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US & British co-production about a black stallion that no-one has yet been able to tame.

Hard hitting crime drama series inspired by the movie The French Connection.

Man's best friend in this series wasn't a dog but a huge bear...

Political satire and current affairs in a sketch comedy format.

"Name: Richard Kimble. Profession: Doctor of medicine. Destination: Death Row, state prison. Richard Kimble has been tried and convicted for the murder of his wife. But Richard Kimble is innocent..."

It's the mid-1930s and MP Winston Churchill (Albert Finney), once the most dynamic Member of Parliament, finds both his public and private life in turmoil in this award winning co-produced UK & US drama.

Swashbuckling adventure as yet another historical rogue is turned into a hero for 1950s British television.

Crime series featuring Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes, Britain's first female TV detective.

Alan Bleasedale's Bafta-nominated political satire drama focussing on the fall of Michael Murray

"Arguably one of the last great television phenomenon's of the last century."

Children's detective series.

Teenage high-action, high-adventure series about a group of teenage agents working under the umbrella of MI5

The comedy sketch show French and Saunders, written by and starring the iconic comedy duo, first aired in 1987 and ran for a whopping 30 years.

The show that was dubbed an "aquatic Lassie" - Flipper comes to the rescue in a series of nautical adventures.

Foo Foo was created for ABC Television in the UK by Halas & Batchelor, who had been producing films since 1940.

Just a year after experimental BBC television began broadcasting to a few hundred homes in London, a ten-minute show called For The Children made its debut.

A young boy is in possession of a secret formula that could spell disaster for the entire world.

Afternoon TV series about four youngster pilot a narrow boat along the canals from North Wales to London and their adventures on Britain's inland waterways.

Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"

Originally billed as a 'sparkling new comedy series' about life in a typical south London black family, The Fosters was anything but typical, new or original.

Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men was one of the first series that mixed an all-star cast, crime-fighting adventure and exotic locations.

At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.

Of all the fantasy situation comedies that aired in the 1960's, The Flying Nun was one for the books. A 90 pound Catholic nun who takes flight when the wind blows up her habit...

Thirteen-part series centred on the lives of the titular Fox family, who live in Clapham in South London and have gangland connections.

One of the most ambitious children's series undertaken by an Independent Television company involved the entire reconstruction of a farmhouse and its surrounding buildings on the estate of the Earl of Harewood.

Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.

Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.

Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.

From 1963 to 1966 The Five O'Clock Club met every Tuesday and Friday.

This fondly remembered epic children’s drama created by Sid Waddell, set over four series, each featuring a different generation of the Flaxton boys, was inspired by a lunch-time meeting in a pub and an offer that an upcoming writer couldn't refuse.