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Encyclopedia > List of UK television series

This List of UK television series is a list of TV series that were made and shown in the United Kingdom. It does not include foreign-made imports. “TV” redirects here. ...

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  • The 1900 House - Historical/reality
  • The 1940s House - Historical/reality
  • 1990 - Science Fiction
  • 2DTV - Animation Comedy
  • 8:15 from Manchester - Children's magazineAve
  • 999 - Reality

The 1900 House is a historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. ... 1990 is a British television series produced by the BBC. The series is set in a dystopian future (dubbed Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six by its creator Wilfred Greatorex) where Britain is under the grip of the Department of Public Control, a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population... 2DTV is a satirical animated television show broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. ... Events Silesia is incorporated into territory ruled by Boleslaus I of Poland Pope Silvester II succeeds Pope Gregory V Sigmundur Brestisson introduces christianity in the Faroe Islands Deaths December 16 - Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. ...

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Main title caption for A For Andromeda A for Andromeda is the title of a 1961 British television drama series and novel by astronomer Fred Hoyle and author and TV producer John Elliot, and a 2006 television remake. ... Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield. ... Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company (or government-media relations consultancy) in London, run by Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry), and Martin McCabe (John Bird). ... Main title caption for Ace of Wands. ... Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBCs attempt to emulate the success of ITVs The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme that would take a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the... Main title caption. ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen. ... The Adventures of Sir Lancelot was a British television series of the 1950s, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. ... After Henry was a British sitcom starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson that was broadcast on ITV from 1988 to 1992. ... Afterlife is a British television drama series, produced by independent producion company Clerkenwell Films for the ITV1 network. ... Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ... Airline is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982. ... Alas Smith and Jones was a British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. ... Albion Market was a short-lived UK television soap opera. ... All About Me is a BBC1 comedy about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. ... All Creatures Great and Small was the title given to a compilation volume first published in 1972 comprising James Herriots first two novels, If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet, which were considered too short to publish individually in the U.S. market. ... Allo Allo! was a long-running British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. ... The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV series A for Andromeda again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. ... 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 Children strand (later Watch with Mother). ... Animal Magic was a BBC television show aimed at children. ... Angels on the cover of Radio Times magazine. ... 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. ... Are You Being Served? was a long-running 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. ... For the album of the same name, see Armchair Theatre (Jeff Lynne album) Armchair Theatre was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 until 1968 in its original form, and was intermittently resurrected at various points during the 1970s. ... The Army Game was a British television series about life in National Service broadcast between 1957 and 1961 by Granada Television . ... Arthur of the Britons was a short-lived (1972–1973) but fondly remembered British television show about the historical King Arthur. ... Logo of the show As If As If was a British teen comedy/drama series broadcast on Channel 4. ... As Time Goes By was a British sitcom starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer which aired from 1992 to 2002, with a two-part reunion special broadcast in 2005. ... The Ascent of Man (1973) was a groundbreaking BBC documentary series, produced in association with Time-Life Films, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. ... At Home with the Braithwaites was a British television programme about a typical dysfunctional suburban family from Leeds. ... Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a popular British comedy-drama series 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. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ...

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Bad Girls is a British drama series showed on ITV1. ... Bagpuss and the mice For the village, see Kingston Bagpuize. ... Balamory is a Scottish live action television series on British television (BBC One, BBC Two and CBeebies) for preschool children based around the small (fictional) island community of Balamory in Scotland. ... Balls of Steel is a Channel 4 comedy series hosted by Mark Dolan, where his special guests perform stunts, holding their nerve during hidden camera set-ups in the presence of celebrities or the British public. ... The Baron was a British television series, made in 1965/66 and produced by ITC Entertainment. ... Basil Brush in the 1970s Basil Brush is a reddish-brown fox glove puppet character who has appeared in British childrens (and later adult) television programmes from the 1960s to the present day. ... Beadles About was a British television programme hosted by Jeremy Beadle, where members of the public became victims of practical jokes behind hidden cameras. ... The Beiderbecke Affair was the first in a series of three short television series produced in the UK by ITV in the mid 1980s, written by Alan Plater. ... 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. ... Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. ... The tone of this article is inappropriate for an encyclopedia. ... Between The Lines was an acclaimed television police drama series created by J.C. Wilsher and produced by World Productions for the BBC. It was first shown on BBC1 between 1992 and 1994, running for three series. ... Lockkeepers Cottages, in Old Ford Lock, used as the studio for The Big Breakfast The Big Breakfast was a British light entertainment television show shown on Channel 4 each weekday morning from 28 September 1992 until 29 March 2002. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Big Train is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by the creators of the more successful Father Ted, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. ... The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural first shown on ITV, at 8pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ... Birds Of A Feather is the second track on Phishs 1998 album The Story of the Ghost. ... This article is about the television series. ... Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments. ... Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. ... The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British television series that ran from 1958 until 1978. ... Black Books was a British sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig, written by Dylan Moran, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley and produced by Nira Park. ... Blakes 7 is a British science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for their BBC 1 channel. ... Blankety Blank was a British game show based on the American game show Match Game. ... DVD cover Bless This House on the cover of TV Times magazine. ... Blind Date was a British dating game show produced by ITV contractor London Weekend Television. ... Blockbusters was a television game show in which contestants answered trivia questions to complete a path across a game board of hexagons. ... Blue Peter is a popular, long-running BBC television programme for children. ... Bo Selecta! is a British TV comedy sketch show and the brainchild of writer/performer, Leigh Francis. ... Bob and Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. ... Bod was a BBC childrens television programme first shown in 1975, comprised of thirteen episodes, based on four original Bod books by Joanna and Michael Cole. ... Bouquet of Barbed Wire was a British television mini-series made by LWT for ITV in 1976. ... The Box of Delights is a childrens fantasy novel by John Masefield. ... 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... Brass was a British television sitcom, made by Granada Television for ITV. Set in Utterley, a fictional Lancashire mining town in the 1930s, Brass was a comedy satirising not only all the its grim oop North dramas of the 1970s (most significantly When the Boat Comes In... The British Isles DVD cover British Isles - A Natural History is an eight-part documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and presented by Alan Titchmarsh. ... Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ... The Brittas Empire is a BBC television sitcom that ran from 1991 to 1997. ... For other uses, see Brookside (disambiguation). ... The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976. ... Budgie was a British television series starring Adam Faith which aired on ITV between 1970 and 1972. ... Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four seasons from April 1995 to August 1999. ... Butterflies was a situation comedy written by Carla Lane and shown on BBC 2 between 1978 and 1983. ... Byker Grove was a British childrens television series shown originally on BBC One and now on the CBBC Channel, and was created by Adele Rose. ... By the Sword Divided is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. ...

