A UK TV drama is defined as a drama that was produced primarily in the UK.
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British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.
Schools drama series set in a Yorkshire mill town, where a new academy school merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided White and Asian community
Comedy adventure television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on BBC 1, starring Gerald Harper in the title role.
Classic 1970s drama. Gene Barry stars as Gene Bradley.
Written as a prequel by R.F. Delderfield to Treasure Island, this BBC production follows Ben Gunn from parson's son to pirate and is narrated by Jim Hawkins in Gunn's words, Gunn having died some eight months before.
Daniel Defoe's classic adventure story of a young Englishman's sole quest for survival on a desert island.
This highly detailed series recreates the adventures of Conan Doyle's Victorian detective.
The story concerns two brothers, Dave and Morgan Roberts, who quarrel on the day of their mother's funeral.
Adaptation of arguably Agatha Christie's most famous character Detective Hercule Poirot, first hit TV screens in 1989.
A fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential historical plays of William Shakespeare.
Based on a true story about an ingenious and daring escape from a German POW camp for Allied naval officers during WW2.
Starring Eddie Byrne (Star Wars), Barry Foster (Van Der Valk) and Ann Lynn (Just Good Friends).
Written by Lynne Reid Banks, directed by June Howson and produced by George More O'Ferall. Shown at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 September 1962 under the Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
A 'lost' BBC play from the 1950s. A doctor who has an interest in criminal behaviour, embarks on a crime spree in order to satisfy his curiosity
Based on Frederick Grice's 1969 novel, The Courage of Andy Robson.
Created by writer Paula Milne, Angels chronicled the personal and professional lives of six student nurses based at the fictitious St Angela's Hospital in London's Battersea district, from 1975-1983 on BBC1.
Dramatisation of the satirical novel by Angus Wilson.
The first televised episodic series on television, Ann and Harold followed the courtship to the eventual wedding of a society couple.
Television crime drama series, first broadcast on 10 January 1993, that ran for a total of six episodes on ITV.
Television play written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted which was first broadcast on 9 January 1972
ATV's 3 hour presentation of the Shakespeare play, which emphasises the futility of the unworldly love of his seemingly perfect couple against the cold calculating worldly might of Octavius.
Television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.
The story of Britain's foremost drama series - Armchair Theatre
Television drama series broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980 in two seasons.
Four-part BBC drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British Intelligence during the First World War.
Widower Jack Goodall is a 55-year-old former civil servant who worked for M.I.5. He is hoping to enjoy his retirement - but his section have other plans for him
Three girls from very different backgrounds are sent to work on Crabtree Farm, Norfolk, in order to 'do their bit' during World War Two.
Main site for the BBC's drama series including interviews with actors and producers, quizzes, competitions and behind the scenes information.
Laden with suspense, drama and a thick vein of black humour Beasts presented stories of civilised man in conflict with the primal, animal side of existence.
Peter Egan stars as Hogarth, a ruthlessly ambitious, flash and violent small-time criminal who has visions of being king of London's criminal underworld.
Light-hearted drama series about Robby Box, a small-time London gambler, and his long-suffering family.
Crack pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth leads a team of investigators who solve crime around the world.
Set in the East End of London, the series followed the exploits of the officers of the fictional Sun Hill Police Station as they set about their daily task of keeping law and order.
Fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
Television drama serial produced by the BBC in 1981, in association with the Second Network of the Italian broadcaster RAI.
Television drama series based on the novel by Andrea Newman published in 1969.
Alan Bleasedale's hard hitting black comedy, set against the harsh backdrop of struggle and hopelessly bleak unemployment in the Liverpool of Thatcher's Britain.
A soldier returns to India to find the girl he loved but had to leave.
1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.
Play produced by George More O'Ferrall and made by Anglia Television for Associated Rediffusion. Part of the Television Playhouse strand.
In 43 AD, the Roman Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia
A seemingly calm and friendly seaside town becomes a town wrapped in secrets when the death of an eleven-year-old boy sparks an unwanted media frenzy
Successful BBC drama series about boardroom strife and family conflict endured by three brothers.
Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill-health, and Taplow, one of his pupils, brings him a present on the eve of his retirement in this Terence Rattigan play from 1966.
Future Hollywood actor Robert Shaw made his small screen debut as ex- pirate Dan Tempest, the leader of a small band of freebooters who roamed the Caribbean Seas in the 1720's on their ship The Sultana.
Budgie was a small time crook, a petty thief, a chancer who always dreamed of getting rich but mainly had to content himself with the slimmest of pickings.
Pamela Gems' first play for ITV is about two sisters, May Vine (Vanda Godsell), Louie Robbins and the man who becomes their lodger.
Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV
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.
Period murder mystery series set around a Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury in 12th century England.
One of the last great drama productions made in black and white for ITV by Granada.
Medical drama spin-off from Emergency-Ward 10, Britain's most popular medical soap opera of the 1950s and 60s.
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Action-drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972.
A popular officer is accused of taking money from his Battery safe. His defence rests of his wife's evidence - but will she consent to appear at the court-martial?
Contemporary reworking of M.R. James' classic ghost story.
Harrowing drama of one family's downward spiral into poverty that sparked a national debate in the House of Parliament on the plight of the homeless.
Ran for two seasons and was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who had previously devised Compact and Crossroads.
A drama series set in 1930s Britain, detailing the exploits of Ralph Gorse, a conman, seducer and murderer.
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.
With Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn. A television adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale
Based on a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger was an ambitious undertaking by ATV to bring to the small screen an epic of 26 episodes in a single run.
Lavish historical drama from BBC Television which was much derided by critics and viewers alike.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Bernard Cribbins, Michael Gwynn, Norman Bird, and Dandy Nichols.
Detective television series set in the fictional town of Gunnershaw in the Yorkshire Dales.
Cold War espionage thriller with an all-star cast. Regarded as probably one of the best and almost certainly one of the last of the Cold War dramas of the 1980s.
War drama about the infamous German POW camp and the prisoner's attempts to escape it.
Hollywood screen legend Boris Karloff as a determined police officer heads Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases.
A Victorian house is haunted by a malevolent force.
Exploring the history of the scripted crime shows of today which owe much to television's innovation of the 1950s.
