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- StarsSimon PeggJessica HynesJulia DeakinFriends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.
- CreatorCaroline GrahamStarsJohn NettlesJane WymarkBarry JacksonA veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.
- StarsEmilia FoxDavid CavesWilliam GaminaraA team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
- StarsAlan DaviesCaroline QuentinStuart MilliganJonathan Creek, a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles, works from his home in a converted windmill. He uses his abilities to solve impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
- CreatorAndrew DavenportStarsRolf SaxonJessica SmithJohn SimmitFour creatures with televisions in their stomachs have fun in their magical world.
- StarsDavid JasonBruce AlexanderJohn LyonsDI Jack Frost is an unconventional policeman with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice. Sloppy, disorganized, and disrespectful, he attracts trouble like a magnet.
- CreatorBen EltonStarsRowan AtkinsonMina AnwarJames DreyfusVarious mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot.
- CreatorJimmy McGovernStarsRobbie ColtraneGeraldine SomervilleKieran O'BrienDr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.
- StarsWilliam SimonsDerek FowldsTricia PenroseThe 1960s lives and adventures of the police constabulary, medical staff, and residents of Ashfordly and Aidensfield.
- CreatorReginald HillStarsWarren ClarkeColin BuchananDavid RoyleSuperintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.
- CreatorHarry DuffinRaymond ThompsonStarsCaleb RossVictoria SpenceMeryl CassieA group of young adults struggle to survive in a world where all the adults have been killed by a mysterious virus.
- CreatorMaurice GranLaurence MarksStarsNicholas LyndhurstVictor McGuireChristopher EttridgeBritish sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
- StarsDerek JacobiMichael CulverJulian FirthThe medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.
- CreatorMaureen ChadwickAnn McManusEileen GallagherStarsKika MiryleesVictoria AlcockHelen FraserBritish hard-hitting drama about the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
- StarsJodhi MayDamian LewisMatthew MacfadyenAfter seeing devastating results of ethnic war in former Yugoslavia soldiers from UNPROFOR peace units find it impossible to return back to their civil lives in the UK.
- StarsRobert CarlyleRalph RiachBrian PettiferHamish Macbeth is a police constable in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, who occasionally bends the rules when it suits him or when it can help some of his fellow eccentric townsfolk.
- StarsDavid ThwaitesCamilla PowerTom BakerEustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rilian.
- StarsSean BeanDaragh O'MalleyJohn TamsA series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy.
- CreatorAndrew PayneStarsRichard GriffithsMaggie SteedMalcolm SinclairDI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty.
- CreatorJohn BowenDavid CookStarsPatricia RoutledgeDominic MonaghanDerek BenfieldHetty wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. With assistance from a teenager called Geoffrey and her husband Robert, combined with her own common sense, Hetty is confident she can solve any case.
- CreatorAnthony MinghellaStarsMichael GambonBrian HensonSteve VarnomA storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
- StarsKate DuchêneGeorgina SherringtonEmma BrownThe adventures of Mildred Hubble, a witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch" because she's always caught getting into trouble.
- CreatorAndy WattsStarsTony GardnerAlex KewCharlotte FrancisThe day-to-day lives of three orphaned children who are adopted by aliens that have trouble adjusting to the local culture.
- StarsNeil DudgeonDiana RiggPeter DavisonPaired with her reliable and devoted chauffeur, Mrs Bradley's finely honed skills of investigation seek out the truth behind the mysteries surrounding a death at the opera, crimes of passion at a circus, poisoning and family secrets.
- StarsJasper CarrottRobert PowellGeorge SewellIn the never ending, high tech war against crime, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... all of them hopelessly wrong.
- StarsRichard E. GrantRonan VibertGerard MurphyDuring the turmoil of the French Revolution, English aristocrat Percy Blakeney, often aided by his League of friends, secretly undertakes various daring missions as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
- CreatorWill BrentonIain LauchlanStarsColleen DaleyJustin FletcherBob GoldingFour preschool-aged best friends have fun together in their playgroup and learn about the world around them through engaging songs, stories, crafts, and more.
