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Please only submit sites primarily relating to UK TV drama as a whole, a group of UK TV dramas, or an individual UK TV drama. If submitting a site primarily relating to an individual UK TV drama, for which a subcategory already exists, please submit it to that subcategory. |
A UK TV drama is defined as a drama that was produced primarily in the UK.
| Please submit only sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series "All Creatures Great and Small". |
"All Creatures Great and Small" was a BBC drama series produced from 1978 to 1990. It tells the tale of the trials and misadventures of the staff of a country veterinary office in 1940s Yorkshire. It stars Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon, and Peter Davison as Tristan Farnon.
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Please only submit sites primarilyrelating to the UK TV drama, "As If."
Please submit sites primarily relating to the US series "As If" to Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/ (or if a subcategory in Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/ for "As If" exists, then submit it to that subcategory). |
"As If" is a quirky UK drama featuring the lives and loves of six teenagers in London.
Spinoff of the BBC series "Life on Mars" in which DI Alex Drake, a London police detective and psychologist, is shot in 2008 and wakes up in 1981. There, she encounters DCI Gene Hunt and other officers she recognizes from Sam Tyler's report, as well as a sinister clown in Pierrot costume.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC drama "Babyfather." |
"Babyfather" is a BBC drama in which four black men in London experience the impact of infidelity and unplanned pregnancies in their lives in different ways. Based on the novel by Patrick Augustus.
| Please only submit sites to the ITV drama series "Bad Girls." |
"Bad Girls" is an ITV drama series, that made its debut in 1999, about the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the TV drama series "Ballykissangel." |
"Ballykissangel" is Kieran Prendiville's highly acclaimed story of an English priest abroad in the Irish village of Ballykissangel. It is the warm and witty tale of a contemporary rural community enlivened by colorful characters, unexpected friendship, love and rivalry. Features Colin Farrell.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the 80s BBC drama series, "Bergerac." |
"Bergerac" was a 80s BBC drama series featuring detective Jim Bergerac, played by John Nettles, set on the seemingly crime-ridden island of Jersey.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the medical drama, "Bramwell." |
"Bramwell" is a medical drama outlining women's ordeals in 1890s England.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the drama "Cardiac Arrest" |
"Cardiac Arrest" is a 90s BBC drama focusing on the lives of the often traumatic lives of junior NHS doctors.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to BBC medical drama, "Casualty." Sites primarily relating to the spin-off series, "Holby City," should be submitted to Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Programmes/Dramas/Holby_City/. |
"Casualty" is a BBC drama set in the Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital. Not to be confused with the spin-off series, Holby City.
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Please only submit site primarily relating to the ITV comedy drama series "Cold Feet." |
"Cold Feet" is ITV comedy drama series about three thirtysomething couples living in Manchester.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the crime drama, "Cracker." |
"Cracker" is a crime drama starring Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, a criminal psychologist working for the Manchester police force.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC period drama, "Daniel Deronda." |
"Daniel Deronda" is BBC period drama, with themes of love, identity, and Judaism in 1870s England. Stars Hugh Dancy as Daniel Deronda.
| Please only submit site primarily relating to the police drama "Dempsey and Makepeace." |
"Dempsey and Makepeace" is a drama series featuring maverick New York cop James Dempsey who gets sent to work in London with Detective Sergeant Harriet Makepeace (Glynis Barber) and follows the trials and tribulations of their tempestuous relationship.
"Footballers' Wives" is an ITV drama series, concerning the lives of the players of a premiership football team.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC TV mini-series, "Gormenghast." |
"Gormenghast" is a BBC TV mini-series, directed by Andy Wilson, from the novel by Mervyn Peake. The ancient family of Groan has been incarcerated for centuries in the vast crumbling castle of Gormenghast. The dynasty is threatened by the charismatic Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) who escapes his destiny as a kitchen boy. With Ian Richardson as Lord Groan, Christopher Lee as Flay, John Sessions as Dr. Prunesquallor, Warren Mitchell as Barquentine, Spike Milligan as De-ath, and many other well known actors.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the 1999 BBC dramatisation of "Great Expectations." Sites primarily relating to the 1946 movie "Great Expectations" should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Titles/G/Great_Expectations_-_1946/ Sites primarily relating to the 1998 movie "Great Expectations" should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Titles/G/Great_Expectations_-_1998/ Sites primarily relating to the book "Great Expectations" should be submitted to Arts/Literature/Authors/D/Dickens,_Charles/Works/Great_Expectations/ |
"Great Expectations" is a 1999 BBC dramatisation of the Charles Dickens novel. Philip Pirrip, played by Ioan Gruffudd, is expected to become a blacksmith, but hating the smithy, he has a secret longing to be a gentleman. When he meets the mysterious Miss Havisham his dream starts to become true.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series, "Hamish Macbeth." Sites primarily relating to Robert Carlyle should be submitted to Arts/Performing_Arts/Acting/Actors_and_Actresses/C/Carlyle,_Robert/ |
"Hamish Macbeth" is BBC drama series, about a police constable (Robert Carlyle as Hamish Macbeth) in the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, who occasionally bends the rules when it suits.
