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- 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.
- The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.
- Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
- Arkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville and a particularly dangerous till.
- The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
- Comic goings-on in this series. Ted's the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money. Gladys has her eye on the boss, and Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner's outfit for a 'yellow coat.'
- A working-class Cockney bigot with a biased and experienced opinion of everything shares them bluntly and carelessly.
- The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."
- The lives and loves of Beryl Hennessey (Polly James) and Sandra Hutchinson (Nerys Hughes), two young, single women sharing a flat in Liverpool.
- Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting. He leads a small group called the Tooting Popular Front with aspirations to create a communist Britain. However, as a result of being disorganised, his chances range from slim to none.
- British sketch comedy starring the likes of Rowan Atkinson and Mel Smith.
- Alec Callendar, a Pinner solicitor, meets and falls in love with Zoe Angel, a woman half his age: their relationship, as well as the ups and downs of Alec's office mates: his secretaries, Hilary and Miss Flood, and Alec's son, Jamie.
- Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones present a series of short (often tasteless, always scathing) sketches about modern life and the stupidity and gullibility of those who believe in it.
- Stand-up comedian Kelly Monteith's look at life: which is part sitcom and part sketch-show.
- In a post-apocalyptic Britain, everyone has rebelled against modern technology (electricity, engines, trains etc) and reverted to a pre-Industrial Revolution way of life. When Nicky Gore tries to investigate the cause, she is accused of being a witch and imprisoned to prevent her spreading dissent.
- 1990s UK Black and Asian comedy-sketch show.
- Spike Milligan's groundbreaking yet largely unknown surreal comedy sketch series that inspired Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- KYTV is the BBC comedy show which parodied Sky satellite television, which when it first started on Britain was pilloried for its cheapness and lack of content.
- Struggling writer Colin has the unenviable daytime job of listening to the complaints of the public using British Railways.
- Shy and harmless stationery shop owner Clive Quigley is shocked when, one day, wild and successful hairdresser shop owner Sonia Drysdale burst into his life and tells him the horrible news that Clive's wife, Melissa, is having an affair with Sonia's husband, Dave. The two of them team up to try and put an end to the affair. Clive and Sonia agree to not tell each spouse that they know of the affair but tried every way to stop Melissa's and Dave's meetings. Meanwhile, Clive's behaviour and Sonia's plans makes Clive's assistant in the shop, Mrs. Whales, think that Clive is coming onto her and this annoyed her husband. Also as time goes on, Dave and Melissa's relationship starts to crumble, thanks partly to Clive and Sonia's plans, and that Clive and Sonia are slowly falling for each other...
- A comedy writer talks about his failed marriage.
- The Crystal Cube was a spoof science program, based on shows such as Tomorrow's World. The show was hosted by Jackie Meld (Dame Emma Thompson).