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- The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.
- The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.
- Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.
- Recovering alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
- Superintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.
- "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans.
- Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.
- The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
- Five children staying in their eccentric uncle's labyrinthine mansion for protection during World War I befriend a sand fairy who has the power to grant wishes.
- A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.
- Magazine show featuring lifestyle, cookery, fashion and news segments, along with celebrity interviews and gossip.
- Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
- The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers the story of their life, featuring guest appearances by members of their family, friends and colleagues.
- The shows were broadcast live in front of an audience largely of children, originally at the King's Theatre on Hammersmith Road until 1963, then at the BBC Television Theatre (now the Shepherds Bush Empire). The format of the programme included competitive games for teams of children, a music spot, a comedy double act, and a finale in which the cast performed a short comic play, adapting popular songs of the day and incorporating them into the action.
- ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
- Wide-ranging BBC arts programme.
- Series of television plays performed live.
- BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- A re-creation of the Music Hall variety shows that were popular in the late Victorian and the Edwardian periods (late 1800s and early 1900s). Entertainers performed musical, comedy, magic and recitation acts on stage in Edwardian costume, in some cases appearing as famous Edwardian music hall performers such as Vesta Tilley. Even the audience was dressed in authentic 1900s costumes. The show always ended with the entire cast and the audience singing a rousing rendition of "Down at the Old Bull and Bush".
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- Norman, a stockroom worker at a London store, aspires to be a window dresser. Pursuing his dream, he falls for a shopgirl and they uncover a robbery plot, miraculously foiling the thieves.
- A middle aged banker picks up two young free minded women on his way to a banker's convention and falls head over heels for one of them.
- Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.
- Three couples compete in a missing word game, with the winning couple going on to solve riddles left by guest performers to win prizes and avoid Dusty Bin's booby prize.
- Terry Wogan hosts his own long-running chat show, where he interviews a variety of guests, from public life to celebrities. Also featured are regular musical guests performing their latest songs.
- It featured teams representing a town or city competing tasks in absurd games, generally dressed in large foam rubber suits.
- Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills.
- Viewers are asked to call in and help aim the titular "golden shot", a crossbow mounted on the front of the TV camera. The cameraman is blindfolded, so the viewers give him directions aiming the arrow at prizes. Whatever the arrow hits, they win.
- Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.
- An accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Norman decides to help.
- Norman is the assistant trying to assist the operation of a small, old-fashioned dairy which is being threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Norman gives his best attempts to save the dairy (and his horse), and the usual chaos ensues.
- American show featuring the popular British talk show host.
- A revival of the British variety show Tonight at the London Palladium, it ran from 28 October 1973 to 28 October 1974.
- Dee Time starred charismatic former BBC Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee in a series of hip talk shows in which he interviewed the big names in the TV and film showbiz-set as well as stars of the world of popular music.
- When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
- A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
- A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
- Davy Cooper is a law-abiding but down on his luck explosives expert. A chance meeting with a former comrade leads the naive Cooper into a world of crime and ultimately prison. On release though the chance to make amends presents itself.
- The British P.M.'s grandson, Norman, becomes a reporter for a provincial newspaper where he causes hilarious chaos.
- While taking a holiday in Scotland, American traveller Michael Cooper pulls elderly man Arthur Clutten into his car following an explosion at a hotel. Cooper discovers Clutten's back story, and learns why people are out to kill him.
- A journey through Britain blending music, hymns and prayers.
- Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
- A group of young people on a camping trip in the woods fall foul of a deranged family of in-breds.
- A panel of celebrities trying to guess what a person does for a living, or figure out who a mystery guest is. This is the version for the United Kingdom.
- A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit, and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.
- A friendly window cleaner works at an English country estate where he saves the owner's son from kidnappers.
- Nostalgia based panel chat show.
- Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer (boo hiss!) who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "never seen the sea". When they get back, they discover the plan to close the orphanage and must decide what to do.
- British version of "Hollywood Squares" with nine celebrities of different stature arranged in a grid.
- Music, comedy and celebrity interviews with singer and host Des O'Connor.
- Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
- Director Simon Sheridan's exhaustive examination of British sexploitation movies, made during the 1960s and 1970s, when homegrown cinema was struggling to survive. The films' stars and makers share their memories of an extraordinary era.
- Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer who's star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
- Behind-the-scenes stories reveal the truth behind the films' cheeky, cheerful image.
- A morning television talk show hosted by Gypsy Rose Lee
- The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
- Featured various avant-garde and alternative cultural topics.
- The life story of Sir Norman Wisdom, who went from street urchin to become one of the UK's most bankable and loved film stars of the 1950-60s. The documentary pays tribute to his life, featuring family, friends and colleagues.
- Noel Edmonds helps a celebrity recall a magical moment in their life by recreating the month in the year in which it happened. A sort of "Where Are They Now" meets "This is Your Life" - there are interviews with people who were on television or in the news at the time, music from chart toppers, archive film and audio, and, in the last series, surprise reunions of survivors of disasters with their rescuer.
- When asked to house-sit his aunt's cottage, Wisdom invites friends for a 1920s English summer. Slapstick chaos ensues when one friend, the zany Millicent Martin, arrives. Despite the mayhem, Wisdom rights things before they're unfixable.
- A gentle comedy based around one day at a café and all its different visitors - including a vicar being attacked by a fly, a deceitful businessman, an arguing couple, a fed up builder and a lady on detox - all in a days work for the two serving waiters.
- Clive Anderson mixes comedy and his legal training to conduct a series of irreverent interviews with various guests. Also included is a satirical look at topical events.
- Bob Monkhouse hosts his own chat show dedicated entirely to comedy. Mixing performance and interviews, guests come from both sides of the Atlantic, and include Tommy Cooper, Jim Carrey, Spike Milligan and Bob Hope.
- The first ever programme broadcast when regular British television broadcasts commenced (excluding welcome broadcast).
- A series of occurrences launch Norman on a succession of remarkable and unpredictable adventures.Unconnected comedy stories over 3 Series that sees Norman taking a job as a clerk in an office where he is pursued by the boss's daughter.
- A celebration of celebrity appearances in Coronation Street (1960), both before and after they became famous.
- Documentary and biography with interviews as the central element of the show.
- People who have seen enough British films likely recall a shirtless hunk beating a huge gong during the opening credits, but many may not know that this was the symbol of Rank Studios, the history of which is told in this TV documentary through numerous clips, interviews and commentary by Michael Caine.
- An affectionate look at the life and work of some of Britain's best-loved comedians.
- Excerpts from 80 years of the greatest British comedies.
- A look round the houses of the rich and famous and the extraordinary homes belonging to members of the public.
- Comedy celebrity panel game show about television.
- Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
- Norman Wisdom played 'Nobody', a loser with no personality of his own. But when he puts any hat on, he adopted the characteristics of its owner. He had a girlfriend, Grace (Priscilla Morgan) and lived with his domineering mother (Natalie Kent), who didn't like Grace. Weekly, Nobody found himself in a different situation, playing a variation on his character. One episode had him as a character called Joe Nobody doing a brilliant impersonation of Peter Falk's Columbo; in another, he was seriously beaten by gangsters.