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.
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.
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.
Series set in four eras centred round Edmund Blackadder, a treacherous, selfish and devious rogue.
Infidelity, lust and incest came to British television screens in 1976
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...
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.
Compelling and hugely successful BBC drama series about boardroom strife and family conflict endured by three brothers.
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.
US action / adventure series
Animated sci-fi series in which a team of youngsters are tasked with a mission to save the Earth.
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.
A 'keeping up with the Joneses sitcom starring Reg Varney and Pat Combs
A one-off special featuring a series of sketches portraying the eccentricities of the British courtesy of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Detective/thriller series set on the offshore millionaire's paradise of Jersey in the Channel Islands
Television's first attempt to poke fun at the world of politics from within the Houses of Parliament in a situation comedy...
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.
Crack pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth leads a team of investigators who solve crime around the world.
Comedic stories of a gluttonous, lazy, deceitful, self-important and conceited schoolboy that was all the rage in the 1950s.
Immensely popular Canadian series concerning the adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in British Columbia.
Set in California's San Joaquin Valley, The Big Valley was what the series 'Dallas' may have looked like if it had been set in the 1870s.
It is unlikely that any supernatural beings are more overrepresented in fiction than vampire, werewolf and ghost (although zombies are currently making a play for it). Being Human steered clear of clichés for the most part, and frequently poked fun at those it did entertain.
Short lived sketch comedy starring Eleanor Bron and John Bird
Set in the East End of London, the series followed the exploits of the officers of the fictional Sun Hill Police Station as they set about their daily task of keeping law and order.
Classic US sitcom following the adventures of Jed Clampett and his family who, after discovering oil at the back of their Ozark ranch, pack up their things and move to Beverly Hills, much to the consternation of the local populace.
Ted Danson starred as John Becker, an extremely dedicated and very talented doctor, who tends to a medical practice in New York's Bronx. And while a brilliant doctor, he tends to fare rather less well in the traditional bedside manner stakes.
Heart warming French series about an orphan boy who befriends a dog.
A witch marries a 'mortal' in 1960s America - and her family do not approve!
Billy Bean and his friend Yoo-Hoo the cuckoo operate a machine, which features such devices as a windmill, a Dorset-Faucet and a cartoonerator which draws magic pictures.
A black mare is found with life-threatening wounds and nursed back to health by a caring family.