BBC movie series recommendations please :)

[dumbledore11214]

> From: "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...>
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
Shaun: 
> 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.


Alla:

Shaun, so good to hear from you!  Upstairs Downstairs was one of the recommendations that Netflix showed, so now I am definitely going to put it in my Q. Thank you.

Shaun: 
> 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.

Alla:

AHA, absolutely, will put this one on my list as well.


Shaun: 
> 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).

Alla:

Hmmm, do those shows have the characters I can sympathise with though? If the main character is evil evil, no matter how well it is done, I will probably pass on this one. Ah I see there is a teacher in opposition, maybe when I am done with these, I will take this one too.

Shaun: 
> 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.

Alla:

Sounds wonderful! Really wonderful, thank you.


Shaun: 
> 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.

Alla:

Well, what I want since indeed I am sure there is a lot to choose from is the very best, you know? Not just good, there is of course no time to see everything which is good. Any genre will do though except horror movies or series.