Long before Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, and even M*A*S*H, one landmark sitcom that laid the blueprint for this staple genre of modern television.

600,000 square miles. Nowhere to hide.

Inspired by a true story of survival.

Born in 1929, Routledge had begun her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse in the early 1950s and went on to ...