Best of : Th Protecter

The only Gerry Anderson production no to comic from the Science fiction genre. Robert Vaughan Starks as Harry Rule member of a freelance cime fihhter. Herte are the 5 bet episodes. 1. Quinn Peter Vughn ply th hea of an army of soldiers of fortune.. 2. Bag miss Hrry and the others try to be rescue a kidnapped heiress but the kidnapper seem to one step ahead 3. A Case for the Right Harry gets mixed up with Italian neo Nazis when hired tk transport a briefcase. 4. Route 27 After Harry is found nearly dead in a rubbish dump, he attempts to bread up drug smuggling in Denmark. 5. One an One naked One Harry and the others try to rescue a captured spy but all is not it seem.

Best of - Dad's Army

 Here are the five best episodes of the show detailing the exploit of a Home Guard platoon.

1. Mence from the Deep

The platoon while guarding a pier have to deal with a sea mine.

2. War Dance

Pike intends to announce his engagement but every one else tries to warn him of it.

4. The Big Parade

The Home Guard finds itself in a contest to be front of a Charity parade..

5. The Day the Ballon Went Up

Chaos Regina when a flack balloon get losqe.

Best of: The Avengers - the Tara King era

 After Diana Rigg left her iconic role of Emma Peel, Linda Thorson as Tara King assisting Patrick MacNee's  John Steed in the right against bizarre crimes. Here are the five best episodes of the run.

1. Take Me to Your Leader

To unmask a high ranking double agent,Steed and Tara must go through a group of contacts. One of them played before her sit .com heights of The Good Life and To The Manor Born.

2. Have Guns Will Haggle

when a large batch of the Army's new rifles are stolen. Steed and Tara's  investigation leads them to brother and sister arms dealers.

3. They Keep Killing Steed

Steed is kidnapped by enemy agents who use plastic surgery to make look alike so they can attack a security conference. Ian Ogilvy future star of return of The Return of the Saint.

4. Game

a series of bizarre murders lead to some one with a murderous  grudge against Steed. With a finale that would not out of place in an episode of the Adam West Barman TV show.

5. Stay Tuned

Steed comes back from holiday, but he has no meomary of it. Featuring two actors who go on to play renegade Time Lords in Doctor Who, Roger Delgado the first actor to play The Master and Kate O'Made who played The Rani.

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 The final part of the countdown

5. On Her Majestrey's Secret Service

Yes Lazenby is a bad actor but Rigg and Salavas more than make up for him

4. GoldenEye

director  Martin Campbell reinvents  Bond for the first time

3. Casino Royale

and he does for a second time

2. Live and Let Die

the most thunderous theme usher in an new age

1. Goldfinger

a foothold of iconic images

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 The penultimate day of the countdown

10. You Only Live Twice

the full fledged debut of Bond's arch enemy

9. For Your Eyes Only

barring the Margaret Thatcher scene Moore's most serious film

8. From Russia with Love

featuring one of the most brutal hand to hand fights in film

7. Licence to Kill

The most hard edged entry in the series

6.Skyfall

the most character probing

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 The third part of the countdown

15. The Spy Who Loved Me

007 at his most fantastic

14. Die Another Day

A guilty pleasure

13. No Time to Die

The most daring of them all

12. Octopussey

perhaps the most most interesting leading lady

11. Thunderball 

where 007 goes epic.

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 The second part of the ranking of the Bond films

20. Moonraker

the most absurd Bond film.

19. The Living Daylights

With.probably the most unthearting bad guys

18. Dr No

where it all started

17. SPECTRE

the one with the infamous twist of them all

16. The World is Not Enough

Not the typical Bond plot 

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 To commemorate 60 years of Bond films for the next 5 days they will be ranked 25 to 1 here is the first part of that list.  

25. The Man With the Golden Gun

Not even Christopher Lee can save this mess

24. Diamonds are Forever

Sean Connery was brought with a then record breaking pay cheque but still looks bored.

23. A View to a Kilo

somebody should have told Roger Moore he was too old

22. Quantum of Solace

a brief running time leaves a lot of points unanswered.

