Reviews

The Skin Game

A powerful, now-lost 1951 TV adaptation of John Galsworthy’s (The Forsyte Saga) 1920s play: class against ambition, honour against ruthlessness, and a fight that costs more than anyone expects

Skins

Ground-breaking British teen drama that follows groups of Bristol teenagers through love, loss, rebellion, and identity, portraying adolescence with raw honesty, shifting casts, and unflinching emotional intensity

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Boy befriends a kangaroo...well, you would, wouldn't you?

Sky

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

The Sky at Night

Long running series presenting the science of astronomy.

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

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

Small Time

Early afternoon series that introduced many children's classic TV series.

Smallville

The coming-of-age story of Clark Kent as he navigates his teenage years, struggles with his emerging superpowers, his relationships with friends and family, and his journey toward becoming the iconic superhero; Superman

Smiley's People

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

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

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

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

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

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

Softly, Softly

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

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.

Soldier, Soldier

Hugely successful drama series following the men of the King’s Own Fusiliers, their wives and families and the trials and tribulations they face at home and on their tours of duty to the far flung fields of Hong Kong, Germany, Cyprus, New Zealand and Australia

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Accident prone husband makes his wife a nervous wreck - as well as everyone around him.

Son of the Morning Star

Two-part Western miniseries telling the story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, from the different perspectives of two women

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

Planned as a six-episode summer replacement in 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour did so well that CBS brought it back immediately as a weekly variety series.

Sons of Anarchy

An adrenaline-charged, often violent journey into the treacherous world of a motorcycle club that operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, USA - and how the loyalty of two brothers are divided.

Sooty

Introducing the glove puppet superstar of children's TV.

The Sopranos

Hailed as one of television’s essential dramas, The Sopranos follows James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: husband, father and mob boss whose professional and private strains land him in the office of his therapist.

Sorry!

Timothy Lumsden leads a dull life - he works in a public library and lives at home with his domineering mother and self-effacing father. Timothy Lumsden is sorry...

Sorry I'm Single

Derek Nimmo as a bachelor living in a Hampstead bed-sit during London's swinging sixties era

The South Bank Show

British television arts magazine show.

South Riding

An idealistic young headmistress falls in love with a wealthy landowner .

Space Dandy

Japanese science fiction anime television series featuring the cosmic and comic adventures of a handsome space explorer tasked to tour the universe and discover new alien beings

Space: 1999

Moon colonists are stranded in deepest space following an explosion.