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Australian series filmed in colour but only available to the UK viewing public of 1957 in black and white, The Adventures of Long John Silver was based very loosely on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.

The real-life Nelson family - Ozzie, his wife Harriet and their sons David and Ricky - played themselves in this long-running US sitcom.

Portland Bill is the keeper of the Trinity House lighthouse, on Guillermot Rock in a children's stop-motion animated series.

TV series based on one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1920s, Rin Tin Tin was one of two survivor of an Apache assault on a wagon train, a scenario that wasn't a million miles from the dog's true origins.

Richard Greene starred as the legendary 12th century outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. ITV's first adventure series managed to maintain a high standard of writing, employing blacklisted Hollywood writers who wrote under various aliases.

Daniel Defoe's classic adventure story of a young Englishman's sole quest for survival on a desert island is never more memorable than in this 1964 series.

Live-action puppet television series, based on Mary Tourtel's much-loved character Rupert Bear, produced by ATV and featuring one of the most enduring theme tunes of all time

Australian series about a widowed father travelling the Southern Pacific seas with his two sons, daughter and a deckhand.

A shining example of a near flawlessly faithful adaptation of a canon of classic literary genius, Granada television's stylishly lavish series redefined the established film and TV image of the world renowned inhabitants of 221B Baker Street.

Another in the series of ITC's 'Adventures Of...' historicals. Sir Lancelot was lavishly filmed, being the first British series to be shot in colour with a view to the American market.

Animated tales from the same stable that produced Captain Pugwash

Classic US television series shot at a rapid rate with four episodes being turned out every ten days at a cost of $15,000 each.

Anglo-Canadian sitcom about Annie Brennan, the fog-horn voiced captain of the Narcissus, a tugboat based in a harbour on the Pacific North West of America.

Gerry Anderson's new production company was ailing and in desperate need of a cash boost when, in 1957, they were approached by children's writer Roberta Leigh and her colleague Suzanne Warner to make a series of 52 thirteen-minute episodes of a children's puppet series.

"James Butler Hickok, mister" our hero would announce to all and sundry before his sidekick would elaborate, "That's Wild Bill Hickok, mister! The bravest, strongest, fightingest U.S. Marshal in the whole West!"

Conrad Phillips starred as the legendary hero from the Swiss settlement of Berglan in Uri, who became a folk hero very much in the Robin Hood mode.

French series that follows two French Air Force pilots: the straight-laced and dutiful Michel Tanguy and his eccentric, bumbling, yet endearing wingman, Ernest Laverdure, which became a cult hit when it was dubbed into English and shown on the BBC

Docudrama combining dramatic recreations with interviews with historians focusing on female monarchs, inspired by producer Jada Pinkett Smith's view on the lack of stories covering Black queens

BAFTA-nominated comedy After Henry followed the comfortable middle-class lives of three women; except that, for one of them, life wasn't all that comfortable...

When Alun Owen's play 'After the Funeral' was read by Sydney Newman, head of drama for ABC Television, and William Kotcheff, the television director, they were so taken by his conception of Wales and the Welsh, they decided to see for themselves.

Struggling to come to terms with his wife's death, a writer for a newspaper casts aside his nice-guy image and adopts a gruff new persona in an effort to push away those trying to help

After returning from Korea, three prominent members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital try to adjust to civilian life.

Anglia Television's first series for children

Adaptation of arguably Agatha Christie's most famous character Detective Hercule Poirot

Animated comedy from Japan about a red panda who works as a meek office drone in a large company where she is overworked, bullied by her boss and objectified by the office flirt. Confused and frustrated, she gives vent to the emotions she suppresses by singing "death metal" music

Series about a magazine agony aunt who also runs her own radio phone-in and who, like Dr Frazier Crane many years later, could solve everyone's problems except her own

Part of the Star Wars franchise and a spin-off from the series The Mandalorian. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy...

US action/adventure series. Airwolf is a new breed of high-tech super helicopter that has been stolen by its designer in order to sell it to Libya.

British sketch comedy show that followed hot on the heels of Not The Nine O'Clock News which also featured the programme's stars, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.