The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.

The Strauss Family is a British seven-part miniseries produced by Associated Television about 19th c...

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of...

Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-...

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under...

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintende...

Ian George, the head of an exclusive school, is asked to take a look at Hope Park Comprehensive Scho...

An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolv...

Two families - De Lutrelles and McFarlanes. They both live in the same house, but 130 years apart in...

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while h...

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting th...

This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dra...

In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatical...

By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their o...

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display l...

Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town fo...

Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong (1851 - 1895), the first official wife of King Gojong, the ...

The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helpe...

Based on the novels by Vladimirs Kaijaks, the series tell the history of a Latvian family - the Nārb...

From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated cou...