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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.

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.

A schoolgirl trains a stallion on trust.

Pioneering comedy sketch show starring Terry-Thomas

US Western series that attempted to recreate Bonanza's success

Classic US domestic sitcom about and starring the incomparable Lucille Ball

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

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

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

Long running radio comedy transferred to television

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?

1960s rural police drama

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...

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?

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.

Fun and laughter in a British holiday camp...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Super smoothy Gerald Harper starred as James Hadleigh, a former civil servant became the squire of the manor.

From the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, Hammer Films were one of the leading lights of the British film industry. Previously, Hammer had only cautiously entered the domain of television...