1950s series based on Alexander Dumas' masterpiece of mystery and intrigue, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, first published in 1845.
Three young rebels plan their own counter-attack when foreign troops occupy part of the British Isles-the Channel Islands-for the first time since 1066.
Action adventure series set in Morocco.
Victorian policeman keeps the streets of London safe.
Ray Saxon is a former professional cycling champion who, unjustly discredited, takes on the task of cleaning up sport through a newspaper column.
Created by Ted Willis. With Daniel Moynihan, Anthony Newlands, John Phillips, Peter Evans. Courtroom drama set in France.
Courtroom drama in which the jury, who were made up of members of the public, would decide the verdict.
First transmitted on BBC2 on December 15th 1964, Culloden marked the professional debut of writer/director Peter Watkins, who developed a ground-breaking docudrama technique.
Adam Dalgliesh was the detective hero of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James, the first of which appeared in 1962.
A 12-year old boy overhears two sinister men plotting to assassinate their country's ruler.
Tense drama about a bomb disposal division of the Army in war torn London during the 1940s.
Judi Dench starred in this single play presentation about two daughters who are expected to marry men in 'their own class.'
Detective Inspector Mitchell’s life is thrown into turmoil when his son is kidnapped.
The day to day business of running a fictitious Fleet Street newspaper, the Daily Globe.
British–French crime drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller.
Crisis comes when auntie decides to leave her cash to a dogs' home. Murder follows.
BBC dramatisation of the life and times of the Plantagenets - Henry sees the opportunity to seize the Crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.
Police series made with the cooperation of Scotland Yard, which threw a spotlight on real police methods of the time.
14-part historical costume drama that had over 120 cast members with 162 speaking parts.
Turpin, cheated out of his wealth while on duty in Flanders, decides to regain his money using his own, not so lawful methods.
Mini series recounting the life of Charles Dickens from early boyhood till his death.
Review for a television presentation that was broadcast live in 1951. No filmed recordings are believed to exist.
BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station.
British television series which almost immediately struck a chord in the consciousness of a viewing public which was slowly awakening to the importance of greater ecological awareness.
Anthology series made in Britain for commercial television but with the US market in mind.
Onome Okwuosa reveals the facts of the fiction in creating the hit TV series Downton Abbey.
Based on a series of stories The Adventures of a Black Bag by Dumbartonshire born novelist A. J. Cronin.
At Blair General Hospital a young intern has to learn to deal with his surgeon mentor.
Period drama, set in Edwardian London, about a kitchen maid who works her way up to become manageress of the fashionable hotel.
Sitting in deckchairs and touring churches is not the holiday 17-year-old Richard wants, especially when there's a chance of romance - but his parents insist on taking him.
A dark ghost story set across two time periods; 1876 and 1981.
Drama serial produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International.
Written by Jeremy Sandford who, with director Ken Loach, had created one of the most influential dramas of the 1960's, the tale of a homeless mother in Cathy Come Home.
Corporal Halliday wants to buy his way out of the army but he is not allowed to until he has served six years. Corporal Halliday has only served three.
Seven part, £1 million drama series from Thames Television faithfully reconstructed the events of the affair between Edward and Mrs Simpson that, in 1936, caused a constitutional crisis and Edward VIII's eventual abdication.
A prime example of the lavish and epic period dramas that British television is famed for.
Drama recounting the efforts of a ground-breaking producer and a blacklisted director to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann. An astonishing true story behind a moment in television history.
BBC television drama serial of six 85-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England.
A young Englishman makes many friends in Vienna, but all of them turn against him with the outbreak of the first world war. After the Armistice, he returns to find nothing but bitterness and despair.
Drama set around the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War
After retiring from a life of espionage Robert McCall goes into business as a private investigator - a modern-day Robin Hood acting as a righter of wrongs.
British-produced anthology series along similar lines to Douglas Fairbanks Presents; both were made to cash in on the growing US and British television markets.
A modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman
Emotional drama about living with the effects and heartbreak of Alzheimer's.
The professional and personal life of Home Office pathologist Professor John Hardy, who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.
The first ever British made filmed series, shot by Trinity Productions for the BBC and consisting of 39 black and white episodes.
An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller
Account of how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal.
Hard hitting and somewhat bleak drama series about a cold but passionate policewoman who goes head to head with a cold serial killer in Belfast.
1970s BBC historical dramatisation about the collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
The business and private lives of the partners of a firm of solicitors was the background for this hour-long series which first appeared in 1961.
TV's first sleuth in clerical clothing was adapted in 1974 from the novels of G.K. Chesterton.
Andrew Coby reviews the TV series that's about as challenging as a game of sudoku.
Lavish 17th century costume drama full of political intrigue, manipulating women and sexual promiscuity.
A female official takes her seat on a local council. But the no-nonsense councillor has to face up to the bureaucracy of both local and central government.
Presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict.
Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.
Series which was originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. A comedy drama it stars Bob Hoskins as a pioneering filmmaker.
Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.
The last major British serial to be filmed in black and white and at the cost of £250,000 was the BBC's most expensive drama ever made at that time.
At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.
Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men was one of the first series that mixed an all-star cast, crime-fighting adventure and exotic locations.
Thirteen-part series centred on the lives of the titular Fox family, who live in Clapham in South London and have gangland connections.
Broadcast in the Play of the Week strand on Tuesday 18 September 1962 at 9.15 to 10.45pm.
ATV series, which took viewers into the fictional offices of a daily newspaper.
Hard hitting crime drama series inspired by the movie The French Connection.
Alan Bleasedale's Bafta-nominated political satire drama focussing on the fall of Michael Murray
Crime series featuring Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes, Britain's first female TV detective.
An elite division of Scotland Yard, the Ghost Squad was set up to investigate and infiltrate spy rings, underworld gangs or anything else that came outside the duties of regular policing
A series based on John Creasey's Commander Gideon books, which he had written under the pen-name of J.J. Maric.
Series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
Series from Lynda La Plante who has always excelled in placing her female lead characters in what are perceived to be male dominated roles.
Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century
Satirical comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history.
Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.
Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.
An anthology series created by Hammer Films in association with Cinema Arts International.
