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1. Emmerdale Farm (1972– )
TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.
Stars: Christopher Chittell, Lucy Pargeter, Mark Charnock, Dominic Brunt
Votes: 3,539
2. Secret Agent (1964–1967)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
John Drake is a special operative for M9, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatens world peace.
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Peter Madden, Frank Maher, Peter Brayham
Votes: 1,542
3. Rosamunde Pilcher (1993– )
90 min | Drama, Romance
A series of television movies based on the works of Rosamunde Pilcher, a popular British writer of romance novels and short stories.
Stars: Stuart Davidson, Colin Matthews, Alexander-Klaus Stecher, Patrik Fichte
Votes: 284
4. The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
519 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by Agatha Christie.
Stars: Maurice Denham, Angela Easterling, Christopher Wren, Cy Town
Votes: 406
5. 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
6. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 88
7. 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
8. Winter Solstice (2003 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Elfrida Phibbs thought she was retiring from her London life to a "geriatric bolthole" in the country. She soon finds herself compassionately tending to her neighbor Oscar, who has suffered... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Sinéad Cusack, Jan Niklas, Geraldine Chaplin, Emilia Streets
Votes: 219
9. Love Story (1963–1974)
60 min | Drama
British anthology series of short plays on the theme of romance.
Stars: T.P. McKenna, Frances Cuka, Keith Barron, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 137
10. Love and Marriage (1984–1986)
Drama
Romantic anthology series from Yorkshire Television.
Stars: Lynn Farleigh, Beverley Callard, Julie Walters, Wanda Ventham
Votes: 19
11. 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
12. Barriers (1981– )
30 min | Drama, Family
Following the death of his parents Billy discovers that he was adopted so begins searching for both his real family and the truth.
Stars: Benedict Taylor, Paul Rogers, Patricia Lawrence, Christoph Lindert
Votes: 81
13. The Machine Gunners (1983– )
25 min | Family
A British town endures WWII bombings. A child takes a machine gun from a crashed German plane and fires at an aircraft, missing but forcing it to crash. Unaware they caused the crash, the children befriend the German pilot.
Stars: Shaun Taylor, Debbie Breen, Tony Saint, Alastair Craig
Votes: 77
14. Dreams Lost, Dreams Found (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands... and finds herself at the center of a 200-year old ghost story.
Director: Willi Patterson | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, David Robb, Betsy Brantley, Charles Gray
Votes: 202
15. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960)
30 min | Adventure
Stars: Fred Smith, Mike Strotheide, Betty Hardy, Lorna Henderson
Votes: 17
16. The Paper Lads (1977–1979)
25 min | Drama
Children's drama set in the northeast of England where young boys on a paper round with a ken eye often make the news as well as deliver it.
Stars: Judith Pyle, Andrew Edwards, Gavin Kitchen, Peter Younger
Votes: 38
17. Moonacre (1994)
25 min | Mystery, Family
Stars: Noah Huntley, Camilla Power, Thomas Szekeres, Jean Anderson
Votes: 31
18. Moonstrike (1963)
50 min | Drama, History, War
Anthology series of one-off thrillers about the covert activities of Allied agents and resistance operatives in occupied Europe during the Second World War.
Stars: Gary Hope, Michael Culver, John Murray Scott, Clive Russell
Votes: 20
19. Kids (1979)
60 min | Drama
Series based around a fictional assessment centre for children who have been taken into care and their own individual stories. The stories themselves are based on real life cases.
Stars: Caroline Mortimer, James Hazeldine, Neil Nisbet, Sarah Neville
Votes: 13
20. The Magician's House (1999)
30 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Mary and her cousins, Alice and William are visiting Mary's father in his new house over Christmas. After encountering a time-travelling wizard and several talking animals, they realize that not everything is as it seems in the old house.
Stars: Ian Richardson, Neil Pearson, Siân Phillips, Katie Stuart
Votes: 212
21. Ten from the Twenties (1975)
Drama
A series of short plays, all originally written in the 1920s.
Stars: Ronald Herdman, George Chakiris, Billie Whitelaw, Mary Morris
22. Seeing and Believing (1960–1976)
Family
Stars: Wilfred Harrison, Leonard Pearcey, John Graham, Philip Latham
23. The Watch House (1988– )
30 min | Family, Mystery
Anne, a teenager, is sent to spend the summer with her mother's old nanny. While there she explores the old watch house and is troubled by a ghost.
Stars: Diana Morrison, Sheri Shepstone, James Garbutt, Michael Nicholson
Votes: 27
24. The Torch (1992)
30 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
In the future, when the world has reverted to a more rural way of life, five children help a dying man by embarking on a quest to discover the torch of the Olympic Games.
Stars: Judi Dench, Altay Lawrence, Graham McGrath, Finty Williams
Votes: 17
25. Brothers in Law (1962)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Richard Briers, Richard Waring, June Barry, John Glyn-Jones
26. Paul of Tarsus (1960)
30 min | Drama, History
The story of St. Paul, and of the spread of Christianity.
Stars: Patrick Troughton, Philip Latham, David Spenser, John Graham
27. The Christmas Tree (1986 TV Movie)
83 min
A dying woman recalls the happier days of her past.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Anna Massey, Simon Callow, T.P. McKenna, Maeve Germaine
28. The Magicians House: The Steps up the Chimney (2019 Video)
Family
The Magician's House is a popular children's fantasy series created by William Corlett, consisting of four books: The Steps up the Chimney, The Door in the Tree, The Tunnel Behind the Waterfall, and The Bridge in the Clouds.
