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Standard US sitcom that tried to reproduce the phenomenal success of I Love Lucy.

A professor in criminology at Nairobi University is temporarily attached to Scotland Yard. Jango is a 'funny, scruffy geezer with glasses, a dirty raincoat, tweed hat and a twisted walking stick who is operating a one-man law business.'

Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have

In an alternate 16th century England, Lady Jane Grey is coerced by her mother into marrying Lord Guildford Dudley, who just happens to turn out to be a shape-shifter who can take animal form

Glen A. Larson produced series that follows the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer who has created an artificially intelligent crimefighting computer program

"Whilst the cases which made up the bulk of the show's episodes were often fun, ingenious riffs on the standard spy/caper craze of that particular decade, where the series really scored was in the interplay between the three central characters involved."

Looking back on the fondly remembered third BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's classic novel of family, the thrill of adventure and the resilience of children, which has held the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1905

A divorced housewife and a spy begin an unusual partnership after encountering one another in a train station in this Emmy Award winning series

When he wasn’t boldly going where no man had gone before, William Shatner was also (amongst other things) playing hard ball with the bad guys as veteran cop, T.J. Hooker

When they discover that their favourite meeting place is about to be 'modernised', five youngsters decide to fight their local authority. Drama based Eric Allen's prize-winning short novel which was used in many schools' curricula for years

US miniseries beginning in 1925 and starring an international cast including Stefanie Powers, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Stacy Keach and Joanna Lumley. A beautiful and naïve model arrives in Paris where she becomes an artist's model and the toast of the city

Sam Cade is a tough yet sensitive sheriff in sprawling Madrid County - a fictional semiarid desert area somewhere in the American Southwest. Between chases, shootouts and law enforcement, the series also touched on relevant '70s issues...

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean with no memory of his past in a quirky sci-fi series which began by showing great potential, but ultimately drowned in the ratings

After the events captured in the finale of 'Breaking Bad', Jesse Pinkman runs from his captors, the law, and his past. He'll need a small fortune in cash to get away. Luckily, he knows where some may be stashed...

Britain's first daily soap opera about two newlyweds running a small business no longer exists in the television archives. But we've tracked down the available information on this groundbreaking production

Edward Woodward stars in a dark dystopian drama billed as 1984-plus-six, set at the start of a decade where Britain is under the iron-clad fist of the Public Control Department and its tools of bureaucratic repression

American horror anthology based on the 1950s comic of the same name. Each episode introduced by the Cryptkeeper at the front door of his decrepit mansion...dare you venture inside...?

When a scientist’s almost fanatical devotion to a vaccine project brings her into collision with orthodox authority and there is a threat to put an end to her experiments, she rebels and continues on her own…with devastating consequences

Ground-breaking and classic US detective series that set a new standard for what a television crime drama could be. The series was a precursor to shows like ‘The Rockford Files’ and ‘Magnum, P.I.’

A young girl becomes embroiled in mystical intrigue. Though she is blind, she has the "sight" which connects her to a mysterious white stallion, an ancient legend of Arthur as a Celtic chieftain, and to danger from others who seek paranormal power

Aired in the USA as Fox Mystery Theatre this anthology series, produced in the UK by Hammer Productions, focuses mystery, suspense, and psychological twists

Tintin, the intrepid young reporter and his faithful dog Snowy make their TV debut

Excellent BAFTA Award winning production about "The Jersey Lily"; a British-American socialite, actress and producer who charmed Victorian London.

Classic adaptation of Mary Wesley's much-acclaimed second novel. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five cousins meet to pay tribute to a world that will never be the same again...

Few television series can claim to have truly reshaped a genre, but The Naked City, which premiered in the United States in 1958, undoubtedly earns that distinction

Captivating miniseries with an all-star cast adapted from John Jakes' best-selling novel, that depicts the turbulent background between the North and South before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War

They're all shapes and sizes and come from different walks of life, but there's something which unites them all - issues with weight. Laugh-out-loud comedy drama set in a local slimming club, Fat Friends treads a line between comedy and drama exceptionally well

A 'Watch With Mother' classic The Herbs remains one of British children’s television’s most whimsically enchanting creations

Rome - and the dirty business of entertaining the masses, giving the mob what they want most - blood and sport

A retired private investigator returns to the field after his son is murdered while working on a case. Determined to find his son’s killer, Barnaby reopens his detective agency and is joined by his widowed daughter-in-law