Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).
The husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen repeated their success in vaudeville, film and radio with a show perfectly suited to the new medium of television.
Three-part miniseries on the early life and career of the American General and President through his participation in the the American War of Independence
Sequel to the 1984 miniseries 'George Washington,' the story chronicles the life of the first President of the United States, and his 8 years running his country
TV producer, Muriel Young, came up with the idea for a new TV pop music programme to follow on from her successful shows, Lift Off with Ayshea, the Bay City Rollers Shang-a-lang and The Arrows TV show.
1955 and a motley crew of draftees are enlisted into the RAF to do their National Service with comedic consequences.
When a woman and her two children move into a cottage they are not prepared for the fact that it already has an occupant. A ghost...
An elite division of Scotland Yard, the Ghost Squad was set up to investigate and infiltrate spy rings, underworld gangs or anything else that came outside the duties of regular policing.
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.
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century...and they refuse to leave.
1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.
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
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...
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
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.
American comedy-drama centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething mother and her teen daughter
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...
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 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
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.
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!
Seven hour miniseries that combined The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, re-edited in chronological order with additional footage
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
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.
Promoted by ATV as "the liveliest live show ever!", one critic responded, "this is the deadest dead duck ever".
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
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BBC children's series about a mischievous 12 year-old girl, Penelope Arbuckle, and her imaginary witch friend who only Penelope (and the TV audience) could see.
A suave private investigator navigates the glitz and danger of 1970s Las Vegas, with a guest cast that is a veritible Who's Who of American talent, solving crimes with charm and style in a city that never sleeps
A self-absorbed middle-class couple are preparing to take early retirement in the south of France. But when their estranged son and his wife are killed, they are forced to return to Britain to become guardians to their three troublesome grandchildren
The Cruel Necessity dramatises the 1649 trial of Charles I using much of the original courtroom dialogue, exploring Oliver Cromwell's justification for the King's execution and the moral, legal, and political consequences of this historic event
ATV's 3 hour presentation of arguably Shakespeare's most celebrated play, which emphasises the futility of the unworldly love of his seemingly perfect couple against the cold calculating worldly might of Octavius.
The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to the distant colony world of Uxarieus, where greedy mining interests, desperate settlers, ancient secrets and the Master's search for a devastating super-weapon threaten the planet's future
Popular Western series for kids that was made along similar lines to The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid and other successfully syndicated US shows of the late 1950's.
An iconic English comedienne, Hylda Baker, short in stature and with a rich Lancashire accent, became a star later in life until finally, her career came to a shuddering halt
A group of ex-Vietnam Commandos band together to form an unlikely partnership in order to assist the victims of injustice, whilst on the run themselves for a crime that they did not commit.
Carefully crafted, often gripping adaptation of one of Britain’s most respected crime writers, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries delivers a measured, thoughtful brand of storytelling that remains compelling decades on
Launched in 1969 with high hopes, Hollywood flair, and a hefty budget, this international co-production promised exotic adventure and international appeal. Riptide aimed for the stars, but sadly it splash-landed somewhere in the shallows
Drama series that blended emotional realism with the social concerns of its time as an 'agony aunt' in a national magazine gets far too involved with the people she offers advice to
Long before The Simpsons took American prime time by storm, a slightly less dysfunctional cartoon family blazed the trial for generation crossing animated antics.
