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The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

The 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...

Crackerjack was a British children's comedy/variety BBC television series. It started on 14 September 1955 and ran for over 400 shows, first in black...

The 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...

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

A fun-packed and informative magazine show for younger viewers with information and reports from around the world.

Studio 4 is a BBC drama anthology series, filmed at the BBC TV Centre's Studio Four, and screening over two seasons in 1962. The series was envisaged...

Live performances from much-loved music stars, alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra, at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

Documentaries produced by or for the BBC

Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful...

Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of...

Drumbeat was a BBC television series that aired every Saturday from 4 April to 29 August 1959. It was the BBC's answer and rival to ITV's TV series...

...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it...

Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be broadcast by the BBC Television Service during the 1930s....

Playbox was a British children's television show that ran on BBC from 1955 to 1964. Presenters who appeared on it included Eamonn Andrews, Rolf...

Hosted by historian John Roberts, the series focuses on the origins and evolution of Western civilization, and the transformative challenges and...

A Christian slave pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act.

The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than...