Retired spymaster is called out of retirement in order to unearth a double agent.
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Retired spymaster is called out of retirement in order to unearth a double agent.
An old station keeper strives to preserve a decrepit rural railway station.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're entering the wonderous dimension of imagination"
Children's mystery thriller filmed extensively round London
The first TV serial adaptation of RL Stevenson's classic story.
Scifi thriller about an alien force that tries to take over by undermining British society.
Edwardian drama series contrasting the different life led by a wealthy (upstairs) family and their (downstairs) servants.
For most families the 1940s consisted of air-raid shelters, the sound of ack-ack and rationing. Some people profiteered - people like Darkie Pilbeam.
Variety show that attempted to bring back the music-hall spirit of the Victorian era.
Pre school children's programmes from the 1950s and for generations of children to come.
Alf Liddell is a quiet, good humoured, home-loving man who prefers to keep out of the limelight. But when Alf is elected to the local council he proves to be a man of principles-so strong that he soon makes powerful enemies.
These four Noel Coward plays, made by Granada and broadcast over a month in 1964 in their Play Of The Week schedule, were slotted into an abundance of one off dramas being produced by the regional ITV companies at the time.
There aren’t that many series that have an episode entitled "A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop A Wop-Bam Boom"
An exquisitely written, hilariously funny and surprisingly profound piece of television about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.
Just as World of Sport had challenged the comfortable cosy chair of the BBC by throwing an afternoon of horse racing and wrestling for ‘grappling fans’ up against Grandstand, so The Big Match competed with its football coverage, while the BBC stood still.
Worst Week of My Life is a hysterical farce-like take on the premise of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em.
"We are all conceived in close prison: in our mother's wombs, we are close prisoners all...and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death..." John Donne.
In 1960 the BBC embarked on their most ambitious television production up until then, a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential historical plays of William Shakespeare.
Remaking a classic: Included in Time Magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best Shows of All Time", Sanford and Son was based on the BBC Galton and Simpson sitcom Steptoe and Son.