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- An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.
- Kids TV show set in a house (#73) with presenters as characters. Each episode featured music, cartoons and ongoing storylines in various comedic situations and adventures. Focused on fun and entertainment for young viewers.
- A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
- An all-female detective outfit, the "Eyes Enquiry Agency", is formed as a front for the Home Office's new security operation the Covert Activities Thames Section (or "C.A.T.S." for short). Initially led by ex-Oxford Union President Pru Standfast (Rosalyn Landor), she was followed by experienced ex-cop Maggie Forbes (Jill Gascoine) (who later led the section), computer genius Frederica "Fred" Smith (Leslie Ash), and later Tessa Robinson (Tracy-Louise Ward). Their contact with the Ministry was Nigel Beaumont (Don Warrington). The team dealt with a variety of crime from theft to blackmail, to espionage and terrorism.
- The adventures of a young bear named Rupert who unintentionally ends up in faraway/mystical places, but at the end manages to make it back safely to his home of Nutwood.
- A British MI6 agent comes out of retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them, and why.
- 13 part television series based on the books: "The Little Vampire" and "The Little Vampire Moves In" by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg.
- Tugs follows the adventures and mishaps of two rival tugboat fleets: the Star Tugs and the Z-Stacks.
- An I.R.A. gunman (Sir Anthony Hopkins) on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman (Rebecca Pidgeon) and attempts to win her support for his cause.
- Game show in which contestants try to guess well-known phrases or sayings from animated picture puzzles.
- Mr Majeika is a wizard, sent to "Britland" from the planet Walpurgis because he failed his O-level sorcery exam for the seventeenth time. He drops into the sleepy village of Much Barty, finding a post at St Barty's School in sleepy U.K.
- Professor-turned-spy Col. Calvin Turner and his associate, workaholic Lt. Shelley Flynn, plan a daring rescue behind enemy lines in World War II German-occupied Norway of a brilliant scientist who may or may not be aiding the Germans.
- Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing there best To separate various people from their money/
- In the year 2020, Britain is divided into North and South. The Royal Family has been deposed and in its place rule the Knights of God, a harsh militaristic religious order headed by Prior Mordrin. But a rebel movement is growing, in spite of Mordrin's brainwashing "re-education" camps, and joining it are two love-struck teenagers, Gervase and Julia, who escape from one of the camps to join a quest to find the rightful King of England, and thus re-establish democracy and order to the land.
- Drama about the lives of a team of bicycle couriers in London.
- Anarchic and edgy Saturday morning entertainment show.
- A documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany and the persecutions they faced in the concentration camps because they would not renounce their faith and pledge allegiance to Hitler.
- Rodney Baverstock wins the football pools and with the money buys a Ferrari, a tiger and a mansion for himself and his friends.
- During World War II, young Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and she returns to her native country, England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, she must adapt to a whole new way of life.
- The story of nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli pacifist and government employee, who committed an act of treason in 1986 by informing the British press that his country is working on a nuclear bomb.
- An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
- Based on South By Southeast, the third book in The Diamond Brothers detective series, follows dimwitted Tim and his street smart kid brother Nick whose latest odd client is murdered by a mysterious assassin-spy who has 9 fingers.
- Based on the children's adventure novel by Enid Blyton, five young children come to learn the secrets of a ruined castle.
- An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
- Get Fresh was a Saturday morning children's TV show in the UK. Set in a spaceship called the millennium dustbin each week the hosts would travel to different towns around the country and talk to interesting people, show cartoons and have competitions. A puppet alien joined the crew which had less than desirable manners voiced by Phil Cornwell it always had mucus dripping.from its nostrils.
- Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crime bosses, the corrupt judges and the politicians. One day, Paolo's public zeal leads to a private loss; his wife is killed and his son disappears. As he follows a potential Mafia connection to Australia, his search for his son turns into an obsessive pursuit but in an ominous landscape of political and police corruption, business fraud, media intrigue, drugs smuggling and illegal arms dealing, the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
- An adult sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, Patsy (Diana Hardcastle) and Donald (Jimmy Mulville).
- Political intrigue and murder occurs when the English town of Portsmouth is sealed off by the military during the eve of World War III.
- When a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live.
- Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story of the pignapping of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher, who fools Robinson into believing that he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree. What will happen when the much more sinister truth is revealed?
- Letty Boot (Victoria O'Keefe) is a wheelchair bound teenager who lives in Meadowbank Children's Home along with her friends Brian (James Forsyth), Trevor (Marc Barfoot) and Cath (Deborah Smith). Following a spate of robberies at Meadowbank (including the theft of a goldfish) Letty sets up the Letty Bootlace Detective Agency and is soon investigating dangerous horse thieves and criminals running an illegal immigrant ring. Taking the law into her own hands, she soon rouses the attention of Inspector Jones (Glynn Edwards) and the pair struggle to see eye to eye at times, but gradually a level of respect builds between the two.
- A TV game show with the premise of contestants looking for items hidden in individual rooms of a pretend on stage house with a live audience.
- 13 year old Cassie, the daughter of a psychic medium, decides to see if she has inherited her mothers powers. She tries to conjure up a spirit, with unexpected results.
- The story of a young man, a prosthetic leg and treasures stored within it.
- Barrister Lucas Hellier goes to Germany to defend a British officer accused of spying and disloyalty. Within a short time, he finds himself romantically linked to the Court Officer Annika Newman and involved in a series of astonishing and bizarre intrigues.
- Granpa (Sir Peter Ustinov) tells stories to his granddaughter Emily (Emily Osborne), who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.
- In 1945, when such things were not even dreamt of, a white woman dares to marry a black African.
- Children partnered with celebrities to compete against each other in a safari-themed game show.
- A large number of people gathered on a beach or in a car park and answered questions by standing in giant circles according to their preference between multiple-choice answers, being eliminated for wrong answers.
- Local news and weather for the southern area of England
- Children's game-show in which two teams would compete to circumnavigate the world on a giant electronic map by answering questions and performing observational tests. The equator had to be crossed twice in the process. Spot prizes would also be awarded for hitting randomly chosen destinations on the "flight path".
- 1980's British science program.
- Set in rural Wiltshire in the late 16th century, the film tells the story of Miriam, a young peasant girl, whose parents have arranged her marriage to the older village weaver. Focuses on her dread at the prospect of marriage to a man she does not love.