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The Howerd Crowd
1952 United Kingdom

Frankie Howerd in a series of three shows written by Eric Sykes.

The Human Jungle
1963 United Kingdom

A Harley Street psychiatrist devotes his time to helping the not so well-off.

Gerald Harper as Hadleigh
1969 United Kingdom

Super smoothy Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.

Hammer House of Horror
1980 United Kingdom

From the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, Hammer Films were one of the leading lights of the British film industry. Previously, Hammer had only cautiously entered the domain of television...

Happy Days
1974 United States

Set in the late 1950'S - what sealed the show's popularity was the introduction of the leather-jacketed, perennially 'cool' biker character of Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

Happy Holidays
1954 United Kingdom

Comedy serial written by Peter Ling (co-creator of Compact and Crossroads) made by the BBC Children's Television department and broadcast throughout the school holidays of 1954.

Hark at Barker
1969 United Kingdom

Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.

Harpers West One
1961 United Kingdom

Life in a fictional West End department store employing around 4,000 staff.

Hawaiin Eye
1959 United States

Before Five-0 policed Hawaii there was a team of private detectives...

Have Gun Will Travel
1957 United States

US Western series which chronicled the exploits of the college educated, West Point trained, black clad lone solider of fortune known simply as 'Paladin'

Ghost Squad
1961 United Kingdom

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.

Gideon's Way
1964 United Kingdom

1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.

Gilligan's Island
1964 United States

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.

Girls About Town TV series
1970 United Kingdom

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.

Going Straight
1978 United Kingdom

Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.

Goodbye Mr. Kent
1982 United Kingdom

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.

Goodnight Sweetheart
1993 United Kingdom

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...

Grange Hill
1978 United Kingdom

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.

The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976 United Kingdom

Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century...and they refuse to leave.

The Girl from UNCLE
1966 United States

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.

Gnomes of Dulwich
1969 United Kingdom

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!

The Gold Robbers TV series
1969 United Kingdom

Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.

The Goodies
1982 United Kingdom

The Goodies were the quintessential image of a 1970's Britain that had not yet shaken off its 1960's 'swinging' image.

The Governor
1995 United Kingdom

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.

The Green Hornet
1966 United States

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
1954 United Kingdom

The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.

The Growing Summer
1968 United Kingdom

Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.

The Guardians
1971 United Kingdom

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.

George and Mildred
1976 United Kingdom

Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.