| SOAPS | Long-running TV serials (5) |
| SOAPOPERA | Long-running TV serial (4,5) |
| CORONATIONSTREET | Long-running TV serial (10,6) |
| THEBILL | Long-running TV serial that was set at Sun Hill police station |
| PRESTON | # 2 (old radio/TV serials) |
| EPISODIC | I'd copies made of TV serials perhaps (8) |
| LEVISTRAUSS | Fashion icon from trashy US TV serials (4,7) |
| SOAPSUDS | Lather you might get into watching afternoon TV serials? |
| POTTER | Dennis, dramatist noted for TV serials Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective (6) |
| IONS | They're charged in television serials |
| PEARL | Silent film actress who starred in serials such as The Perils of Pauline (5,5) |
| WHITE | Silent film actress who starred in serials such as The Perils of Pauline (5,5) |
| KENDAL | Felicity -; actress noted for her roles in television serials including The Camomile Lawn, The Good Life and Rosemary & Thyme (6) |
| KNEALE | Nigel, screenwriter whose television serials include The Ouatermass Experiment and Ouatermass And The Pit (6) |
| DETER | Discourage TV serial killer, withholding kiss (5) |
| OPERA | TV serial melodrama, soap - (5) |
| IRONS | Jeremy ___, actor in the TV serial Brideshead Revisited (5) |
| WIGHT | Real surname of James Herriot, whose memoirs describing his life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales form the basis of the films and serials titled All Creatures Great and Small (5) |
| ALGER | Popular early serials writer |
| RADIO | Medium for pretelevision serials |
