Reviews

Peter the Great

Peter the Great (1986)

Peter the Great

3 Primetime Emmy Award-winning biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s

Petrocelli

Petrocelli (1974)

Petrocelli

Harvard-educated lawyer Anthony Petrocelli turns his back on the courtrooms of Manhattan for a quieter legal career in a small Arizona town, but seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend

Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction (1963)

Petticoat Junction

The small farming community of Hooterville provided the setting for widower Kate Bradley and her three beautiful daughters, who ran a small hotel called The Shady Rest.

Peyton Place

Peyton Place (1964)

Peyton Place

US Soap opera set in the small New England town of Peyton Place, whose quaint charm masks a complicated web of intrigue.

Phoenix Nights

Phoenix Nights (2001)

Phoenix Nights

Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club a success no matter what.

The Photographer

The Photographer (1968)

The Photographer

The world of beautiful women and fashion photographers-what happens when a girl from the country arrives in London and finds herself out of her depth?

Cloris Leachman as Phyllis

Phyllis (1975)

Cloris Leachman as Phyllis

Spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in which a recently widowed woman moves to San Francisco

Picket Fences

Picket Fences (1992)

Picket Fences

In the quaint little town of Rome, Wisconsin, Sheriff Jimmy Brock and his team try to keep the peace whilst being distracted by a student revealing a severed hand during show-and-tell at school, a grim history of town mayors meeting tragic fates, and cow udders spontaneously exploding!

Pilgrim Street

Pilgrim Street (1952)

Pilgrim Street

Experimental police series which concentrated on day-to-day cases. A forerunner to Dixon of Dock Green.

Pinwright's Progress (1946)

The first TV sitcom, transmitted on the BBC in 1946, about the owner of 'the smallest multiple store in the world.'

Pipkins

Pipkins (1973)

Pipkins

Step into the magical world of Pipkins, where imagination knows no bounds!

A Place of My Own

A Place of My Own (1960)

A Place of My Own

A group of building workers have one thing in common - their dreams for the future; but Ken, the foreman, is cruelly determined to make them see that their dreams can never be fulfilled.

Planet of the Apes TV Series

Planet of the Apes (1974)

Planet of the Apes TV Series

Two astronauts are thrown into a future Earth where the apes are the dominant species and mankind is treated as dangerous beasts.

Plateau of Fear

Plateau of Fear (1961)

Plateau of Fear

Mystery after dark threatens to close Potencia-One, Santa Montana's lonely nuclear power station in the Andes.

Play for Tomorrow

Play for Tomorrow (1982)

Play for Tomorrow

BBC anthology series of six stories, each offering a speculative look into the near future, providing audiences with an intriguing vision of what might lie ahead. Some of the predictions have proven to be remarkably accurate

Playbox

Playbox (1955)

Playbox

1950s children's entertainment with games, stories and competitions.

Pogles Wood

Pogles' Wood (1966)

Pogles Wood

Mr and Mrs Pogle, young Pippin and his sprite friend Tog and the ways of the countryside.

Pokémon

Pokémon (1997)

Pokémon

Television Heaven recalls an old review from 2000, shortly after the Pokémon craze had hit the UK, we surmised, "Whether the animated Pokémon will ultimately earn a fondly remembered place amongst the ranks of other, much-loved cartoon series will be a question for a future generation to decide..."

Poker Face

Poker Face (2023)

Poker Face

Stylish character driven murder mystery series, adapting the inverted detective story format popularised by Columbo, centred round a casino worker with a 'special talent', who goes on the run from her boss when he threatens to kill her

Poldark

Poldark (1975)

Poldark

Winston Graham's series of historical novels published from 1945 to 1953 and again from 1973 to 2002, was one of the most successful British television adaptations of all time having been sold to over forty countries.

Police Five

Police Five (1962)

Police Five

Groundbreaking series of 5-minute appeals for information or witnesses to unresolved crimes.

Police Squad

Police Squad! (1982)

Police Squad

A nutty satire of police dramas from the creators of the `Airplane!' films, with a nonstop barrage of sight gags, puns and silly jokes.

Police Surgeon

Police Surgeon (1960)

Police Surgeon

A socially conscious doctor works with the Metropolitan Police and often gets too involved in his cases.