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1. Poirot (1989–2013)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.

Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran

Votes: 52,049

2. 1984 (1984)

R | 113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 78,966 | Gross: $8.40M

3. Coronation Street (1960– )

TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Romance

The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.

Stars: William Roache, Helen Worth, Barbara Knox, Sally Dynevor

Votes: 6,017

4. Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.

Stars: Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Robert Fyfe

Votes: 3,650

5. 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: 4,397

6. Emmerdale Farm (1972– )

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.

Stars: Christopher Chittell, Lucy Pargeter, Mark Charnock, Dominic Brunt

Votes: 3,525

7. The Prisoner (1967–1968)

TV-PG | 1,010 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.

Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Peter Brace

Votes: 15,038

8. Bread (1986–1991)

30 min | Comedy

The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.

Stars: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris, Kenneth Waller

Votes: 1,541

9. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991–1993)

616 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Illustrious Client and The Creeping Man.

Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams, Colin Jeavons

Votes: 6,176

10. White Mischief (1987)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt, Greta Scacchi

Votes: 3,214 | Gross: $3.11M

11. 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: 392

12. Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988)

60 min | Comedy

Comic goings-on in this series. Ted's the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money. Gladys has her eye on the boss, and Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner's outfit for a 'yellow coat.'

Stars: Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland, Felix Bowness

Votes: 1,873

13. 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: 381

14. 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: 347

15. Horizon (I) (1964– )

50 min | Documentary

British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.

Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach

Votes: 1,147

16. Justice (1971–1974)

60 min | Drama

Cases of a female barrister.

Stars: Margaret Lockwood, John Stone, John Bryans, Philip Stone

Votes: 117

17. Little Dorrit (1987)

G | 357 min | Drama, Romance

Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.

Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall

Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $1.03M

18. Chancer (1990–1991)

TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A business adviser uses all means necessary to help his friends out of financial ruins. However he has a moral code. Also, his unresolved family past won't leave him alone.

Stars: Clive Owen, Simon Shepherd, Susannah Harker, Leslie Phillips

Votes: 453

19. G.B.H. (1991)

567 min | Comedy, Drama

Politician Michael Murray's life entwines with headmaster Jim Nelson's, changing their trajectories when their paths cross unexpectedly.

Stars: Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Dearbhla Molloy, Alan Igbon

Votes: 822

20. A Perfect Spy (1987)

374 min | Thriller

The rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage.

Stars: Ray McAnally, Rüdiger Weigang, Alan Howard, Peter Egan

Votes: 999

21. Screenplay (1986–1993)

Drama

An anthology drama series.

Stars: John Kavanagh, Tony Doyle, Michael Liebmann, Benjamin Whitrow

Votes: 94

22. 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

23. Strangers (1978–1982)

60 min | Crime, Thriller

The eccentric police detective George Kitchener Bulman is reluctantly transferred to a station in the North of England.

Stars: Don Henderson, Dennis Blanch, Fiona Mollison, John Ronane

Votes: 111

24. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)

Comedy, Drama

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer

Votes: 87

25. Travelling Man (1984– )

60 min | Crime, Drama

After completing a 2 year prison sentence for a bribe he didn't take, Ex-Detective Inspector Alan Lomax wants answers. Lomax has at least one luxury left - a narrowboat, and it's on the ... See full summary »

Stars: Leigh Lawson, Terry Taplin, Tony Doyle, Sue Robinson

Votes: 97

26. How We Used to Live (1968–1998)

Family, History

Award-winning British educational drama series tracing the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from Tudor times through to the 1960s. Many of the early seasons were 20-part serialised dramas.

Stars: Redvers Kyle, Diana Davies, James Tomlinson, John Keyworth

Votes: 103

27. Paradise Postponed (1986)

569 min | Drama

A clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative Member of Parliament. Why?

Stars: Annette Crosbie, Paul Shelley, Peter Egan, David Threlfall

Votes: 141

28. A Tale of Two Cities (1989)

188 min | Drama, History, Romance

Two men, one an aristocrat, and one a drunken lawyer, fall in love with the same woman during the early stages of the French Revolution.

Stars: James Wilby, Xavier Deluc, Serena Gordon, John Mills

Votes: 402

29. Fair Game (1994 TV Movie)

108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Set in 1970 during the World Cup and Parliamentary elections about a couple hiking across England. The girl meets a rich Italian with an expensive sportscar, and of course there are parallels to how this all relates to soccer and politics.

Director: Alan Dossor | Stars: Lena Headey, Julian Kerridge, Massimo Bellinzoni, Prunella Scales

Votes: 77

30. 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: 131

31. The Monocled Mutineer (1986)

310 min | Drama, History, War

During World War I, Percy Toplis, a deserter from the British Army, plays a major role in the Étaples Mutiny in September 1917.

