Reviews

Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago

Infidelity, lust and incest came to British television screens in 1976

Spin-off from The Fenn Street Gang - Stanley Bowler is an East End villain whose social aspirations fail consistently due to his lack of ability to grasp the qualities he needs such as refinement and elegance of manner.

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.

The setting is Yorkshire in the year 1820 and the realisation that the well-to-do Bullman family are about to have their world torn apart...

In a universe where superpowered individuals work for a powerful corporation, their alter-egos are neither benevolent nor mild-mannered...

Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.

Following on from our review of The Boys, this article focuses exclusively on the second and third seasons.

On The Braden Beat was the most popular and best remembered TV series of the 1960s to champion the cause of the unwary purchaser against the unscrupulous seller.

Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family.

A soldier returns to India to find the girl he loved but had to leave.

An innocent man is branded a coward in this classic US Western series

Carla Lane's sitcom divided opinion when it was first shown, but eventually the series peaked at 21 million viewers

A successful psychiatrist and his ex-model wife are celebrating their Silver Wedding. Their very special guest is their closest friend and best man, whose evening is about to become his worst nightmare

A family man turns to crime after a lung cancer diagnosis unravels his simple life. Recruiting a former student and small-time dealer to be his partner in crime, he rises to the top of the meth trade, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake.

Coming of age road trip to the USA. With viewing figures of 5 million an episode, the series became Britain's highest rating celebrity travelogue in nearly 10 years

A brilliant but volatile metallurgist, has perfected a form of steel immune to metal fatigue. But ruthless industrialists and foreign agents are prepared to push this vulnerable man to his psychological and physical limits in pursuit of their own agenda

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.

A globetrotting journalist with a taste for the high life and a penchant for trouble has a shady past which is now catching up with him, as all the people he has crossed now seek revenge

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.

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

A young refugee couple stand on the bridge between East and West. The girl is about to have a baby. The frontier guards will not let them pass to the other side. What can they do?

Fictional romance set in the competitive world of Regency era London's 'ton' during the social season, where the marriageable youth of nobility and gentry are launched into society - season 3 update

Children's comedy series about a group of scientists who work in a rambling long-forgotten Government establishment called Halfwitt House.

In 43 AD, the Roman Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia

Brilliantly bonkers sitcom about a leisure centre manager and his staff. Chris Barrie is masterful, combining bureaucratic officiousness with a baffling cheerfulness that only adds to his character’s ability to drive everyone around him up the wall!

A seemingly calm and friendly seaside town becomes a town wrapped in secrets when the death of an eleven-year-old boy sparks an unwanted media frenzy

The first thriller series aired on BBC television.

Glasgow set thriller starring Stratford Johns as the amoral leader of the Scottish Liberation Army who is witnessed murdering a small boy on a bridge by a university student, who gradually gets drawn into a sequence of violent events...

Yorkshire Television's dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily who each wrote some of the greatest works in English literature