Reviews

The Shield tv show

The Shield (2002)

The Shield tv show

The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules.

The Shillingbury Tales

The Shillingbury Tales (1980)

The Shillingbury Tales

A delightfully amusing story about rural village life and the local residents, a number of whom are members of the village brass band.

Shirley Bassey

The Shirley Bassey Show (1976)

Shirley Bassey

Best known for her full-blooded vocal delivery in a career spanning more than 60 years, Shirley Bassey, the girl from Tiger Bay, has a longevity and status almost unsurpassed by any other major performer. In the 1970s she made two series for the BBC

Shoestring

Shoestring (1979)

Shoestring

Radio host is also a private investigator. Not so much a private eye - but a 'private ear.'

Shogun

Shogun (1980)

Shogun

Based on James Clavell's novel, about a 17th century English navigator, John Blackthorne, who becomes shipwrecked off the coast of Japan and is held captive by samurai warriors, 'Shogun' is a prime example of "The Golden Age of the Miniseries."

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle (1967)

The Short Stories of Conan Doyle

13-part anthology series featuring Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories encompassing many genres, including comedy, romance, crime, medicine, and the supernatural.

Shout Aloud Salvation

Shout Aloud Salvation (1951)

Shout Aloud Salvation

This BBC Sunday Night Theatre presentation, broadcast on 15 April 1951, tells the story of two young women dispatched towards the latter part of the 19th century to introduce the Salvation Army into a bleak northern town.

Shroud for a Nightingale

Shroud for a Nightingale (1984)

Shroud for a Nightingale

When a student nurse is lethally poisoned during a routine procedure, Adam Dalgliesh has to discover which, of the many guilty secrets held by the staff and students at Nightingale House, was a strong enough motive for murder

The Silent Service

The Silent Service (2023)

The Silent Service

A submarine has reportedly crashed killing all 76 crew members on board. But in reality the ship, armed with a nuclear missile, has disappeared into the deep ocean. Captain Shiro Kaieda is attempting to realise his ideal world

The Silent Village

The Silent Village (1951)

The Silent Village

Seven tourists arrive and gather in a deserted inn. The dinner lies half-prepared in the kitchen. Cards lie on a bridge table. A tap is running aimlessly, overflowing the bath, and yet there is not a living soul in sight.

Silo

Silo (2023)

Silo

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, an engineer starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo

The Silver Sword

The Silver Sword (1957)

The Silver Sword

When a Polish schoolteacher is arrested and taken to a German labour camp, his wife has to support her three young children. But when she is arrested on a similar charge, the children are forced to live in a ruined cellar whilst depending on each other for survival.

The Simpsons Television Heaven review

The Simpsons (1989)

The Simpsons Television Heaven review

Described as the most daring network television series of the 1990s, 'The Simpsons', the longest-running American animated series, American sitcom, and scripted primetime television series, continues to parody American culture, television, and society in general

The Sin Shifter

The Sin Shifter (1962)

The Sin Shifter

A pearl trader and a priest-both fighting for the use of the same hall-one for a casino, the other for a church. Rose becomes the unwilling pawn in this battle between sacred and profane in a small Australian town.

The Singing Ringing Tree

The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)

The Singing Ringing Tree

To win the love of a beautiful but conceited princess, the prince sets out to search for the Singing Ringing Tree which she deeply craves.

Singles

Singles (1988)

Singles

Four characters, who have been on the relationship merry-go-round time and again, are coping with the various levels of frustration that go with their single life, when their lives intertwine

Sink or Swim

Sink or Swim (1980)

Sink or Swim

Brian struggles to build a life in London from his flat above a petrol station. Things worsen when his younger brother Steve—a loud, cynical “Northern lout”—arrives, disrupting Brian’s already chaotic existence with his unruly presence and attitude

Sister Dora

Sister Dora (1977)

Sister Dora

Biographical drama starring Dorothy Tutin as a 19th century nurse who accopmlished in civilian duty what Florence Nightingale did for military hospitals

Six of the Best

Six of the Best (1965)

Six of the Best

Six individual sitcoms that ITV hoped would produce a full series and do for them what 'Comedy Playhouse' did for the BBC.