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1. Police Surgeon (1960)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Ian Hendry, John Warwick, Howard Daley, Blaise Wyndham
Votes: 17
2.
Sergeant Cork (1963–1968)
Episode:
The Case of the Stricken Surgeon
(1964)
Crime, Drama
Sergeant Cork is called in to solve a medical case, young Surgeon Doctor Briscoe operates on a young woman without authority, who later dies, his superior believes it's a criminal matter.
Director: Philip Dale | Stars: John Barrie, William Gaunt, Charles Morgan, Freddie Fowler
Votes: 7
3. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.
Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, John Alkin
Votes: 2,644
4.
The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode:
Thou Shalt Not Kill!
(1975)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The day before the start of a new term, the university branch of the National Mercian bank is robbed. Regan and his squad arrive and catch or shoot most of the gang but known killer Wands ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, Ronald Lacey
Votes: 136
5. 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
6. Danger Man (1960–1961)
TV-PG | 24 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
John Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element which threatened world peace.
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton, Michael Ripper
Votes: 1,381
7. Sergeant Cork (1963–1968)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Victorian-era whodunnit with venerable Sergeant Cork battling entrenched views in a bid to use a more scientific approach to solving cases. Trusty sidekick Bob does not always understand his methods but faithfully co-operates..
Stars: John Barrie, William Gaunt, Charles Morgan, Freddie Fowler
Votes: 69
8. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
9.
World Theatre (1959)
Episode:
Brand
(1959)
90 min | Drama
Brand, a priest, believes that Man's worst enemy is...himself. This is certainly true of him.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 63
10.
Danger Man (1960–1961)
Episode:
Name, Date and Place
(1961)
TV-PG | 26 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Drake investigates a rash of killings, all linked by the way in which the victims were killed. He suspects an organization specializing in murders is behind the deaths and makes contact ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Cyril Raymond, Richard Wattis, Kathleen Byron
Votes: 110
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: 244
12. 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
13. The Champions (1968–1969)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a plane carrying three UN Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.
Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,424
14. The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1963– )
Drama
Stars: Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue, Patrick Westwood, Barry Letts
Votes: 36
15. 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: 345
16. William Tell (1958–1959)
30 min | Adventure, Family, History
Depicts the legend of William Tell, who, as the stories say, shot an apple off of his son's head and lead the rebellion to free Switzerland.
Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard, Jennifer Jayne, Richard Rogers
Votes: 211
17. 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: 92
18. Mogul (1965–1972)
50 min | Drama
Adventure drama series based around the fictitious Mogul Oil Company and the exploits of its chief "troubleshooter", Peter Thornton (Ray Barrett).
Stars: Geoffrey Keen, Philip Latham, Ray Barrett, Robert Hardy
Votes: 92
19.
William Tell (1958–1959)
Episode:
The Lost Letter
(1959)
25 min | Adventure, Family, History
So anxious is he to read a letter from Judge Furst informing William Tell of the location of a large arms shipment. Gessler fails to realise that the missive is in the sole of his own boot.... See full summary »
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard, Derren Nesbitt, Alex Scott
Votes: 9
20. Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
25 min | Adventure, Family
The adventures of Sir Francis Drake during the 1500's. Sir Francis is probably one of the most famous explorers of the high seas. The twenty six episodes of the series are about his ... See full summary »
Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Michael Crawford, Milton Reid
Votes: 149
21. Riders to the Sea (1960 TV Movie)
28 min | Drama, Family
Maurya, who lives in a village on the coast of Ireland, has lost her husband, father-in-law, and five sons to the sea. With a sense of foreboding, she predicts that by nightfall she will have no living sons remaining.
Director: George R. Foa | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Sean Connery, Olive McFarland, Jan Kenny
Votes: 29
22. World Theatre (1959)
Drama
In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.
Stars: Olive McFarland, John Southworth, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell
Votes: 13
23.
The Champions (1968–1969)
Episode:
A Case of Lemmings
(1968)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In Paris three Interpol agents each separately and inexplicably commit suicide in public by different means and Nemesis is brought in to investigate. Sharron recalls a newspaper cutting ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 73
24. Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)
Crime, Drama
Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.
Stars: Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Geoffrey Adams, Arthur Rigby
Votes: 308
25. Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
50 min | Romance
Anthology series of love stories.
Stars: Scott Forbes, Donald Pickering, Barry Jackson, Susan Jameson
Votes: 25
26.
