1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 19 x 30 minute episodes This surreal Spike Milligan vehicle was adapted from the long-running humorous…
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1 9 5 8 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This children’s space series from Associated Rediffusion began life with a single episode aired on Friday…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes The first series of Roy Kinnear’s BBC1 series A World Of…
2 0 0 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Brothers Barry (Phil Cornwell) and Garry (Peter Serafinowicz) run East End boozer, The King’s Head -…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) World of Sport was created in January 1965 as a Saturday afternoon rival to Grandstand. The show -…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes This BBC drama series incorporated three six-part stories and was created…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes A gentle comedy series adapted for television by Richard Waring and…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 23 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 29 December 1957, with a production of…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Children’s novelist Barbara Euphan Todd created the character of Worzel Gummidge…
1 9 5 3 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This four-part children’s comedy from the BBC starred Frank Atkinson as the animated scarecrow Worzel. Written…
This early 1980s TV advertising campaign for the British Meat Marketing Board (who were clearly worried about the encroaching trend towards vegetarianism) presented cheeky cockney…
1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes A ferocious night in 1770 and another storm-lashed ship crashes into the deadly rocks at Dead…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 4 x 45 minute episodes The strange, fierce tale of the undying love between Heathcliff (Ian McShane) and Cathy (Angela Scoular)…
1 9 8 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part BBC comedy series was set in the Happy Families leafy lanes of the…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 8 (UK) 37 x 50 minute episodes Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe (Jack Shepherd) was a calm and laconic…
1 9 9 2 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This afternoon children’s comedy series from Yorkshire Television featured an intergalactic TV station (IGTV) and its…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 13 x 60 minute episodes William “Spider” Scott (Stephen Yardley) had a spare chromosome in his…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on Wednesday 7 January 1987, this 12-part drama for youngsters was produced by Central Television.…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 19 x 25 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 6 May 1956, ITV’s short-lived panel game Yakity-Yak would attract little support…
2 0 0 0 (UK) 12 x 60 minute episodes This 12-part British travel comedy documentary series – made for Sky TV by Rapido, the…