Reviews

I've Got a System

I've Got a System (1965)

I've Got a System

In the final play of Allan Prior's Blackpool trilogy, the writer decided to go for a story with a bit more of an edge to it, the theme being betting and gambling

Ivor the Engine

Ivor the Engine (1959)

Ivor the Engine

Classic children's animation about a small green railway engine from "the top left corner of Wales"

Fenella Fielding as Izeena

Izeena (1966)

Fenella Fielding as Izeena

Izeena lives in her magic tree house in a world of animal friends.

Jack Benny

The Jack Benny Program (1950)

Jack Benny

From the vaudeville circuit to a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film. Jack Benny was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression.

Jack the Ripper

Jack The Ripper (1973)

Jack the Ripper

Two fictional detectives go off in search of clues to one of the world's greatest unsolved cases.

Kenneth Williams on Jackanory

Jackanory (1965)

Kenneth Williams on Jackanory

Storytelling series that proved to be one of the most popular children’s programmes of all time.

Jacks and Knaves TV series

Jacks and Knaves (1961)

Jacks and Knaves TV series

Short police procedural series; the forerunner to the highly successful Z-Cars (and sometimes cited as the inspiration for it).

Jamie TV Series

Jamie (1971)

Jamie TV Series

Doctor Who meets Mr Benn? Jamie discovers a magic carpet which takes him back in time. But who is the mysterious Mr Zed and where does he come from?

Jamie and the Magic Torch

Jamie and the Magic Torch (1976)

Jamie and the Magic Torch

Children's cartoon series made by Cosgrove Hall about the adventures of Jamie, a small boy and his dog, Wordsworth, in a magical world called Cuckooland.

Glynis Barber as Jane

Jane (1982)

Glynis Barber as Jane

Daily Mirror comic strip heroine brought to the small screen.

Jango

Jango (1961)

Jango

A professor in criminology at Nairobi University is temporarily attached to Scotland Yard. Jango is a 'funny, scruffy geezer with glasses, a dirty raincoat, tweed hat and a twisted walking stick who is operating a one-man law business.'

Jason King TV series

Jason King (1971)

Jason King TV series

A flamboyant playboy investigator and author sets off on a series of adventures.

Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster (1990)

Jeeves and Wooster

The misadventures of the dapper but dim-witted idle millionaire Bertie Wooster and his indispensable gentleman’s gentleman, the incomparable Jeeves

The Jeffersons

The Jeffersons (1975)

The Jeffersons

Developed by ground-breaking television producer Norman Lear, The Jeffersons follows a successful African-American couple as they "move on up" from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment.

Jekyll TV series

Jekyll (2007)

Jekyll TV series

A sequel to the 1886 gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson about a respected doctor and his evil alter ego, with the main character being a modern-day descendant of Dr. Jekyll

Jemima Shore Investigates

Jemima Shore Investigates (1983)

Jemima Shore Investigates

TV investigative journalist Jemima Shore turns amateur detective to uncover blackmail and murder among the upper classes in this 1980s blend of cozy mystery and conventional crime thriller

Jessica Jones TV series

Jessica Jones (2015)

Jessica Jones TV series

Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as a private investigator in Hell's Kitchen. Haunted by a traumatic past, the former superhero uses her gifts and her street smarts to continue her personal drive for justice.

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth (1956)

Jesus of Nazareth

In 1956, the BBC made Television history with a series of eight programmes on the life of Christ. Placed in the children's programmes slot on Sundays, it attracted an adult audience whose appreciation placed it, as a BBC survey showed, next to the Coronation of 1953 in national appeal.

The Jetsons

The Jetsons (1962)

The Jetsons

Hanna-Barbera's animated series that followed The Flinstones - turning stone age into space age seemed a simple enough task. But how did it go down with the television audience of the day?

Jim's Inn - Ad-Mag

Jim's Inn (1955)

Jim's Inn - Ad-Mag

Early Shoppers Guide series also known as an Ad-Mag. This series and ones like it were banned by an Act of Parliament in 1963. Here we explain why.

Jo - French Detective Series

Jo (2013)

Jo - French Detective Series

English-language French police procedural concerning a veteran detective in Paris' elite Criminal Brigade. Jo St-Clair, brilliant and brutal, must outwit pathological killers to solve the most shocking murders

Joan of Arc 1999 miniseries

Joan of Arc (1999)

Joan of Arc 1999 miniseries

Two-part Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Canadian miniseries - spurred by divine voices and visions, fifteenth century teenager Joan d'Arc leads French forces against the English