Reviews

Satirical comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history.

Classic hit US sitcom about a couple who give up their sophisticated New York lifestyle to run a dilapidated rural farm

Created for the radio in 1936 by 'Lone Ranger' inventor George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the Green Hornet aka Britt Reid was originally introduced as the son of Dan Reid, the masked man's nephew.

Grimm blends police procedural with dark fantasy, weaving folklore and mythology into a modern-day detective drama. Set in Portland, it follows Nick Burkhardt, a homicide cop turned supernatural guardian, navigating a hidden world of monsters and mystery

The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.

Long before he became a household name for his masterful touch with British comedy, Roy Clarke was pounding the beat—an experience he later transformed into a sitcom that charted the misadventures of a fresh-faced constable with more heart than street smarts

Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.

Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.

It was her destiny to marry a King - Her duty to stand by his side in battle - And her fate to deny her true heart's desire...

The longest-running Western series on television, Gunsmoke starred James Arness as US Marshall Matt Dillon

US miniseries on the real-life story of cult leader Jim Jones and the events involving the moving of his People's Temple to Guyana, and the tragedy that befell...

Super smoothy Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.

Sketch-based award-winning British comedy show starring former teachers Gareth Hale and Norman Pace - their most iconic creations being the stone-faced dim-witted bouncers known as The Two Rons

For over forty years, Salvation Army Captain Emily Ridley has fought the Devil. But after a series of mishaps, her superiors have decide to move her to the quiet little Yorkshire town of Brigthorpe...

From the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, Hammer Films were one of the leading lights of the British film industry. Previously, Hammer had only cautiously entered the domain of television...

Aired in the USA as Fox Mystery Theatre this anthology series, produced in the UK by Hammer Productions, focuses mystery, suspense, and psychological twists

When Tony Hancock left the BBC for ITV his was one of the most watched shows on British television. By the end of this ITV series his career was in shreds...

"Hancock was below the laughter filled surface (like many brilliantly gifted comedians), a darkly troubled, insecure soul."

Set in the late 1950'S - what sealed the show's popularity was the introduction of the leather-jacketed, perennially 'cool' biker character of Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

Comedy serial written by Peter Ling (co-creator of Compact and Crossroads) made by the BBC Children's Television department and broadcast throughout the school holidays of 1954.

Multi-award-winning British crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a resilient and determined police sergeant who tries to uphold the law whilst facing down her own demons

Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.

Life in a fictional West End department store employing around 4,000 staff.

When the Henderson family accidentally run over a Bigfoot-type creature during a road trip, they bringing him home to suburban Seattle and quickly discover that blending family life with one very large, very hairy houseguest is no ordinary challenge

Popular BBC sketch show that introduced a whole host of memorable characters and a plethora of catch-phrases. So unfair!

David Janssen as an embittered and revenge-seeking ex-cop who has been pensioned out of the service following an injury, turns private investigator, in the popular actor's final long-running TV series

American mystery television series about a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife who turn amateur sleuths on their honeymoon in order to solve a crime. "When they met - it was murder."

Children can sometimes have an instinct for situations that are beyond the grasp of their young minds...

US Western series which chronicled the exploits of the college educated, West Point trained, black clad lone solider of fortune known simply as 'Paladin'

John Winterson Richards reviews the BBC's eternal, totally-irreverent, often controversial satirical quiz show that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in the pursuit of laughs.