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A one-off comedy show that reunited two of the regulars from That Was The Week That Was.

From 1963 to 1966 The Five O'Clock Club met every Tuesday and Friday.

Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.

The continuing adventures of Alex Raymond's legendary sci-fi comic strip hero in a vintage television series.

Everybody in the world experiences an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes them lose consciousness. Can they change the future?

Originally made in France in 1967 as Le Chevalier Tempete the series of four epic 75-minute episodes were edited into 12 22-minute episodes for its dubbed UK broadcast in 1969 and shown as part of BBC's children's programming.

This fondly remembered epic children’s drama created by Sid Waddell, set over four series, each featuring a different generation of the Flaxton boys, was inspired by a lunch-time meeting in a pub and an offer that an upcoming writer couldn't refuse.

An exquisitely written, hilariously funny and surprisingly profound piece of television about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.

Fresh from a third-rate career in the music halls, forty-year-old Arnie Cole (Bob Hoskins) has turned movie pioneer, showing single-reel films in makeshift cinemas during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.

Squabbles arise when a class of seven-year-olds put on a nativity play at School. Herod won't stop waving to his mum and dad and the subversive Innkeeper is determined to liven up the traditional script.

Long before The Simpsons took American prime time by storm, a slightly less dysfunctional cartoon family blazed the trial for generation crossing animated antics.

Ground-breaking Golden Globe and double Emmy Award-winning sketch comedy in which the star became the first black entertainer to be the host of a successful weekly variety show on network television

The show that was dubbed an "aquatic Lassie" - Flipper comes to the rescue in a series of nautical adventures.

Dominic Hide, a time-travelling observer from the year 2130 has an agenda. Going back back 150 years in search of his great-great-grandfather is illegal. And things become further complicated when he falls in love.

Afternoon TV series about four youngster pilot a narrow boat along the canals from North Wales to London and their adventures on Britain's inland waterways.

Bill and Ben were the Flowerpot Men who lived in a shed at the bottom of a garden and in between their large flowerpot homes lived Little Weed.

Of all the fantasy situation comedies that aired in the 1960's, The Flying Nun was one for the books. A 90 pound Catholic nun who takes flight when the wind blows up her habit...

One of the most ambitious children's series undertaken by an Independent Television company involved the entire reconstruction of a farmhouse and its surrounding buildings on the estate of the Earl of Harewood.

Foo Foo was created for ABC Television in the UK by Halas & Batchelor, who had been producing films since 1940.

Drama profile of Aneurin Bevan, noted for his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Atlee's government which spearheaded the creation of the National Health Service

Just a year after experimental BBC television began broadcasting to a few hundred homes in London, a ten-minute show called For The Children made its debut.

Gentle comedy series of the boy-meets-girl variety with a unique twist in that the boy and girl in question were both in their seventies.

Special tribute show to the late presenter, actor, comedian and tireless supporter of numerous charities and the legacy he leaves

A young boy is in possession of a secret formula that could spell disaster for the entire world.

The last major British serial to be filmed in black and white...The series chronicled the saga of a London merchant family between 1879-1926.

At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.

Victorian comedy series starring Jimmy Edwards as James Fossett, a writer of "penny dreadfuls"

Originally billed as a 'sparkling new comedy series' about life in a typical south London black family, The Fosters was anything but typical, new or original.

Science fiction streaming series loosely based on a series of stories by Isaac Asimov. Foundation is a complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire