An incomplete list of popular BBC produced shows and shows originally produced for BBC TV: This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Braun HF 1, Germany, 1958. ...

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• 2point4 children
• 8:15 from Manchester

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A

• A Picture of Britain
• Absolute Power
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4
• Absolutely Fabulous
• Ace Lightning
• Adam Adamant Lives!
• All About Me
• 'Allo 'Allo!
• Andy Pandy
• Angels
• Animal Hospital
• The Animals of Farthing Wood
• Antiques Roadshow
• The Apprentice
• Archangel
• Are You Being Served?
• Arena
• Around the World in Eighty Treasures
• As Time Goes By
• The Ascent of Man
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
  • originally an ITV show from 1983 - 1986, revived by the BBC in 2002 - 2004

A Picture of Britain is a BBC television series presented by David Dimbleby, which describes the British landscape and the art which it has inspired. ... See Absolute Power (book) for the 1996 book by David Baldacci and the Clint Eastwood film. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Patsy and Eddie Absolutely Fabulous (popularly referred to as Ab Fab) is a British sitcom written by Jennifer Saunders and starring Saunders and Joanna Lumley. ... Various scenes from Ace Lightning Ace Lightning is a childrens television show that has appeared in several different countries. ... Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBCs attempt to repeat the success of ITVs The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme. ... All About Me is a BBC1 comedy about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. ... Gorden Kaye as René Artois Allo Allo! was a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992. ... Andy Pandy was a British childrens television series, the original incarnation of which premiered on BBC TV on 11 July 1950, as part of the For the Very Young strand (later Watch with Mother). ... Angels was a British television drama dealing with the subject of student nurses that was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1983. ... Animal Hospital was a television show starring Rolf Harris that ran on the BBC from 1994 until 2004. ... The Animals of Farthing Wood is a series of childrens books written by Colin Dann, which was turned into an afternoon animated series by the European Broadcasting Union between 1992 and 1995. ... Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antique appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. ... The Apprentice (UK) Series 1 is a twelve-episode television programme of 2005, shown on BBC TWO in the UK on Wednesday nights at 9:00pm. ... Archangel is a novel by Robert Harris set in modern Russia. ... Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ... Arena is a British television documentary series, which has run in occasional seasons on the BBC TWO network since 1978. ... Around the World in 80 Treasures is a 10 episode series by the BBC and presented by Dan Cruickshank originally aired in February, March, and April 2005. ... As Time Goes By is a song written by Herman Hupfeld for the 1931 Broadway musical Everybodys Welcome, made famous by its inclusion in the film Casablanca. ... The Ascent of Man (1973) was a groundbreaking BBC documentary series, produced in association with Time-Life Films, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. ... Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a popular British comedy-drama series, originally about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who are living and working on a German building site. ... Current ITV logo. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

B

• Bagpuss
• Ballykissangel
• Band of Brothers
• Bargain Hunt
• BBC News
• BBC One O'Clock News
• BBC Six O'Clock News
• BBC Ten O'Clock News
• Belfry Witches
• Bella and the Boys
• Belonging
• Between The Lines
• The Big Read
• Bill and Ben
• The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton
• Birds of a Feather
• Blackadder
• Blackpool
• Blake's 7
• Bleak House
• Blessed
• Blott on the Landscape
• Blue Peter
• The Blue Planet
• Bob the Builder
• Bottom
• Boys from the Blackstuff
• Breakfast
• The Brittas Empire
• Bugs

