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The Borgias

The Borgias (1981)

The Borgias

Television Heaven or Television Hell? The Borgias was un-relentlessly derided and almost single-handedly spelt the end of costume drama (at least for a while) on BBC television.

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch (1969)

The Brady Bunch

Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family.

The Bulldog Breed

The Bulldog Breed (1962)

The Bulldog Breed

A single series of seven comedies about Tom, the perennial optimist, as he wanders through life leaving chaos in his wake totally oblivious to the problems he causes for everyone.

Bleak House

Bleak House (2007)

Bleak House

"The word "big" doesn't really do it justice. Fifteen episodes, eight hours of television, 85 characters, 40 of them major speaking roles. No-one could accuse 'Bleak House' of being an unambitious project." - Radio Times 22nd October 2005.

Boston Legal

Boston Legal (2004)

Boston Legal

David E. Kelley’s successor to 'The Practice' was actually a hybrid, combining the serious cases and workplace conflicts of that series with the outrageous behaviour, unusual issues and a sometimes-adolescent attitude toward sex that distinguished Kelley’s controversial 'Ally McBeal.'

Bradens Beat

Braden's Beat / On The Braden Beat

Bradens Beat

On The Braden Beat was the most popular and best remembered TV series of the 1960s to champion the cause of the unwary purchaser against the unscrupulous seller.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer went for the emotional jugular then finished the viewer off with an adrenaline-powered stake to the heart. It was hot, sassy and sexy. It's was also a hellmouth full of fun.

Butterflies TV series

Butterflies (1978)

Butterflies TV series

Gently thoughtful, amusing and well observed eighties situation comedy series for the BBC about a seemingly ordinary, contented, middle class suburban housewife who suddenly find herself plunged into the middle of a disorienting, emotionally tumultuous, mid-life crisis.

Boys from the Blackstuff

Boys from the Blackstuff (1982)

Boys from the Blackstuff

Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.

Birds of a Feather

Birds Of A Feather (1989)

Birds of a Feather

Sitcom in which sisters Sharon and Tracey are left alone to fend for themselves following each of their husband's imprisonment for armed robbery. As if that wasn't bad enough, they also have to contend with nosey next door neighbour, Dorien.

Brights Boffins

Bright's Boffins (1970)

Brights Boffins

Children's comedy series about a group of scientists who work in a rambling long-forgotten Government establishment called Halfwitt House.

Brookside

Brookside (1982)

Brookside

Airing on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982 Brookside changed the face of soap opera in England by tackling realistic and socially challenging storylines.

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

Brideshead Revisited

At the time it was made Brideshead Revisited was the biggest television film project attempted by any company including the BBC, who had considered it, but decided it too hard to make. There was a point where Granada must have been thinking the same.

Brendon Chase

Brendon Chase (1980)

Brendon Chase

Classic children's story shown over thirteen episodes concerning the Hensman brothers, Robin, John and Harold, who spend eight months living as outlaws in the forest of Brendon Chase.

Blackadder

Blackadder (1983)

Blackadder

Series set in four eras centred round Edmund Blackadder, a treacherous, selfish and devious rogue.

Button Moon

Button Moon (1980)

Button Moon

The adventures of Mr. Spoon who would travel to Button Moon in his homemade rocket-ship. All of the characters were based on kitchen utensils...

Box of Delights

The Box of Delights (1984)

Box of Delights

John Masefield's enchanting children's fantasy The Box of Delights, tells the story of a young boy whose chance meeting with a Punch-and-Judy man leads him to a world where almost anything is possible.

The Brothers BBC tv series

The Brothers (1972)

The Brothers BBC tv series

Compelling and hugely successful BBC drama series about boardroom strife and family conflict endured by three brothers.

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers (1956)

The Buccaneers

Future Hollywood actor Robert Shaw (The Sting, Jaws) made his small screen debut as ex- pirate Dan Tempest, the leader of a small band of freebooters who roamed the Caribbean Seas in the 1720's on their ship The Sultana.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Beauty and the Beast

One of the most unusual and charming fantasy romances ever to reach prime time US screens, Beauty and the Beast was a modern day gothic romance set against the often violent, always bustling backdrop of New York City.

Behind the Fridge

Behind the Fridge (1971)

Behind the Fridge

A one-off special featuring a series of sketches portraying the eccentricities of the British courtesy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

Bergerac

Bergerac (1981)

Bergerac

Detective/thriller series set on the offshore millionaire's paradise of Jersey in the Channel Islands

Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies (1968)

Best of Enemies

Television's first attempt to poke fun at the world of politics from within the Houses of Parliament in a situation comedy...

Big Breadwinner Hog

Big Breadwinner Hog (1969)

Big Breadwinner Hog

Peter Egan stars as Hogarth, a ruthlessly ambitious, flash and violent small-time criminal who has visions of being king of London's criminal underworld.