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C.A.B. was a British television programme produced by Thames Television for Childrens ITV. The drama revolved around Colin Freshwater (Izquierdo) and Franny Barnes (Mason) and the strange happenings in their junk shop. ... C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. ... Cadfael is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the name Ellis Peters. ... Café Continental was a British television variety show, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1947 to 1953. ... Call My Bluff is a British game show between two teams of three contestants. ... Template:Infobo Callan was the title of a British action-adventure television series that aired on ITV broadcasters over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. ... Windy Miller Camberwick Green (1966) is a British childrens television series, originally seen on BBC One, featuring stop-motion puppets. ... Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. ... Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ... Screenshot Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate character in a series of British childrens comic strips, books and animated films created by John Ryan. ... Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to in shorthand as simply Captain Scarlet, is a science fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Television company of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson and Lew Grade and first shown in Britain (originally on ATV Midlands, but later the whole of the... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... The Catherine Tate Show is an award-winning television sketch comedy starring Catherine Tate. ... Carol White as Cathy at the beginning of the play. ...  Geoffrey Bayldon on the cover of one of Richard Carpenters Catweazle books Catweazle was a British television series in 1970, created and written by Richard Carpenter and produced by London Weekend Television under the LWI (London Weekend International) banner, and screened in the UK on ITV. There were two... A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to two or more new recipients. ... Chalk was a British comedy written by Steven Moffat set in the fictional comprehensive school of Galfast High. ... Challenge Anneka is 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 Chart Show (also known as the ITV Chart Show) was an hour-long music video programme which ran in the UK on Channel 4 between 1986 and 1988, then on ITV between 1989 and 1998. ... Children of the Stones was a television drama for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdoms ITV network in January and February 1977. ... Childrens Ward (briefly retitled The Ward in 1995) was a British childrens television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Childrens ITV strand on weekday afternoons. ... 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. ... Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four seasons from 2000 to 2003. ... Chocky is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids. ... Chocky is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids. ... Chocky is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids. ... ChuckleVision is a popular British childrens television series, shown on CBBC, first shown in 1987. ... Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. ... The Clangers is a British stop motion animated childrens television series made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate (writer and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker, animator and illustrator). ... Cold Feet is a British comedy/drama, made by Granada Television, broadcast on the ITV network and shown in five series between 1997 and 2003. ... Colditz is a British television series, made as a co-production between the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. ... Come Dancing BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1995, becoming one of televisions longest-running shows. ... 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. ... The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, best known collectively for their television series The Comic Strip Presents. ... Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. ... Connie is a British television drama made for ITV by Central Television and shown in 1985. ... Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ... Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC2 from May 2000 to 2004. ... Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created by Jimmy McGovern. ... Crackerjack winners receive prizes, late 1950s Crackerjack was a British childrens comedy/variety BBC television series. ... Crime Traveller is a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based around the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes. ... Crocodile Shoes is a British television drama made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. ... Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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Dad’s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the Second World War, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... Adam Dalgliesh is a fictional character who has been the protagonist of thirteen mystery novels by P. D. James. ... Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a BBC television series. ... DangerMouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs news programmes. ... Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two. ... Linda de Mol host of Miljoenenjacht (and the sister of Endemols founder), enters the game shows set. ... Dear John was a 1986-1987 British sitcom, written by John Sullivan, with a relatively short run (14 episodes and one special). This sitcoms title was a reference to letters sent by girls to their boyfriends breaking off the relationship, known as Dear John letters. ... 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 Terrence Hardiman in the title role. ... Dempsey & Makepeace was a mid-1980s British television crime drama, made by London Weekend Television for ITV, starring Glynis Barber and Michael Brandon, who later married on November 18, 1989. ... Department S was a British espionage/science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. ... dinnerladies was a British sitcom written and co-produced by and starring Victoria Wood. ... The District Nurse is a British television series, produced by BBC Wales and shown on BBC One between 1984 and 1987. ... Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series, which ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. ... Dr. Finlay is the hero of a series of stories by Scottish author A. J. Cronin. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... OK Go is the first album by the Chicago rock band OK Go. ... 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. ... Dramarama was the name of a British Childrens television series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. ... Video Cover, with main cast Drop the Dead Donkey was a situation comedy that ran on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1998. ... The Duchess Of Duke Street is a British television drama series transmitted by the BBC. The programme lasted for two series, shown between 1976 and 1977. ...

