Of all the fantasy situation comedies that aired in the 1960's, The Flying Nun was one for the books. A 90 pound Catholic nun who takes flight when the wind blows up her habit...
Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"
Originally billed as a 'sparkling new comedy series' about life in a typical south London black family, The Fosters was anything but typical, new or original.
Fresh from a third-rate career in the music halls, forty-year-old Arnie Cole (Bob Hoskins) has turned movie pioneer, showing single-reel films in makeshift cinemas during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.
From 1963 to 1966 The Five O'Clock Club met every Tuesday and Friday.
Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.
This fondly remembered epic children’s drama created by Sid Waddell, set over four series, each featuring a different generation of the Flaxton boys, was inspired by a lunch-time meeting in a pub and an offer that an upcoming writer couldn't refuse.
Long-running 1950s afternoon programme designed to help women improve their domestic skills with tips on everything they could wish to know about from cookery to soft furnishings and needlework to bringing up baby and doing their own DIY.
The first ever British made filmed series, shot by Trinity Productions for the BBC and consisting of 39 black and white episodes, Fabian of Scotland Yard has been described as Britain's first generation of the TV detective.
Jimmy Edwards series of one-off sitcoms that introduced a minor supporting character actor who would go on to become 'the guv'nor' of British comedy...Ronnie Barker.
Naylor and Freeman is the name of a firm of solicitors. There are five partners and each handles a variety of cases.
Phyllis Cradock and her third husband Major John Cradock were quickly poached from the BBC's Kitchen Magic in 1955 to present ITV's first cookery programme.
Astronaut John Crichton is on a test flight of his module, Farscape 1, when a spatial wormhole opens directly in his path.
TV's first sleuth in clerical clothing was adapted in 1974 from the novels of G.K. Chesterton.
Generation gap comedy starring middle-aged divorcee Patrick Glover, the author of a series of pulp fiction novels, who is left to bring up his two teenage daughters (Anna and Karen) in trendy Hampstead when his wife, Barbara, runs off to marry his best friend.
Following the exploits of Colonel Steve Zodiac as he piloted the 300ft rocket propelled spaceship Fireball XL5, this puppet series captured the imagination of the public at a time when the space race between the USA and Russia was at its height.
1960s comedy that was heavily influenced by the classic Will Hay comedy Where's That Fire? that had been shot twenty-five years earlier at the same Elstree studio.
Sitcom about a man falling headlong into the calamity of mid-life-crisis who fakes his own suicide.
Hard hitting and somewhat bleak drama series about a cold but passionate policewoman who goes head to head with a cold serial killer in Belfast.
Studio-bound Children's drama series set in the Aztec period starring former Doctor Who Patrick Troughton; formerly the hero of millions - but here the villain of the piece.
Lavish 17th century costume drama full of political intrigue, manipulating women and sexual promiscuity.
A female official takes her seat on a local council. But the no-nonsense councillor has to face up to the bureaucracy of both local and central government.
This seven part, £1 million drama series from Thames Television faithfully reconstructed the events of the affair between Edward and Mrs Simpson that, in 1936, caused a constitutional crisis and Edward VIII's eventual abdication.
"...Glenda Jackson totally submersed herself in the role by reading everything she could find about Elizabeth in order to get a deep understanding of the Queen. And this shines out from her performance as she delivers each line with an authority of a true monarch."
Britain's first medical soap, which was also the first of the country's twice-weekly serials, went on to become one of the nation’s best loved programmes, reaching an average audience of 16 million people a week and 24 million at its peak.
Drama set around the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War
ER first hit the television screens with all the speed and force of an express train in 1994, and immediately earned the label of 'rock 'em - sock 'em' television, hardly giving the viewer a chance to catch breath as each story-line unfolded.
British-produced anthology series along similar lines to Douglas Fairbanks Presents; both were made to cash in on the growing US and British television markets.
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When simultaneous American and Soviet nuclear tests knock Earth from its orbit, a group of London journalists uncover a government cover-up as rising temperatures, climate chaos and social collapse threaten humanity's survival in this haunting and timeless science-fiction thriller
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!
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.
When a photographer dies under mysterious circumstances on Rhodes, his widow uncovers a sinister conspiracy linked to medieval secrets and supernatural forces. As she investigates, a charismatic and powerful villain draws her into a deadly battle against ancient evil
In the breathtaking Swiss Alps, a spirited orphan melts her stern uncle’s heart with resilience and optimism, in this faithful retelling of a beloved classic
When the mysterious Axons offer Earth a miracle substance capable of ending world hunger, the Doctor suspects a trap. As the truth behind the alien gift emerges, he must stop a parasitic organism from consuming the planet—and time itself
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 suave private investigator navigates the glitz and danger of 1970s Las Vegas, with a guest cast that is a veritible Who's Who of American talent, solving crimes with charm and style in a city that never sleeps
An iconic English comedienne, Hylda Baker, short in stature and with a rich Lancashire accent, became a star later in life until finally, her career came to a shuddering halt
Long before The Simpsons took American prime time by storm, a slightly less dysfunctional cartoon family blazed the trial for generation crossing animated antics.
Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen looking for new careers. But things don't go according to plan until Ken turns his hand to courier driving, private investigating, minding and general troubleshooting
Dr. Edward Roebuck, a consultant at Maybury General Hospital, deals with numerous difficult cases in this ground-breaking drama that treated mental illness with humanity and grit, in the first British series to be set in a psychiatric unit
