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Quizball

Quizball! (1966)

Quizball

General knowledge quiz show featuring two sides representing a football team from the English or Scottish Leagues, as they battle it out off the pitch.

Raumpatrouille Orion

Raumpatrouille Orion (1966)

Raumpatrouille Orion

"What may sound like a fairy tale today may be tomorrow's reality." - The first German science fiction television series.

Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf (1988)

Red Dwarf

Lost deep in space the mining vessel Red Dwarf is crewed by a cat, a hologram, a robot and the last surviving human.

Rhoda

Rhoda (1974)

Rhoda

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.

Rainbow

Rainbow (1972)

Rainbow

Pre-school fun, songs and learning with a dedicated hard core adult following, Rainbow ran for almost twenty years on the ITV network as a production of Thames Television.

Poldark

Poldark (1975)

Poldark

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.

Police Woman

Police Woman (1974)

Police Woman

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

Porridge (1974)

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

Charlie Chester

Pot Luck (1952)

Charlie Chester

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

Press Gang

Press Gang

Press Gang

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

Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect (1991)

Prime Suspect

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

The Prisoner

The Prisoner (1967)

The Prisoner

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

Police Five

Police Five (1962)

Police Five

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

Prospects

Prospects (1986)

Prospects

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

Planet of the Apes TV Series

Planet of the Apes (1974)

Planet of the Apes TV Series

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

Plateau of Fear

Plateau of Fear (1961)

Plateau of Fear

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

Pogles Wood

Pogles' Wood (1966)

Pogles Wood

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

Pinwright's Progress (1946)

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