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- Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
- An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
- In the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
- Set in Noel Edmonds' fictitious grand house in the equally fictitious town of Crinkley Bottom, the show centres around games involving the studio audience and special guest celebrities. Contestants can "grab a grand", home viewers can be caught out live in their own homes, and celebrities get their just deserts in the gunge tank.
- An informative and humourous take on the world of current affairs.
- Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
- In Hackney in 1977, Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton become unlikely friends in their final year at school: Jarvis is the class clown, a popular lad with a talent for welding, while Lipton is a bookish dreamer who spends his time fabricating impressive exploits, pondering the future and fantasising about the father he's never met. As they leave school and anxiously embark on an uncertain future, can their friendship survive?
- The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable Victorian scientist, concocts a drug which releases another side to his personality: a brutal, murderous alter-ego.
- Every day, television presenter Rufus Hound saves the world from domination by the evil Doctor Muhahaha, before time is rewound and he tries again.
- Jasper Carrott takes a comedic look at the week's news and ponders the absurdities of life in general, with topical sketch comedy from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
- Alan Titchmarsh presents a mix of celebrity interviews, music, topical discussions and gardening features.
- Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation.
- Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his fellow angels help Mary, Joseph and the Wiseman to follow their destiny.
- Satire on the life of the Bright Young Things of the British aristocracy in the 1920s, where Adam tries to marry Nina, but finds himself constantly thwarted in his attempts due to a lack of money.
- An English-language version of Wagner's opera.
- Rock musical retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse.
- A TV documentary on the trial of the Chicago 8, a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and intent to cause riots.
- Science-fiction musical, telling of the journey of a group of people leaving Earth to find a new world on which to live.
- The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel Calder. Researchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
- An 'interlude with music' about a struggling music hall act, presented by the BBC as part of Noël Coward's 70th birthday tribute.
- A humorous and fantastic look at the world in the year 2001 as computed for the screen by those visionaries Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
- An American millionaire searches for a magic potion that will grant him eternal life.
- In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
- The lifelong interaction in which humans make humans - shaping one another's behavior for good or ill. In this major report, leading scientists around the world offer surprising new insights into our everyday lives.
- Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne and David Mitchell respond irreverently to the election results as they unfold.
- Rafael Puyana talks about styles of harpsichord playing and discusses works by Couperin, Scarlatti, Cabezon and Bach.
- Dramatized political discussion show set eight years in the future.
- Live from Broadcasting House in London, an in-depth look back at the day's national and international news, sport and weather with Huw Edwards and Clive Myrie.
- A global investigation into the Earth's changing climate. The machine that makes the world's weather is changing gear - and the shift is downward, against mankind. The next ice-age is already overdue.
- The subject of mirrors fascinated MICHAEL AYRTON , the sculptor, artist and writer. Here we are introduced to some of his ideas on mirrors and reflections in painting, archaeology, history, myth, science and nature.
- In the far future, the material needs of humankind are tended by the omnipresent Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But safe from what? And what if the Machine Stops? A young boy, Kuno, finds his questions can't be answered until he has lifted the veil of security and trespassed upon the surface.
- A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.
- A community of monks decides to solve its financial predicament through the sale of a potent cure for rheumatism made from rare herbs and one hundred per cent proof alcohol.