Reviews

Saturday morning entertainment for kids who would turn up at set locations around the country in order to swap old toys, books, etc.

Ghoulish family try to fit in with the outside world.

Wacky troupe of puppets put on a weekly stage show featuring special 'human' guest stars.

When Agatha Christie decides to kill off her most famous and long-running character, she has an unexpected visitor - none other than the great detective himself - Hercule Poirot

US crime series inspired by the sensational O.J. Simpson murder trial of the mid-1990s

Victorian pathologist proves to be the inspiration for a young doctor's literary creation.

Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher investigates murders in the quiet community of Cabot Cove. A bit like Miss Marple, but with an American accent.

Swashbuckling series based on Alexander Dumas' adventurous 17th century characters. When d'Artagnan and his father are attacked on the way to Paris resulting in the father's death, the young swordsman seeks revenge on the murderer. A musketeer called Athos.

George C. Scott stars as Benito Mussolini in a biographical miniseries about the rise, rule, and downfall of the Italian dictator

Based on Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel of suspicion, mistrust and murder.

En route to his office, LA journalist Tim O'Hara witnesses the crash landing of a space ship. On further investigation he discovers that the UFO's pilot has survived the crash and is in fact an anthropologist from the planet Mars.

Wife is compulsive charity worker much to her husband's frustration.

The first US sitcom to be shown on ITV in 1955.

In an alternate 16th century England, Lady Jane Grey is coerced by her mother into marrying Lord Guildford Dudley, who just happens to turn out to be a shape-shifter who can take animal form

US domestic sitcom with an unusual history - being broadcast on television and radio.

A valet tries mad money making schemes to recapture past glory for his employer.

Petty criminal Earl Hickey wins $100,000 on the lottery and decides to correct his bad deeds to wipe out his never-ending misfortune.

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world

"40 years you live in a house then suddenly someone decides its a slum. So down it comes and out you goes. Daft beggars!"

A middle-aged man, still living at home with his mother, is completely under her thumb.

A single father brings up his family of boys.

A recently divorced couple inadvertently purchase cottages next door to each other.

Anthology series of Victorian chillers.

A boy witnesses a murder - but who will believe him when the victim turns up alive and well?

Few television series can claim to have truly reshaped a genre, but The Naked City, which premiered in the United States in 1958, undoubtedly earns that distinction

The story of Quentin Crisp, from his youth in the early 20th century to his emergence as a flamboyant gay icon, made a star of actor John Hurt and catapulted Crisp himself into overnight celebrity status

A 'lost' four-part murder mystery set on the southwest coast of England in which the murder of an alluring and beautiful young woman with a shameless habit for flirtation, throws suspicion on local residents. But there's more here than meets the eye...

Ground-breaking series with three rotating stars, who were tied together by their link to Howard Publications. Episodes featured the flambouyant owner Glenn Howard, Jeff Dillon - a crusading investigative reporter, or Dan Farrell, a retired FBI agent

Based on the international bestseller by Umberto Eco, the story, set in 1327, revolves around an enlightened friar and his young apprentice who investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey - risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor.