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Police procedural centred on the work of homicide detectives in Baltimore, Maryland.

The history of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, despair, struggle, passion, success, failure and enormously long lunch-breaks.

BBC drama series centred on a new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis.

A schoolgirl trains a stallion on trust.

Set in the late 1950'S - what sealed the show's popularity was the introduction of the leather-jacketed, perennially 'cool' biker character of Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

Comedy serial written by Peter Ling (co-creator of Compact and Crossroads) made by the BBC Children's Television department and broadcast throughout the school holidays of 1954.

Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.

Life in a fictional West End department store employing around 4,000 staff.

US Western series which chronicled the exploits of the college educated, West Point trained, black clad lone solider of fortune known simply as 'Paladin'

Before Five-0 policed Hawaii there was a team of private detectives...

From the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, Hammer Films were one of the leading lights of the British film industry. Previously, Hammer had only cautiously entered the domain of television...

Super smoothy Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.

An elite division of Scotland Yard, the Ghost Squad was set up to investigate and infiltrate spy rings, underworld gangs or anything else that came outside the duties of regular policing.

Although never a huge hit in the UK, Gilligan's Island was a massive success in its native USA, and has stood the test of time by becoming almost an icon of 1960's American sitcom.

Crossing five generations of children and courting controversy at almost every twist and turn of its storylines, Grange Hill, was hailed in some quarters as the most important children's television series of all time.

The Goodies were the quintessential image of a 1970's Britain that had not yet shaken off its 1960's 'swinging' image.

Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century

Created for the radio in 1936 by 'Lone Ranger' inventor George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the Green Hornet aka Britt Reid was originally introduced as the son of Dan Reid, the masked man's nephew.

The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.

Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.

1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.

Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.

Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.

Something of a rarity in the TV life of Richard Briers-an unsuccessful sitcom which came sandwiched between two successful ones, namely, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.

When Gary Sparrow makes a discovery in Ducketts Passage in London's East End his will become life far more complicated than he could ever have imagined - in two time-zones...

Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.

Off-beat TV series that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd a year after their last series together found the two stars in the almost surreal guise of two garden gnomes!

Another cracking series from Lynda La Plante who has always excelled in placing her female lead characters in what are perceived to be male dominated roles.

Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.

Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.