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Please only submit sites primarily related to the Yorkshire Television drama, "Heartbeat." |
"Heartbeat" is a Yorkshire Television drama series set in the 1960s, but produced in 1992, which follows the day to day lives of the North Riding Police Force in and around the rural fictional village of Aidensfield in the North Yorkshire Moors.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC drama, "Hetty Wainthrop Investigates." |
"Hetty Wainthrop Investigates" stars Patricia Routledge as the pensioner turned private investigator who embarks on a mission to solve crimes in a small village in Lancashire. Also stars Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings Trilogy.)
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Please only submit site primary relating to the UK medical drama, "Holby City." Sites primarily relating to "Casualty" should be submitted to Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Programmes/Dramas/Casualty/. |
"Holby City" is a UK medical drama set in a hospital of the same name. It is a spin-off of the series Casualty.
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Please only submit sites primarily related to the TV drama series "Hornblower." Sites primarily related to the books of the Hornblower series should be submitted to Arts/Literature/Authors/F/Forester,_C._S./. |
"Hornblower" is seagoing drama featuring Ioan Gruffudd as C.S. Forester's famous maritime hero Horatio Hornblower.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the ITV police drama, "Inspector Morse." |
"Inspector Morse" is an ITV police drama series set in Oxford starring John Thaw as Inspector Morse, and Kevin Whately as Lewis, written by Colin Dexter.
| Please only submit sites relating to the crime drama "Inspector Wexford". |
"Inspector Wexford" is a TV crime drama series based on the novels of Ruth Rendell.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC Drama "Jonathan Creek." |
"Jonathan Creek" is a BBC mystery drama, where as an illusionist, Jonathan Creek, played by Alan Davies, applies his skills to solve seemingly impossible crimes. Starring as his "side kicks" are Julia Sawalha and Caroline Quentin.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC legal drama series, "Judge John Deed" |
"Judge John Deed" is a BBC legal drama series, centred around a high court judge John Deed.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the TV drama "Killer Net." |
"Killer Net" is a drama about a psychology student who gets addicted to a computer game and then discovers that his virtual killings are happening in real life.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the TV drama "The Lakes." |
"The Lakes" is a drama about a drifter and compulsive gambler from Liverpool called Danny (John Simm), who moves to a small village in the Lake District to marry Emma (Emma Cunniffe). He finds trouble being accepted into Emma's devoutly Catholic family, and matters get much worse when he becomes involved in a drowning accident with four local children.
Life on Mars is a police drama with science fiction elements that was broadcast on BBC One in two eight-episode series in 2006 and 2007.In it, Manchester DCI Sam Tyler is hit by a car in 2006 and subsequently finds himself in 1973, as a new transfer to the Manchester department. There, he has to contend with boorish, brash commanding officer Gene Hunt, outdated technology, and 1970s social mores, while grappling with a bigger question: Has he gone mad, is he comatose, or has he travelled back in time?
Life on Mars won several awards, including the International Emmy for drama in 2006 and the BAFTAs' Audience Award in 2007. An American version of the show is being produced by David E. Kelley.
Most of Life on Mars' main characters reappear in Ashes to Ashes, a follow-up series which premiered in 2008 and features a female detective familiar with Sam's story who finds herself in 1981 London.
"London's Burining" was an ITV drama featuring the exploits of the crew of Blackwall Fire Station in London that made its debut in 1988 and ended in 2002.
| Please only submit site primarily relating to the TV series "A Many Splintered Thing." |
"A Many Splintered Thing" is a TV series in which Alan Davies stars as married Russell Boyd who composes radio jingles but dreams of more. One night Russell meets a woman named Elly, falls madly in love with her, and ends up having an extra-marital affair.
| Please submit only sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series "Merseybeat". |
"Merseybeat" is a BBC drama following Newton Park police force, and the struggle to balance work and home lives.
| Please only submit site primary relating to the detective series "Midsomer Murders." |
"Midsomer Murders" is a detective series set in English countryside villages collectively known as Midsomer. Starring John Nettles and Daniel Casey, written by Caroline Graham.
| Please only submit sites primary related to the BBC drama series "Monarch of the Glen." |
"Monarch of the Glen" is a BBC TV drama series set in Scotland in which Archie MacDonald, played by Alastair Mackenzie, finds himself called back from London to his home in the Scottish Highlands to assume his role as The Laird of Glenbogle and get the 40,000 acre estate back on its feet. With Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Dawn Steele, Alexander Morton, Hamish Clark and Julian Fellowes.
| Please submit only sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series "Nice Guy Eddie". |
"Nice Guy Eddie" is a BBC private investigator series starring Ricky Tomlinson as a private investigator
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the 1999 TV drama series "Oliver Twist." Sites primarily relating to the film "Twist" should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Titles/T/Twist/ Sites primarily relating to the book "Oliver Twist" should be submitted to Arts/Literature/Authors/D/Dickens,_Charles/Works/Oliver_Twist/. |
Writer Alan Bleasdale brings Charles Dickens' best loved novel to ITV in an 8 hour drama serial.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the 1983 TV drama "One Summer." |
"One Summer" is a 5 part 1983 TV drama in which David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh star as two boys who run away from Liverpool to an idyllic summer in Wales.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the nine part drama series, "Our Friends in the North." |
"Our Friends in the North" was a nine part series depicting the varying fortunes of four friends - Nicky, Geordie, Mary and Tosker - from the optimistic times of 1964 to the uncertainties of 1995 in which their personal lives become intertwined with the politics of Newcastle and London. Features themes such as police corruption, Thatcherism, and political sleaze.
| Please submit only sites primarily relating to the drama series "Out of the Blue". |
"Out of the Blue" is TV play about a video director.
| Please submit only sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series "Paradise Heights". |
"Paradise Heights" is a BBC drama series featuring Charles Dale, Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little star as three brothers struggling to keep their discount warehouse business afloat.
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Please only submit site primarily relating to the ITV medical drama, "Peak Practice." |
"Peak Practice" is an ITV medical drama series which follows the lives and adventures of three doctors practicing medicine in rural England.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the football drama "Playing the Field." |
"Playing the Field" features the on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of "The Castlefield Blues". It's an under funded and badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire, in which the players' loyalty to the team, the game and each other far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship.
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Please only submit site primarily relating to the historical drama "Poldark." |
"Poldark" is a historical drama based on the books of Winston Graham that made its debut in 1975.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC political drama, "The Project." |
"The Project" is a BBC drama that charts New Labour's rise to power to their landslide victory in 1997.
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Please only submit sites primary relating to the UK series, "Queer as Folk." Sites primary relating to the US series, should be submited to Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Queer_as_Folk_-_American_Version/. |
"Queer as Folk" is a groundbreaking and controversial Channel 4 series which follows the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's "Gay Village".
| Please only submit sites primarily related to the 2003 BBC military drama, "Red Cap." |
"Red Cap" is BBC military drama starring Eastenders' Tamzin Outhwaite and Douglas Hodge.
| Please only submit site primary related to the UK TV drama "Robin of Sherwood." |
"Robin of Sherwood" is a UK TV drama series that ran for 26 hours over three seasons in the early 1980s. It starred first Michael Praed and then Jason Connery as Robin Hood. It combined mysticism and paganism with excellent historical research, haunting music and a fresh-faced cast. A small but enthusiastic fandom is still going strong around the world - especially in the USA and the UK.
An ITV mystery starring gardener-sleuths Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal) and Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris). The series premiered in 2003.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the hospital drama "The Royal." |
"The Royal" is a Heartbeat spin-off set in a Yorkshire 1960s hospital, but produced and aired in the 2000s.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the ITV courtroom drama, "Rumople of the Bailey." |
"Rumpole of the Bailey" is an ITV courtroom drama starring Leo McKern as Rumpole, an eccentric criminal law barrister.
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Please only submit sites primarily related to the spy drama "The Sandbaggers." |
"The Sandbaggers" is a late 70s/early 80s spy drama in which Neil Burnside, played by Roy Marsden, heads a division of British Intelligence nicknamed The Sandbaggers at the height of the Cold War.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the Napoleonic era drama "Sharpe." |
"Sharpe" is a drama chronicling the adventures of Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean), who is a Lieutenant in the British military during the Napoleonic era.
| Please only submit site primarily relating to the BBC crime drama "Silent Witness." |
"Silent Witness" is a BBC crime investigation drama starring Amanda Burton as Professor Sam Ryan, a highly-intelligent and sometimes intimidating coroner and professor at University College London.
