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1. Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
75 min | Drama, History
This series dramatizes the lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.
Stars: Siân Phillips, Patricia Quinn, Angela Down, Georgia Brown
Votes: 131
2. Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987 TV Movie)
102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Director: John Davies | Stars: Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown, Frederick Treves
Votes: 2,181
3. Lady Chatterley (1993)
Unrated | 205 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's husband returns wounded after the First World War. Facing a life with a husband now incapable of sexual activity she begins an affair with the groundskeeper.
Stars: Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Anne Field
Votes: 1,876
4. The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
TV-14 | 56 min | Drama, History, Romance
The sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Geraldine James, Wendy Morgan, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 2,419
5. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama
Louisa Trotter works her way up from being a skivvy to being the queen of cooks, cook to the King, and owner of the Bentinck Hotel. Her life and happenings among the guests and staff of the hotel make up the 31 episodes.
Stars: Gemma Jones, Victoria Plucknett, John Welsh, John Cater
Votes: 1,541
6. Mansfield Park (1983)
261 min | Drama, Romance
Impoverished Fanny Price is sent to live with her more affluent uncle and aunt. The arrival of new neighbors brings a chance for romance to Fanny and her cousins.
Stars: Anna Massey, Angela Pleasence, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 1,132
7. The Camomile Lawn (1992)
258 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1939, young Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter visit friends and family in Cornwall. Spanish Civil War is over and WW2 has begun, so they enjoy their love life while they can. Decades later, they gather again, this time for a funeral.
Stars: Felicity Kendal, Claire Bloom, Jennifer Ehle, Richard Johnson
Votes: 940
8. 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
9. Shades of Darkness (1983–1986)
60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
Stars: Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 332
10. Alfred the Great (I) (1969)
M/PG | 122 min | Drama, History, War
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to... See full summary »
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely
Votes: 1,119
11. 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
12. 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: 93
13. The Borgias (1981)
50 min | Biography, Drama, History
The ruthless Rodrigo Borgia intends to become Pope and will not let anything stand in his way.
Stars: Oliver Cotton, Maurice O'Connell, Louis Selwyn, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 195
14. Cause célèbre (1987 TV Movie)
109 min | Crime, Drama
When a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Helen Mirren, Harry Andrews, David Suchet, David Morrissey
Votes: 215
15. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 88
16. The Devil's Crown (1978)
55 min | Biography, Drama, History
Henry Plantagenet (later King Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order.
Stars: Jane Lapotaire, John Duttine, Christopher Gable, Brian Cox
Votes: 106
17. Dial 999 (1958–1959)
30 min | Crime
Robert Beatty stars as Detective Inspector Mike Maguire, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard, in this popular 1950s series depicting London's fight against crime.
Stars: Robert Beatty, John Howlett, Richard Bebb, Hugh Moxey
Votes: 109
18. Novela (1963–1978)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Nélida Quiroga, Luisa Sala, Pablo Sanz, Víctor Valverde
Votes: 33
19. 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: 66
20. The Vise (1954–1961)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
Stars: Donald Gray, Colin Tapley, Ron Randell, Robert Arden
Votes: 75
21. Churchill's People (1974–1975)
50 min | Drama, History, War
A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
Stars: Alfred Lynch, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Matthews, Mark Donaldson
Votes: 36
22. The Plane Makers (1963–1965)
60 min | Drama
The day-to-day story of a multi-million pound aerospace company, its new jet plane, its test-pilot, its workers and its ruthless and hard-nosed managing director John Wilder, the embodiment of modern, unflinching capitalism.
Stars: Jack Watling, Patrick Wymark, Norma Ronald, Reginald Marsh
Votes: 44
23. Web of Evidence (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee
Votes: 321
24. The Edwardians (1972–1973)
50 min | Drama, History
This series covers the turning points in 9 different figures during the Edwardian era of the United Kingdom - Henry Royce and Charles Rolls - of Rolls Royce fame; Horatio Bottomly founder ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Thorley Walters, Judy Parfitt, Timothy West, Ron Moody
Votes: 77
25. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. Probation Officer (1959–1962)
60 min | Drama
An early hit for ATV, this absorbing, rigorously researched and very human drama series centres on the work of a team of probation officers based in London, and the lives of the men and ... See full summary »
Stars: John Paul, John Scott, Jessica Spencer, David Davies
Votes: 30
30. The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956–1957)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Mystery
Anthology series hosted by matinee idol Errol Flynn.
Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Christopher Lee, Valerie Ward
Votes: 42
31. Drama 61-67 (1961–1967)
60 min | Drama
Stars: Brian Haines, Robert Cartland, Alister Williamson, Joe Ritchie
Votes: 30
32. ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959–1980)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
ITV Sunday Night Drama is a UK television anthology series produced by ABC Weekend Television, Associated Television (ATV), Associated-Rediffusion Television, and Granada Television.
Stars: André Morell, Victor Platt, Anthony Mayne, Donald Houston
Votes: 27
33. The Girls of Slender Means (1975)
50 min | Drama
When their friend Nicholas is killed in 1960, several women think back to the time when they knew him, in 1945 "when all the best people were poor".
Stars: Miriam Margolyes, Patricia Hodge, Marion Bailey, Mary Tamm
Votes: 26
34. Wessex Tales (1973– )
Drama
BBC drama series based on short stories written by Thomas Hardy.
Stars: John Hurt, Billie Whitelaw, Nick Brimble, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 38
35. The New Adventures of Martin Kane (1957– )
30 min | Drama
Stars: William Gargan, Brian Reece, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson
Votes: 16
36. A Question of Guilt (1980)
30 min | Drama
A drama series which focused on the sad cases of three different women--Constance Kent, Mary Blandy, and Adelaide Bartlett--all 18th- and 19th-century murderesses.
Stars: Joss Ackland, Robert Stephens, Rosalind Lloyd, Mark Wing-Davey
Votes: 12
37. The Peacock Spring (1996 TV Movie)
149 min | Drama
It's 1959, and a widowed official with the United Nations in Delhi, India brings his two daughters from England to live with him. Tension between 15-year old Una and Alix, a Eurasian woman ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Peter Egan, Jennifer Caron Hall, Hattie Morahan, Naveen Andrews
Votes: 154
38. White Hunter (1957–1959)
30 min | Adventure
Stars: Rhodes Reason, Harry Baird, Hugh Moxey, Tim Turner
Votes: 21
39. Somerset Maugham Hour (1960–1963)
60 min
Stars: Hugh Williams, Daniel Farson, Ian Hunter, Jill Bennett
Votes: 19
40. Let's Get Married (1960)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
A timid would-be medical student, expelled from his college for six months, finds employment in a laundry and regains his confidence when he marries a pregnant fashion model.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, Hermione Baddeley
Votes: 17
41. The Member for Chelsea (1981)
60 min
This three-part mini-series chronicles the sexual scandal in the late 1800's, involving the highly acclaimed Member of Parliament for Chelsea, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911), a ... See full summary »
Stars: David Rintoul, Annette Crosbie, Eleanor David, Felicity Dean
42. Me and the Girls (1985 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 54 min | Drama
George Banks (Sir Tom Courtenay) recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Nichola McAuliffe, Philip Voss, Robert Glenister
Votes: 42
43. The Birds Fall Down (1978– )
275 min | Thriller
At the turn of the 19th century, a young woman finds herself embroiled in Russian political intrigue when she encounters an exile from the Tsar's court on a train to Paris.
Stars: Felicity Dean, John Normington, Elizabeth Shepherd, George Coulouris
44. On Camera (1954–1958)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: James Doohan, Joe Austin, Austin Willis, Ruth Springford
Votes: 30
45. The Poisoning of Charles Bravo (1975– )
50 min | Mystery
Melodrama, in which a Victorian gentleman becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill him.
Stars: Maureen O'Brien, Freda Dowie, Paul Darrow, Robert Harris
46. Did You See..? (1980–1993)
30 min | Talk-Show
Presenter Ludovic Kennedy and three guests discuss the week's television, while there are also interviews with those responsible for making it. The series was later revived with Jeremy Paxman as the host.
Stars: Ludovic Kennedy, Jeremy Paxman, Sarah Dunant, Sue Peacock
Votes: 7
47. Deadline Midnight (1960–1961)
60 min | Drama
A series about life on a London daily newspaper.
Stars: Armine Sandford, Jeremy Young, Glyn Houston, Bruce Beeby
Votes: 9
48. About Religion (1956– )
Weekly religious show.
Stars: Tom Driberg, Julien Grenfell, David King, John Pett
49. Uncle Charles (1967– )
60 min | Drama
Uncle Charles is the lovable old rogue who props up a bar, a compulsive raconteur ready to tell tales to anyone who will fill his glass.
Stars: Raymond Huntley, David Morton, Ann Bell, Milo O'Shea
50. Facilités de payement (1970 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Director: Albert Dumortier | Stars: Paul Anrieu, André Ernotte, Jeanne Max, Cécile Vassort