Stars: Paul McGann, Bill Fellows, Matthew Marsh, Anthony Calf

Votes: 390

32. The Dressmaker (1988)

92 min | Drama, Romance

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Director: Jim O'Brien | Stars: Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Pete Postlethwaite, Jane Horrocks

Votes: 274

33. Lady Killers (1980–1981)

60 min | Crime, Drama

British drama about famous murder cases involving women.

Stars: Robert Morley, Andrew Johns, Charles Kay, Lewis Fiander

Votes: 44

34. Floodtide (1987–1988)

60 min | Drama

Drama serial following the trail of cocaine smugglers.

Stars: Philip Sayer, John Benfield, Georges Trillat, Gaby Dellal

Votes: 31

35. American Drive-in (1985)

R | 92 min | Comedy

The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.

Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Emily Longstreth, Patrick Kirton, Rhonda Selesnow, Joel Bennett

Votes: 258

36. Medics (1990–1995)

50 min | Drama

The everyday lives and loves, trials and tribulations of the doctors, nurses, patients and administrative staff of a large teaching hospital in the north-west of England near the city of Manchester.

Stars: Jimmi Harkishin, Tom Baker, Emma Cunningham, James Gaddas

Votes: 41

37. The XYY Man (1976–1977)

60 min | Crime, Thriller

William "Spider" Scott has a spare "Y" chromosome in his cell structure, which makes him very tall but also gives him a compulsion to steal.

Stars: Stephen Yardley, Don Henderson, Vivienne McKee, Dennis Blanch

Votes: 59

38. Snakes and Ladders (1989)

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Set in a Britain of 1999, where the north and south are bordered states, with riches on one side and poverty on the other. Due to a computer mix-up, rich businessman's son Giles and poor, lowly-paid Gavin find themselves swapping places.

Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Adrian Edmondson, Ed Devereaux, June Watson

Votes: 24

39. On the Black Hill (1988)

117 min | Drama

The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs and land disputes.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Aled Baker, Rhys Baker, Iona Banks, Nicola Beddoe

Votes: 183

40. The Return of the Antelope (1986–1988)

60 min | Family, Drama

In 1899, two English children befriend a group of shipwrecked Lilliputians.

Stars: John Quentin, John Branwell, Fiona McArthur, Stephanie Cole

Votes: 35

41. All for Love (1982–1983)

60 min | Romance

Anthology of stories about love, many adapted from short stories or novels.

Stars: Alick Hayes, Dilys Worsfold, Joan Plowright, Geraldine McEwan

Votes: 16

42. The Book Tower (1979–1989)

Family, Fantasy

New and classic books are discussed, passages read by well-known actors and authors, and short dramatisations are used to bring the stories to life.

Stars: Tom Baker, Stephen Moore, Alun Armstrong, Neil Innes

Votes: 31

43. Spy-Catcher (1959–1961)

30 min | Drama

Based on fact, this series depicted the adventures of Colonel Pinto, the most renowned of British interrogators during World War II.

Stars: Bernard Archard, Raymond Mason, Henry Lincoln, Donald James

Votes: 22

44. Waterfront Beat (1990–1991)

50 min | Crime, Drama

Police series set in the Liverpool docks.

Stars: Brian McCardie, Rupert Frazer, Denis Lill, Geoffrey Leesley

Votes: 9

45. Ladder of Swords (1989)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Don, his alcoholic wife Denise and Daley 'The Dancing Bear' are waiting on the moors to hear about a job. However, a fight, a disappearance and a death leads to unwanted attention from the police but a budding romance with a local widow.

Director: Norman Hull | Stars: Martin Shaw, Eleanor David, Bob Peck, Simon Molloy

Votes: 59 | Gross: $0.01M

46. Help! (1986–1988)

30 min | Comedy

Comedy series about three unemployed young men from Liverpool in the nineteen-eighties.

Stars: Stephen McGann, David Albany, Jake Abraham, Sheila Fay

Votes: 12

47. The Nation's Health (1983)

95 min | Drama

Drama filmed in a documentary style to show the many problems within a typical NHS hospital.

Stars: Vivienne Ritchie, Julian Fox, Ian McDiarmid, P.H. Moriarty

Votes: 17

48. The Gathering Seed (1983– )

55 min | Drama

Joe Henshaw, a young working-class man from Lancashire, joins the Labour movement, serves in World War Two and has a relationship with a local councillor.

Stars: James Ellis, David Threlfall, Gilly Coman, Brenda Fricker

49. Made in Heaven (1990– )

50 min | Drama

A couple (Rix and Bentinck) set up a Wedding Agency to arrange the happy day for prospective couples.

Stars: Louisa Rix, Tim Bentinck, Moira Brooker, Keith Barron

50. Muck and Brass (1982)

50 min | Drama

Property developer Tom Craig manipulates and negotiates his way through local politics in a Midlands town.

Stars: Mel Smith, Darien Angadi, Johnny Allan, Raymond Mason

Votes: 51