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Xena: Warrior Princess
American–New Zealand fantasy series (1995–2001)
Blackadder
Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms – The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth – along with several one-off instalments, that originally aired on BBC1 from 1983 to 1989. All episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's servant Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, including Tim McInnerny as Percy and Darling, Stephen Fry as Melchett, and Hugh Lauri
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
2022 American television series
Sherlock Holmes
1984 television series
Medici: Masters of Florence
Italian-British TV series
Around the World with Willy Fog
Spanish animated television series
Once Upon a Time... Man
French animated television series
Grand Hotel
Spanish TV-series
And Then There Were None
2015 British television series
The Spy
French espionage thriller miniseries
The Accursed Kings
novel series by Maurice Druon
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
1981 series
Agatha Christie's Marple
British ITV television series
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
American television series
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Soviet made-for-TV film series based on the classic books.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the second season of the American biographical crime drama anthology television series Monster, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. The season centers on the 1989 parricides of José and Kitty Menendez, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik. The narrative is structured around the Rashomon effect, which presents key events through unreliable narrators and allows viewers to form their own interpretations of the story.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Australian television drama series
Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
French animated television series
Borgia
French-German-Czech-Italian historical drama television series
The seat of power: Abdulhamid
Turkish fictional and historical revisionist television series (2017–2021)
A Place to Call Home
Australian television drama series
Ekaterina
Russian television series
Miss Marple
British television series
Trapp Family Story
Japanese anime television series
Once Upon a Time... The Americas
French animated television series
The Onedin Line
1971–1980 UK TV-series
Once Upon a Time... The Explorers
French animated television series
Princess Sissi
animated television series
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials is a British miniseries based on the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Chris Chibnall, and directed by Chris Sweeney, the series stars Mia McKenna-Bruce, Edward Bluemel, Iain Glen, Martin Freeman, and Helena Bonham Carter. It premiered on Netflix on 15 January 2026.
Five Children and It
1902 novel by E. Nesbit
Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki
Turkish telenovela
Knightfall
American television series
The Adventures of Sinbad
Canadian television series
Doctor Zhivago
2002 British-American-German miniseries directed by Giacomo Campiotti
The ABC Murders
television series
The Forsyte Saga
1967 UK television series
Tut
miniseries
La Traición
Colombian-American television series
Marco Polo
1982 TV miniseries directed by Giuliano Montaldo
The Law According to Lidia Poet
Italian television series
Napoléon
historical miniseries (2002)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
television series based on book of same name
Sanditon
British television series
Little Amadeus
German television series
Arsène Lupin
French TV series
Frontier
Canadian TV period drama, 2016–2018
Princess Principal
Japanese anime television series
Little Dorrit
television series
Clémentine
Clémentine (pronounced ) is a 1985 French animated television series (in co-production with Japan). The series consists of 39 episodes which feature the fantastic adventures of a young girl (Clémentine Dumat) who uses a wheelchair. The show was produced by "IDDH", a company that originally started out producing French-dubbed versions of Japanese anime. It originally aired on Antenne 2 (now France 2). The series was released on VHS in 1990 and on DVD in 2006.
The Crown of the Kings
Polish historical fiction television series
The Name of the Rose
Italian television series (2019)
Peter the Great: The Testament
2011 film directed by Vladimir Bortko
The Red Tent
two-part, one-hour American television miniseries
The Twins of Destiny
French animated television series
Alias Smith and Jones
American Western series
Kava z kardamonom
television series
Against the Wind
1978 Australian television miniseries
Miss Scarlet and The Duke
British-Irish period crime television drama
The Witness for the Prosecution
British TV drama serial
Willy Fog 2
Spanish animated television series