Drama

The Bellamys upstairs, the servants below, 165 Eaton Place across five seasons of Edwardian decline and world war. The original up...

Robert Graves Rome as BBC soap: Augustus to Claudius, poisonings, marriages, Brian Blessed Caesar booms, Derek Jacobi stuttering i...

Alex Haley traced his family to Kunta Kinte of the Gambia, and ABC aired eight nights that became a national reckoning. Around 130...

An inner city precinct, overlapping storylines, handheld cameras, and roll call every dawn. Bochco serialized drama against networ...

Evelyn Waugh novel with Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte, teddy bear Aloysius in tow, Castle H...

Philip Marlow, a psoriasis ridden crime writer, hallucinates 1950s musical numbers and noir plots from his hospital bed. Potter wr...

Who killed Laura Palmer: Lynch brought dream logic to prime time. The Red Room, the dwarf, the giant, and Cooper with his damn fin...

Michael Crichton wrote the pilot from his own medical school experience: County General, Chicago, tracking shots down corridors. G...

Jane Austen 1813 novel with Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Darcy, six episodes of the BBC at full sail. The lake sc...

Emerald City, an experimental unit inside Oswald prison, and the first HBO hour drama. Fontana wrote most of it, with theatrical m...

Walk and talk: the Bartlet White House with Sorkin dialogue at full sprint. Martin Sheen as the president, Bradley Whitford, Allis...

Oceanic 815 crashes on an island, and a mystery box opens. The Abrams pilot was the most expensive ever at the time and drew over ...

St Eligius, a decaying Boston teaching hospital, and the staff who fail more than they win. From the MTM school of ensemble realis...