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1. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
Stars: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker
Votes: 39,586
2. I, Claudius (1976)
Not Rated | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
The personal and governmental affairs of the Julio-Claudian dynasty at the beginning of the Roman Empire, as recalled by one of its rulers.
Stars: Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed
Votes: 19,404
3. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
540 min | Drama, History, Romance
A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.
Stars: Keith Michell, Anthony Quayle, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Hepton
Votes: 1,457
4. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 395
5. The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
385 min | Drama
When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cozy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Janet Maw, Nigel Hawthorne, Angela Pleasence
Votes: 1,222
6. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
7. Doomwatch (1970–1972)
50 min | Sci-Fi, Drama
Doomwatch is the nickname for the Department of Measurement of Scientific Work. Under the leadership of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Spencer Quist, the Doomwatch team struggled, for ... See full summary »
Stars: John Paul, Joby Blanshard, Simon Oates, Vivien Sherrard
Votes: 198
8. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.
Stars: Brenda Bruce, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards
Votes: 53
9. Hancock's Half Hour (1956–1960)
30 min | Comedy
TV version of the popular BBC radio show of the same name, with Tony Hancock as the modern man of the world (in his own eyes). Sid James is there to bring him back to earth.
Stars: Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Johnny Vyvyan, Alec Bregonzi
Votes: 592
10. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 139
11. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
75 min | Drama
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: 132
12.
The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
Episode:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
(1980)
TV-14 | 210 min
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Directors: Rodney Bennett, John Gorrie | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter
Votes: 665
13. Brat Farrar (1986)
155 min | Drama, Mystery
When a lookalike agrees to impersonate a presumed dead heir, he suspects the death wasn't accidental as he gets close to the family.
Stars: Mark Greenstreet, Angela Browne, Frederick Treves, Dominique Barnes
Votes: 134
14. Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.
Stars: John Gabriel, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Erik Chitty, Peter Copley
Votes: 177
15. The Legend of King Arthur (1979)
110 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The classic story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
Stars: Felicity Dean, David Robb, Maureen O'Brien, Andrew Burt
Votes: 50
16. Dead of Night (1972)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
"Dead of Night" was a non-hosted UK television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972.
Stars: Anna Massey, John Castle, Anna Cropper, Peter Barkworth
Votes: 169
17. The Expert (1968–1976)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Professor John Hardy is a forensic scientist who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.
Stars: Marius Goring, Ann Morrish, Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth
Votes: 42
18. The Comedy of Errors (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Unfortunately, Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will ... See full summary »
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray, Nicolas Chagrin, Nick Burnell
Votes: 224
19. The Prisoner of Zenda (1984)
180 min | Adventure
An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
Stars: Malcolm Sinclair, Pauline Moran, John Woodvine, Jonathon Morris
Votes: 75
20. The Tempest (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 125 min | Drama
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Michael Hordern, Derek Godfrey, David Waller, Warren Clarke
Votes: 328
21. Casanova (1971)
50 min | Drama, History, Romance
While he is in prison, Giacomo Casanova recalls many of his past romances and adventures.
Stars: Frank Finlay, Norman Rossington, Zienia Merton, Christine Noonan
Votes: 128
22. Churchill's People (1974–1975)
50 min | Drama, History, War
A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
Stars: Alfred Lynch, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Matthews, Mark Donaldson
Votes: 36
23. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
90 min | Drama
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason
Votes: 48
24. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Stars: Judi Dench, Richard O'Callaghan, Frederick Treves, Clive Swift
Votes: 47
25. The Taming of the Shrew (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 127 min | Comedy, Romance
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Simon Chandler, Anthony Pedley, John Franklyn-Robbins, Frank Thornton
Votes: 398
26. Crime and Punishment (1979)
225 min | Drama
This mini-series is the ultimate psychological thriller with a powerful sense of guilt and retribution, set in St. Petersburg in the second half of the nineteenth century. Raskolnikov is a ... See full summary »
Stars: John Hurt, Anne Orwin, Siân Phillips, Fiona Glassbrook
Votes: 192
27. Star Cops (1987)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The adventures of the International Space Police Force, led by Nathan Spring, in 2027. The Star Cops are made up of officers from all over the world: the British Colin Devis, the Australian... See full summary »
Stars: David Calder, Erick Ray Evans, Trevor Cooper, Linda Newton
Votes: 227
28. The Last of the Mohicans (1971)
344 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Three trappers protect a British colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Stars: Andrew Crawford, Tim Goodman, Kenneth Ives, John Abineri
Votes: 230
29. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 58
30. The Merchant of Venice (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 157 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Franklyn-Robbins, John Rhys-Davies, Alan David, John Nettles
Votes: 297
31. The Glittering Prizes (1976)
471 min | Drama
Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.
