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Best of the Decades

Best of the Decades

Follow the steady climb of television, discover the finest creative output of each decade, and welcome to the era of peak TV.

    Best of the 1970s

    Classic Doctor Who
    Doctor Who first aired on 23 November 1963 and a cult classic was born. Relive the Doctor's classic adventures as he travels through all of time and space.
    Show · 26 Seasons
    The Sweeney
    The Sweeney, London’s Flying Squad, have one simple mission in life: catch villains, and they don’t care if they have to tread on the toes of their superiors or ignore police procedures to do it.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    All Creatures Great and Small
    Set in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, this beloved comedy follows the adventures of young country veterinarian James Herriot. Full of wit and warmth, it's a classic in every sense of the word.
    Show · 7 Seasons
    The Duchess of Duke Street
    This Emmy-nominated series follows a Cockney servant girl as she rises to manage one of Edwardian London’s most prestigious hotels.
    Show · 2 Seasons
    The Sandbaggers
    Roy Marsden stars as Neil Burnside, director of The Sandbaggers, a small and elite team in the British Secret Service who take on anything from assassination to aiding defectors to escape.
    Show · 3 Seasons
    Classic Father Brown
    G K Chesterton's classic clergyman-detective set authentically in the 1920s. Father Brown's involvement with crime is through his calling as a priest, doing good works and apprehending bad guys.
    Show · 1 Season
    Little Women (1970)
    Louisa May Alcott’s timeless coming of age tale about four very different sisters who experience love and loss growing up during the American Civil War.
    Show · 1 Season
    Blake's 7
    Freedom fighter Blake and his raffish band of outlaws take on the might of the Federation, led by the seductive and utterly ruthless Servalan.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    Upstairs Downstairs (Original)
    One of the most cherished and successful series of all time, this magnificent costume drama spans three decades in the lives of the Bellamy family and their below stairs servants, between the years of 1903 and 1930.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    A Ghost Story for Christmas
    Gather round the fire for a series of chilling Christmas tales, featuring seasonally supernatural stories from Charles Dickens, MR James, and more.
    Show · 1 Season
    Elizabeth R
    A terrified princess, surrounded by treachery, transforms into the Virgin Queen. Glenda Jackson gives an iconic performance in this multi-Emmy winner.
    Show · 1 Season
    Emma (1972)
    In Emma Woodhouse’s imprudent attempts to meddle in her friends’ love lives, she is counseled and criticized by her brother-in-law, whose attentions are motivated by more than just brotherly love.
    Show · 1 Season
    Good Neighbors
    The Goods leave behind the irritations of the everyday and embrace the simple life, much to the horror of the neighbors next door.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    Open All Hours
    Penny pinching shopkeeper Arkwright is still in the dark ages when it comes to commerce. His passions involve parting customers from their cash, keeping his nephew in line, and pursuing nurse Gladys.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
    This lavish period drama brings Tudor England to life through Henry VIII's wives - from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr - while revealing England's most infamous king.
    Show · 1 Season
    Wuthering Heights
    Emily Brontë’s unforgettable story of jealousy, revenge, and the destructive passion of lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.
    Show · 1 Season

