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- Comedy game show with celebrity guests and cheap prizes.
- The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."
- Kids TV show set in a house (#73) with presenters as characters. Each episode featured music, cartoons and ongoing storylines in various comedic situations and adventures. Focused on fun and entertainment for young viewers.
- Magazine show featuring lifestyle, cookery, fashion and news segments, along with celebrity interviews and gossip.
- A group of tourists arrive at a half-finished hotel in Spain where the oddly identical staff and bad weather threaten the building's stability.
- Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
- The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?
- Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the film ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.
- History is only slightly rewritten: instead of experienced sailors, there are only convicts whose last and only meeting with H2O was their prison diet of bread and water. And Columbus doesn't have his own map.
- Captain S Melly has been sent to a mixed anti-aircraft battery. His mission? To instil a sense of order in the troops, who are more concerned with capturing the opposite sex than the enemy.
- Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village...
- A gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
- 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.
- A British TV show where every week a team of celebrities would play Charades
- 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.
- When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients. Of course Dr. Todd is no prude, and it isn't long before he's joining in on all the lusty, after-hours fun.
- 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".
- Children's slapstick show with the little bear glove puppet and his friends.
- Two families go head to head to answer everyday questions.
- 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.
- Daily magazine show broadcast form the BBC's Pebble Mill studios. The show originally ran from 1973 to 1986 and was resurrected in 1991 (as "Pebble Mill") and ran until 1996.
- Nellie Pickersgill moves to London to take over her ailing father's Chelsea pub.
- 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.
- Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station's threatened to be shut down, due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.
- The "Carry On" gang spoofs historical events and works of literature.
- This series covers the turning points in 9 different figures during the Edwardian era of the United Kingdom - Henry Royce and Charles Rolls - of Rolls Royce fame; Horatio Bottomly founder of John Bull; E. Nesbitt author of "The Railway Children"; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle author of Sherlock Holmes; Baden-Powell founder of the Boy Scout movement; Marie Lloyd - her role in the 1907 Music Hall strike; Daisy - the mistress of Edward VII; and Lloyd George - a politician and a philanderer.
- Two young boys enact a mock fight outside a football ground as a joke, but it goes wrong when one of them is injured. While the victim recovers in hospital, the other boy attempts to hide from the police.
- Kenneth and Barbara introduce clips from all the Carry On movie. The two regulars converse at the Rank Film building to host the film with their own running gags involving Barbara's "assets" and Kenneth's desperate need of a toilet.
- Hobo Haynes and a series of other working class characters fight back against the authorities and anybody else who might look down on them. Many musical acts of the time also appear to add a little variety to proceedings.
- Classic ITV comedy-drama, set in the fictional village of Shillingbury in Hertfordshire. Londoners Peter (Robin Nedwell) and Sally Higgins (Diane Keen) move to the idyllic English countryside to enjoy the ambiance of fine thatched-roofed cottages, strawberry cream teas, oak-timbered pubs and a collection of eccentric locals, including grumpy farmer Jake (Jack Douglas), his sexy daughter Mandy (Linda Hayden), crafty tramp Cuffy (Bernard Cribbins), old busybody Mrs. Simpkins (Diana King), nosy postman Harvey (Joe Black), and the twittering Reverend Norris (Nigel Lambert).
- Nostalgia based panel chat show.
- The equilibrium of a small English village is upset by the arrival of a pop star and his wife. When he takes over the conductorship of the local brass band after the previous conductor resigns, he finds a bunch of untalented but touchy old men that need to be whipped into shape and find their own distinctive style.
- In this fourth and final annual Christmas TV special, Sid is working as saucy Santa in a department store grotto. He reflects on how Christmas has been celebrated though the ages, aided by sketches from the team set in prehistoric, Georgian, World War 1 and Robin Hood times - not to mention a dance routine that's a real nutcracker.
- 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.
- In this third seasonal helping of festive Carry On fun, set at an eighteenth-century banquet, the team's sketches include a pantomime performance of Aladdin, a rip-roaring Elizabethan sing-song, and biblical goings-on in the Garden of Eden.
- The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on.
- Behind-the-scenes stories reveal the truth behind the films' cheeky, cheerful image.
- A weekly comedy panel show in which two teams of three comedians each play for points by telling jokes on a subject chosen by the host. While a comedian was telling a joke, a member of the other team could interrupt by pressing the buzzer and finishing the joke to score bonus points for their team. The turn did not end, however, until the comedian whose proper turn it was finished a joke with a punchline. At the end of the show, the team with the most points won a gag trophy of a jester carrying the Yorkshire Television chevron logo.
