"In the beginning this tale tells how I, George, eldest born son of Master Salathiel Treet, strolling player and man of genius, came to have greatness thrust upon me."
Police series made with the cooperation of Scotland Yard, which threw a spotlight on real police methods of the time.
The excellent scriptwriter Wolf Mankowitz has surpassed himself in 'Dickens of London', a miniseries recounting the life of Charles Dickens from early boyhood till his death.
George Dixon was a policeman of the old school. A dependable officer who would help old ladies cross the street and whose idea of treating juvenile delinquents was with a 'clip' round the ear. George Dixon was a 'Community Copper' before the term had even been invented.
A series of crazy, zany, mad half hours of comedy for children in the late 1960s would soon develop into one of the most fondly remembered series of crazy, zany, mad half hours of comedy for adults. And now for something not so very different...
Hospital comedy based on Richard Gordon's series of books, which had previously been adapted for the cinema starting with a 1954 production starring Dirk Bogarde. New medical students arrive at St Swithin's Hospital...mayhem ensues
A mysterious 'Doctor' traps two school teachers in a time and space machine.
Gentle comedy/drama set in rural Kent in the 1950s.
When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
Deputy Dawg was, without doubt, Mississippi's laziest lawman.
This much loved, top rated US comedy series from the 1960's very nearly didn't make it on the air because then CBS chief, Jim Aubrey, disliked it so intensely that he had to be persuaded by the shows sponsors, Proctor and Gamble, to put it on.
This third series to run under the title of The Dickie Henderson Show aired on November 14 1960 and continued until March 1968 by which time Henderson had established himself as one of Britain's top all-round entertainers.
Diff’rent Strokes was a sitcom created around the talents of its young star, Gary Coleman, and it was a perfect fit–and a much-needed success for a ratings-starved NBC in the late 1970's. But after the show went off the air, its three non-adult stars found life difficult...
Working class sitcoms come few and far between, and 'dinnerladies' is one of the more relatable and bittersweet of them all.
Meet John Lacey, a forty-something language teacher at a Comprehensive School. He has everything; a steady job, nice house, beautiful wife, loving son and a car. Until one day he gets home from work and finds a letter from his wife informing him that their relationship is over...
Turpin, cheated out of his wealth while on duty in Flanders, decides to regain his money using his own, not so lawful methods.
BBC televisions longest running sketch-show, running as it did from 1963 until 1981, was one that introduced some of the mediums most memorable and enduring comedic characters, skilfully brought to life by an undisputed master of his craft.
A brilliantly crafted and subversive sitcom, written by 2point4 Children writer Andrew Marshall, Dad centres on the generation gap relationship between father and son.
"If the quality of the writing was a major factor in Dad's Army's resounding success, then that quality was more than matched by a cast which not so much interpreted the writing, as physically embodied it."
"The real stars of the series were Clarence the lion and Judy the chimpanzee."
A 12-year old boy overhears two sinister men plotting to assassinate their country's ruler.
Danger Mouse was a British Secret Service Agent who worked out of a post-box in London's famous Baker Street.
Tense drama about a bomb disposal division of the Army in war torn London during the 1940s.
In the year 2020 the world is left paralysed by an electromagnetic pulse that freezes technology in its tracks. Enter into this dark dystopian future - Max - a genetically enhanced human being.
Patrick McGoohan starred as NATO agent John Drake a character based on Ian Fleming's James Bond
Dirty dealings in Texas among the oil-rich magnates.
Television's first attempt at making a sitcom set during the War years.
Series of unrelated one-off comedies used to showcase the talents of both writers old and new to television -as well as established and up-and-coming sitcom stars, Comedy Playhouse produced some of the best loved sitcoms on British television.
Compact was the BBC's third adult soap opera.
Cookery Lesson was a series of twelve programmes that introduced viewers to the basic principles of cooking, working from the assumption that the TV audience didn't even know how to boil an egg.