1888: Sara Crewe is sent back from India to a wealthy school in England. However, on her 11th birthday her father dies and she is left a penniless orphan.

1898: A British officer resigns his commission on the eve of the British invasion of the Sudan and, presumed a coward, attempts to prove his valor. Based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason.

1906: Based on Edith Nesbit's novel about a family’s move to rural Yorkshire, after their father is falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians and imprisoned.

1929: The Walker children, spending their summer holidays in the Lake District, borrow a dinghy named Swallow and camp on Wildcat Island. Based on the first of Arthur Ransome's series of books.

1932 – 1944: Mrs. Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London, and presents shows featuring nudes.

1938: In pre-World War II Europe a British governess attempts to deliver information (encoded in a song) to the Foreign Office. Adapted from the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White.

1940-41: The London Blitz, seen through the eyes of a young boy.

1950: The story of an abortionist, at a time when the practise was illegal.

1954: A fictional girls' school where the pupils are often well-armed.

1980s: Trevor Chaplin and Medium-Sized Jill Swinborne take on corruption in high places, with the help of Big Al, Little Norm and Sergeant Hobson of the Constabulary.

1995: A tour around modern(ish) Britain.

1998 – 2000: Victoria Wood's comedy about a group of factory canteen workers.