Reviews

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.

"Can we fix it?" became a rallying cry for preschoolers everywhere when Bob the Builder debuted. With cheerful teamwork, talking machines, and gentle life lessons, this animated series laid the foundations for constructive storytelling with lasting international appeal

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.

Excellent award winning police procedural series set in the Australian Outback which lost some of its impact due to the controversy it caused when the chief protagonist, an Aborigine of dual-racial heritage, was not portrayed by an indigenous actor

French drama series which begins with the depiction of a true event, the fire at the Bazar de la Charité in Paris, 4 May 1897, in which 126 people died

Three groups of friends who have lived in each other's pockets for over 30 years now face the challenges and joys of retirement, with differing results...

Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen looking for new careers. But things don't go according to plan until Ken turns his hand to courier driving, private investigating, minding and general troubleshooting

Spin-off from 'The Army Game' - Private 'Excused Boots' Bisley and his bullying Sergeant, Claude Snudge, return to civvy life where they find employment in a Pall Mall gentleman's club called The Imperial.

Danish political drama about a prime minister's rise to power

Television Heaven or Television Hell? The Borgias was un-relentlessly derided and almost single-handedly spelt the end of costume drama (at least for a while) on BBC television.

Double-dealing, assassination, bribery on a massive scale, incredibly high living, mistresses and illegitimate children. That is only to be expected of a successful politician in 15th century Italy...unless he is meant to be the Pope.

The 1992 BBC television adaptation of Mary Norton’s beloved children’s books remains a triumph of family storytelling and visual ingenuity, told with warmth, imagination and remarkable attention to detail

Short-lived US sitcom that was more notable for launching the career of its two stars – Peter Scolari and Tom Hanks, than it was for its memorable moments of comedy.

Kelsey Grammer stars as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago. Deception, scandal, and betrayal go hand in hand with Kane’s form of politics. Despite being a most effective mayor, Kane is hiding a dark secret.

David E. Kelley’s successor to 'The Practice' was actually a hybrid, combining the serious cases and workplace conflicts of that series with the outrageous behaviour, unusual issues and a sometimes-adolescent attitude toward sex that distinguished Kelley’s controversial 'Ally McBeal.'

Sausage packer and widower Dora Page is struggling to make ends meet, but she has a plan that'll soon have life's little luxuries falling into her lap. Dora Bryan stars in this 1970s sitcom.

Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, misogynistic, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat. Perpetually bored and broke, they waste their days thinking about sex, money, and trying not kill one another

Peter Bowles and George Cole in a comedy about an ex-convict who, upon release from prison for fraud, goes to live with his sister and brother-in-law and begins immediately to disrupt their happy marriage

Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's epic voyage around the world after they set sail from Spain 500 years ago

Infidelity, lust and incest came to British television screens in 1976

Spin-off from The Fenn Street Gang - Stanley Bowler is an East End villain whose social aspirations fail consistently due to his lack of ability to grasp the qualities he needs such as refinement and elegance of manner.

John Masefield's enchanting children's fantasy The Box of Delights, tells the story of a young boy whose chance meeting with a Punch-and-Judy man leads him to a world where almost anything is possible.

The setting is Yorkshire in the year 1820 and the realisation that the well-to-do Bullman family are about to have their world torn apart...

In a universe where superpowered individuals work for a powerful corporation, their alter-egos are neither benevolent nor mild-mannered...

Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.

On The Braden Beat was the most popular and best remembered TV series of the 1960s to champion the cause of the unwary purchaser against the unscrupulous seller.

Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family.