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The Railway Children (1968)

Looking back on the fondly remembered third BBC adaptation of Edith Nesbit's classic novel of family, the thrill of adventure and the resilience of children, which has held the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1905

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

A divorced housewife and a spy begin an unusual partnership after encountering one another in a train station in this Emmy Award winning series

The Latchkey Children (1980)

When they discover that their favourite meeting place is about to be 'modernised', five youngsters decide to fight their local authority. Drama based Eric Allen's prize-winning short novel which was used in many schools' curricula for years

T.J. Hooker (1982)

When he wasn’t boldly going where no man had gone before, William Shatner was also (amongst other things) playing hard ball with the bad guys as veteran cop, T.J. Hooker

Mistral's Daughter (1984)

US miniseries beginning in 1925 and starring an international cast including Stefanie Powers, Timothy Dalton, Ian Richardson, Stacy Keach and Joanna Lumley. A beautiful and naïve model arrives in Paris where she becomes an artist's model and the toast of the city

Cade's County (1971)

Sam Cade is a tough yet sensitive sheriff in sprawling Madrid County - a fictional semiarid desert area somewhere in the American Southwest. Between chases, shootouts and law enforcement, the series also touched on relevant '70s issues...

The Man from Atlantis (1977)

A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean with no memory of his past in a quirky sci-fi series which began by showing great potential, but ultimately drowned in the ratings

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

After the events captured in the finale of 'Breaking Bad', Jesse Pinkman runs from his captors, the law, and his past. He'll need a small fortune in cash to get away. Luckily, he knows where some may be stashed...

Sixpenny Corner (1955)

Britain's first daily soap opera about two newlyweds running a small business no longer exists in the television archives. But we've tracked down the available information on this groundbreaking production

1990 (1977)

Edward Woodward stars in a dark dystopian drama billed as 1984-plus-six, set at the start of a decade where Britain is under the iron-clad fist of the Public Control Department and its tools of bureaucratic repression