Stars: Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman, Mark Wing-Davey, Clive Merrison
Votes: 171
32. The Gathering Storm (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees, Lesley Dunlop
Votes: 269
33. Summer Season (1985)
55 min | Drama
Stars: Tim Wylton, Marion Bailey, Charles Dale, Nicholas Gecks
Votes: 35
34. The Browning Version (1985 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Forced to retire from an English public school, a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine
Votes: 122
35. Tom's Midnight Garden (1989)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Tom Long is staying with his Uncle and Aunt. When their grandfather clock strikes thirteen, Tom makes a strange discovery - a portal to the past where only a friendly girl called Hatty can see him. Adapted from a novel by Philippa Pearce.
Stars: Jeremy Rampling, Shaughan Seymour, Isabelle Amyes, Simon Fenton
Votes: 116
36. Titus Andronicus (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Horror
Roman warrior Titus Andronicus finds himself trapped in a nightmarish cycle of vengeance, misery, and bloodshed.
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: Paul Davies Prowles, Edward Hardwicke, Walter Brown, Brian Protheroe
Votes: 194
37. The Edwardians (1972–1973)
50 min | Drama, History
This series covers the turning points in 9 different figures during the Edwardian era of the United Kingdom - Henry Royce and Charles Rolls - of Rolls Royce fame; Horatio Bottomly founder ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Thorley Walters, Judy Parfitt, Timothy West, Ron Moody
Votes: 77
38. The Life and Death of King John (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama
King John does whatever it takes to keep himself on the throne of England, making enemies of the pope, France, and his nephew along the way.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, William Whymper, Mary Morris, Robert Brown
Votes: 146
39. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 177 min | Drama
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter,... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, John Woodvine, Edita Brychta, Mike Gwilym
Votes: 118
40. The Lost Boys (1978)
274 min | Biography, Drama
The story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. Barrie writes PETER PAN for the five boys, and later adopts George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas.
Stars: Ian Holm, Anna Cropper, William Hootkins, Maureen O'Brien
Votes: 125
41. The Love School (1975– )
Drama
1848, the year of revolutions throughout Europe, reflected in London by a group of young painters.
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Patricia Quinn, Peter Egan, David Burke
Votes: 17
42. Centre Play (1973–1977)
Drama
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Stars: John Barrett, Will Knightley, David Daker, Michael Gough
Votes: 15
43. Counterstrike (1969– )
50 min | Sci-Fi
Simon King, an alien agent from the Inter Galactic Council, is sent to Earth on a mission to stop unscrupulous refugees from a dying planet from wiping out Mankind and taking over the planet Earth.
Stars: Jon Finch, Sarah Brackett, Katie Fitzroy, Fraser Kerr
Votes: 26
44. The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Ned Sherrin | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Gordon Jackson, Arthur Lowe, Vivian Pickles
Votes: 37
45. Black and Blue (1973)
60 min | Drama
Anthology series of plays based on the theme of "things turning black and the air turning blue."
Stars: George Tovey, Warren Mitchell, Clifford Rose, Julian Holloway
Votes: 24
46. Fame Is the Spur (1982– )
50 min | Drama
This TV series is based on a book of the same name by Howard Spring published in 1940. It describes the rise of the British socialist movement from the mid 19th century to the 1930s by ... See full summary »
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Hayman, Joanna David, Phyllida Law
Votes: 17
47. Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984 TV Movie)
72 min | Drama
Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco of the title, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. They leave the ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Perry Benson, Cathy Murphy, Paul McKenzie, Bernice Rowe
Votes: 90
48. Saint Joan (1979 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A simple peasant girl claims to hear the voices of the saints, telling her to rid France of the English.
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: Gabrielle Lloyd, Michael Graham Cox, Hugh Walters, David Daker
49. Going to Work (1961–1986)
25 min | Documentary, Drama
Stars: Peter West, Chris Kelly, Nigel Anthony, Harvey Hall
50. Billy Budd (1966 TV Movie)
158 min | Drama, Music
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Peter Pears, Peter Glossop, Michael Langdon, John Shirley-Quirk
Votes: 10