Hugely successful and long-running British sitcom set in a London department store.
Pamela Gems' first play for ITV is about two sisters, May Vine (Vanda Godsell), Louie Robbins and the man who becomes their lodger.
The final starring vehicle for the masterful comedic talents of the incomparable, Arthur Lowe.
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.
'ABC Armchair Thriller', although sometimes listed alongside the later 'Armchair Thriller' series (1978 & 1980), is a separate series from the later Thames productions, which it preceded by 11 years.
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.
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.
A series of 12 unconnected half-hour sitcoms, all written by different writers, created as a starring vehicle for Maureen Lipman
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."
According to Dora, subtitled A Bryan's Eye View on the World, was a starring vehicle for Southport born actress/comedienne Dora Bryan who had made her showbiz debut as a child in pantomime in Manchester.
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 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.
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.
An oddity - a British made sitcom from the 1950s starring a US actress so it could be sold to America.
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 Hiram Holliday appeared on British television screens in 1960, three years after it had been cancelled by the US network NBC.
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.
Portland Bill is the keeper of the Trinity House lighthouse, on Guillermot Rock in a children's stop-motion animated series.
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.
Australian series about a widowed father travelling the Southern Pacific seas with his two sons, daughter and a deckhand.
Another in the series of ITC's 'Adventures Of...' historicals. Sir Lancelot was lavishly filmed, being the first British series to be shot in colour with a view to the American market.
Animated tales from the same stable that produced Captain Pugwash
Classic US television series shot at a rapid rate with four episodes being turned out every ten days at a cost of $15,000 each.
Anglo-Canadian sitcom about Annie Brennan, the fog-horn voiced captain of the Narcissus, a tugboat based in a harbour on the Pacific North West of America.
Gerry Anderson's new production company was ailing and in desperate need of a cash boost when, in 1957, they were approached by children's writer Roberta Leigh and her colleague Suzanne Warner to make a series of 52 thirteen-minute episodes of a children's puppet series.
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.
Richard Greene starred as the legendary 12th century outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. ITV's first adventure series managed to maintain a high standard of writing, employing blacklisted Hollywood writers who wrote under various aliases.
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.
A shining example of a near flawlessly faithful adaptation of a canon of classic literary genius, Granada television's stylishly lavish series redefined the established film and TV image of the world renowned inhabitants of 221B Baker Street.
Now recognised as a classic science fiction series, A for Andromeda was developed for television by writer and BBC producer John Elliot from an original storyline by Cambridge astronomer and novelist Fred Hoyle.
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On a bitterly cold winter's day, escaped convicts Johnny and Frank take refuge in the Steptoes' freezing home, where unexpected friendships and striking parallels reveal that life in Oil Drum Lane can feel like a prison itself
Australian soap opera set against the turmoil of World War II, The Sullivans follows a resilient Melbourne family navigating love, loss, and loyalty—delivering heartfelt drama, rich history, and unforgettable characters that bring a nation’s past vividly to life
As the Solar System’s newest planet reveals a terrifying secret, the Doctor and his companions confront the emotionless Cybermen at a remote Antarctic base. Amid humanity's fight for survival, the Doctor faces his own greatest challenge as his first incarnation reaches its end
Popular Western series for kids that was made along similar lines to The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid and other successfully syndicated US shows of the late 1950's.
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
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to the distant colony world of Uxarieus, where greedy mining interests, desperate settlers, ancient secrets and the Master's search for a devastating super-weapon threaten the planet's future
A self-absorbed middle-class couple are preparing to take early retirement in the south of France. But when their estranged son and his wife are killed, they are forced to return to Britain to become guardians to their three troublesome grandchildren
ATV's 3 hour presentation of arguably Shakespeare's most celebrated play, which emphasises the futility of the unworldly love of his seemingly perfect couple against the cold calculating worldly might of Octavius.
Three-part miniseries that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin, covering the rise and fall of Camelot
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
Carefully crafted, often gripping adaptation of one of Britain’s most respected crime writers, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries delivers a measured, thoughtful brand of storytelling that remains compelling decades on
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.
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
Arthur and Beryl Crabtree planned for a quiet life once their children had left home...or so they thought!
Long before The Simpsons took American prime time by storm, a slightly less dysfunctional cartoon family blazed the trial for generation crossing animated antics.
