Reviews

Ghosts

Ghosts (2019)

Ghosts

Alison and Mike think their cash troubles are over when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling country estate. There's one catch: The old house is haunted by the ghosts of its former inhabitants.

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way (1964)

Gideon's Way

1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.

Gidget (1965)

This US sitcom starring future Hollywood star Sally Field as a surfing, boy-crazy teenager and her widowed father was a spin-off from a 1959 Sandra Dee movie and its two sequels

The Giftie

The Giftie (1988)

The Giftie

What would happen if you could clone yourself? Two ordinary friends decide to try this with a new machine at work. Thinking this experiment has not worked the friends go home...

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age (2022)

The Gilded Age

Old money and new money clash for influence among New York’s upper-class society in this period epic penned by 'Downton Abbey’s' Julian Fellowes

Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island (1964)

Gilligan's Island

Although never a huge hit in the UK, Gilligan's Island was a massive success in its native USA, and has stood the test of time by becoming almost an icon of 1960's American sitcom.

Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls (2000)

Gilmore Girls

American comedy-drama centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething mother and her teen daughter

Ginny & Georgia

Ginny & Georgia (2021)

Ginny & Georgia

US comedy-drama in which free-spirited Georgia moves with her daughter (Ginny) and son (Austin) to a new town after her husband dies. However, no matter how far away she runs from her problems they are always going to catch up with her...

The Girl from UNCLE

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966)

The Girl from UNCLE

Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.

The Girl in the Picture

The Girl in the Picture (1964)

The Girl in the Picture

The second in the series of three plays by Allan Prior, all set along Blackpool's Golden Mile, featured television débutée Nicola Pagett and future Doctor Who companion Peter Purves

Girls About Town TV series

Girls About Town (1970)

Girls About Town TV series

Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.

Gnomes of Dulwich

The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969)

Gnomes of Dulwich

Off-beat TV series that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd a year after their last series together found the two stars in the almost surreal guise of two garden gnomes!

The Godfather Saga miniseries review

The Godfather Saga (1977)

The Godfather Saga miniseries review

Seven hour miniseries that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage

Going Straight

Going Straight (1978)

Going Straight

Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.

The Gold Robbers TV series

The Gold Robbers (1969)

The Gold Robbers TV series

Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.

The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls (1985)

The Golden Girls

Superior comedy that pulled no punches in addressing the realities of growing old, whilst treating its core characters in a positive way, proving that not only did life begin at forty it also went on well into the 50's, 60's and beyond.

The Golden Shot

The Golden Shot (1967)

The Golden Shot

Promoted by ATV as "the liveliest live show ever!", one critic responded, "this is the deadest dead duck ever".

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

This hit US sitcom spin-off about an incompetent southern bumpkin who is enlisted into the Marine Corps was a top-ten hit throughout its entire five-season run

The Good Doctor

The Good Doctor (2017)

The Good Doctor

A young surgeon from a small town, who has autism and Savant syndrome and has the ability to note minute details and changes, as well as possessing a near photographic memory, is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital in California

Good Girls

Good Girls (2021)

Good Girls

Three suburban mothers find themselves facing desperate financial circumstances and decide their only choice is to rob a supermarket. But it has dire consequences when they later discover that the supermarket manager was money-laundering for a local crime boss

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2024)

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

British teenage drama series in which a young student is not satisfied that the killing of a local school girl has been investigated enough, and takes matters into her own hands

The Good Life

The Good Life (1975)

The Good Life

The mere mention of this series name is likely to bring a very large smile to the faces of British sitcom fans, for The Good Life is one of the few series that is considered a true classic.

The Good Old Days TV show

The Good Old Days (1953)

The Good Old Days TV show

Mock Edwardian entertainment that proved so successful that it ran for 30 years and in the process introduced around 2000 performers

Good Omens

Good Omens (2019)

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's comedic apocalyptic fantasy of the final days before Armageddon.

The Good Place

The Good Place (2016)

The Good Place

When those who have been good throughout their lives pass away they go to 'The Good Place.' When Eleanor arrives there, it soon becomes apparent that she's been sent to 'the wrong place.'

Goodbye Mr. Kent

Goodbye Mr. Kent (1982)

Goodbye Mr. Kent

Something of a rarity in the TV life of Richard Briers-an unsuccessful sitcom which came sandwiched between two successful ones, namely, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.

The Goodies

The Goodies (1982)

The Goodies

The Goodies were the quintessential image of a 1970's Britain that had not yet shaken off its 1960's 'swinging' image.

Goodness Gracious Me

Goodness Gracious Me (1998)

Goodness Gracious Me

Award winning and groundbreaking sketch show that took British culture and Asian culture and pointed a hilarious finger at both by casting a laugh-out-loud eye over their coming together

Goodnight Mister Tom

Goodnight Mister Tom (1998)

Goodnight Mister Tom

A troubled, abused child is evacuated to the countryside at the outbreak of the Second World War to live with a reclusive and grumpy old man. Both the victims of tragic circumstances, they soon develop a close bond