Reviews

Wilde Alliance tv series
1978 United Kingdom

An author of suspense thrillers gets caught up in real life mysteries.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1968 United Kingdom

In this acclaimed 1968 BBC adaptation of Anne Brontë’s radical novel, a mysterious widow seeking refuge at Wildfell Hall conceals a painful past involving an abusive marriage and challenging Victorian conventions in a powerful story of courage, independence, and survival

Will and Grace
1998 United States

In New York City a gay lawyer and his best friend a straight Jewish woman share an apartment.

William
1962 United Kingdom

Series based on Richmal Crompton’s Just William books, starring young Dennis Waterman as the scruffy, mischievous schoolboy William Brown, the eternally eleven-year-old ringleader of chaos

Wind in the Willows
1970 United Kingdom

First published in 1908, Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story was turned into an innovative series by Anglia Television in 1970...

Wink To Me Only
1969 United Kingdom

Originally a Comedy Playhouse presentation from 1968, this was one of those rare beasts that was made into a full series but with an entirely different cast with entirely different character names.

Winning Widows
1961 United Kingdom

Two three-times widowed sisters share a house and begin their search for husbands number four.

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
1981 United Kingdom

BAFTA nominated eight-part drama series based on Winston Churchill's enforced political exile during the 1920s and 1930s, starring Robert Hardy and an all-star cast

The Wire
2002 United States

Brutally real drama series, set in Baltimore, USA. The Wire centres around the city's inner-city drug scene, the dealers and the law enforcement agency that tries to bring them down.

Wish Me Luck
1988 United Kingdom

Hard‑hitting wartime drama that follows the courageous women sent behind enemy lines in occupied France during the Second World War, revealing their perilous missions, hidden identities, and emotional and physical sacrifices

The Witcher
2019 United States

Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than monsters and beasts.

The Witcher: Blood Origin
2022 United States

More than a thousand years before the events of "The Witcher," seven outcasts in an Elven world join forces in a quest against an all-powerful empire

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
2021 South Korea, United States, Poland

Animated dark fantasy spin-off of the Netflix series The Witcher, which tells the origin story of a young witcher who slays monsters for money and glory, but has to face his past when a new threat emerges

Within These Walls
1974 United Kingdom

Set within the stark confines of a women's prison, the series broke new ground with its predominantly female cast, offering a compelling portrait of institutional life, where duty, dignity, and personal conflict simmer beneath a veneer of order

Without A Trace
2002 United States

An FBI taskforce is assigned to find people who have gone missing without trace

Without Love
1956 United Kingdom

Bold, unflinching, and unlike anything the average household had seen on the small screen. It dared to pull back the curtain on a hidden side of London life, offering a grim but truthful composite of the thousands of women who, night after night, plied their trade on the city's streets

Wojeck
1966 Canada

Drama series about a Canadian coroner

Wolf Hall
2015 United Kingdom

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

Wolf Pack
2023 United States

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

The Woman in White
1966 United Kingdom

The BBC’s adaptation of The Woman in White brought Wilkie Collins’ classic Victorian thriller to television in a six-part serial. With its gothic atmosphere and intricate plot the production aimed to capture the suspense and intrigue of the original novel for a new generation of viewers

A Woman of Substance
1984 United Kingdom

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

The Wombles
1973 United Kingdom

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."

Women at War/Les Combattantes
2022 France

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

Wonder Woman
1975 United States

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

The Woodentops
1955 United Kingdom

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

The Worker
1965 United Kingdom

British sitcom about an unemployable labourer - starring Charlie Drake.

World In Action
1963 United Kingdom

Uncompromising investigative current affairs programme.

The World of Tim Frazer
1960 United Kingdom

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