Bagpuss was a popular UK childrens television series of the 1970s, made by Smallfilms. ... The programmes original leading characters were curate Peter Clifford and publican Assumpta Fitzgerald. ... Poster for Band of Brothers Band of Brothers is a ten-part television miniseries about WW II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. ... Bargain Hunt is a daytime television programme on BBC1, in which two teams (the Reds and the Blues), both made up of two people, are given £300 (originally £200) each with which to buy a number of items from bric-a-brac sales and attempt to make their money back... The current BBC News logo BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporations newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... BBC One OClock News Ident following the 2003 Relaunch BBC One OClock News ident used from 1999 until 2003 The BBC One OClock News is broadcast on BBC One Monday to Friday. ... BBC Six OClock News Ident following the 2003 Relaunch BBC Six OClock News ident used from 1999 until 2003 George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth presenting a BBC Six OClock news bulletin The BBC Six OClock News is the evening news programme broadcast broadcast daily on BBC... The BBC Ten OClock News is the flagship evening news programme for British TV channel BBC One. ... Bella and the Boys is a one-off British television drama, produced by the independent production company Century Films for the BBC and originally screened on the BBC Two network on February 15, 2004. ... Belonging is a British television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and screened on the BBC One network during a regional opt-out section from the national feed. ... Altermative topic: Subtext_programming_language. ... The Big Read was a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the Nations Best-loved Book by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone. ... In the 1950s and 1960s, BBC television ran a series of childrens programmes under the collective title of Watch with Mother. ... A comedy panel chat show launched on BBC 1 in 2005, in which presenter Graham Norton informally and satirically discusses the weeks news with a panel of invited celebrity guests. ... Birds Of A Feather is the second track on Phishs 1998 album The Story of the Ghost. ... Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC historical sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. ... Blackpool is a British television drama serial, produced in-house by the BBC and screened on their BBC One channel in six one-hour episodes on Thursday nights at 9pm from November 11 to December 16, 2004. ... Blakes 7 was a BBC science fiction television series created by Terry Nation that ran four seasons from January 2, 1978 to December 21, 1981. ... Bleak House is a 15-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens Bleak House. ... Blessed is a BBC television sitcom written by Ben Elton and starring Ardal OHanlon as Gary, a record producer, who is struggling to bring up two small children. ... Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe, which became a special 6-part television series, made by the BBC, in 1985. ... Blue Peter is a popular, long-running BBC television programme for children. ... The Blue Planet is a Discovery Channel/BBC Natural History Unit co-produced television series subtitled a natural history of the oceans, consisting of eight episodes, presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in September/ October 2001. ... Bob the Builder Bob the Builder is a stop-motion animated childrens TV programme about the adventures of a construction contractor and his friends. ... Adrian Edmondson (left) and Rik Mayall (right) as Eddie and Richie in Bottom Bottom was a British sitcom of the early 1990s (and later a series of stage shows and a film) written by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, who were the shows main stars, playing Richard Richard (Richie... Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama serial of five episodes, originally transmitted from October 10 to November 7, 1982 on BBC TWO. The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, and was a sequel to a television play called The Black Stuff, which he had originally... Breakfast is a meal preceding lunch or dinner and usually eaten in the morning. ... The Brittas Empire was a British television sitcom, that ran between 1991 and 1997. ... Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four seasons from April 1995 to August 1999. ...

C

• Café Continental
• Cambridge Spies
• The Canterbury Tales
• Captain Pugwash
• Casanova (1971)
• Casanova (2005)
• Cash in the Attic
• Casualty
• Cathy Come Home
• Celebdaq
• Century Falls
• Challenge Anneka
• Changing Rooms
• Child of our Time
• The Chinese Detective
• Chucklevision
• Civilisation
• Clocking Off
• Coast
• Colditz
• Comedy Playhouse
• Countryfile
• Coupling
• Crackerjack
• Crimewatch UK
• Cutting It

