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This is a list of television programmes broadcast by the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom.

Current programming

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Programmes in this section have been broadcast by the BBC in the last year or have a commission for further episodes.

Recommissioned shows are shown as running to the present, as are any show that is currently airing.

Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used.

Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.

Drama

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Title Channel First broadcast Notes
Doctor Who One 23 November 1963 – 6 December 1989
27 May 1996 (film) Co-production with Fox
26 March 2005 – present (revival) Co-production with Disney+ (series 14–present)
Silent Witness One 21 February 1996 – present
Waterloo Road One (2006–14; 2023–present)
Three (2015)
9 March 2006 – 9 March 2015
3 January 2023 – present (revival)
Moving On One 18 May 2009 – 12 March 2021
Luther One 4 May 2010 – 4 January 2019 Continued by the film Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023) on Netflix
Sherlock One 25 July 2010 – 15 January 2017 Co-production with PBS
Death in Paradise One 25 October 2011 – present
Call the Midwife One 15 January 2012 – present
Line of Duty Two (2012–16)
One (2017–21)
26 June 2012 – 2 May 2021
Father Brown One 14 January 2013 – present
Shetland One 10 March 2013 – present
Our Girl One 24 March 2013 (pilot)
21 September 2014 – 28 April 2020
Peaky Blinders Two (2013–17)
One (2019–22)
12 September 2013 – 3 April 2022 Set to be continued by the upcoming film The Immortal Man (TBA) on Netflix
Happy Valley One 29 April 2014 – 5 February 2023 Co-production with AMC+ (series 3)
Poldark One 8 March 2015 – 26 August 2019
Doctor Foster One 9 September 2015 – 3 October 2017
American Crime Story Two 15 February 2016 – 21 December 2021 Acquired from FX
The Night Manager One 21 February 2016 – present Co-production with AMC (series 1) and Amazon Prime Video (series 2–present)
The A Word One 22 March 2016 – 9 June 2020
Taboo One 7 January – 25 February 2017 Co-production with FX
Strike One 27 August 2017 – present Co-production with Cinemax (series 1–4) and HBO (series 5–present)
Snowfall Two 8 October 2017 – 13 July 2023 Acquired from FX
McMafia One 1 January – 11 February 2018 Co-production with AMC
Keeping Faith Wales (2018)
One (2019–21)
13 February 2018 – 1 May 2021 Co-production with S4C
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators One 26 February 2018 – present Co-production with Alibi (series 5)
The Split One 24 April 2018 – 9 May 2022 Co-production with Sundance TV (series 1–2) and BBC America (series 3)
Bodyguard One 26 August – 23 September 2018
Trust Two 12 September – 14 November 2018 Acquired from FX
Killing Eve One 15 September 2018 – 17 April 2022 Acquired from BBC America
The Sinner Four 1 December 2018 – 11 January 2020 Acquired from USA Network
Only the first two series were broadcast on the BBC. Moved to Netflix
Mayans M.C. Two 2 February 2019 – 4 July 2021 Acquired from FX
Only the first three series were broadcast on the BBC. Moved to Disney+
Baptiste One 17 February 2019 – 22 August 2021
Pose Two 21 March 2019 – 8 August 2021 Acquired from FX
Gentleman Jack One 19 May 2019 – 29 May 2022 Co-production with HBO
London Kills One 24 June 2019 – present Co-production with Acorn TV
The Capture One 3 September 2019 – 12 September 2022
World On Fire One 29 September 2019 – 20 August 2023
Dublin Murders One 14 October – 5 November 2019 Co-production with Starz and RTÉ
Giri/Haji Two 17 October – 5 December 2019 Co-production with Netflix
Guilt Scotland 30 October 2019 – 25 April 2023
His Dark Materials One 3 November 2019 – 5 February 2023 Co-production with HBO
Vienna Blood Two 18 November 2019 – present Co-production with ORF 2
