"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."
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.
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.
Courtroom drama series based on a one-off play.
One-off adventure for Doctor Who's robot dog and his former companion Sarah Jane Smith.
"Knight Errant '59. Quests undertaken, dragons defeated, damsels rescued. Anything, anywhere, for anyone, so long as it helps. Fees according to means"
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.
Lt. Kojak was a tough cop with a smart mouth and wits even sharper than his top flight dress sense.