21. Tomorrow Never Dies

too action packed for it's own good

Best of The Avengers. - Tara King era

 When Diana Rigg left her role as Emma Peel, she was replaced by Linda Thorson as Tara King. These are the five best episodes to feature her..

2. Take me to Your Leader

s Steed (Patrick MacNee) and Tara must fellow instructions given by a talking brief case in order to unmask a mole. Penelope Keith appears in a small role.

2. Have Guns, Will Haggle

When a consignment of the Amry's  newest rifle is stolen the trail leads to  a brother and sister arms dealers and an African war lord.

3.Requim

steed is protecting a vital witness. But Tara may be about to give the game away..

4. Game

an number of Steed's ex Army colleagues are being murded. The only being a piece of a jigsaw puzzle in their hands.

5. They Keep Killing Steed

Steed is kidnapped by enemy agents so that those with copies of his face can attack a peace conference.

Best of Red Dwarf - the BBC years

 The ten best episodes of the show about a rag tag crew lost in space.

1. Backwards

The crew finds itself on an Earth that goes backwards. It ends up in a very unreal bar fight.

2. Parrell Universe

the crew finds themsleves in a gender reversed universe with a shock in store for one of them.

3. DNA

Kryten is turned into a human after the crew find a marooned spaceship. Attempts to turn him back into an Android have nasty side effects.

4. Justice

dimmer finds himself on trial for the disaster that befell the Red Dwarf. However more pressing matters turn up

5. Marooned

Lister and Rimmer find themselves standard on an icy planet try to survive the conditions and each other!.

6. Polymorph

The show's take on Alien. The guys have to survive a creature that feeds on emotions.

7. Gunmen of the Acoylpse

Starbug is heading for destruction and the only way the guys can survive is to enter a VR version of the wild west.

8._Back to Reality

after an attack by sea monsters the guys start to think they are not who they thought they were.

9._Thanks for the Meomary

Rimmer is depressed so Lister gives him his meomaries to cheer him up.

10. Queeg

Holly is replaced as ship computer and the guys don't like it.

Best of Friday Night Dinner

 The comedy about a Jewish family, mum Jackie (Tasmin Greig)  dad Martin (Paul Ritter) and forever bickering sons Adam (Simon Bird) and Jonny (Tom Rosenthal) and their chaotic attempts to have traditional dinners not help by weird neighbour Jim played by Mark Heap. These are the 10 best episodes.

1. Mr Morris

Gran has an New boyfriend who is not a very easy going person. As the evening goes from bad to worse the family finds themsleves locked out of the house.

2. Mercedes

It is Adam's birthday and after getting a rather tasteless present from his dad finds his mum can't cook dinner. So the family goes to a Chinese restaurant where they come across an old girl friend of Martin's  who always talks about her Mercedes.

3. Mr Morris Return

the troublesome Mr Morris has made up with Grandma. He proposes marriage to her to the horror of Jackie. They then go to the local 10 pin bowling alley where Jim is there dressed in a Dog with his own addition.

4. The New Car

Jonny has been given a promotion at work and with it an new car. But an embarrassing phone call reveal that it may not have legitimate reasons

5. The Anniversary

It is Martin and Jackie's  anniversary but Jonny has a couple of secrets. Then Jim turns up having accidentally taken his dog's sleeping pills.

6. Christmas

Grandma and horrible Grandma have come for Xmas. Though the latter has brought their own dinner.

7. The Fox

the boys were discover that their dad has been keeping the body of a dead fox. What then follows is a desperate attempt to stop Jackie discovering it.

8. The Loft

Martin and Jackie are having and the boys try to discover why. Meanwhile Jonny Daley claims to have broken his arm to get out of cleaning the  loft.

9. The Funeral

Martin's uncle has died and horrible Grandma wants him to do a reading. But as always things go wrong especially when Jim turns up.

10. The Sofa bed

The first ebutpisode of the show. Martin is giving away a sofa bed but between the boys bickering and the man supposed to take away the sofa bed getting bad news. Things do not go to plan.

