Reviews

Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife (2012)

Call the Midwife

The BBC's enduring drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Edward Woodward as Callan

Callan (1967)

Edward Woodward as Callan

Edward Woodward as the troubled yet still deadly agent. With consistently hard-hitting, uncompromising scripts and uniformly excellent support playing from a talented core cast

Camberwick Green

Camberwick Green (1966)

Camberwick Green

Monday's Watch With Mother offering which began in 1966 with the words "Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today ?"

The Camomile Lawn (1992)

Classic adaptation of Mary Wesley's much-acclaimed second novel. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five cousins meet to pay tribute to a world that will never be the same again...

Campion

Campion (1989)

Campion

Margery Allingham's 1930s private detective, Albert Campion, has had several versions on BBC television. Here's a rundown on each of them...

Cannon TV series

Cannon (1971)

Cannon TV series

Where street smarts meet intellectual intrigue...a seasoned private detective navigates the gritty underbelly of crime, armed not only with his LAPD experience but also an insatiable curiosity about the world

Cannonball TV series

Cannonball (1958)

Cannonball TV series

Fun, free-wheeling, undemanding early adventure series, Cannonball was a series of half-hour family dramas chronicling the adventures of two truckers who hauled freight on the highways of Canada and the U.S.A.

The Capone Investment

The Capone Investment (1974)

The Capone Investment

A brutal murder in 1970s England sparks a gripping investigation that uncovers a trail leading to $4 million of Al Capone’s hidden fortune, intertwining organized crime, financial intrigue, and dark secrets buried across decades

Captain James Cook

Captain James Cook (1986)

Captain James Cook

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages, this Australian miniseries tells the story of one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time

Captain Pugwash

Captain Pugwash (1957)

Captain Pugwash

Arrr, listen up, ye scallywags! Captain Pugwash be the finest, bumblin’ pirate to ever sail the high seas aboard the Black Pig! With his trusty crew, he be always gettin’ tangled up in misadventures—blast that sneaky Cut-Throat Jake!

Captain Zep - Space Detective

Captain Zep - Space Detective (1983)

Captain Zep - Space Detective

Part sci-fi serial, part interactive quiz, Captain Zep – Space Detective was a boldly imaginative children’s series that invited its audience to solve intergalactic crimes amid animated worlds and live-action adventure

Carnival Row

Carnival Row (2019)

Carnival Row

Dark, adult-orientated fantasy series in which a human detective and an immigrant fairy rekindle a dangerous affair, in a dangerous Victorian England fantasy world of murder and monsters

The Carol Burnett Show (1967)

The multi-talented Burnett could play everything from a cleaning woman to a femme fatale, thanks to her lithe body, incredible facial expressions and that wonderful booming voice.

Carrie's War

Carrie's War (1974)

Carrie's War

Two children are evacuated at the start of the Second World War to a remote village in Wales, where they are taken in by a timid and kindly lady and her mean-spirited tyrant of a brother

Carrington VC ITV Play

Carrington VC (1960)

Carrington VC ITV Play

A popular officer is accused of taking money from his Battery safe. His defence rests of his wife's evidence - but will she consent to appear at the court-martial?

Casanova

Casanova (1971)

Casanova

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

Casey Jones

Casey Jones (1957)

Casey Jones

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.

Casting the Runes

Casting the Runes (1979)

Casting the Runes

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

Castle Haven

Castle Haven (1969)

Castle Haven

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

Castlevania

Castlevania (2017)

Castlevania

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

Catch Hand

Catch Hand (1964)

Catch Hand

Gritty, largely lost 1960s BBC drama following itinerant labourers as they drifted from job to job across Britain. Mixing adventure and social realism, it portrayed working-class resilience, friendship, and the unseen builders of modern Britain

Cathy Come Home

Cathy Come Home (1966)

Cathy Come Home

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.