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Early Spike Milligan series featuring his usual off-the-wall madcap humour.

A bungling, fumbling, absent-minded scientist who dreams up useless inventions that would get him laughed out of the patent office.

After a scientist is exposed to gamma rays his body changes into a super-human rampaging 'monster'.

A widowed woman and her hapless nephew takes charge of her husband's funeral business.

1960s rural police drama

Animated cartoon series - talking magpies with Brooklyn accents...and why not.

Animated children's series - it wasn't Joanna Lumley

Long running radio comedy transferred to television

Well meaning but bumbling complainer tries to take on a world of bureaucracy.

Fun and laughter in a British holiday camp...

1950s TV police series made on a shoestring budget

US police series based around the dangerous professional and private lives of the officers who worked out of the aging, dilapidated, Hill Street Stationhouse.

Role reversal comedy that was perhaps a little ahead of its time...

The prisoners at a camp in Germany run rings around their captors

Generation gap comedy series by Eric Chappell

Described as television's most beautiful private eye

Cartoon series about a crime-busting, kung fu-ing dog. What else?

A cowboy with a fine sense of fair play who did not smoke, drink or swear and who always let the bad guy start the fight. Seriously?

Pioneering comedy sketch show starring Terry-Thomas

How do you get a ship in a bottle? How did a medieval knight, laden with armour, mount his horse? How do non-stick saucepans stay non-stick?

Hugely popular long-running comedy series starring former stage partners Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as a type of modern day Laurel and Hardy double-act.