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EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Bob Peck as Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven, investigating what appears to be the accidental killing of his daughter. ... Edward And Mrs. ... Eldorado was an ill-fated British soap opera that aired for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. ... Background - Elizabeth R was a BBC TV drama serial broadcast in six parts on terrestrial channel BBC Two during February to March 1971. ... Emergency Ward 10 was a British television series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967. ... For the 1994 debut album by The Cardigans, see Emmerdale (album). ... Empire Road is a British television series, made by the BBC between 1978 and 1979. ... Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German military occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. ... Ever Decreasing Circles was a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 for four series from 1984 to 1987. ...

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Fairly Secret Army was a short-lived British sitcom. ... Faking It is a television programme originating on UK Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes. ... The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. ... Fall Of Eagles is a British television drama made by the BBC in 1974. ... Fame Academy is the name of televised competition to search for and educate musical talents. ... Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. ... The Family can refer to: The new religious movement, The Family, formerly called the Children of God that was quite famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Family Affairs was a British soap opera. ... A Family At War was a British television drama made by Granada Television for ITV. The series was transmitted between 1970 and 1972 and examined the lives of the working-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences during the Second World War. ... Family Fortunes is a long-running British game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. ... The Family-Ness was a British cartoon series produced in 1983 by Peter Maddocks, of Maddocks Cartoon Productions, who later went on to produce Penny Crayon and Jimbo and the Jet Set in a similar style. ... The Fast Show is a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran for four series from 1994 to 2000. ... Father Ted was a popular 1990s television situation comedy set around the lives of three priests on the extremely remote (and completely fictional) Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland. ... Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... Fifteen to One was a popular general knowledge quiz show on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, that ran from 4 January 1988 to 19 December 2003. ... FightBox is a programme currently showing on BBC THREE. It has been likened to a computer-generated Robot Wars. ... Flambards is also the name of a Theme Park in Cornwall, UK Flambards is a novel by K. M. Peyton. ... The Flame Trees Of Thika is a British television series made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. ... The Flipside Of Dominick Hide is a British television play which has attained cult status. ... In the 1950s and 1960s, BBC television ran a series of childrens programmes under the collective title of Watch with Mother. ... The Flumps was a popular childrens programme broadcast on British television in 1976 and produced by David Yates and narrated by Gay Soper. ... Footballers Wives is a British television drama surrounding the private lives of a group of professional footballers, it aired on the ITV network from January 8, 2002 to July 15, 2006. ... Fort Boyard is a fort located between in the île dAix and île dOléron in the Pertuis dAntioche straights, on the west coast of France. ... For The Children was a British television programme, the first to be designed especially for young children of school age. ... The Forsyte Saga is the collective title of a series of novels by John Galsworthy. ... Fortunes of War - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Foyles War is a detective television programme created by screen-writer and author Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by ITV after the long-running detective series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. ... For the American national grocery store chain owned by Whole Foods, see Whole Foods Market. ... For other uses see funhouse (disambiguation) Fun House was a United States childrens television game show that aired from September 5, 1988 to April 13, 1991, originally in syndication, and later on the Fox Network. ...

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Game For A Laugh was a popular British TV light entertainment show between 1981 and 1985, made by London Weekend Television. ... // Overview Gamer TV is one of the worlds longest running and best watched weekly television series about video games. ... Gamezville was a computer games show broadcast on Sky One that ran for two series during the years 2003-2004. ... Gangsters is a British television series made by the BBC and shown from 1975 to 1978. ... Gardeners World is a long- running BBC television programme, about gardening. ... The cast of Darkplace, from left to right: Todd Rivers/Dr. Lucien Sanchez, Dean Learner/Thornton Reed, Garth Marenghi/Dr. Rick Dagless and Madeleine Wool/Dr. Liz Asher. ... The Generation Game is 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. ... The Gentle Touch is a British television drama made by LWT for ITV. Commencing transmission on the 11th April 1980, the series is notable for being the first to feature a woman police detective as its leading character, beating the BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months. ... George and Mildred was a British sitcom produced by Thames Television that aired from 1976 to 1979. ... Give Us A Clue is a televised version of charades hosted at different times by Michael Aspel and Michael Parkinson, with two teams: one captained by Lionel Blair and the other by Una Stubbs. ... Girls in Love is an ITV drama series based on the book of the same title (ISBN 0385408048), both created by UK author Jacqueline Wilson that follows the romantic thrills and spills of three teenage girls- Ellie, Magda and Nadine. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. ... The good life is an ambiguous term for the life that one would like to live. ... The Good Old Days was a popular BBC television light entertainment television programme which ran from 1953 to 1983. ... The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ... Goodness Gracious Me was 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. ... The Gophers is a British animation series with puppets. ... The British television sport programme Grandstand is one of the BBCs longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. ... Grange Hill is a British childrens television drama series which is shown on BBC1. ... Green Wing is an award winning British television comedy, set in a hospital. ... CD cover from The Grimleys soundtrack The Grimleys was a nostalgic comedy-drama set in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. ... 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. ...

