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1. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.
Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, John Alkin
Votes: 2,661
2. Z Cars (1962–1978)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
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: 382
3. An Ideal Husband (I) (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
London 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Peter Vaughan, Minnie Driver
Votes: 16,733 | Gross: $18.54M
4. The Protectors (1972–1974)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Challenges abound for worldwide crime-fighting team The Protectors. Organised into a global secret society, their mission is to protect the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Starring Emmy winner Robert Vaughn "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.".
Stars: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt, Yasuko Nagazumi
Votes: 573
5. Edward II (1991)
R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Votes: 3,040 | Gross: $0.69M
6. Elizabeth R (1971)
520 min | Biography, Drama, History
When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray
Votes: 1,942
7. E! True Hollywood Story (1996– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary series exploring a topic, headline, or person that became the ground zero for a revolution in culture; told by the people who were on the front lines of the story.
Stars: Phil Crowley, Chip Bolcik, Beng Spies, Ken Baker
Votes: 1,256
8. General Hospital (1972–1980)
30 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Tony Adams, David Garth, Lewis Jones, James Kerry
Votes: 84
9. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,939
10. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 94
11. Highly Dangerous (1950)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 620
12. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 294
13. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Approved | 108 min | Drama
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 985
14. Saraband (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Young Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but it's far from a love match. Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmark.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 625
15. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
16. Softly Softly: Task Force (1969–1976)
50 min | Crime, Drama
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: 115
17. The First Churchills (1969)
564 min | Biography, Drama, History
The lives of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah.
Stars: John Neville, Susan Hampshire, John Standing, Robert Robinson
Votes: 272
18. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
19. The Strauss Family (1972)
60 min | Drama, Romance
A seven-part mini-series produced in England about Vienna's Strauss family in the 19th-century. Members of the London Symphony Orchestra provided the music.
Stars: Stuart Wilson, Anne Stallybrass, Barbara Ferris, Christopher Benjamin
Votes: 122
20. Selling Hitler (1991)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
The true story of the biggest fraud in publishing history - the Hitler diaries.
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Julie T. Wallace
Votes: 154
21. The Play on One (1988–1991)
Drama
Various plays from each of the home nations.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Tom Watson, Susan Wooldridge, Phyllis Logan
Votes: 58
22. Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
Approved | 114 min | Crime, Drama
The tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the ... See full summary »
Director: George Hoellering | Stars: John Groser, Donald Bisset, Clement McCallin, Michael Groser
Votes: 119
23. Timeshift (2002–2017)
60 min | Documentary
Series looking at changes in British society, employing archive footage from the BBC and other sources.
Stars: Veronika Hyks, Tamsin Greig, Kim Newman, Andrew Martin
Votes: 74
24. Good-Time Girl (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a Policeman. She runs away with two G. I.s who are also on the run and they start a crime wave.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Diana Dors, George Merritt, Flora Robson, Jean Kent
Votes: 463
25. Spy Trap (1972–1975)
45 min | Drama
The escapades of a group of spies at the Department, a Fictional espionage agency tasked by the British government with protecting national security.
Stars: Paul Daneman, Prentis Hancock, Julian Glover, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 16
26. Reputations (1994–2002)
50 min | Documentary
Documentary profiles examining well-known figures from the world of entertainment and history.
Stars: Jancis Robinson, Veronika Hyks, Denis Lawson, Josette Simon
Votes: 23
27. The Secret Servant (1984)
60 min | Drama, Thriller
Major Maxim of the SAS is assigned as a bodyguard for a nuclear strategist going to a conference.
Stars: Charles Dance, Dan O'Herlihy, Jill Meager, Julian Curry
Votes: 17
28. A Moment in Time (1979– )
30 min | Drama
Young Elizabeth's quiet village life in Kent changes in the summer of 1940 with the arrival of a group of RAF officers.
Stars: Alison Elliott, Jill Balcon, Robin Davies, Benjamin Whitrow
Votes: 9
29. Seeing and Believing (1960–1976)
Family
Stars: Wilfred Harrison, Leonard Pearcey, John Graham, Philip Latham
30. Six Days of Justice (1972–1975)
52 min | Drama
Drama deals with a magistrates' court, which usually is their first encounter with the law in the U.K. The stories evolve around the types of crimes that are presented there from parking ... See full summary »
Stars: George Waring, Meadows White, Rex Robinson, Ishaq Bux
Votes: 13
31. Derek Jarman: Life as Art (2004)
57 min | Documentary, Biography
Portrait of the artist/film maker Derek Jarman as told by those who knew him best.
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye | Stars: Tariq Ali, Jill Balcon, Simon Fisher-Turner, Christopher Hobbs
Votes: 52
32. For the Children (1946–1952)
20 min
Programme for children of school age.
Stars: Cameron Miller, Kenneth More, Robert Dickens, Patrick Troughton
33. Esther Waters (1977– )
50 min | Drama
Adaptation of George Moore's novel about a young, devout woman who is seduced while working as a maid and thereafter has to support herself and her child however she can.
Stars: Gabrielle Lloyd, James Laurenson, Alison Steadman, Paul Jesson
Votes: 5
34. The Lost People (1949)
89 min | Drama, War
Set in a German theatre after World War II, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Richard Attenborough, Siobhan McKenna
Votes: 34
35. The Fools on the Hill (1986 TV Movie)
99 min | Drama
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary. The characters are both real and fictional.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Shaughan Seymour, Nicholas Farrell, Caroline Embling, Nicola King
Votes: 18
36. Kitty Clive (1956 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive
Stars: Peter Augustine, Jill Balcon, Faith Brook, Denise Hurst
37. British Film Forever (2007)
90 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Jessica Hynes, Timothy Spall, Nick Moran, Ronald Neame
Votes: 112
39. Forever Ealing (2002 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
This is a history of the England's Ealing Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known Ealing comedies ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Snell | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Attenborough, Jill Balcon, Derek Bond
Votes: 154
40. Clementina (1954)
35 min | Drama
Stars: Patrick Troughton, Elizabeth Henson, Fred Johnson, Desmond Jordan
41. Play the Game (1947– )
35 min | Game-Show
Stars: Robert McDermott, Cleland Finn, Jeremy Spenser, Robert Dickens
42. Pitchi-Poï ou La parole donnée (1967 TV Movie)
150 min
Directors: François Billetdoux, Guy Casaril | Stars: Georges Rouquier, Claude Marcault, Karine Levy, Marie-Laure Dulac
43. The Merchant of Venice (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | 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: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
Votes: 6
44. Network (1974–1980)
30 min | News
A series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC Regions and now seen countrywide.
Stars: Brian Barr, Tom Salmon, Brian Thompson, Vincent Kane
45. The British Academy Awards (1979 TV Special)
Stars: Sue Lawley, Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Anthony Andrews
46. An Evening with J.B. Priestley (1973 TV Movie)
50 min | Talk-Show
This week J.B. Priestley enters his 80th year. For this specially recorded programme he has chosen extracts from his own writing to celebrate some of the many different things that he looks back on with pleasure.
Director: Don Sayer | Stars: J.B. Priestley, Jill Balcon
47. The Holly and the Ivy (1955 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their World War II trials.
Stars: Pamela Alan, Jill Balcon, Terence Brook, Alan Coleshill
48. The Merchant of Venice/II (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | 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: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
49. The Case of Thomas Pyke (1949 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Jill Balcon, Claude Bonser, Patricia Cutts, Lisa Daniely
50. The Master Builder (1950 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Roger Livesey, Catherine Lacey, Adina Mandlová, Jill Balcon