The Mallorca Files One 25 November 2019 – present
Worzel Gummidge One 26 December 2019 – 29 December 2021
Wisting Four 28 December 2019 – present Acquired from Viaplay
Good Omens Two 15 January 2020 – present Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
Get Even iPlayer 14 February 2020
Noughts + Crosses One 5 March 2020 – 17 May 2022
Five Bedrooms One 10 March 2020 – 20 October 2023 Acquired from Network 10 (series 1) and Paramount+ (series 2–4)
The Nest One 22 March – 13 April 2020
Katy Keene iPlayer 25 July 2020 Acquired from The CW
Fort Salem Three 26 July 2020 – 30 October 2022 Acquired from Freeform
The Secrets She Keeps One 6 July 2020 – 13 August 2022 Acquired from Network 10 (series 1) and Paramount+ (series 2)
Harlots Two 5 August – 21 October 2020 Acquired from ITV Encore and Hulu
Good Trouble Three 16 August 2020 – 3 October 2021 Acquired from Freeform
Only the first three series were broadcast on the BBC. Moved to Disney+
Us One 20 September – 11 October 2020
Life One 29 September – 3 November 2020
Industry Two 10 November 2020 – present Co-production with HBO
Traces One 4 January 2021 – 4 April 2024 Acquired from Alibi
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists iPlayer 16 January 2021 Acquired from Freeform
Bloodlands One 21 February 2021 – 23 October 2022 Co-production with Acorn TV
The Pact One 17 May 2021 – 28 November 2022
Time One 6 June 2021 – present
Gossip Girl One 25 August 2021 – 11 May 2023 Acquired from HBO Max
Vigil One 29 August 2021 – present
Showtrial One 31 October 2021 – present
Hope Street Northern Ireland 24 November 2021 – present
Superman & Lois One 10 December 2021 – present Acquired from The CW
Around the World in 80 Days One 26 December 2021 – present Acquired from France Télévisions, RAI and ZDF
The Tourist One 1 January 2022 – present Co-production with HBO Max (series 1), Stan and ZDF
The Responder One 24 January 2022 – present
Cheaters One 8 February – present
Sherwood One 13 June 2022 – present
The Newsreader Two 24 July 2022 – present Acquired from ABC
Ralph & Katie One 5 – 19 October 2022
SAS: Rogue Heroes One 30 October 2022 – present Co-production with Epix (series 1) and MGM+ (series 2)
Tokyo Vice One 22 November 2022 – 12 June 2024 Acquired from HBO Max (series 1) and Max (series 2)
Granite Harbour Scotland 1 December 2022 – present
Marie Antoinette Two 29 December 2022 – present Co-production with Canal+
Pretty Little Liars One 10 January 2023 – 3 September 2024 Acquired from HBO Max (series 1) and Max (series 2)
The Gold One 12 February 2023 – present Co-production with Paramount+ (series 1)
Better One 13 February – 13 March 2023
Beyond Paradise One 24 February 2023 – present Co-production with BritBox
Phoenix Rise Three 21 March 2023 – present
Blue Lights One 27 March 2023 – present
Ten Pound Poms One 14 May 2023 – present Co-production with Stan
Annika One 20 May 2023 – present Acquired from Alibi
Champion One 1 July – 19 August 2023
We Hunt Together One 26 June 2023 – 22 July 2024 Acquired from Alibi
The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies One 29 August 2023
Black Snow Four 28 September 2023 – present Acquired from Stan
Interview with the Vampire Two 12 October 2023 – present Acquired from AMC
Grime Kids Three 13 November 2023
Kin One 18 November 2023 – 6 March 2024 Acquired from RTÉ and AMC+ (series 2)
Scrublands Four 18 November 2023 – present Acquired from Stan
Mayfair Witches Two 6 December 2023 – present Acquired from AMC
Domino Day Three 31 January 2024
The Gone Four 16 March 2024 – present Acquired from TVNZ and RTÉ
Rebus One 17 May 2024
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Three 1 July 2024
The Turkish Detective Two 7 July 2024 Acquired from Paramount+
High Country One 13 July 2024 Acquired from Showcase
Ludwig One 25 September 2024 – present
Mr Loverman One 14 October 2024