Took viewers behind the scenes at a busy, but fictional, West End department store
The Haunting by Ian Curteis was a one-off play presented as part of ITV's Saturday Night Theatre on 28 June 1969.
Private detective James Hazell arrived on TV screens in January 1978, a creation of the writing team of Glasgow born author Gordon Williams and Dagenham Essex born football coach Terry Venables.
After her husband has an affair, Helen decides to go it alone with her children. But her friends and family urge her to forgive and forget
Directed by David Attwood. With Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, and Matt Day.
BBC drama series centred on a new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis.
A politician's amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Lavish drama series set in the world of haute couture in the 1920s.
A Harley Street psychiatrist devotes his time to helping the not so well-off.
A team of con-merchants (known as grifters) steal from the greedy.
Set partly on a building site, a boy (15-year old Dennis Waterman) and a girl (16-year old Judith Geeson) meet secretly in a partly-built block of flats each day after the builders leave.
Landmark TV series in which real-life cases were dramatized
Jack Pulman's adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius
The play was shown under the Play of the Week strand. Also among the cast was a young Kenneth Cope.
A disbarred barrister uses his connections with the underworld to pass information onto the police -for a price.
Drama starring John Thaw which revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds of Annotsfield, a Yorkshire mill-owning family, through five generations.
A US based investigator is sent around the world to solve crime.
Made between 1959 and 1960, Interpol was based on the cases of the International Criminal Police Organisation
Industrial espionage series starring Edward Judd
Starred Peter Bowles in a series of lively stories based on three novels by Irish cousins Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Martin Ross
A crew of misfits investigate a series of supernatural crimes in Victorian London at the behest of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes
The earliest complete surviving BBC television play of the 1950s.
Roger Moore in his TV series debut starred as Sir Walter Scott's 19th century hero Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
The 1973 Jack the Ripper was a 6 part serial broadcast by the BBC on a weekly basis between July 13 and August 17.
Michael Caine, in his first acting role for British television for twenty years, goes after the famous East End murderer.
Short police procedural series; the forerunner to the highly successful Z-Cars
Daily Mirror comic strip heroine brought to the small screen.
A flamboyant playboy investigator and author sets off on a series of adventures.
Lavish drama series focusing on the life of Winston Churchill's mother - Lady Randolph Churchill
In 1956, the BBC made Television history with a series of eight programmes on the life of Christ. Before this production censorship regulations prohibited the portrayal of Christ by an actor in public performances.
Though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end.
Disney HTV TV series, starring Brian Blessed as Long John Silver, and Christopher Guard as Jim Hawkins.
Adapted from R.C. Sheriff's successful play, Journey's End is set against the background of life in the trenches during World War One and concentrates on a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France.
Ancient Chinese detective stories written in English by a modern Dutch diplomat.
An old-fashioned gentleman dabbles in detective work.
Police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes
Courtroom drama series based on a one-off play.
A young boxer's career is destroyed by a scheming woman in this one-off BBC play that also starred Sid James.
Ran for 75 episodes until 1961 (by which time it had transformed into Knight Errant Limited).
A series of seven hour-long plays produced by Granada television based on real-life murder trials where the accused was female - proving that when it comes to foul play the gentler sex can be just as deadly as the male.
Costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels
Filmed in the Scottish Highlands, this elaborate British TV adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel excels in almost every department, and is a fine showcase for British television drama in the 1970s.
Philip Madoc gives a career-best performance as one of Britain's most revered, inspiring and controversial leaders in this celebrated BBC series.
Excellent BAFTA Award winning production about "The Jersey Lily"; a British-American socialite, actress and producer who charmed Victorian London.
Police drama about the investigations of anti-corruption unit AC12. Sergeant Danny Waldron and his team shoot dead a criminal, but cracks soon appear in their story.
Police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions.
A British 'Toff' uses his appearance as an upper-class twit to outwit his adversaries.
Orphaned the previous Christmas young Goose looks after his demented grandma, selling stolen goods to soft-hearted fence Frank on his Manchester estate.
BBC television drama first broadcast in 1972 and 1973. Written by Michael J. Bird and dealt with the lives of British expats living on the island of Crete.
When Tessa Piggott vows never to trust men again, she doesn't plan on meeting Frank Carver.
Based on Walter Greenwood's 1933 novel about the crisis of unemployment following the General Strike of 1926.
Comedy-drama mystery series, based on the picaresque novels by John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash.
13 part Anglo / Australian co-production that was two years in the making and told the adventures of the Firbeck family who are uprooted from their Yorkshire home by their father in 1829 following the death of their mother, and taken to the other side of the world to start afresh in New South Wales.
Writer Neil Cross spins wild and weird stories of gruesome killers against a less than lush London backdrop.
Parisian detective is a compassionate yet implacable hunter of criminals.Parisian detective is a compassionate yet implacable hunter of criminals.
Directed by Stuart Burge. With Judi Dench, Brewster Mason, Marian Spencer, and Edward Woodward
The continuing trials and tribulations of a Northern lad trying to make it in the South as he wheels and deals in the cutthroat world of big business.
Former CIA agent is reluctantly made to work for British Intelligence.
Series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the northern weekday ITV franchise, Granada Television.
Armed with camera, typewriter and a trained eye for the unusual and newsworthy, freelancer Mike Straight enjoyed a glamorous lifestyle that continuously saw him getting involved in cases of blackmail, espionage and murder.
Comedy drama series about a group of stylish and solvent middle-aged men determined to live life to the full, especially if it involves behaving badly.
Tense and uncompromising drama set in wartime France.
This single play, a televised version of a popular farce was not actually shot in a television studio, but from The Playhouse, Salisbury, the same stage where it made its debut.
Harry Branksome, brilliant surgeon, is dedicated to the truth, no matter whom it hurts.
David McVey article that looks at maverick cops.
Political drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century.
Philip Madoc as Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain, working for the Mid-Wales Police Department as their senior investigator for homicides.
Dodgy dealings of a wheeler and dealer and his bodyguard for hire.
The spinster detective who first appeared in Agatha Christie's 1930 novel 'The Murder at the Vicarage.'
Jessica Dunning stars as Mrs Merriman, whose daughter, nine-year old Nell, (Wendy Turner) disappears from home and is feared to have been led away by a strange man.
