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1. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 126,354 | Gross: $43.18M
2. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 3,431 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chief Inspector Morse has an ear for Western classical music, a taste for beer, and a nose for crime. He and Detective Sergeant Robert Lewis solve intriguing cases in and around the Oxford area.
Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Grout, Peter Woodthorpe
Votes: 14,418
3. Casualty (1986– )
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.
Stars: Derek Thompson, Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Ian Bleasdale
Votes: 3,700
4. The Bill (1984–2010)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Police drama series following officers and detectives from Sun Hill Police Station in East London.
Stars: Graham Cole, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Simon Rouse
Votes: 4,107
5. The Brothers (1972–1976)
50 min | Drama
Robert Hammond has died while "doing the deed" with his secretary and mistress Jennifer, and now his three sons have inherited the family trucking company, and each one will try to run the business in his own way.
Stars: Jean Anderson, Robin Chadwick, Jennifer Wilson, Derek Benfield
Votes: 145
6. The Wings of the Dove (1997)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alex Jennings, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 13,127 | Gross: $13.72M
7. 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: 390
8. Father Brown (1974)
TV-14 | 668 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Based on the stories of G.K. Chesterton, a British Catholic Priest solves mysteries.
Stars: Kenneth More, Dennis Burgess, Graham Crowden, Bill Maynard
Votes: 481
9. Sorry! (1981–1988)
30 min | Comedy
A 41-year-old man is unable to leave home because of his domineering mother.
Stars: Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore, Marguerite Hardiman
Votes: 526
10. Horizon (I) (1964– )
50 min | Documentary
British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.
Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach
Votes: 1,145
11. On the Up (1990–1992)
30 min | Comedy
Self-made millionaire Tony Carpenter struggles his way through life, dealing with a snooty wife, troublesome daughter, opinionated mother and quirky domestic staff.
Stars: Dennis Waterman, Sam Kelly, Joan Sims, Jenna Russell
Votes: 255
12. Plenty (1985)
R | 121 min | Drama
A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, André Maranne, Charles Dance
Votes: 3,414 | Gross: $6.15M
13. May to December (1989–1994)
30 min | Comedy
Alec Callendar, a Pinner solicitor, meets and falls in love with Zoe Angel, a woman half his age: their relationship, as well as the ups and downs of Alec's office mates: his secretaries, Hilary and Miss Flood, and Alec's son, Jamie.
Stars: Anton Rodgers, Frances White, Paul Venables, Rebecca Lacey
Votes: 406
14. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
82 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Asterix and Obelix are tasked by Julius Caesar with accomplishing twelve impossible labors to determine the fate of their indomitable Gaulish village.
Directors: René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin, Matt McCarthy | Stars: Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Pierre Tornade, Henri Labussière
Votes: 19,183
15. Cardiac Arrest (1994–1996)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedy set in and around a hospital, where the newly qualified Dr Andrew Collin is thrown into a world that is totally beyond him.
Stars: Andrew Lancel, Helen Baxendale, Ace Bhatti, Jo Dow
Votes: 244
16. 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: 140
17. Five Days One Summer (1982)
PG | 108 min | Drama
Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary
Votes: 1,340 | Gross: $0.20M
18. Night & Day (2001–2003)
Not Rated | 25 min | Drama
Night and Day is a British soap unlike any other. Set in Greenwich, and focusing on the lives of six very different families, including a missing 16-year-old girl, who appears in flashback and fantasy sequences.
Stars: Seb Castang, Stuart Manning, Lysette Anthony, Joe McGann
Votes: 109
19. Fox (1980)
60 min | Drama
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections. It was notable in that it was an early work that featured the criminal as the protagonist. wiki
Stars: Bernard Hill, Derrick O'Connor, Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone
Votes: 124
20. Class Act (1994–1995)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Kate Swift has always know her place in the world. "I was a rich bitch! I was good at it! I liked it!" Imagine her horror when both her husband and all her ill-gotten cash vanish, leaving ... See full summary »
Stars: Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, John Bowe, Richard Vernon
Votes: 123
21. Rockliffe's Babies (1987– )
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama
Series featuring the tough and experienced Det. Sgt. Alan Rockcliffe, and his squad of young and enthusiastic plain-clothes PCs.
Stars: Ian Hogg, Joe McGann, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Bill Champion
Votes: 105
22. Happiness (2001–2003)
30 min | Comedy
Danny Spencer is a voice artist who is recently bereaved and having a mid life crisis. As he continues to voice a kung fu bear he must also deal with his friends, including a high school ... See full summary »
Stars: Paul Whitehouse, Johnny Vegas, Pearce Quigley, Mark Heap
Votes: 140
23. The Chinese Detective (1981–1982)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Detective Sergeant John Ho, a maverick British Chinese police officer, solves crimes in and around London's docklands while dealing with occasional prejudice and distrust within the police force.
Stars: David Yip, Derek Martin, Arthur Kelly, Larrington Walker
Votes: 131
24. Robin Hood Junior (1975)
60 min | Adventure, Family
Robin Hood Junior helps Maid Marion to escape from her wicked uncle.
