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The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1966)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Harold Crombie (Robert Lang) is something of a nonentity-the sort of man who merges into the background so well that even his office colleagues barely notice he's there.

The Walrus and the Carpenter

The Walrus and the Carpenter (1965)

The Walrus and the Carpenter

BBC sitcom about two septuagenarians who refuse to grow old gracefully. Years later the same theme was revisited even more successfully by Roy Clarke in Last of the Summer Wine.

The Waltons

The Waltons (1972)

The Waltons

The everyday life of a family of 11 living in rural Virginia during the depression.

WandaVision

WandaVision (2021)

WandaVision

Three weeks after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Wanda Maximoff and Vision are living an idyllic suburban life in the town of Westview, New Jersey, trying to conceal their true natures

The War Game

The War Game (1965)

The War Game

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

The War of Darkie Pilbeam (1976)

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

For most families the 1940s consisted of air-raid shelters, the sound of ack-ack and rationing. Some people profiteered - people like Darkie Pilbeam.

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds (2019)

The War of the Worlds

"Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

War on Crime

War on Crime (1951)

War on Crime

One of the first crime series on British television and the forerunner to today's police procedural dramas.