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- 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.
- The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.
- 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.
- Robert Hammond has died while "doing the deed" with his secretary and mistress Jennifer, and now his three sons have inherited the family trucking company, and each one will try to run the business in his own way.
- The four-or-five-times-a-week adventures of a motel owner and her son, daughter and staff. Drama was never far away from the ringing of the reception bell.
- In 1783, Ross Poldark returns from the American wars to his native Cornwall to right wrongs and reunite with the love of his life.
- A gritty drama which follows the work of the police force in the fictional town of Newtown in the North of England.
- Six student nurses start training in the NHS, facing challenges working with colleagues and patients while adapting to the hierarchy and procedures.
- After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up "Rentaghost".
- Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
- Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.
- 1970s BBC police drama with experienced cops DCS Charlie Barlow and DS John Watt who lead a task force charged with tackling the toughest cases Thamesford has to offer.
- A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
- 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 three seasons, to keep an eye on the environment and supervise government and private sector research in an attempt to prevent pollution and other disasters that might be caused by the misuse of new scientific developments, discoveries and technology. While confronting dangers ranging from a plastic-eating bacteria to a hyper-intelligent species of rats, from mind-destroying sound waves to toxic wastes and genetic mutations, the Doomwatch team always found themselves under the gun, from unsupportive governmental superiors, and openly hostile corporations, and the powerful influences they could wield. The Doomwatch team initially consisted of Quist, former intelligence agent Dr. John Ridge, eager young researcher Toby Wren, technician and computer specialist Colin Bradley, and secretary Pat Hunnisett. During the subsequent seasons there would be a high turnover rate in Doomwatch membership, with only Quist, Ridge, and Bradley surviving all three seasons.
- A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.
- In 1902, Edwardian adventurer Adam Adamant is frozen alive in a block of ice by his archnemesis, the Face. In 1966, workmen discover him and he is revived, perfectly preserved but completely bewildered by his new environment, "swinging '60s" London, until he meets beautiful Georgina Jones, who helps him adapt. Before long, he is back to adventuring, solving crime, and fighting evil wherever it lurks.
- A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.
- Crime-novelist Paul Temple solves mysteries with the help of his wife Steve.
- Ellis Cooper, wife Vivienne, grandmother and their three children are relocated from London to a rural town Angleton by his employer. Helping them adjust to country living are the Harkers whose father also works for Eden Brothers.
- Anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television.
- Tom Corby and his son John are bird watching, by the cliffs, when he spots a number of strangers. John goes to help a girl cut off from land. When he returns his dad has vanished.
- BBC series set in the offices of a glossy women's magazine.
- Daphne Pegg moves out of stern Aunt Ethel's place in the North to start a new, independent life in London. Meanwhile in London, recently divorced Roland Moody looks forward to living in a place of his own. Pegg has the keys to her dream flat, and Moody has the keys to his, but there is a big catch that will throw this unlikely couple together.
- The continuing trials and tribulations of Joe Lampton, a Northern lad trying to make it in the South as he wheels and deals in the cutthroat business world of 1970s England.
- Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
- 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 women of all ages and backgrounds who come under their care. Drawing on the documentary skills of creator Julian Bond and produced by Emergency - Ward 10s Antony Kearey, Probation Officer was broadcast at a time when the service was increasingly coming into focus as progressive response to rising crime.
- Anthology series of one-off thrillers about the covert activities of Allied agents and resistance operatives in occupied Europe during the Second World War.
- Anthology series of stories "with a sting in the tail."
- Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute United Kingdom television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960-65. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White.
- Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.
- Simon King, an alien agent from the Inter Galactic Council, is sent to Earth on a mission to stop unscrupulous refugees from a dying planet from wiping out Mankind and taking over the planet Earth.
- The series was set around a general practice in north London and leading cast members included: Justine Lord, Nigel Stock, Barry Justice, Richard Leech, Isla Blair and Lynda La Plante (billed as Lynda Marchal). Nigel Stock's character, Dr. Thomas Owens, was the lead in a later spin-off series, Owen, M.D., which aired between 1971 and 1973. Most of the episodes produced are missing from the archives; 139 of the 160 shows are thought to be lost.
