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Amazon Prime Video
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8.4
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100
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93
cc age 14+

Utopia (2013)
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
87
8.5
/23209/
82
/1213/
80
/254/
100
/50/
91

Inside No. 9 (2014)
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
82
8.2
/31315/
77
/1030/
76
/238/
4.1
/8325/
96
/38/
81
/16/

Time (2021)
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
8.3
/19932/
82
/845/
77
/135/

Spooks (2002)
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Netflix
78
8.6
/34596/
80
/1219/
75
/242/
81
/18/
cc age 14+

Call the Midwife (2012)
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
78
8.2
/23788/
78
/632/
74
/163/

Vera (2011)
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
8.2
/24295/
81
/968/
77
/172/
71
/26/
cc age 14+

Hustle (2004)
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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The CW
76
7.9
/43281/
77
/806/
74
/336/

Midsomer Murders (1997)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Amazon Prime Video
78
76
8.2
/17202/
79
/345/
76
/112/
77
/13/

Lewis (2007)
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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The Roku Channel
76
75
7.8
/17062/
76
/422/
76
/124/

Father Brown (2013)
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.8
/10672/
73
/559/
72
/82/

Plebs (2013)
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
7.2
/11132/
67
/515/
67
/81/
cc age 15+

Cuckoo (2012)
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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Hulu
76
67
8.0
/9836/
74
/236/
74
/57/

New Tricks (2004)
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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The Roku Channel
75
64
8.4
/8590/
78
/195/
65
/115/

Cracker (1993)
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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Hoopla
73
62
7.6
/7244/
71
/207/
72
/41/

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (2018)
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
7.3
/12944/
72
/714/
69
/304/
3.4
/3633/
42
/26/
51
/16/

Houdini (2014)
Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.
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The Roku Channel
61
7.1
/14300/
69
/1100/
66
/201/
38
/42/
78
47
/31/
cc age 14+

Emerald City (2017)
In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and her K9 police dog are transported to another world, one far removed from our own — a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. This is the fabled Land of Oz in a way you’ve never seen before, where wicked witches don’t stay dead for long and a young girl becomes a headstrong warrior who holds the fate of kingdoms in her hands.
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Hoopla
75
59
7.9
/6890/
75
/140/
71
/42/

Waking the Dead (2001)
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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The CW
63
57
7.9
/9614/
76
/194/
75
/72/
67
/24/
22

A Touch of Frost (1992)
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
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The Roku Channel
76
55
8.0
/3960/
75
/71/
75
/44/
cc age 13+

The Professionals (1977)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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54
6.8
/10691/
69
/137/
67
/140/
3.3
/2330/

The Mists of Avalon (2001)
The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel.
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Hoopla
71
53
7.4
/6573/
68
/94/
72
/38/

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002)
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
50
7.8
/3083/
70
/65/
74
/47/

The New Statesman (1987)
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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47
6.0
/3763/
61
/192/
60
/66/
3.1
/954/
38
/8/
51
/10/

Titanic (2012)
A heart-wrenching journey through Titanic's last moments, featuring both fictional and historical characters, ranging from steerage passengers and crew to upper class guests and staff.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
46
6.9
/4605/
72
/52/
71
/32/

Heartbeat (1992)
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
65
46
6.1
/3964/
73
/82/
61
/83/

Casualty (1986)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Hoopla
68
46
7.3
/3012/
69
/145/
63
/29/

Trollied (2011)
Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.
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Hoopla
75
46
7.6
/1440/
68
/29/
68
/13/
77
/13/
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Trial & Retribution (1997)
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Amazon Prime Video
60
45
6.0
/5927/
60
/72/
62
/62/
2.9
/1286/

Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.
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Hoopla
68
41
7.5
/3631/
69
/51/
62
/27/

Dalziel & Pascoe (1996)
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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40
7.8
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65
/41/
68
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Minder (1979)
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
32
6.9
/2660/
57
/38/
67
/21/

Bergerac (1981)
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
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60
12
8.1
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/12/
51
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Between the Lines (1992)
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
59
12
7.8
/1182/
63
/18/
36
/5/

Bramwell (1995)
The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues and society. Determined to take the medical profession out of the dark ages, her strongly held opinions often draw her into conflict with the chief surgeon, a man keener on tradition than he is on progress.
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10
7.3
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62
/12/
57
/13/

Star Cops (1987)
Star Cops is a British science fiction TV series created by Chris Boucher, set in 2027 where the International Space Police Force (ISPF) maintains law and order in a newly colonized solar system, overseen by Commander Nathan Spring. Known for its hard science fiction approach and realistic portrayal of space travel, the series was canceled after one season due to poor ratings and production issues. Retrospectively, it has been critically reappraised.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
59
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6.6
/795/
60
/19/
58
/6/

The Commander (2003)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
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?
7.7
/65/
54
/5/

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004)
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder is a British five-part docudrama series produced by Touchpaper Television, which premièred on BBC One on 16 October 2004.
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?
7.5
/42/
10
/2/

Lawless (2004)
Crime drama in which policeman John Paxton is framed for murder after he is caught up in the plans of colleagues to take drastic action after a killer is set free on a legal technicality.
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?
7.8
/31/
10
/2/

Wynne and Penkovsky (1985)
The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet Intelligence officer who passed key information to the West.
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Amazon Prime Video
?
7.5
/72/
10
/2/

Drovers' Gold (1997)
This show is about a couple broken and cheated Welsh families that decide in order to live they need to drive their cattle beasts to London for the best price. Unfortunately, there's the evil landholder that wants to kick everyone out of the valley and see the good families starve and go to workhouses. His conniving treachery enables several issues to arise while the fellas and a few more travellers in their party attempt to persevere. Talk about cattle plague and cholera outbreaks, punishment for driving cattle on a Sunday, and other interesting issues are just a fraction of what six episodes will bring you. Adventure, horses, and a young Ray Stevens without a shirt on.
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8.2
/86/
10
/4/
65
/2/

Nice Work (1989)
Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view. Based on the novel by David Lodge.
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7.4
/49/
10
/3/
50
/1/

Mitch (1984)
Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.
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7.7
/82/
15
/2/
80
/2/

Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret (2020)
The story of the individuals who brought Bishop Peter Ball to justice and the cover-up that went to the highest levels of the Church of England.
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63
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6.7
/272/
62
/11/
62
/5/

Jerk (2019)
Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.
poster
?
6.3
/61/
33
/3/

Family (2003)
A nail-biting gangster drama set in the East End of London, focusing on The Cutlers, a crime family who specialize in extortion and protection racketing.
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5.5
/66/
10
/2/
60
/3/

The Play on One (1988)
A series of plays specially written for television.
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45
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6.4
/111/
25
/4/
60
/2/

Performance (1991)
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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55
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6.4
/317/
41
/5/
60
/2/

Chimera (1991)
A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of man and ape.


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