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Early TV music series that highlighted the top tunes of the day - billed as "America’s Barometer of Song" - the series gave rise to the term 'Hit Parade'

A female editor with no previous experience is given the task of resurrecting a failing local newspaper

With the Roman Catholic Church in chaos and Jude Law's Young Pope in a coma, the Cardinals decide to replace him with a British pope, played by John Malkovich

James Herriot's tales of a country vet had first appeared on screen in a 1974 movie, became a TV series in 1978 and was revived successfully in 2020

British pre-school series that, in 1969, was a departure from the norm

Hattie Jacques plays it straight as private investigator Stacey Smith, whose cases always turn out far more complicated than at first sight, and get her into some very odd situations

Not afraid to be lewd, crude, shrewd, or sophisticated, this US sketch comedy show proved too controversial for US television

A simple case of mistaken identity satirises human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia - this 1958 BBC adaptation marked the first dramatic role for Tony Hancock

Adult animated adventure series set amid the stark discord of twin cities - the utopian Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, where two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions

Nigel Kneale's gripping tale of a party of explorers who arrive in Tibet, in search of the legendary Abominable Snowman. A classic 'lost' BBC play