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Long before the era of prestige TV series such as The Sopranos and Mad Men, the small screen flexed its scope and dramatic muscle with the arrival of ambitious 1980s miniseries including Brideshead Revisited and The Singing Detective. As Peter Brook’s TV epic The Mahabharata re-emerges in a new restoration, we’re binge-watching 10 of them.
By David Parkinson
By Alex Ramon
By Craig Ian Mann
By Richard Pickard
By Uditha Devapriya
By Gayle Sequeira
By Mike Sutton
By Adam Nayman
By David Parkinson
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
By Katherine McLaughlin
By Rafa Sales Ross
By Christina Newland
By George Bass
By Lindsay Anderson, John Gillett and others
By John Bleasdale, Rory Doherty and others
By Tiago de Luca
By Rory Doherty
By Kazuo Ishiguro
By David Parkinson
By Carmen Gray
By Filipe Furtado
By Anton Bitel
By Chloe Walker
By Rory Doherty
By Alex Ramon
By Brogan Morris
By Alex Davidson, Grace Barber-Plentie and others
By Brogan Morris
By Ali Lalfam
