Reviews

Albert and Victoria

Albert and Victoria (1970)

Albert and Victoria

Alfred Marks starring comedy vehicle produced by Yorkshire Television and set, as the title suggests, in the late 19th century when Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert were the figureheads on the British throne.

Alcock and Gander

Alcock and Gander (1972)

Alcock and Gander

Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan in a typical early 70s sitcom. Upon her husband's death, Marigold Alcock inherits his businesses.

Alf

Alf (1986)

Alf

US sitcom about an Alien Life Form (ALF), who follows an amateur radio signal to Earth only to crash land on the roof of a garage owned by the Tanners, a middle class family living in the suburbs of Los Angeles...

Alfred Hitchock Presents tv series

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Alfred Hitchock Presents tv series

The instantly recognisable, deceptively benign visage of arguably the world's greatest director of cinematic suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, side-stepped deftly to the smaller screen of US television and welcomed viewers to a polished series of stories...

Alfresco TV series

Alfresco (1983)

Alfresco TV series

Running for two series in the early 1980s, Alfresco was the same quickfire combination of anarchic sketches and musical items that made Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Two Ronnies and Monty Python's Flying Circus so successful.

Alias - US TV Series

Alias (2001)

Alias - US TV Series

Relatively unknown until 2001, Jennifer Garner arrived on the TV scene with all the speed of a high velocity bullet in this explosive series

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Alias Smith and Jones

Set in the late 19th Century when the Wild West was no longer so wild and the 'frontier' had been pushed back almost as far as it would go, Alias Smith and Jones was one of US television's last great flirtations with the Cowboy genre...

Alias the Jester

Alias The Jester (1985)

Alias the Jester

Animated children's series about a time traveller who inadvertently arrives in medieval England at the court of King Arthur

Alice in Wonderland TV play

Alice (1946)

Alice in Wonderland TV play

The earliest television version of Lewis Caroll's fantasy masterpiece was broadcast before most people in Britain had televisions...

Alice US TV Series

Alice (1976)

Alice US TV Series

Based quite loosely on the 1974 Oscar-winning film 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore', this situation comedy centered on Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son who leave their New Jersey home to start a new life in Phoenix, Arizona

Alice in Borderland

Alice in Borderland (2020)

Alice in Borderland

Arisu and his friends run into a public bathroom to hide from the police, but when they reemerge, the streets of Tokyo are suddenly completely empty...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland (1966)

Alice in Wonderland

Unimpressed with Disney's 1951 animated version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Jonathan Miller was keen to develop a new version which would bring to the fore undertones of the story that had been glossed over in the often 'traditional' presentation of this classic children's tale.

The Aliens

The Aliens (2016)

The Aliens

Excellent science fiction drama series that unflinchingly explores discrimination, exploitation and ghettoisation

All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters (1967)

All Gas and Gaiters

One of the first TV series to poke fun at the clergy (albeit in a very gentle manner), All Gas and Gaiters is the fondly remembered sitcom that elevated Derek Nimmo to household-name status in Britain and also spawned two spin-off series as well as a radio show.

All In The Family

All In The Family (1971)

All In The Family

British critics have called 'All In The Family' "a reworked, far less provocative version" of the show it was based on, BBC's 'Till Death Us Do Part'...

All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays (1960)

All Our Yesterdays

One of Granada Television's most successful series of all time, All Our Yesterdays began in 1960 and was presented by noted foreign correspondent James Cameron who linked together edited version of two 1930s cinema newsreels from the same week twenty-five years ago.

All Summer Long

All Summer Long (1960)

All Summer Long

Willie has tried to make his father aware of the danger to their house from flood water, but Dad thinks that Willie's fears are excessive. Willie decides to spend all summer long building a wall to keep out the river, but his efforts are in vain.

Allo Allo

'Allo, 'Allo (1982)

Allo Allo

Created by TV comedy legends Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who were responsible for some of the longest running sitcoms on British television, 'Allo 'Allo! was a wartime comedy created as a parody of Secret Army.

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal (1997)

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal was US television's mid-nineties love affair with the navel gazing, self-absorbed inner lives of 30 something professional baby-boomers given a slick, hallucinogenic make-over for the millennial MTV bred generation.

Already It's Tomorrow

Already It's Tomorrow (1962)

Already It's Tomorrow

After a road accident, an attractive girl recovers consciousness in a strange room. With her is a young man she has never seen before.

Alternative 3

Alternative 3 (1977)

Alternative 3

In 1977 Anglia television was responsible for a mockumentary that achieved worldwide notoriety and a cult status that has since fuelled a myriad of online conspiracy theories.

American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese (2023)

American Born Chinese

Part fantasy adventure, part coming-of-age tale; American Born Chinese fuses familiar elements from both genres to fashion a sort of Asian-flavoured superhero origin story

American Dreams

American Dreams (2002)

American Dreams

This unique drama explored life and events in the early and mid-1960's through the eyes of a fictional Philadelphia family.

American Gods

American Gods (2017)

American Gods

Based on Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel set in a hidden world where magic is real, a collection of 'Old Gods' are facing a collection of 'New Gods' - a storm is coming and nothing will ever be the same again...

American Gothic

American Gothic (1995)

American Gothic

Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, and Caleb's dead sister returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil