[HPFGU-OTChatter] BBC movie series recommendations please :)

[Shaun Hately]

From: "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com>


> So, my question to you guys is whether you can recommend any really good 
> series (british) which I should not miss.
>
> It does not matter if it is based on the book or not.


Where do I begin?

OK - if you like 'The House of Elliott', I would definitely recommend 
'Upstairs, Downstairs'. Not a BBC series - it ran on Britain's ITV from 
1971-1975, it looks at the lives of an upper class British family (the 
Bellamy's) and their servants in the period 1903-1930.

Based on the fact you like 'To Serve Them All My Days' I would also strongly 
recommend the 1971 BBC mini-series 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. This is the 
'classic' British school story - not the first, but a fairly early one, and 
probably the most famous. It's been made for film and TV a number of times. 
There's a 2005 version from ITV which is quite good - but the 1971 series is 
brilliant in my opinion.

There are so many British TV series I would recommend in general. 'House of 
Cards', 'To Play the King', and 'The Final Cut' are three sequential BBC 
series from the 1990s, each of which explore the political career of a truly 
evil and Machiavellian politician (and his wife who is even worse) who is 
prepared to do anything, anything at all, to become Prime Minister and then 
to hold onto office.

'GBH' from Channel 4 in 1991 is another political drama series. This depicts 
the Mayor (again, an evil politician who will stop at nothing) of a city in 
Northern England and his conflict with a decent, honest, school teacher who 
finds himself accidentally in opposition to him).

You might also like 'All Creatures Great and Small' which began in the 1970s 
and ran on and off into the 1990s and which depicts the life of a country 
vet in the 1930s and 1940s.

The problem is, I could recommend literally dozens and dozens of series - I 
love British television, and there's so much of it. It's difficult to know 
what to recommend to somebody. What type of things interest you - period 
dramas, maybe? Stories that depict schools? Comedies (there are many 
wonderful British comedies). Hospital shows? Police shows? Detective shows? 
There's so much scope.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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