1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1,030 x 30 minute episodes This cheap and cheerful computer-generated quiz show from Channel 5…
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1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 0 (UK) 147 x 30/45/50 minute episodes This late-night satirical comedy series from Channel 4 was written, recorded…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes This twice-weekly serial from BBC1 was based around the residents of an exclusive and fashionable block…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 16 x 60 minute episodes Great Britain, 1990. A dystopian future (at the time) in which Britain is under the grip…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 9 (UK) 56 x 40 minute episodes When Andrew Marshall’s 2 Point 4 Children first hit British screens it was…
1 9 6 3 (UK) 21 x 45 minute episodes This ATV drama series was a spin-off from the popular Call Oxbridge 2000, which was itself…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) 1,695 x 30/35/40 minute episodes Following the demise of the long-running BBC show Tonight, Cliff Michelmore…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 14 x 60 minute episodes This black talent contest – a clone of the talent shows…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 6 x 45 minute episodes The six episodes of this short-lived LWT series were broadcast on Saturday nights in June and…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 180 x 60 minute episodes Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin (a robotic dustbin with a face…
1 9 7 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes “Maybe we’re not ready for the outside world.” “Is the outside world ready for us?” Life…
1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) 40 x 30 minute episodes Following the demise of the children’s TV pop show Lift Off…
1 9 9 0 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Debuting on BBC1 on 21 April 1990, the Children’s magazine programme The 8:15 from Manchester…
1 9 6 1 (UK) 7 x 45 minute episodes 1 9 6 2 (UK) 7 x 45 minute episodes Set in the future (1970!) A For Andromeda told…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This Thames comedy was Arthur Lowe’s last television series, made shortly before his death on 16 April…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes BBC entertainment in which Alan Melville strung together sketches, songs, parodies…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 9 x 20 minute episodes The comedy adventures of an engaged couple living separately (this was the 1950s) in London’s bedsitter…
The best British television comedy of 1977 was not exactly written. Abigail’s Party was the BBC’s first full-length play where much of the dialogue was improvised. The…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (UK) 40 minute episodes Following on the success of London Town, Richard Dimbleby presented About Britain – a similar series…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes This series of twelve unconnected sitcoms placed the spotlight on the…
