TV Thrillers
Collected here are the cops and robbers from our collective TV memory. So Peter Falk as the great 'Columbo' sits next to Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in '24'. 'Kojak' shares shelf space with 'Cracker' and 'MacGyver' meets 'Reilly: Ace of Spies'.
The Planman (2003)
7.2/10
Director: John Strickland
Starring: Robbie Coltrane, Celia Imrie, Vincent Regan, Graham Crowden, John McGlynn, Neil...
Robbie Coltrane stars in this intelligent two-part thriller as Jack Lennox, a brilliant, but bored, lawyer frustrated by the professional criminals he... Read more
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
4.3/10
Director: John Putch
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Steve Guttenberg, Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell, Pete...
Like its predecessor from 1972, this made-for-TV version is based on Paul Gallico's novel, though perhaps more loosely, for example exchanging terrori... Read more
The Prisoner: The Complete Miniseries (2009)
8.6/10
Director: Nick Hurran
Starring: Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel, Lennie James, Jamie Campbell Bower, Hayley Atwell, R...
A man, known as Six (Jim Caviezel), finds himself inexplicably trapped in The Village with no memory of how he arrived. As he explores his environment... Read more
The Professionals: Series 1 (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins
Created by Brian Clemens and leaping onto screens in 1978, the crack CI5 team of Bodie and Doyle are ready to thwart terrorists and stamp out violent... Read more
The Professionals: Series 2 (1979)
7.4/10
Starring: Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Gordon Jackson
Bodie and Doyle return for more espionage-busting, hand-brake turns in the Capri and innunedo-laden repartee. Under the eagle-eye of George Cowley ou... Read more
The Professionals: Series 3 (1980)
7.4/10
Starring: Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Gordon Jackson
By the third series, the cast chemistry is at its peak and our macho crimebusters are throwing out snappy banter and one-liners left and right. This... Read more
The Professionals: Series 4 (1981)
7.4/10
Starring: Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Gordon Jackson
Bodie, Doyle and Cowley are back with all 15 nail-biting episodes from the fourth series. They take on a gang stealing industrial secrets, double agen... Read more
The Protectors: Series 1, Episodes 1-8 (1973)
7.3/10
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt
Harry Rule (Robert Vaughn) is an American lone wolf in London. Contessa di Contini (Nyree Dawn Porter) is a beautiful British aristo abroad. Paul Buch... Read more
The Protectors: Series 1, Episodes 9-16 (1972)
7.3/10
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt
Harry Rule (Robert Vaughn) is an American lone wolf in London. Contessa di Contini (Nyree Dawn Porter) is a beautiful British aristo abroad. Paul Buch... Read more
The Red Riding Trilogy (2009)
Director: Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh
Starring: Mark Addy, Rebecca Hall, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey...
A neo-noir epic based on horrifying true events, adapted from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The brutal Yorkshire Ripper is killing in... Read more