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The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the...

...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it...

Hosted by historian John Roberts, the series focuses on the origins and evolution of Western civilization, and the transformative challenges and...

Marie-Hélène Ronsin, a young French teenager, is on her first trip to England as an au pair. Speaking some English, but very shy, she...

Jane Eyre is a six-part 1956 British TV adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Brontë.

Sitcom starring real-life married couple Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly, inviting viewers to spend an evening with them.

'Storyboard' is a BBC drama anthology series of 30 minute plays, each written by Troy Kennedy-Martin, the first series created by the prolific...

Excerpts from Plays

Robin Hood was produced in 1953 by the BBC, during which time these episodes were transmitted live and then re-acted the following Saturday or Sunday...

The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than...

Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented...

Violet fights to keep her farm, but her son plans to sell it. An old friend threatens to reveal Violet's secrets, so she takes drastic action,...

Telecrime was a British drama series that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1938 to 1939 and in 1946. One of the first multi-episode drama...

An adaptation of the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan.

Sherlock Holmes was a 1951 television series produced by the BBC featuring Alan Wheatley as Sherlock Holmes and Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson. This...

Ann and Harold is a very early BBC television programme, and ran for five episodes, all broadcast in 1938. It is known to be the world's first drama...

Based on the real-life activities of Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Oreste Pinto, who specialised in the interrogation of...

The first BBC TV version was presented as an 8 part x 30mins. serial between 6 Feb 1951 and 27 Mar 1951. The original production was broadcast live...