James Ellis

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in...

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and d...

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from...

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series in...

Wogan

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fic...

Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fic...

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. F...

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. W...

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young a...

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within th...

Performance

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hamm...

The Detectives

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to...

In Sickness and in Health

This final follow-up to 'Till Death Us Do Part' follows an aged Alf Garnett, now dealing with his wife Else's d...

Till Death Us Do Part

This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-...

The Scales of Justice

The Scales of Justice is a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-A...

Magic Grandad

Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two under the title 'Switch On, Switch...

Boys from the Blackstuff

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixi...

Common As Muck

Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their managem...

Troubles

In 1919, Major Brendan Archer arrives in Ireland to reunite with his fiancée, Angela Spencer. Unfortunately, th...

Priest

The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordin...

Nightingales

Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shi...

Tripper's Day

Tripper's Day is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV, starring Leonard Rossiter as a small L...

The Gathering Seed

The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the L...

One by One

One By One is a British television series made by the BBC between 1984 and 1987. The series, created by Anthony...

The Marksman

Twelve-year-old Gordon Weaver is killed on waste-ground in Liverpool. His grandfather, Doyle, sends for the boy...

Big Bad World

So You Think You've Got Troubles

Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run...

A Question of Entertainment

Entertainment-based spin-off of A Question of Sport. The show was reformatted and retitled That's Showbusiness...

Crossing the Floor

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative ministe...

Best

Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manches...

Conspiracy of Silence

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate...

No Surrender

It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool wher...

Resurrection Man

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he beg...