Best of The Avengers - Emma Peel era

 the 10 best episodes to feature one of the most iconic TV characters, Diana Rigg's Emma Peel. Who every week wit Patrick MacNee's John Steed would foil plans of a devious nature.

1. The Living Dead

When the supposed dead victims of a mine accident are seen alive Steed and Emma investigate. What they find is a threat to the nation.

2. Silent Dust

When large numbers of birds are dying Steed and Emma go to the countryside. And they discover a plan of a dangerous ransom.

3. The Master Minds

Steed and Emma look into the breaking in of an number of high security locations. The trail leads to a club for those with a high IQ. Has a highly inventive fight that plays out in silhouette.

4. The Correct Way To Kill

Enemy agents are being killed and Steed and Emma end up working with the other side. Colour remake of the earlier Cathy (Honor Blackman) Gale episode The Charmers.

5. Town of No Return

Steed and Emma look into strange goings on at a seaside village. Featuring Patrick Newell who would go on to play Mother in the series and Robert Brown who would be M in 4 James Bond films.

6. The Superlative Seven

Another colour remake of a Cathy Gale (Dressed to Kill) sees Steed standard with a group of strangers. Guest starring Charlotte Rampling, Donald Sutherland and Brian Blessed.

7.The Girl From Auntie

Emma has vanished, so Steed teams up with the actress impersonating her. They end up at a knitting school.

8. The £50,00 Breakfast

Steed and Emma try to find the connection between a reclusive tycoon and a case of diamond smuggling. One of the baddies has a unique motive.

9. The Gravediggers

Vital radar stations are being jammed. Steed and Emma's inquiries take them to a hospital for railway men. With a early role regular movie bad guy Steven Berkoff.

10. The Murder Market

A series of unconnected murders are connected to an agency that sets up couples for marriage. Steed finds he has to kill Emma to get any further on the case.

 Best of Only Fools and Horses

The show that has been titled Britain's favourite sit com. Charting the many attempts of David Jason's Del ,Boy' Trotter to get rich with his brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) watching on. These the 10 best episodes.

1. Tea for Three

Trigger's (Roger Lloyd Pack) niece comes to Peckham unknowingly stirring strong emotions between Del and Rodney. Tit for Tat then follows with Del making an unwanted journey. The episode has a remarkable monolog about what happened on it

2. Chain Gang

A consignment of gold chains gives Del a chance to make a lot of money. But then the real owner turns up leading to an eventful turn of events in an Italian restaurant.

3, Dates

Del and Rodney both go out on dates. Rodney goes out with Nervous Nerys but theirs turns into a high speed car chase. Del meets a woman called Raquel, he thinks he has met his soul mate but she has a secret.

4. Ashes to Ashes

Trigger's gran has died and Del and Rodney come into possession of 2 priceless urns. But when they discover the contents of one of them, they go through a series of extreme measures to dispose of them.

5. Hole in One

The boys are in a dire money situation .but when Uncle Albert falls into the cellar of The Nag's Head Del sees a chance to make easy money but Albert's Navel record may pose a problem.

6. The Unlucky Winner is

The competition bug has bitten Del. When a painting by Rodney wins a prize holiday problems occur over the age given on the painting.

7. From Prussia With Love

Del tries to sell to Boycie and Marlene a German girl's baby. But as ever Del's dealings thigs do not go to plan.

8. A Touch of Glass

Del convinces a member of the upper class to clean expensive glass chandeliers. It sets ups one of the show's most famous scenes.

9. The Frog's Legacy

Del meets his mum best friend who tells him about the stolen gold bequeath to him Rodney. The episode gives us the idea that Rodney's parentage is not what we have been told.

10. Video Nasty

When Rodney gats a video camera Del as always sees a chance to make some money. Featuring a very funny story pitcgh about killer Rhinos.

Best of Blackadder

Rowan Atkinson plays the different incarnations of the scheming Edmund Blackadder. As always by his side is Tony Robinson's Baldrick who always has a cunning plan for every dire situation they get into. Here are the 10 best episodes.

1. Sense and Senilty

In order to improve Prince (Hugh Laurie) George's public image hires 2 actors to coach the Regent in public speaking but Edmund falls out with them. So he mentions the Scottish play a lot.

