Is anyone able to recommend a good TV drama series from the past please?

Do you mean All Creatures Great & Small, Charleygirl, I enjoyed that.

I was completely hooked on Bouquet of Barbed Wire, thanks for reminding me about it KatyK.I remember thinking it was quite risqué, but I expect it would seem very tame these days.

Yes, thanks, that was the one. I never watched Bouquet of Barbed Wire.

if you like spy stories try the Sandbaggers from the 70's I think very true to life as the writer was supposedly a spy.I also loved House ,Chicago Hope and more recently Endeavour and Geoorge Gently

Just found the original Bouquet of Barbed Wire on youtube settles in for the afternoon.

The Pallisers - about 24 episodes so really good to get stuck into on long winter nights.

It's all 6 of the Victorian novels by Anthony Trollope and has everything from an heiress forced into a marriage she didn't want, to politics and murder, with a scheming little baggage appropriating a £10,000 diamond necklace - £10k then! - thrown in.

One of my all time favourites. Very beginning is a mite slow but all my family were hooked very soon into episode one.

Another good long one we've enjoyed recently is the original black and white Forsyte Saga.
And of course Upstairs Downstairs and The Duchess of Duke Street.

The Sopranos. The Wire. The Shield. They might not be your 'thing' though.
DH loved them.
Any Dickens ones- David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations etc.
Inspector Morse. Lewis.

Maelstrom - I can only vaguely remember it but I do know for sure that it absolutely had me and my DD gripped from beginning to end. It's a thriller, first appeared on TV in 1985. Six part series.

A horseman riding by (?) . To serve them all my days
Sam. When the boat comes in.

Life Begins with Caroline Quintin and Alexander Armstrong. Having said that I may put it on my Christmas list!

Oh, When The Boat Comes In. I loved that and must watch it again just to hear James Bolam say 'Bonny Lass'.
I have been watching Grey's Anatomy from the beginning and also Nashville if you like country music.

I also liked Cranford and Lark Rise to Candleford

We just got one too and are catching up.....new series this is us super best tv in years

Ray Donovan
Damages
Scandal
Line of fire
National treasure
Line of duty
Looking forward to designated survivor,the young pope and queen sugar starting soon

I enjoyed Larkrise to Candleford, when it began and was about the original book. After that it seemed pointless when it had nothing really to do with the book,Just made up stories
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Could someone tell me what a Kodi box is please. Are they easy to use, ease of use is very important to us with anything technical!

Alima I looked it up on Amazon, I am none the wiser so mine will be staying in a box in a shop!

Alina, Seconded. I'd like to know more about this box. Do you just plug it in and watch all the above programmers and movies? Or do you pay for each one you watch?
Is it like having Netflix?
I'm confused as I'd love to access all this stuff but don't know the best way to go about it. Don't tell anyone but I still buy DVDs. How last century is that??

Thanks Charley, I did too and that's why I asked the question. Some things sound really complicated in the blurb but much more feasible when explained in normal speak!

It entirely depends on personal taste, but I remember enjoying Cold Feet from 15 or so years ago, This Life a series from the I think the '90s about aspiring 20/30 somethings sharing a flat, Bleak House, The first Damages and the first Broadchurch, subsequent ones not so good imo, Brideshead Revisited, Life Begins, Cracker. I've started watching an American legal drama, The Good Wife which I'm enjoying, also The Affair now on the 2nd series which has just been released here. Probably loads more I've forgotten about.

mrsmopp, we still buy DVDs and didn't realise they were old hat!

I used to love Dallas back in the day! Also Howard's Way - remember that? All those padded shoulders!

How about 'Poirot'? I have the entire box set and it never dates! Also love 'Morse'.

Sorry, just having a daft moment remembering a bit on The Two Ronnie's, "next week we will be featuring the memoirs of a disillusioned vet, entitled "All Creatures Grunt and Smell"

But back to the topic, so glad to find that there are other Cracker fans too!

The World at War was brilliant.

"Mash", "Frasier", "I Claudius", "Cadfael". But my favourite was "ER".

I was just trying to remember the name of the Sunday night series about a family firm involving boats, and Katy has just helped me out, Howard's Way! I used to love All Creatures Great and Small as well.