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BBC Proms
1947 ★ 7.7The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent y
Natural World
1983 ★ 7.4Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is curre
Days That Shook the World
2003 ★ 7.0Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones t
Newsnight
1980 ★ 6.0A daily BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. Newsnight is a daily BB
Comedy Connections
2003 ★ 6.5Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the production
Sunday-Night Play
1960 ★ 0.0BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series. Sunday-Night Play is an anthology drama series
Andrew Marr's History of the World
2012 ★ 8.0Andrew Marr's History of the World is a 2012 BBC documentary television series presented by Andrew Marr that covers 70,000 years of world history from the begin
Churchill's People
1974 ★ 5.0Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its
The Falklands Play
2002 ★ 7.0The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an e
Match of the Day
1964 ★ 7.6BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015. Match
Wild Arabia
2013 ★ 7.2Deep in the Gulf region is one of the world's last great wildernesses - a mysterious and magical landscape hidden to the world for decades. Observe the dramatic
BBC Play of the Month
1965 ★ 5.3A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different
History of the World
2020 ★ 6.5It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civilizations - from early Mesopotamia to the industrial revolu
The Clothes Show
1986 ★ 7.7The Clothes Show is a British television show about fashion that can currently be seen weeknights on Really. It was formerly broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2
Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure
2012 ★ 6.5Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure is a four-part British documentary television series that aired on BBC Two. Chefs Ken Hom and Ching He Huang, both Chinese
The War Game
1966 ★ 7.7A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of
Q...
1969 ★ 7.3Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered
The Sooty Show
1955 ★ 6.4The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic d
Prince Regent
1979 ★ 6.3Prince Regent is a British period television series that first aired on the BBC in 1979. It depicted the life of George IV from his youth, time as Prince Regent
Ireland: A Television History
1980 ★ 0.0The first major attempt to tell the history of a country on television -- from its first beginnings to the present day. Since the late 1960s we have all grown u
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
2022 ★ 7.1Stephen Fry embarks on a journey to discover the stories behind some of the world's most fantastic beasts that have inspired myths and legends in history, story
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow
2002 ★ 7.6Dick and Dom in da Bungalow was a CBBC children's entertainment television series presented by the duo Dick and Dom. The series was broadcast on weekend morning
The Roots of Monty Python
2005 ★ 0.0A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus. Topic: Film "The Roots of Monty Python" (2005). Goal: Factual,
Wildlife Specials
1995 ★ 8.3The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995