Café Continental was a British television variety show, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1947 to 1953. ... Cambridge Spies was a 2003 four-part BBC drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean to the Soviet Union. ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ... Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate character in a series of British childrens comic strips, books and animated films created by John Ryan. ... Casanova is a British television drama serial, written by the acclaimed television playwright Dennis Potter. ... David Tennant as Giacomo Casanova. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... Carol White as Cathy at the beginning of the play. ... Celebdaq is a popular BBC television programme and online game. ... Century Falls is a British science-fiction television serial for children broadcast in six twenty-five minute episodes on BBC One in early 1993. ... Challenge Anneka was a British television programme, produced by the independent production company Mentorn for the BBC and aired on Saturday evenings on BBC One from 1989 until 1995. ... A changing room or dressing room is a room or enclosure in a clothing store where customers may try on clothes before purchasing them. ... The Chinese Detective was a British television series, transmitted by the BBC between 1981 and 1982 and created by Ian Kennedy Martin, who had previously devised The Sweeney. ... Chuckle Brothers Barry and Paul Chucklevision is a popular British childrens television series, shown on CBBC, first shown in 1987. ... Front cover Civilisation (full title, Civilisation: A Personal View) was a popular TV series outlining the history of Western society produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC Two. ... Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four seasons from 2000 to 2003. ... A coastal beach in the Philippines. ... Colditz is a British television series, made as a co-production between the BBC and Universal and screened between 1972 and 1974. ... Comedy Playhouse was an occasional BBC television anthology series of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of one-off plays with the potential to be turned into regular sitcoms. ... Countryfile is a Sunday morning television programme by the BBC that reports about various countryside and environmental issues. ... Coupling season one cover Coupling is a sitcom written by Steven Moffat, produced by Hartswood Films for the BBC, that debuted on BBC2 in May 2000. ... Crackerjack was a British childrens comedy/variety BBC television series. ... Crimewatch UK is a British television programme that reconstructs unsolved crimes with a view to gaining information from the members of the public, in order to help solve major crimes. ... Cutting It was a popular BBC programme which ran for 4 series between 2002 and 2005. ...

D

• Dad's Army
• Daily Politics
• Dark Season
• Dead Ringers
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4
• The Demon Headmaster
• Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
• Didn't They Do Well
• The Disorderly Room
• Doctor Who
• Doctors
• Doomwatch
• Down to Earth

Dad’s Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for children, screened on BBC One in late 1991. ... Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC2. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The Front Cover of The Demon Headmaster The Demon Headmaster is a series of books by Gillian Cross which were later adapted as a television series starring Terence Hardiman in the title role. ... Dick and Dom Dick and Dom in da Bungalow is a CBBC childrens television series presented by Richard McCourt (Dick) and Dominic Wood (Dom). In the most recent series, Series 5, have 5 children or Bungalow Heads come to stay the weekend in their bungalow. Throughout the two shows... Didnt They Do Well is a BBC television quiz show presented by Bruce Forsyth. ... The Disorderly Room was a very early British television comedy production, written by Eric Blore and starring Tommy Handley. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as The Doctor. It is also the title of a 1996 television movie featuring the same character. ... Doomwatch was a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on the BBC1 channel for thirty-seven fifty-minute episodes, plus one unshown, and one part made, in three seasons transmitted on Mondays from 9 February 1970 to 14 August 1972. ... Down to Earth is a TV series on BBC 1. ...

E

• EastEnders
• Edge of Darkness
• Eldorado
• Essential Guide to Rocks

EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera which was first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ... Eldorado was an ill-fated British soap opera that aired for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. ...

F

• Fame Academy
• The Fast Show
• Fawlty Towers
• Film 2006
• Flog It!
• The Flying Gardener
• Food and Drink
• For The Children
• French and Saunders

Fame Academy is the name of televised competition to search for and educate musical talents. ... The Fast Show was a BBC comedy sketch show programme which ran from 1994 to 2000. ... Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... For The Children was a British television programme, the first to be designed especially for young children of school age. ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ...

G

• Gardeners' World
• The Generation Game
• Gimme Gimme Gimme
• The Girl in the Café
• The Good Life
• Goodness Gracious Me
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• Grandstand
• Great Britons
• Ground Force
• The Grove Family

Gardeners World is a long- running BBC television programme, about gardening. ... The Generation Game was a British game show produced by the BBC in which four teams of two (usually people from the same family, but different generations) compete to win prizes. ... Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) is a song by ABBA. Gimme Gimme Gimme was a BBC television comedy by Tiger Productions that ran for 3 series between 1999 and 2001. ... The Girl in the Café is a British one-off television drama, produced by independent production company Tightrope Pictures for BBC Wales, and originally screened on BBC One in the UK on Saturday June 25, 2005. ... The Good Life was one of the most successful British sitcoms of all time, produced by the BBC between 1975 and 1978, running for four series and two specials. ... Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch show originally on BBC Radio 4 and later on BBC TWO, based on four Indian-British actors: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Nicholas Lyndhurst and Elizabeth Carling Goodnight Sweetheart was a British sitcom that was broadcast between 1993 and 1999 starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, in which Lyndhursts character Gary Sparrow comes across a time portal in the East End of London which allows him (and only him) to travel between the modern... The British television sport programme Grandstand is one of the BBCs longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. ... In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time. ... Ground Force is a BBC lifestyle or makeover television programme in which a team of gardeners descend on an individuals garden and remake it for the cameras, within two days, against the clock, while that individual is lured away on some pretext. ... The Grove Family was a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957. ...