Day-to-day boardroom dramas of the high-powered executives of Mogul.
Wartime drama series set in an Oxford village about the light-hearted adventures of four children who are living under the shadow of WWII.
When two complete strangers are sold the same lease by an estate agent they have to live together.
With themes of murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, was the first substantial success of post-war television drama
Michael Crawford is caught between two long-time adversaries who use him as a pawn in their grudge fight.
Mr Palfrey is a mild, middle-aged man—the epitome of a middle-ranking British Civil Servant. He works in the shadowy halls of Government. Mr Palfrey is a very dangerous man.
Drama series centred on Harry Gordon Selfridge, the flamboyant, visionary and yet flawed American founder of London's Selfridge's department store
Drama based on true events - After the sudden death of novelist and ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander Wilson, his wife Alison is forced to investigate when she discovers that her seemingly ideal husband lived many secret lives.
Mel Smith stars in a rare straight role as Tom Craig.
When Agatha Christie decides to kill off her most famous and long-running character, she has an unexpected visitor - none other than the great detective himself - Hercule Poirot
Victorian pathologist proves to be the inspiration for a young doctor's literary creation.
Swashbuckling series based on Alexander Dumas' adventurous 17th century characters.
Based on Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel of suspicion, mistrust and murder.
Anthology series of Victorian chillers.
A boy witnesses a murder - but who will believe him when the victim turns up alive and well?
Biography of Britain's first female MP.
Lavish historical drama produced by Thames Television, following the life and loves of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Drama filmed in a documentary style to show the many problems within a typical NHS hospital.
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below.
Detective leaves the USA for London hoping to retire, but crime seems to follow him everywhere.
John Steed is back with his new team of Purdey and Gambit, they find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.
Albert Stokes finds himself perpetually fighting the dominance of women, not least of all his possessive widowed mother.
Followed the exploits of Detective Chief Supt Lockhart as he worked his way through over 280 cases, many of which were transmitted live.
After broadcast in 1952 the BBC was bombarded with letters of enthusiastic appreciation and gratitude for this simple yet moving piece of drama
British-Italian television drama series directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions.
Secret agents operate behind enemy lines during World War 2.
Offbeat suspense series that expertly mixed political intrigue, crime sleuthing and domestic disharmony.
Post-apocalyptic drama - one of the first TV plays on a politically sensitive topic, about the survivors of a nuclear attack on the British isles.
Psychic investigators seek out the paranormal to get a better understanding of the human mind.
Two youths run away Liverpool for the hills and valleys of Wales only to find it's not the peaceful and idyllic life they expected.
A 19th century seaman sets about building a business empire.
Grounbreaking BBC drama series about one girl's power to overcome neglect and often violent prejudice
Amusingly odd allegory about a multi-million pound, multi-interest corporation dedicated to making more millions.
Series of short mystery/horror plays, each with a sting in the tail.
Tempers flare and troubles abound when a coach load of 30 remedial kids, and their teachers, set out for an outing from Liverpool to North Wales
Play concerns Annie's driving determination to do her bit for the war effort. Starred Jenny Linden and Peter Ellis.
1962 ITV Television Playhouse starring Peter Cushing.
Thomas Shelby runs a feared criminal organisation, and when a crate of guns goes missing, he sees an opportunity to move up in the world
Created by Sydney Newman. With Ian Hendry, John Warwick, Howard Daley, Blaise Wyndham.
A tale of cross border gang warfare - North versus South London and a lesson in no-honour among thieves.
Television play directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates and Iain Cuthbertson.
Supernatural drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC
Anthony Quayle starred as retired Scotland Yard Commissioner turned private pathologist Adam Strange who was called into action whenever the authorities were baffled.
Drama series devised by Gerald Savory about three single girls sharing a London flat between the end of the 'swinging' sixties and the start of the seventies.
Set in a Japanese women's internment camp on the island of Sumatra, after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Tenko first appeared on BBC 1 on Saturday nights in 1981.
A chillingly realised and intense drama-documentary that harrowingly depicted the unimaginably grim events of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain.
Anton Chekov's play concerns the lives of an aristocratic family who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world.
Series of twist-in-the-tail dramas designed to keep its viewing audience guessing and at the edge of their seat right up to the final scene.
Creation of Victor Pemberton whose previous writing credits included Dr. Who and Ace of Wands, and starred 18 year-old Spencer Banks
The struggle behind a country's negotiations to gain independence from Britain forms the theme for this late 1960s 7-part drama serial.
Adaptation of John le Carre's spy novel about a retired spymaster, George Smiley (played by Alec Guinness), who is called out of retirement to unearth a double agent among the top ranks of the British Secret Service.
Based on Irwin Shaw's novel chronicling the rise of McCarthyism in the USA and in particular the anti-Communist witch-hunt among radio-programme workers.
The third in the series of four plays about the first world war called For King and Country.
Detective series starring Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris Piet Van der Valk.
Peter Wildeblood's adaptation of Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina was broadcast in 1964 as four individual plays and starred Patricia Routledge who portrayed four ages of the monarch.
Crime drama series with a difference, as it follows the exploits of nine bank robbers, beginning from the moment of their escape from imprisonment.
Welsh-born Clinton Greyn played the very English agent Captain Robert Virgin of the Royal Dragoons.
One of the most controversial films ever made for television and was banned from British screens for almost twenty years.
a trilogy of plays set in the North of England during the Second World War
Six-part docu-drama produced by Robert Barr and written by Guy Morgan and Percy Hoskins.
A melting pot of class and race set in a challenging comprehensive school, where the day-to-day troubles of its students spill out in dramatic ways
Play broadcast under the Armchair Theatre strand on 20 January 1969 at 8.30pm
BBC drama that was a forerunner to Z Cars, and one of the first police procedurals to be set outside of London
Story of four women, three of whom are suddenly widowed when their husbands are killed during a botched armed robbery
Onome Okwuosa reveals the facts of the fiction in creating the hit TV series Downton Abbey.
Thomas Shelby runs a feared criminal organisation, and when a crate of guns goes missing, he sees an opportunity to move up in the world
The story of Britain's foremost drama series - Armchair Theatre
Police drama about the investigations of anti-corruption unit AC12. Sergeant Danny Waldron and his team shoot dead a criminal, but cracks soon appear in their story.