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Hamish Macbeth is a BBC series about a policeman in a tiny costal village in the Scottish Highlands. ... Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ... Hark at Barker was a 1969 British sitcom starring Ronnie Barker. ... Harrys Game is a British television series made by Yorkshire Television for ITV in 1982. ... Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show; produced by Hat Trick Productions and a flagship programme for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been running since 1990. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... The Herbs was a BBC TV series for young children. ... David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in The Dream Hercule Poirot (pronounced in english ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. ... Hi-De-Hi! was the name of a popular situation comedy which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1988 and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Holby City is a medical drama television serial, formerly a drama series, broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... HolbyBlue (note the title is all one word), is a forthcoming British television drama series. ... Hollyoaks is a British television soap opera, first broadcast on 23 October 1995, on Channel 4. ... Hollyoaks: Let Loose was a spin-off of British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, originally devised by Phil Redmond. ... 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. ... House of Cards was a political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ... The House Of Eliott is a British TV series about two sisters who start off their tailoring business. ... Howards Way was a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted between 1985 and 1990. ... Aggie MacKenzie and Kim Woodburn, stars of How Clean Is Your House? How Clean Is Your House? is a British entertainment/lifestyle television programme in which expert cleaners Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit filthy homes and then clean them. ... How To Start Your Own Country was a six-part British television series aired by the BBC at 10:00pm from August 3, 2005, until September 6, 2005. ... 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. ...

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I, Claudius, 1976 was a BBC Television adaptation of Robert Gravess I Claudius and Claudius the God. ... Im a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here! is a UK reality television show in which celebrities live in jungle conditions with few creature comforts. ... Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... I Didnt Know You Cared was a somewhat surreal comedy set in a working class household in a Yorkshire mining village. ... Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption (with Kevin Whately as Lewis (right)). Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series... Chief Inspector Reginald Reg Wexford is the popular fictional character created by novelist Ruth Rendell, and is protagonist of 20 of her bestselling novels. ... The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novellists Somerville and Ross, and the TV comedy drama series based on them. ... It Aint Half Hot Mum was a British sitcom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dads Army. ... Ivor the Engine was the first animation by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmins Smallfilms company. ...

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Jackanory is a long-running BBC childrens television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. ... Jeeves and Wooster is a humourous television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, and produced by Carnival Films for Granada Television, and screened on the United Kingdoms ITV network from 1990 to 1993. ... Jimll Fix It was a long running British television show broadcast by the BBC. // The show debuted on 31 May 1975, and ran until June 1994. ... Joking Apart was a bittersweet comedy written by Steven Moffat and broadcast on BBC Two. ... Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ... Jonny Briggs was a BBC childrens television programme first broadcast in 1985. ... Jossys Giants was a childrens footballing comedy drama that ran on BBC1 between 1986 & 1987. ... Juke Box Jury was a pop themed panel show, originally produced by BBC television from 1959-1967. ... Just for Laughs (in French Juste Pour Rire) is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec. ... Juliet Bravo was a British television series which ran between 1980 and 1985. ... Just Good Friends was a BBC sitcom written by John Sullivan. ...

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Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on the BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953. ... Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ... Kenny Everett as Sid Snot Kenny Everett (December 25, 1944-May 26, 1995) was a popular British entertainer, both on Radio and Television. ... Kerching! is a sitcom on CBBC that follows the lives of teenagers Taj, Danny and Seymour. ... For other uses, see Knightmare (disambiguation). ... Knowing Me, Knowing You is a hit single recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. It features on the album Arrival (1976) as well as ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits (1992). ... The Krypton Factor was a British game show, produced by Granada Television and hosted by Gordon Burns, which ran from 1977 to 1995 on ITV. The series ran during the summer months from its inception until 1984, and from 1985 to 1995 ran from September to November (In 1987 and... KYTV is a UK comedy spoof television show, the TV version of Radio Active. ...

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Ladette To Lady is a reality based series that first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV1 in June, 2005. ... The Lakes is the title of a television drama series in the United Kingdom, made by the BBC and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. ... Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke, is a British television sitcom. ... The Late, Late Breakfast Show was a BBC television gameshow broadcast live on Saturday evenings between 1982 and 1986. ... 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. ... Lenny Henry Fan Club has information about the show and has free membership! ... The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a 1983 novel by British feminist author Fay Weldon about a woman who, when she finds out she is being betrayed by her husband, goes to great lengths to take revenge on him and his lover. ... Life Begins is a British television drama broadcast on ITV1, starring Caroline Quentin. ... This article is about the television documentary series Life on Earth. ... An electron microscope reveals bacteria-like structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001 For other uses of Life on Mars, see Life on Mars (disambiguation). ... Life With The Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom. ... The Likely Lads was a hit British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. ... Lillie is a British television serial made by London Weekend Television for ITV and broadcast in 1978. ... Little Britain is a character-based sketch show first appearing on BBC radio and then television. ... The Liver Birds, co-written by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor, was the distaff answer to the popular Geordie series, The Likely Lads. ... The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984. ... Londons Burning was a television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television. ... 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. ... The Lotus Eaters debut was promoted on the front cover of the Radio Times. ... Love Soup is the title of a comedy drama on the BBC which was first broadcast in September 2005. ... Love Thy Neighbour was a British sitcom that ran from 13 April 1972 to 22 January 1976, made by Thames Television for ITV. It starred Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper and Kate Williams. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Lovejoy (disambiguation). ...

