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51. Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast (1992 TV Special)
49 min | Comedy
A spoof of ITV's magazine show This Morning, presented by Sally Cumbernauld (Wood) and Martin Crossthwaite (Preston), with sketches, adverts, an exercise ritual with Polly (Blake, an ... See full summary »
Director: Geoff Posner | Stars: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Susie Blake
Votes: 80
52. The Rat Catchers (1966–1967)
60 min | Drama, Thriller
A highly secret British Intelligence Unit is set up to deal with enemy menaces, staffed by three tough & capable operatives - the flamboyant Peregrine Smith, cold & logical Davidson, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Gerald Flood, Glyn Owen, Philip Stone, James Kerry
Votes: 18
53. Our Man at St. Mark's (1963–1966)
30 min | Comedy
The trials and tribulations of the Vicar of the village of Felgate.
Stars: Joan Hickson, Donald Sinden, Harry Fowler, Clive Morton
54. Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
50 min | Romance
Anthology series of love stories.
Stars: Scott Forbes, Donald Pickering, Barry Jackson, Susan Jameson
Votes: 26
55. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1978)
30 min | Drama, Family
Rebecca Randall is sent to her two maiden aunts in Riverboro, Maine to be educated. Creative, impulsive Rebecca annoys strict Aunt Miranda but makes fast friends with Aunt Jane, Emma Jane Perkins, and the childless, elderly Cobbs.
Stars: Julia Lewis, Phil Brown, Margery Mason, Brenda Bruce
Votes: 7
56. Victorian Scandals (1976)
55 min | Drama, History
Dramatized versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Stars: Simon Callow, Julian Fellowes, Suzanna Hamilton, Robert Hardy
Votes: 8
57. Diamonds (1981– )
60 min | Drama
Frank takes over Coleman and Sons, Diamond Merchants, when his father dies, and his ruthless business practices make enemies of his friends and family. His wife Margaret is tempted to leave... See full summary »
Stars: John Stride, Hildegard Neil, Simon Ward, Doris Hare
Votes: 17
58. God's Wonderful Railway (1980)
30 min | Drama, Family, History
Three generations of the Grant family live and work on the Severn Valley branch of the Great Western Railway, from the Victorian era to the Second World War.
Stars: June Brown, Richard Pearson, Annette Ekblom, Bill Dean
Votes: 17
59. The Desperate People (1963)
25 min | Thriller
The famous photographer Larry Martin is visited by his brother Philip, on leave of absence from his military service in West Germany. Philip is trying to find the wife of a diseased friend ... See full summary »
Stars: Denis Quilley, Hugh Cross, Renny Lister, Garard Green
Votes: 15
60. Return of a Stranger (1961)
63 min | Crime, Thriller
John and Pam have bought a terrace house in a village, and move into it with their little son. In the middle of the night Pam notices that a man is peeping at them from the pavement outside... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton
Votes: 79
61. A Matter of Degree (1960)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Jessie Evans, Meredith Edwards, Hugh David, Anita Morgan
Votes: 19
62. Late Call (1975– )
54 min
Angus Wilson (1913-1991) wrote his novel "Late Call" in 1964, and 20 years later, Anthony Burgess ranked it as one of the 99 best novels written since 1939. This led to its inclusion in the... See full summary »
Stars: Dandy Nichols, Michael Bryant, Leslie Dwyer, Timothy Morand
Votes: 24
63. The Gamblers (1967–1968)
60 min | Drama
Anthology drama series of people who take a gamble (sometimes with their lives) in order to prove a point or better their position.
Stars: Richard Shaw, Leslie Anderson, Ronald Lacey, John Slavid
Votes: 10
64. The Idiot (1966– )
Drama
Dramatization of Dostoyevsky's novel about a naive and unworldly young man who finds himself entangled in a corrupt and greedy society.
Stars: David Buck, Adrienne Corri, Anthony Bate, Patrick Newell
65. Sophia and Constance (1988– )
50 min
Drama based on The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett about two sisters whose paths in life differ widely.
Stars: Alfred Burke, Leonard Preston, Freda Dowie, Nigel Bradshaw
66. An Honourable Murder (1960)
69 min | Drama
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is played in modern dress with Caesar as the chairman of a board of directors considering a merger with another company. The conspirators are his fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Norman Wooland, Margaretta Scott, Lisa Daniely, Douglas Wilmer
Votes: 36
67. Saturday Playhouse (1958–1961)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
Stars: Elvi Hale, Madoline Thomas, George A. Cooper, Emrys Jones
68. It Happened Like This (1962–1963)
45 min | Drama
Mysterious and unexplained events retold as episodic dramas..