H

• Hancock's Half Hour / Hancock
  • Originally on BBC Radio
• Harry Enfield's Television Programme
• Have I Got News For You
  • Television version of BBC Radio 4's News Quiz
• A History of Britain
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4
• Holby City
• Holiday
• Holidays In The Danger Zone
• Hollywood Science
• Home Front
• Honey We're Killing The Kids
• Hope and Glory
• Horizon
• Hotel Babylon
• House Invaders
• House of Cards
• House of Tiny Tearaways
• Howards' Way
• Hustle
• The Human Body
• Human Instinct

Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ... Harry Enfield (born May 30, 1961) is an English comedian educated at the University of York who quickly came to prominence after appearing on Channel 4s Saturday Live in a number of different personae created with Paul Whitehouse. ... Have I Got News For You (sometimes abbreviated to HIGNFY) is a long-running UK television topical panel game. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4. ... There have been many books called A History of Britain. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial broadcast on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. ... Hollywood Science is a BBC-produced TV show, which determines whether or not scenes in various films are scientifically credible. ... Homefront is an interior design makeover TV show airing on the BBC, on par with American televisions This Old House and Martha Stewart. ... Hope and Glory was a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure. ... Horizon is a long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme, notable for coining the term supervolcano. ... Hotel Babylon is a BBC programme based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous. It is directed by Alrick Riley and stars Tamzin Outhwaite and Max Beesley. ... House of Cards was a highly political television drama serial, made by the BBC, which ran in 1990 at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ... Howards Way was a BBC drama series that ran from 1985 to 1990 that attempted to provide a British alternative to glossy American sagas such as Dallas and Dynasty, usually transmitted on Sunday evenings on BBC1. ... The Hustle team (L–R): Ash Morgan, Albert Stroller, Mickey Stone, Stacie Monroe, and Danny Blue Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One. ...

I

• I, Claudius
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Imagine...

I, Claudius is a novel by Robert Graves, (ISBN 067972477X) first published in 1934, dealing sympathetically with the life of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesars assassination in 44 BC to Caligulas assassination in 41 AD... Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word cover Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ...

J

• Jackanory
• Jonathan Creek
• Jonny Briggs
• Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth
• Judge John Deed
• Juliet Bravo

Jackanory was a long running BBC childrens television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. ... Jonathan Creek is a mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ... Jonny Briggs was a BBC childrens television programme first broadcast in 1985. ... Judge John Deed is a BBC television drama series about a high court judge, created, written and produced by G. F. Newman. ... Juliet Bravo was a British television series which ran between 1980 and 1985. ...

K

• Kaleidoscope
• Keeping Up Appearances

Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. ...

L

• L.A. 7
• Last of the Summer Wine
• Later with Jools Holland
• The League of Gentlemen
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen
• The Life of Birds
• The Life of Mammals
• Life on Earth
• Life on Mars
• Life in the Freezer
• Linda Green
• Little Britain
  • Originally on BBC Radio 4
• The Living Planet
• Look Around You
• Love Soup

Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British sitcom, which has run longer than any other comedy series in the world, now in its twenty-sixth series. ... Later with Jools Holland is a contemporary music show hosted by Jools Holland. ... The League of Gentlemen is a troupe of British comedy performers, and the name of their stage, radio, and latterly television series. ... The Life of Birds is a BBC (in conjunction with BBC Worldwide Americas Inc. ... The Life of Mammals is a BBC (in conjunction with The Discovery Channel) natural history television series of ten episodes, about mammals, written and presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in 2002. ... This article is about the tv programme Life on Earth. ... Scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life on Mars due to that planets proximity and similarity to Earth. ... Life in the Freezer is a BBC natural history television series (in conjunction with The National Geographic Society and Lionheart International Limited) of six episodes about life in and around the continent of Antarctica. ... Linda Green was a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two seasons, screened in 2001 and 2002. ... Little Britain is a BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The Living Planet is a 1984 BBC television series presented by David Attenborough. ... Look Around You is a BBC television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and, in the first series only, narrated by Nigel Lambert. ... Love Soup is the title of a comedy drama on the BBC which was first broadcast in September 2005. ...

M

• The Madhouse on Castle Street
• The Man With the Flower in His Mouth
• Manchild
• Mary Mungo & Midge
• Masterchef
• Mastermind
• Match of the Day
• Meet the Ancestors
• Men Behaving Badly
  • Two series for ITV, then transferred to the BBC
• Messiah
• Miami 7
• The Mighty Boosh
• Mock The Week
• Monarch of the Glen
• The Money Programme
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• The Morecambe and Wise Show
  • Also on ITV at various times
• My Family
• My Hero

The Madhouse on Castle Street is a British television play, broadcast by the BBC Television Service on the evening of January 13, 1963, as part of the Sunday-Night Play anthology strand. ... The Man With the Flower in His Mouth is a play by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. ... Manchild is a British television comedy / drama series that ran for two seasons of seven fifty-minute episodes each on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003. ... Mary Mungo & Midge is a British animated childrens television series, created by John Ryan and produced by the BBC in 1969. ... Mastermind is one of the most highly regarded British quiz shows, well-known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting, and air of seriousness. ... Match of the Day is the BBCs principal football programme. ... DVD - Series 1 to 6 Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom, first broadcast in 1992 on ITV but moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. ... Current ITV logo. ... Messiah is a British television drama series, broadcast on the BBC One network and produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland, although the series itself is set in England. ... Vince Noir and Howard Moon The Mighty Boosh is a British cult comedy set in Bob Fossils Funworld (later the Zooniverse), a very strange zoo indeed and (for the second TV series) based in a flat in Dalston. ... Mock the Week is a British topical panel game, hosted by Dara Ó Briain. ... Monarch of the Glen is a British television drama, produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and transmitted on the BBC One network in the UK. The series premiered in 2000, and its seventh and final series was broadcast from September 2005 until October 2005. ... The Money Programme is a finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2. ... Monty Pythons Flying Circus (aka Flying Circus or MPFC, known during the fourth season as Monty Python) was the popular BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python. ... Morecambe and Wise Morecambe and Wise were a famous British comic double act comprising Eric Morecambe OBE and Ernie Wise OBE. The act lasted four decades until Morecambes retirement shortly before his death in 1984. ... My Family is a British sitcom that first aired in 2000 on BBC1. ... My Hero is a British comedy about a superhero named Thermoman from the planet Ultron. ...

N

• The Naked Chef
• The National Lottery Jetset
• Nationwide
• Never Mind The Buzzcocks
• Never the Twain
• Newsnight
• Newsround
• Nighty Night
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Noddy
• Noel's House Party
• Not the Nine O'Clock News

Nationwide was a BBC current affairs television series broadcast on BBC One each weekday following the main evening news. ... Publicity shot for Never Mind The Buzzcocks, episode aired on 13th March 2005. ... Windsor Davies as Oliver Smallbridge and Donald Sinden as Simon Peel Never the Twain was a British sitcom produced by Thames Television, created by Johnnie Mortimer and starring Windsor Davies as Oliver Smallbridge and Donald Sinden as Simon Peel. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22. ... Newsround (called John Cravens Newsround before the departure of John Craven) is a BBC childrens news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972. ... Nighty Night is a BBC Television comedy/drama with a black edge to its humour; the first series was shown on BBC Three and later BBC Two from January 2004. ... Peter Cushing played Winston Smith while Donald Pleasence played Syme. ... Noddy in a scene from the 2004 CGI series Make Way For Noddy with Officer (P.C.) Plod. ... Noel Edmonds (born December 22, 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a popular British DJ and television presenter who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. Television series presented by him include: Top of the Pops Noels House Party Multi-coloured Swap Shop Telly Addicts Top Gear... Not The Nine OClock News was a ground-breaking comedy television programme shown on the BBC broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ...

