100 Greatest British Television
Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the
British Film Institute
(BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to
determine what were the greatest
British
television programmes of any genre ever to have been
screened.
- Fawlty Towers BBC2 1975, 1979
- Cathy Come Home (The Wednesday Play) BBC1 1966
- Doctor Who BBC1 1963-1989, 1996, 2005-
- The Naked Civil Servant ITV 1975
- Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC2 1969-1974
- Blue Peter BBC1 1958-
- Boys from the Blackstuff BBC2 1982
- Parkinson BBC1/ITV 1971-1982, 1998-2007
- Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister BBC2 1980-1988
- Brideshead Revisited ITV 1981
- Abigail's Party (Play for Today) BBC1 1977
- I, Claudius BBC2 1976
- Dad's Army BBC1 1968-1977
- The Morecambe & Wise Show ITV/BBC1 1961-1983
- Edge of Darkness BBC2 1985
- Blackadder Goes Forth BBC1 1989
- Absolutely Fabulous BBC2/BBC1 1992-1996, 2001-2004
- The Wrong Trousers BBC2 1993
- The World at War ITV 1973-1974
- The Singing Detective BBC1 1986
- Pennies From Heaven BBC1 1978
- The Jewel in the Crown ITV 1984
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ITV 1998-
- Hancock's Half Hour BBC1 1956-1961
- Our Friends in the North BBC2 1996
- 28 Up ITV 1985
- The War Game (The Wednesday Play) BBC1 1965 (transmitted 1985)
- The Magic Roundabout BBC1 1965-1977
- That Was The Week That Was BBC1 1962-1963
- An Englishman Abroad BBC1 1983
- The Royle Family BBC1 1998-2000, 2006, 2008
- Life On Earth BBC2 1979
- The Old Grey Whistle Test BBC2 1971-1987
- University Challenge ITV/BBC2 1961-1987, 1994-
- Porridge BBC1 1974-1977
- Blue Remembered Hills (Play for Today) BBC1 1979
- Mastermind BBC1/BBC2 1972-1997, 2003-
- I'm Alan Partridge BBC2 1997, 2002
- Cracker ITV 1993-1996, 2006
- Coronation Street ITV 1960-
- Top of the Pops BBC2/BBC1 1964-2006, 2007, 2008
- Inspector Morse ITV 1987-2000
- Grange Hill BBC1 1978-2008
- Steptoe and Son BBC1 1962-1965, 1970-1974
- Only Fools and Horses BBC1 1981-1996, 2001-2003
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (series 1) ITV 1983-1986
- Tiswas ITV 1974-1982
- Elgar BBC 1962
- Nuts in May (Play for Today) BBC1 1976
- Father Ted Channel 4 1995-1998
- The Avengers ITV 1961-1969
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy BBC2 1979
- The Forsyte Saga BBC2 1967
- Hillsborough ITV 1996
- Dennis Potter: The Last Interview (Without Walls Special) Channel 4 1994
- Bar Mitzvah Boy (Play for Today) BBC1 1976
- Edna, the Inebriate Woman (Play for Today) BBC1 1971
- Live Aid for Africa BBC1 1985
- World In Action ITV 1963-1998
- Thunderbirds ITV 1965-1966
- Talking Heads/Talking Heads 2 BBC2 1987, 1998
- Ready Steady Go! ITV 1963-1966
- Z-Cars BBC1 1962-1978
- Culloden BBC1 1964
- The Ascent of Man BBC2 1973
- A Very British Coup Channel 4 1988
- Civilisation BBC2 1969
- Prime Suspect ITV 1991-1996, 2003-2006
- The Likely Lads / Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? BBC2/BBC1 1964-1966, 1973-1974
- Have I Got News for You BBC2/BBC1 1990-
- The Snowman Channel 4 1982
- Walking with Dinosaurs BBC1 1999
- Nineteen Eighty-Four BBC1 1954
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin BBC1 1976-1979
- Quatermass and the Pit BBC1 1958-1959
- Between The Lines BBC1 1992-1994
- Blind Date ITV 1985-2003
- Talking to a Stranger (Theatre 625) BBC2 1966
- The Borrowers BBC1 1992
- One Foot in the Grave BBC1 1990-2000
- Later with Jools Holland BBC2 1992-
- Tutti Frutti BBC2 1987
- The Knowledge ITV 1979
- House of Cards BBC1 1990-1995
- This is Your Life BBC1/ITV 1955-1964, 1969-2003, 2007
- The Tube Channel 4 1982-1987
- The Death of Yugoslavia BBC2 1995
- Till Death Us Do Part BBC1 1966-1975
- A Very Peculiar Practice BBC1 1986-1992
- Michael Moore's TV Nation BBC2 1995
- This Life BBC2 1996-1997, 2007
- Death on the Rock (This Week) ITV 1988
- The Nazis: A Warning from History BBC2 1997
- Drop the Dead Donkey Channel 4 1990-1998
- Arena BBC2 1975-
- The Railway Children BBC1 1968
- Teletubbies BBC2 1997-2001
- Spitting Image ITV 1984-1996
- Pride and Prejudice BBC1 1995
- Made in Britain ITV 1982