Reviews A-Z

Cafe Continental

Café Continental (1947)

Cafe Continental

Café Continental was the first televised variety show in the UK appearing on the BBC Television Service from 1947 and continuing to 1953.

Cagney and Lacey TV series

Cagney and Lacey (1981)

Cagney and Lacey TV series

Multi-award-winning police action/adventure series that broke new ground by having its central buddy characters, rather than being the standard team of uninspired Starsky and Hutch clones, female officers doing a tough and dangerous job as well - if not better - than any of their male counterparts.

Call Oxbridge 2000

Call Oxbridge 2000 (1961)

Call Oxbridge 2000

Medical drama spin-off from Emergency-Ward 10, Britain's most popular medical soap opera of the 1950s and 60s, which never lived up to its predecessor

Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife (2012)

Call the Midwife

The BBC's enduring drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Edward Woodward as Callan

Callan (1967)

Edward Woodward as Callan

Edward Woodward as the troubled yet still deadly agent. With consistently hard-hitting, uncompromising scripts and uniformly excellent support playing from a talented core cast

Camberwick Green

Camberwick Green (1966)

Camberwick Green

Monday's Watch With Mother offering which began in 1966 with the words "Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today ?"

The Camomile Lawn (1992)

Classic adaptation of Mary Wesley's much-acclaimed second novel. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five cousins meet to pay tribute to a world that will never be the same again...

Campion

Campion (1989)

Campion

Margery Allingham's 1930s private detective, Albert Campion, has had several versions on BBC television. Here's a rundown on each of them...

Cannon TV series

Cannon (1971)

Cannon TV series

Where street smarts meet intellectual intrigue...a seasoned private detective navigates the gritty underbelly of crime, armed not only with his LAPD experience but also an insatiable curiosity about the world