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1. Heartbeat (1992–2010)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

6.9
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The 1960s lives and adventures of the police constabulary, medical staff, and residents of Ashfordly and Aidensfield.

Stars: William Simons, Derek Fowlds, Tricia Penrose, Mark Jordon

Votes: 4,096

2. Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

7.1
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Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.

Stars: Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Robert Fyfe

Votes: 3,665

3. All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)

TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

8.4
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The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham

Votes: 4,413

4. Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)

Crime, Drama

6.8
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Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.

Stars: Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Geoffrey Adams, Arthur Rigby

Votes: 317

5. Play for Today (1970–1984)

75 min | Comedy, Drama

7.8
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A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.

Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker

Votes: 399

6. Z Cars (1962–1978)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama

7.0
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A gritty drama which follows the work of the police force in the fictional town of Newtown in the North of England.

Stars: James Ellis, John Slater, Douglas Fielding, Bernard Holley

Votes: 384

7. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960)

Approved | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Family

7.6
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Robin of Loxley, otherwise known as Robin Hood, and his band of Merry Men protect England from the evil machinations of Prince John while King Richard the Lionheart is away fighting in the Crusades.

Stars: Richard Greene, Victor Woolf, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge

Votes: 882

8. Screen Two (1985–1998)

TV-14 | 120 min | Drama

6.3
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In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.

Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones

Votes: 248

9. dinnerladies (1998–2000)

TV-14 | 34 min | Comedy

7.8
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Comedy about the workers in a factory canteen.

Stars: Victoria Wood, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati

Votes: 2,784

10. Screen One (1985–2002)

120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

6.7
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Anthology of unconnected movies of different genres.

Stars: Mark Chapman, Alfred Molina, Julie Walters, Geraldine James

Votes: 140

11. The Nightcomers (1971)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

5.8
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Prequel to Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw", focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint's slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews

Votes: 2,903 | Gross: $0.44M

12. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)

30 min | Documentary, Biography

6.6
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The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »

Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield

Votes: 324

13. The Queen's Nose (1995–2003)

25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.1
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Children's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.

Stars: Heather-Jay Jones, Victoria Shalet, Paula Wilcox, Stephen Moore

Votes: 777

14. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

6.6
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Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean

Votes: 7,203

15. Softly Softly: Task Force (1969–1976)

50 min | Crime, Drama

7.2
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1970s BBC police drama with experienced cops DCS Charlie Barlow and DS John Watt who lead a task force charged with tackling the toughest cases Thamesford has to offer.

Stars: Frank Windsor, Norman Bowler, David Lloyd Meredith, Terence Rigby

Votes: 116

16. A Kind of Loving (1962)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance

7.3
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After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer

Votes: 2,696 | Gross: $0.00M

17. This Morning (1988– )

150 min | Comedy, Drama, Game-Show

4.5
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Magazine show featuring lifestyle, cookery, fashion and news segments, along with celebrity interviews and gossip.

Stars: Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Ruth Langsford, Eamonn Holmes

Votes: 899

18. Panic in the Parlor (1956)

81 min | Comedy

6.3
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Emma interrupts Albert's bachelor party, he gets cold feet about marrying her daughter. Unsure if Emma's vow to change will last, Albert marries Shirley anyway.

Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Cyril Smith

Votes: 410

19. The Entertainer (1960)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

7.1
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70 Metascore

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright

Votes: 3,743

20. Blankety Blank (1978–2023)

35 min | Game-Show

6.3
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Comedy game show with celebrity guests and cheap prizes.

Stars: Les Dawson, Terry Wogan, Paul O'Grady, Bradley Walsh

Votes: 280

21. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)

120 min | Drama

6.9
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Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.

Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers

Votes: 178

22. Corridor of Mirrors (1948)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery

6.5
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A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Director: Terence Young | Stars: Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair

Votes: 810

23. Talking Heads (1988)

Comedy, Drama

8.6
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Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Stars: Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole

Votes: 382

24. Went the Day Well? (1942)

Approved | 92 min | Thriller, War

7.5
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An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr

Votes: 4,356 | Gross: $0.02M

25. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)

75 min | Drama

7.5
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Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John ... See full summary »

Stars: Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones

Votes: 133

26. Jackanory (1965–1996)

15 min | Family, Fantasy

7.1
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A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.

Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Williams, Martin Jarvis, John Grant

Votes: 424

27. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)

60 min | Drama

7.6
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This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.

Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum

Votes: 247

28. The Weaker Sex (1948)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

6.5
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A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond

Votes: 210

29. Noel's House Party (1991–1999)

50 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Music

6.3
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Set in Noel Edmonds' fictitious grand house in the equally fictitious town of Crinkley Bottom, the show centres around games involving the studio audience and special guest celebrities. ... See full summary »

Stars: Noel Edmonds, Barry Killerby, Tony Blackburn, Frank Carson

Votes: 358

30. The Hundred Hour Hunt (1952)

84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.2
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Scotland Yard is mobilised in the hunt for blood donors in a race to save a dying girl.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Freddie Mills

Votes: 214

31. Talking Heads 2 (1998)

230 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

8.6
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Six monologues: a lonely store clerk, a covetous antiques dealer, a reformed pedophile, a wife of a dangerous criminal, a murderer's friend, and a confused older woman.

Stars: Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, Eileen Atkins, Patricia Routledge

Votes: 209

32. ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)

78 min | Drama

6.3
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Anthology series of dramatic works.

Stars: Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale

Votes: 99

33. In Loving Memory (1969–1986)

25 min | Comedy

7.0
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1920s set sitcom following the misadventures of the accident-prone Billy Henshaw and his auntie Ivy as they try to run the family firm of undertakers.

Stars: Christopher Beeny, Thora Hird, Colin Farrell, Avis Bunnage

Votes: 142

34. The Basil Brush Show (1968–1980)

Comedy, Family

6.8
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Jokes and comical stories told by the red fox puppet "Basil Brush" with the help of guests.

Stars: Basil Brush, Bert Hayes, Derek Fowlds, Roy North

Votes: 129

35. Wogan (1982–1992)

35 min | Talk-Show

6.1
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Terry Wogan hosts his own long-running chat show, where he interviews a variety of guests, from public life to celebrities. Also featured are regular musical guests performing their latest songs.

Stars: Terry Wogan, Sue Lawley, Joanna Lumley, Gloria Hunniford

Votes: 314

36. The Good Old Days (1953–1983)

60 min | Comedy, Musical

6.9
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A re-creation of the Music Hall variety shows that were popular in the late Victorian and the Edwardian periods (late 1800s and early 1900s). Entertainers performed musical, comedy, magic ... See full summary »

Stars: Leonard Sachs, Dudley Stevens, Jenny Wren, Penny Rigden

Votes: 90

37. The Long Memory (1953)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.0
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Released from prison after twelve years, a wrongfully convicted British man seeks revenge on the witnesses who lied at his trial.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh

Votes: 1,292

38. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)

Drama

7.8
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Series of television plays performed live.

Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan

Votes: 180

39. The Magnet (1950)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy

6.8
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A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards

Votes: 613

40. The Army Game (1957–1961)

30 min | Comedy

7.5
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The exploits of a bunch of army conscripts.

Stars: Harry Fowler, Frank Williams, Ted Lune, Alfie Bass

Votes: 96

41. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)

60 min | Drama

8.8
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BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.

Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett

Votes: 133

42. Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

6.7
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When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to believe he has found true love.

Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Michael Medwin

Votes: 313

43. Personal Affair (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.5
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In a 1950s British village, a teenager, who is in love with her Latin language teacher, disappears, prompting the police to investigate the teacher, amidst public rumors of rape and murder.

Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Gene Tierney, Leo Genn, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald

Votes: 619

44. Billy Liar (1973–1974)

30 min | Comedy

7.4
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Billy is an idealistic young man who is trapped in a boring life. He works in a tedious job in an undertaker's office with a permanently uptight employer, dates a soppy girl who fails to ... See full summary »

Stars: Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey, May Warden

Votes: 69

45. The South Bank Show (1978– )

53 min | Documentary

6.9
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ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.

Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood

Votes: 218

46. Under the Hammer (1993–1994)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

7.7
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Life at a London art-auction house.

Stars: Richard Wilson, Jan Francis, Robert Lang, Michael Siberry

Votes: 47

47. Term of Trial (1962)

Approved | 130 min | Drama

7.1
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A British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell

Votes: 871

48. The Magic Box (1951)

Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

7.0
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A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson, Richard Attenborough

Votes: 1,419

49. Conspirator (1949)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.1
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In Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton marries British Army Major Michael Curragh, who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender

Votes: 1,110

50. Lost for Words (1999 TV Movie)

76 min | Drama

8.0
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Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Thora Hird, Pete Postlethwaite, Penny Downie, Jennifer Luckraft

Votes: 321



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