    Best of the 1980s

    Sherlock Holmes
    Jeremy Brett, in a peerless portrayal of the classic character, stars in this faithful adaptation. From a blackmailed monarch to an abandoned Christmas goose, Holmes uses his acute perception and powers of observation to solve riddles and catch criminals.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    Brideshead Revisited (Remastered in 4K)
    The greatest television adaptation of all time, beautifully remastered. Evelyn Waugh's timeless classic follows Charles Ryder's life and relationships over a tumultuous 20 year period.
    Show · 1 Season
    Miss Marple
    Gloriously remastered from the 16mm film, this detective drama features Agatha Christie's unassuming amateur sleuth solving a series of murders.
    Show · 3 Seasons
    Inspector Morse
    One of the most popular detective dramas in television history based on the novels of Colin Dexter. Starring John Thaw as the cantankerous and complex Inspector Morse, and Kevin Whately as his long-suffering sidekick Sergeant Lewis.
    Show · 8 Seasons
    A Bit of Fry and Laurie
    This comedy sketch show is responsible for making former Cambridge University mates Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie household names. It gleefully combines slapstick, Fry’s love of clever wordplay, and Laurie’s musical parodies.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    Taggart
    DCI Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper who has come up the hard way in the Maryhill Police Department. He is joined by cops as hard as the criminals they chase and as gritty as the city they call home.
    Show · 27 Seasons
    Mapp and Lucia (Original)
    Set in a small English seaside town in the 1920's, E.F. Benson's novel is the subject of cult adoration in Britain and America.
    Show · 2 Seasons
    Bergerac
    One of British TV’s most beloved detectives, the blue-eyed maverick Jim Bergerac (John Nettles) returns to the Bureau des Étrangers.
    Show · 8 Seasons
    Partners in Crime
    Iconic super sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are now married and established as secret agents under the eagle eye of Scotland Yard.
    Show · 1 Season
    Agatha Christie's Poirot
    The complete collection. David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's beloved detective Hercule Poirot, who pits his wits against crime and injustice in this collection of murder mysteries.
    Show · 13 Seasons
    The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Next Chapters
    From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.
    Show · 6 Seasons
    Fanny by Gaslight
    Michael Sadleir’s lurid story of romance, scandal, and jealousy, set against a background of depravity in Victorian London’s demi-monde of the 1870s.
    Show · 1 Season
    The Woman in White
    One of the world's first whodunits, where a strange woman may hold the key to unlocking a mystery. What is the secret of the wild-eyed woman in white?
    Show · 1 Season
    Dombey and Son
    Charles Dickens' tale of Paul Dombey, a cold and arrogant shipping magnate whose pride costs him his family, fortune, and happiness.
    Show · 1 Season
    Red Dwarf
    The Emmy-winning cult comedy favorite, remastered and better than ever. The last surviving human finds that his only companions are a human-evolved cat and a hologram simulation of his deceased bunk-mate.
    Show · 13 Seasons
    Anna of the Five Towns
    The daughter of a rich widower struggles to cope with newfound wealth, blossoming love, and independence from her domineering father.
    Show · 1 Season

    Best of the 1990s

    Silent Witness
    Every body tells a story. A crack team of forensic pathologists reveal the truth behind murders and accidental deaths.
    Show · 27 Seasons
    Absolutely Fabulous
    The ground-breaking comedy of the 90s is still as funny as it is subversive. Two women acting up, throwing up, not growing up, dressing like a dream, and drinking like fish.
    Show · 7 Seasons
    Cold Feet
    Cold Feet follows the lives of six thirty-somethings - Rachel, Adam, Karen, David, Pete and Jenny - as they try to find true love, or at least keep their relationships on track.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    Dandelion Dead
    The BAFTA-winning true story of a Welsh lawyer who finds himself in the middle of what would become one of Britain’s most infamous murder trials.
    Show · 1 Season
    Middlemarch
    George Eliot’s tale of provincial life on the brink of momentous change, where the Industrial Revolution will split a town into two opposing factions.
    Show · 1 Season
    Vanity Fair (1998)
    Penniless orphan Becky Sharp is an unstoppable schemer and seductive social climber who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
    Show · 1 Season
    Sharpe
    Sean Bean stars in these dramas set during the Napoleonic wars of 19th century Spain. Fast-moving, hard-hitting action adventures based on Bernard Cornwell's best-selling novels.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    Drovers' Gold
    When a drover refuses to pay a reasonable price for a widow’s cattle, her son recruits a ragtag crew to take the herd to market in this tale of adventure and romance.
    Show · 1 Season

    Best of the 2000s

    Ashes to Ashes
    Same crimes, different times. In the sequel to Life on Mars, DCI Gene Hunt rolls up his sleeves and embraces the 1980s with a new time-travelling partner, DI Alex Drake.
    Show · 3 Seasons
    Miranda
    Miranda Hart writes and stars in this charming sitcom about a socially awkward and incredibly clumsy joke shop owner.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    Bleak House
    This imaginative adaptation of Dickens' Victorian drama stars Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock, who must hide a dark secret from lawyer Tulkinghorn amid an infamous court case.
    Show · 1 Season
    New Tricks
    A crew of retired, old-school cops is recruited to re-investigate unsolved cases long gone cold.
    Show · 12 Seasons
    Lorna Doone (2000)
    Having watched the ruthless Doones clan slay his father as a child, John Ridd swears revenge. As he grows older, he falls for a woman on the side of his sworn enemy.
    Show · 1 Season
    Love in a Cold Climate
    Three young women search for love as they grow out of their care-free youth and into adulthood in this adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
    Show · 1 Season
    The Cazalets
    Amid dramatic change and upheaval in WWII-era England, discover the privilege, prestige, and hidden secrets of the Cazalet dynasty.
    Show · 1 Season
    Little Dorrit
    This moving series adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel chronicles the wavering fortunes and hardships of a young girl caring for her father in the debtor’s prison where she was born.
    Show · 1 Season
    Daniel Deronda
    In George Eliot’s love story, the spirited Gwendolen Harleth falls for a sensitive, intelligent young man, haunted by the secrets that surround his birth.
    Show · 1 Season
    Oliver Twist (2007)
    William Miller and Tom Hardy star in the classic Dickens tale. After growing up in a workhouse, Oliver sets out for London and meets a peculiar cast of characters.
    Show · 1 Season
    Unforgiven
    Released after 15 years behind bars, Ruth Slater is drawn to the place that haunts her, to those who hate her, and to the one person she left behind.
    Show · 1 Season

