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A female official takes her seat on a local council. But the no-nonsense councillor has to face up to the bureaucracy of both local and central government.

First Night presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict. The series debuted on BBC with Alan Owen's The Strain on 22 September 1963 and ran through until 1964.

Writer Roy Clarke goes back to 1939 to prequel his own successful sitcom 'Last of the Summer Wine' with equally hilarious results

A one-off comedy show that reunited two of the regulars from That Was The Week That Was.

From 1963 to 1966 The Five O'Clock Club met every Tuesday and Friday.

Elspeth Huxley's autobiographical account of her childhood when, at just six years of age, she left London with her parents, Tilly and Robin Grant, who set out to establish a coffee plantation in Kenya.

The continuing adventures of Alex Raymond's legendary sci-fi comic strip hero in a vintage television series.

Everybody in the world experiences an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes them lose consciousness. Can they change the future?

Originally made in France in 1967 as Le Chevalier Tempete the series of four epic 75-minute episodes were edited into 12 22-minute episodes for its dubbed UK broadcast in 1969 and shown as part of BBC's children's programming.

This fondly remembered epic children’s drama created by Sid Waddell, set over four series, each featuring a different generation of the Flaxton boys, was inspired by a lunch-time meeting in a pub and an offer that an upcoming writer couldn't refuse.