When a school housemaster's wife becomes interested in a young student, a scandalous situation that could jeopardise his entire future, is not far away. 'Young Woodley' so outraged the Lord Chamberlain, that he banned it from every theatre in England.
Set in 1876, when the richest gold strike in U.S. history drew a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Deadwood features a cast of surly inhabitants led by actors Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane.
A group of scientists and doctors try to solve real world problems whilst dealing with issues of their own in this typical 1960's BBC drama series.
An epic story of love and war, intrigue and betrayal, and an unnecessarily complicated plot and missed opportunities.
In 1958 the BBC embarked on its most ambitious television series yet. The Diary of Samuel Pepys was a 14-part historical costume drama that had over 120 cast members with 162 speaking parts.
Inspired by Greek mythology, Atlantis was an impressive looking fantasy-adventure series set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures.
The story of an SS scheme carried out by a German fraudster to swamp wartime Britain with forged banknotes, which could be put into circulation in order to destroy the British economy.
Tom Sharpe's comic tale about the proposed construction of a motorway through an ancestral home, and the double-dealings involved.
The 1980's puppet show that broke new ground on British Sunday night television with its biting satire and grotesque caricatures - the 'establishment' would never be the same again.
Political drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. The Medici family, bankers of the Pope, may be the most upwardly mobile family in history. In just over a century they went from being one of a number of banking houses in Florence to supreme political power.