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Back on our screens again as a three-part series from Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, this latest adaptation of the classic novel features an all-star cast, including Angela Lansbury and Michael Gambon. Louisa May Alcott's tale about four sisters who are left to fend for themselves when their father goes off to war is a universal coming-of-age story, following sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother Marmee, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss and marriage.

Long before the FBI and the Secret Service, the Pinker­ton's National Detective Agency was the most feared law enforcement organization in the land. Experts of undercover operative and masters of disguise, no one ever saw them coming. Set in a young America still reeling from the Civil War, The Pinkertons is an action-adventure detective series that follows Allan Pinkerton, his son, William, and America's first female detective, Kate Warne, as they solve crimes throughout the "Wild West" of the 1860s.

The Young Riders was a western drama show from the late 80s and early 90s. It was about a group of young men (and woman) who were riders for the Pony Express. Some of the story lines involved the approaching civil war.