Reviews

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.

Police Five

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

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

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

Police Woman

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

Porridge

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

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

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

Pot Luck

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

Potter

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

The Powder Monkey

Thirty minute play in set during the Battle of Trafalgar.

The Practice

Twice weekly series set round a modern health centre

The Practise (USA)

David E. Kelley series centring on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm.

Press Gang

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

Pretenders

17th century historical action teenage adventure series.

Pretty Polly

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

The Price of a Record

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

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Eccentric teacher takes charge of a class at a girls finishing school.

Prime Suspect

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

Primeval

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future

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

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

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

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.