Reviews

Worst Week of my Life
2004 United Kingdom

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

Worzel Gummidge
1979 United Kingdom

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.

Wreckers at Dead Eye
1970 United Kingdom

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.

The Wrestlers
1965 United Kingdom

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

Giant Haystacks
1955 United Kingdom

An essential Saturday afternoons entertainment

Wyatt's Watchdogs
1988 United Kingdom

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.

Wycliffe
1994 United Kingdom

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

The x-Files
1993 United States

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

Xena: Warrior Princess
1995 United States

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.

Xo, Kitty
2023 United States

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

The XYY Man
1976 United Kingdom

The XYY Man follows William "Spider" Scott, a reformed cat burglar with a rare extra Y chromosome—making him unusually tall and giving him a compulsive urge to steal. Crime and espionage collide in this tense 1970s thriller

Yanks Go Home
1976 United Kingdom

Sitcom set around U.S. Army Air Force pilots stationed in a small northern town in Lancashire, England during the Second World War and their sometimes tense relationship with the local men over the attentions of the young women in the town

The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968 United Kingdom

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.

Years and Years
2019 United Kingdom

A frighteningly believable look at the near future.

The Yellow Pill
1962 United Kingdom

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?

Yellowjackets
2021 United States

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

You Can't Win
1966 United Kingdom

A thoughtful seven-part Granada drama following an aspiring novelist and science teacher, played by a young Ian McShane, from the uneasy months before World War II to post-war London, as he navigates love, ambition, marriage and the quiet disappointments of adult life

You Rang M'Lord
1988 United Kingdom

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.

The Young Ones
1982 United Kingdom

Anarchic sitcom about four mismatched university students who appear to have no interest in their university life, and their surreal antics sharing a house together.

The Young Ones
2010 United Kingdom

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

The Young Pope - HBO series
2016 United States

HBO series following the early years of young American-born Pius XIII's pontificate. Pius XIII quickly demonstrates that he will not be a mere figurehead for the Vatican. Instead, Pius XIII is arrogant, self-serving, and power hungry.

Young Woodley
1960 United Kingdom

When a school housemaster's wife becomes interested in a young student, a scandalous situation that could jeopardise his entire future, is not far away. 'Young Woodley' so outraged the Lord Chamberlain, that he banned it from every theatre in England.

Your Hit Parade tv series
1950 United States

Early TV music series that highlighted the top tunes of the day - billed as "America’s Barometer of Song" - the series gave rise to the term 'Hit Parade'

Your Show of Shows
1950 - 1954 United States

An American classic starring the unforgettable Sid Caesar. Your Show of Shows was the template for the modern American sketch show.

You're Only Young Twice
1977 United Kingdom

Sitcom in which Peggy Mount is the scourge of Paradise Lodge and Pat Coombs is her dim-witted sidekick, both resident in a home for retired gentle - and not so gentle-folk.

Z Cars
1962 United Kingdom

1960s Police series set in Merseyside.

Zero One
1962 United Kingdom

An airport security agent investigates crime at a busy international terminal.

Zodiac
1974 United Kingdom

Mystery series in which an astrologer comes to the aid of the police.

The Zoo Gang
1974 United Kingdom

An elite wartime group get back together to bring an escaped Nazi to justice.