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.
Seven self-contained plays by different writers - each featuring one of the sins categorised by the founders of the Christian Church as "deadly."
When 1966's Seven Deadly Sins proved popular with viewers, series producer Peter Willes decided to repeat the idea the following year.
A young girl rescues a horse and an affinity is formed between them.
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After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre enters service at Thornfield Hall, where Charlotte Brontë’s resilient heroine meets Edward Rochester, the brooding master she serves as governess in the BBC’s atmospheric 1963 adaptation
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 delightfully chaotic blend of British charm and American gloss, Here Come the Double Deckers! is a children’s television series from the early 1970s that has earned a modest but fond place in the hearts of those who remember it
Dominic Hide, a time-travelling observer from the year 2130 has an agenda. Going back back 150 years in search of his great-great-grandfather is illegal. And things become further complicated when he falls in love.
'There is a small group of private detectives who are able to work more efficiently because they are operating outside the law.'
When a businessman dies in his office, allegedly before revealing why he sought help, private detective Johnny Treherne investigates a protection racket, uncovering betrayal, corruption and murder while fighting to clear himself of suspicion
Mackintoshes vs Linen Blazers: Why Regan would arrest Crockett before breakfast (and why Crockett would look too good to care)
In this acclaimed 1968 BBC adaptation of Anne Brontë’s radical novel, a mysterious widow seeking refuge at Wildfell Hall conceals a painful past involving an abusive marriage and challenging Victorian conventions in a powerful story of courage, independence, and survival
Dick Emery's characters were some of the best remembered on British television for a number of years. This article looks at how he created these characters utilising his natural flair for mimicry.
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!
UK version of the popular children's programme where children were invited into the studio to play. Romper Room captivated kids from the age of 3 to 6 for 13 years on Anglia Television and had a waiting list of around a thousand kids
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.
Sheila Steafel captivated audiences as a versatile character actor, her unique features a canvas for the roles she embodied, each glance infused with playful mischief or an insightful sparkle
