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1. Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955–1956)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Lilli Palmer, Roddy Hughes, Ian Fleming, Brian Wilde
Votes: 25
2. Knight Errant Limited (1959–1961)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Adam Knight's agency is there to help people in all kinds of ways.
Stars: Kay Callard, John Turner, Richard Carpenter, Hugh David
Votes: 14
3. 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: 39,593
4. Callan (1967–1972)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This... See full summary »
Stars: Edward Woodward, Russell Hunter, Lisa Langdon, Anthony Valentine
Votes: 859
5. The Glittering Prizes (1976)
471 min | Drama
Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.
Stars: Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman, Mark Wing-Davey, Clive Merrison
Votes: 171
6. The Rat Catchers (1966–1967)
60 min | Drama, Thriller
A highly secret British Intelligence Unit is set up to deal with enemy menaces, staffed by three tough & capable operatives - the flamboyant Peregrine Smith, cold & logical Davidson, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Gerald Flood, Glyn Owen, Philip Stone, James Kerry
Votes: 18
7. The Siege of Golden Hill (1975–1976)
30 min | Adventure, Family
On the outskirts of a large Midlands city, a teenage gang is on the rampage while a vulnerable old man, Tom, is threatened with eviction from his lifelong home. Nobody wants to help him ... See full summary »
Stars: Billy Hamon, Gregory Munroe, Arnold Peters, Karen Berlinski
Votes: 13
8. The Cheaters (1960–1962)
30 min | Mystery
Cases of an Insurance Claims Investigator.
Stars: John Ireland, Robert Ayres, Ann Hanslip, Colin Tapley
Votes: 32
9.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Web of Fear: Episode 1
(1968)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The TARDIS becomes trapped in space before ending up in an underground station of a mysteriously deserted London.
Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling
Votes: 601
10. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 182,046 | Gross: $0.45M
11. The Mini-Mob (1967)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
A quartet of Mod princesses who are so desperate for boyfriends that they're forced to kidnap them.
Director: Robert Amram | Stars: Georgie Fame, Rosemary Nicols, John Clive, Bernard Archard
Votes: 12
12.
Callan (1967–1972)
Episode:
Where Else Could I Go?
(1970)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Recovering after months in hospital, Callan finds he may well get sacked unless he can pass several tests. Lonely is arrested and faces a long prison term unless Callan can hire a highly successful, and expensive lawyer for him.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Edward Woodward, William Squire, Patrick Mower, Russell Hunter
Votes: 60
13. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
14. No Hiding Place (1959–1967)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and ... See full summary »
Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Johnny Briggs, Michael McStay
Votes: 97
15. The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969–1971)
52 min | Drama, Crime
Mr J.G. Reeder is an employee of The Department of Public Prosecutions, unassuming in appearance but blessed with a razor-sharp mind. He solves mysteries under the watchful eye of his larger-than-life boss, Sir Jason Toovey.
Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard, Mona Bruce, Gillian Lewis
Votes: 123
16. Top Secret (1961–1962)
60 min | Drama
A British agent starts work in South America.
Stars: William Franklyn, Patrick Cargill, Alan Rothwell, Frieda Knorr
Votes: 15
17. Scream of Fear (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee
Votes: 5,503
18. 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
19. International Detective (1959–1961)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Stories from the files of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, New York.
Stars: Art Fleming, Anthony Jacobs, Nigel Green, Tony Thawnton
Votes: 23
20.
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969–1971)
Episode:
The Shadow Man
(1971)
52 min | Drama, Crime
Hallaty, Manager of a Bank has vanished, and a quarter of a million has disappeared from the Vault. Reeder is called in to investigate.
Director: Peter Duguid | Stars: Hugh Burden, Willoughby Goddard, Mona Bruce, John Stratton
Votes: 21
21. The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956–1957)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Mystery
Anthology series hosted by matinee idol Errol Flynn.
Stars: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Christopher Lee, Valerie Ward
Votes: 42
22. The Lonely House (1957)
33 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard investigates a marriage brokerage service where the clients have a high mortality rate.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Gordon Boyd, Frank Forsyth
Votes: 50
23. The Four Just Men (1959–1960)
30 min | Drama
Four men: a British politician, an American journalist in Paris, a lawyer in the U.S., and a Roman hotelier, band together to fight injustice wherever they find it.
Stars: Richard Conte, Jack Hawkins, Dan Dailey, Arthur Gomez
Votes: 158
24. ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959–1980)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
ITV Sunday Night Drama is a UK television anthology series produced by ABC Weekend Television, Associated Television (ATV), Associated-Rediffusion Television, and Granada Television.
Stars: André Morell, Victor Platt, Anthony Mayne, Donald Houston
Votes: 27
25. The Man Outside (1972)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Baker (Rupert Davies) introduces extraordinary stories about life's loners. The people who live on the outside of society but have story to tell.
Stars: Rupert Davies, Anthony Hopkins, Siân Phillips, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 20
26.
The Glittering Prizes (1976)
Episode:
A Double Life
(1976)
Drama
In 1976, Adam, by now a famous writer, copes with the death of his father and tragedies in the personal lives of some old Cambridge friends.
