1. Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
It has an average vote of 7.696 on TMDB.
2. Lipstick on Your Collar
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.
It has an average vote of 7.091 on TMDB.
3. Empress Myeongseong (명성황후)
Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong , the first official wife of King Gojong, the 26th king of the Joseon dynasty. She was killed on October 8, 1895 by Japanese assassins.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
4. Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.
It has an average vote of 5.333 on TMDB.
5. Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
It has an average vote of 8.159 on TMDB.
6. Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
It has an average vote of 8.024 on TMDB.
7. Hornblower
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
8. Young Catherine
A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
10. Hijos del desierto (Hijos del desierto)
(Hijos del desierto)
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
11. Legend of Yun Qian (云芊传)
The disciples of the Lingchuan Sect have guarded the Fans of Heaven and Earth for nearly a century. Mu Yun and Hua Yue are the only disciples of the sect that are left. The stubborn and disobedient Hua Yue unintentionally discovers that the Fan of Heaven possesses the power to travel through time. To escape being forced to study and practice martial arts by Mu Yun, Hua Yue travels to the future to have fun. Hundreds of years in the future she meets Xiao Qian who looks exactly like her. Secrets come to the surface, and adventures take place.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
12. Million Dollar Babies
When Oliva and Elzire Dionne have quintuplets in rural 1930s Canada, news of their uncommon family spreads like wildfire and steps up local tourism, thanks in part to an opportunistic town doctor who uses the children to enhance his own celebrity.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
13. Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
In 1930s Saskatchewan, a small town parish has a new young new pastor, Tommy Douglas. However, for all his regular duties, which include boxing lessons, Tommy sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address with the pulpit. With that in mind, Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation and starts a career where his steadfast idealism runs headlong into the powerful opposition of the rich and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader that would transform Canada and have him hailed as the greatest Canadian of all.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
14. Captains and the Kings
Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant in late 1800s based on the novel by Taylor Caldwell.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
15. Conde Vrolok (Conde Vrolok)
The quiet town of Santa Barbara will meet a new inhabitant, the Count Domingo Vrolok. His arrival will bring a string of strange situations, posing a terrifying menace to the entire community.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
16. All The Rivers Run II
At the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thriving river boat trade. While trying to mediate in the dispute between the shearers and the riverboat skippers, Brenton Edwards is framed and sentenced to imprisonment in Melbourne. Without Brenton, Delie is faced with a custody battle over her children and the not altogether unwanted attentions of Cyrus James, a charming, but mysterious overseas entrepreneur. Alone she must fight to keep her family and the riverboat "Philadelphia".
17. Diana
The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
18. The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
19. The Darling Buds of May
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
It has an average vote of 7.895 on TMDB.
20. Vyhnanství (Vyhnanství)
(Vyhnanství)