Reviews

Historical period drama detailing the murder, sex and madness that will forever have a place in the annals of ancient history.

Café Continental was the first televised variety show in the UK appearing on the BBC Television Service from 1947 and continuing to 1953.

Multi-award-winning police action/adventure series that broke new ground by having its central buddy characters, rather than being the standard team of uninspired Starsky and Hutch clones, female officers doing a tough and dangerous job as well - if not better - than any of their male counterparts.

Medical drama spin-off from Emergency-Ward 10, Britain's most popular medical soap opera of the 1950s and 60s, which never lived up to its predecessor

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

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 ?"

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...

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

Hidden camera show where the public were the stars. "Smile - you're on Candid Camera!"

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

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.

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

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

Robert Taylor plays a hard-nosed New York Cop

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!

In the year AD2068, Earth's elite Spectrum force is bought into action when war is declared on the planet by the Mysterons.

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

Two hapless cops patrol the 53rd precinct with hilarious results.

Short-lived BBC series concerning the personal and professional life of an aristocratic solicitor as he ran a small Lake District practice, navigating modest but meaningful cases that reflected the concerns of the surrounding community

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 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.

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

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?

The Carry On team get together for a festive treat. Cor Blimey!

TV series based on the famous movie.

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