- British comedy sketch show hosted by Les Dawson, known for its witty humor and satire.
- Norbert Smith, A Life is a 1989 Mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith. It stars Harry Enfield in the title role.
- Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the surviving 'Carry On' cast.
- After the end of WW2, a lone elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
- Further adventures of Cuffy, the tramp from the village of Shillingbury.
- For single one-off plays that were not part of an anthology series and were also not made to any specific theme or requirement - appearing whenever.
- Before CNN, cam-corders, and communications satellites, the only way to view exotic locales was on real film that might take weeks or months to arrive from the far corners of the world. The raison d'etre for this program was to bring that film to the television viewer. Each week some adventurer would be asked to narrate his 16 mm home movies for the viewing audience. The film might be from the Amazon jungle or the arctic regions of northern Alaska. Teenage boys were drawn to the show not only by the adventure but also by the occasional fleeting glimpse of some native woman's bare breast.
- Entertainment show filmed in a circus big top at a different seaside resort each week.
- Stand up routines, sketches and musical numbers.
- Talent contest in which two teams of 12-15 year old children representing different ITV regional channels show their skills - mainly in music, dance and other creative arts - and compete in a knock-out competition.
- Comedy series set in a small corrupt Police Station.
- Lennie Bennett hosts a memory game where a group of eight celebrities each have a punchline, and the contestants have to match the correct response to each question. Aiding the contestants are two star guests.
- Popular magician and entertainer David Nixon, presents his own variety show with resident singer Miss Anita Harris, magical assistant Ali Bongo and many of David's special guests.
- Mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time-honoured tradition, ABC's The Bruce Forsyth Show focussed on laughter, glamour and big name guests, including Frankie Howerd, Cilla Black, Dudley Moore (and his trio), Tommy Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Diana Dors, Kathy Kirby, Julie Rogers, Harry Secombe, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and more!
- Doccumentary highlighting the darker side of four of the stars of the 'Carry On' films.
- A talk show whose guests included Ken Dodd, Norman Collier, Dukes and Lee, and Jim Bowen.
- A variety show frequently featuring top talent.
- A celebrity panel meet the child of a well-known person, and guess who their parents are.
- A talent show focusing on comedy
- Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor reunite for a festive trawl through the archives of classic 'Carry On' clips.
- "Get The Message" was broadcast on weekday mornings in 1964 for three cycles (39 weeks). It was a game-panel show that featured two teams (male and female) consisting of two guest stars and one contestant on each team. The stars would attempt to "get the message" to the contestant with one word clues. The game was an amalgam of several other Goodson-Todman games shows including, obviously, "Password".
- Celebrity contestants are shown archive television clips and asked questions about them.
- Musical variety series starring British entertainer Des O'Connor.
- A retrospective of the Carry On films on the 40th anniversary of the first, Carry on Sergeant (1958).
- Excerpt from a stage comedy.
- Sid's journey from prolific character actor in dramatic roles, via Hancock's Half-Hour, to icon status in the Carry-On franchise.
- Rod and Emu are helping at Santa's Workshop. But Jasper Meanie tries to stop Santa from taking off. Can the people of Nursery Rhyme Land stop him?
- This is the ultimate film review of a true great of British comedy. Featuring extensive extracts from the finest comedy moments from the late, great and sadly missed Kenneth Williams including unforgettable highlights from Kenneth's greatest moments in Carry On as well as his unforgettable TV performances. In addition to a rare on set archive interviews with Kenneth himself we also hear the first hand reflections of fellow Carry On stars Barbra Windsor, Jack Douglas, Patsy Rowlands as well as the vivid recollections of Michael Anderson and Barry Took.
- Filmed highlights of the West End stage revue, "Carry On London!", introduced by Shaw Taylor and featuring interviews with the cast.
- A fund raising Gala staged at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane London on Sunday 9th April,1989, in aid of Terry Thomas, the veteran film actor who developed Parkinson's disease and for The Parkinson's Disease Society themselves. It was organized by the star of the Carry On films, Jack Douglas and media journalist and writer, Richard Hope-Hawkins. There was a once in a lifetime gathering of British stage and screen celebrities, all eager to help the cause. An extraordinary line up of iconic stars who were household names during the second half of the 20th Century. It was a full house and the performance and subsequent television broadcast raised in excess of £100,000. Show Director was Jack Douglas. Multi Camera Director Royston Mayoh. Television Producer was Nick Dance.