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Please only submit site primarily related to the TV drama by Dennis Potter, "The Singing Detective." Site primarily related to the movie "The Singing Detective" should be submitted to Arts/Movies/Titles/S/Singing_Detective,_The/. |
"The Singing Detective" is a TV drama by Dennis Potter, featuring detective novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon), who suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his original thriller with himself in the title role.
| Please only submit sites primarily related to the BBC spy drama, "Spooks", or as it is called in the US, "MI-5." |
"Spooks" is a BBC spy drama concerning the UK intelligence agency MI-5.This series was aired as "MI-5" in the US.
| Please only submit site primarily relating to the BBC politcal drama "State of Play." |
"State of Play" is BBC political drama which focuses on a secret love affair, an investigative journalist and a high-flying member of parliament, and explores the issue of freedom of information and the government's relationship with big business. It stars David Morrissey, Kelly Macdonald and John Simm.
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Please only submit site primarily relating to the 70s BBC drama series "Survivors." |
"Survivors" is a 70s BBC post-apocalyptic drama series featuring the survivors of an man-made bacterial epidemic which has erased 90% of the earth's population. Created by Terry Nation.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the UK police drama "The Sweeney." |
"The Sweeney" is a gritty police drama series starring John Thaw as Jack Regan of the Flying Squad, a tough detective who uses underhand and violent tactics to "bag" criminals.
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Please submit only sites primarily relating to the BBC drama series "This Life." |
"This Life" is a BBC drama series following the lives of five young professionals in London: rival lawyers during the day and partying friends at night.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the 1970s TV suspense drama "Thriller". |
"Thriller" was a suspense anthology, made by ATV between 1973 and 1976 and created and written by the accomplished screenwriter Brian Clemens. It regularly enthralled Saturday night audiences with its eclectic mix of mystery, suspense and the supernatural.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC period drama, "Tipping the Velvet." |
"Tipping the Velvet" is a BBC period drama, based on the Sarah Walters' modern Victorian novel, in which Rachael Stirling stars as a young oyster girl, Nan. It chronicles her journey through several varied lesbian relationships in Victorian England, and explores themes of domination, prostititution and transvestitism.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the ITV drama series "A Touch of Frost." |
"A Touch of Frost" is an ITV crime drama series starring David Jason as Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost, and Bruce Alexander as Superintendent Norman Mullett. It is based on the novels by R.D. Wingfield, in which Frost is an archetypal copper: he is scruffy, unorthodox and a despiser of paperwork; yet he is also warm, passionate and, most importantly, humane.
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Please only submit site primarily relating the the UK crime drama "Touching Evil". Sites primarily relating to the US version should be submitted to Arts/Television/Programs/Dramas/Cop_Shows/Touching_Evil/. |
"Touching Evil" is a crime drama featuring London's Organised and Serial Crimes (OSC) Unit, an elite rapid-response unit set up to combat the rising serial crime in the UK. It stars Robson Green as Detective Inspector Dave Creegan.
| Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC drama "Two Thousand Acres of Sky." |
"Two Thousand Acres of Sky" is a BBC drama set on the fictional Scottish island of Ronansay, and it stars Michelle Collins (Eastenders) and comedian Paul Kaye.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the Channel 4 vampire-related drama series "Ultraviolet." |
"Ultraviolet" is a short-lived, only 6 episodes long, Channel 4 drama series, revolving around the existence of "Code V"s, or vampires. It is a combination of drama and horror, along with vampire myths and biotechnological explanations.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the period drama, "Upstairs, Downstairs." |
"Upstairs, Downstairs" follows the lives of both the family and the servants in a London townhouse in the early 1900s. Richard Bellamy, played by David Langton, is the head of the household and a member of Parliament, and his wife is member of the titled aristocracy. Belowstairs, Hudson, played by Gordon Jackson, the Scottish butler directs and guides the other servants about their tasks and (sometimes) their proper place. Real-life events from 1903-1930 are incorporated into the stories of the Bellamy household.
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Please only submit sites primarily related to the UK drama series "The Vice." |
"The Vice" is a London drama, following Inspector Chappel and his vice squad team as they investigate the sex business, prostitution and pornography.
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Please only submit sites primarily relating to the BBC crime drama series "Waking the Dead." |
"Waking the Dead" is a BBC crime drama series, in which the "Cold Case Sqaud" investigates serious unsolved crimes.
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