Reviews

Robin Hood
1953 United Kingdom

Early TV outing for Sherwood Forest's famous outlaw.

Robin of Sherwood
1984 United Kingdom

Action adventure series featuring the further adventures of Robin Hood.

Robin's Nest
1977 United Kingdom

Young chef opens up a bistro with his girlfriend with comic consequences.

Rock Follies
1976 United Kingdom

Three women form a rock group and try to break into the big time.

Rocket Man
2005 United Kingdom

Widower George Stevenson builds a rocket to send his wife’s ashes into space, drawing his struggling community together. Amid humour and heartbreak, his unlikely dream rekindles hope, pride and connection in a town hit hard by loss and change

The Rockford Files
1977 United States

Adventures of a private detective who had served time for a crime which he hadn't committed.

Rocky Hollow
1983 United Kingdom

A delightful stop-motion animated children's series that emerged from the lush, storybook landscapes of Wales in the early 1980s. Originally titled Deri Deg in Welsh, the series later reached wider audiences with its English-language version

Romany Jones
1972 United Kingdom

Bert Jones and his wife Betty live on a caravan site. They both have ideas above their station. Betty has told her mother she lives in luxury rather than squalor. Can Bert get them out of it? Not while he has a distinct aversion to working...

Rome
2005 United Kingdom, United States

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

The Romper Room
1964 United Kingdom

UK version of the popular children's programme where children were invited into the studio to play. Romper Room captivated kids from the age of 3 to 6 for 13 years on Anglia Television and had a waiting list of around a thousand kids

The Ronnie Barker Playhouse
1968 United Kingdom

Ronnie Barker's first starring series was the launching-pad for a career that soon reached into the stratosphere of TV comedy

A Roof Over Our Mouths
1967 United Kingdom

Most people are quite happy talking about life, but try to avoid living it. They need home and security so they can sit in comfort and talk about life-a roof over their mouths.

Room at the Bottom
1966 - 1986 United Kingdom

From the corridors of power to the passages frequented by lower personnel. It's them against us. And both are guaranteed laughs

Roots
1977 United States

US miniseries based on Alex Haley's saga of an African American Family.

Roseanne
1988 United States

US sitcom about a working class family.

Rosemary - ITV Play 1963
1963 United Kingdom

The end of a summer; pale sky; white sand; a small tent - enter small, immaculate, dapper Teddy singing "By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea!" Not the beginning of a musical but of Molly Kazan's comedy Rosemary.

Rosemary & Thyme
2003 United Kingdom

Murder, mystery, and mesmerizing landscapes! Rosemary & Thyme (Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris) offer crime-solving with a picturesque twist

Rosie and Jim
1990 United Kingdom

A Nostalgic Journey on the Ragdoll Barge - "Rosie and Jim, Rosie and Jim, Chugging along on the old ragdoll..."

Round at the Redways
1955 United Kingdom

A curious mixture of soap opera and DIY, 'Round at the Redways' appeared on the new independent network from the first week of ITV’s launch.

Route 66
1966 United States

Adventure series notable for its dark storylines and exceptional realism.

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
1968 United States

Coming to you from "Beautiful Downtown Burbank," Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was a madcap hour of slapstick comedy, stand-up gags and satirical sketches all set against a flower power influenced backdrop of vivid colours

Rugrats
1995 United States

The world as seen from the all-accepting innocence of a child's-eye point of view

Rule Britannia
1975 United Kingdom

Four former naval friends from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland reunite after 25 years, rekindling their bond through boozy misadventures, national rivalries and chaotic schemes that disrupt ordinary life and lead to increasingly absurd and unpredictable situations

R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots
1938 United Kingdom

The first science fiction programme made by the BBC, R.U.R. prophetically imagined how technological progress would come to dominate the world and, in its extreme, how it would ultimately threaten humankind with extinction.

Russ Abbot's Madhouse
1980 United Kingdom

If you grew up in the 1980s in the UK, there's a strong chance Russ Abbot's Madhouse was part of your Saturday night viewing routine. A zany sketch show offering a blend of slapstick, parody, and wacky characters. "See you, Jimmy!"

Russian Doll
2019 United States

When Nadia keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honour on that same evening, she tries to find a way out of her strange and disturbing time loop.