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.
In this multi-channel DVD world, it is hard to imagine that one television show could satisfy every member of the family. But for an awful long time in the USA The Ed Sullivan Show did just that.
When Ronald Craven attempts to unravel the truth behind the murder of his daughter his investigations soon lead him into a murky world of government and corporate cover-ups and nuclear espionage, pitting him against dark forces that threaten the future of life on Earth.
Seen as an indictment of society's inability to care for its outcasts, Edna, The Inebriate Woman was a stirring piece of televisual drama that was made all the more powerful by Patricia Hayes' superb performance of a woman trying to hold on to the last vestiges of her dignity
Based on an Edgar Wallace created character this 1957/8 sitcom starred Charlie Chester as the popular Cockney racing tipster 'Educated' Evans, who ducked and dived through the back streets and public houses of London all the while trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
As strange as it may seem now, Archie Andrews was a ventriloquists dummy that first hit the big time on Radio!
1980s children's sitcom written by Andrew Davies which revolves round Marmalade Atkins - 'The Worst Girl in the World'
Corporal Halliday wants to buy his way out of the army but he is not allowed to until he has served six years. Corporal Halliday has only served three.
This seven part, £1 million drama series from Thames Television faithfully reconstructed the events of the affair between Edward and Mrs Simpson that, in 1936, caused a constitutional crisis and Edward VIII's eventual abdication.
A prime example of the lavish and epic period dramas that British television is famed for, the award winning Edward the Seventh fulfilled its early promise with a superb cast, excellent story telling, sumptuous locations, colourful costumes and high production values.
Seeing is definitely not believing in Eerie, Indiana - the town where anything can happen!
Drama recounting the efforts of a ground-breaking producer and a blacklisted director to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann. An astonishing true story behind a moment in television history.
Domestic sitcom about a married couple raising their three children. The hit series was renewed for a second season before tragedy struck...
After the events captured in the finale of 'Breaking Bad', Jesse Pinkman runs from his captors, the law, and his past. He'll need a small fortune in cash to get away. Luckily, he knows where some may be stashed...
The drama begins in 1579 and exposes the conflict between Elizabeth's sense of duty and the instincts of her heart, her doomed affair with the Earl of Essex, and the struggles of a powerful and independent woman battling to survive in a male-dominated world
"...Glenda Jackson totally submersed herself in the role by reading everything she could find about Elizabeth in order to get a deep understanding of the Queen. And this shines out from her performance as she delivers each line with an authority of a true monarch."
US sitcom starring Ellen DeGeneres
In a laboratory an exciting new experiment is underway, but unexpected results occur. Three children discover that mysterious parties are interested. Can the teenagers stop the gang from leaving the country with stolen samples?
Britain's first medical soap, which was also the first of the country's twice-weekly serials, went on to become one of the nation’s best loved programmes, reaching an average audience of 16 million people a week and 24 million at its peak.
From Sex and the City creator Darren Star - an American from Chicago with a Master's in communications moves to Paris for a new job opportunity, only to find she has difficulty communicating
A four-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel which follows the story of the "handsome, clever and rich" Emma Woodhouse
Depicting the lives of the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham, Empire Road was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by artists of colour
Few television dramas manage to capture the grandeur, intrigue, and emotional devastation of imperial politics with this much finesse—a sprawling, visually sumptuous Chinese historical series that has deservedly earned its place as a cultural touchstone
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