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McCallum was a British television series produced by Scottiosh Television. ... The Mad Death is a British television serial made by the BBC and transmitted in 1983. ... The Magic Roundabout (Known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a childrens television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot. ... Magpie is a town located in Chestnut Cove. ... Maid Marian and her Merry Men was a UK childrens television series created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. ... Making out is a slang phrase of American origin and usually serves as a colloquial term or euphemism for the fact of two peoples engaging in prolonged kissing (also known as getting off, snogging or pulling in the United Kingdom, or meating or scoring in Ireland). ... Making Waves is a British television series based on a ship in the Royal Navy. ... Manchild is a term meaning a man who exudes many child-like qualities, but mainly refers to adult immaturity, and someone who refuses to grow up. ... Man About the House was a British sitcom, made by Thames Television for ITV. It ran for six series, between August 1973 and April 1976. ... Man Alive was a Canadian television series, which aired documentary programming on issues of faith and spirituality. ... Man in a Suitcase was a 1967 television series produced by Lew Grades ITC Entertainment. ... Mary Mungo & Midge is a British animated childrens television series, created by John Ryan and produced by the BBC in 1969. ... The Mary Whitehouse Experience was a UK topical comedy show, both on radio and TV, in the late 80s/early 90s. ... Masterchef is a BBC television cookery game show. ... 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 (sometimes abbreviated as MotD) is the BBCs main football television programme. ... May to December was a BBC sit-com first broadcast in 1989 produced by Cinema Verity. ... Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom, which first broadcasted in 1992 on the ITV network, however moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. ... For the TV program please see Merseybeat Merseybeat, sometimes referred to as Merseysound, was a style of music popular during the 1960s. ... Metal Mickey , robot on UK television early 1980s Metal Mickey was a 5 foot tall fictional robot character who first appeared on British television in the ITV childrens magazine show The Saturday Banana, produced by London Weekend Television in 1979. ... Midsomer Murders is a popular British television series about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer. ... The Mighty Boosh is a British cult comedy about two friends who go on magical adventures. ... Minipops was a television series broadcast in 1983 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. ... Image:Arthur-Daley-book. ... Mind Your Language was a British comedy television series originally shown on ITV, between 1977 and 1979. ... Miss Marple was a long-running and popular British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ... Mr. ... Mr. ... Mogul corporate logo The Troubleshooters (titled Mogul for the first season) is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972. ... Monarch of the Glen was a television drama, produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. ... This MONEY PROGRAMME is a scam trying to encourage young scots to pay as little as 300 pounds a fortnight and, they say it is for your pention but it is not. ... Monkey Dust is a British animated TV series that satirises the darker side of life in the United Kingdom. ... This article discusses the series itself. ... 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. ... Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in television programmes for children. ... Murder City is a United Kingdom police drama that centers on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases. ... Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme. ... Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes was a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 2000. ... It has been suggested that Finagles law and Sods law be merged into this article or section. ... My Family is a long-running British sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker that first aired in 2000. ... My Hero was a British comedy television series, about a not-very-bright superhero named Thermoman from the planet Ultron. ...

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Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom about a fictional twenty-something loathsome London media type, written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. ... Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme, produced by talkbackTHAMES for the BBC, and usually aired on BBC Two. ... 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. ... A 1970s New Avengers paperback features Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt), Purdey (Joanna Lumley) and the ubiquitous John Steed (Patrick Macnee). ... The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... The Newcomers was a late 1960s BBC soap opera which dealt with the subject of a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:30 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ... Newsround (originally called John Cravens Newsround, before the departure of Craven) is a BBC childrens news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was the worlds first television news magazine aimed specifically at children. ... New Tricks is a BBC television drama series which follows the work of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS). ... 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. ... Noels House Party was a BBC television light entertainment show broadcast live on Saturday evenings throughout the 1990s hosted by Noel Edmonds. ... Not Only. ... Not the Nine OClock News is a comedy television programme that was shown on the BBC, broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ... NY-LON is a drama television programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. ...

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The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC television music show that ran from September 1971 until 1987. ... The Office is the title of multiple television situation comedy shows created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. ... Oh, Doctor Beeching! was a British television sitcom written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, which, after a broadcast pilot on 14 August 1995, ran for two series from 8 July 1996, with the last episode being broadcast on 28 September 1997. ... The Omega Factor is a British television series produced by BBC Scotland in 1979. ... On The Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney. ... One Foot in the Grave was a popular BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. ... One Man and his Dog was a television programme in the United Kingdom. ... Photograph from Radio Times depicting Peter Gilmore as James Onedin and Jessica Benton as Elizabeth Frazer. ... Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast in the UK between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. ... Only Fools on Horses is a BBC reality television programme produced by Endemol UK it gets its name from the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, which first aired on July 7, 2006. ... Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. ... Opportunity Knocks was a UK television talent show originally hosted by Hughie Greene. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The opening titles sequence of Our Friends in the North. ...

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Paddington Station-Bronze of Paddington Bear Paddington Bear is a fictional character in childrens literature. ... Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched on 11 November 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. ... The Paper Lads was a childrens television series made by Tyne Tees Television and broadcast in 1977 for a brief run of only seven episodes. ... Michael Parkinson CBE (born 28 March 1935) is an English journalist and television presenter. ... Paul Temple is a fictional character invented by English author Francis Durbridge (1912-1998). ... Class 10 September 2006 - July 2007 Michael Laight Ben Chantler David Platt Danielle Bailey Damien Mee Andy Smith Anne Louise Burke Heather Williams Michael Rutter Marlon Estevez Nathan Neighbour Katie Addyman Melanie Costello Mr Mike Genders Mrs Sandra Crossland Mrs June Simpson Mrs Teresa Stephens Mrs Lisa Dingle Mrs Debra... Pebble Mill at One was a British afternoon talk show broadcast on BBC1 from the Pebble Mill studios of BBC Birmingham. ... A peep show or peepshow is an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass. ... The Persuaders! is a British television series, which first aired in 1971 and 1972 in Britains ITV and on the ABC Network in the United States. ... The full cast from series one Peter Kays Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working mens club in the northern English town of Bolton, Lancashire. ... 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 Plane Makers is a British television series made by ATV for ITV between 1963 and 1965. ... Planet Earth is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Alastair Fothergill. ... Playaway was a sister programme to Play School in the UK, aimed at slightly older children. ... Playdays (known as Playbus until 25 December 1989) was a childrens television programme from the United Kingdom. ... The Play for Today logo, seen here in the opening title sequence from 1976. ... Play School was a long-running British series. ... Play Your Cards Right was a British television game show based on the American show known as Card Sharks. ... Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, and a popular BBC television series of the 1970s based on the books. ... Pop Idol was a British television series which debuted on ITV on October 5, 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer, or pop idol, in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. ... Countries which had a version of Popstars Popstars is an international reality television program and a precursor to the Idol series. ... popworld is a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4, offering pop news, trivia, gossip, interviews and music videos, as well as musical performances from todays top artists. ... Porridge is a British BBC television sitcom (1974–1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. ... // Portland Bill is a British stop motion animated childrens television series made in 1986. ... Postman Pat is a BBC stop-motion animated childrens television series. ... Pot Black was a UK television snooker tournament that played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game. ... Press Gang was a British childrens television comedy-drama, which ran for forty-three episodes in five series from 1989 to 1993. ... The Price Is Rights US 35th season logo. ... Prime Suspect is a highly-acclaimed Granada Television police procedural television drama series of the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, which has been followed up by several sequels. ... Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes. ... The Prisoner is a 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series, starring Patrick McGoohan. ... From Left : Martin Shaw as Ray Doyle, Gordon Jackson as George Cowley, and Lewis Collins as William Bodie. ... The Protectors was a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson - his second TV series using live actors as opposed to animated puppets. ... // Introduction and background Public Eye was a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975 (7 series in total). ... Look up primeval on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Qi, also commonly spelled chi (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. ... Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional character, created by the writer Nigel Kneale originally for BBC Television, who appeared in three influential BBC science fiction serials of the 1950s, and made his swansong in a final serial for Thames Television in 1979. ... Queer as Folk Series 1 DVD Cover Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men let loose in Manchesters gay village around Canal Street. ... 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...

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Rab C. Nesbitt was a Scottish comedy programme produced by BBC Scotland. ... The Rag Trade is a British television sitcom transmitted by the BBC between 1961 and 1963. ... Rainbow was a childrens television programme in the United Kingdom which ran on the ITV network from 1972 to 1992. ... Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a cult late 1960s British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. ... ÆÀÉRecord Breakers was a British Guinness Book of Records themed childrens TV show, originally presented by Roy Castle with twin brothers Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter. ... This article describes the British science fiction comedy television series. ... Later period cast of Rentaghost Rentaghost was a British childrens television comedy show broadcast between 1976 and 1984. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States. ... The main characters. ... Ripping Yarns (BBC video cover) Ripping Yarns was a British television comedy series, written by former Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Jones. ... Rising Damp was a UK television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, first broadcast from 1974 to 1978. ... Robin of Sherwood, retitled Robin Hood in the US, was an acclaimed 1980s British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. ... Robins Nest was a British television sitcom. ... Robot Wars is a British game show broadcast on BBC Two from 1997 until 2002, with a final series broadcast on Five in 2003. ... Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of 77, was an innovative and groundbreaking comedy musical drama shown on British television in the mid 1970s. ... Roobarb was an animated television show for children, shown on BBC ONE just before the evening news. ... Room 101 is a BBC comedy radio and television series in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates with the host in order to have them consigned to Room 101. ... Felicity Kendal (Left) and Pam Ferris. ... The Royle Family is a popular BBC television situation comedy (sitcom) that ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. ... Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by British writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer, QC and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients. ... The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 1987 and 2000. ... RWT logo. ...

