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- 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.
- Science documentaries about various topics.
- The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.
- Popular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long-suffering tenants.
- Based on the stories of G.K. Chesterton, a British Catholic Priest solves mysteries.
- Drama inside a women's prison.
- Bagpuss and his friends are toys in a turn of the century shop for 'found things'. When young Emily brings them a new object, the toys come to life to work out what the strange new thing could possibly be.
- A Welsh-language TV soap (the longest running BBC television soap) set in the small Welsh town of Cwmderi, in the heart of the South Wales valleys.
- Holiday travel series.
- Sam Cobbett's home is to be demolished and he is forced to stay with his daughter and son-in-law, with hilarious results. Somehow, he can't pull himself into the 1970's much to his son-in-law's dismay.
- The Mr Men are a whole host of brightly colored characters that live in Misterland. All of them have names like Mr Happy, Mr Clumsy and Mr Greedy and their appearance and personality match their name. Narrated by Arthur Lowe.
- Originally a Midlands-only "links" programme presented by Chris Tarrant and John Asher, Tiswas is chiefly remembered for evolving into a nationally broadcast comedy show with Chris joined by Sally James, Bob Carolgees and Lenny Henry.
- Selwyn Froggitt, a well read clumsy buffoon smashes his way through his sleepy Yorkshire village of Scarsdale.
- Comedy turns and sing-a-long songs from a fictional working men's club, where ladies are welcome but smoking is mandatory, in the Northern city of Manchester.
- Terry and June Fletcher are a middle-aged, middle-class couple who find themselves alone when their adult daughters Susan and Debbie leave home. But they're not along for long before Aunt Lucy moves in, bringing her garrulous mynah bird. Terry frequently hits upon an idea and acts on it in his foolhardy and obsessive manner whatever the consequences, while June remains patient and tolerant.
- Daphne Pegg moves out of stern Aunt Ethel's place in the North to start a new, independent life in London. Meanwhile in London, recently divorced Roland Moody looks forward to living in a place of his own. Pegg has the keys to her dream flat, and Moody has the keys to his, but there is a big catch that will throw this unlikely couple together.
- A series of TV plays based on stories or novels by Henry James.
- A police Detective Inspector teams up with an astrologer to solve various crimes.
- Four people, who worked together during World War II, were known as "The Zoo Club" because their code names were of animals. Thirty years later, they still work on various adventures.
- Stories of the lives of people living in and around the goldfields in the Australian bush during the 1850's.
- This short-lived sequel to On the Buses (1969) saw Blakey move to Spain with his sister.
- Nellie Pickersgill moves to London to take over her ailing father's Chelsea pub.
- A BBC documentary film strand, with the focus on investigative journalism.
- A brutal murder triggers an investigation revealing that $4m of legendary Chicago gangster, Al Capone's, ill-gotten gains may be located on 1970's England.
- A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.
- Two-part weekly dramas concerning the various drifters who rent rooms in a lodging-house.
- Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.
- Anthology series with each episode a different story set in a village hall.
- Newly remarried Sally Redway (formerly Harrison) finds that her children, now augmented by the daughter of her new husband, may be a little older, but are just as troublesome as before.
- ITV Schools series teaching children about how their bodies work.
- Charming British comedy series starring real-life spouses Pauline Collins and John Alderton as Clara and C.D., reflecting on how they met and fell in love. Each show begins with a short dialogue, followed by the story. Clara is sweetly eccentric; each show ends with her saying "No, Honestly!"
- House burglar George Dobbs returns home from three years in prison to find his best friend has moved into his house with his wife. But loving them both in different ways, he doesn't have the heart to turn either of them out.
- Carrie and Nick Willow have been sent to the countryside and are taken in by the Evanses with their Auntie Lou and the scary Mr. Evans. The Willows are quite happy there. They like to go to visit their friend Albert Sandwich and his guardians Hephzibah, Mr. Jonny, and the Evans's sister, who no one sees. Everything is well until Carrie makes her worst choice ever.
- Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.
- Roobarb the green dog's enthusiasm for inventions and harebrained schemes to liven up life in the garden know no bounds. It's up to Custard the indolent, grinning purple cat, and the rest of the garden animals to make sure nothing comes of them so that their idle tranquility can be preserved, and score points off Roobarb's inflated ego at the same time.
- A series of dramatisations of some of P. G. Wodehouse's comic short stories - in which P. G. Wodehouse, himself, introduced some of the early episodes.
- David Jason plays the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Briggs is an agent who, in spite of his cluelessness, manages to solve case after case.
- Children's comedy series. A wry, energetic and irreverent comedy show of a kind never previously seen on TV at the time.
- The continuing adventures of the boys from "Doctor In The House", "Doctor At Large", and "Doctor In Charge". When Dick (Geoffrey Davies) finally gets the sack from St Swithin's, Duncan (Robin Nedwell) resigns in support. They sign up for what they hope will be a cushy job as medical officers on the cruise ship MS Begonia. Unfortunately, they didn't realise that Professor Loftus' twin brother would be the captain.
- Sitcom based in the accounts office of International Rentals, a television hire company.
- Dramatised documentary series charting the development of vaccines by Pasteur, Koch and others in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Rogue's Rock is a small island off the coast of Britain that has been governed by a member of the Rogue family for centuries.
- Humans and puppets interact, tell stories and have fun to provide entertainment to 4 and 5 year old pre-school viewers.
- Anthology of plays showing the world as children see it.
- The Russell Harty Show featured interviews, music, and entertainment with diverse guests, captivating audiences with engaging conversations and performances.
- Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.
- Series of plays examining various aspects of contemporary woman at different ages. The theme song, sung by Charles Aznavour, was a big hit in the summer of 1974.