O

• The Office
• One by One
• One Foot in the Grave
• Only Fools and Horses
• Open All Hours
• Our Friends in the North

The main cast of the American version of The Office. ... One Foot in the Grave was a popular BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. ... Only Fools and Horses is a hugely popular British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were broadcast between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. ... Ronnie Barker, Lynda Baron and David Jason Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series. ... The opening titles sequence of Our Friends in the North. ...

P

• Panorama
• Parkinson
• Patrick Kielty
• Pennies From Heaven
• Picture Page
• Pinwright's Progress
• Play for Today
• Porridge
• Posh Nosh
• Postman Pat
• The Power of Nightmares
• The Private Life of Plants
• Pulaski

Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched in 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. ... Michael Parkinson CBE (born March 28, 1935) is a British comedian, journalist and television presenter, he is most famous for presenting his eponymous interview programme, Parkinson. ... Popular Northern Irish TV host. ... Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC Television drama serial by the highly-regarded television playwright Dennis Potter. ... Picture Page was a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the services hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. ... Pinwrights Progress was a British television programme, the first regular sitcom to be transmitted in the UK. It was screened by the BBC Television Service from 1946 to 1947, and centred around the character of J. Pinwright (played by James Hayter), who ran Macgillygallys Stores, the smallest multiple... The Play for Today logo, seen here in the opening title sequence from 1976. ... Porridge is a British BBC television sitcom (1974–1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. ... Posh Nosh was a 2003 television programme parodying television chefs. ... Postman Pat is a BBC stop motion animated childrens television series aimed at pre-school children, concerning the adventures of Pat, a postman in the (fictional) Yorkshire village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumbria). ... The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC series of documentary films, written and produced by Adam Curtis. ... The Private Life of Plants (1995) is a six-part BBC television series presented by David Attenborough, on the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants around the world. ...

Q

• Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8 / Kuwait and Q9
• The Quatermass Experiment
• Quatermass II
• Quatermass and the Pit
• QI
• A Question of Sport
• Question Time

Milligan in costume for his Q series. ... The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ... The opening title sequence of Quatermass II. Quatermass II is a British television science-fiction serial, the second in the popular and influential Quatermass series written by Nigel Kneale. ... The opening titles of Quatermass and the Pit. ... QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry. ... A Question of Sport is a long-running BBC quiz show which started on 5 January 1970 and continues to this day. ... Question Time is a topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on Any Questions?. It is currently shown on BBC One at 22:35 on Thursdays, and typically features politicians from the three major political parties and other public figures who answer questions put to them by the...

R

• Ready Steady Cook
• Real Story
• Red Dwarf
• Restoration
• Robot Wars
• Rome
• Rough Science
• The Royle Family

Ainsley Harriott on Ready Steady Cook Ready Steady Cook is a BBC daytime TV cooking programme first aired in 1994. ... Real Story is a current affairs programme which airs on the British television channel, BBC One at 19:30 GMT weekly on Mondays. ... This article describes the British science fiction comedy television series. ... Restoration was a 2003 BBC television series in which viewers chose which of the United Kingdoms most important but neglected buildings that were nominated were to be awarded a Heritage Lottery Grant of £3m. ... The house robot Sir Killalot about to drop Hypno-Disc into the pit. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Rough Science is a UK factual television series made by the BBC in collaboration with the Open University and has, as of 2005, had six series. ... The Royle Family was a popular BBC television situation comedy (sitcom) that ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. ...