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The Saint was a long-running British action adventure television series, made by ITC Entertainment, that aired on ITV stations between 1962 and 1969, and on American television as a syndicated show (1962-1967) and on NBC (1967-69). ... Roy Marsden as Neil Burnside in The Sandbaggers The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. ... Sapphire & Steel was a British television science-fiction series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. ... Saracen was a 1989 ITV action drama about a private security firm of that name. ... The logo for Scrapheap Challenge. ... // Introduction Sea of Souls is a British television drama series, based around the fictional activities of a group of investigators into psychic events. ... Secret Army was a BBC television series created by Gerald Glaister that ran for three seasons from September 7, 1977 to December 15, 1979. ... This unique, visually stunning and shocking television series ran for two series on Channel 4 in the 1980s and earned an international cult following, as well as being nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. ... This article is about the television series. ... Shameless is an offbeat British comedy drama television series set in the fictional Chatsworth Estate in Manchester, England. ... Shelley is a British sitcom originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1992, with occasional hiatuses lasting between one and five years. ... Shillingbury Tales is a British television series made by ATV for ITV in 1981. ... Silent Witness is a long-running British television thriller series made by the BBCs in-house Drama Serials production department, and screened on the BBC One channel. ... Shine on Harvey Moon is a British television series made by Central Television for ITV from 1982 to 1985. ... Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. ... Shooting Stars is a UK television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two. ... Not to be confused with The Six Wives of Henry VIII (documentary), a more recent Channel 4 documentary series on the subject by David Starkey. ... The Six-Five Special was a television programme launched in February 1957 when both television and rock and roll were in their infancy in Britain. ... Skins is a British teen drama from Company Pictures which premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. ... 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. ... These lollipops, above, were found to contain heroin when inspected by the DEA. Smuggling is illegal transport, in particular across a border. ... Snuff Box (sometimes referred to as Berry & Fulchers Snuff Box) is a BBC Three sketch show starring and written by Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher. ... Softly, Softly was a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC One. ... Soldier Soldier was a British television drama series. ... Frank Spencer sporting his trademark beret in a scene with Broadcaster David Jacobs Some Mothers Do Ave Em (1973-1978) was a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. ... Sorted is a BBC television drama series, first broadcast in 2006, and transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD. It was created by Danny Brocklehurst, who has also written for Clocking Off and Shameless. ... Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ... Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. ... Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. ... Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdoms ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. ... For the Three Stooges film, see Spooks!. Spooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. ... Sports Review was an early British television programme, produced by the BBC and screened on their BBC Television Service in the late 1930s. ... Sooty is a British puppet character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries. ... Star Cops was a science fiction television series shown on BBC2 in 1987. ... Star Maidens is a British television series made by Scottish Television for the ITV Network in 1976. ... Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s. ... State of Play is a British television miniseries first broadcast in 2003. ... Stella Street S2 is out on uk DVD 13TH AUGUST Stella Street was a British television comedy programme originally screened on BBC2 (1998 - 2001). ... Opening title from the series (c)Beacon Productions Algy, Stephen and Harri from the episode Jigsaw (c)Beacon Productions The Adventures of Stephen Brown is a science fiction series that is broadcast weekly on Southampton Television and Six TV, both free-to-view terrestrial RSL channels. ... Steptoe and Son is 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. ... Cover from Stingray DVD box set (2001). ... Prime Suspect is a highly-acclaimed Granada Television police procedural television drama series of the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, which has been followed up by several sequels. ... Strange Report was a British television drama starring Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange. ... Supergran is a childrens television programme about a grandmother with super powers played by Gudrun Ure. ... Supernatural is a British television series made by the BBC in 1977. ... Skier Alain Baxter competing in the gym tests Superstars is an all-around sports competition that pits elite athletes from different sports against one another in a series of athletic challenges resembling a decathlon. ... Survivor was a television series. ... Survivors was a British television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. ... The Sweeney is a British television police drama focusing on two crime-fighting members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the British police force specialising in armed robbery and violent crime. ... Sykes was a long-running BBC television sitcom of the 1960s and 1970s, starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques. ...

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T-Bag was a witch-like character who appeared in a number of series of television programmes which ran from the mid-80s to early 90s on Childrens ITV. Written by Grant Cathro and Lee Pressman, each series had a different title and featured a single story told over... Taggart is a long-running Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler (who has written many of the episodes), and made by SMG Productions (STV) for the ITV network. ... Take the High Road was a soap opera produced by SMG Productions (Scottish Television) and set in the fictional village of Glendarroch (exteriors were filmed in the real-life village of Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond). ... Tales Of The Unexpected is a British television series that originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV. The series was an anthology of various different tales, initially based on short stories by author Roald Dahl that were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly humourous and usually had... Roald Dahl (IPA: ) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Welsh novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ... 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 is a BBC childrens television series, particularly aimed at babies and preschool children, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. ... Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). ... That Was The Team That Was is a Scottish television programme that documents successful time periods for Scottish football sides. ... That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, was a satirical television comedy programme that aired on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. ... 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. ... Binomial name Cramer, 1777 Synonyms Moduza procris (Cramer, 1777) The Commander (Limenitis procris) is a medium sized, strikingly coloured Nymphalid butterfly found in Asia. ... The Day Today is a surreal British parody of television current affairs news programmes. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Inspector Lynley DVD cover (1st series) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries are a series of BBC television programmes about Scotland Yard Inspector Lynley. ... Detective Constable Dangerous Davies is the central character in a series of comic novels by Leslie Thomas and a TV series, The Last Detective made for ITV. Davies is a low-ranked CID officer in the London borough of Willesden. ... They Think Its All Over (1995-2006) is the name of a British satirical game show with a sporting theme produced by TalkbackTHAMES and shown on BBC One. ... This Is Your Life was a television documentary series hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards. ... This Life was a BBC television drama, produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two, running for two series in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007. ... This Week was the name of a current affairs series screened in the 1980s on the ITV network in the United Kingdom, produced for the network by Thames Television. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV but also as ITV Network or Channel 3) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990... This Week is a current affairs and politics TV programme on the BBC, screened on Thursday evenings, hosted by Andrew Neil alongside former Conservative MP Michael Portillo, and Labour MP Diane Abbott. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Brains Thunderbirds is a mid-1960s Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show which used a form of puppetry called Supermarionation. Cast, crew, and production notes Thunderbirds was the fourth and by far the most successful of the childrens series made by AP Films (APF) for the British television company... Timeslips Liz & Simon, played by Cheryl Burfield and Spencer Banks Timeslip was a 1970s British childrens science-fiction television series about the adventures of two children, Simon Randall (played by Spencer Banks) and Liz Skinner (Cheryl Burfield), who had the ability to travel through a time barrier that... To the Manor Born was a popular and high-rating British sitcom which ran for a total of twenty-one episodes over three series between 1979 and 1981. ... The Tomorrow People is a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979. ... Tomorrows World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new (and often wacky) developments in the world of science and technology. ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ... For the eponymous fictional institute, see Torchwood Institute. ... A Touch of Frost is a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV in the United Kingdom. ... Trainer is a British television series transmitted by the BBC between 1991 and 1992. ... Triangle was a BBC television soap opera of the 1980s, set aboard a North Sea ferry. ... The Tripods TV series title card, seemingly computer-generated, but made using traditional animation The Tripods is series of novels written by Samuel Youd (under the pen name John Christopher) beginning in the late 1960s. ... The Tube was an innovative United Kingdom pop/rock music television programme which ran which ran for 5 series, from 1982 until 1987 plus numerous specials including one at the Millennium. ... Through the Keyhole is a light-hearted BBC (originally ITV) panel game, where panelists have to attempt to identify the celebrity who lives in a house, after they are given a video tour of it. ... Trevors World of Sport was a 2003 BBC sitcom written by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. ... Trigger Happy TV is a British hidden camera television show, created, produced by and starring Dom Joly, originally aired on the British television channel Channel 4. ... The Two of Us is an ITV comedy series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley as Ashley and Elaine, an unmarried couple living together. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Two Ronnies was a British sketch show that aired on BBC One from 1971 to 1987. ...

