1980s British comedy-drama television series

A Very Peculiar Practice

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 8.5

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 8.5

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 an...

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Press Gang

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.

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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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Lovejoy

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers f...

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Minder

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.8

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many busines...

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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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The Irish R.M.

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 7.7

The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Irel...

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