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1. Will Shakespeare (1978)
Episode: The Living Record (1978)

49 min | Biography, Drama

While Will pleads with the dying Queen for suicidal Hal's life, his poems are stolen, printed and distributed without his permission, setting in motion a chain of events that could prove disastrous.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Tim Curry, Meg Wynn Owen, Patience Collier, Nicholas Clay

Votes: 10

2. Trinity Tales (1975– )

50 min

On their way to London for the Rugby League final, a group of northerners start telling each other stories, in the manner of Chaucer's pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales".

Stars: Francis Matthews, Bill Maynard, Paul Copley, Susan Littler

Votes: 14

3. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Affairs of the Heart (1997)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

The day of Nick's and Jo's wedding has arrived. To calm his nerves Nick takes a ride in his car when he is flagged down by a woman because of an accident. Suddenly the woman drives away in ... See full summary »

Director: John Anderson | Stars: Nick Berry, Bill Maynard, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 37

4. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Daniel (2004)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Gina gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The baby is two months premature and there are complications. The nurse asks Gina and Phil to give their son a name just in case and they decide to... See full summary »

Director: Adrian Bean | Stars: Derek Fowlds, Tricia Penrose, James Carlton, Richard Lintern

Votes: 39

5. Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)

TV-PG | 55 min | Comedy

Bertram Wooster, a well-intentioned, wealthy layabout, has a habit of getting himself into trouble and it's up to his brilliant valet, Jeeves, to get him out.

Stars: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Dixon, Robert Daws

Votes: 13,153

6. Tenko (1981–1984)

50 min | Drama, War

After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.

Stars: Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Claire Oberman, Emily Bolton

Votes: 835

7. The Good Companions (1980– )

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A musical adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel about a British concert party.

Stars: John Stratton, Jeremy Nicholas, Frank Mills, John Blythe

Votes: 39

8. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: The Count of Solar (1992)

TV-14 | Drama

The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: David Calder, Tyron Woolfe, John Standing, Georgina Hale

Votes: 10

9. Doctor Who (1963–1989)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.

Stars: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker

Votes: 39,544

10. All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)

TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

The trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in Yorkshire from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham

Votes: 4,402

11. Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)

Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.

Stars: Leo McKern, Jonathan Coy, Julian Curry, Marion Mathie

Votes: 1,726

12. The Sharp End (1991)

50 min | Comedy

This series sees Gwen Taylor's character widowed and wondering what to do with her husband's Debt Collection Agency. She decides to run the business herself, much to the chagrin of a rival,... See full summary »

Stars: Gwen Taylor, James Cosmo, Philip Martin Brown, Clare Kelly

Votes: 18

13. The Royal (2003–2011)
Episode: Immediate Care (2003)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

David Cheriton is faced with the unenviable task of telling young Francesca that she has only a short time to live, though it does lead to a wedding. Efficiency-mad Nigel Harper ruffles ... See full summary »

Director: Keith Boak | Stars: Robert Daws, Michael Starke, Amy Robbins, Julian Ovenden

Votes: 25

14. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Saint Columba's Treasure (1995)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

PC Rowan responses to an anonymous emergency call and find archaeologist Professor Brigstocke dead in his library and the house broken into. The professor was said to hide a treasure and ... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Nick Berry, Derek Fowlds, Bill Maynard, William Simons

Votes: 34

15. Tenko (1981–1984)
Episode: Episode #3.8 (1984)

Drama, War

Kate is distraught when Tom dies and seeks comfort from Sister Ulrica, who comes to the funeral even though Tom was a protestant. Kate also decides she definitely wants to become a doctor.

Director: Michael Owen Morris | Stars: Ann Bell, Claire Oberman, Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson

Votes: 28

16. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Sweet Sorrow (2009)

TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

A mysterious man steals David's taxi (and his breakfast), but he does not get very far. Bernie recognizes the car and refuses to give him some petrol. The taxi robber is soon apprehended. ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: Nicholas Farrell, Gwen Taylor, David Lonsdale, Joe McFadden

Votes: 52

17. A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)

52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A gentleman sleuth solves mysteries and falls in love with a detective novelist.

Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Rowena Cooper

Votes: 331

18. Richard III (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 239 min | Drama

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Director: Jane Howell | Stars: Peter Benson, Antony Brown, David Burke, Michael Byrne

Votes: 232

19. Boys from the Bush (1991–1992)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Adventures of a British detective, Reg Toomer and his Australian partner Dennis Tontine

Stars: Tim Healy, Chris Haywood, Mark Haddigan, Nadine Garner

Votes: 49

20. Requiem Apache (1994 TV Movie)

77 min | Comedy, Crime

Hamish (Alfred Molina), a former getaway car driver, has retired to the country to raise his baby daughter and look after the house while his wife goes out to work. Everything is going fine... See full summary »

Director: David Ward Jones | Stars: Alfred Molina, David Ross, Katrina Levon, Amanda Mealing

Votes: 47

21. A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode: Have His Carcase: Episode One (1987)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a rocky outcropping near the sea.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Rowena Cooper

Votes: 208

22. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Closing Ranks (1997)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Bag-snatchers are at large in Ashfordly and the police know that Ian 'Duster' Murray and Robert 'Red' Broadbent are the perpetrators, but cannot prove it. When they attack Phil Bellamy's ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Cotter | Stars: Nick Berry, Bill Maynard, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 34

23. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: In on the Act (1997)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Nick and Jo Rowan return from their honeymoon in Spain. They find out that he has been made acting sergeant at the Ashfordly police station, while Blaketon has taken over the post office. A... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Nick Berry, Bill Maynard, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 28

24. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: What the Butler Saw (1997)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Sammy Maxton is found injured on Shafton Moor and witnesses heard a shot and saw Barry Rooksby running from the scene and driving away with is daughter Suzy. Rooksby has recently lost his ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Dowd | Stars: Nick Berry, Bill Maynard, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 31

25. Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode: Aunt Dahlia, Cornelia and Madeline (or, Comrade Bingo) (1992)

TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy

Wearing a false beard, Bingo Little pretends to be a friend of the workers to impress Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, daughter of a socialist orator, to the disgust of her other admirer Comrade... See full summary »

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, John Turner, Patricia Lawrence

Votes: 205

26. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Accidents Happen (2006)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Things are quiet at the police station in Ashfordly. Almost too quiet. And it is not going to last. Suddenly two armed men hold up PC Younger and Alf Ventress and lock them up in a cell, ... See full summary »

Director: Jonas Grimås | Stars: Steven Blakeley, Jonty Stephens, John Duttine, Morgan Jones

Votes: 32

27. A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode: Have His Carcase: Episode Four (1987)

50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However his arranged meeting took place two hours before he died and witness Jem Pollock only saw Alexis meet with a young woman.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter, Richard Morant, Jeremy Sinden

Votes: 67

28. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)

BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.

Stars: Brenda Bruce, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards

Votes: 52

29. 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

30. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: A Many Splendoured Thing (2002)

TV-PG | 65 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Cupid's little arrows hit everybody. Even Lord Ashfordly, who surprises everybody by introducing his new wife. On the first night in Aidensfield the newlyweds are held up by two masked and ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: Derek Fowlds, Tricia Penrose, Rupert Vansittart, Lia Williams

Votes: 26

31. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Cold Turkey (2000)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Gordon Stringer is the new manager of the District Bank in Ashfordly and as a regular Uncle Scrooge he has tightened the reins on both the bank's customers and its employees. Even ... See full summary »

Director: Noreen Kershaw | Stars: David Beckett, Richard Walsh, Mark Jordon, Jason Durr

Votes: 32

32. A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (1987)
Episode: Have His Carcase: Episode Three (1987)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his infatuation and her fragile state of mind. Looking for Mrs. Weldon's husband, Bunter has more questions than answers.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant, Rowena Cooper

Votes: 65

33. Blackadder (1982–1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.

Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny

Votes: 41,100

34. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
Episode: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)

TV-14 | 210 min

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Directors: Rodney Bennett, John Gorrie | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Eric Porter

Votes: 665

35. Vanity Fair (1987)

35 min | Drama

In the time of Napoleon, Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo.

Stars: Eve Matheson, Rebecca Saire, Simon Dormandy, Jack Klaff

Votes: 92

36. The Third Part of Henry the Sixth (1983 TV Movie)

211 min | Drama, History

Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France young Henry VI comes to the throne, under the protection of the duke of Gloucester. He is unaware that there are ... See full summary »

Director: Jane Howell | Stars: John Benfield, Peter Benson, Gerald Blackmore, Antony Brown

Votes: 115

37. Nice Town (1992)

165 min

Joe Thompson offers to father a child for his infertile brother Paul, with disastrous effects for his own family life.