- Angus Wilson (1913-1991) wrote his novel "Late Call" in 1964, and 20 years later, Anthony Burgess ranked it as one of the 99 best novels written since 1939. This led to its inclusion in the rec.arts.books compilation list of the 425 "Greatest Books of All Time." The central character is the elderly Sylvia Calvert, and Wilson wanted to "find a way of suggesting the absurd and the compassionate at the same time in Sylvia's story," and with her son, "the sudden, incidental and completely horrible in the deadly respectable world." Adapting Wilson's novel into four episodes (each approximately 50 minutes in length), Dennis Potter expanded Wilson's prologue ("The Hot Summer of 1911") into the drama's centerpiece, intercutting between past and present as he probed spiritual desolation in the English Midlands. Retiring from a lifetime of hotel domestic service, Sylvia Calvert arrives with her husband Arthur to live with their overly fastidious son in the New Town of Carshall, where they attempt to adjust to the lifestyle of his family. Amid the alienation and the passivity of the dull and deadening retirement, Sylvia escapes into her repressed memories, looking back at the year 1911 and reflecting on the psychological wound of a long-ago incident from her childhood.
- This partially lost sequel to "The Royalty" (1957) follows day to day happenings in one particular hotel.
- 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 offenses to murder. We meet the variety of characters who make there way through this procedure and follow them to their fate.
- Thriller series set in the fictional European country of Amalia and dealing with the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities within.
- Dramatization of Gustave Flaubert's novel about the life and romances of Frédéric Moreau at the time of the 1848 French Revolution and the founding of the Second French Empire.
- A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
- Children's comedy series in which Reg Varney plays a variety of characters from throughout history.
- A series about life on a London daily newspaper.
- Anthology series of plays dealing with the themes of fear and entrapment.
- Mike Billings decides to give gambling a go and it happens he's good at it. His instant fortune attracts quite a number of characters including a con artist, a hired killer, and the requisite attractive woman.
- Six new plays showcasing female writers, three set in the 1930s and three in the 1970s.
- A brief overview of the various appearances of Gallifrey in the series DOCTOR WHO.
- Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.
- Lord Pearmains exclusive parties routinely end with sacrificial ceremonies and lead to blackmail of high ranking government employees. When Adamant investigates and Georgina takes a job as a domestic at Pearmain Hall, both end up in danger of being the next victim.
- A mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape
- A military plane ditches into the sea whilst carrying three nuclear weapons on board. While the RAF mounts a search mission, an unidentified object is washed up on the shore near Byfield pier on the south coast of England. It is found by two men, Geoff Harker and Sam Billings, who decide that it must be a weather detecting device, and so begin to strip it down for parts. Toby is sent to investigate the device, but he soon finds himself faced with the terrifying prospect of disarming a very live bomb.
- Joe is pressured to fire a fellow employee at work. Meanwhile, Susan gets close to Mike, a man she works with. After seeing his wife's growing interest in Mike, Joe reaches out to Mike's model girlfriend Paula for company.
- Paul and Steve Temple's friend Ilse is kidnapped soon after arriving in London. Paul and Steve begin to suspect that maybe her Uncle is involved somehow but with no immediate evidence, set about trying to track her down.
- Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to rid Heathow Airport of a Highwayman ghost.
- The shock of finding out his tenants are ghosts sends Mr. Meaker to the hospital with appendicitis. However, when the Rentaghost team visit him, they see an opportunity for a job - as hospital ward entertainers.
- Rentaghost are hired by Lord Busby, owner of a stately home, in the hope that ghostly apparitions will attract the public.
- 1971–197351m7.3 (98)TV EpisodeCharismatic socialite Simon Carne adopts the persona of "Klimo" to solve crimes. Does professional jealousy explain antagonism to the celebrated private detective? Or is it something more? And even though Klimo solves case after case for his clients, why are none of the perpetrators ever caught?
- 1971–19736.9 (51)TV EpisodeWhen a fortune in gold bullion disappears from the strongroom of R.M.S Oceanic, a ship which is trying to establish a new record time for crossing the Atlantic, the ship's purser, amateur detective Mr Horrocks, investigates.
