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Alas Smith and Jones

Alas Smith and Jones (1984)

Alas Smith and Jones

British sketch comedy show that followed hot on the heels of Not The Nine O'Clock News which also featured the programme's stars, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

Albert TV play

Albert (1951)

Albert TV play

Single play based on a true story about an ingenious and daring escape from a German POW camp for Allied naval officers during WW2

Albert and Victoria

Albert and Victoria (1970)

Albert and Victoria

Alfred Marks starring comedy vehicle produced by Yorkshire Television and set, as the title suggests, in the late 19th century when Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert were the figureheads on the British throne.

Alcock and Gander

Alcock and Gander (1972)

Alcock and Gander

Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan in a typical early 70s sitcom. Upon her husband's death, Marigold Alcock inherits his businesses.

Alf

Alf (1986)

Alf

US sitcom about an Alien Life Form (ALF), who follows an amateur radio signal to Earth only to crash land on the roof of a garage owned by the Tanners, a middle class family living in the suburbs of Los Angeles...

Alfred Hitchock Presents tv series

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Alfred Hitchock Presents tv series

The instantly recognisable, deceptively benign visage of arguably the world's greatest director of cinematic suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, side-stepped deftly to the smaller screen of US television and welcomed viewers to a polished series of stories...

Alfresco TV series

Alfresco (1983)

Alfresco TV series

Running for two series in the early 1980s, Alfresco was the same quickfire combination of anarchic sketches and musical items that made Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Two Ronnies and Monty Python's Flying Circus so successful.

Alias - US TV Series

Alias (2001)

Alias - US TV Series

Relatively unknown until 2001, Jennifer Garner arrived on the TV scene with all the speed of a high velocity bullet in this explosive series

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

Alias Smith and Jones

Set in the late 19th Century when the Wild West was no longer so wild and the 'frontier' had been pushed back almost as far as it would go, Alias Smith and Jones was one of US television's last great flirtations with the Cowboy genre...

Alias the Jester

Alias The Jester (1985)

Alias the Jester

Animated children's series about a time traveller who inadvertently arrives in medieval England at the court of King Arthur