2. Beer

Edmund accepts a challenge from Lord (Stephen Fry) Melchettt over who would win a drinking contest, Though there are 2 problems, Blackadder's puritan Aunt and Uncle are coming to visit him on the night of  the contest.

3. Blackadder's Christmas Carol

The Dicken's classic is given a twist as the Ghost of (Robbie Coltrane) Christmas  Past a kinder Blackadder what horrors his ancestors were. It has the opposite effect.

4. Captain Cook

Eager to avoid the big push against Germen lines answers a call for artists. 2 problems, he does not have any talent and the post is not what it seems.

5. Potato

Blackadder has a bet with Francis (Simon Jones) Drake. To win it he recruits an old sea dog played by Tom Baker who is legless in more than one sense.

6. Dish and Dishonesty

New Prime Minister Pitt the Younger vows to cut Prince George's finances. So Blackadder concocts a plan to make Baldrick a MP but as usual things do not go to plan.

7. Head

Given the role of executing The Queen's enemies Blackadder tries to quicken things up so he can have some spare time.  But problems arise when the wife of one prisoner is given permission to see her husband one last time. Trouble is he may have already been beheaded.

8. Amy and Amiablity

Cash is running low in The Prince Regent's household. Blackadder tries to marry him off failing that Edmund becomes a high way man only to find he has a rival.

9. The Archbishop

The Ding (as played by Brian Blessed) declares his son Edmund to be the new Archbishop of Canterbury. He does not in particular when 2 knights come to kill him.

10. General Hospital

Sent to s field hospital to find a Germen spy but finds himself falling for an nurse played by Miranda Richardson. But is she what she seems?

Best of - The Sweeney

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman are Jack Reagan and George Carter of  the Flying Squad cracking on the crooks of  1970s London. Here are the 10 best episodes

1.Night Out

Reagan finds himself in place in a pub in which it's cellar a gang of crooks is trying to break into the bank next door. Peter Childs who plays the main robber would appear opposite Waterman in an number of episodes of Minder playing a police.

2. Stay Lucky Eh?

A pair of robber are then robbed leaving the crime boss behind the  heist hunting down those who ripped him off. Peter Vaughan plays the crime boss in the same manner hi which he played Harry Grout in Porridge and Waterman's future New Tricks co star Alun  Armstrong plays one of the robbed robbers.

3. The Placer

Reagan goes undercover in a gang of cargo robbers. He starts to sow discord among them by making moves on the ring leader's girl friend leading to a tense finale at a chemical plant.

4. Faces

Reagan and Carter look into a gang of robbers with ties to terrorists. Playing one of the robbers is Colin Weiland best known at the time for playing a policeman in Z-Cars but in the future would win an Oscar for writing the screenplay to Chariots of Fire.

5. Ringer

The show's first episode. Flying Squad observe a gang of crooks planning their next. Playing the gang leader id Brian Blessed.

6. Pay Off

Carter is asked by a casino croupier (played by Geraldine James) to look into the case of her vanished boyfriend. This leads to a stand off with a gang in a quarry.

7. Thin Ice

A comedic episode for a change. Reagan uses a crook's love for his pet dog to entc0e him back to the UK. Guest starring Brian Glover as a hapless right handman

8. Country Boy

A tech expert is brought in to help Flying Squad look into why alarms are being set off for no reason. What they find is a daring robbery.

9. Sweet Smell of Sucession

The son of a recently deceased crime boss finds himself at the centre of a gang land power but is he as innocent as seems? Guest starring Hywell Bennett as the son/

10. Bad Apples

Reagan and Carter are on the trail of a pair of cops may be corrupt. Interesting to see our heroes against those supposed to be on the same side.

Best of Minder

George Cole plays wheeler dealer Arthur Daley who is always in getting into some kind of trouble. First is up to boxer turned jailbird Terry McCann as played by Denis Waterman who also famously sang the theme and then Arhur's nephew Ray played by Gary Webster, Here are the ten best episodes.

