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1.
Spender (1991–1993)
Episode:
Fee
(1992)
Action, Drama
A drug-addicted mama's actions illustrate the devastating effects on an addict's family. Spender shows his soft side in this case.
Stars: Jimmy Nail, Paul Stacey, Julie Graham, Nigel Terry
Votes: 7
2. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and his companions from planet Earth.
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Smith
Votes: 246,728
3. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 18,294
4. Mortimer's Law (1998– )
50 min | Crime, Drama
City lawyer Rachel Mortimer takes a job as coroner in rural Wales.
Stars: Amanda Root, Nicholas McGaughey, Gwenyth Petty, Shirley King
Votes: 13
5.
The Bill (1984–2010)
Episode:
Furthers
(1991)
TV-14 | 25 min | Crime, Drama
A violent criminal has escaped from prison bent on revenge - and Dashwood is one of his intended targets.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Jon Iles, Christopher Ellison, Nula Conwell, Carolyn Pickles
Votes: 43
6.
Covington Cross (1992)
Episode:
Armus Returns
(1992)
Adventure, History
Armus, Sir Thomas' eldest son, returns home after eight years of fighting in the Crusades. He joins the family on their annual reluctant journey to pay the king's taxes to the Duke of ... See full summary »
Director: James Keach | Stars: Nigel Terry, Cherie Lunghi, James Faulkner, Jonathan Firth
Votes: 16
7. MI-5 (2002–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.
Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones
Votes: 18,413
8. In Suspicious Circumstances (1991– )
Drama
A series of murders from all periods introduced by Edward Woodward
Stars: Edward Woodward, Martin Reeve, Michael Wardle, Saskia Abbott
Votes: 78
9. A History of Britain (2000–2002)
60 min | Documentary, History
A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
Stars: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Samuel West, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 945
10.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
They Fought in the Fields
(2004)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
April 1941: Foyle questions three Land Army girls about a murder that occurs on a Hastings farm.
Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: Tom Frederic, Peter Stark, Jack Gustav, Paula Jennings
Votes: 656
11.
MI-5 (2002–2011)
Episode:
The Special: Part 2
(2005)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Harry and Juliet are in a power struggle, while Adam and Zaf continue their fight against the American extremist group Shining Dawn.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: William Armstrong, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Peter Brooke, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 282
12.
A History of Britain (2000–2002)
Episode:
The British Wars
(2001)
Documentary, History
Simon Schama looks beyond the romantic stories of Cavaliers and Roundheads to the real story of the English Civil War, in which hundreds of thousands died, countless families were torn apart and the nation was divided.
Stars: Simon Schama, Anthony Bate, Nigel Terry, David Threlfall
Votes: 31
13.
MI-5 (2002–2011)
Episode:
The Special: Part 1
(2005)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When an American extremist group sets off a bomb in London, promising more attacks if their demands aren't met, the team must act fast to prevent any more casualties.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Michelle Bonnard, Peter Brooke, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 293
14.
Sensitive Skin (2005–2007)
Episode:
Here I Am
(2007)
30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Davina elects to make big changes in her life so she can move on.
Director: Hugo Blick | Stars: Joanna Lumley, Jean Marsh, Patrick Barlow, Toby Longworth
Votes: 13
15. Summer Playhouse (1954– )
30 min
Stars: Jimmy Durante, Sue Ane Langdon, Susan Oliver, Ray Walston
Votes: 22
16.
Holby City (1999–2022)
Episode:
Moving On
(2000)
TV-14 | 8 min | Drama
Kirsty saves a man having a heart attack on a scaffold. A runaway with possible tuberculosis goes missing from the hospital. Danny gets frustrated with an overbearing mother in pediatrics.
Director: Jim Shields | Stars: George Irving, Siobhan Redmond, Nicola Stephenson, Lisa Faulkner
Votes: 9
17.
