
The Singing Detective (1986)

A mystery writer with a chronic skin and joint disease falls into a fantasy world.
A mystery writer with a chronic skin and joint disease falls into a fantasy world.
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.
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
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
"Ultimately, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes despite its production problems can be viewed as a flawed yet entertainingly successful addition to the Sherlockian television canon."
Historical swashbuckler centered round England's great Naval hero.
A mock-reverent look at the life and career of a venerable actor - as played by Harry Enfield.
Biographical drama starring Dorothy Tutin as a 19th century nurse who accopmlished in civilian duty what Florence Nightingale did for military hospitals
Series of six self-contained sitcoms starring Ronnie Barker
A review of the BBC's pioneering 1950s music show for teens.
When an astronaut is involved in a near fatal crash his body is rebuilt using cybernetics.
Six individual sitcoms that ITV hoped would produce a full series and do for them what 'Comedy Playhouse' did for the BBC.
Six single plays linked by a common theme. The hero one week became the villain next week
Lavish historical costume drama telling the story of one of the most controversial figures in British history.
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
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
Boy befriends a kangaroo...well, you would, wouldn't you?
A stranded alien needs to return home before the forces of nature overpower him. Thought provoking 1970s science fiction series
Long running series presenting the science of astronomy.
While trying to develop an anti-gravity device, physics genius Quinn Mallory instead creates a device that opens portals to alternative realities.
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
Early afternoon series that introduced many children's classic TV series.
The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement one last time.
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...
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
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
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...
"The story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell..." "Confused? You won't be..."
Spin-off from Z Cars in which two leading detectives are seconded to the Regional Crime Squad.
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.