- CreatorJeff FazioStarsTerence StampDavid BowieRichard Jutras"The Hunger" was a horror anthology series where the hosts Terence Stamp (in season 1) and David Bowie (in season 2) eccentrically introduce each of the steamy, erotic and often supernatural tales of power, sex, lust, and driving urges.
- StarsMichael GambonGeoffrey HutchingsJack GallowayFrom Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.
- CreatorLynda La PlanteStarsDavid HaymanDorian LoughVictoria SmurfitThe team of Det. Supt. Michael Walker, DI North, and DCI Connor follows each case from crime committed, through the pursuit of justice, to the law courts where the efforts of the force will be tested--sometimes to the breaking point.
- CreatorTed ChildsSusan RogersStarsJohn ThawOliver Ford DaviesNicholas JonesA crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.
- StarsJack ShepherdHelen MastersJimmy YuillSet in Cornwall, Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe, who works along with his colleagues DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane, investigates murder cases with his trademark determination and clinical accuracy.
- CreatorGerry AndersonStarsTed ShackelfordRob YoungbloodSimone BendixThe alien adventures of former NYPD detective Patrick Brogan, now a lieutenant in the Demeter City Police Department on the planet Altor.
- CreatorTony JordanStarsSean McKenzieIan AspinallDave HillThe everyday public and private lives of the detectives, policemen and policewomen who work at the inner-city Christmas Street police station in Manchester.
- StarsLisa BurstowTerry KielyAlison KingSeries following the ups and down of fictional English Premiership club 'Harchester United' known more commonly as 'The Dragons'.
- StarsFelicity KendalClaire BloomJennifer EhleIn 1939, young Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter visit friends and family in Cornwall. Spanish Civil War is over and WW2 has begun, so they enjoy their love life while they can. Decades later, they gather again, this time for a funeral.
- StarsJeff StellingPaul MersonCharlie NicholasJeff Stelling and co keep up to date with Saturday's goals
- StarsLynda BaronPippinValerie HunkinsChildren's educational programme in which Auntie Mabel and her dog Pippin fly in their spotted plane looking at everyday things and finding out how they work.
- StarsHeather-Jay JonesVictoria ShaletPaula WilcoxChildren's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.
- StarsTerrence HardimanFrances AmeyGunnar CautheryDinah Glass moves in with a new foster family and begins to attend the same school as her new foster brothers. But there is something very strange going on at the school. BBC adaptation of the children's novels by Gillian Cross.
- CreatorPeter LearmouthStarsDawn FrenchJennifer SaundersAdrian ScarboroughIt's 1782 and welcome to the fabulous Palace of Versailles, France. Outside the gates, the peasants are on the verge of revolting , whilst inside lives one of the most hated women in all of France -Columbine, the Comtesse De Vache.
- StarsGeraldine JamesCathy TysonBarbara DicksonIn Bradford, England, several desperate streetwalkers team up to run the business for themselves. They must deal with competition, mobsters, moralists, psychos and cops, but at least now they have each other and a plan.
- CreatorPaul SmithStarsDawn FrenchPaul Mark ElliottSoo DrouetDawn French stars in this dark and twisted comedy series, in which she plays a different character embroiled in murder, in each hilarious episode.
- CreatorJ.C. WilsherStarsNeil PearsonTom GeorgesonSiobhan RedmondBritish police drama following the team at the Complaints Investigation Bureau - the unit that polices the police.
- StarsWilliam SimonsPatrick MalahideBelinda LangDrawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this BBC series.
- StarsDavid PeacheyLiza GoddardRuth HudsonA young boy is given a watch that can stop time by "The Postman".
- StarsJemima RooperMarco WilliamsonPaul ChildA country relocation leads cousins Julian, Dick, Anne and tomboy Georgina to unite and investigate mysterious happenings, thwarting a notorious drug smuggling operation with help from their dog Timmy.