Stars: Paul McGann, Josette Simon, Phil Davis, Gwyneth Strong

Votes: 32

38. The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode: Bits and Pieces (1996)

TV-14 | 25 min | Crime, Drama

Sgt Boyden and PC Slater search for the owner of a severed hand found in a rubbish tip.

Director: Simon Meyers | Stars: Tony O'Callaghan, Alan Westaway, Colin Tarrant, Andrea Mason

Votes: 30

39. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (2005)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

PC Bellamy takes over one of Alf Ventress' old contacts, Vic Smalley. From him he learns about Ray Craven, who is flush with money and it is not through taking sheep to market, which is his... See full summary »

Director: Noreen Kershaw | Stars: John Duttine, Mark Jordon, Jonathan Kerrigan, Tricia Penrose

Votes: 29

40. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Appearances (1998)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

The Upton family returns home only to find much of their furniture stolen and most of the rest smashed to pieces. John Upton suspects Harry Somers, who has been seeing his daughter Ruth a ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Nick Berry, Bill Maynard, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 27

41. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Caped Crusaders (2003)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Dean and Alec Farley play Batman and Robin. They chase The Joker and his gang all over the village and one day they see how Lefty Bates and his pal Chuck break into a building at a farm, ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Dyddgen-Jones | Stars: Aislín McGuckin, Sonny Flood, Jake Mitchell, Geoffrey Hughes

Votes: 22

42. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Caught in the Headlights (2002)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Alex Robinson stays at the Aidensfield Arms while he tries to purchase land. But Ian Sinclair has beaten him to it and closed the deal with a couple of potential sellers. Lord Ashfordly has... See full summary »

Director: Jonas Grimås | Stars: John Catterall, Toby Walton, Ben Sutherland, Matt Zina

Votes: 28

43. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Harmony (2002)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Sergeant Merton gets a visit from his cousin singing star Deborah Vine. She likes Aidensfield so much she may even decide to settle down there. She is joined by her daughter Didi, an ... See full summary »

Director: Noreen Kershaw | Stars: Lulu, Duncan Bell, David Lonsdale, Anna Niland

Votes: 28

44. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Living with the Past (2006)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Henry Stoddard is released after 15 years in prison for killing a police constable from Ashfordly police station and moves in with his brother Jack. Stoddard has always claimed his ... See full summary »

Director: Jonas Grimås | Stars: Roger Bingham, Matthew Dunster, John Bowe, John Duttine

Votes: 22

45. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: O Guilty Man! (2005)

TV-PG | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Malcolm Fairchild has just had his car checked and MOT-tested at Bernie's garage when he loses control over the vehicle and plunges into a garden. Luckily nobody gets seriously hurt, but ... See full summary »

Director: Judith Dine | Stars: Steven Blakeley, Derek Fowlds, William Simons, Sophie Ward

Votes: 25

46. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: England Expects (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

The old crook Albert Hallows - also known as "The Professor" or just "Prof" - has escaped from prison and returns to Aidensfield. He has a score to settle with the police - they arrested ... See full summary »

Director: Jonas Grimås | Stars: George Cole, Clare Wille, William Simons, Joe McFadden

Votes: 33

47. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: Guilty Secrets (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

The police had a tip-off and searches the home of Big Frank Batley. His wife Tina claims that one of the police officers has stolen 400 pounds during the search and the money is found in DS... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: John Duttine, Rupert Ward-Lewis, Steven Blakeley, Joe McFadden

Votes: 28

48. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)

TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Jack Frost is an unconventional policeman with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice. Sloppy, disorganized, and disrespectful, he attracts trouble like a magnet.

Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White

Votes: 8,759

49. The Little World of Don Camillo (1981– )

Comedy

Comedy series based on Giovannino Guareschi's stories of a small-town Italian priest and his relationships with God and the local communist mayor.

Stars: Mario Adorf, Brian Blessed, Cyril Cusack, Harry Fowler

Votes: 33

50. Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Episode: A Girl's Best Friend (2002)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

Ralph Harrison gives his wife Penelope his late mother's diamond necklace as a wedding anniversary present and persuades .her to wear it to the fund raising disco at the Ashfordly Grammar ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Barber | Stars: Paul Shelley, Susan Wooldridge, Derek Fowlds, William Simons

Votes: 26