Best BBC One TV Shows
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Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (13) |
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | BBC Two, BBC One |
Created By: | Steven Knight |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (409) |
It's the late 1960s, homosexuality has only just been legalised and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide.
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Russell T Davies, John Preston |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (22) |
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Tony Jordan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (61) |
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard On
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, AMC |
Created By: | David Farr |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (215) |
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 21 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Nigel McCrery |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (22) |
Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan and da
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Adil Ray |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (11) |
Two detectives with opposing viewpoints are partnered together five years before the Apocalypse.
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Neil Cross |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (14) |
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Claes Bang |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | GB |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (93) |
Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, has spent his life trying to escape the shadow of their past, building his own legitimate business and forging a life with his girlfriend Rebecca. But when a murder forces his family's past to r
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Hossein Amini, James Watkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (24) |
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Jake Michie, Johnny Capps, Julian Murphy, Julian Jones |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (184) |
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Networks: | BBC One, Starz |
Created By: | Jack Williams, Harry Williams |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (130) |
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Emma Frost |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (55) |
Mrs Brown opens the doors to her house for a Saturday night entertainment show in which she and the family are joined by celebrity guests.
Genres: | Comedy, Talk |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
The adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts Botswana's first female-owned detective agency.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, HBO |
Created By: | Richard Curtis, Anthony Minghella |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (8) |
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, his unique insight and background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving complex cri
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (42) |
Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture his boyhood happiness.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (1) |
A therapist tries to save her marriage after a cycling accident causes them to reassess their relationship.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | BBC One, Netflix |
Created By: | Nick Payne |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
British version of the reality competitions series that sees young entrepreneurs compete in several business tasks, attempting to survive the weekly firings in order to become the business partner of one of the most successful businessmen.
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Mark Burnett |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (11) |
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | BBC One |
Created By: | Roy Clarke |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (16) |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | BBC One |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |