Drama Series & Serials

These are the drama series and serials from which the bfi tv 100 voters were asked to choose their favourites.
  • Adventures/Return/Casebook/Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The (ITV, 1984-94)
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot (ITV, 1989-)
  • Age of Kings, An (BBC, 1960)
  • All Creatures Great and Small (BBC, 1978-90)
  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (series 1) (ITV, 1983-84)
  • Avengers, The (ITV, 1961-69)
  • Ballykissangel (BBC, 1996-)
  • Band of Gold (Series 1) (ITV, 1995)
  • Barchester Chronicles, The (BBC, 1982)
  • Beiderbecke Affair/Tapes/Connection, The (ITV, 1985/87/88)
  • Between The Lines (BBC, 1992-94)
  • Bill, The (ITV, 1984-)
  • Births, Marriages and Deaths (BBC, 1999)
  • Blake's 7 (BBC, 1978-81)
  • Bleak House (BBC, 1985)
  • Blind Justice (BBC, 1988)
  • Bouquet of Barbed Wire (ITV, 1976)
  • Boys From The Blackstuff (BBC, 1982)
  • Brideshead Revisited (ITV, 1981)
  • Brookside (Channel 4, 1982-)
  • Buddha of Suburbia (BBC, 1993)
  • Callan (ITV, 1967-72)
  • Cardiac Arrest (BBC, 1994-96)
  • Casualty (BBC, 1986-)
  • Cold Feet (ITV, 1997-)
  • Colditz (BBC, 1972-74)
  • Common as Muck (BBC, 1994/97)
  • Cops, The (BBC, 1998-)
  • Coronation Street (ITV, 1960-)
  • Cracker (ITV, 1993-95)
  • Crossroads (ITV, 1964-88)
  • Crow Road, The (BBC, 1996)
  • Danger Man (ITV, 1960-61/64-67)
  • Darling Buds of May (ITV, 1991-93)
  • Day of the Triffids (BBC, 1981)
  • Days of Hope (BBC, 1975)
  • Department S (ITV, 1969-70)
  • Dixon of Dock Green (BBC, 1955-76)
  • Doomwatch (BBC, 1970-72)
  • Dr Finlay's Casebook (BBC, 1962-71)
  • EastEnders (BBC, 1985-)
  • Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1985)
  • Edward and Mrs Simpson (ITV, 1978)
  • Elizabeth R (BBC, 1971)
  • Emergency - Ward 10 (ITV, 1957-67)
  • Emmerdale Farm/Emmerdale (ITV, 1972-)
  • Fabian of the Yard (BBC, 1954-56)
  • Family (BBC, 1994)
  • Family At War (ITV, 1970-72)
  • Forsyte Saga, The (BBC, 1967)
  • Fortunes of War (BBC, 1987)
  • Gangsters (BBC, 1976)
  • GBH (Channel 4, 1991)
  • Glittering Prizes,The (BBC, 1976)
  • Grove Family, The (BBC, 1954-57)
  • Gulliver's Travels, The (Channel 4, 1996)
  • Hamish Macbeth (BBC, 1995-97)
  • Hammer House of Horror (ITV, 1980)
  • Harry's Game (ITV, 1982)
  • Heartbeat (ITV, 1992-)
  • Hearts and Minds (Channel 4, 1995)
  • History Man, The (BBC, 1981)
  • Holding On (BBC, 1997)
  • House of Cards (BBC, 1990)
  • Howards' Way (BBC, 1985-90)
  • I, Claudius (BBC, 1976)
  • Inspector Morse (ITV, 1987-98)
  • Jeeves and Wooster (ITV, 1990-93)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (ITV, 1977)
  • Jewel in the Crown, The (ITV, 1984)
  • Law and Order (BBC, 1978)
  • Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Channel 4, 1982)
  • Life and Loves of a She Devil, The (BBC, 1986)
  • London's Burning (ITV, 1986/88-)
  • Lost Boys, The (BBC, 1978)