- CreatorBrian ClemensStarsJaye GriffithsJesse BirdsallCraig McLachlanEd, Ros, Alex and Beckett form the high-tech crime fighting team who work for the mysterious, secretive Bureau 2 chief, Jan, and are only assigned the most difficult and dangerous cases.
- CreatorBarry SimnerRob PurseyStarsCaroline CatzDavid HarewoodKen StottVeteran Detective Inspector Pat Chappel (Ken Stott) heads up the Metropolitan vice squad as he and his team investigate prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade.
- StarsBen BoardmanNeil McCaulDenica FairmanIn Berlin, 1938, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have a love-hate relationship with their Jewish neighbours in this bizarre spoof of 'fifties American sitcoms.
- CreatorDominic AncianoRay BurdisStarsDavid GillespieRay BurdisDominic AncianoA mockumentary which looks behind the scenes of a supposedly elite police force.
- StarsSophie AldredTom BakerColin BakerThe Rani hatches a scheme to trap the incarnations of the Doctor and their various companions in a 20-year time loop in Albert Square.
- CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsMichael FrenchChloë AnnettSue JohnstonDetective Jeff Slade teams up with scientist Holly Turner, whose late father has created a time machine that can travel back several hours. Together they solve mysteries using the device.
- StarsClive OwenSimon ShepherdSusannah HarkerA business adviser uses all means necessary to help his friends out of financial ruins. However he has a moral code. Also, his unresolved family past won't leave him alone.
- StarsKarl HowmanGeraldine McEwanTony SelbyThe son of Death and Springtime is sent to collect the acerbic and reclusive Miss Farnaby. He joins the staff in her manor house, becomes her personal servant, and endeavors to help her enjoy life during her three month extension.
- CreatorLyn EbenezerSion EirianStarsPhilip MadocFfion WilkinsSharon MorganDetective Chief Inspector Noel Bain looks back fondly to the days when policing involved chasing villains, playing rugby and drinking beer. However, he has come to realize that contemporary policing imposes dilemmas that no training manual could ever anticipate.
- CreatorMick GarrisTom McLoughlinStarsNeil DicksonKate HodgeScott FultsA female American graduate student in London is bitten by a werewolf, then teams up with an English professor to investigate supernatural occurrences.
- StarsMatthew CorbettBrenda LongmanLarry DannMatthew Corbett runs a shop in Manchester with fun, mischievous puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi.
- CreatorRoger Damon PriceStarsKristian SchmidChristian TessierNaomie HarrisThe Tomorrow People are the next stage of human evolution. They can teleport, communicate by telepathy, heal with the power of thought and they are unable to kill or harm any living creature. Aided by a mysterious and ancient spacecraft buried in the sand of a Pacific island, the Tomorrow People use their powers to protect the world, while trying to keep their own existence a secret for fear of exploitation.
- StarsRalph InesonJo McInnesMelanie HillA mismanaged women's soccer team in South Yorkshire, England, struggle to win games. The players remain loyal to the team and each other despite their losing record. Their lives off the field involve relationships and infidelities.
- StarsRobert CarlyleMichael StewartCraig MoncurSet on an Edinburgh council estate in the bleak 1980's rising drug dealer Jo-Jo McCann is hellbent on gaining money and power at all costs.
- CreatorJimmy NailIan La FrenaisStarsJimmy NailSammy JohnsonBerwick KalerJimmy Nail plays Spender, a Northeast England police detective with marital problems.
- StarsHenry ArnoldSalome KammerFrank RöthHermann Simon, an aspiring composer, comes of age in Munich during the troubled 1960s.
- StarsBen BrooksCraig VyeSallyanne LawWhilst on holiday, two boys find the skeleton of a Roman centurion in a cave. Buried with him is an unusual 'pod' which turns out to be a flying machine with incredible abilities. Will they hand it over to the authorities to study, or keep it for themselves and find out what it can do by trial and error?
