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Doris Day was one of the few successful film actresses who made a smooth transition to television and her half-hour sitcom saved her from bankruptcy.

A soldier returns to India to find the girl he loved but had to leave.

Joel Fleischmann, desperate to find funding for a medical scholarship, finds himself trading his skills in return for his fees of $125,000 being paid for.

Critically acclaimed BBC drama series that tracks the lives of four friends from the sixties to the nineties.

Brutally real drama series, set in Baltimore, USA. The Wire centres around the city's inner-city drug scene, the dealers and the law enforcement agency that tries to bring them down.

Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club a success no matter what.

Following in the mighty footsteps of Monty Python and influencing popular follow-ups like Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen always felt that little bit more twisted.

A review of the BBC's pioneering 1950s music show for teens.

Influential humorous improvisation series hosted by Clive Anderson - starring a myriad of quick-witted comedians.

When Nadia keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honour on that same evening, she tries to find a way out of her strange and disturbing time loop.

Planned as a six-episode summer replacement in 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour did so well that CBS brought it back immediately as a weekly variety series.

Just as World of Sport had challenged the comfortable cosy chair of the BBC by throwing an afternoon of horse racing and wrestling for ‘grappling fans’ up against Grandstand, so The Big Match competed with its football coverage, while the BBC stood still.

An inept broadcaster whose inflated sense of celebrity drives him to treachery and shameless self-promotion.

An exquisitely written, hilariously funny and surprisingly profound piece of television about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.

The Nat King Cole Show originally aired without a sponsor, but NBC agreed to pay for initial production costs assuming that once the show actually aired a national sponsor would emerge.

After an encounter with a demon, a sceptical nurse and ex-scientist meets the mysterious John Strange.

Bank manager Mark Telford takes a backward step in his career in order to retreat from the rat race.

Light-hearted drama series about Robby Box, a small-time London gambler, and his long-suffering family.

There aren’t that many series that have an episode entitled "A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop A Wop-Bam Boom"

An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller

First Night presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict. The series debuted on BBC with Alan Owen's The Strain on 22 September 1963 and ran through until 1964.

A modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman

These four Noel Coward plays, made by Granada and broadcast over a month in 1964 in their Play Of The Week schedule, were slotted into an abundance of one off dramas being produced by the regional ITV companies at the time.

Crisis comes when auntie decides to leave her cash to a dogs' home. Murder follows.

A young refugee couple stand on the bridge between East and West. The girl is about to have a baby. The frontier guards will not let them pass to the other side. What can they do?

A popular officer is accused of taking money from his Battery safe. His defence rests of his wife's evidence - but will she consent to appear at the court-martial?

Alf Liddell is a quiet, good humoured, home-loving man who prefers to keep out of the limelight. But when Alf is elected to the local council he proves to be a man of principles-so strong that he soon makes powerful enemies.

Flanders, 1918, and young Capt. Dunton deliberately orders his best friend to certain death. What has gone wrong between the two men? And will the Captain's plan succeed?

A young Englishman makes many friends in Vienna, but all of them turn against him with the outbreak of the first world war. After the Armistice, he returns to find nothing but bitterness and despair.

Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV