Reviews

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

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.

Catweazle

Catweazle (1970)

Catweazle

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

The Caves of Steel

The Caves of Steel (1964)

The Caves of Steel

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

Crime Traveller

Crime Traveller (1997)

Crime Traveller

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

Century Falls

Century Falls (1993)

Century Falls

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

Challenge Anneka

Challenge Anneka (1997)

Challenge Anneka

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.

Champion House

Champion House (1967)

Champion House

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

The Champions (1968)

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

Chance in a Million

Chance in a Million (1984)

Chance in a Million

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.

The Changes (1975)

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.

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt (1977)

Charley's Aunt

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

The Charlie Chester Show

The Charlie Chester Show (1949)

The Charlie Chester Show

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.

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels (1976)

Charlie's Angels

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.

Charmed

Charmed (1998)

Charmed

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.

The Charmer

The Charmer (1987)

The Charmer

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

Checkmate

Checkmate (1962)

Checkmate

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

Cheers cast

Cheers (1982)

Cheers cast

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

Chelmsford 123

Chelmsford 123 (1988)

Chelmsford 123

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.

Chernobyl mini series

Chernobyl (2019)

Chernobyl mini series

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"

Cheyenne

Cheyenne (1956)

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Bodie, a half-breed frontier scout travels the Wild West in the years following the Civil War.

Chico and the Man

Chico and the Man (1974)

Chico and the Man

When a cantankerous elderly widower, the owner of a petrol filling station, hires an upbeat fast-talking young Chicano, they soon find themselves at loggerheads.

Chiefs (1983)

US miniseries starring Charlton Heston as an influential State Senator, and concerning three generations of police chiefs in a southern town over a period of four decades, portraying the fundamental shift in race relations between to 1920s and the early 1960s