Supernatural drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC
Andrew Coby reviews the TV series that's about as challenging as a game of sudoku.
Television play directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Michael Bates and Iain Cuthbertson.
David McVey article that looks at maverick cops.
Exploring the history of the scripted crime shows of today which owe much to television's innovation of the 1950s.
A crew of misfits investigate a series of supernatural crimes in Victorian London at the behest of Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes
A tale of cross border gang warfare - North versus South London and a lesson in no-honour among thieves.
Anton Chekov's play concerns the lives of an aristocratic family who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world.
BBC drama that was a forerunner to Z Cars, and one of the first police procedurals to be set outside of London
In 43 AD, the Roman Army - determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia
A 'lost' BBC play from the 1950s. A doctor who has an interest in criminal behaviour, embarks on a crime spree in order to satisfy his curiosity
A melting pot of class and race set in a challenging comprehensive school, where the day-to-day troubles of its students spill out in dramatic ways
With themes of murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, was the first substantial success of post-war television drama
Series which was originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. A comedy drama it stars Bob Hoskins as a pioneering filmmaker.
Story of four women, three of whom are suddenly widowed when their husbands are killed during a botched armed robbery
Play broadcast under the Armchair Theatre strand on 20 January 1969 at 8.30pm
Six-part docu-drama produced by Robert Barr and written by Guy Morgan and Percy Hoskins.
Written by Lynne Reid Banks, directed by June Howson and produced by George More O'Ferall. Shown at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 September 1962 under the Thirty Minute Theatre strand.
a trilogy of plays set in the North of England during the Second World War
One of the most controversial films ever made for television and was banned from British screens for almost twenty years.
Welsh-born Clinton Greyn played the very English agent Captain Robert Virgin of the Royal Dragoons.
Peter Wildeblood's adaptation of Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina was broadcast in 1964 as four individual plays and starred Patricia Routledge who portrayed four ages of the monarch.
Detective series starring Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris Piet Van der Valk.
Crime drama series with a difference, as it follows the exploits of nine bank robbers, beginning from the moment of their escape from imprisonment.
Created by Sydney Newman. With Ian Hendry, John Warwick, Howard Daley, Blaise Wyndham.
The third in the series of four plays about the first world war called For King and Country.
Based on Irwin Shaw's novel chronicling the rise of McCarthyism in the USA and in particular the anti-Communist witch-hunt among radio-programme workers.
Adaptation of John le Carre's spy novel about a retired spymaster, George Smiley (played by Alec Guinness), who is called out of retirement to unearth a double agent among the top ranks of the British Secret Service.
The struggle behind a country's negotiations to gain independence from Britain forms the theme for this late 1960s 7-part drama serial.
Creation of Victor Pemberton whose previous writing credits included Dr. Who and Ace of Wands, and starred 18 year-old Spencer Banks
Series of twist-in-the-tail dramas designed to keep its viewing audience guessing and at the edge of their seat right up to the final scene.
A chillingly realised and intense drama-documentary that harrowingly depicted the unimaginably grim events of the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain.
Set in a Japanese women's internment camp on the island of Sumatra, after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Tenko first appeared on BBC 1 on Saturday nights in 1981.
British-Italian television drama series directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions.
Play concerns Annie's driving determination to do her bit for the war effort. Starred Jenny Linden and Peter Ellis.
1962 ITV Television Playhouse starring Peter Cushing.
Drama series devised by Gerald Savory about three single girls sharing a London flat between the end of the 'swinging' sixties and the start of the seventies.
Mel Smith stars in a rare straight role as Tom Craig.
Series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the northern weekday ITV franchise, Granada Television.
Directed by Stuart Burge. With Judi Dench, Brewster Mason, Marian Spencer, and Edward Woodward
BBC television drama first broadcast in 1972 and 1973. Written by Michael J. Bird and dealt with the lives of British expats living on the island of Crete.
Comedy-drama mystery series, based on the picaresque novels by John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash.
Anthony Quayle starred as retired Scotland Yard Commissioner turned private pathologist Adam Strange who was called into action whenever the authorities were baffled.
Based on Walter Greenwood's 1933 novel about the crisis of unemployment following the General Strike of 1926.
Costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels
Ran for 75 episodes until 1961 (by which time it had transformed into Knight Errant Limited).
Police procedural drama series, first broadcast on 30 August 1980, that ran for six series and a total of 88 episodes
Disney HTV TV series, starring Brian Blessed as Long John Silver, and Christopher Guard as Jim Hawkins.
Directed by David Attwood. With Richard Roxburgh, Ian Hart, Richard E. Grant, and Matt Day.
ATV series, which took viewers into the fictional offices of a daily newspaper.
An anthology series created by Hammer Films in association with Cinema Arts International.
Broadcast in the Play of the Week strand on Tuesday 18 September 1962 at 9.15 to 10.45pm.
Drama serial produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International.
Review for a television presentation that was broadcast live in 1951. No filmed recordings are believed to exist.
BBC television drama serial of six 85-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England.
BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station.
Detective television series set in the fictional town of Gunnershaw in the Yorkshire Dales.
Police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions.
British–French crime drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Bernard Cribbins, Michael Gwynn, Norman Bird, and Dandy Nichols.
Created by Ted Willis. With Daniel Moynihan, Anthony Newlands, John Phillips, Peter Evans. Courtroom drama set in France.
With Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn. A television adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale
A drama series set in 1930s Britain, detailing the exploits of Ralph Gorse, a conman, seducer and murderer.
Ran for two seasons and was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who had previously devised Compact and Crossroads.
Action-drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972.
Play produced by George More O'Ferrall and made by Anglia Television for Associated Rediffusion. Part of the Television Playhouse strand.
1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.
Television drama serial produced by the BBC in 1981, in association with the Second Network of the Italian broadcaster RAI.
Television drama series based on the novel by Andrea Newman published in 1969.
Fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
Television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.
Television drama series broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980 in two seasons.
Dramatisation of the satirical novel by Angus Wilson.
Television crime drama series, first broadcast on 10 January 1993, that ran for a total of six episodes on ITV.
