Reviews

The War Game

The War Game (1965)

The War Game

A Chinese invasion of South Vietnam triggers a new world war between East and West. In the town of Rochester, Kent, the anticipation of a nuclear attack leads to mass evacuations. This one-off drama proved to be so controversial that the BBC, who made it, refused to broadcast it for 20 years.

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

The War of Darkie Pilbeam (1976)

The War of Darkie Pilbeam

For most families the 1940s consisted of air-raid shelters, the sound of ack-ack and rationing. Some people profiteered - people like Darkie Pilbeam.

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds (2019)

The War of the Worlds

"Across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

War on Crime

War on Crime (1951)

War on Crime

One of the first crime series on British television and the forerunner to today's police procedural dramas.

Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 (2009)

Warehouse 13

The final shot of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - in which the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is revealed as just one among thousands of crates in a huge hangarlike building - is basically the premise of Warehouse 13.

A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious (1972)

A Warning to the Curious

A ghostly tale in which a treasure hunter visits the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister

Warrior Nun

Warrior Nun (2020)

Warrior Nun

When an orphaned teen wakes up in a morgue she discovers that a divine artefact has been embedded in her back. The powers it gives her means that she is now the Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns

The Watch tv series

The Watch (2020)

The Watch tv series

Fantasy police procedural inspired by the Discworld series. Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized

Watching

Watching (1987)

Watching

A young couple, who at first appear to be completely mis-matched, have an on-off relationship in this hit sitcom that ran for seven series

Watchmen

Watchmen (2019)

Watchmen

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original ground-breaking graphic novel of the same name while attempting to break new ground of its own.

The Water Margin

The Water Margin (1972)

The Water Margin

In ancient China, at the time of the Song Dynasty, there was a cruel and corrupt government. Only the outlaws can stop them. Heroes who have been driven to live in the water margins of Liang Shan Po. Each fights tyranny with a price on his head.

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (2006)

Waterloo Road

A melting pot of class and race set in a challenging comprehensive school, where the day-to-day troubles of its students spill out in dramatic ways

Watership Down (2018)

Watership Down (2018)

Watership Down (2018)

BBC/Netflix miniseries of Richard Adams' adventure novel. Fleeing their doomed warren, a colony of rabbits struggle to find and defend a new home

Weavers Green

Weavers Green (1966)

Weavers Green

Britain's first rural twice-weekly soap opera centred around village life in East Anglia, seen through the experiences of local a vet. All Creatures Great and Small meets Emmerdale.

Wednesday

Wednesday (2022)

Wednesday

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates a murder spree while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play (1964)

The Wednesday Play

Now regarded as a shining light of British television's golden age, The Wednesday Play is often held up as the perfect example of the impact that television had on a generation of viewers.

The Weekenders

The Weekenders (1961)

The Weekenders

How many marriages are dying of boredom? How many couples are dragging out a dreary, meaningless existence because they have long ceased to care for each other?

Welcome Back, Kotter

Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)

Welcome Back, Kotter

Gabe Kotter returns to his old high school as a teacher and is put in charge of a class full of unruly, wisecracking, underachieving and incorrigible students called the Sweathogs. This US sitcom launched the successful acting career of John Travolta

Westworld

Westworld (2017)

Westworld

At the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin this dark odyssey begins in a world where every human appetite can be indulged

Whack-O!

Whack-O! (1956)

Whack-O!

Jimmy Edwards as a crafty self-serving headmaster in a private school.

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

What We Do in the Shadows

Hilarious mockumentary comedy horror series which follows three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island, New York

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (1973)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

A programme about the past, the future and the tension and changing relationship between The Likely Lads; the upwardly mobile Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, who spends most of his time acting as an anchor to Bob’s aspiration.

What's My Line

What's My Line? (1951)

What's My Line

Quiz show in which a panel of guest celebrities attempt to guess the occupation of people unknown to them.

The Wheel of Time

The Wheel of Time (2021)

The Wheel of Time

Moiraine, a member of a powerful organization of women who can channel the One Power, seeks a group of five young villagers, believing one of them is the reincarnation of the Dragon, an extremely powerful channeller who broke the world