- On Sunday's, Pelham Rise has become a soapbox for religious and political debate. However in recent week's things have become violent. D.C. Dwyer finds himself drawn into a dark world of fascism and antisemitism.
- Hawkins and Snow are to due give evidence in Herbert Andrews robbery trial. Much of the case resolves around forensic evidence so Andrews counsel is out to discredit the pair.
- Mark Carter arranges to visit bank manager Gil Turner. A telephone call tells Turner is wife is being held at gun point. Two of Carter's associates pretend to be police officers expecting a bank raid but events soon spiral out of control.
- 1965–1973TV EpisodeP.C. White was chasing a missing dog which leads him to a dead body buried at the Maxwell Reece's garden. She claims it's a tramp but Waugh discovers that her lover died of a heart attack and she doesn't want neighbours to know
- Christmas Eve; Lynch and Graham attend a robbery at Nolan's garage. D.C. Hicks going through the statements stumbles on a bigger conspiracy that driver Ted Drysdale was delivering petrol to a garages not on his list.
- DC Lynch is sent to an allotment, where a man known as "Old George" has been murdered. Det. Supt. Prentiss takes charge and his has his own ideas. He tells DCI Barlow to remove Lynch from the case for daring disagree strategy.
- Insp. Pratt plans a pub raid at the Three Mason Inn, in Silver Street. Jenkins and Mitchell miss their train home so steal a dumper truck and blame Platt when caught. Jean Knight wants to give Sgt. Stone information but Platt interferes.
- John and Susan go to the police to help look for his father. The police won't intervene, as Tom Corby is suspended from Scotland Yard. Tom Corby and his two contacts meet up with Kessler. Police surveillance believe Corby is on the take.
- The Doctor is arrested for the President's murder and struggles to avoid his immediate execution.
- Neville Crane finds himself at a Revivalist meeting conducted by Evangelist Milton Laud, who is launching a "Save Mankind" mission in London. Crane suspects there is a dubious financial background to Laud's campaign and writes an exposé which the editor, after taking legal advice decides to print. But Laud, to the horror and surprise of "The Globe" sues the paper for £25,000 damages for libel.
- Merroney hints at blackmail should Clare get any ideas about sharing information about their land scheme with David. Jennifer and Ted plan a small party in their new home, but he insists that Mary not be invited. Negotiations begin for the new employee evaluation plan. David invites Mary for an outing with Clare, who accidentally tells Mary about Ted and Jennifer's party. David's new friendship with Clare raises Mary's suspicions. Merroney warns Clare that he won't stand in a queue for her attention. Later, at the party, Merroney and Clare's exchange is loaded with subtext when he brings a gorgeous girl as his date. Gwen makes an observation about Jane and Don's relationship. Ted and Jennifer receive the results of Jennifer's fertility tests. Mary pays a covert visit to Clare's apartment building to snoop. Ted and Jennifer plan for their new future.
- An army officer attends a course to test his resistance to enemy interrogation. But are the interrogators all they appear to be and who should he trust?
- Chaos reigns in the pit and the long-dormant Martian inheritance begins to assert itself in many people in the area - including Quatermass himself - driving them to a new racial purge, The capsule breaks open and an energy form rises up over London. Roney finds he is immune and strives to defeat it.
- Roney and Quatermass develop their theory about the Martians' visit to Earth, instilling their essence into man's ancestors, Sladden, alone in the pit, flees in terror as strange forces are conjured up.
- Fred Mumford returns to Earth from the spirit world to open a business called 'Rentaghost' which offers ghosts, spirts and poltergeists on a daily or weekly rental basis and is having trouble paying the rent on his shop.
- Rentaghost start a Taxi service, and Fred visits his parents while Claypole helps Mr Meaker move house.
- Fred's parents pay a visit, as Rentaghost embark on a new venture in storage, using Claypole's powers to shrink objects. Unfortunately his mischievous side becomes dominant and he decides to shrink Fred and Mr Meaker too.
- Mr Meaker hires an efficiency expert to evaluate Rentaghost, who promptly dismisses Fred. Claypole casts a King Midas spell on Mr Meaker, ensuring that everything he touches turns to gold, literally.
- Rentaghost form a news agency, and attempt to interview a world famous psychiatrist.