Period television series

Robin of Sherwood

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on t...

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A Place to Call Home

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs...

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Bastard Boys

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Qu...

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The Box of Delights

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young schoolboy is given a box for safekeeping by a mysterious magician, little does he know the wondrous things he...

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wa...

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Blue Murder

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former Detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith. Rogerson...

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Little Dorrit

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed...

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