1985 British television series endings

Tenko

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living i...

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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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Are You Being Served?

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 8

This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of t...

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Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Mr Palfrey of Westminster was a British television drama produced by Thames Television, which ran in 1984–85.

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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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Open All Hours

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy.

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A Woman of Substance

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the twentieth century, to respected business woman and grandmother in the 1980s. From humble beginnings, Emma Harte starts her business wi...

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Oliver Twist

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander Baron from the novel by Charles Dickens. It follows the book more closely than any of the other film ad...

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