The Witchfinder

The Witchfinder 2022

6.60

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.

2022

Early Doors

Early Doors 2003

7.70

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

2003

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

Smiley's People

Smiley's People 1982

7.70

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

1982

The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga 1967

8.43

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.

1967

The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off 2010

7.50

This British television baking competition selects from amongst its competitors the best amateur baker. The series is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the UK, and many of its participants, including winners, have gone on to start a career based on baking.

2010

Black and Blue

Black and Blue 1973

6.00

Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.

1973

House of Saddam

House of Saddam 2008

6.90

The intimate world of Saddam Hussein and his closest inner circle is in this gripping four-part drama that charts the rise and fall of one of the most significant political figures in recent history.

2008

Heroes Unmasked

Heroes Unmasked 2007

10.00

Heroes Unmasked is a behind-the-scenes documentary television series of the American television series Heroes, made by the BBC and narrated by Anthony Head in series 1–2, and in series 3 by former Heroes actor Santiago Cabrera. The show aired after an episode was shown on BBC Two.

2007

Pointless

Pointless 2009

6.40

Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no-one else can think of.

2009

Cunk on...

Cunk on... 2018

7.90

Landmark mockumentary-maker Philomena Cunk traces the history of Britain and Earth.

2018

Saxondale

Saxondale 2006

7.50

Steve Coogan plays Tommy Saxondale: an ex-roadie with anger management issues and a pest-control business. Tommy is a little arrogant, a little egotistical and feels the world owes him more respect than it typically shows him. He has an assistant named Raymond who lives in a spare room in Tommy's house, a live-in girlfriend named Magz who owns a T-shirt business, and a receptionist named Vicky who has a tendency to drive him up the wall.

2006

Life After Life

Life After Life 2022

7.02

If you could live your life time and again, would you ever get it right? Ursula dies and is reborn, living through turbulent times - but what is it she needs to stay alive for?

2022

Not the Nine O'Clock News

Not the Nine O'Clock News 1979

7.15

Classic sketch comedy show satirising the news and culture of the late 70s and early 80s which introduced Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson.

1979

Digging for Britain

Digging for Britain 2010

5.00

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

2010

Parade's End

Parade's End 2012

6.42

The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.

2012

Great British Railway Journeys

Great British Railway Journeys 2010

7.40

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.

2010

Antiques Road Trip

Antiques Road Trip 2010

5.00

Antiques experts travel across the country, competing to make a profit at auction.

2010

Winterwatch

Winterwatch 2013

9.60

Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.

2013

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness 1985

8.07

Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.

1985