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Button Moon

Button Moon (1980)

Button Moon

The adventures of Mr. Spoon who would travel to Button Moon in his homemade rocket-ship. All of the characters were based on kitchen utensils...

By Dawn's Early Light

By Dawn's Early Light (1990)

By Dawn's Early Light

Gripping action-drama thriller revolving around a non-NATO nuclear missile being fired from Turkey at the USSR, which leads to an automatic Soviet response as it is perceived as a NATO strike. Can continued escalation be avoided?

By the Sword Divided

By the Sword Divided (1983)

By the Sword Divided

Swashbuckling adventure set during the English Civil War - seen through the eyes of two families; the Laceys, loyal to King Charles I, and the Fletchers, loyal to Oliver Cromwell

Cade's County

Cade's County (1971)

Cade's County

Sam Cade is a tough yet sensitive sheriff in sprawling Madrid County - a fictional semiarid desert area somewhere in the American Southwest. Between chases, shootouts and law enforcement, the series also touched on relevant '70s issues...

Cadfael TV Series

Cadfael (1994)

Cadfael TV Series

Period murder mystery series set around a Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury in 12th century England. Here resides Brother Cadfael, a former Crusader, a skilled observer of human nature, whose talents are called upon to investigate the most intriguing and murderous crimes.

The Caesars

The Caesars (1968)

The Caesars

Historical period drama detailing the murder, sex and madness that will forever have a place in the annals of ancient history.

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.