Television play written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted which was first broadcast on 9 January 1972
Starring Eddie Byrne (Star Wars), Barry Foster (Van Der Valk) and Ann Lynn (Just Good Friends).
Classic 1970s drama. Gene Barry stars as Gene Bradley.
The story concerns two brothers, Dave and Morgan Roberts, who quarrel on the day of their mother's funeral.
Three girls from very different backgrounds are sent to work on Crabtree Farm, Norfolk, in order to 'do their bit' during World War Two.
Comedy adventure television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on BBC 1, starring Gerald Harper in the title role.
This highly detailed series recreates the adventures of Conan Doyle's Victorian detective.
Secret agents operate behind enemy lines during World War 2.
Grounbreaking BBC drama series about one girl's power to overcome neglect and often violent prejudice
Series of short mystery/horror plays, each with a sting in the tail.
Amusingly odd allegory about a multi-million pound, multi-interest corporation dedicated to making more millions.
Tempers flare and troubles abound when a coach load of 30 remedial kids, and their teachers, set out for an outing from Liverpool to North Wales
Two youths run away Liverpool for the hills and valleys of Wales only to find it's not the peaceful and idyllic life they expected.
A 19th century seaman sets about building a business empire.
Post-apocalyptic drama - one of the first TV plays on a politically sensitive topic, about the survivors of a nuclear attack on the British isles.
Psychic investigators seek out the paranormal to get a better understanding of the human mind.
Offbeat suspense series that expertly mixed political intrigue, crime sleuthing and domestic disharmony.
After broadcast in 1952 the BBC was bombarded with letters of enthusiastic appreciation and gratitude for this simple yet moving piece of drama
Albert Stokes finds himself perpetually fighting the dominance of women, not least of all his possessive widowed mother.
John Steed is back with his new team of Purdey and Gambit, they find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below.
Followed the exploits of Detective Chief Supt Lockhart as he worked his way through over 280 cases, many of which were transmitted live.
Anthology series of Victorian chillers.
Detective leaves the USA for London hoping to retire, but crime seems to follow him everywhere.
Biography of Britain's first female MP.
A boy witnesses a murder - but who will believe him when the victim turns up alive and well?
British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.
Drama filmed in a documentary style to show the many problems within a typical NHS hospital.
Lavish historical drama produced by Thames Television, following the life and loves of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Based on Daphne du Maurier’s gothic novel of suspicion, mistrust and murder.
Victorian pathologist proves to be the inspiration for a young doctor's literary creation.
Swashbuckling series based on Alexander Dumas' adventurous 17th century characters.
When Agatha Christie decides to kill off her most famous and long-running character, she has an unexpected visitor - none other than the great detective himself - Hercule Poirot
Mr Palfrey is a mild, middle-aged man—the epitome of a middle-ranking British Civil Servant. He works in the shadowy halls of Government. Mr Palfrey is a very dangerous man.
Drama series centred on Harry Gordon Selfridge, the flamboyant, visionary and yet flawed American founder of London's Selfridge's department store
Drama based on true events - After the sudden death of novelist and ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander Wilson, his wife Alison is forced to investigate when she discovers that her seemingly ideal husband lived many secret lives.
Michael Crawford is caught between two long-time adversaries who use him as a pawn in their grudge fight.
When two complete strangers are sold the same lease by an estate agent they have to live together.
Day-to-day boardroom dramas of the high-powered executives of Mogul.
The spinster detective who first appeared in Agatha Christie's 1930 novel 'The Murder at the Vicarage.'
Wartime drama series set in an Oxford village about the light-hearted adventures of four children who are living under the shadow of WWII.
Jessica Dunning stars as Mrs Merriman, whose daughter, nine-year old Nell, (Wendy Turner) disappears from home and is feared to have been led away by a strange man.
Dodgy dealings of a wheeler and dealer and his bodyguard for hire.
Philip Madoc as Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain, working for the Mid-Wales Police Department as their senior investigator for homicides.
Harry Branksome, brilliant surgeon, is dedicated to the truth, no matter whom it hurts.
This single play, a televised version of a popular farce was not actually shot in a television studio, but from The Playhouse, Salisbury, the same stage where it made its debut.
Tense and uncompromising drama set in wartime France.
Political drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century.
Former CIA agent is reluctantly made to work for British Intelligence.
The continuing trials and tribulations of a Northern lad trying to make it in the South as he wheels and deals in the cutthroat world of big business.
Armed with camera, typewriter and a trained eye for the unusual and newsworthy, freelancer Mike Straight enjoyed a glamorous lifestyle that continuously saw him getting involved in cases of blackmail, espionage and murder.
Comedy drama series about a group of stylish and solvent middle-aged men determined to live life to the full, especially if it involves behaving badly.
Parisian detective is a compassionate yet implacable hunter of criminals.Parisian detective is a compassionate yet implacable hunter of criminals.
13 part Anglo / Australian co-production that was two years in the making and told the adventures of the Firbeck family who are uprooted from their Yorkshire home by their father in 1829 following the death of their mother, and taken to the other side of the world to start afresh in New South Wales.
Writer Neil Cross spins wild and weird stories of gruesome killers against a less than lush London backdrop.
When Tessa Piggott vows never to trust men again, she doesn't plan on meeting Frank Carver.
A British 'Toff' uses his appearance as an upper-class twit to outwit his adversaries.
Orphaned the previous Christmas young Goose looks after his demented grandma, selling stolen goods to soft-hearted fence Frank on his Manchester estate.
Lavish drama series focusing on the life of Winston Churchill's mother - Lady Randolph Churchill
Daniel Defoe's classic adventure story of a young Englishman's sole quest for survival on a desert island.
Excellent BAFTA Award winning production about "The Jersey Lily"; a British-American socialite, actress and producer who charmed Victorian London.
Philip Madoc gives a career-best performance as one of Britain's most revered, inspiring and controversial leaders in this celebrated BBC series.
Filmed in the Scottish Highlands, this elaborate British TV adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel excels in almost every department, and is a fine showcase for British television drama in the 1970s.
A young boxer's career is destroyed by a scheming woman in this one-off BBC play that also starred Sid James.
