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In the history of comic strips, 'Peanuts' is among the most popular and influential. Running in newspapers in 75 countries and with a readership of over 300 million, it is arguably America's biggest export. But when it was animated for TV in 1965, CBS were reluctant to bring it to our screens.

When it comes to the history of the television cartoon series you need look no further than Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. Creating countless cartoon characters and collecting seven Oscars, eight Emmys and a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, Hanna-Barbera were the masters of their craft.

Jean-Luc is an elderly gent weathered by grief, regret and anger. Haunted by memories of a career-ending catastrophe at Starfleet, he passes time by tending to the soil at the Picard vineyard in France. But all that is about to change...

Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien. Warning: Spoilers

After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.

Andrew Cobby reflects on the ups and downs and the coming of goings at a run-down boarding house, somewhere in England in the 1970s.