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1. Robin Hood (1984–1986)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A forest mystical being appoints two men in succession as the legendary outlaw defender of the oppressed.

Stars: Peter Llewellyn Williams, Ray Winstone, Mark Ryan, Clive Mantle

Votes: 4,997

2. Public Eye (1965–1975)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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.

Stars: Alfred Burke, Ray Smith, Pauline Delaney, Brenda Cavendish

Votes: 429

3. Come Dine with Me (2005– )

TV-G | 23 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV

The knives (and forks) are out as a group of strangers compete for the title of ultimate dinner party host. And the £1000 on the table adds spice to the proceedings...

Stars: Dave Lamb, Tamara Beckwith, Lesley Joseph, Raef Bjayou

Votes: 2,384

4. The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.

Stars: John Wilder, George Hilsdon, Bernard Lee, Stanley Morgan

Votes: 199

5. American Playhouse (1980–1994)

61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.

Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson

Votes: 417

6. Children of the Stones (1977)

173 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Scientist Adam Brake and his son Matthew arrive in the sleepy English village of Milbury to find it under the grip of weird psychic powers unleashed by the sinister village squire, Hendrick, and whose power they struggle to break.

Stars: Gareth Thomas, Veronica Strong, Peter Demin, Ruth Dunning

Votes: 856

7. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)

Comedy, Drama

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer

Votes: 88

8. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)

60 min | Drama

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.

Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum

Votes: 246

9. Kidnapped (1978)

390 min | Adventure, Drama, History

When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship.

Stars: David McCallum, Ekkehardt Belle, Aude Landry, Bill Simpson

Votes: 237

10. Great Expectations (1989)

303 min | Drama

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Anthony Calf, Jean Simmons, Kim Thomson

Votes: 469

11. Deadly Strangers (1975)

R | 88 min | Thriller

Amidst public warnings of a dangerous patient who's escaped from a mental hospital, a young Belle Adams (Hayley Mills) hitches rides on the highway with various assortment of motorists.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden, Ken Hutchison

Votes: 746

12. Arthur of the Britons (1972–1973)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Celts fighting among themselves and the Saxons in 5th century Briton after the Roman pullout.

Stars: Oliver Tobias, Michael Gothard, Jack Watson, Brian Blessed

Votes: 181

13. The Canterville Ghost (1986 TV Movie)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A girl befriends a mischievous English ghost trying to scare her family (his descendants) back to America.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci, Alyssa Milano

Votes: 902

14. Mystery and Imagination (1966–1970)

75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

"Mystery and Imagination" was a UK hosted horror anthology series running from 1966 until 1970 with host David Buck as "Richard Beckett". who was a romantic young Victorian adventurer always had a tale to tell.

Stars: David Buck, Mark Moss, Freddie Jones, Robert Hunter

Votes: 111

15. Jamaica Inn (1983 TV Movie)

187 min | Drama, Thriller

The respected vicar of a quiet Cornish village is in reality the leader of a gang of murderous pirates who attack passing ships, kill their crews and steal their cargoes.

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve, John McEnery

Votes: 329

16. The Diamond Trap (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two New York police detectives (Howard Hesseman, Ed Marinaro) recruit a gallery worker (Brooke Shields) to help them head off a jewel heist.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Howard Hesseman, Brooke Shields, Darren McGavin, Dick O'Neill

Votes: 167

17. She-Wolf of London (1990–1991)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A female American graduate student in London is bitten by a werewolf, then teams up with an English professor to investigate supernatural occurrences.

Stars: Neil Dickson, Kate Hodge, Scott Fults, Dorothea Phillips

Votes: 422

18. The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews

Votes: 386

19. The Canterville Ghost (1974 TV Movie)

60 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The poor ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville (David Niven) has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a... See full summary »

Director: Robin Miller | Stars: Isla Blair, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Audra Lindley

Votes: 160

20. CBS Summer Playhouse (1987–1989)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Anthology television series that aired unsold television pilots during the summer.

Stars: Tim Reid, Daphne Reid, James Eckhouse, Tom Isbell

Votes: 164

21. September (1996 TV Movie)

Unrated | 171 min | Drama

Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets ... Crippled war ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Edward Fox, Michael York, Mariel Hemingway

Votes: 205

22. Arch of Triumph (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Paris, before the Nazis penetrate into the city, an Austrian refugee doctor falls in love with a mysterious woman.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Donald Pleasence, Frank Finlay

Votes: 632

23. Twist of Fate (1989)

240 min | Drama

An attempted assassination plot against Hitler sends one of his trusted SS officers into hiding as a Jew (thanks to plastic surgery and false papers) in a concentration camp. After the camp... See full summary »

Stars: Ben Cross, John Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Freeman

Votes: 375

24. The Last Butterfly (1991)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, War

Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Sir Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Ingrid Held, Freddie Jones

Votes: 307

25. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)

60 min | Drama

BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.

Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett

Votes: 131

26. King of the Wind (1990)

PG | 103 min | Adventure

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel, evil and good and thus begins the life of Sham.

Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter

Votes: 224

27. Return to Treasure Island (1986– )

428 min | Adventure

In this continuation of the classic "Treasure Island" tale that takes place ten years later, Jim Hawkins meets up again with an older, but not necessarily wiser, Long John Silver.