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UFO is a British television science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grades Century 21 Productions for Grades ITC Entertainment company. ... United! is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and screened twice-weekly on BBC1. ... University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show, licensed and produced by Granada Television. ... Up Pompeii! was a British television comedy series of the 1970s, starring Frankie Howerd. ... Upstairs, Downstairs was a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning British drama set in a large townhouse in Edwardian London that depicted the lives of the servants downstairs and their masters upstairs. It ran on ITV for five series from 1971 to 1975. ...

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Van der Valk was a UK televison series starring Barry Foster in the title role as a dutch detective. ... A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ... The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. ... Vision On titles. ...

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Waiting for God was a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 for five series from 1990 to 1994. ... Waking the Dead is a BBC TV programme following the work of a special police team who investigate cold cases; usually murders that took place a number of years ago that were never solved. ... Watching is a television comedy written by Jim Hitchmough and starred Paul Bown and Emma Wray as mismatched couple Malcolm and Brenda. ... 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 on 14 August 2000. ... Weavers Green is a British television soap opera, made in 1966 for ITV by Anglia Television. ... The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC ONE from 1964 to 1970. ... Whats My Line? was a weekly panel game show originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. ... What The Papers Say, is one of the longest running programmes on British television. ... Bob and Terry in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? was a hit British sitcom broadcast between January 1972 and December 1974, as the colour sequel to The Likely Lads. ... When The Boat Comes In is a British television drama produced by the BBC between 1976 and 1981. ... Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite. ... Who Dares Wins was an Aus television daring gameshow. ... Whoops Apocalypse was originally a six-part 1982 sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 movie with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in... In the United Kingdom, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million pounds for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Why Dont You? or Why Dont You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead? or WDYJSOYTSAGADSLBI was a BBC childrens television series broadcast in 42 series between 20 August 1973 and 21 April 1995. ... Widows was a British primetime television miniseries aired in 1982. ... Wife Swap is a reality television programme, produced by UK independent TV production company RDF Media. ... Wings was a drama series that ran on BBC television from 1976 to 1977. ... Winx Club is an Italian animated television series created by Iginio Straffi and produced by Rainbow S.p. ... Wire In The Blood is an ITV television series which teams a university clinical psychologist, Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green), with a tough female Detective Inspector, Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris). ... Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of British women agents during the Second World War. ... Wish You Were Here. ... Within These Walls is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. ... The Woodentops were a British independent label rock band that enjoyed considerable critical acclaim, and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s. ... Woof! was a Childrens ITV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who turns into a dog. ... The Word may mean: The Word (television) The Word (song) by The Beatles The Wørd, a recurring segument on Stephen Colberts The Colbert Report The Word (magazine) The Bible Ordet (aka The Word), the 1955 Danish film The Word (band) The Word & the Void This is a disambiguation... The World at War is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II, including the events leading up to it and following in its wake. ... Worzel Gummidge is a British childrens character, a walking, talking scarecrow, who originally appeared in a series of books by Barbara Euphan Todd. ... Would Like To Meet was a British television series presented by Tracey Cox, Jeremy Milnes and Jay Hunt. ... Wycliffe was a British TV series based on W.J. Burleys novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. ...

X

  • Xpress" - Popular UK multicultural show.
  • Xou da Xuxa - Most popular children show in Latin America and Spain.
  • The X Factor (TV series) - Singing talant show

Xpress may refer to: XPress, a digital radio trunking operator Xpress (TV series), an award winning multi cultural entertainment series Xpress, a regional passenger bus service provided by the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority in metropolitan Atlanta X*Press X*Change, an obsolete computer-based news-ticker-style newsfeed service X... The X Factor is a British TV music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. ...

Y

Yellowthread Street was a 1990 ITV police drama about detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police. ... Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984. ...

Z

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, based on Kirkby near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ...

See also

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... An incomplete list of popular BBC produced shows and shows originally produced for BBC TV: 0-9 2point4 children 8:15 from Manchester 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... Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institutes 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. ... The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows was a poll conducted by the British television channel Channel 4 in 2001. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... 100 Greatest British Television Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI) chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... This is a list of Australian television series and television programs. ... This is a list of TV shows from the English-speaking provinces of Canada. ... Television shows made for audiences in the fifty states of the United States and the U.S. in general are listed in the Fifty States section. ...

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