A series of seven hour-long plays produced by Granada television based on real-life murder trials where the accused was female - proving that when it comes to foul play the gentler sex can be just as deadly as the male.
Courtroom drama series based on a one-off play.
An old-fashioned gentleman dabbles in detective work.
Ancient Chinese detective stories written in English by a modern Dutch diplomat.
Adapted from R.C. Sheriff's successful play, Journey's End is set against the background of life in the trenches during World War One and concentrates on a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France.
Though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end.
A flamboyant playboy investigator and author sets off on a series of adventures.
Daily Mirror comic strip heroine brought to the small screen.
In 1956, the BBC made Television history with a series of eight programmes on the life of Christ. Before this production censorship regulations prohibited the portrayal of Christ by an actor in public performances.
Short police procedural series; the forerunner to the highly successful Z-Cars
The 1973 Jack the Ripper was a 6 part serial broadcast by the BBC on a weekly basis between July 13 and August 17.
Roger Moore in his TV series debut starred as Sir Walter Scott's 19th century hero Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Michael Caine, in his first acting role for British television for twenty years, goes after the famous East End murderer.
A disbarred barrister uses his connections with the underworld to pass information onto the police -for a price.
Satirical comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia's history.
Made between 1959 and 1960, Interpol was based on the cases of the International Criminal Police Organisation
The earliest complete surviving BBC television play of the 1950s.
A US based investigator is sent around the world to solve crime.
Drama starring John Thaw which revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds of Annotsfield, a Yorkshire mill-owning family, through five generations.
Starred Peter Bowles in a series of lively stories based on three novels by Irish cousins Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Martin Ross
Industrial espionage series starring Edward Judd
The play was shown under the Play of the Week strand. Also among the cast was a young Kenneth Cope.
Jack Pulman's adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius
A Harley Street psychiatrist devotes his time to helping the not so well-off.
Set partly on a building site, a boy (15-year old Dennis Waterman) and a girl (16-year old Judith Geeson) meet secretly in a partly-built block of flats each day after the builders leave.
A team of con-merchants (known as grifters) steal from the greedy.
Landmark TV series in which real-life cases were dramatized
A politician's amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
BBC drama series centred on a new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis.
Lavish drama series set in the world of haute couture in the 1920s.
Private detective James Hazell arrived on TV screens in January 1978, a creation of the writing team of Glasgow born author Gordon Williams and Dagenham Essex born football coach Terry Venables.
Crack pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth leads a team of investigators who solve crime around the world.
After her husband has an affair, Helen decides to go it alone with her children. But her friends and family urge her to forgive and forget
Took viewers behind the scenes at a busy, but fictional, West End department store
The Haunting by Ian Curteis was a one-off play presented as part of ITV's Saturday Night Theatre on 28 June 1969.
Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.
Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.
Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century
Series from Lynda La Plante who has always excelled in placing her female lead characters in what are perceived to be male dominated roles.
Series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
A series based on John Creasey's Commander Gideon books, which he had written under the pen-name of J.J. Maric.
An elite division of Scotland Yard, the Ghost Squad was set up to investigate and infiltrate spy rings, underworld gangs or anything else that came outside the duties of regular policing
Crime series featuring Jill Gascoine as Maggie Forbes, Britain's first female TV detective.
Alan Bleasedale's Bafta-nominated political satire drama focussing on the fall of Michael Murray
Hard hitting crime drama series inspired by the movie The French Connection.
Thirteen-part series centred on the lives of the titular Fox family, who live in Clapham in South London and have gangland connections.
The last major British serial to be filmed in black and white and at the cost of £250,000 was the BBC's most expensive drama ever made at that time.
Based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men was one of the first series that mixed an all-star cast, crime-fighting adventure and exotic locations.
At a cost of £6.5 million, Fortunes of War was, at the time, the most expensive BBC series ever made.
Three young rebels plan their own counter-attack when foreign troops occupy part of the British Isles-the Channel Islands-for the first time since 1066.
Epic period drama made by Scottish Television and based on D.K. Broster's 1925 novel centred round fictional events at the time of the non-fictional Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 and leading up to the battle of Culloden.
Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.
Presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict.
Lavish 17th century costume drama full of political intrigue, manipulating women and sexual promiscuity.
TV's first sleuth in clerical clothing was adapted in 1974 from the novels of G.K. Chesterton.
A female official takes her seat on a local council. But the no-nonsense councillor has to face up to the bureaucracy of both local and central government.
An ITV Play of the Week presentation about a seaside fortune teller
1970s BBC historical dramatisation about the collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
The professional and personal life of Home Office pathologist Professor John Hardy, who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.
Emotional drama about living with the effects and heartbreak of Alzheimer's.
A modern adaptation of the 15th/16th century morality tale The Somonyng of Everyman
Hard hitting and somewhat bleak drama series about a cold but passionate policewoman who goes head to head with a cold serial killer in Belfast.
Account of how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal.
The business and private lives of the partners of a firm of solicitors was the background for this hour-long series which first appeared in 1961.
The first ever British made filmed series, shot by Trinity Productions for the BBC and consisting of 39 black and white episodes.
After retiring from a life of espionage Robert McCall goes into business as a private investigator - a modern-day Robin Hood acting as a righter of wrongs.
Drama recounting the efforts of a ground-breaking producer and a blacklisted director to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann. An astonishing true story behind a moment in television history.
British-produced anthology series along similar lines to Douglas Fairbanks Presents; both were made to cash in on the growing US and British television markets.
Seven part, £1 million drama series from Thames Television faithfully reconstructed the events of the affair between Edward and Mrs Simpson that, in 1936, caused a constitutional crisis and Edward VIII's eventual abdication.
A young Englishman makes many friends in Vienna, but all of them turn against him with the outbreak of the first world war. After the Armistice, he returns to find nothing but bitterness and despair.
Drama set around the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War
Corporal Halliday wants to buy his way out of the army but he is not allowed to until he has served six years. Corporal Halliday has only served three.
A prime example of the lavish and epic period dramas that British television is famed for.
Sitting in deckchairs and touring churches is not the holiday 17-year-old Richard wants, especially when there's a chance of romance - but his parents insist on taking him.
Written by Jeremy Sandford who, with director Ken Loach, had created one of the most influential dramas of the 1960's, the tale of a homeless mother in Cathy Come Home.
