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1. Television Playwright (1958–1959)
Drama
Stars: Brian Peck, Peter Copley, Jack Allen, Helen Shingler
Votes: 14
2. North and South (1966– )
45 min | Drama
Stars: Wendy Williams, Richard Leech, Sonia Dresdel, Edwin Richfield
Votes: 10
3. Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978– )
50 min | Drama
BBC drama about the life of the Welsh composer Joseph Parry.
Stars: William Squire, Gerald James, Rachel Thomas, Siân Phillips
Votes: 5
4. Telford's Change (1979)
50 min | Drama
Telford had worked for many years in a bank, and had progressed to a senior role which involved him travelling overseas. He decided that he wanted a change, so he applied for the job of ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Barkworth, Hannah Gordon, Albert Welling, Veronica Sowerby
Votes: 70
5. The Roads of Exile (1978 TV Movie)
169 min | Biography, Drama
French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: François Simon, Dominique Labourier, Corinne Coderey, Monique Mélinand
Votes: 16
6.
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
Episode:
Well, We're In!
(1981)
Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Philip Madoc, Lisabeth Miles, Kika Markham, David Markham
Votes: 6
7. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Winston Churchill's life between 1929, when he lost his cabinet position, and 1939, when he joined Great Britain's War Cabinet - a period he described as the most difficult in his life.
Stars: Robert Hardy, Siân Phillips, Nigel Havers, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 338
8. Knight Errant Limited (1959–1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Adam Knight's agency is there to help people in all kinds of ways.
Stars: Kay Callard, John Turner, Richard Carpenter, Hugh David
Votes: 14
9. The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the brilliant but immensely controversial David Lloyd George, who was the final Liberal Party Prime Minister of the UK.
Stars: Philip Madoc, Lisabeth Miles, William Thomas, Kika Markham
Votes: 47
10. The Stars Look Down (1974– )
60 min | Drama
Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the tragedies and disasters that befell them. It's a lovely story-line and very well portrayed in this series.
Stars: Ian Hastings, Basil Dignam, Alun Armstrong, Avril Elgar
Votes: 34
11. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
TV-MA | 720 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
Stars: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell
Votes: 1,697
12. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,319 | Gross: $52.77M
13. Day for Night (1973)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 24,807 | Gross: $0.02M
14. 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
15. Days of Hope (1975– )
395 min | Drama, History, War
A series of four films from the Great War to the General Strike.
Stars: Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton, Nikolas Simmonds, Gary Roberts
Votes: 144
16. Artists and Models (1986– )
Drama
Biographical studies of the French artists David, Ingres and Gericault.
Stars: Ronald Chenery, Angela Graham-Jones, Harry Parkinson, Rosemary Hirst
Votes: 5
17.
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode:
Gambit
(1983)
TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama
In the early days of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Reilly works on behalf of the British to topple the Bolsheviks and get Russia back in the war.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sam Neill, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell, Brian Protheroe
Votes: 67
18. 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
19. One Step Beyond (1959–1961)
Approved | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"One Step Beyond" was a collection of tales about paranormal events, horrifying folklore, and the world of the unknown.
Stars: John Newland, Robert Douglas, Olan Soule, Will J. White
Votes: 1,880
20. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
21. The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974–1975)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mini-series made up of four plays, each showing Benjamin Franklin at a different stage in his life. In each episode, Franklin is played by a different actor.
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Ian Holm, Honor Blackman, Richard Widmark
Votes: 49
22.
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Episode:
A Menace in the House
(1981)
Biography, Drama, History
Churchill asks the House to institute a committee to investigate the interference with evidence on the India question. But committee members Ramsay McDonald, Sir Louis Kershaw and Clement ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Robert Hardy, Siân Phillips, Nigel Havers, Edward Woodward
Votes: 17
23. The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957–1958)
30 min | Mystery
Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan is called in to help solve baffling cases, aided by his #1 son. The first five episodes were filmed in the US, then production switched to the UK for the rest of the series.