Comedy

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
Not Going Out One 6 October 2006 – present
Gavin & Stacey Three (2007–08)
One (2008–10; 19; 24)
13 May 2007 – 1 January 2010
25 December 2019 (special)
25 December 2024 (special)
Outnumbered One 28 August 2007 – 5 March 2014
26 December 2016 (special)
December 2024 (special)
Mrs. Brown's Boys One 21 February 2011 – present Co-production with RTÉ One
Bad Education Three 14 August 2012 – 21 October 2014
15 December 2022 – 28 January 2024 (revival)
Two Doors Down Scotland (2013)
Two (2016–22)
One (2022–present)
31 December 2013 (pilot)
1 April 2016 – present
Inside No. 9 Two 5 February 2014 – 12 June 2024
Detectorists Four (2014–17)
Two (2022)
2 October 2014 – 13 December 2017
26 December 2022 (special)
Upstart Crow Two 9 May 2016 – 25 December 2018
21 December 2020 (special)
Motherland Two (2016–21)
One (2022)
9 June 2016 (pilot)
7 November 2017 – 10 May 2021
23 December 2022 (special)
Man Like Mobeen Three 6 October 2016 (pilot)
17 December 2017 – present
The Other One One 13 September 2017 (pilot)
5 June 2020 – 6 May 2022
The Young Offenders Three (2018–20)
One (2024)
1 February 2018 – present Co-production with RTÉ2 (series 1–2) and RTÉ One (series 3–present)
Hold the Sunset One 18 February 2018 – 6 September 2019
There She Goes Four (2018)
Two (2020; 2023)
16 October 2018 – 6 August 2020
21 June 2023 (special)
Jerk Three 24 February 2019 – 28 March 2023
This Time with Alan Partridge One 25 February 2019 – 4 June 2021
Back to Life Three (2019)
One (2021)
15 April 2019 – 31 August 2021 Co-production with Showtime
Ghosts One 15 April 2019 – 25 December 2023
What We Do in the Shadows Two 19 May 2019 – 2 November 2021 Acquired from FX
Only the first three series were broadcast on the BBC. Moved to Disney+
Mandy Two 25 July 2019 (pilot)
13 August 2020 – present
The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk Two 4 August 2019 – 9 February 2022
Scarborough One 6 September – 11 October 2019
State of the Union Two 8 September 2019 – 23 February 2022 Acquired from Sundance TV
The Goes Wrong Show One 23 December 2019 – 1 November 2021
The Scotts Scotland 6 January 2020 (pilot)
6 September 2021 – 5 December 2023
Alma's Not Normal Two 7 April 2020 (pilot)
13 September 2021 – present
Dave Two 10 May 2020 – 10 October 2021 Acquired from FXX
Only the first two series were broadcast on the BBC. Moved to Disney+
Staged One 10 June 2020 – 26 January 2021 Moved to BritBox for the third series
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens Three 2 October 2020 – present Acquired from Comedy Central
Out of Her Mind Two 20 October – 24 November 2020
Here We Go One 30 December 2020 (pilot)
29 April 2022 – present
PRU Three 2 March 2021 (pilot)
26 May – 16 June 2022
The Break Three 27 March 2021 – present
Dreaming Whilst Black Three 19 April 2021 (pilot)
24 July 2023 – present
Starstruck Three 25 April 2021 – present Co-production with HBO Max (series 1–2) and Max (series 3)
The Cleaner One 10 September 2021 – present
Bump One 20 October 2021 – present Acquired from Stan
The Outlaws One 25 October 2021 – present Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
Mammoth Wales (2021)
Two (2024–present)
5 November 2021 (pilot)
17 April 2024 – present
Toast of Tinseltown Two 4 January – 8 February 2022 Previously aired for three series on Channel 4 as Toast of London
The Witchfinder Two 8 March – 12 April 2022
Peacock Three 25 April 2022 – present
Everything I Know About Love One 8 June – 21 July 2022
Avoidance One 10 June 2022 – present
Ellie & Natasia Three (2022)
Two (TBA)
21 June 2022 – present
Am I Being Unreasonable? One 23 September 2022 – present
Stuck Two 26 September – 1 November 2022
Wreck Three 9 October 2022 – present
Ghosts (US) Three 20 November 2022 – present Acquired from CBS
Our Flag Means Death Two 28 January 2023 – 11 March 2024 Acquired from HBO Max (series 1) and Max (series 2)
Rain Dogs One 4 April – 23 May 2023 Co-production with HBO
Colin from Accounts Two 16 April 2023 – present Acquired from Foxtel
Black Ops One 5 May 2023 – present
Funboys Three 14 June 2023 (pilot)
TBA
Queen of Oz One 16 June – 21 July 2023
The Power of Parker One 28 July 2023 – present
Henpocalypse! Two 15 August 2023
Juice Three 18 September 2023 – present
Sandylands Two 18 September 2023 – 30 May 2024 Acquired from Gold
Crazy Fun Park Three 16 – 20 October 2023 Acquired from ABC
Such Brave Girls Three 22 November 2023 – present
Boarders Three 20 February 2024 – present
Things You Should Have Done Three 29 February 2024 – present
Spent Two 1 July 2024
Sneakerhead Two 25 July 2024 Acquired from Dave
Daddy Issues Three 15 August 2024 – present
We Might Regret This Two 19 August 2024 – present

