Adele Rose

The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix

Profile of the actress who found fame in Coronation Street and whose life offscreen was as colourful as that of Elsie Tanner, the character she played for 21 years. Close friends and co-stars including Julie Goodyear, Helen Worth, Tony Booth, and Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, share their touching and hilarious memories of this larger-than-life, spirited woman.

Release Date2000-04-07

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Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Release Date1992-04-10

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Episode Count2

Vote Count33

Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

Release Date1962-01-02

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Episode Count8

Vote Count7

Byker Grove

Byker Grove was a British television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 and was created by Adele Rose. The show was broadcast at 5.10pm after Newsround on CBBC on BBC One. It was aimed at an older teenager and young adult audience, tackling serious and sometimes controversial storylines.

Release Date1989-11-08

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Together

Residents of a sheltered accommodation block run by a warden go about their business.

Release Date1980-01-24

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Episode Count15

Vote Count2

Dramarama

Dramarama is the name of a British children's anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The series was created by Anna Home, then head of children's and youth programming at TVS, however production responsibilities were divided amongst most of the regional ITV franchise holders. Thus, each episode was in practice a one-off production with its own cast and crew, up to and including the executive producer. Dramarama was largely a place for new talent to prove themselves and was a launching pad for the likes of Anthony Horowitz, Paul Abbott, Kay Mellor, Janice Hally, Tony Kearney, David Tennant and Ann Marie Di Mambro. It was one of Dennis Spooner's last credits. One of Dramarama's episodes, "Dodger, Bonzo And The Rest", gained so much popularity that it was turned in to its own series the following year. It starred Lee Ross and was based around a large foster home. The episode "Blackbird Singing In The Dead of Night" was developed by Granada into the TV series Children's Ward. It was also repeated for the first time since its original broadcast on 5 January 2013, during CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend. The Series 7 episode "Back To Front" – notable for featuring a mirror image of the Yorkshire Television logo card at the end – was repeated on 6 January 2013, again as part of CITV's 30th anniversary Old Skool Weekend.

Release Date1983-09-12

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Episode Count2

Vote Count4

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Release Date1969-01-11

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Episode Count1

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Special Branch

Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.

Release Date1969-09-17

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Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Robin's Nest

Robin's Nest is a British sitcom, a spin-off from Man About the House, focusing on Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp. It aired for six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981, and co-starred Tessa Wyatt as Robin's girlfriend – and later wife – Vicky, and Tony Britton as her father.

Release Date1977-01-11

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Episode Count4

Vote Count11

Shabby Tiger

Manchester millionaire's son Nick Faunt leaves home at the height of the Depression to become an artist. When he meets Irish serving girl Anna Fitzgerald, a strange love story begins.

Release Date1973-07-11

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Episode Count2

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Counterstrike

Simon King, an alien agent from the Inter Galactic Council, is sent to Earth on a mission to stop unscrupulous refugees from a dying planet from wiping out Mankind and taking over the planet Earth.

Release Date1969-09-08

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Episode Count1

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Big Brother

A series of plays which examine if 1970s society is heading towards the dystopian world predicted in the book '1984'.

Release Date1970-08-30

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Episode Count1

Girls About Town

After seven years each of marriage, two thirty-something women of contrasting outlooks decide that it's high time their husbands took more notice of them.

Release Date1970-03-09

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Episode Count1

Vote Count2