Directors: John Black, Matt McCarthy | Stars: Keith Chegwin, Mandy Tulloch, Keith Jayne, Nicholas Dunn
Votes: 56
25. The Orchard End Murder (1981)
48 min | Drama, Thriller
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Marnham | Stars: Bill Wallis, Tracy Hyde, Clive Mantle, Raymond Adamson
Votes: 208
26. The Misfit (1970–1971)
60 min | Comedy
Basil Allenby-Johnson (Badger) returns home from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, an England he no longer recognizes. Each episode features a different aspect of British life,
Stars: Ronald Fraser, Patrick Newell, June Jago, Paul Starr
Votes: 19
27. A Dirty Knight's Work (1976)
PG | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of British aristocrats, who call themselves "Knights of Avalon", isn't content with the system of justice and executes judgment themselves. Instead of just killing the people they ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: John Mills, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Hershey, David Birney
Votes: 264 | Gross: $0.00M
28. A Monkey's Tale (1999)
G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A rebellious teenage monkey refuses to believe what he has been told and sets out to find the truth.
Director: Jean-François Laguionie | Stars: Matt Hill, Sally Ann Marsh, John Hurt, Rik Mayall
Votes: 528
29. Bird of Prey (1982– )
50 min | Thriller
A minor bureaucrat battles a ruthless international criminal organization.
Stars: Richard Griffiths, Carole Nimmons, Jeremy Child, Nigel Davenport
Votes: 159
30. The Marriage Lines (1961–1966)
25 min | Comedy
Newlyweds Kate and George Starling begin with George toiling as a junior clerk and Kate toiling as a homemaker; she's is soon bored with domesticity and he longs to go out with the boys. After several years, daughter Helen joins them.
Stars: Richard Briers, Prunella Scales, Edward de Souza, Diana King
Votes: 28
31. The Franchise Affair (1988)
155 min | Drama
A girl gets kidnapped, beaten up and is released.
Stars: Patrick Malahide, Joanna McCallum, Rosalie Crutchley, Alex Jennings
Votes: 42
32. Double Act (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Ruby and Garnet are identical twins, ten years old and inseparable. Since mother's death they live with father and grandmother in the big city. When one day attractive Rose steps into ... See full summary »
Director: Cilla Ware | Stars: Paul Warriner, Rachael Dowling, Chloe Tempest Jones, Zoe Tempest-Jones
Votes: 59
33. Survival (1961– )
Documentary
Classic long-running British nature documentary series featuring different subjects each time.
Stars: Duncan Carse, Aubrey Buxton, Andrew Sachs, Patrick Allen
Votes: 80
34. 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
35. Spy! (1980– )
60 min | Crime, Drama
True stories from the murky world of twentieth-century espionage.
Stars: Alexander John, Richard Johnson, Clive Merrison, Holly Palance
36. Oil Strike North (1975– )
50 min | Adventure, Drama
Triumph Oil attempts to extract oil from the North Sea from the rig Nelson One, dealing with the trials and tribulations of the rig crew and their families.
Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Witney, Angela Douglas, Barbara Shelley
Votes: 15
37. The Zoo Robbery (1973)
64 min | Adventure
When the world's only yeti in captivity is kidnapped from London Zoo, a group of children succeed in rescuing it.
Directors: John Black, Matt McCarthy | Stars: Paul Gyngell, Denise Gyngell, Karen Lucas, Luke Batchelor
Votes: 25
38. The Dragon's Opponent (1973– )
50 min | Drama
4-part miniseries dramatising the true-life adventures of Charles "Mad Jack" Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, whose daring wartime exploits included rescuing dozens of refugee European nuclear... See full summary »
Stars: Ronald Pickup, Anton Darby, Virginia McKenna, Angela Douglas
39. Escape (I) (1980– )
60 min | Drama
Anthology series of dramatised accounts of famous real-life escapes from the law.
Stars: Frank Duncan, John Lee, Gavin Campbell, Jay Neill
40. Six Sides Of A Square (1966)
180 min | Family
Stars: Alexander John, Ian Martin, Patrick Godfrey, Amanda Walker
41. The Trial of Lady Chatterley (1980 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: Ludovic Kennedy, Edward Woodward, Patrick Allen, Geoffrey Bayldon
42. Concrete is .... (1981)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Paddy Hughes | Star: Alexander John
44. The First Night of 'Pygmalion' (1969 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
George Bernard Shaw's new play has a terrific part for his favorite leading lady, Mrs. Patrick Campbell - but will she agree to become the first woman ever to swear on stage?
Director: Hal Burton | Stars: Max Adrian, Miriam Karlin, John Osborne, John Graham
46. Driving from Outside the Loco Cab (1977)
Documentary, Short
Director: Dan Nyberg | Star: Alexander John
47. Airey Neave: A Will of Steel (1980 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Ludovic Kennedy, Clive Francis, Julian Fellowes, David Purcell
48.
Cardiac Arrest (1994–1996)
Episode:
The Oedipus Effect
(1996)
Comedy, Drama
Claire's Cystic Fibrois patient is brought in as an emergency but his survival options are running out. Julie discovers Tennant intends to terminate Scissors contract. Liz is finally caught out when she tries to blame Rob for her error.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Andrew Lancel, Helen Baxendale, Ace Bhatti, Jo Dow
49.
Casualty (1986– )
Episode:
Something from the Heart
(2001)
TV-PG | Drama
A married woman who is having an affair with a Councillor is compromised when there is a gas explosion at the hotel they are staying at.
Director: Paul Duane | Stars: Derek Thompson, Ian Bleasdale, Robert Gwilym, Ronnie McCann
Votes: 15
50.
The Chinese Detective (1981–1982)
Episode:
Tapdancer
(1982)
Crime, Drama
A mother's cry for help sends Ho in search of a missing boy. With tap shoes and a cassette player, Tommy is no ordinary boy.
Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: David Yip, Derek Martin, Arthur Kelly, Edward Hardwicke
Votes: 6