Miniseries

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
Looking For Alaska Three 19 October – 9 November 2019 Acquired from Hulu
Gold Digger One 12 November – 17 December 2019
The War of the Worlds One 17 November – 1 December 2019
A Christmas Carol One 22 – 24 December 2019 Co-production with FX
The Trial of Christine Keeler One 29 December 2019 – 26 January 2020
Dracula One 1 – 3 January 2020 Co-production with Netflix
The Pale Horse One 9 – 16 February 2020 Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
Trigonometry Two 15 March – 26 April 2020
My Left Nut One 24 March – 7 April 2020
Devs Two 15 April – 7 May 2020 Acquired from Hulu
Normal People Three 26 April – 31 May 2020 Co-production with Hulu
I May Destroy You One 8 June – 14 July 2020 Co-production with HBO
The Salisbury Poisonings One 14 – 16 June 2020
The Luminaries One 21 June – 6 July 2020 Co-production with TVNZ 1
Mrs. America Two 8 – 30 July 2020 Acquired from Hulu
The Last Wave Four 25 July – 8 August 2020 Acquired from France 2
A Suitable Boy One 26 July – 30 August 2020
Small Axe One 15 November – 13 December 2020 Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
Black Narcissus One 27 December 2020 – 10 January 2021 Co-production with FX
The Serpent One 1 January – 14 February 2021 Co-production with Netflix
A Teacher One 3 – 7 February 2021 Acquired from Hulu
The Pursuit of Love One 9 – 23 May 2021
Three Families One 10 – 11 May 2021
The North Water Two 10 September – 8 October 2021 Co-production with CBC and Super Channel
Ridley Road One 3 – 24 October 2021 Co-production with PBS
You Don't Know Me One 5 – 13 December 2021 Co-production with Netflix
The Girl Before One 19 – 22 December 2021 Co-production with HBO Max
Four Lives One 3 – 5 January 2022
Rules of the Game One 11 – 19 January 2022
Chloe One 6 – 21 February 2022 Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
This is Going to Hurt One 8 February – 22 March 2022 Co-production with AMC+
Mood Three 1 March – 6 April 2022
Life After Life Two 19 April – 10 May 2022
Conversations with Friends Three 15 May – 7 June 2022 Co-production with Hulu and RTÉ One
Red Rose Three 15 August – 6 September 2022 Co-production with Netflix
Crossfire One 20 – 22 September 2022
Inside Man One 26 September – 4 October 2022 Co-production with Netflix
The English Two 10 November – 15 December 2022 Co-production with Amazon Prime Video
Mayflies One 27 – 28 December 2022
Great Expectations One 26 March – 30 April 2023 Co-production with FX on Hulu
Steeltown Murders One 15 May – 5 June 2023
The Gallows Pole Two 31 May – 14 June 2023
Best Interests One 12 – 20 June 2023
The Sixth Commandment One 17 – 25 July 2023
Clean Sweep Four 29 July – 12 August 2023 Acquired from RTÉ One
Wolf One 31 July – 15 August 2023
The Woman in the Wall One 27 August – 24 September 2023
Bad Behaviour Three 4 – 25 September 2023 Acquired from Stan
Boiling Point One 1 – 22 October 2023
The Reckoning One 9 – 17 October 2023
Boat Story One 19 November – 4 December 2023 Co-production with Amazon Freevee
Murder Is Easy One 27 – 28 December 2023 Co-production with BritBox
The Way One 19 February – 4 March 2024
Newark, Newark Two 5 – 19 March 2024 Acquired from Gold
The Dropout One 19 March – 9 April 2024 Acquired from Hulu
This Town One 31 March – 28 April 2024
Dopesick One 28 April – 19 May 2024 Acquired from Hulu
Spy/Master Four 4 – 18 May 2024 Acquired from Max
Lost Boys and Fairies One 3 – 17 June 2024
The Jetty One 15 – 22 July 2024
Dead and Buried Northern Ireland 2 – 23 September 2024
Nightsleeper One 15 – 30 September 2024

Soap

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
EastEnders One 19 February 1985 – present
Casualty One 6 September 1986 – present
Holby City One 12 January 1999 – 29 March 2022
Doctors One 27 March 2000 – present Daytime programming
River City Scotland 24 September 2002 – present
The Heights One 15 June – 27 July 2020 Acquired from ABC
Daytime programming

