Our Friends in the North

Our Friends in the North 1996

7.48

An epic tale of a changing Britain over four decades, seen through the eyes of four friends.

1996

Look Around You

Look Around You 2002

8.00

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?

2002

The Great Pottery Throw Down

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2015

7.50

Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.

2015

Butterflies

Butterflies 1978

7.10

Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets regularly with wealthy businessman Leonard to relieve the monotony. Husband Ben, a dentist and avid butterfly collector is oblivious to it all, and her unemployed grown up sons, who both live at home also have other things on their minds, especially girlfriends.

1978

Rev.

Rev. 2010

7.47

Sitcom about a former rural parish vicar trying to cope with the varied demands of running an inner-city church.

2010

Race Across the World

Race Across the World 2019

7.20

In a frenetic race across the world, travellers can choose any route they like - but no flights or phones are allowed. On the trip of a lifetime, which pair will finish first?

2019

The Royle Family

The Royle Family 1998

7.60

The Royle Family is a British sitcom created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and produced by Granada Television for BBC Two (series 1) and BBC One (series 2 and 3). It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising lazy patriarch Jim, his hard-working wife Barbara, their entitled daughter Denise, their put-upon son Antony, and Denise's lad fiancé–later husband–David.

1998

Numberjacks

Numberjacks 2006

6.10

Centres on the adventures of a group of anthropomorphic numbers. They go about their everyday lives inside their sofa until a call comes in from a real-life child Agent, who reports a problem that needs solving. One or two of the Numberjacks fly out on location to investigate. The Numberjacks have to work out how to put things right, and thwart the dastardly intentions of the Meanies.

2006

People Like Us

People Like Us 1999

8.00

People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.

1999

The Women's Football Show

The Women's Football Show 2013

7.50

The big names and the big games from the Women’s Super League, with highlights and analysis of all the action.

2013

Tucker's Luck

Tucker's Luck 1983

5.50

Tucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series is a spin-off from the school drama Grange Hill and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters — Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty. Tucker's Luck followed the exploits of Tucker and his friends, Alan Humphries and Tommy Watson, after they had left school and their attempts to find employment and cope out there in the "real world". Three series were made, with several former Grange Hill cast members reprising their roles for the spin-off, although the programme never came close to matching the popularity of Grange Hill. The third and final series saw the first appearances of Tucker's younger sister, eight-year old Rhona, and Tucker's elder brother Barry.

1983

The Robinsons

The Robinsons 2005

6.00

The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson, who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life.

2005

Harbour Lights

Harbour Lights 1999

1

Harbour Lights is the story of the close-knit south coast community of Bridehgehaven, where Mike Nicholls is the newly appointed Harbour Master, in the town where he grew up. The community is bedevilled by the ruthless business dealings of Tony Simpson, the feuding of the Blade family, and the all-pervading majesty of the sea.

1999

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary 1975

4.70

In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

1975

Semi-Detached

Semi-Detached 2020

6.00

Real-time sitcom following the hapless Stuart.

2020

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer 1980

6.50

This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he develops the Atomic bomb.

1980

Filthy Rich & Catflap

Filthy Rich & Catflap 1987

6.60

Richie causes trouble in his pursuit of TV fame with Eddie, his alcoholic minder, and Filthy, his sponging agent.

1987

World's Most Dangerous Roads

World's Most Dangerous Roads 2011

7.40

Celebrities drive on some of the most dangerous roads around the world, tackling impossible conditions to reach their goals.

2011

The Ranganation

The Ranganation 2019

6.80

Romesh Ranganathan, joined by celebrity guests and the Ranganation, his very own focus group of 25 members of the public, takes a funny, topical look at modern Britain.

2019

Heading Out

Heading Out 2013

5.41

Sara is a woman approaching middle age who is popular and successful - she's a veterinarian so skilled that she can spay a tortoise using just one hand - but has a chink in her armour: she's afraid to tell her parents that she is a lesbian. So on the eve of her 40th birthday, friends Jamie and Justine give Sara an ultimatum - either tell her parents next time mum and dad visit or they will.

2013