Stars: Ralph Michael, Ian Anderson, Martin Wyldeck, David Hemmings
69. The Last Visitor (1982 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Mona Washbourne, Adam Blackwood, Shirley Cain
70. You and the World (1964–1975)
30 min | Family
Teenage drama for schools,involving the period between leaving school and working in the first jobs.
Stars: Cheryl Hall, Darryl Read, Therese McMurray, Joy Stewart
71. Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat (1956 TV Movie)
45 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Jack Minster | Stars: Shirley Cain, Eynon Evans, Richard Johnson, Andree Melly
73. Ways with Words (1965– )
30 min | Family
TV Series for younger Secondary School Children for learning English grammar.
Stars: Geoffrey Russell, Howard Bennett, Diane Grayson, Michael Craze
74. Son of the House (1962 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Dafydd Gruffydd | Stars: Hugh David, Edward Evans, Shirley Cain, Trevor Reid
75. Wishing Well (1957 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Rona Anderson, Jessie Evans, Eynon Evans, John Glyn-Jones
76.
Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
Episode:
Love with a Few Hairs
(1967)
Romance
Director: June Wyndham-Davies | Stars: Griffith Jones, Felicity Kendal, Damien Court-Thomas, Hira Talfrey
77.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
The Lie
(1970)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Frank Finlay, Gemma Jones, Adam Tandy, Lysandre De La Haye
Votes: 86
78.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Uninvited
(1971)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A Middle-aged couple are disturbed during the night by a series of unwelcome visitations.
Director: Eric Hills | Stars: David Allister, Shirley Cain, June Ellis, Hilary Mason
Votes: 13
79.
Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode:
Color Him Dead
(1974)
TV-14 | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After an assassin's bullet fails to kill tycoon David Garrick, eccentric husband-and-wife detective team Arden and Suzy Buckley are hired to protect the millionaire. The pair have to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Stephen Rea, Jean Kent, Christopher Cazenove
Votes: 187
80.
Churchill's People (1974–1975)
Episode:
On the Anvil
(1975)
Drama, History, War
1265: A runaway peasant accidentally witnesses a meeting between King Henry III and his chief Baron Simon de Montfort. Their argument indicates that only by a confrontation of arms will their differences be settled.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Derek Godfrey, Daniel Massey, Richard O'Callaghan, Christopher Benjamin
81.
BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
Episode:
The Mind Beyond: Double Echo
(1976)
60 min | Drama
Alison has suffered Autism since childhood. Now aged 17, her parents take her to see Dr. Mallam for psychotherapy. Alison is tested with Zener cards and he suspects she is a telepathic. Along with Dr. Raeburn they attempt to discover more.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Jeremy Kemp, Anthony Bate, Gerry Cowper, Clifford Rose
Votes: 13
82.
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode:
Strong Poison: Episode One
(1987)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates after the novelist Harriet Vane is accused of poisoning her former lover.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Paul Hastings
Votes: 298
83.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Vanity Dies Hard: Part 1
(1994)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When wealthy middle-aged divorcée Alice Fielding, marries a handsome younger man, her best friend Nesta, who has fallen on hard times, begins to resent her.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jane Gurnett, Leslie Phillips, Leonard Preston, Arthur White
Votes: 119
84.
Crime Story (1992–1995)
Episode:
A Question of Identity
(1992)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.
Director: Nigel Miller | Stars: Bernard Hill, Shirley Cain, Tomasz Borkowy, Marella Oppenheim
Votes: 16
85.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Dead Past
(1965)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Time travel may still be impossible, but the Chronoscope, sensing the nearly imponderable tracks of ancient photons, allows a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian ... See full summary »
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: George Benson, James Maxwell, David Langton, Willoughby Goddard
Votes: 55
86.
The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode:
Duplicates
(1988)
TV-14 | 23 min | Crime, Drama
W.P.C. Brind takes part in a television reconstruction to help find a missing woman, due to her resemblance to the person in question. Meanwhile, Roach and Carver investigate a video piracy ring, and uncover a far more serious crime.
