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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."

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.

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...

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

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

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."

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

Classic sitcom about a family that is ruled over by their overbearing mother.

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.

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.

An uncouth boiler maker inherits a stately home

Commercial Television's first home-grown sitcom

Cartoon series for kids inspired by James Bond.

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

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

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...

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.