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.
An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller
US sitcom spin-off from Diff'rent Strokes in which the Drummond's former family maid is now the housemother of a group of girls at an exclusive school
The gripping account of how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal.
Hard hitting and somewhat bleak drama series about a cold but passionate policewoman who goes head to head with a cold serial killer in Belfast.
Sitcom about a man falling headlong into the calamity of mid-life-crisis who fakes his own suicide.
Hollywood stunt performers moonlight as bounty hunters and find their daring movie skills stand them in good stead
1970s BBC historical dramatisation about the collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
“Fear haunts this house - it lurks beyond the candleflame - it whispers down the corridors. Fear of living, fear of dying.”