Reviews

Second Verdict

Second Verdict (1976)

Second Verdict

Two fictional policemen scrutinise six real life historical murder cases and present evidence for and against the verdicts

Seconds Out

Seconds Out (1981)

Seconds Out

Sitcom set in the world of boxing starring Robert Lindsay as an amateur but promising middleweight who fails to take his career seriously, preferring to fool around in the ring, to the frustration of his manager and trainer

The Secret Agent (1992)

The Secret Agent (1992)

The Secret Agent (1992)

A meticulously detailed psychological drama in which a mostly inactive spy is ordered by his superior to carry out a terrorist act.

Secret Army

Secret Army (1977)

Secret Army

An underground Resistance movement risk life and limb in their endeavours to smuggle Allied airmen past the Nazis and return them back to Britain.

Secret Mission

Secret Mission (1956)

Secret Mission

They lived in constant danger of capture, torture and death at the hands of the Gestapo. Secret Mission, a 1950s docudrama, revealed the truth of six individual women who worked behind the lines in German occupied France

The Secret Service (1969)

Gerry Anderson's The Secret Service, which was a mixture of live-action with marionettes, was his last Supermarionation series of the 1960s, mainly because it's awful concept made for an equally awful series

Send Foster

Send Foster (1967)

Send Foster

Johnny Foster is a junior reporter on the Redstone Chronicle, a job that introduces him to some interesting people, some funny and some frightening.

Send in the Girls

Send in the Girls (1978)

Send in the Girls

Short-lived female-led series following the adventures of a group of ‘girls for hire’ as promoters for live sporting events or sales promotions, to add a bit of glamour to proceedings

The Serpent - BBC series

The Serpent (2021)

The Serpent - BBC series

The twisting, real-life story of a murderer, thief and seductive master of disguise.

The Serpent Queen

The Serpent Queen (2022)

The Serpent Queen

When Catherine de’ Medici marries into the French Valois court as a fourteen-year-old teenager, she is expected to bring in a fortune in dowry and produce heirs

Seven Deadly Sins

Seven Deadly Sins (1966)

Seven Deadly Sins

Seven self-contained plays by different writers - each featuring one of the sins categorised by the founders of the Christian Church as "deadly."

Seven Deadly Virtues

Seven Deadly Virtues (1967)

Seven Deadly Virtues

When 1966's Seven Deadly Sins proved popular with viewers, series producer Peter Willes decided to repeat the idea the following year.

Seven Up documentary

Seven Up! (1964)

Seven Up documentary

Originally conceived as a one-off film in the early 1960’s, Seven Up! went on to become one of the most remarkable social documents in the history of television, becoming a lifelong documentary in the true sense of the word.

Severance

Severance (2022)

Severance

Tense psychological thriller in which employees at a biotech company undergo "severance"—a medical procedure that ensures the have no memories of the outside world whilst at work, and no recollection of their job once they leave

Sex and the City

Sex and the City (1998)

Sex and the City

Not for the faint-hearted or easily shocked, Sex and the City was an adult, in your face and often hilarious look at the relationships of single men and women in turn-of-the-millennium America.

Sex Education

Sex Education (2019)

Sex Education

With knowledge obtained from his sexologist mother, a socially awkward teenager offers sex consultation for his schoolmates and gains newfound fame in this British comedy/drama

Sexton Blake

Sexton Blake (1967)

Sexton Blake

Victorian detective and his sidekick take on the criminal fraternity in this children's tea-time series which proved so popular that adults complained it was shown too early in the day!

Sez Les

Sez Les (1969)

Sez Les

Once described as the best-loved fat man in Britain Les Dawson won his place in the national heart not for his corpulence but for his comedy. Sez Les was made during the peak of his popularity and is often unfairly overlooked as a prime example of sketch-show comedy at its very best.

Shadow and Bone

Shadow and Bone (2021)

Shadow and Bone

In a world filled with supernaturally gifted individuals called Grisha, a plucky orphan discovers that she’s the long-prophesied Saint who can liberate their world from a sinister force that’s been plaguing it for centuries