One-off drama

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
Elizabeth Is Missing One 8 December 2019
Responsible Child Two 16 December 2019
Martin's Close Four 24 December 2019
The Windermere Children Two 27 January 2020
Sitting in Limbo One 8 June 2020
Make Me Famous Three 17 June 2020
Anthony One 27 July 2020
Danny Boy Two 12 May 2021
Together Two 17 June 2021
The Trick One 18 October 2021

Unscripted

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Documentaries

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
Panorama One 11 November 1953 – present
Horizon Two 2 May 1964 – present
The World About Us Two 3 December 1967 – 20 July 1986
Arena Two & Four 1 October 1975 – present
Child of Our Time One 23 February 2000 – 11 March 2020
Imagine... One 11 June 2003 – present
This World Two & World News 4 January 2004 – present
Great British Railway Journeys Two & Four 4 January 2010 – present
Nature's Weirdest Events Two 3 January 2012 – 8 May 2017
Brian Pern Two & Four 2014 – 2017
The Met: Policing London One 8 June 2015 – 28 November 2023
Immortal Egypt Two 4 – 25 January 2016 Also known as The Story of Egypt
Cunk On... Two 2016-2022
Civilisations Two 1 March 2018
Once Upon a Time in Iraq Two 13 July – 10 August 2020
The Kemps: All True Two 2020
Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power Three 13 May 2021
Life in Colour with David Attenborough Two 2021 Co-production with Netflix
9/11: Inside the President's War Room One 1 September 2021 Co-production with Apple TV+

Gameshows

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
Bargain Hunt One 13 March 2000 – present
The Weakest Link Two 14 August 2000 – 8 February 2008; 5 September 2011 – 30 March 2012; 17 November 2017
One 31 October 2000 – 31 March 2012; 18 December 2021 – present
Flog It! Two 27 May 2002 – 4 May 2020
One (2013–2020)
Eggheads One 10 November 2003 – 28 October 2004
Two 23 May 2005 – 6 May 2019
Pointless Two 24 August 2009 – 26 August 2011
One 29 August 2011 – present
Decimate One 20 April 2015 – 28 October 2016
Think Tank One 21 March – 16 December 2016
The Code One 18 April 2016 – 21 April 2017
Debatable Two 22 August 2016 – 2 June 2017
Impossible One 2 January 2017 – present
The Boss One 24 April – 13 October 2017
Letterbox Two 17 July 2017 – 8 November 2018
Hardball One 14 May – 8 June 2018
Chase the Case One 17 September – 12 October 2018
I'll Get This Two 6 November 2018 – 12 May 2020
Catchpoint One 23 March 2019 – 25 June 2022
The Hit List One 25 May 2019 – present
Head Hunters One 7 October – 15 November 2019
The Wall One 12 October 2019 – 2 April 2022
Take Off with Bradley & Holly One 24 December 2019
24 July – 14 August 2021
Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance One 24 February – 14 March 2021
I Can See Your Voice One 10 April 2021 – 24 December 2022
Unbeatable One 10 May 2021
Bridge of Lies One 14 March 2022
The Finish Line One 21 August 2023

