A witty, satirical but at times violent take on myth and history, The Myth Makers breaks early Doctor Who rules with flair. Though the episodes are lost, Donald Cotton’s sharp script ensures this Trojan tale still resonates in audio form
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A witty, satirical but at times violent take on myth and history, The Myth Makers breaks early Doctor Who rules with flair. Though the episodes are lost, Donald Cotton’s sharp script ensures this Trojan tale still resonates in audio form
On a distant, seemingly idyllic world, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo uncover a grim truth: the Elders sustain their civilisation by stealing the life-force of defenceless Savages—until even the Doctor himself becomes a victim of their exploitation
Treasure, treachery, and time travel collide! In The Smugglers, the Doctor and new companions Ben and Polly face ruthless pirates, deadly secrets, and a race for hidden gold on Cornwall’s stormy coast. Adventure awaits—danger lurks everywhere!
Daniel Tessier takes a look back on every Doctor Who Christmas Special between 2005 and 2024 and rates them for story strength and Chrismassy-ness
The Doctor and his travelling companions arrive in the Scottish Highlands in 1746, just after the Battle of Culloden. They gain the trust of the Jacobites, but their friendliness gets them into serious trouble with government troops
A lost Atlantean civilisation faces destruction when the deranged Professor Zaroff vows to sink the world. The Doctor races to stop his apocalyptic scheme as Polly, Ben, and Jamie battle fish‑people, flooding tunnels, and Zaroff’s escalating madness
An urgent, exciting adventure where the Doctor faces his deadliest foes in a tense time-paradox thriller, where UNIT is drawn into a haunted-house mystery, where "ghosts" are rebels from a doomed future, and where the moral stakes are soaring higher than ever before
The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Harry arrive aboard a seemingly deserted space ark where humanity sleeps through the end of the world — but a deadly alien swarm is awakening, and one infected crewman may doom the last survivors of Earth
'ABC Armchair Thriller', although sometimes listed alongside the later 'Armchair Thriller' series (1978 & 1980), is a separate series from the later Thames productions, which it preceded by 11 years.
Developed from a sketch in the TV series French and Saunders in which Saunders played a baseball capped parent berated by her prim and proper daughter (French), the pilot episode was greeted by one TV executive with the comment, "I don't think women being drunk is funny."
Sitcom following the adventures of a retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, a widowed career soldier who, now retired, is trying to come to terms with life on civvy street but not finding it very easy.
Anglo-Canadian sitcom about Annie Brennan, the fog-horn voiced captain of the Narcissus, a tugboat based in a harbour on the Pacific North West of America.
BAFTA-nominated comedy After Henry followed the comfortable middle-class lives of three women; except that, for one of them, life wasn't all that comfortable...
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...
Unimpressed with Disney's 1951 animated version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Jonathan Miller was keen to develop a new version which would bring to the fore undertones of the story that had been glossed over in the often 'traditional' presentation of this classic children's tale.
One of Granada Television's most successful series of all time, All Our Yesterdays began in 1960 and was presented by noted foreign correspondent James Cameron who linked together edited version of two 1930s cinema newsreels from the same week twenty-five years ago.
Created by TV comedy legends Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, who were responsible for some of the longest running sitcoms on British television, 'Allo 'Allo! was a wartime comedy created as a parody of Secret Army.
Ally McBeal was US television's mid-nineties love affair with the navel gazing, self-absorbed inner lives of 30 something professional baby-boomers given a slick, hallucinogenic make-over for the millennial MTV bred generation.
Canadian husband and wife team Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly in domestic bliss.
A disillusioned historian confronts personal guilt and academic scandal involving a faked archaeological find, while navigating fractured family ties and lost love in this post-war series that won a BAFTA