Black-and-white British television shows

Match of the Day

Series Age rating: 19 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 8.6

BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.

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The Avengers

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8.3

The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main char...

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Maigret

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 7.9

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran...

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Steptoe and Son

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum...

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Zoo Quest

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Documentary series starring David Attenborough who follows zoo keepers on a quest to find different animals to be added to the zoo. David Attenborough and a team from London Zoo travel in search of ex...

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At Last the 1948 Show

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman.

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A Star Is Born

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotli...

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The Wednesday Play

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 7.6

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other so...

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The Saint

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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