Pie in the Sky (1994–1997)
Episode:
Irish Stew
(1996)
Not Rated | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The large family of much-married Irishwoman Kit Kelly book the restaurant for a wedding banquet for her and her new husband, American television writer Byron De Goris. Byron's briefcase is ... See full summary »
Director: Keith Boak | Stars: Richard Griffiths, Maggie Steed, Bella Enahoro, Samantha Womack
Votes: 88
18. Silent Witness (1996– )
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
Stars: Emilia Fox, David Caves, William Gaminara, Tom Ward
Votes: 12,746
19. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.
Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Tara Fitzgerald
Votes: 6,440
20. The Lion in Winter (1968)
PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle
Votes: 34,231 | Gross: $22.28M
21. Sensitive Skin (2005–2007)
29 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 61-year-old woman copes with her life's unexpected problems.
Stars: Joanna Lumley, Nicholas Jones, Oliver Cotton, James Lance
Votes: 326
22.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Marquise
(1969)
Drama
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Celia Johnson, Philip Latham, Richard Vernon, David Griffin
Votes: 10
23.
Sea of Souls (2004–2007)
Episode:
Amulet: Part 1
(2005)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Findley Morrison seeks Dr. Douglas Monaghan's assistance when strange things happen in his house. All family members, including his wife Carol, son Dominic and daughters Claire and Martha ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Krystina Coates, Dawn Steele, Robbie MacLellan, Bill Paterson
Votes: 21
24.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Anger Management: Part 2
(2004)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Team effectively proves that dead man was a murder victim, not a suicide and narrows their prime suspects to three inmates at the halfway house where the crime was committed. Two of ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose
Votes: 144
25. Marple (2004–2013)
TV-14 | 2,090 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.
Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss
Votes: 10,707
26.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part One
(1988)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a permanent Dutch house guest, to ... See full summary »
Director: Mary McMurray | Stars: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Michael Jayston, Catherine Neilson
Votes: 67
27.
Cutting It (2002–2005)
Episode:
Episode #3.6
(2004)
TV-14 | Drama, Romance
Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Jason Merrells, Lucy Gaskell, Ben Daniels, Sarah Parish
Votes: 6
28.
The Vice (1999–2003)
Episode:
Untouchable
(2003)
TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama
The ambitious manageress of a pole-dancing club suspects her uncle of using it to run a prostitution racket. Inspector Joe Robinson sends Chief Inspector Vickers undercover to investigate ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Samuels | Stars: Caroline Catz, David Harewood, Rosie Marcel, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 27
29.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Anger Management: Part 1
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A probation officer is murdered in a halfway house, but it is made to look like a suicide.
Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose
Votes: 158
30.
Silent Witness (1996– )
Episode:
Gone Tomorrow: Part 2
(1999)
TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a helicopter sends out a mayday and disappears in a storm en route to provide support to an off-shore oil rig, Sam is called upon to participate on the rescue team in case it turns into a recovery team.
Director: Matthew Evans | Stars: Amanda Burton, John Flanagan, Robert Pugh, Paul Chapman
Votes: 161
31. Pie in the Sky (1994–1997)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
DI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty.
Stars: Richard Griffiths, Maggie Steed, Malcolm Sinclair, Nick Raggett
Votes: 2,072
32. My Partner the Ghost (1969–1971)
Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When Hopkirk gets killed, he reappears as a ghost - pretty handy to have around in this line of work.
Stars: Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre, Ivor Dean
Votes: 1,510
33. The Vice (1999–2003)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Veteran Detective Inspector Pat Chappel (Ken Stott) heads up the Metropolitan vice squad as he and his team investigate prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade.
Stars: Caroline Catz, David Harewood, Ken Stott, Rosie Marcel
Votes: 613
34. Spender (1991–1993)
50 min | Action, Drama
Jimmy Nail plays Spender, a Northeast England police detective with marital problems.
Stars: Jimmy Nail, Sammy Johnson, Berwick Kaler, Denise Welch
Votes: 357
35. The Orchid House (1991– )
240 min | Drama
A white, plantation owning family in Dominica waits for the return of the patriarch from WWI, but things change when he does.