Reality

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Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
The Sky at Night One 24 April 1957 – 7 January 2013
Four 2014
Blue Peter One 16 October 1958 – 2012
CBBC 2013
Points of View One 2 October 1961 – present
Songs of Praise One 1 October 1961 – present
Top of the Pops One 1 January 1964 – 11 July 2005
24 December 1964 – 31 December 2021 (Christmas specials)
Two 17 July 2005 – 30 July 2006
24 December 2022 – present (Christmas specials)
Match of the Day Two 22 August 1964 – 1966
One 1966 – present
Gardeners' World Two 5 January 1968 – present
Question of Sport One 2 December 1968 (pilot)
5 January 1970 – present
Mastermind One 11 September 1972 – 1 September 1997
Discovery 2001 – 2002
Two 7 July 2003 – present
Football Focus One 1974
Top Gear Two (1977–2020) Original series: 22 April 1977 – 17 December 2001
Revival series: 20 October 2002 – 1 March 2020; 4 October 2020 – 18 December 2022
One (2020–present)
Antiques Roadshow One 18 February 1979 – present
See Hear Two 11 October 1981 – present
Countryfile One 24 July 1988 – present
MasterChef One 2 July 1990 – 3 July 2001; 21 February 2005 – present
Two
Have I Got News for You One / Two 28 September 1990 – present
Later... with Jools Holland Two 8 October 1992 – present
The National Lottery One 1994 – 2017 (short clip of draw results after BBC news)
2016 –
Room 101 Two 4 July 1994 – 9 February 2007
One 20 January 2012 – 6 April 2018
University Challenge ITV 21 September 1962 – 31 December 1987
Two 21 September 1994 – present
DIY SOS One 7 October 1999 – present
Saturday Kitchen Two 26 January 2002 – January 2006
One January 2006 –
The National Lottery: In It to Win It One 18 May 2002 – 16 July 2016
Escape to the Country One 2002 Daytime programming
Two 2002 – 2012
QI Four 11 September 2003 – 2008
Two 18 September 2003 – present
One 26 November 2009 – present
Homes Under the Hammer One 17 November 2003 – present Daytime programming
Celebrity Mastermind One 30 December 2002 – present
Live at the Apollo One 6 September 2004 – 2 January 2015
Two 9 November 2015 – present
Match of the Day 2 Two 15 August 2004 – 2012
One 2012 – present
Strictly Come Dancing One 15 May 2004 – present
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two Two 25 October 2004 – present
Who Do You Think You Are? Two 12 October 2004 – 15 February 2006
One 6 September 2006 – present
Dragons' Den Two 4 January 2005 – 12 April 2020
One 1 April 2021 – present
Mock the Week Two 5 June 2005 – 4 November 2022
Springwatch Two 30 May 2005 – present
The Apprentice Two 16 February 2005 – 10 May 2006
One 28 March 2007 – present
The Apprentice: You're Fired! Three 22 February – 10 May 2006
Two 28 March 2007 – 23 March 2023
Celebrity MasterChef One 2006 – 2011
Two 2012
The One Show One 14 August 2006 – present
The Graham Norton Show One 22 February 2007 – present
Would I Lie to You? One 16 June 2007 – present
The Big Questions One 9 September 2007
Helicopter Heroes One 3 September 2007 – 2 February 2015 Daytime programming
Who Dares Wins One 17 November 2007 – 7 September 2019
Only Connect Four 15 September 2008 – 7 July 2014
Two 1 September 2014 – present
The Sheriffs Are Coming One 19 March 2012 – present Daytime programming
The Great British Sewing Bee Two 2 April 2013 – 2 April 2019
One 22 April 2020 – 26 July 2023
The Great Interior Design Challenge Two 20 January 2014 – 19 January 2017
The Great Pottery Throw Down Two 3 November 2015 – 23 March 2017
Michael McIntyre's Big Show One 25 December 2015 – present
The Big Painting Challenge Two 22 February 2015 – 29 March 2016
One 12 February 2017 –
Insert Name Here Two 4 January 2016
The NFL Show One 13 September 2016
NFL This Week Two 13 September 2016
Sounds Like Friday Night One 27 October 2017
The Greatest Dancer One 5 January 2019
Race Across the World One 3 March 2019 – present
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star Three 6 March 2019
Interior Design Masters Two 14 August 2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK Three 3 October 2019
Little Mix: The Search One 26 September 2020 – 7 November 2020
Pooch Perfect One 7 January 2021 – 4 March 2021
Celebrity Best Home Cook One 26 January 2021 – 17 February 2021
This is MY House One 24 March 2021 – 29 April 2021
All That Glitters Two 13 April 2021 –
Crouchy's Year-Late Euros: Live One 11 June 2021 – 11 July 2021
The Traitors One 29 November 2022 – present
Celebrity Race Across The World One 20 September 2023 – present
Doctor Who: Unleashed Three 17 November 2023

News programming

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For programmes which only air on the BBC World News Channel, see programming on BBC World News.

