Reviews

When a boy scientist creates a robot to do household chores, he is unprepared for the mayhem it causes when it comes alive.

Two Miami-based cops keep law and order in a stylish, action-packed series set in the sleazy drug-infested back streets of a seemingly glamorous resort city.

Created, written and presented by the multi-talented Michael Bentine, Potty Time was a marvellously madcap puppet series for pre-school children that re-enacted some of the world's greatest historical events and shed new light on mysteries ancient and modern all with a unique Potty slant. Adults loved it too.

Children's comedy series in which two inept friends try their hands at a number of different trades - all with equally disastrous results.

The misadventures of a gambling streetwise Cockney wide-boy who manages to survive on his wits and ‘gift of the gab’

A wisecracking anti-hero detective who lives tough in a tough world of murderers, kidnappers, drug dealers and extortionists.

US sitcom set round the daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana

In 1913, a naïve farmer in the Balkan states becomes involved in political intrigue, including a deadly assassination attempt

C4 comedy series in which the National Theatre of Brent act out pivotal points in history as presented by Desmond Olivier Dingle, its Founder, Artistic Director, and Chief Executive

Long-running children's sci-fi sitcom that owed just a little to Doctor Who with its concept of an alien who arrives on Earth in a spaceship disguised as a wardrobe which acts as a portal to his own world. Oh, and there's regeneration, too...

Mike Yarwood rose to the pinnacle of small-screen success and to this day 'Mike Yarwood In Persons' holds the record for the biggest audience for a single light entertainment broadcast.

Simon and Amanda's holiday in Kent with their Aunt Jo becomes a thrilling adventure when they make a startling discovery in an old barn...

A retired FBI profiler whose attempt at a new life in Seattle becomes embroiled in a battle against the darkest acts of men. A dark vision of the impending thousand-year mark combined with an exploration of evil.

Based on Edgar Wallace's short stories, this classic British series introduces the mild-mannered yet razor-sharp Mr. Reeder—whose mastery of criminal psychology makes him the ultimate nemesis of London’s most devious lawbreakers

Philip Madoc as Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain, working for the Mid-Wales Police Department as their senior investigator for homicides.

A diverse group of international students hilariously struggles to learn English under their exasperated teacher. Despite criticism for stereotypes, it gained a cult following in countries learning English

Dodgy dealings of a wheeler and dealer and his bodyguard for hire.

A masterpiece of craftsmanship and the product of immense comedic literacy, Miranda showed a genuine feminist sensibility without using the f-word, maintaining its quality over 20 episodes and never getting stale.

Hit Internet series of short films on the saddest, loneliest, drunkest bear in the world

Having returned from a colonial life in Malaya to an England he longer recognised Basil Allenby-Johnson, "the Alf Garnett of the middle classes", takes a verbal swing at feminism; permissive and undisciplined youth; age prejudice by employers; student demos; the press; and the health service.

Blending gritty realism with dark comedy, Misfits follows a group of young offenders who gain bizarre superpowers. It's a sharp, unpredictable series that redefines the superhero genre with raw energy and biting wit

Roy Dotrice played the part of the doddering but astute eternal litigant Albert Haddock, who would enter the courtroom to debate a variety of moral issues with pleas that referred back to forgotten or outdated laws.

Hattie Jacques plays it straight as private investigator Stacey Smith, whose cases always turn out far more complicated than at first sight, and get her into some very odd situations

The spinster detective who first appeared in Agatha Christie's 1930 novel 'The Murder at the Vicarage.'

Nell Merriman disappears from home and the police organise a search on a large scale. Anxiety for her safety mounts, but the one person who is completely happy and undisturbed by events is Nell.

An elite group of secret agents are sent to undertake difficult, near impossible missions

They say actions speak louder than words, and that's never been truer than in the case of a certain Mr Bean, one of Britain's most popular comical television characters, the taciturn, clumsy, conniving and ever ingenious "child in a grown man's body."

In the world of television comedy Mister Ed is often dismissed by critics as nothing more than a second-rate comedy of little significance. To simply pass it off as such would be a great mistake.

US miniseries beginning in 1925 and starring an international cast including Stefanie Powers, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Stacy Keach and Joanna Lumley. A beautiful and naïve model arrives in Paris where she becomes an artist's model and the toast of the city

Golden Globe-winning mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles.