Reviews

Comedic stories of a gluttonous, lazy, deceitful, self-important and conceited schoolboy that was all the rage in the 1950s.

Big band, big sound and big big personality - with a rousing call of "Wakey-Wakey" Billy Cotton introduced an inexhaustible 50 minutes of non-stop music, dancing and comedy in the essential weekend variety revue that was a stalwart of BBC programming for 12 years.

Adapted from the highly successful novel/play/film by successful writing team Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, this version of Billy Liar was updated by them to make it more relevant to the early 1970s.

Short-lived domestic sitcom starring the old crooner himself in an unfamiliar role

Better...stronger...faster...Jaime Sommers is The Bionic Woman

This NBC reimagining of the 1970s mega-hit series starring British actress Michelle Ryan as a young woman whose life is saved by the implementation of enhanced bionics was short lived. NBC missed a trick in not giving it a fair chance to fully develop...

Sitcom in which sisters Sharon and Tracey are left alone to fend for themselves following each of their husband's imprisonment for armed robbery. As if that wasn't bad enough, they also have to contend with nosey next door neighbour, Dorien.

Set in a small Yorkshire town where everybody knows everybody else's business, 'A Bit Of A Do' gave another British comedy writer the chance to poke fun at one of the country's favourite preoccupations - class distinction.

Sharp, funny, surreal and intelligent comedy sketches written and performed by renowned duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

American action comedy about a truck driver and his pet chimpanzee, made the same year as the movie 'Convoy', when the CB radio and 'trucking' craze was at its peak

A firm Saturday night favourite for many years The Black and White Minstrel Show, a mixture of American deep South music previously popularised by internationally famous vaudeville stars such as the great Al Jolson.

Teenage adventure series. Black Arrow was a lone figure of mystery who protected the poor against greedy warrior barons fighting for power and influence throughout the 15th century Wars of the Roses.

Bafta-winning sitcom about the antics of a foul tempered and eccentric bookshop owner, his long-suffering assistant, and his one single friend

Inspired by The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror is a British anthology series that uses the themes of technology and media, through a diversity of genres, to comment on contemporary issues

In the Golden Age of Piracy, on New Providence Island, a lawless territory controlled by history's most notorious pirate captains, the most feared is Captain Flint.

Series set in four eras centred round Edmund Blackadder, a treacherous, selfish and devious rogue.

Spaceships, galactic empires, and a ragtag crew of freedom fighters, Star Wars it wasn't, but Blake's 7 blazed its dark toned, morally ambiguous trail across our screens from 1978 to 1981

"The word "big" doesn't really do it justice. Fifteen episodes, eight hours of television, 85 characters, 40 of them major speaking roles. No-one could accuse 'Bleak House' of being an unambitious project." - Radio Times 22nd October 2005.

Arthur Lowe swapped his Home Guard uniform for Sacred Vestments to play a mischievous and cheerful eccentric in this gem of a comedy.

Devised by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, Bless This House was a starring vehicle for Sid James that showed him in a new and unfamiliar light-as a family man.

A group of young detectives solving cases using scientific methods.

South Korean streaming series about three daring youths, who in order to pay off a debt, jump into the money-lending business while confronting the rich and powerful who prey on the weak

Tom Sharpe's comic tale about the proposed construction of a motorway through an ancestral home, and the double-dealings involved.

Driven by revenge, a young warrior cuts a bloody path towards her destiny in an adult animated series featuring the voices of George Takei, Masi Oka, Maya Erskine and Kenneth Branagh

"There are a very select group of series that almost magically transcend their original target audience and humble origins to almost accidentally attain the coveted status of treasured and much loved national institution."

Dennis Potter's extraordinary and groundbreaking drama concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943 - the most striking feature of the play is that all the children are played by adult actors

Australian preschool series that has won fans around the world with short but packed stories that emphasise learning through play, understanding responsibility and accepting differences

Hit US domestic sitcom about psychologist Bob Hartley whose interactions with his wife, friends, patients, and colleagues lead to humorous situations.

A heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for London's Metropolitan Police Service is assigned to protect the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics stand for everything he despises

Running for 14 years on it's native NBC network, Bonanza was set on the vast Ponderosa timber and cattle ranch in Nevada in the 1860's. The show was notable for being the first TV Western to be shot in colour.