Title Channel First Broadcast Notes
BBC News One 5 July 1954 – present
News Channel 1997
Question Time One 25 September 1979 – present
Newsnight Two 28 January 1980 – present
BBC News at Six One 3 September 1984 – present
This Week News Channel 16 January 2003 – 18 July 2019
Daily Politics Two, One & News Channel 8 January 2003 – 24 July 2018
BBC News at One One 27 October 1986 – present
BBC News at Nine News Channel 18 March 2013 – 31 March 2015
Two 5 November 2018 – 16 April 2023
One 21 March – 4 September 2020
BBC World News One, Two & News Channel 16 January 1995 – present
World Business Report One, Two & News Channel 1995 – present
Sportday/Sport Today One, Two, World News & News Channel 2003 – present Branded as either Sportday or Sport Today depending on simulcasting.
BBC Breakfast One, Two & News Channel 2 October 2000 – present
BBC News at Ten One 16 October 2000 – present
The Andrew Marr Show One 11 September 2005 – 19 December 2021 Titled as Sunday AM 2005–2007.
BBC News at Five News Channel 3 April 2006 – 13 March 2020
World News Today Four, News Channel and World News 31 May 2006 – 20 March 2020 Titled as World News Today with George Alagiah (2006–2010) and World News Today with Zeinab Badawi (2007–2014).
Newsday One, News Channel & World News 13 June 2011 – present
Victoria Derbyshire Two & News Channel 7 April 2015 – 17 March 2020
BBC Newsroom Live Two & News Channel 21 March 2016 – 2020
GMT Two & World News 1 February 2010 – 1 November 2019
The Context Four, News Channel & World News 23 January 2017 – present Titled as: 100 Days until May 2017, 100 Days + until July 2017 and Beyond 100 Days until March 2020.
Afternoon Live News Channel 9 October 2017
The Briefing One, News Channel & World News 30 October 2017
Morning Live One 26 October 2020 – present
Context with Christian Fraser News Channel & World News 5 January 2022
The Catch Up Three 1 February 2022 – present
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg One & News Channel 4 September 2022 – present

Sports programming

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  • FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport)
  • Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present
  • The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009)
  • Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
  • Rugby League Challenge Cup: BBC One & Two 1948 – present
  • Summer & Winter Olympic Games: BBC One & Two 1948 – present
  • The Open Championship: BBC One & Two 1955 – present (live coverage 1955 – 2015, highlights 2016 – present)
  • Test Match Special: BBC Radio 1957 – present
  • Final Score: BBC One 1958 – present (part of Grandstand 1958 – 2001)
  • Grandstand: BBC One 1958 – 2007, BBC Two 1981 – 2007
  • The Grand National: BBC One 1960 – 2012, BBC Radio 1948 – present (rights transferred to Channel 4)
  • Rugby League World Cup: BBC One & Two 1960 – present (live coverage 1960 – 2000 & 2013 – present, highlights only 2008)
  • UEFA European Championship: BBC One 1960 – present (shared with ITV Sport)
  • FIFA World Cup: BBC One 1962 – present (shared with ITV Sport)
  • Match of the Day: BBC Two 1964 – 1966, BBC One 1966 – present (Only on air for FA Cup weekends 1988 – 1992 & 2001 – 2004)
  • Rugby Special: BBC Two 1966 – 2005 & 2016 – present
  • Sportsnight: BBC One 1968 – 1997
  • Football Focus: BBC One 1974 – present (part of Grandstand 1974 – 2001)
  • The Grand Prix: BBC One & BBC Two 1976 – 1996; BBC Three 2009 – 2015 (Rebroadcast between 2009 – 2015 on BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer)
  • Formula 1: BBC One, BBC Two & BBC Three 1976 – 1996 & 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 4)
  • World Snooker Championship: BBC One & BBC Two 1977 – present
  • BDO World Darts Championship: BBC One & BBC Two 1978 – 2016
  • Ski Sunday: BBC Two 1978 – present
  • London Marathon: BBC One 1981 – present
  • Great North Run: BBC One 1981 – present
  • Today at Wimbledon: BBC Two 1993 – 2014 & 2016 – present (replaced by Wimbledon 2Day in 2015)
  • 6 Nations Rugby: BBC One 2000 – present (shared with ITV Sport 2016 – present)
  • Match of the Day 2: BBC Two 2004 – 2012, BBC One 2012 – present
  • FIFA Club World Cup: 2005, 2012, 2019 – present
  • FIFA Women's World Cup – BBC One/Two 2007 – present
  • Super Bowl (BBC One Two 2007 – 2013 & 2016 – 2022)
  • ATP World Tour Finals – BBC Two 2009 – present
  • Football League/League Cup Show: BBC One 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 5)
  • PDC Champions League of Darts: BBC One & BBC Two 2016 – present
  • The Premier League Show: BBC Two 2016 – present
  • England Test Match, ODI & T20 International Highlights: 2020 – present
  • 2 England Men's T20 Internationals & 2 England Women's T20 International: 2020 – present
  • 10 matches from men's City based T20 competition & 8 matches from women's City based T20 competition: 2020 – present
  • UEFA Women's Championship 2022 – present

