1980s British television miniseries

Brideshead Revisited

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.

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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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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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A Little Princess

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an army colonel in a Victorian London girls' school. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the s...

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The Jewel in the Crown

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.4

A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of...

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Edge of Darkness

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.

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A Very British Coup

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself...

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Tutti Frutti

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8

Tutti Frutti is a BBC Scotland six part drama series, transmitted in 1987 and written by John Byrne. It starred Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Maurice Roëves, Richard Wilson and Katy Murphy. It broug...

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Fortunes of War

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the...

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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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