"We are all conceived in close prison: in our mother's wombs, we are close prisoners all...and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death..." John Donne.
Any no-gooder underestimating the tweed-suited detective would do so at their own cost because Cluff's slow methodology belied a skilfully perceptive insight into human nature and behaviour, particularly in the criminal mind.
Superior Cold War espionage thriller with an all-star cast. Regarded as probably one of the best and almost certainly one of the last of the Cold War dramas of the 1980s.
A teenager stows away aboard a rocket in order to visit her brother on another planet. But her actions put everyone else's safety in jeopardy.
Unfairly described as an English version of Friends, Granada's comedy/drama Cold Feet rose from humble beginnings to become an award winning ratings winner with a healthily average audience of 10 million viewers.
War drama about the infamous German POW camp and the prisoner's attempts to escape it.
Beginning in September 1950, The Colgate Comedy Hour gave a number of performers, destined to become famous, their first opportunity to appear before a large television audience.
1980s sitcom starring Mel Smith. Depressed and struggling, Colin has the unenviable daytime job of listening to the complaints of the public. He doesn't like his job much and has dreams of becoming a full-time writer.
Hollywood screen legend Boris Karloff as a determined police officer heads Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases.
Television's first attempt at making a sitcom set during the War years.
Following the success of Hogfather, Terry Pratchett's earlier Discworld novels were adapted for the small screen. Blending fantasy and comedy, the story follows a naïve tourist and an incompetent wizard who are roped into a series of misadventures
Shabby looking homicide detective uses his criminal knowledge and eye for detail to pit his wits against criminals.
A Victorian house is haunted by a malevolent force in this unsettling blend of psychological drama and ghost story, laced with themes of identity, loss, and the seductive pull of the past
A housewife wins a prize to visit a spaceship. While she is there, it spontaneously goes into orbit. Following hot on the heals of Are You Being Served? Mollie Sugden starred in this excellent David Croft sitcom which is now sadly overlooked.
Unquestionably the longest running reality/talent/entertainment and gameshow on television, Come Dancing went through a number of format changes over the years...
British mockumentary series that debuted to 10 million viewers but attracted thousands of complaints, and was eventually removed from all streaming services because of its perceived stereotyping
Series of unrelated one-off comedies used to showcase the talents of both writers old and new to television -as well as established and up-and-coming sitcom stars, Comedy Playhouse produced some of the best loved sitcoms on British television.
In 1982, a group of "alternative comedians" came together to reshape the conventions of television comedy.
Compact was the BBC's third adult soap opera.
Terry Jones and Michael Palin in a spoof retelling of the major events in Britain's history from as far back as 2564BC. This previously 'lost' series pre-dated Monty Python by several months
A hard bitten detective seeks vengeance for the murder of his partner.
Cookery Lesson was a series of twelve programmes that introduced viewers to the basic principles of cooking, working from the assumption that the TV audience didn't even know how to boil an egg.
Failed experimental series by Steven Bochco which followed the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department who would break out into song and dance as the solved crimes across the city
An updated review of the world's longest running soap opera
Introducing the most bizarre characters on television...
One of TV's biggest hit in the 1980s and one which almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre.
New York lawyer George Simon is about to jump out of his office window in the Empire State Building...
Children's cartoon series centred around Duckula's adventures in search of riches and fame.
1950s series based on Alexander Dumas' masterpiece of mystery and intrigue, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, first published in 1845.
Richard Chamberlain leads an all-star cast in the 1975 television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel about a beleaguered young seaman who, after being wrongfully imprisoned for many years, plots his revenge