1. Poetic Justice. Innit?

Arthur finds himself on jury duty much to the dismay of DS (Patrick Malahide) Chislom whose case it is. Playing 2 of Arthur's fellow jury members are Gwynth (Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses) Strong and John (EastEnders) Bardon.

2. Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Arthur and Terry find themselves looking after a dead body of a diamond smuggling mule. Guest starring Suzi Qutro as a singer (obviously) as a singer Terry is dating and Derek (Bernard in Yes Minister) Fowlds as an undertaker

3. The Last Video Show

Ian McShane plays a big time crook who has a comprising video of the policeman (Brian Blessed in a rare clean shave showing) after him. But when the video goes miss Arthur and Terry find themselves in the middle of the search for it.

4. Goodbye Sailor

Arthur ropes in Terry and Ray Winstone's Arnie into his tobacco smuggling scam. However when it means going out to sea, Arthur finds that he is missing his sea legs.

5. Rocky 8 and a half

Terry gets back into the boxing ring to face the fighter he took a dive only to be sent to prison. Arthur of course has his eye on making some money off the fight.

6. From Fulham with Love

Arthur tries to broaden his operations when a Russian cargo ship docks. However is as always the case nothing goes to plan

7. Opportunity Knocks and Bruises

Arthur takes charge of a slot machine only to find it is part of a money laundering. Ray has to deal with the crooks who want their money back.

8. Gunfight at the OK Laundrette

The shows first episode. Terry finds himself in a hostage situation and Arthur of course sees a chance to make some money off it.

9. Bring me the Head of Arthur Daley

An imprisoned crook blames Arthur for his situation and sets into motion a plan to repay the favour. However Arthur and Ray discover the crook's ire misplaced.

10. The Cruel Canal

Believing road transport to have had it's day Arthur decides to use a river. But as is always the case things do no go to plan.

Best of Tales of the Unexpected

The series of twisty tale that in it's early days was introduced by Roald Dahl who wrote some of the stories. Here are the 10 best episodes


1. Royal Jelly

A beekeeper uses the honey from the bees he keeps to help his newborn child's illness despite his wife objection and she is right for reasons of the fantastic. Starring Timothy West and Susan George.

2. The Vorpal Blade

An Ellary man thinks back to the role he played in a fatal duel fought in pre WWII Germany. Episode has a double twist. Starring Peter Cushing

3. Parson's Pleasure

A con man tries to swindle some gullible farmers out of a priceless antique. However his plans go awray. Starring John Gielgud and Bernard Miles

4. The Landlady

A cautionary tale about having you accommodation arranged before you leave.

5. The Sound Machine

An enviromentaist tract in which a botanist invents a machine to listen to plants only to hear their screams. Starring Harry Andrews

6. Lamb to the Slaughter

A woman arrives home to find her police dctive husband. Does she know more than she is letting on. Starring Susan George, Brian Blessed and Micheal Byrne.

7. Dirty Detail

A Vietnam War veteran comes across the Sergeant who brutalised him and so decides to get some pay back. Starring Kevin Dobson and George Peppard

8. Skeleton in the Cupboard

A man becomes troubled when a young woman starts asking questions in the local area, so he decides to take deadly action. With a gut punch of an ending. Starring Charles Dance and Zoe Wannamaker.

9. Death Can Add

A fraudster is being blackmailed about his activities so he decides to kill his blackmailer. Starring Ian Holm and Jan Francis

10. Wink Three Times

A light hearted tale of mishaps and misunstanings at a hotel. Starring Peter Davison and Liza Goddard.

Best of - Doctor Who the 7th Doctor

The 5 best stories of Sylvester McCoy brief but turbulent time in the role.  At the end the show would be off air (barring 2 charity specials and the US TV movie) for 16 years.


1. Remembrance of the Daleks

The Doctor and Ace go to 1960s London where they find  rival factions of Daleks fighting for a powerful weapon. During filming one exxplosin caused the police to come out thinking it was a terrorist bombing!

2. The Happiness Patrol

There is a planet where being unhappy can cost you your life. The Doctor matches wits with the planet's ruler Helen A and her fearsome henchman The Kandy Man. Sheila Hancock plays the Thatcher inspired Helen A.

