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Alice US TV Series

Alice (1976)

Alice US TV Series

Based quite loosely on the 1974 Oscar-winning film 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', this situation comedy centered on Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son who leave their New Jersey home to start a new life in Phoenix, Arizona

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal (1997)

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal was US television's mid-nineties love affair with the navel gazing, self-absorbed inner lives of 30 something professional baby-boomers given a slick, hallucinogenic make-over for the millennial MTV bred generation.

An Actor's Life for Me

An Actors Life For Me (1991)

An Actor's Life for Me

Robert Neilson (John Gordon-Sinclair) is an actor who dreams of being a star - alas, the best he has achieved so far is the face of Doberman Aftershave in a TV commercial...

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

From Angus Wilson's remarkable post-war novel, Anglo Saxon Attitudes has a typically rich and interwoven cast of Wilson characters.

Animal Magic

Animal Magic (1962)

Animal Magic

Presented by the inimitable Johnny Morris, the man who not only spoke to the animals, but also for them, Animal Magic was a firm children's favourite on BBC television for no less than 21 years.

Anna Lee

Anna Lee (1993)

Anna Lee

Anna Lee was a bold move by ITV in 1993 to show that not all detectives were male and in fact some were both young and female.

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley (1954)

Annie Oakley

Television's first Western heroine was played by Gail Davis and co-starred Brad Johnson as Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig and Jimmy Hawkins, as Annie's brother, Tagg.

Airwolf

Airwolf (1984)

Airwolf

US action/adventure series. Airwolf is a new breed of high-tech super helicopter that has been stolen by its designer in order to sell it to Libya.

Allo Allo

'Allo, 'Allo (1982)

Allo Allo

Created by TV comedy legends Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who were responsible for some of the longest running sitcoms on British television, 'Allo 'Allo! was a wartime comedy created as a parody of Secret Army.

A Builder by Trade

A Builder By Trade (1963)

A Builder by Trade

Pamela Gems' first play for ITV is about two sisters, May Vine (Vanda Godsell), Louie Robbins and the man who becomes their lodger.

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost (1992)

A Touch of Frost

Spanning eighteen years and forty-two episodes, A Touch of Frost became one of Britain's best loved Television Detective shows, and starred actor David Jason in the title role.

Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party (1977)

Abigail's Party

When teenager Abigail throws a party for her friends, her next-door neighbour, Beverly Moss, does likewise for the adults. But Beverly is the hostess from hell.

About Britain

About Britain / London Town (1950)

About Britain

Early British television series fronted by Richard Dimbleby who, with an outside film camera crew, would visit some of the more interesting and unusual parts of the capitol city and the people around them. For the first time the TV cameras could introduce viewers to London's life, customs and traditions.

About Face

About Face (1989)

About Face

A series of 12 unconnected half-hour sitcoms, all written by different writers, created as a starring vehicle for Maureen Lipman

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous (1992)

Absolutely Fabulous

Developed from a sketch in the TV series French and Saunders in which Saunders played a baseball capped parent berated by her prim and proper daughter (French), the pilot episode was greeted by one TV executive with the comment, "I don't think women being drunk is funny."

Absolutely

Absolutely (1989)

Absolutely

Absolutely drew together a new breed of relatively unknown (mainly Scottish) comics and pretty much gave them free licence to create a collection of surreal and silly sketches and songs.

After the Funeral

After the Funeral (1960)

After the Funeral

When Alun Owen's play 'After the Funeral' was read by Sydney Newman, head of drama for ABC Television, and William Kotcheff, the television director, they were so taken by his conception of Wales and the Welsh, they decided to see for themselves.

The Abbott and Costello Show

The Abbott & Costello Show (1951)

The Abbott and Costello Show

Although slammed by the critics The Abbott and Costello Show became a firm favourite with the viewing audience as the comic twosome brought to the small screen the same brand of slapstick humour that had pulled in theatre patrons for years.

The Adventure Game (1980)

The brainchild of Patrick Dowling and devised with the help of Ian Oliver, The Adventure Game was inspired by the early text-based computer game of Dungeons and Dragons and had elements of Douglas Adams' radio comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Gene Barry in The Adventurer

The Adventurer (1971)

Gene Barry in The Adventurer

The publicity for this ITC show read "travel the world with The Adventurer, in a series of vital, new and dynamic situations in which every turn brings the zing of danger, drama and originality". Most viewers ended up wishing the hero of this particular television outing had stayed at home.

The Adventures of Brigadier Wllington Bull

The Adventures of Brigadier Wellington-Bull (1959)

The Adventures of Brigadier Wllington Bull

Sitcom following the adventures of a retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, a widowed career soldier who, now retired, is trying to come to terms with life on civvy street but not finding it very easy.

The Adventures of Long John Silver

The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957)

The Adventures of Long John Silver

Australian series filmed in colour but only available to the UK viewing public of 1957 in black and white, The Adventures of Long John Silver was based very loosely on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954)

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

TV series based on one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1920s, Rin Tin Tin was one of two survivor of an Apache assault on a wagon train, a scenario that wasn't a million miles from the dog's true origins.