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1. Yes Minister (1980–1984)
TV-PG | 679 min | Comedy
The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott
Votes: 16,580
2. It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981)
30 min | Comedy, War
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
Stars: Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett, Don Estelle
Votes: 1,795
3. The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.
Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Mary Webster
Votes: 1,122
4. Sense and Sensibility (1981)
TV-PG | 174 min | Drama, Romance
Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.
Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Annie Leon, Robert Swann
Votes: 1,016
5.
Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode:
Open Government
(1980)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
With his party now ready to form the government, Jim Hacker anxiously awaits a call from the Prime Minister offering him a Cabinet post. When the call does come, he is named Minister of ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Allen | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton
Votes: 462
6. 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: 395
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: 382
8. Doomwatch (1970–1972)
50 min | Sci-Fi, Drama
Doomwatch is the nickname for the Department of Measurement of Scientific Work. Under the leadership of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Spencer Quist, the Doomwatch team struggled, for ... See full summary »
Stars: John Paul, Joby Blanshard, Simon Oates, Vivien Sherrard
Votes: 198
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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: 177
12. Supernatural (1977)
50 min | Horror
Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.
Stars: Andre Van Gyseghem, Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry, Charles Kay
Votes: 169
13. The Count of Monte Cristo (1964– )
25 min | Adventure
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious ... See full summary »
Stars: Alan Badel, Natasha Parry, Morris Perry, Philip Madoc
Votes: 162
14. The Search for the Nile (1971– )
60 min | Adventure, Drama
The Nile's source was the last great mystery for European explorers in the 19th century. The story of its discovery is one of heroism in the service of faith, greed, and obsession.
Stars: James Mason, Kenneth Haigh, John Quentin, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 142
15. 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
16. 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
17. The Rag Trade (1961–1963)
30 min | Comedy
Fenner Fashions makes women's clothing. Reg Turner (Reg Varney) is the downtrodden foreman on the shop floor. The machinists are all women, led by their union rep, Paddy Fleming (Miriam ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Wanda Ventham
Votes: 96
18.
Supernatural (1977)
Episode:
Mr. Nightingale
(1977)
48 min | Horror
A prim 35-year-old Englishman, Nightingale, goes to Hamburg for business reasons and finds that a mysterious double is haunting him.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Lesley-Anne Down, Susan Maudslay, Bruce Purchase
Votes: 74
19.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Country Wife
(1977)
110 min | Drama
Pinchwife brings his simple young wife to London for his sister's wedding. Lest she falls prey to the town's temptations, he keeps her under lock and key.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Anthony Andrews, Leslie Sarony, Phil Daniels, John Nettleton
Votes: 68
20.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Comedians
(1979)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Six wannabe stand-up comedians attend an evening class run by Eddie Waters. Eddie is a professional comic and he's determined to teach them that comedy is much more than just jokes.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Bill Fraser, Jonathan Pryce, David Burke, Linal Haft
Votes: 66
21.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981)
Episode:
Meet the Gang
(1974)
30 min | Comedy, War
In Camp Deolali, at the close of World War Two, a British army concert party is rehearsing 'Top Hat' to entertain the troops, when word comes that there will be an anti-British protest by ... See full summary »
Director: David Croft | Stars: Michael Bates, George Layton, Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes
Votes: 62
22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a deformed hunchback's love for a Gypsy girl in Paris.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Warren Clarke, Michelle Newell, Christopher Gable
Votes: 61
23.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Hedda Gabler
(1972)
Drama
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Tom Bell, Jane Asher
Votes: 59
24. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.
Stars: Robin Chadwick, Donald Sinden, Helen Lindsay, Paul Moriarty
Votes: 57
25. The Enchanted Castle (1979)
174 min | Family, Fantasy
Gerald, James and Kathleen discover a garden in which is hidden a Princess and a magic ring. Although the Princess is not quite who she says she is the ring is truly magic and so are other parts of the castle's grounds.
Stars: Candida Beveridge, Georgia Slowe, Simon Sheard, Marcus Scott-Barrett
Votes: 56
26.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Wood Demon
(1974)
110 min | Drama
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Ian Holm, Francesca Annis, Ronald Hines, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 48
27. 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
28.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
Time in Advance
(1965)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Imagine a future where you serve your prison sentence before you commit your crime, in the various hells of savage new planets just being colonized. If you survive, like Nick Crandall and ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Edward Judd, Mike Pratt, Wendy Gifford, Dyson Lovell
Votes: 46
29.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
The Wind Blows Free
(1971)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In Liverpool in 1860 sailor James Onedin, working for the hard-nosed shipping owner Callon, is desperate to gain a ship of his own and finally acquires the 'Charlotte Rhodes' from drunken ... See full summary »
Director: William Slater | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson
Votes: 42
30. Moll Flanders (1975 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
All kinds of misfortune befall Moll Flanders in 18th-century England; but she's a great survivor.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Julia Foster, Kenneth Haigh, Ian Ogilvy, Diana Fairfax
Votes: 35
31.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
Sucker Bait
(1965)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a strange, intense teenager called Mark Annuncio, raised to be a kind of... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Capon | Stars: Clive Endersby, John Meillon, Bill Nagy, David Knight
Votes: 35
32.
