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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.

A US Air Force officer discovers a genie in a bottle.

Classic US domestic sitcom about and starring the incomparable Lucille Ball

One-off comedy starring Barbara Windsor

US Western series that attempted to recreate Bonanza's success

One of the USA's most fondly remembered sitcoms

Frankie Howerd in a series of three shows written by Eric Sykes.

A Harley Street psychiatrist devotes his time to helping the not so well-off.

Popular cult sci-fi about a number of individuals with superhuman abilities

An angel tries to help those in the face of adversity.

Police procedural centred on the work of homicide detectives in Baltimore, Maryland.

The history of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, despair, struggle, passion, success, failure and enormously long lunch-breaks.

BBC drama series centred on a new current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis.

A schoolgirl trains a stallion on trust.

Set in the late 1950'S - what sealed the show's popularity was the introduction of the leather-jacketed, perennially 'cool' biker character of Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli

Comedy serial written by Peter Ling (co-creator of Compact and Crossroads) made by the BBC Children's Television department and broadcast throughout the school holidays of 1954.

Ronnie Barker starred in this sitcom as Lord Rustless, an ageing but perennial scatterbrain.

Life in a fictional West End department store employing around 4,000 staff.

US Western series which chronicled the exploits of the college educated, West Point trained, black clad lone solider of fortune known simply as 'Paladin'

Before Five-0 policed Hawaii there was a team of private detectives...