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A magazine series broadcast simultaneously on TV and radio.

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.

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

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

1960s rural police drama

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

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?

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.

One-off comedy starring Barbara Windsor

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.