Reviews

Peter Kay's Car Share

Supermarket employee John Redmond finds himself travelling into work with colleague Kayleigh Kitson as part of a work car share scheme. Both have different work ethics, and he is far from prepared for the impact the buddy he is paired with will have.

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

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

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

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

The Phil Silvers Show | Bilko

Conniving Army sergeant always on the lookout for a money-making scheme.

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Ten single television plays based on the works of the celebrated science fiction writer who wrote over 40 novels and 120 short stories

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 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?

Phyllis

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

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

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

The Pink Panther Show

Animated series for children

Pinky and Perky

Children's puppet series starring two little pigs.

Pinwright's Progress

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

Pipkins

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

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.

The Plane Makers | The Power Game

Ruthless businessman runs a multi-million pound empire.

Planet of the Apes

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

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

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

Play School | Play Away

"Here is a house, here is a door, windows -one, two, three four. Ready to knock? Turn the lock. It's Play School."

Playbox

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

Playdays

1980s/90s pre-school series that was devised as an upgrade of Play School - shifting away from the traditional presenter-to-camera format and instead putting children in more active, participatory roles

Please Sir! | The Fenn Street Gang

Novice teacher is given charge of an unruly class of students with hilarious results.

Pogles' Wood

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

Points of View

Before social media turned everyone into instant critics, Britons channelled their grievances, praise and perplexities into Points of View—the BBC’s politely indignant clearinghouse for national opinion, where a good, strong letter was the ultimate act of rebellion

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

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

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.