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Tom Conti, Barbara Kellerman, Mark Wing-Davey, Emily Richard
Votes: 8
27. 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: 94
28.
The Four Just Men (1959–1960)
Episode:
The Deadly Capsule
(1959)
Drama
An atomic scientist dies and a radioactive pill that he was using in an experiment disappears. It may have fallen into the hands of children. Collier investigates.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Dan Dailey, Honor Blackman, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Lily Kann
Votes: 32
29. The Divided Heart (1954)
Approved | 89 min | Drama
A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox
Votes: 296
30. A Man of our Times (1967– )
60 min | Drama
Dismissed from his job as a staff manager at a furniture factory, Max finds a new job but with a low salary. Muriel, Max's mistress, thinks he should accept an offer for an employment in ... See full summary »
Stars: George Cole, Diana Beevers, Jennifer Wilson, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 8
31. 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: 314
32. Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (1931)
80 min | Comedy
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, ... See full summary »
Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Alfred Abel, Peter Lorre, Harald Paulsen, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 130
33. Dial M for Murder (1974)
50 min | Thriller
Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.
Stars: Jay Neill, Robert Lister, Gemma Jones, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 13
34. The Liver Birds (1969–1996)
30 min | Comedy
The lives and loves of Beryl Hennessey (Polly James) and Sandra Hutchinson (Nerys Hughes), two young, single women sharing a flat in Liverpool.
Stars: Nerys Hughes, Polly James, Mollie Sugden, Elizabeth Estensen
Votes: 289
35. The Trollenberg Terror (1956–1957)
30 min | Sci-Fi
Unexplained and gruesome deaths among climbers of the Trollenberg are investigated.
Stars: Sarah Lawson, Laurence Payne, Ronan O'Casey, Rosemary Miller
Votes: 51
36. Women in Love (1958 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Six short plays based around the theme of women in love.
Directors: Julian Amyes, Joan Kemp-Welch, Tania Lieven, Ronald Marriott, Peter Graham Scott, Robert Tronson | Stars: George Sanders, George Bishop, Sean Connery, Graham Crowden
Votes: 37
37. The Master Plan (1954)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Cold War era espionage thriller, about the leaking of secrets at a German facility shared by the Americans and the British.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Norman Wooland, Tilda Thamar, Wayne Morris, Mary Mackenzie
Votes: 59
38.
The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956–1957)
Episode:
The Sealed Room
(1956)
Drama, Comedy, Mystery
Woman on honeymoon in Europe begins experiencing major déjà vu when passing through a German town, even though she has never been to Europe in her life. She is strangely drawn to the town's 1000 year old castle.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Errol Flynn, Glynis Johns, Herbert Lom, Patrick Allen
Votes: 14
39. Murder Without Crime (1950)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In London, a man is blackmailed by his landlord-neighbor after he accidentally kills, in his flat, a woman he picked up in a nightclub.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Dennis Price, Derek Farr, Patricia Plunkett, Joan Dowling
Votes: 268
40. Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)
101 min | Musical
Pseudonym Dr. Falke pursues his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna, an operetta adaptation involving occupying powers' protagonists, not a staged production but a cinematic reimagining.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Ludmilla Tchérina
Votes: 468
41. Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Geneviève Page, Ingrid Thulin, Frédéric O'Brady
Votes: 1,453
42. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 6,024
43. Deviation (1971)
89 min | Horror
After a nocturnal car accident in the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious house occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Karl Lanchbury, Sibyla Grey, Lisbet Lundquist, Malcolm Terris
Votes: 188
44. Beyond the Curtain (1960)
88 min | Drama
Karin finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight on which she is stewardess, is forced down. She is then used by the State police to find her wanted brother, so when Jim arrives to get her back, he has to watch his back.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim
Votes: 178
45. Innocents in Paris (1953)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Monique Gérard
Votes: 530
46. The Accursed (1957)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Survivors of the World War 2 German Resistance Group attend an annual reunion at an English country house. The reunion is hosted by Colonel Price, who intends to find out which guest had betrayed their leader.
Directors: Gilbert Gunn, Michael McCarthy | Stars: Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray, Jane Griffiths, Anton Diffring
Votes: 316
47. Breakaway (1956)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Suave veteran private eye Duke Martin is on the trail of a secret formula and a kidnapped girl.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Tom Conway, Michael Balfour, Honor Blackman, Brian Worth
Votes: 161
48. Undercover Agent (1953)
68 min | Drama
An auditor comes into possession of an envelope containing prints and drawings which the British government is anxious to obtain and also a great many other people, all of whom try to get ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 146
49. Johnny on the Spot (1954)
72 min | Crime
A framed ex-convict struggles to clear his name.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Hugh McDermott, Elspet Gray, Paul Carpenter, Jean Lodge
Votes: 110
50. Mark of the Phoenix (1958)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sample of an advanced new metal is stolen and made into a cigarette case in Brussels ready for smuggling to the East. An American jewel thief accidentally finds it in his possession and becomes the focus of unwanted attention.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Sheldon Lawrence, Julia Arnall, Anton Diffring, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 137