Stars: Brian Blessed, Christopher Guard, Kenneth Colley, Reiner Schöne

Votes: 344

28. Saturday Playhouse (1958–1961)

60 min | Drama

An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.

Stars: Elvi Hale, Madoline Thomas, George A. Cooper, Emrys Jones

29. Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1967–1971)

30 min | Comedy

Sitcom about two tailors, one Catholic and the other Jewish.

Stars: John Bluthal, Joe Lynch, Bernard Spear, Cyril Shaps

Votes: 49

30. Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Romance

The story of the breakup of an eighteen-year marriage, as seen from the points of view of both the husband and the wife.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Nye, Barry Foster

Votes: 433

31. Separate Tables (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama

The arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles; secrets, infatuations, and lies emerge.

Directors: John Schlesinger, Ken Price | Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth

Votes: 222

32. The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)

Crime, Drama

Series of courtroom dramas introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten.

Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Michael Hordern, Kenneth Benda, Carleton Hobbs

Votes: 79

33. Diagnosis: Murder (1974)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Anonymous notes accuse a psychiatrist of having murdered his wife. A bedraggled policeman attempts to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee, Tony Beckley

Votes: 287

34. Eminent Domain (1990)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman

Votes: 538 | Gross: $0.15M

35. Into the Labyrinth (1981–1982)

30 min | Family, Fantasy

Three children stumble upon the imprisoned sorcerer Rothgo and are drawn into a mysterious search through time for the magical Nidus which has been stolen by the evil witch Belor.

Stars: Pamela Salem, Charlie Caine, Ron Moody, Lisa Turner

Votes: 172

36. The Woman He Loved (1988 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Romance

The love story between American divorcee Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, that ended in his abdication for the woman he loved.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Olivia de Havilland, Lucy Gutteridge

Votes: 340

37. Maigret (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Thriller

Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a murder of a friend, a P.I. who was looking into an industrialist and his family.

Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Richard Harris, Patrick O'Neal, Victoria Tennant, Ian Ogilvy

Votes: 84

38. Shadows of Fear (1970–1973)

60 min | Horror, Thriller

Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.

Stars: Ray Smith, Michael Craig, Ian Bannen, Sheila Hancock

Votes: 118

39. The Master of Ballantrae (1984 TV Movie)

150 min | Adventure

The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Richard Thomas, Michael York, John Gielgud, Timothy Dalton

Votes: 203

40. 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

41. Smuggler (1981)

TV-MA | 30 min | Adventure, History

In 1802, the ex-British naval officer turned smuggler Jack Vincent eludes revenue officers along the coast of England. A headstrong loner, Vincent frequently finds himself entangled in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Oliver Tobias, Hywel Williams-Ellis, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Capell

Votes: 65

42. Follow Me... (1977)

Adventure

Tom is a young boy who loves ships and the promise of adventure they represent. When he and his father find themselves at the heart of a mystery surrounding a missing girl, it looks as if Tom will get the adventure he craves.

Stars: Ronald Fraser, Katharine Levy, Tony Wright, Godfrey James

Votes: 17

43. Three Wishes for Jamie (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

Based on the book by Charles O'Neal and set in 1890's Ireland and Georgia, Three Wishes For Jamie is the story of Jamie McGrew (Stevan Rimkus) and three wishes granted to him in a dream by ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Young | Stars: Jack Warden, Stevan Rimkus, Anna Livia Ryan, David Healy

Votes: 33

44. Indiscreet (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 94 min | Comedy

A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.

Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Robert Wagner, Lesley-Anne Down, Maggie Henderson, Robert McBain

Votes: 87

45. The Little Match Girl (1986 TV Movie)

90 min | Musical

A musical adaptation of the 1845 story "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen.

Director: Michael Custance | Stars: Michael Hordern, Twiggy, Roger Daltrey, Paul Daneman

Votes: 77

46. The Forgotten Story (1983– )

30 min | Drama

Follows the lives of a group of people and an 11-year old orphan who unexpectedly become drawn together in 1898, when a ship is wrecked on the Cornish coast near Falmouth.

Stars: Van Johnson, Lila Kaye, Sarah-Jane Bickerton, Alexis Woutas

47. Jenny's War (1985)

PG | 198 min | Drama, War

This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.

Stars: Dyan Cannon, Elke Sommer, Robert Hardy, Patrick Ryecart

Votes: 166

48. Grand Larceny (1987 TV Movie)

95 min | Thriller

A woman who hasn't seen her father in 18 years, learns of his death and goes to his estate in France to carry out his wishes. She then learns that her father was a thief who after getting ... See full summary »

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Marilu Henner, Ian McShane, Louis Jourdan, James Cossins

Votes: 177

49. Sky (1975)

30 min | Family, Sci-Fi

A young time-traveller with superhuman powers is stranded on Earth after running into a Black Hole. Pursued by the evil Goodchild, Sky is helped on his quest to find a way home by three human teenagers, Arby, Jane and Roy.

Stars: Marc Harrison, Stuart Lock, Cherrald Butterfield, Richard Speight

Votes: 119

50. Freedom Fighter (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.

Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Tony Danza, Neil Dickson, Geraldine James, David McCallum

Votes: 77