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Ernest Maxin

Make A Date (1960)

Ernest Maxin

Future Morecambe and Wise producer Ernest Maxin signs, dances and plays host to a variety of guest stars.

Man At The Top

Man At The Top (1970)

Man At The Top

The continuing trials and tribulations of a Northern lad trying to make it in the South as he wheels and deals in the cutthroat world of big business.

The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads (1964)

The Likely Lads

A Sharply scripted comedy of character and wryly observed social change both series held a perceptively laughter gilded mirror to the changing face of the work-deprived industrial North East and of British society during the middle nineteen-sixties and early seventies.

David Kossoff in Little Big Business

Little Big Business (1964)

David Kossoff in Little Big Business

Standard sitcom starring David Kossoff as a wise but stubborn furniture maker who resists his son's attempts at modernisation.

Lizzie Dripping

Lizzie Dripping (1973)

Lizzie Dripping

BBC children's series about a mischievous 12 year-old girl, Penelope Arbuckle, and her imaginary witch friend who only Penelope (and the TV audience) could see.

Lost In Space TV Series 1965

Lost In Space (1965)

Lost In Space TV Series 1965

A colony spacecraft transporting the Robinson family to a new world is sabotaged by an infiltrating enemy agent, causing them to crash-land on a remote planet deep in uncharted space.

Lou Grant

Lou Grant (1977)

Lou Grant

A City Editor at a major Los Angeles newspaper goes after serious issues such as Vietnamese refugees, child abuse and gun control.

Lucky Feller

Lucky Feller (1976)

Lucky Feller

Shorty Mepstead, a South-East Londoner who lives at home with his mum, is in love with his brother's girlfriend...

Madigan

Madigan (1970)

Madigan

A grim-faced loner of the New York homicide division fights crime in an action packed cops and robbers series.

Wyatt Earp TV Series

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)

Wyatt Earp TV Series

Consistently good Western Series starring Hugh O'Brian about the famous US Marshal, whose trademark was a pair of "Buntline Special" pistols with extra-long barrels with which he kept the peace.

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger (1949)

The Lone Ranger

Western series in which a mysterious stranger arrives in town to be the righter of wrongs and the defender of the oppressed. Who was that masked man?

Michael Medwin

The Love of Mike (1960)

Michael Medwin

Mike Lane; always broke, always short of rent, always running after easy money or a hard-to-get blonde.

The Lovers TV Series

The Lovers (1970)

The Lovers TV Series

According to television everybody was getting a taste of the 'permissive society' in the 1970s. Everybody, that is, except Geoffrey Bubbles Bon Bon and Beryl.

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Little Britain (2003)

David Walliams and Matt Lucas

Surreal, disturbing, crossing the boundary of good taste, Little Britain features some of the most grotesque characters ever seen on television.

London's Burning TV Series

London's Burning (1986)

London's Burning TV Series

The gritty reality and dark humour of a group of firefighters based at a fictional London-based fire station.

Luther TV Series

Luther (2010)

Luther TV Series

Writer Neil Cross spins wild and weird stories of gruesome killers against a less than lush London backdrop.

Life On Mars TV Series

Life on Mars (2006)

Life On Mars TV Series

"My name is Sam Tyler. I had an accident and woke up in 1973. Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened it's like I'm on a different planet. Now maybe if I can work out the reason...I can get home."

The Lotus Eaters

The Lotus Eaters (1972)

The Lotus Eaters

"To eat the fruit of the lotus is to lose the desire to return home. But everyone who does has a reason."