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Children's early afternoon magazine made as a rival to Blue Peter

Typical 1970s pop show for kids, given that 'extra something' by its enigmatic host.

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

1950s children's puppet series

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.

Comedy sketch show in which the host poked fun at a number of British institutions

A British 'Toff' uses his appearance as an upper-class twit to outwit his adversaries.

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.

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

Six-part children's TV series with an educational theme set in Elizabethan London

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?

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

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

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

"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."

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

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.

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

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.

13-year old Tom Thumbleton discovers a boomerang that makes time stand still when thrown.

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

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

TV series based on the famous movie.

Kolchak, a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, who investigates mysterious crimes, especially those involving the supernatural.

Legal and personal goings on at a Los Angeles law firm

A sub-orbital commercial flight enters a space-warp and crash-lands on a planet that is home to people 12 times the normal height.

"Based on the autobiographical novels of Flora Thompson, the first published in 1939, Lark Rise’s strengths lie prominently in the calibre of its cast."

An uncouth boiler maker inherits a stately home

Two factory workers in the 1950s dream of a better life.