Reviews

Police Woman

Police Woman (1974)

Police Woman

US police series that broke new ground in featuring a woman in the lead role as a police officer .

Porridge (1974)

Life behind bars for an habitual thief is made easier by winning 'little victories' over the system.

Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue (1987)

Porterhouse Blue

David Jason was among the many stars in the television realisation of Tom Sharpe's satirical and punchy novel which tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of Porterhouse, a fictional college of Cambridge University.

Portrait of a Marriage

Portrait of a Marriage (1990)

Portrait of a Marriage

Set against the backdrop of post-World War I England, this captivating miniseries delves into the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel Trefusis and the effects it had on their family and friends

Charlie Chester

Pot Luck (1952)

Charlie Chester

Debuting in 1952 Pot Luck is notable as the first ever British audience participation series.

Potter

Potter (1979)

Potter

Arthur Lowe's last television series may well have laid the ground for Keeping Up Appearances

Press Gang

Press Gang

Press Gang

The series that inspired a generation of journalists: The Junior Gazette, a young newspaper, is produced by pupils of a comprehensive school.

Pretty Polly ITV Play

Pretty Polly (1966)

Pretty Polly ITV Play

Noel Coward's short story starring Lynn Redgrave as an ugly duckling who only later turns into a most possessing young swan.

Donald Campbell

The Price of a Record (1967)

Donald Campbell

In late 1966, a documentary crew began filming Donald Campbell as he prepared to break the world water speed record. It was a film that would end in tragic disaster

Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect (1991)

Prime Suspect

Hard hitting crime drama starring Helen Mirren as a determined and strong female detective.

Prison Break

Prison Break (2005)

Prison Break

In order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence, a brilliant structural engineer commits an armed robbery which results in him being sentenced to the same prison. His aim - to break his brother out...

The Prisoner

The Prisoner (1967)

The Prisoner

Resigned British agent is captured by people unknown and taken to a mysterious village. "I am not a number, I am a free man!"

Private Investigator

Private Investigator (1958)

Private Investigator

Groundbreaking British television drama that delved into the shadowy, complex world of private detection through the cases handled by an English detective agency

Private Schulz

Private Schulz (1981)

Private Schulz

The story of an SS scheme carried out by a German fraudster to swamp wartime Britain with forged banknotes, which could be put into circulation in order to destroy the British economy.

The Professionals

The Professionals (1977)

The Professionals

"Anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men - experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals."

Prospects

Prospects (1986)

Prospects

Gritty comedy drama was set during the grim high unemployment days of Thatcher's Britain in the mid eighties

The Protectors (1972) (1972)

'There is a small group of private detectives who are able to work more efficiently because they are operating outside the law.'

Quantum Leap

Quantum Leap (1989)

Quantum Leap

"...And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home."

Quatermass

Quatermass (1953)

Quatermass

Scientist, head of the British Rocket Research Group, investigates strange incidents.

Queen of Tears (2024)

South Korean romcom/melodrama broadcast on Netflix simultaneous to its South Korean broadcast, the series has consistently topped the Netflix Global Top 10 list in March and April 2024