
Going Straight (1978)

Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Something of a rarity in the TV life of Richard Briers-an unsuccessful sitcom which came sandwiched between two successful ones, namely, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.
When Gary Sparrow makes a discovery in Ducketts Passage in London's East End his will become life far more complicated than he could ever have imagined - in two time-zones...
Crossing five generations of children and courting controversy at almost every twist and turn of its storylines, Grange Hill, was hailed in some quarters as the most important children's television series of all time.
Short lived but lively musical series based on The Wizard Of Oz.
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century...and they refuse to leave.
Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.
Off-beat TV series that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd a year after their last series together found the two stars in the almost surreal guise of two garden gnomes!
Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
Superior comedy that pulled no punches in addressing the realities of growing old, whilst treating its core characters in a positive way, proving that not only did life begin at forty it also went on well into the 50's, 60's and beyond.