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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.

Sixpenny Corner (1955)

Britain's first daily soap opera about two newlyweds running a small business no longer exists in the television archives. But we've tracked down the available information on this groundbreaking production

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1670 (2023)

1670 header

A satirical comedy in which a zany nobleman contends with family feuds and clashes with peasants in his quest to become the most famous person in Poland

Sky TV series 1975

Sky (1975)

Sky TV series 1975

A stranded alien needs to return home before the forces of nature overpower him. Thought provoking 1970s science fiction series

Sliders

Sliders (1995)

Sliders

While trying to develop an anti-gravity device, physics genius Quinn Mallory instead creates a device that opens portals to alternative realities.

Slow Horses

Slow Horses (2022)

Slow Horses

A team of MI5 agents who have all committed career-ending mistakes, and subsequently work in a dumping ground department called Slough House, are used for cases deemed too risky for regular agents or where 'plausible deniability' is essential

Smiley's People

Smiley's People (1982)

Smiley's People

The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement one last time.

Smith

Smith (1970)

Smith

Meet Smith: Apprentice highwayman, living in fear of being nubbed by the hangman on Tyburn Tree. He lifted a document from a man's pocket and shortly after, the man was murdered. Now Smith is on the run from the law and in mortal danger of his life...

Smuggler

Smuggler (1981)

Smuggler

A former naval officer turned smuggler, who operates with a Robin Hood-like sense of justice, is at odds with both local criminals and the authorities, earning him the ire of rival gangs and the watchful eye of the law

The Snow Goose

The Snow Goose (1971)

The Snow Goose

As the shadows of war looms around them, an aging artist who lives a reclusive life in a dusused lighthouse in an Essex fishing village, assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose

Snowfall tv series

Snowfall (2017)

Snowfall tv series

In Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1980s a new drug, which will change the game for ever, is about to hit the streets. A storm is coming and it's name is crack...

Soap TV series

Soap (1977)

Soap TV series

"The story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell..." "Confused? You won't be..."

Softly Softly

Softly, Softly (1974)

Softly Softly

Spin-off from Z Cars in which two leading detectives are seconded to the Regional Crime Squad.

Soldier and Me

Soldier and Me (1974)

Soldier and Me

Tense children's drama about two young boys on the run from would-be assassins who are plotting the execution of Czech dissidents in the wake of the 1968 revolt that led to Russia's occupation of their country.