Sir Francis Drake (1961–1962)
Episode:
The Lost Colony of Virginia
(1961)
30 min | Adventure, Family
Drake visits the ailing colonists with a view to rescuing them, but he has not counted on their determination in the face of attacks by the indigenous tribes.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Terence Morgan, Jean Kent, Olive McFarland, Barry Foster
Votes: 24
27. Alive and Kicking (1958)
94 min | Comedy
Three elderly ladies tire of living in an old people's home and when they heard that they are about to be separated, they make a bid for freedom. They escape to an island off the Irish ... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood, Stanley Holloway
Votes: 371
28.
William Tell (1958–1959)
Episode:
The Baroness
(1958)
25 min | Adventure, Family, History
When her husband is invited to visit the castle of a beautiful baroness who says she is being blackmailed, Hedda, suspecting the woman of working for Gessler, follows Tell and uncovers a devious plot.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Jennifer Jayne, Willoughby Goddard, Delphi Lawrence
Votes: 16
29. Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
30 min | Drama
Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.
Stars: Jill Browne, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Frederick Bartman, Desmond Carrington
Votes: 69
30. The Frightened City (1961)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks
Votes: 1,117
31. Our Mutual Friend (1958–1959)
30 min | Drama
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.
Stars: Paul Daneman, Zena Walker, David McCallum, Richard Leech
Votes: 20
32. Naughty! (1974)
83 min | Drama
A look at sex and pornography through down the ages. From the liberal ancient Greeks, to the hypocritical Victorians, and on to modern times.
Director: Stanley A. Long | Stars: Chris Lethbridge-Baker, Lee Donald, Brenda Peters, Nina Zuckerman
Votes: 109
33. So Evil, So Young (1961)
77 min | Drama
A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock, John Charlesworth, Jocelyn Britton
Votes: 186
34. Sex Through the Ages (1974)
88 min | Comedy
Comic look at the history of prostitution.
Director: Stanley A. Long | Stars: Charles Gray, Lloyd Lamble, Gloria Maley, Olive McFarland
Votes: 96
35. Saturday Playhouse (1958–1961)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series of dramatisations of plays.
Stars: Elvi Hale, Madoline Thomas, George A. Cooper, Emrys Jones
37. Where the Difference Begins (1961 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Wilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in ... See full summary »
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Leslie Sands, Nigel Stock, Barry Foster, Hylda Baker
38. A Question of Time (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Stars: Tony Britton, Olive McFarland, Gladys Boot, Ann Tirard
39. The Attorney-General (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Harold Clayton | Stars: John Clements, Andre Van Gyseghem, Olive McFarland, Anthony Bate
40. Brand (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark, Peter Sallis
41.
Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
Episode:
Matters of Honour
(1967)
Romance
Director: John Gibson | Stars: Sean Caffrey, Frances White, Michael Graham Cox, Carleton Hobbs
42.
Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)
Episode:
Second Chance
(1963)
Crime, Drama
Director: Robin Nash | Stars: Geoffrey Adams, Colin Burbidge, Peter Byrne, Edward Cast
43.
Police Surgeon (1960)
Episode:
Lag on the Run
(1960)
Drama
Police surgeon Geoffrey Brent plays the role of private detective when a girl confesses to a crime she obviously didn't commit - a confession that brings unforeseen consequences for both himself and the girl.
Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Ian Hendry, John Bosche, Harry H. Corbett, Howard Daley
44.
Mogul (1965–1972)
Episode:
Lord, What a Tangled Web
(1969)
Drama
Director: Lennie Mayne | Stars: Graham Armitage, Arnold Diamond, Geoffrey Keen, Philip Latham
45.
Mogul (1965–1972)
Episode:
Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart
(1968)
Drama
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Peter Baldwin, Brian Blessed, Michael Graham Cox, Michael Dawkins
46.
Mogul (1965–1972)
Episode:
They're Probably Drilling for Oil
(1966)
Drama
Thornton is sent to the frozen north of Norway to see what the Russians are up to and if they are keeping to their side of the drilling concessions. He is surprised to find their chief ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Ray Barrett, Sebastian Breaks, Larry Drew, Donald Gee
47.
Mogul (1965–1972)
Episode:
Who Did You Say Inherits the Earth?
(1970)
Drama
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Thomas Baptiste, Ray Barrett, Mark Eden, John Forrest
48.
The Venturers (1975)
Episode:
Money Isn't Everything
(1975)
Director: Darrol Blake | Stars: Geoffrey Keen, David Buck, James Kerry, Karin MacCarthy
49.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
The Golden Road
(1973)
Drama
A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.
Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Neville Barber, Nicholas Barnes, Karen Corti, Joyce Heron
50.
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1963– )
Episode:
A Wayside Comedy
(1964)
Drama
Director: Peter Cregeen | Stars: Joss Ackland, Kenneth Fortescue, Ronald Hines, Victor Maddern