  • Maigret (BBC, 1960-63)
  • Making Out (BBC, 1989-91)
  • Mapp and Lucia (Channel 4, 1985-86)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC, 1994)
  • Mayor of Casterbridge, The (BBC, 1978)
  • Men's Room, The (BBC, 1991)
  • Middlemarch (BBC, 1994)
  • Minder (ITV, 1979-94)
  • Miss Marple (BBC, 1984-92)
  • Monocled Mutineer, The (BBC, 1986)
  • Mr Wroe's Virgins (BBC, 1993)
  • Nice Town (BBC, 1993)
  • Nice Work (BBC, 1989)
  • No Hiding Place (ITV, 1959-67)
  • Olly's Prison (BBC, 1993)
  • Onedin Line, The (BBC, 1971-80)
  • Oppenheimer (BBC, 1980)
  • Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (BBC, 1990)
  • Our Friends in the North (BBC, 1996)
  • Our Mutual Friend (BBC, 1998)
  • Out (ITV, 1978)
  • Out of the Unknown (BBC, 1965-71)
  • Pennies From Heaven (BBC, 1978)
  • Poldark (BBC, 1975-77)
  • Politician's Wife, The (Channel 4, 1995)
  • Power Game, The (ITV, 1965-69)
  • Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)
  • Prime Suspect (ITV, 1991)
  • Prisoner, The (ITV, 1967-68)
  • Professionals, The (ITV, 1977-83)
  • Public Eye (ITV, 1965-75)
  • Quatermass and the Pit (BBC, 1958-59)
  • Queer as Folk (Channel 4, 1999)
  • Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (ITV, 1969-70)
  • Reilly, Ace of Spies (ITV, 1983)
  • Roads to Freedom, The (BBC, 1970)
  • Robin of Sherwood (ITV, 1984-86)
  • Rock Follies (ITV, 1976)
  • Rumpole of the Bailey (ITV, 1978-92)
  • Saint, The (ITV, 1962-69)
  • Search for the Nile (BBC, 1971)
  • Secret Army (BBC, 1977-79)
  • Sharpe (ITV, 1993-97)
  • Shoot To Kill (ITV, 1990)
  • Shooting The Past (BBC, 1999)
  • Shoulder To Shoulder (BBC, 1974)
  • Singing Detective, The (BBC, 1986)
  • Six Wives of Henry VIII, The (BBC, 1970)
  • Soldier, Soldier (ITV, 1991-97)
  • Sweeney, The (ITV, 1975-78)
  • Taggart (ITV, 1983-)
  • Take Me Home (BBC, 1989)
  • Takin' Over the Asylum (BBC, 1994)
  • Talking Heads/Talking Heads 2 (BBC, 1988/98)
  • Talking To a Stranger (BBC, 1966)
  • Tenko (BBC, 1981-84)
  • Testament of Youth (BBC, 1979)
  • This Life (BBC, 1996-97)
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (BBC, 1979)
  • Too Late to Talk to Billy/Matter of Choice for Billy/Coming to Terms for Billy (BBC, 1982/83/84)
  • Traffik (Channel 4, 1989)
  • Troubleshooters, The (BBC, 1966-72)
  • Tutti Frutti (BBC, 1987)
  • Ultraviolet (Channel 4, 1998)
  • Upstairs, Downstairs (ITV, 1971-75)
  • Very British Coup, A (Channel 4, 1988)
  • Very Peculiar Practice, A (BBC, 1986-88)
  • Wanted Man, A (Interrogation of John/Secret/Shoreland) (BBC, 1987/89)
  • War and Peace (BBC, 1972-73)
  • Warriors (BBC, 1999)
  • Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965)
  • When The Boat Comes In (BBC, 1976-81)
  • Widows (ITV, 1983)
  • Within These Walls (ITV, 1973-78)
  • World of Tim Frazer, The (Francis Durbridge Presents) (BBC, 1960-61)
  • Z Cars (BBC, 1962-78)
Last Updated: Monday, 04-Sep-2006 21:53:25 BST