Reviews

Steve Bochco produced police drama that followed 'Hill Street Blues' and 'NYPD Blue.' With such a good pedigree it should have been another smash hit. But it wasn't.

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.

Compelling and hugely successful BBC drama series about boardroom strife and family conflict endured by three brothers.

The television series that marked the first major starring role for a then 27-year-old Richard Briers, whose performance as a green but earnest pupil barrister set the tone for a career defined by affable, intelligent comedy

Action packed violent comedy drama starring Michelle Yeoh, the fiercely protective mother of two brothers with completely different characters - one being a geeky university medical student, the other a ruthless Triad assassin

Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill-health, and Taplow, one of his pupils, brings him a present on the eve of his retirement in this Terence Rattigan play from 1966.

Jacko is a wisecracking house painter who enjoys life, is an incorrigible womaniser, and spends his spare time 'appreciating' the fairer sex. Will he ever find true love?

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.

In 1987, NASA astronaut Captain William "Buck" Rogers is piloting the space shuttle Ranger 3 when he flies into an unexpected space phenomenon and is frozen for 504 years

Cheeky cockney and loveable rogue Ronald 'Budgie' Bird. Budgie was a small time crook, a petty thief, a chancer who always dreamed of getting rich but mainly had to content himself with the slimmest of pickings.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer went for the emotional jugular then finished the viewer off with an adrenaline-powered stake to the heart. It was hot, sassy and sexy. It's was also a hellmouth full of fun.

A high-octane team battles cybercrime and biotech threats in a slick, near-future London. Expect explosive action, ingenious gadgets, and relentless suspense as Bugs attempts to redefine British techno-thrillers for a new digital age

Pamela Gems' first play for ITV is about two sisters, May Vine (Vanda Godsell), Louie Robbins and the man who becomes their lodger.

A single series of seven comedies about Tom, the perennial optimist, as he wanders through life leaving chaos in his wake totally oblivious to the problems he causes for everyone.

Darts based game show that at its peak enjoyed an audience of nearly 17 million viewers in a late Sunday afternoon slot

After retiring from the force, the eccentric and irascible George Kitchener Bulman turns private eye, plunging into London’s murky underworld and tangled espionage, where every clue leads deeper into danger and deception

Anthony Hopkins stars in this historical drama which takes place as the Battle of Berlin rages above ground and Nazi forces are nearing certain defeat, and the last weeks of the Nazi regime are played out

Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV

Millionaire police officer heads LAPD's murder squad to solve high profile cases.

Alf Liddell is a quiet, good humoured, home-loving man who prefers to keep out of the limelight. But when Alf is elected to the local council he proves to be a man of principles-so strong that he soon makes powerful enemies.

Gently thoughtful, amusing and well observed eighties situation comedy series for the BBC about a seemingly ordinary, contented, middle class suburban housewife who suddenly find herself plunged into the middle of a disorienting, emotionally tumultuous, mid-life crisis.

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...

Gripping action-drama thriller revolving around a non-NATO nuclear missile being fired from Turkey at the USSR, which leads to an automatic Soviet response as it is perceived as a NATO strike. Can continued escalation be avoided?

Swashbuckling adventure set during the English Civil War - seen through the eyes of two families; the Laceys, loyal to King Charles I, and the Fletchers, loyal to Oliver Cromwell

British teen drama set in a Newcastle youth club, following the lives, struggles, and friendships of local kids. Known for its gritty realism, it launched the careers of several UK stars

In the Ohio wilderness of 1800, a settler family’s log cabin becomes a battleground, as siege, divided loyalties and desperate choices test courage and survival on a perilous American frontier in this 'lost' BBC series

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...

Period murder mystery series set around a Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury in 12th century England. Here resides Brother Cadfael, a former Crusader, a skilled observer of human nature, whose talents are called upon to investigate the most intriguing and murderous crimes.