Stars: Diana Quick, Nigel Terry, Madge Sinclair, Carmen Du Sautoy
Votes: 36
36.
Silent Witness (1996– )
Episode:
Gone Tomorrow: Part 1
(1999)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a helicopter sends out a mayday and disappears in a storm en route to provide support to an off-shore oil rig, Sam is called upon to participate on the rescue team in case it turns into a recovery team.
Director: Matthew Evans | Stars: Amanda Burton, Dale Rapley, Paul Copley, Chris Walker
Votes: 192
37.
Zorro (1990–1993)
Episode:
A Woman Scorned
(1991)
TV-G | 23 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Juacinto Santana's fire-squad, according to Los Angeles's alcalde Ignacio de Soto for the murder on San Diego's alcalde Santana, his beloved father, is stopped by Zorro, who promises to ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Duncan Regehr, Patrice Martinez, James Victor, J.G. Hertzler
Votes: 29
38.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Three
(1988)
TV-14 | 23 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A long, sleepless night provides DCI Wexford with the long sought, final clue to solving the mystery of Elizabeth Nightingale's murder. But as he visits his main suspect, he is in for a ... See full summary »
Director: Mary McMurray | Stars: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Michael Jayston, Catherine Neilson
Votes: 38
39. Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)
50 min | Crime, Drama, History
A series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Stars: Nigel Stock, Peter Cushing, Douglas Wilmer, Peter Madden
Votes: 591
40. Covington Cross (1992)
60 min | Adventure, History
In 14th-century England, the Grey family--widower Thomas Grey and his children--deal with romance, political intrigue, and war.
Stars: Nigel Terry, Cherie Lunghi, James Faulkner, Jonathan Firth
Votes: 324
41. 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
42. Kenilworth (1967– )
45 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1575, ambitious 1st Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, decides to keep his marriage to the love of his life, Amy Robsart, secret in order to gain favor with Queen Elizabeth I. This leads to tragedy. Based on fact-based novel.
Stars: Jeremy Brett, Gemma Jones, George Innes, John Fraser
Votes: 10
43. The Gospel According to St Derek (2014)
37 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary exploring the ten commandments of low-budget filmmaking according to the independent filmmaker extraordinaire Derek Jarman.
Director: Andy Kimpton-Nye | Stars: Tariq Ali, Simon Fisher-Turner, Christopher Hobbs, Christopher Hughes
Votes: 10
44.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Eye of the Beholder
(1993)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Ritchie falls for a model and runs afoul of Gabriel, an immortal fashion designer suspected of murdering a young woman, who learned his secret.
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stan Kirsch, Nigel Terry
Votes: 213
45.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Song of Experience
(1986)
TV-14 | 65 min | Drama
As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though, on a day when innocence and illusion are lost.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Alan Bell, Paul Darlow, Trevor Moffat, Nigel Terry
Votes: 24
46.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
The Doctor's Daughter
(2008)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Caught in the middle of a war between the Humans and the Hath in the planet Messaline, the Doctor finds himself once again a father.
Director: Alice Troughton | Stars: David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Freema Agyeman, Georgia Tennant
Votes: 7,515
47. Crime & Punishment (2002 TV Movie)
200 min | Crime, Drama
Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: John Simm, Ian McDiarmid, Shaun Dingwall, Geraldine James
Votes: 940
48. Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 TV Movie)
54 min | Drama, Romance
A vain, pretty girl has recently taken over her uncle's farm. Her independent, naïve personality leaves her torn between the three men who wish to marry her.
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Paloma Baeza, Jonathan Firth, Nigel Terry, Gwynn Beech
Votes: 963
49. Sea of Souls (2004–2007)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A group of faculty and staff at a Glasgow university studies the paranormal.
Stars: Bill Paterson, Dawn Steele, Iain Robertson, Louise Irwin
Votes: 477
50. 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