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Horrible Histories

Horrible Histories

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Series Age rating: 6 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome...

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The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball

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Series Age rating: 5 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.3

The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved i...

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Mongrels

Mongrels

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 Aug...

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The Young Ones

The Young Ones

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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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Becca's Bunch

Becca's Bunch

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Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Meet Becca, Russell, Sylvia and Pedro - together they are Becca's Bunch! With unique ideas, heart and positive thinking, the gang always manage to overcome any challenge they encounter in Wagtail Wood...

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Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds

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Series Age rating: 2 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Thunderbirds is a 1960s British science-fiction television series which was produced using a mixed method of marionette puppetry and scale-model special effects termed "Supermarionation". The series i...

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Fraggle Rock

Fraggle Rock

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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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Yonderland

Yonderland

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Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A bored young mum steps through a portal and discovers a world of incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying, and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest amongst them into the sun.

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

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Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderso...

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Family Tree

Family Tree

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Series Age rating: 18 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never...

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