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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: 39,559
2. 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: 394
3. 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
4. Top of the Pops (1964–2023)
60 min | Music, News, Talk-Show
A rundown of the latest chart hits, featuring in-studio performances from popular music artists.
Stars: The Ladybirds, Pan's People, Jimmy Savile, Legs & Co
Votes: 1,126
5. 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
6. Paul Temple (1969–1971)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crime-novelist Paul Temple solves mysteries with the help of his wife Steve.
Stars: Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater, June Ellis, George Sewell
Votes: 95
7. 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
8. 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
9. Clouds of Witness (1972)
Drama, Mystery
Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver is accused of murdering their sister Mary's fiancé. It's up to Lord Peter and his faithful man Bunter to untangle all the clues and the ... See full summary »
Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert
Votes: 383
10. Wuthering Heights (1978)
300 min | Drama
An eternally romantic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine.
Stars: Ken Hutchison, Brian Wilde, Pat Heywood, John Duttine
Votes: 180
11. Macbeth (1983 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 148 min | Drama
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Brenda Bruce, Eileen Way, Anne Dyson, Mark Dignam
Votes: 390
12. 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: 176
13. The Shadow of the Tower (1972)
Biography, Drama, History
A series recording the key events in the reign of Henry Tudor and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty
Stars: James Maxwell, Bruce Hodgkins, Norma West, Hugh Sullivan
Votes: 230
14. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1973 TV Movie)
G | 74 min | Fantasy, Family
Join Alice on her journey through the mirror in BBC's fanciful adaptation of Lewis Caroll's classic novel. In an alternate world, just on the other side of the mirror's reflection, Alice ... See full summary »
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Sarah Sutton, Brenda Bruce, Richard Pearson, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 97
15. Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game (1971–2005)
60 min | Comedy, Game-Show
Making a fool of the contestants as they try to copy professionals who have strange jobs. To win some prizes the contestants play for points until there is a winner. They then watch prizes ... See full summary »
Stars: Bruce Forsyth, Anthea Redfern, Larry Grayson, Isla St. Clair
Votes: 205
16. Spider's Web (1982 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The wife of a Foreign Office diplomat discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Penelope Keith, Robert Flemyng, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Spriggs
Votes: 243
17. 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
18. Dial M for Murder (1974)
50 min | Thriller
Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.
Stars: Jay Neill, Robert Lister, Gemma Jones, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 13
19. 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
20. Diana (1984)
520 min | Drama
Series follows the very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.
Stars: Kevin McNally, Jenny Seagrove, Gillian Raine, Fred Bryant
Votes: 102
21. 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: 296
22. 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
23. Troilus & Cressida (1981 TV Movie)
190 min | Drama
During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Charles Gray, Anton Lesser, Tony Steedman, Suzanne Burden
Votes: 149
24. 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
25. The Roads to Freedom (1970)
559 min | Drama, War
Dramatisation of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Daniel Massey, Alison Fiske, Georgia Brown
Votes: 172
26. Summer Season (1985)
55 min | Drama
Stars: Tim Wylton, Marion Bailey, Charles Dale, Nicholas Gecks
Votes: 35
27. Henry IV Part I (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son, (nicknamed "Hotspur"). Henry's son, Hal, the ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Robert Brown
Votes: 225
28. W. Somerset Maugham (1969–1970)
50 min | Drama
An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".
Stars: Kim Kee Lim, Ken Nazarin, Ahmad Jamal, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 19
29. Detective (1964–1969)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories.
Stars: Rupert Davies, Ralph Michael, Barbara Couper, Esmond Knight
Votes: 27
30. Henry V (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 170 min | Biography, Drama, War
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: David Giles | Stars: John Abineri, Robert Ashby, Trevor Baxter, Rod Beacham
Votes: 160
31. Busted (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Alan Rickman, Michael Feast, Lorna Heilbron, Dave Hill
Votes: 46
32. In Concert (1970– )
56 min | Music
Intimate concerts for the new breed of singer-songwriter.
Stars: Oscar Peterson, Richie Havens, Tony Joe White, James Taylor
Votes: 16
33. Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
50 min | Romance
Anthology series of love stories.
Stars: Scott Forbes, Donald Pickering, Barry Jackson, Susan Jameson
Votes: 25
34. Antony & Cleopatra (1981 TV Movie)
170 min | Drama, History, Romance
After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: John Paul, Jonathan Adams, Jane Lapotaire, Colin Blakely
Votes: 157
35. The Sextet (1972)
75 min | Drama
An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.
Stars: Denholm Elliott, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Vernon, Dennis Waterman
36. Private Lives (1976 TV Movie)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Amanda and Elyot used to be tempestuously married to each other. Now, each has remarried - and they find themselves in adjoining suites at the same hotel.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Alec McCowen, Penelope Keith, Polly Adams, Donald Pickering
Votes: 78
37. The Woodlanders (1970– )
45 min | Drama
Stars: Felicity Kendal, David Burke, Annette Robertson, Ralph Bates
Votes: 13
38. 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
39. Menace (1970–1973)
75 min | Thriller
This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Stars: David Wood, John Wentworth, Sheila Hancock, Anne Kristen
Votes: 23
40. Kilvert's Diary (1977–1978)
15 min | Drama
Stars: Timothy Davies, Rhoda Lewis, Hugh Latimer, Clifford Evans
41. 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
42. Henry IV Part II (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed "Hotspur"). Henry's son Hal, the Prince ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Martin Neil
Votes: 156
43. The Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show (1982–1986)
Comedy, Game-Show, Talk-Show
Variety show broadcast live on Saturday evenings. One segment featured dangerous stunts.
Stars: Noel Edmonds, Mike Smith, John Peel, Leni Harper
Votes: 25
44. As You Like It (1963 TV Movie)
140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Directors: Michael Elliott, Ronald Eyre | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Allen, Max Adrian, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 160
45. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1981 TV Movie)
111 min | Fantasy
Director: Michael Hayes | Stars: Frank Finlay, Stratford Johns, Paul Hardwick, Patrick Troughton
46. Waters of the Moon (1983 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Penelope Keith, Virginia McKenna, Ronald Pickup, Joan Sims
Votes: 42
47. Thursday Theatre (1964–1965)
Drama
Stars: John Sharp, Paul Rogers, Robert Flemyng, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 12
48. 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
49. Sheppey (1980 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy, Drama
Sheppey, an ordinary working-class waiter, wins a fortune in a sweep-stake, and elects to use the money to help the unfortunate.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Perry Benson, Brenda Blethyn, Maria Charles
50. No Exit (1972– )
50 min | Drama
Anthology series of plays dealing with the themes of fear and entrapment.
Stars: Simon Ward, John Carson, Nigel Stock, Lee Montague