Reviews

Charity begins at home for Florence and Nellie when they take on ex-criminal Basher Bates as their lodger-but just who is being reformed?

Tom Latimer is just getting his life together during the process of his divorce, so the last thing he wants is for his father, Toby, to turn up on his doorstep with the news that Tom's mother has thrown him out

Possessing a genius intellect and an eidetic memory, Doogie Howser becomes a qualified doctor at the age of fourteen.

British television series which almost immediately struck a chord in the consciousness of a viewing public which was slowly awakening to the importance of greater ecological awareness.

Doris Day was one of the few successful film actresses who made a smooth transition to television and her half-hour sitcom saved her from bankruptcy.

Hosted by the charismatic Hughie Green, Double Your Money gave away the biggest cash prize on British television in the 1950s.

Anthology series made in Britain for commercial television but with the US market in mind.

Sitcom starring Reg Varney as a porter in Billingsgate fish market

Reviving global interest in British period dramas, influencing fashion and tourism, and sparking discussions on class, gender roles, and historical storytelling, Downton Abbey is a cultural phenomenon with a lasting legacy

Based on a series of stories 'The Adventures of a Black Bag' by Dumbartonshire born novelist A. J. Cronin, Doctor Finlay's Casebook proved to be an instant hit with viewers in spite of stiff competition from US exports Dr Kildare and Ben Casey.

At Blair General Hospital a young intern has to learn to deal with his surgeon mentor.

Transylvania, 1897: A British lawyer is summoned to meet a new client who resides in a dark foreboding castle. Count Dracula plans to move to England, but first he needs to feed...

A truly defining early entry in the annals of the embryonic genre of US television police drama series, Dragnet became the seminal template from which all later successful cops shows drew a measure of guidance and inspiration...

"Lips and brows beading with sweat, as one by one the investors rip their ideas to shreds, the poor rejects take their products and themselves, tails tucked neatly between their legs and shuffle dejectedly out of the loft..."

Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas starring John Thaw as Sir Francis Drake during his circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century, and the growing alienation between himself and his life-long friend Thomas Doughty

Political satire about television news company Globe Link and its team of workers.

Period drama, set in Edwardian London, about a kitchen maid who works her way up to become manageress of the fashionable hotel.

Multi-award winning series about an impossibly upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who goes to Chicago on the trail of his father's murderers - and then stays.

Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County.

Earthman Duncan Weaver on a solo tour of duty on one of Jupiter's moons buys a Martian woman as a companion. He mistreats her, assuming her to be just a "dumb Martian." He learns, to his cost, that she has more intelligence than he gives her credit for.

British dramedy loosely based on three autobiographical books about a family's four years on the Greek island of Corfu following the death of their beloved husband and father

The Dustbinmen were led by their foreman, the foul-mouthed, beret-wearing Cheese and Egg, and accompanying him on the Corporation Cleansing Department dust cart were an equally obnoxious crew of work-shy, housewife-lusting individuals.

Dusty Springfield remains, to this day, one of the most respected and best selling female vocalists of all time. Simply titled Dusty (in the opening credits - although the closing credits read The Dusty Springfield Show) the format of the series was very straight forward...

David and Amy Pearce have been married for some years but the spark appears to have gone from their relationship. They hope that a holiday may help. In Spain, they meet Robert and Linda Cochran. Robert is largely oblivious to his wife and things are about to get complicated.

With glamorous fashions, lavish sets and shoulder pads, Dynasty encapsulated everything that the self-indulgent 1980s was about

Sitting in deckchairs and touring churches is not the holiday 17-year-old Richard wants, especially when there's a chance of romance - but his parents insist on taking him.

George C. Scott starred in this gritty drama series about a social worker based round the slums of New York in the 1960s. It was a little too gritty for CBS president James Aubrey, "a champion of light, fluffy programmes."

"Preceded by mass publicity and weeks of TV advertisements that introduced each resident individually, the BBC had high hopes for the series even before it hit British TV screens for the first time on 19 February 1985..."

Miniseries based on Marvel Comics character, Echo stars Alaqua Cox as a deaf Native American Choctaw and the former leader of the criminal gang Tracksuit Mafia. Returning to her hometown in Oklahoma, she attempts to reconnect with her family

Louisa is a wilful Victorian teenager whose jealousy of her brother's attention to a friend (Allegra), who is staying with her, is responsible for a tragedy which is to echo through the ages.