Comedy and Variety Programmes

These are the comedy and variety programmes from which the bfi tv 100 voters were asked to choose their favourites.

• Absolutely (Channel 4, 1989-93)
• Absolutely Fabulous (BBC, 1992-96)
• All Gas and Gaiters (BBC, 1967-71)
• 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC, 1984-92)
• Are You Being Served? (BBC, 1973-85)
• Army Game, The (ITV, 1957-61)
• Arthur Haynes Show, The (ITV, 1957-66)
• At Last the 1948 Show (ITV, 1967)
• Barrymore (ITV, 1991-97)
• Before Your Very Eyes (Jack Hylton Presents) (ITV, 1956-57)
• Benny Hill Show, The (ITV, 1969-89)
• Birds of a Feather (BBC, 1989-98)
• Black and White Minstrel Show, The (BBC, 1958-78)
• Blackadder Goes Forth (BBC, 1989)
• Brass (ITV, 1983-84/90)
• Brass Eye (Channel 4, 1997)
• Butterflies (BBC, 1978-83)
• Candid Camera (ITV, 1960-67)
• Comedians, The (ITV, 1971-92)
• Dad's Army (BBC, 1968-77)
• Dame Edna Experience, The (ITV, 1987-89)
• Dave Allen At Large (BBC, 1971-76)
• David Nixon Show, The (ITV, 1972-77)
• Day Today, The (BBC, 1994)
• Desmond's (Channel 4, 1989-94)
• Dick Emery Show, The (BBC, 1963-81)
• Dinnerladies (BBC, 1998-)
• Doctor in the House (ITV, 1969-70)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (Channel 4, 1990-98)
• Ever Decreasing Circles (BBC, 1984-87/89)
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The (BBC, 1976-79)
• Fast Show, The (BBC, 1994-97)
• Father Ted (Channel 4, 1995-98)
• Fawlty Towers (BBC, 1975/79)
• Five Go Mad in Dorset (Comic Strip Presents) (Channel 4, 1982)
• French and Saunders (BBC, 1987-)
• Friday Night Live/Saturday Live (Channel 4, 1985-88)
• Frost Report, The (BBC, 1966-67)
• George and the Dragon (ITV, 1966-68)
• Good Life, The (BBC, 1975-77)
• Goodies, The (BBC/ITV, 1970-82)
• Goodness Gracious Me (BBC, 1998-)
• Hancock/Hancock's Half Hour (BBC, 1956-61)
• Harry Enfield and Chums (BBC, 1994-97)
• Have I Got News for You? (BBC, 1990-)
• Here's Harry (BBC, 1960-65)
• Hi-De-Hi! (BBC, 1981-88)
• It'll Be Alright on the Night (ITV, 1977-)
• It's A Square World (BBC, 1960-65)
• I'm Alan Partridge (BBC, 1997)
• Just Good Friends (BBC, 1983-86)
• Last of the Summer Wine (BBC, 1973-)
• League of Gentlemen, The (BBC, 1999-)
• Lenny Henry Show, The (BBC, 1984-85)
• Likely Lads/Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (BBC, 1964-66/73-74)
• Liver Birds, The (BBC, 1969-79)
• Man About the House (ITV, 1973-76)
• Marriage Lines (BBC, 1963-66)
• Marty (BBC, 1968-69)
• Meet the Wife (BBC, 1963-66)
• Men Behaving Badly (ITV/BBC, 1992-98)
• Mike Yarwood in Persons (BBC, 1977-81)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-74)
• Morecambe & Wise Show, The (BBC, 1968-76)
• Mr Bean (ITV, 1990-95)
• Mrs Merton Show (BBC, 1995-97)
• Muppet Show, The (ITV, 1977-81)
• Nearest and Dearest (ITV, 1968-73)
• Not in Front of the Children (BBC, 1967-70)
• Not Only... But Also (BBC, 1965-66/70)
• Not the Nine O'Clock News (BBC, 1979-82)
• On the Buses (ITV, 1969-73)
• One Foot in the Grave (BBC, 1990-97)
• Only Fools and Horses (BBC, 1981-96)
• Paul Calf Video Diary (BBC, 1994)
• Please, Sir! (ITV, 1968-72)
• Porridge (BBC, 1974-77)
• Q5 (BBC, 1969)
• Rab C Nesbitt (BBC, 1990-)
• Rag Trade, The (BBC, 1961-63)
• Real McCoy, The (BBC, 1991-96)
• Red Dwarf (BBC, 1988-)
• Ripping Yarns (BBC, 1976/79)
• Rising Damp (ITV, 1974-78)
• Rory Bremner... Who Else? (Channel 4, 1993-98)
• Royle Family, The (BBC, 1998-)
• Show Called Fred, A (ITV, 1956)
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (BBC, 1973-78)
• Spitting Image (ITV, 1984-96)
• Stanley Baxter Show (BBC, 1963-71)
• Steptoe and Son (BBC, 1962-65/70-74)
• Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ITV, 1955-67)
• Sykes and a... /Sykes (BBC, 1960-65/72-79)
• That Was The Week That Was (BBC, 1962-63)
• Three of a Kind (BBC, 1981-83)
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC, 1966-75)
• To The Manor Born (BBC, 1979-81)
• Tommy Cooper Hour, The (ITV, 1973-75)
• Two Ronnies, The (BBC, 1971-86)
• Up Pompeii! (BBC, 1970)
• Vic Reeves Big Night Out (Channel 4, 1990-91)
• Vicar of Dibley, The (BBC, 1994-)
• Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (BBC, 1985-86)
• Who Dares Wins (Channel 4, 1984-88)
• Whose Line is it Anyway? (Channel 4, 1988-98)
• Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (BBC, 1980-82/86-88)
• Young Ones, The (BBC, 1982/84)