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1. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
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.
Stars: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker
Votes: 39,562
2. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
SpongeBob takes leave from Bikini Bottom in order to track down, with Patrick, King Neptune's stolen crown.
Directors: Stephen Hillenburg, Mark Osborne | Stars: Tom Kenny, Jeffrey Tambor, Rodger Bumpass, Carolyn Lawrence
Votes: 102,264 | Gross: $85.42M
3. Blake's 7 (1978–1981)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Stars: Michael Keating, Paul Darrow, Peter Tuddenham, Jan Chappell
Votes: 4,503
4. Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
Stars: Leo McKern, Jonathan Coy, Julian Curry, Marion Mathie
Votes: 1,728
5. The Taming of The Shrew (1967)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Votes: 8,703 | Gross: $8.00M
6. Crossroads (1964–1988)
30 min | Drama
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.
Stars: Noele Gordon, Roger Tonge, Susan Hanson, Jane Rossington
Votes: 415
7. Secret Army (1977–1979)
50 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Belgian resistance movement called Lifeline, based in Brussels, organises the return of Allied airmen who have been shot down by the Luftwaffe to the United Kingdom.
Stars: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Clifford Rose, Juliet Hammond
Votes: 1,618
8. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,620
9. Wish Me Luck (1987–1990)
TV-14 | 1,142 min | Drama, History, War
The Second World War experiences of brave women recruited as undercover agents behind enemy lines.
Stars: Jane Asher, Michael J. Jackson, Kate Buffery, Jane Snowden
Votes: 412
10. 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
11. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 139
12. Scandalous (1984)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Mystery
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Robert Hays, Ron Travis, M. Emmet Walsh, John Gielgud
Votes: 268 | Gross: $0.53M
13. 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
14. 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: 70
15. Warship (1973–1977)
50 min | Action, Drama
Life in the Royal Navy aboard the fictional HMS Hero.
Stars: David Savile, Andrew Burt, James Cosmo, Donald Burton
Votes: 112
16. Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Music
Dinah is a model whose face appears in an ad campaign for meat. While shooting a TV commercial, she and Steve, one of the stunt men, run off together. The advertising executives use their disappearance to generate more publicity for meat.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Dave Clark, The Dave Clark Five, Barbara Ferris, David Lodge
Votes: 849
17. Blood Money (1981)
30 min | Drama, Thriller
Captain Percival, an operative of British Special Intelligence, works with Scotland Yard to solve the kidnapping of the young son of the Administrator General of the United Nations by a terrorist cell.
Stars: Bernard Hepton, Michael Denison, Juliet Hammond, Stephen Yardley
Votes: 51
18. Mister Ten Per Cent (1967)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, at a time when he wants to stage a flop.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Charlie Drake, Derek Nimmo, Wanda Ventham, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 72
19. Twenty-One (1991)
R | 92 min | Drama
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old girl. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Director: Don Boyd | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd, Patrick Ryecart, Maynard Eziashi
Votes: 536 | Gross: $0.26M
20. 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
21. Compact (1962–1965)
30 min | Drama
BBC series set in the offices of a glossy women's magazine.
Stars: Frances Bennett, Robert Desmond, Ronald Allen, Louise Dunn
Votes: 21
22. The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.
Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Penelope Wilton, Holly Aird, James Campbell, John Woodvine
Votes: 104
23. Kessler (1981)
50 min | Drama, Thriller
In the years after World War II, the tables have turned: ambitious, cruel Gestapo-officer Ludwig Kessler, the most implacable hunter of every opponent to the Third Reich, can no longer deny... See full summary »
Stars: Clifford Rose, Alan Dobie, Nitza Shaul, Ralph Michael
Votes: 296
24. Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
50 min | Romance
Anthology series of love stories.
Stars: Scott Forbes, Donald Pickering, Barry Jackson, Susan Jameson
Votes: 25
25. The Informer (1966–1967)
60 min | Drama
A disgraced ex-lawyer, now released from prison, uses his accumulated knowledge to earn a living from both sides of the law.
Stars: Ian Hendry, Neil Hallett, Jean Marsh, Heather Sears
Votes: 70
26. Harpers West One (1961–1963)
60 min | Drama
The life and loves of a big department store in the West End of London.
Stars: Jan Holden, Jane Muir, Philip Latham, Vivian Pickles
27. Premiere (1977–1980)
30 min | Drama
A series of anthologies highlighting the initial projects of directors venturing into television drama filmmaking.
Stars: Phil Daniels, Johnny Allan, David Parfitt, Brian Poyser
Votes: 10
28. The Misfit (1970–1971)
60 min | Comedy
Basil Allenby-Johnson (Badger) returns home from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, an England he no longer recognizes. Each episode features a different aspect of British life,
Stars: Ronald Fraser, Patrick Newell, June Jago, Paul Starr
Votes: 19
29. Codename (1970– )
50 min | Drama
Stars: Clifford Evans, Alexandra Bastedo, Anthony Valentine, Brian Peck
Votes: 11
30. Up Jumped a Swagman (1965)
89 min | Musical, Comedy
The adventures of an Australian singer in London.
Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd, Suzy Kendall
Votes: 76
31. Suspense (1962–1963)
Thriller
Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.
Stars: Bill Meilen, Ray Handy, John Carson, Alex Scott
Votes: 22
32. The Search for the Northwest Passage (2005 TV Movie)
130 min | Documentary
A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through the ice across the Canadian Arctic, and the attempts made by wealthy British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
Director: Louise Osmond | Stars: Maureen Bennett, Richard Betts, Kåre Conradi, George Dalton
Votes: 51
33. Eustace and Hilda (1977– )
Drama
Set in 1907, Part 1, The Shrimp and the Anemone, is a study of two youngsters whose fortunes change after their meeting with the formidable old invalid, Miss Fothergill (Dame Flora Robson).
Stars: Dorothy Alison, Christopher Strauli, Susan Fleetwood, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 10
34. Orde Wingate (1976– )
75 min | Drama
The story of Major-General Orde Wingate, creator of the British Army's Chindits.
Stars: Barry Foster, Nigel Stock, James Cosmo, Sandor Elès
Votes: 25
35. Riviera Police (1965)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Crime drama series Riviera Police told cases of four policemen working on France's Cote d'Azor. Glamorous locations made this a somewhat glossier series than was the norm in the UK at the time.
Stars: Brian Spink, Noel Trevarthen, Frank Lieberman, Geoffrey Frederick
Votes: 14
36. Hamlet (1961)
25 min | Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Stars: Barry Foster, Jennifer Daniel, Sydney Tafler, Patricia Jessel
37. Mysteries and Miracles (1965– )
Drama
Stars: Mike Hall, Jeff Shankley, Martin Starkie, Ralph Nossek
38. Francis Howerd in Concert (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Comedy
Francis Howerd in Concert This hilarious film presents the legendary comedian in full flow, with a typically tongue-in-cheek and risqué routine. Frankie's guests in this show are John Le ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Lawrence | Stars: Frankie Howerd, John Le Mesurier, Kenny Lynch, Julie Ege
39. QuickStop (2010)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Rachael suspects there's more to her local coffee shop than just caffeine. The results are a surprising and deliciously dark discovery.
Director: Abi McNeil | Stars: Elizabeth Counsell, Anthony Gardner, Elliot Greene, Sanchia McCormack
40. Beginners Please (1960 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
Stars: Maureen Beck, Nicholas Light, Emrys Jones, Jane Muir
41. And Gladly Would He Learn (1964)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Rodney Giesler | Star: John Stockbridge
42.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
The Bond
(1965)
75 min | Drama
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Director: Mary Ridge | Stars: Hannah Gordon, Barry Lowe, Susan Williamson, Clifford Parrish
43.
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
Episode:
A Question of Honour
(1968)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott | Stars: Nigel Green, Laurence Carter, Richard O'Sullivan, Anthony Gardner
44.
Premiere (1977–1980)
Episode:
Pit Strike
(1977)
Drama
Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: Brewster Mason, Jennie Linden, Johnny Allan, Bernard Hill
45.
Blake's 7 (1978–1981)
Episode:
The Harvest of Kairos
(1980)
Not Rated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Tarrant convinces the others to launch a raid on a Federation transport loading a cargo of valuable crystals from the planet Kairos, and Servalan recruits a retired officer who once served with Tarrant to stop him.
Director: Gerald Blake | Stars: Paul Darrow, Jan Chappell, Michael Keating, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 192
46.
Boy Meets Girl (1967–1969)
Episode:
Flight of the Kingfisher
(1967)
Romance
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Valerie Gearon, Kieron Moore, Yvonne Coulette, John Kidd
47.
Codename (1970– )
Episode:
Opening Gambit
(1970)
Drama
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Clifford Evans, Alexandra Bastedo, Anthony Valentine, Brian Peck
48.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Macra Terror: Episode 1
(1967)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The TARDIS arrives at a holiday camp company with the crew worried by a prediction of giant crabs and the Doctor becomes interested in the apparent madman Medok's stories of creatures that roam the colony at night.
Director: John Davies | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Anneke Wills, Michael Craze
Votes: 460
49.
The Informer (1966–1967)
Episode:
The Sacrifice
(1967)
Drama
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Ian Hendry, Heather Sears, Neil Hallett, Jean Marsh
50.
Riviera Police (1965)
Episode:
Past Indefinite - Future Imperfect
(1965)
Crime, Drama
Aware that archaeologists Lady Cataret and her son David are overly fascinated by the past, the Riviera team expert trouble. It arrives sooner than they expected in the shape of Karl - a very clever conman.
Director: Bill Turner | Stars: Brian Spink, Geoffrey Frederick, Gary Bond, Roy Boyd