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Spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show about the weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned best friend of Mary Richards, who leaves Minneapolis to return home to New York City.

Winston Graham's series of historical novels published from 1945 to 1953 and again from 1973 to 2002, was one of the most successful British television adaptations of all time having been sold to over forty countries.

US police series that broke new ground in featuring a woman in the lead role as a police officer .

Life behind bars for an habitual thief is made easier by winning 'little victories' over the system.

Debuting in 1952 Pot Luck is notable as the first ever British audience participation series.

The series that inspired a generation of journalists: The Junior Gazette, a young newspaper, is produced by pupils of a comprehensive school.

17th century historical action teenage adventure series.

Hard hitting crime drama starring Helen Mirren as a determined and strong female detective.

A private company offers security but ends up involved in forgery, espionage and murder.

Thirty minute play in set during the Battle of Trafalgar.

Resigned British agent is captured by people unknown and taken to a mysterious village. "I am not a number, I am a free man!"

Groundbreaking series of 5-minute appeals for information or witnesses to unresolved crimes.

Documentary style drama series about the work of Probation Officers and the youths they work with.

Gritty comedy drama was set during the grim high unemployment days of Thatcher's Britain in the mid eighties

Twice weekly series set round a modern health centre

David E. Kelley series centring on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm.

Eccentric teacher takes charge of a class at a girls finishing school.

Two astronauts are thrown into a future Earth where the apes are the dominant species and mankind is treated as dangerous beasts.

Mystery after dark threatens to close Potencia-One, Santa Montana's lonely nuclear power station in the Andes.

Mr and Mrs Pogle, young Pippin and his sprite friend Tog and the ways of the countryside.

The first TV sitcom, transmitted on the BBC in 1946, about the owner of 'the smallest multiple store in the world.'

"Here is a house, here is a door, windows -one, two, three four. Ready to knock? Turn the lock. It's Play School."

Ruthless businessman runs a multi-million pound empire.

Novice teacher is given charge of an unruly class of students with hilarious results.

Magnus Pym is a self-serving, unfeeling individual who leads a life of duplicity and betrayal.

Music and music-hall acts from the Edwardian era in a drama setting

A rocket takes off for space but soon becomes involved in intrigue and terror.

Court room dramas featuring an invincible defence lawyer.

The small farming community of Hooterville provided the setting for widower Kate Bradley and her three beautiful daughters, who ran a small hotel called The Shady Rest.