Fingersmith (2005)

Director: Aisling Walsh

Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Charles Dance

This stunning BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters' ('Tipping the Velvet') novel tells the dark tale of an orphaned streetkid (Sally Hawkins), who is taken... Read more

Bread: Series 1 and 2 (1986)

Director: Susan Belbin

Starring: Jean Boht, Jonathon Morris, Ronald Forfar, Nick Conway, Gilly Gorman, Peter Howi...

Meet the Boswells, a working-class family barely scraping by with the help of Social Security payments and the occasional odd job. Standing firm at t... Read more

Yes, Prime Minister: Series 1 and 2 (1987)

Director: Sydney Lotterby

Starring: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds

Vision, integrity and a ruthless streak are the weapons of political power. Unfortunately new Prime Minister Jim Hacker has none of these, but he does... Read more

Doctor Who: The Web Planet (1965)

Director: Richard Martin

Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien

When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral plane and the TARDIS materialises in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents the... Read more

The Medusa Touch (1978)

Director: Jack Gold

Starring: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barraul...

Lino Ventura is a French detective, Brunel, on loan to Scotland Yard investigating a mysterious series of uncanny disasters. They begin happening afte... Read more

The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill (2002)

Director: Dominic Brigstocke

Starring: Kathy Burke, Harry Enfield, Eddie Izzard, Spike Milligan, Michael Palin, Eric Sy...

Aired just six month's after the last goon passed away, this funny and touching tirbute reveals Spike to be the ultimate tortured genius, treading a t... Read more

Freeze Frame (2005)

Director: John Simpson

Starring: Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice, Colin Salmon, Rachael Stirling

Utterly traumatised by his arrest for a series of brutal murders, Sean Veil (Lee Evans) has become truly paranoid. Convinced that sinister figures ar... Read more

Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (2004)

Director: Gillies MacKinnon

Starring: Robert Carlyle, Richard Coyle, Tim McInnerny, Michael Fassbender, Kevin McKidd,...

Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) leads a prestigious cast in this lavish BBC production from Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern. Set against the brutal... Read more

The Gunpowder Plot 1605 (1993)

Starring: Narrated by, Peter Twist

The story of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators is commemorated annually on November 5, Guy Fawkes' plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament, imm... Read more

Inspector Morse: Dying To Leave (1989)

Starring: Sean Bean, John Thaw, Richard Wilson

Colin Dexter's super sleuth Inspector Morse (John Thaw) has an ear for music, a taste for beer and a nose for crime. "Death of the Self" - Chief Supe... Read more