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- A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
- 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.
- Cynical, dour and world-weary, private eye Frank Marker is frequently the unwitting stooge in bigger criminal wheels in his attempts to make a tenuous living on the outskirts of London.
- Dr. Finlay is a member of a medical practice in the Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
- Series of television plays performed live.
- Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and authoritative manner. A range of classic cases but gritty it isn't. Each case centres on one crime and one criminal.
- An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
- Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
- Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, lord and master of Blandings Castle, wants nothing more than to talk to his prize pig and potter about in his gardens. Reality intrudes in the form of family duties and his strong-willed sisters.
- An hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the BBC from 1963-64, with a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Stars included Judi Dench, Cyril Cusack, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea and Margaret Whiting, among others.
- A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
- An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
- Drama serial dealing with the lives of the Broomes, an English theatrical family, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Early, now forgotten sitcom about a jazz musician with a frantic love life, written for Michael Medwin, then a TV comedy star following "Army Game, The" (1957). Brian Wilde left the series, and the role of Mike's flatmate, early on and was replaced by Bernard Fox (I): three of the cast from this, Medwin, Fox and George Roderick, re-teamed the following year in "Three Live Wires" (1961).