TV shows (fiction)

Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George amidst the fads and crazes of the time.

In the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty's favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her.

In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.

At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

Terry and Bob have been friends since childhood. Bob is the sensible one, trying hard to get on with his job and life. Terry is the wild one, always ready to lead Bob astray.

Returning from the Army, Terry finds his best mate Bob is marrying Thelma, Terry's former partner. Their lives intertwine as Terry reintegrates, challenging the relationships between the three.

Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.

A young girl with a learning disability makes her way through life.

In 1983, Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen was arrested after the discovery of human remains which had blocked a drain near his London home.

When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.

With most of the world blinded and the dangerous carnivorous Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered survivors to fight this plant invasion and the madness following.

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.

Albert Courtnay (Rodney Bewes), a 24-year-old innocent northern lad, relocates to London and manages to earn a basic living, but romanticises and exaggerates his success and experiences in euphemistic letters home to his mum.

A short-lived series starring John Flanagan as Moss Parkin, a policeman in the fictional Yorkshire village of Fickley.

The various misadventures of Stephen Daker, a young doctor who works for the health centre of a modern British university.

After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.

A lonely Scottish island is stalked by a brutal killer who may be from another world...

Jessica, raised in a fanatical cult, endures brainwashing until her forbidden relationship with Melanie opens her eyes. They face cruel treatment for their 'unnatural' bond, but Jessica's spirit overcomes the oppressive teachings.

Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love, bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

Maxine is the manager of a florist shop, she is also having an affair with married man Luke Carpenter, who's wife Helen, is totally unaware of the affair.