Reviews

Drama series about a Canadian coroner

The BBC's excellent award-winning historical drama on the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII

Glossy, graphic and often gruesome teen horror series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr and Liam Neeson bring to life Barbara Taylor Bradford's bestselling romantic novel about a bright and ambitious servant girl, who overcomes her impoverished beginnings to become a retailing magnate

Years before “recycling” and “environmentally friendly” became part of our everyday language, 'The Wombles' captured the imagination of a generation of children with their comical antics and the simple motto "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish."

Well acted, very well directed, and extremely well produced - Woman at War is an emotional period drama set in 1914 during World War One, and pays tribute to the countless women who broke free from their gender roles to serve their country

Raven haired Amazonian Princess Diana leaves her idyllic island paradise to battle evil in the war-torn 1940s

Sitcom about the pain and triumphs of adolescence.

Friday's Watch With Mother offering in the 1960s was set on a family run farm

British sitcom about an unemployable labourer - starring Charlie Drake.

Uncompromising investigative current affairs programme.

Tim Frazer is an easy-going structural engineer who gets involved with a secret government department and is recruited as an undercover agent.

Worst Week of My Life is a hysterical farce-like take on the premise of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.

Former Doctor Who, Jon Pertwee, as the tatty old scarecrow of Scatterbrook Farm who comes to life and gets up to all sorts of mischief.

On a wild, dark night in 1770, a storm-lashed ship crashes helplessly on the treacherous rocks of Dead Eye, lured to its doom by a flickering light on the coast. It's sole survivor now has to fear for her life as a gang of desperate men try to silence her.

A 1965 documentary on the popularity on television of wrestling as a spectator sport

An essential Saturday afternoons entertainment

Major Wyatt, well retired from his military days, has taken it upon himself to form a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the quiet and affluent village of Bradly.

Quiet, thoughtful and a skilled observer of people, Detective Superintendent Wycliffe leads a team investigating the most serious and challenging of cases

An FBI investigator assigned to the X-Files, a division tasked with the solving of cases for which there are no explanation is teamed with a Special Agent, a shrewd medical doctor, who is assigned to debunk his work

In an attempt to redeem herself for her dark past, Xena, once a mighty warrior princess, sets out on a perilous journey to do battle with ruthless Warlords and ancient Gods.

Romance and comedy come together when Kitty reunites with her long-distance boyfriend at the same boarding school attended by her late mother

In a future Britain, the appetites and passions of the masses are controlled by television. When audiences show signs of boredom, the broadcasters must find new methods to engage them.

A frighteningly believable look at the near future.

Who is the strange man brought by the police to Dr. Frame? Is he a murderer? How did he gain his uncanny knowledge of Frame's private life? Is it possible that he really comes from another time?

In 1996, a plane carrying a high school girls' soccer team crashes deep in the wilderness and the surviving team members are left stranded for nineteen months. This seven Primetime Emmy Awards nominated series chronicles their attempts to stay alive

British sitcom about a minor government minister who eventually rises to the very highest seat of power.

Drama series that gave Ian McShane his first leading television role.

A comedic take on 'Upstairs Downstairs', the hugely successful drama centred around the aristocratic home of a member of parliament and the staff employed to keep the home functioning in accordance with social standing of the time, set as it was in the early decades of the 20th century.

What would happen if six celebrities in their seventies and eighties went back to 1975? Liz Smith, Lionel Blair, Dickie Bird, Kenneth Kendall, Sylvia Sims and Derek Jameson were about to find out