- StarsNigel HaversPhyllis LoganKevin McNallyA British horror/fantasy anthology series where each story involves, to some extent, the supernatural and features lead actors from UK television.
- StarsJoseph BennettEmily CorrieJoanna DavidIn hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.
- StarsHelen BaxendaleAnnette CrosbieStruan RodgerCordelia Gray is the reluctant owner of a ramshackle investigation agency following the suicide of her boss. Watching over her as she hunts down clues in the murky and sinister world of crime, is her straight-laced and intuitive office assistant Edith Sparshott.
- CreatorJohn CunliffeStarsRobin StevensRebecca NaganJohn CunliffeRosie and Jim are two rag dolls that magically come to life when no-one is looking. They explore different aspects of Great Britain as they travel along the canal network aboard the narrow-boat "Ragdoll" with the boat's owner.
- CreatorSteven BawolPatrick BuckleyChris WilsonStarsRoger DaviesMartin DelaneyPaul ParrisBritish teen sitcom centred around a local football team.
- StarsRoy MarsdenRicci HarnettBritta SmithDalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a top flight lawyer with an abrasive reputation and turbulent private life.
- StarsBen ChandlerBrigit ForsythVictoria LambertThree children investigate strange goings-on in their school and protect it from such threats as a computer scientist with dreams of world domination and a mysterious group of archaeologists hoping to bring about the end of the century.
- CreatorSimon BurkeAnya CamilleriStarsMark WomackSamantha WomackTom GeorgesonTensions run high in this gritty police drama set in the heart of Liverpool's underworld.
- CreatorElizabeth StewartStarsIan RichardsonNeil PearsonSiân PhillipsMary and her cousins, Alice and William are visiting Mary's father in his new house over Christmas. After encountering a time-travelling wizard and several talking animals, they realize that not everything is as it seems in the old house.
- CreatorAnthony HorowitzStarsNeil MorrisseyLucy AkhurstJohn CastleNick Cameron is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. He takes part in a secret government experiment that as a side effect allows him to become invisible whenever he comes in contact with water. He escapes to prove his innocence.
- CreatorBrian ClemensStarsEdward WoodwardKal WeberColin WellsCI5, the British force formed by George Cowley to combat "anarchy, acts of terrorism and crimes against the public," has grown into an international force with agents from around the world.
- StarsRossi KotsisShane BriantFrederick Parslow12-year-old Jemma accidentally taps into a disused telecommunications satellite and finds she has audio-visual contact with other computers worldwide.
- StarsIan HolmPenelope WiltonRebecca CallardThe Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George (Paul Cross), but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers.
- CreatorDon ShawStarsRoderick SmithNadim SawalhaNicola CowperThe life and times of a small-town family practitioner and police surgeon.
- StarsKevin WhatelyAnnette EkblomDanny WortersDrama series about an ex-policeman, who now uses his detective skills while working for insurance companies.
- StarsDavid BaddielFrank SkinnerAngus LoughranA comedy game show where celebrities take on the role of football managers.
- CreatorRobert JonesJimmy GardnerAnita J. PandolfoStarsKaty Cavanagh-JupeRob DixonJohn HenshawThis is a police drama series that depicts the working lives of a group of policemen in the fictitious Northern town of Stanton. The filming is done in a fly-on-the-wall, documentary style which conveys great realism and makes mundane situations into tense drama.
- StarsJonathan CakeJemma RedgraveHugh BonnevilleAn account of the colourful life of the infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley, concentrating on the period between the end of WW1 and his imprisonment at the beginning of WW2.
- StarsJanet McTeerDerek MartinDavid J. NichollsHelen Hewitt is put in charge of a maximum security prison that had been nearly destroyed by a riot. She is set in cleaning up the place.
- CreatorBarbara CoxStarsLeslie GranthamAdie AllenNiall BuggyImplicated in a corruption enquiry, Detective Inspector Mick Raynor (Leslie Grantham) agrees to go deep under cover to bring down criminal networks that appear to be beyond the reach of the law.