Stars: J. Carrol Naish, James Hong, Rupert Davies, Arthur Gomez
Votes: 142
24. Rope (1947 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
Director: Stephen Harrison | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Elwyn Brook-Jones, George De Warfaz, Shelagh Fraser
Votes: 41
25.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Loyalties
(1976)
Drama
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Edward Fox, John Carson, Charles Kay, Polly Adams
Votes: 12
26. 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
27. Six Days of Justice (1972–1975)
52 min | Drama
Drama deals with a magistrates' court, which usually is their first encounter with the law in the U.K. The stories evolve around the types of crimes that are presented there from parking ... See full summary »
Stars: George Waring, Meadows White, Rex Robinson, Ishaq Bux
Votes: 13
28. The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1963– )
Drama
Stars: Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue, Patrick Westwood, Barry Letts
Votes: 36
29. Medieval England: The Peasants Revolt (1969)
31 min | Short, Drama, History
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Keith Skinner, Christopher Logue, David Markham
Votes: 18
30.
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Episode:
Down and Out
(1981)
Biography, Drama, History
When the Tories lose their majority in Parliament, Winston loses his spot in the cabinet. Deciding to take the opportunity to feather his nest he goes to America on a speaking tour and invests the proceeds in a a pre-crash stock market.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Robert Hardy, Siân Phillips, Nigel Havers, Chloe Salaman
Votes: 20
31. 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
32. Family Life (1971)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney
Votes: 2,089
33. Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Ingrid Hafner
Votes: 72
34. 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
35. 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
36. Barbie (1955– )
30 min | Family
Stars: Kika Markham, David Markham, Pearl Dadswell, Marcia Manolescue
Votes: 14
37.
Ghost Squad (1961–1964)
Episode:
The Magic Bullet
(1963)
Crime, Drama
Assigned to protect the life - and secrets - of an eminent metallurgist attending a science conference at a country retreat, Nick Craig springs an elaborate trap on a group of foreign spies.
Director: James Ferman | Stars: Michael Quinn, Anthony Marlowe, David Markham, Mary Morris
Votes: 7
38.
Crown Court (1972–2007)
Episode:
The Healing Hand: Part 1
(1975)
TV-14 | Drama
Neurologist Dr. Anthony Boyde and the Reverend Francis King set up a centre called "The Healing Hand" to support sufferers of chronic illnesses. While Dr. Boyde was away the centre's ... See full summary »
Director: Laurence Moody | Stars: Laurence Hardy, William Simons, John Moffatt, David Markham
Votes: 7
39. Tess (1979)
PG | 186 min | Drama, Romance
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin
Votes: 18,307
40. Crown Court (1972–2007)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama
A courtroom drama in which each case is usually presented in three episodes. At the end of the third episode, a jury of "ordinary people" comes to a verdict on the evidence presented.
Stars: Peter Wheeler, Joseph Berry, Richard Colson, Derek Hockridge
Votes: 348
41. 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
42.
Days of Hope (1975– )
Episode:
1926: General Strike
(1975)
129 min | Drama, History, War
Coal miners' pay is reduced while at the same time they are told to work longer hours, which results in a massive strike. Their differing approaches drives a wedge between Phillip, his wife Sarah, and her brother Ben.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton, Nikolas Simmonds, Russell Waters
Votes: 23
43. Two English Girls (1971)
130 min | Drama, Romance
At the beginning of the 20th century, middle-class young Frenchman Claude Roc meets young Englishwoman Ann Brown in Paris. They become friends and she invites him to spend holidays at the ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott
Votes: 5,868
44. Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
G | 108 min | Biography, Drama
G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard
Votes: 1,196
45. Ghost Squad (1961–1964)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The adventures of the agents of Scotland Yard's secret undercover crime unit, dubbed "The Ghost Squad".
Stars: Anthony Marlowe, Claire Nielson, Michael Quinn, Neil Hallett
Votes: 77
46. Robin Hood (1953)
30 min | Adventure
Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest fight the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Stars: Patrick Troughton, John Breslin, Wensley Pithey, Dudley Jones
Votes: 22
47. Closing Ranks (1980 TV Movie)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A KGB agent defects to UK and offers information about Russian spies within the British Intelligence. Can he be trusted?
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Joss Ackland, Harry Andrews, Andrew Burt, Kevin Elyot
Votes: 9
48.
Television World Theatre (1957–1958)
Episode:
The Master Builder
(1958)
90 min | Drama
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Director: Max Faber | Stars: Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Catherine Lacey, David Markham
Votes: 10
49. 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: 94
50. The Stars Look Down (1940)
Approved | 110 min | Drama
In a small coal-mining village, Bob Fenwick leads a strike over safety standards at the local colliery. Meanwhile, his son David goes off to university with the hope one day to return to help the miners with their working conditions.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 1,180