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"
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.
An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller
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 modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman
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?
Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV
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.
A politician's amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Sitcom about a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner.
A programme about the past, the future and the tension and changing relationship between The Likely Lads; the upwardly mobile Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, who spends most of his time acting as an anchor to Bob’s aspiration.
Former Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee, as the tatty old scarecrow of Scatterbrook Farm who comes to life and gets up to all sorts of mischief.
British sitcom about a minor government minister who eventually rises to the very highest seat of power.
An airport security agent investigates crime at a busy international terminal.
An elite wartime group get back together to bring an escaped Nazi to justice.
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When simultaneous American and Soviet nuclear tests knock Earth from its orbit, a group of London journalists uncover a government cover-up as rising temperatures, climate chaos and social collapse threaten humanity's survival in this haunting and timeless science-fiction thriller
From Clumsy Capers to Timey-Wimey Tales: Richard Hearne, TV’s first clown created mayhem and disaster - was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and was once considered to take control of the TARDIS!
A group of ex-Vietnam Commandos band together to form an unlikely partnership in order to assist the victims of injustice, whilst on the run themselves for a crime that they did not commit.
When a photographer dies under mysterious circumstances on Rhodes, his widow uncovers a sinister conspiracy linked to medieval secrets and supernatural forces. As she investigates, a charismatic and powerful villain draws her into a deadly battle against ancient evil
In the breathtaking Swiss Alps, a spirited orphan melts her stern uncle’s heart with resilience and optimism, in this faithful retelling of a beloved classic
When the mysterious Axons offer Earth a miracle substance capable of ending world hunger, the Doctor suspects a trap. As the truth behind the alien gift emerges, he must stop a parasitic organism from consuming the planet—and time itself
Two feisty flatmates navigate love, work, and friendship in 1970s Liverpool. The Liver Birds—witty, warm, and wonderfully of its time. A true British sitcom classic!
A suave private investigator navigates the glitz and danger of 1970s Las Vegas, with a guest cast that is a veritible Who's Who of American talent, solving crimes with charm and style in a city that never sleeps
An iconic English comedienne, Hylda Baker, short in stature and with a rich Lancashire accent, became a star later in life until finally, her career came to a shuddering halt
Long before The Simpsons took American prime time by storm, a slightly less dysfunctional cartoon family blazed the trial for generation crossing animated antics.
Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen looking for new careers. But things don't go according to plan until Ken turns his hand to courier driving, private investigating, minding and general troubleshooting
Dr. Edward Roebuck, a consultant at Maybury General Hospital, deals with numerous difficult cases in this ground-breaking drama that treated mental illness with humanity and grit, in the first British series to be set in a psychiatric unit
