The Avengers (1961)

Summary: A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.

Release Date: March 28, 1966

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Associated British Corporation

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959)

Summary: Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Production: Merton Park Studios

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)

Summary: Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.

Release Date: February 19, 1957

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: Associated Television (ATV)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Armchair Theatre (1956)

Summary: This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.

Release Date: July 08, 1956

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: ABC Weekend Television, Thames Television

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Hancock's Half Hour (1956)

Summary: TV version of the popular BBC radio show of the same name, with Tony Hancock as the modern man of the world (in his own eyes). Sid James is there to bring him back to earth.

Release Date: July 06, 1956

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Vise (1954)

Summary: This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.

Release Date: October 01, 1954

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: Danziger Productions Ltd.

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Summary: A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Release Date: June 14, 1950

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Robert Hamer