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The 60 most recent of 3195 shows, grouped by the day they arrived. The catalogue grows in batches — an era or a genre at a time — so the days are wildly uneven, and a long one is cut here rather than listed whole.
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1 sequenceDTF St. Louis
A local weatherman in slow motion for a minute and a half, gold serif credits laid over him, to the back half of the Fifth Dimension's 'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In'.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMargo's Got Money Troubles
A dolls'-house assault course in hard candy colours, Margo tumbling room to room while the credits ride the furniture.
- Season 1
2 sequencesThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Two openings across eleven years: Manhattan shot in tilt-shift so the city reads as a model, then a drone run through the Ed Sullivan Theater and its backstage.
- Seasons 1–6
- Seasons 7–11
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1 sequenceBeast King GoLion
Five lions that combine into one robot, later recut in America as Voltron.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMaggie and the Ferocious Beast
A girl, a spotted beast and a pig live on Nowhere Land, where nothing much goes wrong.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNanalan'
A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNoble House
Four nights of Hong Kong boardroom warfare, from the James Clavell novel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTales of the City
Armistead Maupin's Barbary Lane, returned to thirty years after the first adaptation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAny Day Now
Two friends in Birmingham, told in the present and in 1963 at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFather Dowling Mysteries
A Chicago priest and a nun solving murders, cancelled by NBC and picked up by ABC.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoing Straight
Fletcher out of prison and trying to stay out, six episodes after Porridge finished.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMatt Houston
A Texas oil heir running a detective agency in Los Angeles because he is bored.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStig of the Dump
Clive King's boy in a chalk pit and the person living at the bottom of it, adapted by Thames.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTheodore Tugboat
Model tugboats in Halifax harbour, narrated for years by Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.
- Season 1
1 sequenceViper
A car that converts into an armoured attack vehicle, cancelled by NBC and revived for syndication.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHigher Ground
A wilderness school for troubled teenagers, cancelled after one season and remembered for its cast list.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLife with Lucy
Lucille Ball's last series, pulled after eight episodes of a thirteen-episode order.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNickelodeon Guts
Children competing on wires and ramps, and climbing a fake mountain that shed foam.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Royal Family
Redd Foxx and Della Reese as a couple whose children move back in, and the series Foxx died making.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTUGS
Model tugboats in a 1920s harbour, made by the Thomas the Tank Engine team and considerably darker.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCaptain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
Live action against computer animation, built so that a toy could shoot at the screen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDave's World
Dave Barry's columns turned into a sitcom, with the household drawn rather than filmed in the titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEarthworm Jim
The game adapted with its own voice cast and most of its absurdity intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace & Favour
The Are You Being Served? staff inheriting a country manor, with most of the original cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHang Time
A girl on a boys' high school basketball team, made for the Saturday morning block.
- Season 2
1 sequenceKindred: The Embraced
Vampire clans running San Francisco as organised crime, cancelled after eight episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMidnight Caller
A former policeman taking calls on late-night radio, and one of the first American dramas to write about AIDS.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Queen's Nose
A fifty pence piece that grants wishes, from the Dick King-Smith book.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMummies Alive!
Four Egyptian mummies revived in San Francisco to guard the reincarnation of a pharaoh's son.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStrong Medicine
Two doctors from opposite ends of the system sharing a women's clinic in Philadelphia.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Tribe
A virus kills every adult and the children left over form tribes, made in New Zealand for a British channel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Bit of Fry & Laurie
Sketches written and performed by two people who had just left Cambridge and sounded like it.
- Season 2
1 sequenceDear John
A divorced man at a support group of the similarly abandoned, written by John Sullivan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarry Enfield & Chums
Enfield's characters given a series each week, and most of British catchphrase comedy for a decade after.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLogan's Run
The film continued as a series, running fourteen episodes before CBS stopped it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMartial Law
Sammo Hung as a Chinese detective in Los Angeles, doing his own stunts at forty-six.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOnly When I Laugh
Three men in a hospital ward who are not especially ill, and the registrar who cannot discharge them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Hughleys
A family moving to a white suburb and the father who cannot stop noticing it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Rendell adapted for thirteen years, mostly as Wexford and occasionally as the standalone novels.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Sandbaggers
British intelligence run as an office job, with the operations mostly discussed rather than shown.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorzel Gummidge
A scarecrow who swaps heads for different moods, played by a former Doctor Who.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBeakman's World
Science explained by a man in a green coat and a person in a rat suit, which is more rigorous than it sounds.
- Season 4
1 sequenceCousin Skeeter
A boy and the puppet cousin who moves in with him, which nobody in the series treats as unusual.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEureeka's Castle
Puppets in a castle carried by a giant, made for the channel's pre-school block before it had one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNoel's House Party
Saturday night from a fictional house in Crinkley Bottom, and the programme that dropped celebrities into gunge on purpose.
- Season 2
1 sequenceRedwall
Brian Jacques' abbey mice animated in Canada, with the villains drawn considerably better than the heroes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuper Mario World
The last of the Mario cartoons, made for one autumn after the game of the same name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV.I.P.
Pamela Anderson fronting a celebrity protection agency she is unqualified to run, played for the joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhat's Happening Now!!
The seventies sitcom revived with the same cast grown up and running the diner.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDempsey and Makepeace
An American detective seconded to London and the aristocrat he is partnered with, who married in real life.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEarth 2
Colonists on a planet that turns out to be alive, cancelled on a cliffhanger after twenty-one episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSecret Army
An escape line moving Allied airmen out of occupied Belgium, played without any of the adventure the premise invites.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Wars: Droids
The two droids between the trilogies, in the first Star Wars television made for children.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Commish
A police commissioner who solves things by talking, in a series built against the action shows around it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhere the Heart Is
District nurses in a Yorkshire town, which ran nine years on almost no incident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Very Peculiar Practice
A campus medical practice used as a way of writing about what was happening to universities.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBabar
De Brunhof's elephant king animated in Canada, and told mostly in flashback to his own children.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGame On
Three flatmates and an agoraphobic landlord, recast in the middle and carried on regardless.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJust the Ten of Us
The Growing Pains teacher spun off with eight children of his own.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMalcolm & Eddie
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin sharing a Kansas City bar, four years after The Cosby Show ended.
- Season 1
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