The thirteen episodes of 'I, Claudius' were a masterpiece of costume and design and when shown in the USA on PBS the series single-handedly redefined the boundaries of acceptability on American television.
A US Air Force officer discovers a genie in a bottle.
Classic US domestic sitcom about and starring the incomparable Lucille Ball
Landmark TV series in which real-life cases were dramatized
Standard US sitcom that tried to reproduce the phenomenal success of I Love Lucy.
Spy thriller - the first to feature an African American alongside a white actor in a lead role.
Early Spike Milligan series featuring his usual off-the-wall madcap humour.
An inept broadcaster whose inflated sense of celebrity drives him to treachery and shameless self-promotion.
Comedy series about two construction workers who are constantly getting into dangerous situations on and off the job. Sitcom gold for the critics but prematurely cancelled by the Network. When they realised their mistake, it was too late...
Wilde's witty, elegant and absurdly funny classic with an all-star cast
The Earth has been at war with the Outspacers for many years. The fate of the planet depends on the success of a vital project headed by one man.
Improvised comedy sketch show
A widowed woman and her hapless nephew takes charge of her husband's funeral business.
The story of a crowded day in the life of a modern Russian family - a day in which a young girl falls in love, a black marketeer is trapped by police, and a few hasty words spark a teenage rebellion.
A magazine series broadcast simultaneously on TV and radio.
The misadventures of four teenage pupils at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive who are not exactly among the social outcasts, but nowhere near smooth enough to hang out with the cool kids
Have you ever had one of those days when every decision you seem to make, however logical or well intentioned it may seem, backfires on you? Welcome to the world of Todd Margaret
A bungling, fumbling, absent-minded scientist who dreams up useless inventions that would get him laughed out of the patent office.
After a scientist is exposed to gamma rays his body changes into a super-human rampaging 'monster'.
A disbarred barrister uses his connections with the underworld to pass information onto the police -for a price!
Drama starring John Thaw which revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds of Annotsfield, a Yorkshire mill-owning family, through five generations.
George Meredith Webley, a bank clerk who was guaranteed to add the word pooper to party and crushing to bore.
Like the Six Million Dollar Man, Inspector Gagdet was an ordinary human until an accident armed him with a whole host of in-built secret weapons.
Italian police procedural located in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il Commissario Montalbano) has been broadcast in over 65 countries, including the UK on BBC Four
Arguably the world's, and certainly Britain's, finest entry in the long and distinguished history of the television/detective fiction genre.
A US based investigator is sent around the world to solve crime.
The International Police investigate everything from murder to blackmail, drugs to hijacking and assassination to slavery.
Industrial espionage series starring Edward Judd
Sixteen-year-old Arnold Haithwaite is an orphan who lives with a man he calls father. His world is turned upside down the day a stranger arrives claiming to be the real Arnold Haithwaite. And so begins an intriguing and atmospheric series which involves the search for truth
When David Vincent gets lost on a country road he stumbles across visitors from another planet. But will anyone ever believe him?