Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.
Life in a fictional West End department store employing around 4,000 staff.
US Western series which chronicled the exploits of the college educated, West Point trained, black clad lone solider of fortune known simply as 'Paladin'
Before Five-0 policed Hawaii there was a team of private detectives...
An elite division of Scotland Yard, the Ghost Squad was set up to investigate and infiltrate spy rings, underworld gangs or anything else that came outside the duties of regular policing.
1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.
Although never a huge hit in the UK, Gilligan's Island was a massive success in its native USA, and has stood the test of time by becoming almost an icon of 1960's American sitcom.
Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Something of a rarity in the TV life of Richard Briers-an unsuccessful sitcom which came sandwiched between two successful ones, namely, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.
When Gary Sparrow makes a discovery in Ducketts Passage in London's East End his will become life far more complicated than he could ever have imagined - in two time-zones...
Crossing five generations of children and courting controversy at almost every twist and turn of its storylines, Grange Hill, was hailed in some quarters as the most important children's television series of all time.
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century...and they refuse to leave.
Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.
Off-beat TV series that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd a year after their last series together found the two stars in the almost surreal guise of two garden gnomes!
Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
The Goodies were the quintessential image of a 1970's Britain that had not yet shaken off its 1960's 'swinging' image.
Another cracking series from Lynda La Plante who has always excelled in placing her female lead characters in what are perceived to be male dominated roles.
Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century
Created for the radio in 1936 by 'Lone Ranger' inventor George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the Green Hornet aka Britt Reid was originally introduced as the son of Dan Reid, the masked man's nephew.
The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.
Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.
Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.
Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.
Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).
TV producer, Muriel Young, came up with the idea for a new TV pop music programme to follow on from her successful shows, Lift Off with Ayshea, the Bay City Rollers Shang-a-lang and The Arrows TV show.
The husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen repeated their success in vaudeville, film and radio with a show perfectly suited to the new medium of television.
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After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre enters service at Thornfield Hall, where Charlotte Brontë’s resilient heroine meets Edward Rochester, the brooding master she serves as governess in the BBC’s atmospheric 1963 adaptation
Two feisty flatmates navigate love, work, and friendship in 1970s Liverpool. The Liver Birds—witty, warm, and wonderfully of its time. A true British sitcom classic!
A delightfully chaotic blend of British charm and American gloss, Here Come the Double Deckers! is a children’s television series from the early 1970s that has earned a modest but fond place in the hearts of those who remember it
Dominic Hide, a time-travelling observer from the year 2130 has an agenda. Going back back 150 years in search of his great-great-grandfather is illegal. And things become further complicated when he falls in love.
'There is a small group of private detectives who are able to work more efficiently because they are operating outside the law.'
When a businessman dies in his office, allegedly before revealing why he sought help, private detective Johnny Treherne investigates a protection racket, uncovering betrayal, corruption and murder while fighting to clear himself of suspicion
Mackintoshes vs Linen Blazers: Why Regan would arrest Crockett before breakfast (and why Crockett would look too good to care)
In this acclaimed 1968 BBC adaptation of Anne Brontë’s radical novel, a mysterious widow seeking refuge at Wildfell Hall conceals a painful past involving an abusive marriage and challenging Victorian conventions in a powerful story of courage, independence, and survival
Dick Emery's characters were some of the best remembered on British television for a number of years. This article looks at how he created these characters utilising his natural flair for mimicry.
From Clumsy Capers to Timey-Wimey Tales: Richard Hearne, TV’s first clown created mayhem and disaster - was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and was once considered to take control of the TARDIS!
UK version of the popular children's programme where children were invited into the studio to play. Romper Room captivated kids from the age of 3 to 6 for 13 years on Anglia Television and had a waiting list of around a thousand kids
A group of ex-Vietnam Commandos band together to form an unlikely partnership in order to assist the victims of injustice, whilst on the run themselves for a crime that they did not commit.
Sheila Steafel captivated audiences as a versatile character actor, her unique features a canvas for the roles she embodied, each glance infused with playful mischief or an insightful sparkle