Doomwatch (1970–1972)
Episode:
The Plastic Eaters
(1970)
Sci-Fi, Drama
A plane dissolves in mid-air, its plastic components eaten away. Doomwatch faces its first challenge: to halt the disastrous spread of a man-made virus with the power to melt all plastic.
Director: Paul Ciappessoni | Stars: John Paul, Simon Oates, Robert Powell, Joby Blanshard
Votes: 33
33.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1981)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Jane Austen's classic tale of two very different sisters. Tracey Childs plays the young Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience & Irene Richard plays her sister Elinor, outwardly so cool & collected.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Diana Fairfax, Peter Woodward
Votes: 27
34.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1981)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Marianne cannot understand Elinor's philosophical acceptance of their new lives at Barton Cottage as her own heart is breaking for their beloved house at Norwood.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Diana Fairfax, Peter Woodward
Votes: 26
35.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1981)
TV-G | 27 min | Drama, Romance
Just as it seems that Willoughby and Marianne must be about to announce their engagement, he departs for London, leaving her bewildered and desolate.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Donald Douglas, Annie Leon
Votes: 26
36. Les Misérables (1967)
50 min | Drama
Ten-part BBC adaptation of the classic Victor Hugo novel.
Stars: Frank Finlay, Anthony Bate, Alan Rowe, Lesley Roach
Votes: 24
37.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1981)
TV-G | 27 min | Drama, Romance
Elinor has promised to keep the secret of Edward Ferrar's engagement to Lucy Steel. She manages to conceal her unhappiness even from Marianne, who is overjoyed to visit London.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Peter Woodward, Robert Swann
Votes: 24
38.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(1981)
TV-G | 26 min | Drama, Romance
Marianne's heart is doubly broken by a yet more callous rejection by Willoughby. Elinor is to meet Edward's mother.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Bosco Hogan, Robert Swann
Votes: 24
39.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(1981)
TV-G | 27 min | Drama, Romance
The sisters are to end their unhappy stay in London. Elinor is now as desolate as Marianne, as the secret of Edward's engagement is out at last and he intends to stand by it.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Peter Woodward, Bosco Hogan
Votes: 24
40.
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Episode:
Episode #1.7
(1981)
TV-G | 27 min | Drama, Romance
Marianne is at last out of danger. Elinor has received a visit from the desperately penitent Willoughby.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Irene Richard, Tracey Childs, Bosco Hogan, Robert Swann
Votes: 24
41.
BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
Episode:
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
(1975)
Drama
An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Sara Kestelman, John Bluthal, James Grout, Frank Middlemass
Votes: 23
42.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
French Without Tears
(1976)
Drama
The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Nigel Havers, Anthony Andrews, David Robb, Natalie Caron
Votes: 22
43.
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
Episode:
Krapp's Last Tape
(1972)
30 min | Crime, Drama
On Krapp's 69th birthday, he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Star: Patrick Magee
Votes: 21
44.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
A Proposal of Marriage
(1973)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Captain Baines is marooned in revolution-torn Venezuela but gets permission to leave if he will take Colonel Flores, who is accompanying some art treasures to prevent the rebels seizing ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Blake | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 18
45.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
The Ship Devils
(1973)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Widowed James busies himself with work. On his new steamship the 'Anne Onedin' the passengers number coal merchant Biddulph, who arranges a shipping contract with James, and his daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 18
46.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
Ice and Fire
(1973)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
James Onedin plans to sail to Sweden with iron rails and bring home a cargo of timber for use in the Biddulph mines. Leonora, piqued at the attention James is giving Caroline, agrees to ... See full summary »
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 17
47.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
The Stranger
(1973)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Onedin's contract with Biddulph is jeopardised when the coal miners go on strike. Onedin eventually breaks the strike by getting some of the miners drunk, then signing them up as sailors ... See full summary »
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 17
48.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
Echoes from Afar
(1973)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Both shipping companies are anxious to open up trade in Brazil and James learns from Caroline that her uncle has sold the 'Anne Onedin', renamed the 'Scotch Lass', to a navigation company ... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 16
49.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
Over the Horizon
(1974)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
James and Captain Baines travel to Africa to bring home wealthy young socialite William Blanshard, who has a collection of native memorabilia, as well as an African consort, Alice. Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Jenkins | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 16
50.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
The Passenger
(1974)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Caroline and James are returning from Baltimore, where she has been sorting out her husband's affairs. There is a new crew, hastily gathered by the shifty Bartholomew and a passenger called... See full summary »
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington, Howard Lang
Votes: 16