Director: Niall Leonard | Stars: Larry Dann, Kelly Lawrence, Tony Scannell, Mark Wingett
Votes: 50
87.
The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode:
Long Odds
(1984)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama
Litten's day goes from bad to worse when he gets on the wrong side of both Galloway and Cryer. Meanwhile Edwards pursues a mugger into a derelict building.
Director: John Michael Phillips | Stars: John Salthouse, Eric Richard, Colin Blumenau, Tony Scannell
Votes: 57
88.
The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993)
Episode:
The Darling Buds of May: Part 2
(1991)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy, Drama
Having woken with a hangover but determined to stay at Home Farm, 'Charley' as the family call him ,decides to accompany the Larkins on a strawberry-picking outing where he catches the eye ... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Philip Franks, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 101
89.
The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993)
Episode:
When the Green Woods Laugh: Part 1
(1991)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy, Drama
Pop decides to buy the west wing of the country seat of impoverished aristocrats, the Bluff-Gores, initially for scrap, but Lady Bluff-Gore persuades him to go into the property business. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Philip Franks, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 92
90.
EastEnders (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.629
(1991)
TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Directors: Terry Iland, Stephen Butcher | Stars: Todd Carty, Sophie Lawrence, Jan Graveson, June Brown
Votes: 9
91.
God's Wonderful Railway (1980)
Episode:
Clear Ahead - Part 1
(1980)
Drama, Family, History
Director: John Prowse | Stars: John Barrett, Dale Bayford, Shirley Cain, Roger Hume
92.
Hunters Walk (1973–1976)
Episode:
Kids
(1974)
Crime
DS Smith and his boys have to deal with all kinds of villainy - but the latest outbreak of 'crime' has them well and truly puzzled. It appears that a new gang of villains have entered their patch - seven young kids.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Ewan Hooper, Davyd Harries, Ruth Madoc, Carole Shadbolt
93.
New Scotland Yard (1972–1974)
Episode:
Point of Impact
(1972)
48 min | Crime, Drama
Violence flares up when a student protest meets a counter-demonstration. A young demonstrator is killed by a blow to the head. The nearest person to the body is a mounted officer Tyrell. ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: John Woodvine, John Carlisle, Barry Warren, Bryan Marshall
Votes: 17
94.
The Rat Catchers (1966–1967)
Episode:
Showdown Vienna
(1966)
Drama, Thriller
Find and destroy! The Brigadier's orders would be simple but for a dangerous problem called Leopold Donner.
Director: Bill Hitchcock | Stars: Shirley Cain, Vernon Dobtcheff, Lucy Fleming, Gerald Flood
95.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
The Surgeon
(1988)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Wealthy Prince Zawi gives surgeon Robert Sandy a diamond for saving his life. The diamond is extremely valuable and, as a precaution against it being stolen, Robert hides it in a very safe ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Evans | Stars: John Alderton, Thorley Walters, Alison Fiske, Jonathan Coy
Votes: 149
96.
Them and Us (1985– )
Episode:
Caesar's Snarl
(1985)
Drama
Director: John Cooper | Stars: Shirley Cain, Constance Chapman, Brian Coburn, Wendy Gifford
97.
Thomas and Sarah (1979)
Episode:
Return to Gethyn
(1979)
51 min | Drama
Thomas becomes suddenly homesick for his native Wales and with Sarah travels back to his village home for the first time in ten years with dire consequences.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: John Alderton, Pauline Collins, Gary Raymond, Shirley Cain
Votes: 13
98.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode:
Laugh a Little Louder Please
(1975)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama
Georgina and her cohort throw a bacchanal at Eaton Place, with tragic consequences.
Director: Derek Bennett | Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Angela Baddeley, Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh
Votes: 87
99.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode:
Wanted - a Good Home
(1975)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama
It's the new governess against the entire staff when young William and Alice get their wish -- an adorable puppy.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Angela Baddeley, Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Hannah Gordon
Votes: 85
100.
Victoria Wood (1989)
Episode:
Over to Pam
(1989)
29 min | Comedy
Victoria accompanies her friend Lorraine, a working class Liverpudlian who now runs her own successful hairdressing business, when she is invited to appear on an asinine daytime TV chat show hosted by the monstrous Pam.
Director: Kevin Bishop | Stars: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Kay Adshead, Meg Johnson
Votes: 33