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Diana and Tom are two cantankerous residents at a retirement home who keep the staff, especially slimy manager Harvey, very much on their toes.

Steve Bochco produced police drama that followed 'Hill Street Blues' and 'NYPD Blue.' With such a good pedigree it should have been another smash hit. But it wasn't.

George C. Scott starred in this gritty drama series about a social worker based round the slums of New York in the 1960s. It was a little too gritty for CBS president James Aubrey, "a champion of light, fluffy programmes."

Chris and Fliss are living on the bread-line. Aside from the dining room table, a council-owned deckchair represents their finest piece of living space furniture. The last thing they need is someone turning up on their doorstep needing somewhere to stay.

Television's first private eye was broadcast live from 1 September 1949 and was also heard on radio for several years.

Beginning in September 1950, The Colgate Comedy Hour gave a number of performers, destined to become famous, their first opportunity to appear before a large television audience.

The earliest complete surviving BBC television play of the 1950s.

Adapted from R.C. Sheriff's successful play, Journey's End is set against the background of life in the trenches during World War One and concentrates on a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France.

After broadcast in 1952 the BBC was bombarded with letters of enthusiastic appreciation and gratitude for this simple yet moving piece of drama...

The Troubled Air was Irwin Shaw's novel chronicling the rise of McCarthyism in the USA and in particular the anti-Communist witch-hunt among radio-programme workers.