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Cagney and Lacey TV series

Cagney and Lacey (1981)

Cagney and Lacey TV series

Multi-award-winning police action/adventure series that broke new ground by having its central buddy characters, rather than being the standard team of uninspired Starsky and Hutch clones, female officers doing a tough and dangerous job as well - if not better - than any of their male counterparts.

A Very Secret Service/Au Service de la France

A Very Secret Service/Au Service de la France (2015)

A Very Secret Service/Au Service de la France

It is the height of the Cold War and the position of France as a major colonial power is in crisis. Faced with the independence of Algeria, French society is also changing, with a rising counterculture exemplified by new music, new fashions, growing feminism and New Wave cinema

Welcome Back, Kotter

Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)

Welcome Back, Kotter

Gabe Kotter returns to his old high school as a teacher and is put in charge of a class full of unruly, wisecracking, underachieving and incorrigible students called the Sweathogs. This US sitcom launched the successful acting career of John Travolta

This Week BBC series

This Week (2003)

This Week BBC series

With a light-hearted tone compared to most political shows, the BBC's award winning current affairs programme which ran from 2003 to 2019 was often described as "punchy, irreverent, and satirical"

Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty (2006)

Ugly Betty

An unattractive girl becomes the personal assistant to the owner of a high fashion magazine...

That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was (USA) (1964)

That Was The Week That Was

Famed for its mocking irreverence and savage lampooning of 'The Establishment' it wasn't long before the British satire show TW3 made its way across the Atlantic. But in election year, one of the presidential frontrunners did everything he could to scupper the series...

Barbarians TV series 2020

Barbarians (2020)

Barbarians TV series 2020

Fictional account of events during the Roman Empire's occupation of Germania and one of the most decisive battles of world history