- CreatorAnita BronsonStarsSteve ToussaintCaroline Lee-JohnsonEnzo Squillino Jr.The Knock follows Her Majesty's Customs and Excise officers' lives and their efforts to hunt down the criminals trying to smuggle all sorts of contraband to the UK.
- StarsPeter O'BrienAnne LoobyKatie BlakeSix-part thriller about a family in the Witness protection program which is uprooted from a small village in Northern England and transported to Sydney.
- StarsDouglas HodgeLeslie GranthamLia WilliamsInvestigating the phenomena of alien abductions
- StarsDaniel LuafalealoDavid TaylorAlexis JacksonJoin Philip, Lucy-Ann, Dinah, and Jack on a spectacular series of adventures, as they set out on holiday to discover mysterious islands, navigate treacherous rivers, scale craggy mountain tops, and even find time to escape with the circus.
- StarsMichael AspelIan CullenJenny RandlesMichael Aspel explores stories of the unexplained.
- CreatorEdwin LarsonRobert PfitznerStarsKyle BrownShaun FlemingNina RagazAfter proving themselves to be the best players of a video game by the name of Cyberkidz, four children are given headsets that enable them to enter the virtual reality of Cyberland, and are tasked with saving it from the dictatorial and violent rule of Zorak (Heinrich James) and his powerful, large-chinned lackey Zeist (Robert Z'Dar). In Cyberland, the children are provided with gloves that give them unbelievable powers, powers that Zorak believes he could use to invade Earth.
- StarsTara FitzgeraldTim DuttonMark StrongZoe is intent on carving out a new life following a traumatic affair. But her ex-lover refuses to leave her alone.
- CreatorPaul MendelsonStarsMiriam KarlinGeorge CostiganTessa Peake-JonesA suburban family find their new home is still occupied by the ghost of its previous owner, a middle-aged Jewish woman.
- StarsImogen StubbsBrian GloverJohn RoweBritish crime drama series following the cases of the Brierly Security detective agency.
- StarsRobert WilloxGary McDonaldLynda SteadmanThe life and adventures of the members of The Armed Robbery Squad. Amid numerous security van robberies, bank robberies and gem heists with a lot of car chases, shouting and guns blazing, the squad members private lives are revealed in slices. From the uxorious D.I. Scott to womanizing D.S. Tate, and the sharp capable D.C.s Harris, Dryden, and Ash, every plot possibility is explored.
- CreatorJane HewlandCameron McAllisterCaleb RansonStarsMichelle CollinsEmily WoofMartin CrewesFour housewives who find themselves suddenly in desperate need of money for dire individual circumstances begin to consider the possibility of armed robbery as a way out of their various dilemmas. Kathy is a previously wealthy whose former football star husband has absconded with their funds and left her and their children to face his violent creditors. Pat needs money to get her drug-addicted son into an expensive rehabilitation center. Val struggles for options in her crisis: pregnancy, possibly by her white husband's black best friend. And Paula, Val's sister, needs the thrill of danger even more than money. Together they plot a robbery that leads them further into crime and possible disaster.
- StarsCharlotte MartinAnna PernicciPhil WillmottIlea is an old space craft cruising around the Jupiter system, and functioning as a university. This is the story of its crew and students.
- CreatorRoy ClarkeStarsBryan BrownKim ThomsonOtto TausigTwo immortal twin knights, one standing for all that's good, the other evil incarnate, must face each other at the end of the 2nd millennium to fight for one last time and determine the fate of all mankind.
- CreatorAndrew MacLearStarsJudy LoeAngus MacInnesBruno EyronThe series is set aboard the corporate space station Unity and is a character driven drama about the station's crew.
- CreatorJeffrey CaineStarsLouise LombardSean PertweeJohn ShrapnelAn elite group of British bodyguards guard vulnerable VIPs against threats.