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Period drama, set in Edwardian London, about a kitchen maid who works her way up to become manageress of the fashionable hotel.

Excellently chilling teenage drama series by Russell T. Davies

The year is 1941 and it's the height of World War II. In German-occupied France, a youthful submarine crew gathers for one last night of drunken revelry before they take to the high seas.

The show focused on childhood friends, Dawson, Pacey and Joey, as they grow up and try to cope with their changing friendships.

The day to day business of running a fictitious Fleet Street newspaper, the Daily Globe.

Dennis always tried to help out-only to find that he had created mayhem in his wake.

Wisteria Lane is a perfect upper-middle-class American suburb, with beautiful homes, neat lawns, minivans and sport-utility vehicles in the driveways, and an occasional baseball game in the street for the youngsters. But there are troubles beneath the surface.

"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.

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

When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.

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.

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.

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...

Billed as an "early evening scene" Dee Time starred charismatic former BBC Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee in a series of hip talk shows in which he interviewed the big names in the TV and film showbiz-set as well as stars of the world of popular music...

Deputy Dawg was, without doubt, Mississippi's laziest lawman.

A mysterious 'Doctor' traps two school teachers in a time and space machine.

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...

Gentle comedy/drama set in rural Kent in the 1950s.

Turpin, cheated out of his wealth while on duty in Flanders, decides to regain his money using his own, not so lawful methods.

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.