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The Secret Kingdom is a British television series which originally aired on BBC in eight episodes between 6 May and 24 June 1960. It is an adaptation of the 1938 novel of the same title by Walter Greenwood. The plot revolves around Paula Byron, from a working class family in Salford.

Monty Don travels to the Adriatic coast, exploring gardens in Venice, Croatia and Greece.

Meet your new history teachers, snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan and sports broadcaster Matt Smith, as they cross the pond to explore America’s 300 year history with the game of pool. The real-life mates travel the US to hunt down America’s most notorious pool hustlers while meeting a few characters along the way

STARStreet is a British children's television series, starring the pop group allSTARS*. The 'STARS' in allSTARS* and STARStreet represents the first letter of each member's name – Sandi, Thaila, Ashley, Rebecca and Sam. The series saw the band living together in a fictional crazy colourful house, where anything out of the ordinary could happen. It was produced for two series by Carlton Television, in association with Byrne Blood Productions. The first series first aired as part of the ITV children's Saturday morning show, SMTV Live in 2001. Due to its success, the first series was later repeated on CITV. The second series aired on CITV in 2002. Production of STARStreet was cancelled in 2002 due to the allSTARS* splitting up.

Bagpuss is a UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from 12 February 1974 to 7 May 1974 through their company Smallfilms. The title character was, "An old, saggy, cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams." Although only 13 episodes of the show were made, it remains fondly remembered, and was regularly repeated in the UK for thirteen years. In 1999 Bagpuss topped a BBC poll for the UK's favourite children's TV programme.

Survivalist Hazen Audel fights his way through 500 miles of unexplored Amazon using only traditional survival methods; he faces extreme environments, and he must reach the Atlantic coast before he's trapped by floods during the rainy season.

Tikkabilla was a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC1, BBC2 and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title "Tikkabilla" comes from the Punjabi word meaning "Hopscotch", a popular children's game. It was an exceptionally well loved children's television show. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters explain things to Tamba. Whilst Tamba appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to pair-up in each show. These presenters include Justin Fletcher, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, Paul Ewing, Simon Davies, Lorna Laidlaw, Veejay Kaur, Toni Fruitin and Amit Sharma and Beverley Hills. Tamba is performed by puppeteers Sue Eves who created the voice for Tamba; Alison McGowan and Katherine Smee. Sue Eves has also written many scripts for the programme. Beverley Hills also writes for the programme as well as writing for the sister show, The Story Makers.

Series that follows the restoration of a 1942 Harley Davidson, 1970 Triumph Bonneville and a kit built Boom Trike. Also features interesting three wheelers such as the UK's first motorcycle and sidecar-hearse.

A bizarre and bewildering sketch show from Victor Hampson, featuring trainspotting flowers, cookery tips from an aggressive cockney, ingenious life hacks told as modern day parables, the manliest superhero in the world, incredibly frustrating AI assistants, and various other comedic ideas that are harder to summarise succinctly. Mixing animation, CGI and live-action, this is a finger buffet for the eyes and, with a soundtrack including a drum 'n' bass song about cabbages and some disturbing gnome-based electronica, the ears are doing alright out of this deal too. The series is unlikely to appeal to any other body parts.

Series revealing the lives of the Dragons' Den Dragons

The Unforgettable ... is British television documentary programme on ITV, which contains an archive biographical look lives of some of Britain's most well-remembered talented entertainers and actors. Each episode focuses on the parallel private and professional life-stories of each person, which include interview with friends, family and co-stars. The series also used unseen home recordings and personal photographs.

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

John Torode and Lisa Faulkner invite us into their kitchen for a morning of feel good food. Brimming with recipes, shortcuts, inspiration and tips from top chef John and champion cook Lisa, everyone is welcome from aspiring chefs to home cooks.

For teenagers who were neglected and pushed away and even expelled from high school get another chance.

Romantic comedy series about Greg & Lucy, a thirty-something couple.

What you see isn’t always what you get. Paddy McGuinness challenges contestants and celebrities to sort the singing sensations from the woeful warblers – without hearing a note.

Penguins - Spy in the Huddle spends nearly a year in the close company of penguins, deploying 50 spycams to capture as never before the true character of these birds.

Thumb Bandits was a British video game television series. It aired on Channel 4 in 2001. The program was presented by Iain Lee and Aleks Krotoski, but only ran for thirteen episodes before being dropped.

Airing on Sky History and Canal+ France, History’s Greatest Aircraft is a series that takes a look at some of the most impressive technical marvels of engineering to have ever taken off into the sky. Each episode delves into a different aircraft that has seen service in armed conflicts to analyse its service history and recount some of its most legendary stories. In getting up close and personal with surviving versions of the original planes, this series provides a fascinating look into the past and how history can influence the futur

From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and misadventures as it is of successes and amazing advances. Filmed in America and Europe and presented by the charismatic and medically trained Michael J. Mosley. Contains surgical scenes of a graphic nature. A BBC Production. 5-part series.

Countryfile spin-off series unveiling the secrets of spring

We tell great stories about video games and the people who make them.

Relaxed Irish crooner Val Doonican sits in a rocking chair, wearing cardigans or jumpers, and playing the guitar, performing easy listening and country material – and often comedic Irish songs. Comedy newcomer Dave Allen was a frequent regular in 1965-66. Guests included Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Lonnie Donegan, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Adam Faith, Sandie Shaw, Julie Felix, The Bachelors, Kathy Kirby, Cilla Black, The Alan Price Set, Frank Ifield, Rolf Harris, The Beverley Sisters, Nana Mouskouri, David Nixon, Les Dawson, Arthur Askey, Roy Castle, Norman Vaughan, Derek Nimmo, Des O’Connor, Kenneth McKellar, Sheila Hancock, Ray Alan, and Matt Monro.

