Reviews

US sitcom which was a spin-off of 'The Golden Girls' tells of the day to day misadventures of a widowed paediatrician and his two adult daughters

Sketch show with a mixture of Pythonesque humour and satire that never really found its audience. Its writers went on to create some classic comedies.

First class prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse, Endeavour, which ran for 9 seasons, takes us back to Oxford in the 1960s where a young and head-strong detective constable is starting out on his career

A young Englishman makes many friends in Vienna, but all of them turn against him with the outbreak of the first world war. After the Armistice, he returns to find nothing but bitterness and despair.

Drama set around the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War

Timothy Spall excels as a ghost hunter with a deep sense of loss and vulnerability, determined to prove the existence of the supernatural, in this British drama horror based on the real-life claims of ghostly activity at a residential property

In 1890, Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), arrives at a remote hostelry in Kansas from England, on the trail of the man she holds responsible for her son’s death

Gripping British crime drama following Detective Nick Lewis as he investigates unsolved cases buried in police archives. With suspense, intrigue, and compelling performances, the Enigma Files delivered classic detective thrills

Six-part BBC2 series about the professional and personal lives of a Welsh lifeboat crew and their tight-knit community in a small seaside village which was adapted from a novel by Alun Richards and starred Philip Madoc and Glyn Owen

A handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother. Joe Orton's play made its television debut almost a year after the author was bludgeoned to death by his partner.

Two British TV writers - Sean and Beverly, played by Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig, move to Hollywood to remake their successful British sitcom. But when the network wants to change the format and cast Matt LeBlanc in the lead role, Beverly is less than impressed.

After retiring from a life of espionage Robert McCall goes into business as a private investigator - a modern-day Robin Hood acting as a righter of wrongs.

ER first hit the television screens with all the speed and force of an express train in 1994, and immediately earned the label of 'rock 'em - sock 'em' television, hardly giving the viewer a chance to catch breath as each story-line unfolded.

"He was a pioneer", wrote Nicholas Parsons, "the first person to do 'topical satire' on television, but as the phrase had not yet been coined, and as the sketches were part of conventional variety shows, he never received the credit he deserved for originality."

British-produced anthology series along similar lines to Douglas Fairbanks Presents; both were made to cash in on the growing US and British television markets.

Escape Into Night is a haunting story full of vivid images that were probably the cause of many a nightmare back in April 1972.

When a scientist’s almost fanatical devotion to a vaccine project brings her into collision with orthodox authority and there is a threat to put an end to her experiments, she rebels and continues on her own…with devastating consequences

Although very popular in its day this BBC sitcom now seems to be curiously overlooked.

To the rest of the world Ray Barone seemingly has it all - he's a successful sportswriter with a wonderful wife, a beautiful family, and a nice house. And if that wasn't enough, everybody loves him!

A modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman

The meanest villain in the West falls for a pretty schoolteacher and tries to change his ways. A forgotten television movie that might possibly have been the inspiration for 'Blazing Saddles'

Two of British comedy's most popular stars came together for this highly original and cleverly written series.

Emotional drama about living with the effects and heartbreak of Alzheimer's

Hundreds of years in the future the solar system has been colonized by humanity. A disparate band of protagonists place themselves between the political tension of a cold war and unravel the single greatest conspiracy of all time

The professional and personal life of Home Office pathologist Professor John Hardy, who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.

A witty, light South Korean comedy drama about an autistic 27-year-old lawyer with an IQ of 164, impressive memory, and creative thought process, who graduated at the top of her class from a prestigious law school

Ricky Gervais sitcom set in around the world of film and television extras.

Set at the fictional Fort Courage after the American Civil War — “somewhere west of the Missouri River” — the series delivered a hearty mix of physical gags, visual silliness and irreverent humour

The first ever British made filmed series, shot by Trinity Productions for the BBC and consisting of 39 black and white episodes, Fabian of Scotland Yard has been described as Britain's first generation of the TV detective.

Jimmy Edwards series of one-off sitcoms that introduced a minor supporting character actor who would go on to become 'the guv'nor' of British comedy...Ronnie Barker.