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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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Kolchak

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)

Kolchak

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

Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants (1968)

Land of the Giants

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.

Lark Rise to Candleford

Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)

Lark Rise to Candleford

"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."

Ladykillers TV Series

Ladykillers (1980)

Ladykillers TV Series

A series of seven hour-long plays produced by Granada television based on real-life murder trials where the accused was female - proving that when it comes to foul play the gentler sex can be just as deadly as the male.

kung fu

Kung Fu (1972)

kung fu

US action-adventure drama in which a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, goes in search of his half-brother.

Joe 90

Joe 90 (1968)

Joe 90

A nine-year old schoolboy is given the brain pattern and special skills of experts in order to carry out secret missions.

Brian Blessed as Long John Silver

John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1986)

Brian Blessed as Long John Silver

When the Disney Channel contracted the UK ITV broadcaster HTV Wales to bring to the screen this major drama series, it realised a legacy left by Robert Louis Stevenson when he wrote his classic thriller more than a hundred years ago.

Journey to the Unknown

Journey to the Unknown (1968)

Journey to the Unknown

Psychological suspense, medical experimentation and science fiction, with a little murder mystery thrown in for good measure

Judge Dee TV series

Judge Dee (1969)

Judge Dee TV series

Ancient Chinese detective stories written in English by a modern Dutch diplomat.

Julia TV Series

Julia (1968)

Julia TV Series

Not since the 1950s, when Ethel Waters starred as a maid to the Henderson family in the ABC sitcom Beulah, had a black female been cast in a leading TV role...

jungle boy tv series

Jungle Boy (1957)

jungle boy tv series

A boy grows up in the wilds as an orphan when the rest of his family is killed in an airplane crash. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya, East Africa.

Knight Errant TV series

Knight Errant '59 (1959)

Knight Errant TV series

"Knight Errant '59. Quests undertaken, dragons defeated, damsels rescued. Anything, anywhere, for anyone, so long as it helps. Fees according to means"

Knights of God

Knights of God (1987)

Knights of God

Set in the year 2020, Great Britain has been devastated by civil war after years of political unrest, the government has been overthrown and the Royal Family executed.

Kojak TV series

Kojak (1973)

Kojak TV series

Lt. Kojak was a tough cop with a smart mouth and wits even sharper than his top flight dress sense.