A dark ghost story set across two time periods; 1876 and 1981.
Anthology series made in Britain for commercial television but with the US market in mind.
British television series which almost immediately struck a chord in the consciousness of a viewing public which was slowly awakening to the importance of greater ecological awareness.
At Blair General Hospital a young intern has to learn to deal with his surgeon mentor.
Period drama, set in Edwardian London, about a kitchen maid who works her way up to become manageress of the fashionable hotel.
Based on a series of stories The Adventures of a Black Bag by Dumbartonshire born novelist A. J. Cronin.
Turpin, cheated out of his wealth while on duty in Flanders, decides to regain his money using his own, not so lawful methods.
14-part historical costume drama that had over 120 cast members with 162 speaking parts.
Mini series recounting the life of Charles Dickens from early boyhood till his death.
Police series made with the cooperation of Scotland Yard, which threw a spotlight on real police methods of the time.
BBC dramatisation of the life and times of the Plantagenets - Henry sees the opportunity to seize the Crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.
Detective Inspector Mitchell’s life is thrown into turmoil when his son is kidnapped.
Crisis comes when auntie decides to leave her cash to a dogs' home. Murder follows.
The day to day business of running a fictitious Fleet Street newspaper, the Daily Globe.
Adam Dalgliesh was the detective hero of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James, the first of which appeared in 1962.
Judi Dench starred in this single play presentation about two daughters who are expected to marry men in 'their own class.'
Tense drama about a bomb disposal division of the Army in war torn London during the 1940s.
A 12-year old boy overhears two sinister men plotting to assassinate their country's ruler.
Courtroom drama in which the jury, who were made up of members of the public, would decide the verdict.
First transmitted on BBC2 on December 15th 1964, Culloden marked the professional debut of writer/director Peter Watkins, who developed a ground-breaking docudrama technique.
Action adventure series set in Morocco.
Victorian policeman keeps the streets of London safe.
Ray Saxon is a former professional cycling champion who, unjustly discredited, takes on the task of cleaning up sport through a newspaper column.
A Victorian house is haunted by a malevolent force.
1950s series based on Alexander Dumas' masterpiece of mystery and intrigue, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, first published in 1845.
Hollywood screen legend Boris Karloff as a determined police officer heads Scotland Yard's department for seemingly unsolvable cases.
War drama about the infamous German POW camp and the prisoner's attempts to escape it.
Based on a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, Clayhanger was an ambitious undertaking by ATV to bring to the small screen an epic of 26 episodes in a single run.
Lavish historical drama from BBC Television which was much derided by critics and viewers alike.
Cold War espionage thriller with an all-star cast. Regarded as probably one of the best and almost certainly one of the last of the Cold War dramas of the 1980s.
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.
Harrowing drama of one family's downward spiral into poverty that sparked a national debate in the House of Parliament on the plight of the homeless.
Contemporary reworking of M.R. James' classic ghost story.
One of the last great drama productions made in black and white for ITV by Granada.
A popular officer is accused of taking money from his Battery safe. His defence rests of his wife's evidence - but will she consent to appear at the court-martial?
Future Hollywood actor Robert Shaw made his small screen debut as ex- pirate Dan Tempest, the leader of a small band of freebooters who roamed the Caribbean Seas in the 1720's on their ship The Sultana.
Successful BBC drama series about boardroom strife and family conflict endured by three brothers.
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.
Budgie was a small time crook, a petty thief, a chancer who always dreamed of getting rich but mainly had to content himself with the slimmest of pickings.
Pamela Gems' first play for ITV is about two sisters, May Vine (Vanda Godsell), Louie Robbins and the man who becomes their lodger.
Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill-health, and Taplow, one of his pupils, brings him a present on the eve of his retirement in this Terence Rattigan play from 1966.
Period murder mystery series set around a Benedictine Abbey in Shrewsbury in 12th century England.
Early outing for Leonard Rossiter in a single drama produced by ITV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Medical drama spin-off from Emergency-Ward 10, Britain's most popular medical soap opera of the 1950s and 60s.
Alan Bleasedale's hard hitting black comedy, set against the harsh backdrop of struggle and hopelessly bleak unemployment in the Liverpool of Thatcher's Britain.
A seemingly calm and friendly seaside town becomes a town wrapped in secrets when the death of an eleven-year-old boy sparks an unwanted media frenzy
A soldier returns to India to find the girl he loved but had to leave.
Light-hearted drama series about Robby Box, a small-time London gambler, and his long-suffering family.
Set in the East End of London, the series followed the exploits of the officers of the fictional Sun Hill Police Station as they set about their daily task of keeping law and order.
Peter Egan stars as Hogarth, a ruthlessly ambitious, flash and violent small-time criminal who has visions of being king of London's criminal underworld.
Laden with suspense, drama and a thick vein of black humour Beasts presented stories of civilised man in conflict with the primal, animal side of existence.
Four-part BBC drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British Intelligence during the First World War.
Widower Jack Goodall is a 55-year-old former civil servant who worked for M.I.5. He is hoping to enjoy his retirement - but his section have other plans for him
Schools drama series set in a Yorkshire mill town, where a new academy school merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided White and Asian community
ATV's 3 hour presentation of the Shakespeare play, which emphasises the futility of the unworldly love of his seemingly perfect couple against the cold calculating worldly might of Octavius.
Created by writer Paula Milne, Angels chronicled the personal and professional lives of six student nurses based at the fictitious St Angela's Hospital in London's Battersea district, from 1975-1983 on BBC1.
The first televised episodic series on television, Ann and Harold followed the courtship to the eventual wedding of a society couple.
Based on Frederick Grice's 1969 novel, The Courage of Andy Robson.
A fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential historical plays of William Shakespeare.
Based on a true story about an ingenious and daring escape from a German POW camp for Allied naval officers during WW2.
Adaptation of arguably Agatha Christie's most famous character Detective Hercule Poirot, first hit TV screens in 1989.
Written as a prequel by R.F. Delderfield to Treasure Island, this BBC production follows Ben Gunn from parson's son to pirate and is narrated by Jim Hawkins in Gunn's words, Gunn having died some eight months before.
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