S

• Science Shack
• Sea of Souls
• See Hear
• Shoestring
• Silent Witness
• The Singing Detective
• The Sky at Night
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• Songs of Praise
• Spooks
• Sports Review
• Springwatch
• Starlight
• Steptoe and Son
• Strange
• Survivors
• Sykes

Science Shack was a BBC television series screened in 2001 and 2002. ... Sea of Souls is a British television drama series, based around the fictional activities of a group of investigators into psychic events. ... See Hear is a weekly BBC programme for deaf people in the UK. The programme features interviews with people involved with the deaf in areas such as education, deaf rights, technology, and language. ... Shoestring was a BBC TV show set in Bristol. ... This article is about a TV series. ... The Singing Detective The Singing Detective was a 1986 BBC television miniseries, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon. ... The Sky at Night is a long running television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. It is the longest running television programme with the same presenter anywhere. ... Michele Dotrice and Michael Crawford as Betty and Frank Spencer Some Mothers Do Ave Em (1973-1978) was a highly successful BBC sitcom, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. ... Songs of Praise is a BBC television programme based on religion and ethics, based around traditional Christian hymns. ... The shows logo, as seen in the opening title sequences. ... Sports Review was an early British television programme, produced by the BBC and screened on their BBC Television Service in the late 1930s. ... Springwatch with Bill Oddie is a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday - Thursday, from 30 May - 16 June 2005. ... Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s. ... Steptoe and Son was a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherds Bush, London. ... Strange is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC, aired on the BBC One channel. ... Not to be confused with Survivor. ... Sykes was a long-running BBC television sitcom of the 1960s and 1970s, starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques. ...

T

• Talking to a Stranger
• Telecrime
• Teletubbies
• The Telegoons
• The Thin Blue Line
• They Think It's All Over
• Test the Nation
• Theatre 625
• Theatre Parade
• Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• The Thick of It
• Till Death Us Do Part
• Timewatch
• Tipping the Velvet
• Tomorrow's World
• Top Gear
• Top of the Pops
• To the Manor Born
• Trainer
• The Trials of Life
• The Two Ronnies
• Two Thousand Acres of Sky

Talking to a Stranger is a British television drama, produced by the BBC and made up of four separate plays telling the story of one weekend from the viewpoints of four different members of the same family. ... Telecrime was an early British television programme, which could be described as the first multi-episodic television drama series ever made, although transmission was occasional rather than regular. ... Teletubbies dolls. ... The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom set in a police station in the imaginary village of Gasforth. ... They think its all over is a catch phrase popular in England. ... Test the Nation is a television programme, first broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom. ... Theatre 625 was a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. ... Theatre Parade was a British television programme, one of the worlds very first regular shows, running on the BBC Television Service from its inception in 1936 until 1938. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Thick of It is a British comedy television series, which satirised the inner workings of the British government. ... Til Death Us Do Part (also known as Till Death Us do Part)1 was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1964 until 1974. ... Timewatch is a long running television series produced by the BBC. It presents a broad range of historical investigations focusing forgotten events or forgotten aspects of major events. ... Tipping the Velvet is a British television drama serial, originally screened in three episodes on the BBC Two network in the autumn of 2002. ... Tomorrows World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new (and often wacky) developments in the world of science and technology. ... This article is about the television series; for other uses, see Top Gear (disambiguation). ... Top of the Pops is a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC Two and now licensed for local versions around the world. ... To the Manor Born was a popular and high-rating British sitcom which ran for a total of twenty one episodes over three seasons between 1979 and 1981. ... Trainer is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1991 and 1992. ... Trials of Life is a BBC (in conjunction with The Australian Broadcasting Service and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. ... Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett The Two Ronnies was a British sketch show that aired on BBC One from 1971 to 1987. ...

U

• United!
• University Challenge
  • Originally shown on ITV, still produced by Granada Television
• Up Pompeii

United! is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and screened twice-weekly on BBC1. ... Typical setup University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show. ... Current ITV logo. ... Current ITV Granada logo A Granada TV logo from the black and white era. ... Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of the 1970s. ...

V

• The Vicar of Dibley
• The Virgin Queen

The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis, and mostly written by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. ... Anne Marie Duff as Elizabeth I from the Virgin Queen The Virgin Queen (which presented the life of Englands Queen Elizabeth I from the time she was twenty to her death in 1603 at the age of sixty-nine) was a BBC/Power co-production directed by Coky Giedroyc...

