Sitcom Bonjour La Classe detailed the problems of French teacher Laurence Didcott (Nigel Planer) at a secondary school. The schoolroom (and the staffroom) has always provided...
Disaster drama Flood looks at what could happen when a massive storm causes major tidal surges and floods London. With millions of lives in the balance...
Off the wall comedy programme about a group of students, The Young Ones was more than a showcase for the emerging ‘alternative’ comedy scene. The Young...
David Leland, the former actor turned scriptwriter and later director, made his breakthrough with Wish You Were Here, loosely based on the memoirs of sex-for-luncheon vouchers...
In sitcom Roll Over Beethoven rock star Nigel Cochrane gives up touring and moves to a small village to concentrate on his music, once there he...
In Screen One comedy fantasy drama Frankenstein’s Baby, Paul Hocking visits the fertility clinic of Dr Eva Frankenstein with his wife and later is shocked to...
Not the Nine O’clock News was one of those rare comedy creations that did far more than just get us chuckling. It defined a decade, influencing...
Each episode of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is a humorous animated morality tale in which naughty children get punished in various gruesome ways. For example,...
In Episode 2 the team are called in following the murder of Marion Dove, owner of the Dove’s Glass Factory. With a whole factory full of...
Original multi-layered ITV crime drama series Marcella, written by internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge) and starring Anna Friel (Broken, American Odyssey) returns...
In Filthy, Rich and Catflap, something of a misfire from the normally spot on giants of British alternative comedy Rik Mayall plays Richie Rich who is...
The Grimleys was a consistently funny comedy about unrequited love set in Dudley near Birmingham during the troubled 1970s. Naive schoolboy Gordon Grimley (James Bradshaw) falls...
In King and Castle Detective Sergeant Ronald King, definitely not averse to taking bribes finds he is being targeted by the police corruption squad. He decides...
Another in our occasional series focusing on classic moments from the TV archives. This time out it’s anarchic 1980’s sitcom The Young Ones, in this classic...