3. Ghostlight

In a Victorian house no one seems to be who they are. The Doctor and Ace try to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ghostlight was the last story produced in the original run but not the last shown.

4. Survival

The last story to be shown. The Doctor and Ace investigate some disappearance only to cross paths with one of the Doctor. Rona Munro who wrote the story is the only writer to have worked on both incarnations of the show.

5. The Curse of Fenric

An ancient evil stirs off shore a WWII navel base. And it knows both The Doctor and Ace very well. Guest star Nicholas Parson puts game short host days behind him to play a doubt ridden Vicar.

Best of: The Professionals

Martin Shaw and Lewis Collins are Ray Doyle and William Bodie who under the command  of Gordon Jackson's George Cowley are agents of CI5 all forms of bad guys. These are the ten best episodes.

1. Runner

A terrorist seeks revenge on Doyle for the death of his brother by planning to unleash chaos on the streets of London. The terrorist is played by Michael Kitchen nowadays best known for his role as the noble Christopher Foyle in Foyle's War.

2. The Ojuka Situation

Bodie and Doyle find themselves assigned to the protection of a disposed African (played Clarke Peters) leader but find that they may some one close the leader who working those who want to kill him. Playing the leader of a group of South African hitmen is Charles Dance

3. Stopover

A missing presumed dead British agent reappears. He comes with news of a high ranking KGB agent wishing to defect. But are things as they seem

4. Heroes

A group of have a go heroes find themselves marked for death by the hitmen whose latest killing they interrupted. Bodie and Doyle work with an unstable agent to stop them.

5. The Purging of CI5

The bombing of Cowley's own office signals the start of a wave of deadly bombing against CI5 itself. The motive goes back to Cowley's past

6. A Man Called Quinn

Quinn a British agent left mentally broken by years of torture breaks out of the alysunm where he is being treated leading to Bodie and Doyle to go on his trail. Steven Berkoff plays a Soviet bad guy just like Octopussy and Rambo: First Blood Part II

7. Hijack

A crime boss leans of a forgien government making sercertive shipment from one of it's embassy workers. So he decide to help himself and end coming to CI5's attention

8.  Blood Sports

When the son of South American dictator is killed. Bodie and Doyle are assigned to protect the sister. Doyle ends up falling for her. Featuring an early appearance by Pierce Brosnan

9. First Night

An Israeli government official is kidnapped in broad daylight. However the kidnappers have non political demands

10. Spy Probe

Retired British agents are targeted for death by hitmen. Bodie and Doyle find that a mole in the highest echelons of British Intelligence is covering his tracks.

Best of: Father Ted

Following on the news of a forthcoming Stage Musical version, here are the 5 best episodes of the show chronicling the misadventures of the priests of Craggy Island and their housekeeper. As played by Dermot (Father Ted Crilly) Morgan, Ardal (Father Dougal McGuire) O'Hanlon, Frank (Father Jack Hackett) Kelly and Pauline (Mrs Doyle) McLynn.


1. Competition Time

Ted is desperate to win the local Stars In Their Eyes to one up his rival  Father Dick (Maurice O'Donaghue) Bryne stages the 3 Ages of Elvis. The Priests play host to the Judge, a TV host with a bit of a drink problem.

2. The Plague

The fearsome Bishop Len (Jim Norton) Brennan comes to Craggy Island when Jack's nocturnal wanderings cause some ructions. However Dougal's new found love of Rabbits may cause problems as the Bishop suffers from a phobia of the animal.

3. A Song for Europe

Ted and Dougal decide to write a song to represent Ireland in the Eurosong Contest. However their creation may have been plagiarised. Neil Hannon who composed the show's theme tune provides his talents to My Lovely Horse

4. Cigarettes and Alchol and Rollerblading

After arguing with Bryne about who could keep to their Lent vows Ted brings in a Nun to keep him and the others on the straight and narrow. However her techniques (beds made up of bricks) prove to be not very popular.

5. Speed 3

After Ted gets the local Milkman fired for his philandering Dougal seizes the chance to be a Milkman. However the previous Milkman has rigged the float to explode after it exceeds a certain speed hence the title of the episode.