Television shows based on British novels

Any Human Heart

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Logan Mountstuart, writer and adventurer, narrates his life, from the Paris of the twenties to the eighties in London, passing through the New York of the fifties.

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Mr. Pye

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Mr Pye travels to the Channel Island of Sark to spread the love of God. But doing good deeds means something strange starts to happen to him, he starts to grow wings.

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Raffles

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1977 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely...

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Fingersmith

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindl...

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Tipping the Velvet

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the hidden, decadent world of bohemian London in the 1890s. Nan Astley embarks on a voyage of emotional and sexua...

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High Fidelity

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one tru...

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A Very English Scandal

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.7

It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.

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Murphy's Law

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.

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Zen

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Cater...

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