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Last of the Summer Wine(1973-2010)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

Directed by James Gilbert, Sydney Lotterby, Bernard Thompson, Ray Butt, Alan J. W. Bell - With Kathy Staff, Peter Sallis, Bill Owen

Vera(2011-)

TV-PG
| 1h 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 60 votes)

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.

With Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Kenny Doughty, Jon Morrison, Cush Jumbo, Kingsley Ben-Adir, ...

Dalziel & Pascoe(1996-2007)

1h per episode | Crime, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

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.

With Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan

Heartbeat(1992-2010)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

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

A Touch of Frost(1992-2010)

2h per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 28 votes)

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.

With David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Arthur White

Coronation Street(1960-)

NR
| 24min per episode | Soap / Telenovela
2.7/5 (with 46 votes)

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

With Philip Middlemiss, Mikey North, Chris Fountain, Sally Ann Matthews, Jimi Mistry, William Roache, ...

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps(2001-2011)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Sitcom about the lives and loves of five twenty-somethings in Runcorn.

With Will Mellor

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates(1996-1998)

TV-G
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

With Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham Davies, Suzanne Maddock

Cracker(1993-1995)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

With Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville

Ackley Bridge(2017-2022)

45min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community

Emmerdale(1972-)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama
2.0/5 (with 44 votes)

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

With John Nayagam, Richard Thorp, Chris Chittell, Clive Hornby, Stan Richards, Steve Halliwell, ...

The League of Gentlemen(1999-2002)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 50 votes)

The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England based on Bacup, Lancashire. It follows the lives of dozens of bizarre townspeople, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.

Directed by Steve Bendelack - With Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
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The Royle Family(1998-2000)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 24 votes)

British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.

With Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne, Ralf Little, Craig Cash

Life on Mars(2006-2007)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 122 votes)

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

With John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Dean Andrews, Marshall Lancaster, Tony Marshall, ...

The New Statesman(1987-1992)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

With Rik Mayall, Marsha Fitzalan, Michael Troughton, Terence Alexander, Hugh Laurie, Paul O'Grady, ...

Shameless(2004-2013)

1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 55 votes)

The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.

With David Threlfall, Rebecca Atkinson, Alice Barry, Nicky Evans, Ciarán Griffiths, Gerard Kearns, ...

Waterloo Road(2006-)

TV-14
| 52min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.

With Phillip Martin Brown, Jason Done, Denise Welch, Chelsee Healey

Still Open All Hours(2014-2019)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

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Directed by Dewi Humphreys - With David Jason, James Baxter, Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Brigit Forsyth, ...

Cutting It(2002-2005)

1h per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Allie Henshall and Gavin Ferraday are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey and Sydney work alongside them. As Allie and Gavin consider taking over a vacant property across the road, they are rocked by the news that a rival hairdresser has bought it. To make matters worse, Allie discovers that the new salon, Blade Runner, is run by her ex, Finn, and his wife, Mia Bevan. Finn fathered the child Allie claimed to have aborted. He left her when he found out she was pregnant, but he's back in town to try and woo Allie.

With Amanda Holden, Sarah Parish, Jason Merrells, Ben Daniels, Angela Griffin, Siân Reeves, ...

Born and Bred(2002-2005)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Bred's cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.

With James Bolam, Michael French, Jenna Russell, Richard Wilson, Oliver Milburn, Clive Swift, ...

Wire in the Blood(2002-2008)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 29 votes)

Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

With Robson Green, Hermione Norris, Simone Lahbib

My Mad Fat Diary(2013-2015)

45min per episode | Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 44 votes)

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

Directed by Tim Kirkby - With Sharon Rooney

Dinnerladies(1998-2000)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

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Directed by Geoff Posner - With Julie Walters, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Maxine Peake, ...

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front(1994-1997)

40min per episode | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.

Directed by Rick Stroud, Chris Bernard, Brian Farnham - With Colin Buchanan, Caroline Catz, Alistair McGowan, Susan Wooldridge, Lucy Akhurst

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?(1973-1974)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.

With James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet(1983-2004)

50min per episode | Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

With Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Timothy Spall, Pat Roach, ...

Rising Damp(1974-)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.

With Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale, Don Warrington, Gabrielle Rose, Christopher Strauli, ...

Spender(1991-1993)

50min per episode | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.

With Jimmy Nail

I Didn't Know You Cared(1975-1979)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Keith Drinkel

Nearest and Dearest(1968-1973)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 46 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome and 28 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, was set in Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England.

With Hylda Baker
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