Reviews

Banned? Almost. Forgotten? Never. The sexy, shocking series that redefined British television was Dennis Potter's Casanova, the 1970s drama that had the country blushing

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.

Prudence Dunning is a sharp and sceptical producer of an investigative TV programme. When her show ridicules the teachings of the occultist Julian Karswell, she unwittingly becomes the focus of his malice, in this chilling reworking of an M.R. James classic

1960s soap opera about a number of families living in two Victorian house conversions in Yorkshire.

Adult animated dark fantasy action series based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Konami. When his human wife is burned at the stake after being falsely accused of witchcraft, Dracula declares all the people of Wallachia will pay with their lives

Long running UK medical drama set in a busy inner-city hospital.

Harrowing drama of one family's downward spiral into poverty that sparked a national debate in the Houses of Parliament on the plight of the homeless.

A female private detective agency is a front for a Home Office security team.

The adventures of the scruffy eccentric 11th century wizard and his efforts to escape the bewildering experiences of being trapped in the 20th century.

Lost BBC production of an Isaac Asimov tale concerning an investigation which follows the murder of a robot specialist

Detective Jeff Slade and his colleague Holly are armed with something very special in the ongoing fight against crime - their very own time machine

Tess and her pregnant mother move to a new town to rebuild their lives. But Tess soon realises that the village has a guilty secret; a secret which seems to threaten her happiness and that of her unborn sister

Forerunner to the multitude of 'makeover' shows that constantly occupy our screen time today, Challenge Anneka was devised by Anneka Rice and proved to be hugely popular with the British public, even though it was not without its problems.

When their family business is threatened with financial ruin, a family go into bitter battle - with themselves.

1950s adventure series about one boy and his horse (and dog)

After a near-fatal plane crash, three secret agents are endowed with extra sensory powers in this cult classic from the ITC production stable

One of the very earliest situation comedy successes for the fledgling Channel 4, Chance in a Million chronicled the misadventures of one Tom Chance, a slightly eccentric, but decent ordinary man with an unnatural ability to warp probability to ludicrous proportions.

An excellent drama from a golden age of children's television, The Changes was described as one of the most ambitious series produced by the BBC Children's Drama Department.

Eric Sykes and Jimmy Edwards star in an adaptation of the celebrated farce that broke all box-office records when it first appeared on the London stage

For Peanuts fans everywhere, it just wouldn't be Christmas without this classic holiday delight.

Charlie Chester's most successful television series ran for 11 years on BBC television from 1949, but ended just as perhaps TV's first golden age was about to start.

This much maligned series from the late seventies has, believe it or not, reached cult status in more recent times and spawned a blockbuster movie starring four brand new stars as well as the original Charlie himself.

A trio of sisters, known as The Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time use their combined "Power of Three" to protect innocent lives from evil beings.

Minor public schoolboy, social climber, seducer of women and eternal seeker after the main chance...

An expensive investigative agency operating in San Francisco protects the lives of people who had become targets of the criminal underworld.

US sitcom set in a Boston Bar "where everybody knows your name".

In the year 123AD, a Roman aristocrat finds himself exiled to Britain after insulting the Emperor's girlfriend. He is appointed Governor of the provincial capital of Chelmsford, but it is the surly local chieftain Badvoc who is really running things.

In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. "This is one of those programmes everyone, absolutely everyone, should see at least once"