W

• Waking the Dead
• Walking with Beasts
• Walking with Cavemen
• Walking with Dinosaurs
  • The Walking With... series were co-produced with the Discovery Channel.
• War Walks
• Watchdog
• Watch with Mother
• The Way We Cooked
• The Weakest Link
• The Wednesday Play
• What Not To Wear
• What the Papers Say
• What The Romans Did For Us
• What the Victorians Did for Us
• Who Do You Think You Are?
• Why Don't You?
• Wild In Your Garden
• Wildlife on One / Wildlife on Two
• Wogan
• The Wombles
• The Worst Week of my Life

Waking The Dead is a British television crime drama series produced by the BBC. There have been a total of five series (the latest of which began airing in September 2005). ... Walking with Beasts is a six-part television documentary about extinct cenozoic mammals and birds produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. ... <math>Insert formula here</math> ... Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC and narrated by Kenneth Branagh (UK version, BBC) and Avery Brooks (US version, Discovery Channel). ... Discovery Channel is a property of Discovery Communications primarily packaged as a network entertainment brand distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world. ... Watchdog is a BBC television series that investigates viewers reports of problematic experiences with traders, retailers, and other companies around the UK. It has had great success in changing the awareness consumers have of their purchasing rights and in changing policies of companies, closing businesses down and pushing for law... Watch with Mother was a cycle of childrens programmes broadcast in the 1950s by BBC Television. ... Weakest Link UK Version The Weakest Link (now officially titled Weakest Link) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in 2000. ... The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC ONE from 1964 to 1970. ... What Not to Wear is a reality makeover television show. ... What The Papers Say, is one of the longest running programmes on British television. ... What the Victorians Did for Us is a popular and successful television series, a spin off from What the Romans Did for Us. ... Who Do You Think You Are? was a ten part television series shown on the UKs BBC2, in 2004, in which various celebrities go on a journey, in order to try and trace their family tree. ... Why Dont You? or Why Dont You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead? was a BBC childrens television series broadcast in 42 series between 1973 and 1995. ... Wild In Your Garden was a live BBC TV show, broadcast in 2003. ... Natural World (sometimes in the past titled Wildlife On One or Wildlife On Two) is a long running BBC television series on natural history. ... Wogan was a chat show on British television, hosted by Terry Wogan. ... This article refers to the childrens TV programme, not the radical anarchist WOMBLES group. ...

Y

• Yes, Minister
• Yes, Prime Minister
• The Young Ones

Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... The Young Ones; Left to right: Jerzi Balowski (Alexei Sayle), Neil (Nigel Planer), Rik (Rick Mayall), Mike (Christopher Ryan) & Viv (Adrian Edmondson) The Young Ones was a British sitcom about four male students sharing a house. ...

Z

• Z-Cars
• Zoo Quest

Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ... Zoo Quest was a series of multi-part nature documentaries broadcast on BBC television between 1954 and 1964. ...

Special events

• Chelsea Flower Show
• Children in Need
• Comic Relief
• Edinburgh Festival
• European Championship
• Eurovision Song Contest
• Glastonbury Festival
• Olympic Games
• Football World Cup
• The Proms

The Chelsea Flower Show is a garden show held each year for four days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea, London, England. ... Pudsey is the teddy bear logo of Children in Need, created by designer Joanna Ball and named after Balls home town, Pudsey, in West Yorkshire. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ... The Edinburgh Festival is a collection of various festivals in August of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... There are various championships held in a variety of sports on a European Level: European Figure Skating Championships (figure skating) European Football Championship (football) European Basketball Championship (basketball) European LC Championships (swimming) European SC Championships (swimming) European Mens Handball Championship (handball) European Womens Handball Championship (handball) Rugby League... Eurovision Song Contest logo. ... The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury Festival or Glasto, is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... The Football World Cup (official name: FIFA World Cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer). ... A Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. ...

See also

• BBC television drama
• List of television programs
  • List of animated series
  • List of British TV shows remade for the American market
  • List of children's television series
  • List of comedies
  • List of game shows
  • List of science fiction television programs
  • List of television commercials
  • List of television spin-offs