Director: Alice Dyson | Star: Siân Phillips
29.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
In a Glass Darkly
(1982)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man has a vision of a scarred man strangling his wife. At an engagement party, he discovers with horror that the future victim and her murderer are the two betrothed. How he can stop the impending and deadly marriage?
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Nicholas Clay, Emma Piper, Shaun Scott, Jonathon Morris
Votes: 181
30.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
The Gate of Eden: Part 1 - Mr. Falconer
(1980)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Maurice Denham, Pat Heywood, Richard Gibson, Gwen Nelson
31.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
The Fourth Man
(1982)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When three learned men (a doctor, a lawyer and a priest) debate a young woman's recent suicide, they are joined by a fourth man with intimate knowledge of the case.
Director: Michael Simpson | Stars: John Nettles, Michael Gough, Geoffrey Chater, Alan MacNaughtan
Votes: 189
32.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
The Girl in the Train
(1982)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
George Rowland hides a young girl on a train. She's escaping from her "uncle", an hulking brute who is very possibly a foreign spy. The girl gives to George an odd parcel and she disappears.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Osmund Bullock, Sarah Berger, Ernest Clark, James Grout
Votes: 188
33.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
The Red Signal
(1982)
51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dermot is falling in love for his best friend's wife but his uncle, a famous psychiatrist, tells to him that the highly nervous young woman is affected from homicidal mania. When the doctor... See full summary »
Director: John Frankau | Stars: Alan Badel, Christopher Cazenove, Rosalie Crutchley, Joanna David
Votes: 136
34.
Secret Agent (1964–1967)
Episode:
Whatever Happened to George Foster?
(1965)
TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Drake discovers that a woman is financing political agitators in Santo Marco trying to bring down the government. He sets out to find out who employs her and why. Drake finds it is being funded by a rich member of the aristocracy.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Adrienne Corri, Bernard Lee, Jill Melford
Votes: 107
35.
Love and Marriage (1984–1986)
Episode:
Dearly Beloved
(1984)
Drama
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Lynn Farleigh, Kathleen Byron, Gareth Thomas, Bridget Armstrong
36.
Z Cars (1962–1978)
Episode:
The Bad Lad
(1963)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama
Director: David Goddard | Stars: Brian Blessed, Joseph Brady, Donald Churchill, William Corlett
37.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
The Story-teller
(1969)
Drama
Brian a young man, gatecrashes a lively party and intrigues some of the guests with his sombre stories which involves them. There is something ethereal about Brian but is he worth taking seriously?
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: James Villiers, Frances White, Michael Gothard, Phyllida Law
38.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
The Scallop Shell
(1968)
Drama
Director: Bill Bain | Stars: Dorothy Alison, Robert Cartland, Stephen Murray, Gwen Watford
39.
Love Story (1963–1974)
Episode:
Dead Set at Dream Boy
(1966)
Drama
Director: Cecil Petty | Stars: Caron Gardner, Walter Horsbrugh, Agnes Lauchlan, Beatrix Mackey
40.
Love Story (1963–1974)
Episode:
The Public Duck
(1966)
Drama
An old woman and an old man are regular visitors to a park. She feeds the ducks, he likes to watch but what happens the day he decides to join in?
Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Amy Dalby, Hilary Hardiman, Bob Harris, Yootha Joyce
41.
Moonstrike (1963)
Episode:
The Biggest Bandit
(1963)
Drama, History, War
The Colonel is running a resistance in a small village near Paris. His major problem is Anatole, who runs a group in the hills, and takes what he wants regardless. When a female radio operator is dropped in he palms her off to Anatole.
Director: David Goddard | Stars: Douglas Blackwell, Patrick Blackwell, William Corlett, Wilfred Downing
42.
Love Story (1963–1974)
Episode:
A Memory of Two Loves
(1972)
Drama
Stars: Elizabeth Bennett, John Carson, Lloyd Lamble, Nora Nicholson
43.
Love Story (1963–1974)
Episode:
Conversations in the Dark
(1973)
Drama
Stars: David Baron, Edith MacArthur, Priscilla Morgan, John Nolan
44.
Love Story (1963–1974)
Episode:
We Never Went to Cheddar Gorge
(1968)
Drama
Director: Michael Currer-Briggs | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Doreen Mantle, Philip Stone, John Turner
45.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
Nuncle
(1962)
Drama
Director: Graham Evans | Stars: Raymond Huntley, Jennifer Wilson, Norman Bird, June Brown
46.
Brothers in Law (1962)
Episode:
The First Brief
(1962)
Comedy
Stars: Richard Briers, Richard Waring, June Barry, John Glyn-Jones
47.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
Going Back
(1979)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Joseph Blatchley, Kate Fahy, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Lawrence
48.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
The Gate of Eden: Part 2 - Sue
(1980)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Maurice Denham, Pat Heywood, Richard Gibson, Gwen Nelson
49.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
The Gate of Eden: Part 3 - Peter
(1980)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Maurice Denham, Pat Heywood, Richard Gibson, Gwen Nelson
50.
Barriers (1981– )
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(1982)
Drama, Family
Through a local villager Billy learns that Karl Gruber was responsible for the boat explosion. He decides to return to the Salzburg music academy, not just to resume flute lessons but also in the hope of luring Gruber out into the open.
Director: Tony Kysh | Stars: Benedict Taylor, Paul Rogers, Patricia Lawrence, Robert Coyle