    Best of the 2010s

    Line of Duty
    Catching criminals is tough enough, but try catching bent coppers… Anti-Corruption Unit AC-12 have their work cut out for them chasing crooked colleagues who have the skills and resources needed to cover their tracks.
    Show · 6 Seasons
    Downton Abbey
    The phenomenon that changed the face of British TV forever. Set in the lavish 1900’s Yorkshire country estate, follow the lives and affairs of the elite Crawley family and their servants.
    Show · 6 Seasons
    Mum
    Lesley Manville (Harlots) stars in this warm comedy as a woman managing the death of her husband and her daft family. Starting with the funeral in January and ending on New Year's Eve, the story unfolds through the events of a year.
    Show · 3 Seasons
    Vera
    Brenda Blethyn stars in this massive hit mystery based on the novels from award-winning author Ann Cleeves. Obsessed with her work, DCI Vera Stanhope deftly investigates murders only she can solve.
    Show · 14 Seasons
    Father Brown
    For this detective, the devil is in the details. Mark Williams stars as Father Brown, a clergyman with a particular talent for crime-solving.
    Show · 12 Seasons
    Inside No. 9
    An anthology of comedies crammed with dark, claustrophobic humor and unexpected twists. Inside No. 9 invites you into six very different No 9s, where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the macabre.
    Show · 10 Seasons
    Shetland
    Based on the best-selling books by award-winning writer Ann Cleeves, this fan-favorite crime drama follows Detective Jimmy Perez as he investigates crimes within the close-knit island community.
    Show · 9 Seasons
    DCI Banks
    Based on the Peter Robinson novels, Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates chilling murders against the striking backdrop of Yorkshire.
    Show · 5 Seasons
    The Body Farm
    Eve Lockhart and her team of pathologists push the limits of forensic research to solve crimes in this Waking the Dead spin-off.
    Show · 1 Season
    River
    Stellan Skarsgård, Nicola Walker, & Lesley Manville star in this twist-filled crime drama. Follow gifted detective John River, whose fractured mind traps him between the living and the dead.
    Show · 1 Season
    Lucan
    An infamous earl suspected of murder disappears, never to be seen again. Rory Kinnear and Michael Gambon star in this riveting drama that explores one of the greatest mysteries of modern times.
    Show · 1 Season
    A Confession
    Martin Freeman stars in BAFTA-nominated true story of Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher, who heroically risks his good name to track down the culprit responsible for the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan.
    Show · 1 Season
    This Time with Alan Partridge
    Steve Coogan's legendary broadcaster is back in the big-time when he steps in as a guest presenter for the BBC magazine show - and his performance is as smooth as ever.
    Show · 1 Season

    Best of the 2020s

    The Long Call
    Based on Ann Cleeves’ bestselling novel, the intriguing and flawed DI Matthew Venn is led back into the community he left behind - and the deadly secrets that lurk there.
    Show · 1 Season
    Honour
    DCI Caroline Goode vows to bring justice for a young girl, murdered by her family for falling in love with the wrong man.
    Movie
    The Tower
    Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones) and Jimmy Akingbola (Kate & Koji) star in this eye-opening crime thriller that explores the terrifying realities of life on duty.
    Show · 3 Seasons
    The Pembrokeshire Murders
    The extraordinary true-to-life pursuit of the most notorious serial killer in Welsh history.
    Show · 1 Season
    Grace
    Based on the best-selling novels by Peter James. John Simm (Life on Mars) stars as tenacious yet troubled detective Roy Grace. As he walks a career tightrope, he is assigned to a missing person case.
    Show · 4 Seasons
    Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
    Agatha Christie's wittiest mystery ever. Lucy Boynton and Will Poulter star in Hugh Laurie’s new adaptation, where two amateur sleuths set out to find the meaning behind a dead man’s mysterious final words.
    Show · 1 Season
    McDonald & Dodds
    When two mismatched cops are partnered up, they instantly lock horns over their different approaches to policing – and to life.
    Show · 4 Seasons

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