Six inspirational but everyday people take part in The People's Strictly for Comic Relief.

Pilot comedy. We The Jury is a comedy featuring William who has always wanted to do jury duty his whole life just like his dad. He never imagined that when the day finally arrived he would be on the jury of an actual murder trial.

The ultimate five (minutes) a day, starring fruit and veg performing and revealing fascinating facts about themselves in the most nutritious variety show around.

Six of the best British crime thriller writers are profiled during the running up to the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards. Each author will be given their own week, featuring some of their finest TV adaptations every night, plus an exclusive documentary examining their lives and work, talking to the stars who have brought their characters to life on screen, fellow writers, fans and the authors themselves.

Flying Heavy Metal was a 5-part British television series produced by Ricochet and broadcast in the UK and Europe on the Discovery Channel and subsequently repeated on Discovery Wings in the UK. It was presented by commercial Boeing 757 pilot and Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson. In the series, Bruce looked at, and often flew, a number of aircraft from across the history of commercial aviation. There were some quite surprising aerobatics done in rather large aircraft. Flying Heavy Metal is now repeated on the new channel from Discovery Networks UK called Discovery Turbo.

Freddie Patterson (George Cole) is an independent member of the local council and owns a chain of hairdressing salons. He holds the balance of power between the two main parties, who join forces to thwart his ambitions.

A bright and spirited seven-year-old girl uses her vivid, dreamlike imagination to navigate everyday adventures alongside her real and imaginary BFFs.

Sara Davies and her special guests give tips on how to brush up creative skills.

Documentary series covering a year in the life of Canterbury Cathedral.

Sunnyside Farm is the title of a 1997 BBC comedy television series. The basic plot was that brothers Ray and Ken Sunnyside inherited the failing Sunnyside Farm. Ray, played by Phil Daniels, is a truly repulsive individual, and intends to get his brother committed to a mental institution so he can sell the farm and blow the proceeds on the high life; Ken, while not the sharpest pencil in the box at least has a few redeeming characteristics. Other notable actors to appear in the series were Matt Lucas and Michael Kitchen. The show's theme music was written and performed by Damon Albarn and Phil Daniels although it was credited to Albarn's band Blur.

A young vampire finds out he is not in fact a vampire at all, and has to live a double life.

In May 2011, the girls Headlines Tour was subject to a special Tour Documentary which was broadcasted on Channel 4. Each member of the group had their own episode.

Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of de Beers, the addition of nearly one million square miles to the Britain's African Empire, and had given his name to a country (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) larger than most of Europe. Martin Shaw's son plays the younger Rhodes and other cast members include Neil Pearson, Frances Barber and Ken Stott.

Actors Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston are celebrating four decades on screen together in an all-new More4 series visiting landmark places from their lives and the special destinations the pair have always wanted to see together.

Can Nick Grimshaw, Vicky Pattison, Amber Gill and Pete Wicks secretly rig a reality show to make average guy Josh the winner among a polished cast of contestants? If Josh wins, everyone wins!

Alison Hammond interviews some of the UK’s biggest celebrities, including Luke Evans, Jimmy Carr, Sir Lenny Henry, Perrie Edwards, Mel B and Tony Bellew.

A Saturday evening, celebrity version of the quiz show in which contestants must avoid giving the impossible answer. Hosted by Rick Edwards.

A new all-female sketch series featuring the writing and performing talents of four hotly tipped new comics - Alice Lowe, Sarah Kendall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson. The four comedy actresses write and perform all the material, introducing audiences to a broad range of characters and the peculiarities of their own imaginary world, like being robots, owning a magic bin and dating a duck. Recurring characters include rude South African airline hostesses Jadine and Marla; and the Sex In The City girls, who annoy everyone by misbehaving and acting childishly in a highstreet bar.

Set in the baby's perspective of the first years of its life, almost an instructional video for baby's explaining how to be the worst infant you can be and why.

Curtain of Fear is a classic 1964 British Cold War thriller series broadcast by the BBC. Written by renowned espionage author Victor Canning, the six-part television series follows a Czech-born British professor escaping across the Iron Curtain

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb looks at the roles the press, parliament and the public have played in generating outrage and spreading scandalous royal rumours.

The Bed-Sit Girl was a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966. Created by Chesney and Wolfe for Sheila Hancock, The Bed-Sit Girl aired for two series. Hancock played Sheila Ross, a typist who lives in a bedsit and wishes for more in life. In the first series, Dilys Laye played her air hostess neighbour Dilys, and in the second Hy Hazell played Sheila's friend Liz. Derek Nimmo also appeared as her neighbour and boyfriend David in Series Two. All twelve episodes are missing from the archives and are thought to have been destroyed.

Scientist Prof Alice Roberts, chef Tom Kerridge and journalist Sean Fletcher are keen to improve your cooking, your health and your bank balance by dishing up the plain facts about our food.

A 1971 comedy and variety sketch show co-produced by ATV in the UK and ABC TV in America, filmed at Elstree Studios. It featured opening and closing credits by Terry Gilliam, guest appearances by Spike Milligan, Bob Todd, John Junkin and Frances de la Tour, and also material written by Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart.

Comedy starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina following their lives as a middle-aged couple and their first half an hour back home

Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.

This was the Krankies attempt at solo attempt at a children's television show since Crackerjack.

Three people are given the chance to run their country during a major crisis. Guided by Gavin Hewitt they will be helped by three experts: Air Marshal Sir Tim Garden advises on military issues; Amanda Platell, communication strategy; and former police and intelligence officer Charles Shoebridge, emergency services response. By the end of the show they will know whether or not they are a potential prime minister.

Dan Snow joins military archaelogists as they investigate the former battlegrounds of the Second World War, uncovering little-known stories through excavations and dives across Europe