1982 British television series debuts

Boys from the Blackstuff

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and u...

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Smiley's People

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He beg...

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'Allo 'Allo!

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.4

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

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The Young Ones

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8.2

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in Great Britain from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series. Shown on BBC2, it featured anarchic, offbeat humour which helped bring alternative comedy to te...

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Fraggle Rock

Series Age rating: 1 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the...

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The Computer Programme

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they wer...

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Beau Geste

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Television serial based on the novel by P. C. Wren.

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Whoops Apocalypse

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of t...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7

When a young heir inherits a noble title that apparently has a deadly curse to it, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. A British television serial based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.

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