Events

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Former programming

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0–9

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Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
1 vs. 100 One 30 September 2006 23 May 2009
100 Greatest Britons One
Two
20 October 2002
101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow One 10 July 2010 28 August 2010
199 Park Lane One 3 August 1965 1 October 1965
1990 Two 18 September 1977 10 April 1978
2000 Today One 31 December 1999 1 January 2000
20th Century Battlefields Two 4 June 2007 23 July 2007
24 Two 2003 2004
2point4 Children One 3 September 1991 30 December 1999
3 Non-Blondes Three 9 February 2003 21 December 2003
3rd Rock from the Sun Two 24 October 1996 2002
5-Star Family Reunion One 25 July 2015 15 October 2016
50/50 One
CBBC
7 April 1997 12 July 2005
55 Degrees North One 6 July 2004 10 July 2005
60 Seconds Choice (2001–03)
Three (2003–16)
16 July 2001 16 February 2016
The 7 O'Clock News Three 10 February 2003 2 December 2005
The 70s Two 16 April 2012 7 May 2012
The 8:15 from Manchester One 21 April 1990 14 September 1991
999 One 25 June 1992 17 September 2003

A

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
A for Andromeda (1961) One 3 October 1961 14 November 1961
A for Andromeda (2006) Four 27 March 2006
The A to Z of TV Gardening Two 6 January 2013 30 June 2013
The A Word One 22 March 2016 9 June 2020
The ABC Murders BBC One 26 December 2018 28 December 2018
Absolute Power Two 10 November 2003 25 August 2005
Absolutely Fabulous One 12 November 1992
31 August 2001
25 December 2011
7 November 1996
25 December 2004
23 July 2012
Accidents Can Happen One 2004 2006
Accused (1996) One 3 November 1996 23 December 1996
Accused (2010) One 15 November 2010 4 September 2012
Adam Adamant Lives! One 23 June 1966 25 March 1967
The Admirable Crichton BBC TV 11 June 1950 15 June 1950 Live broadcast
Ads Infinitum Two 19 December 1996 30 October 2000
The Adventure Game One
Two
24 May 1980 18 February 1986
An Adventure in Space and Time Two
Four
21 November 2013 23 November 2023
Adventure Story (1950) BBC TV 1950
Adventure Story (1961) BBC TV 12 June 1961
Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart One 28 May 2012 30 May 2012
Africa One 2 January 2013 6 February 2013
After You've Gone One 12 January 2007 21 December 2008
Against the Law Two 2017
Age Before Beauty One 31 July 2018 29 August 2018
An Age of Kings One 28 April 1960 17 November 1960
Alan Davies Après-Ski Two 7 February 2014 21 February 2014
Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom Two 2015
Alice in Wonderland (1966) One 28 December 1966
All About Me One 8 March 2002 29 October 2004
All Along the Watchtower One 28 February 1999 11 April 1999
All Quiet on the Preston Front One 4 January 1994 8 September 1997
All Round to Mrs. Brown's One 25 March 2017 25 April 2020
All the Small Things One 31 March 2009 5 May 2009
'Allo 'Allo! One 30 December 1982 14 December 1992
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard One 3 October 2006 7 November 2006
Amazon Abyss One 4 April 2005 8 April 2005
The Ambassador One 4 January 1998 23 May 1999
Ambassadors Two 23 October 2013 6 November 2013
Amber Four 2014
American Dad! Two (2005–06)
Three (2007–16)
22 October 2005 Acquired from Fox
The American Future: A History Two 10 October 2008 31 October 2008
And Then There Were None One 26 December 2015 28 December 2015
Andrina One 30 November 1981
The Andromeda Breakthrough One 28 June 1962 2 August 1962 Sequel to A for Andromeda (1961)
Angel Pavement (1957) One 27 December 1957 17 January 1958
Angel Pavement (1967) One 19 August 1967 9 September 1967
Angels One 1 September 1975 22 December 1983
Andes to Amazon Two 6 November 2000 18 December 2000
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain Two 22 May 2007 19 June 2007
Andrew Marr's History of the World One 23 September 2012 11 November 2012
Animal Antics One 2012
Animal Babies One 2016
Animal Hospital One 29 August 1994 13 September 2004
Animals with Cameras One 2018
Ann Veronica Two 23 May 1964 13 June 1964
Anna of the Five Towns Two 9 January 1985 30 January 1985
Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife Three 9 February 2006 25 July 2007
Any Dream Will Do One 31 March 2007 9 June 2007
The Aphrodite Inheritance One 3 January 1979 21 February 1979
Apparitions One 13 November 2008 18 December 2008
Apple Tree Yard One 22 January 2017 6 February 2017
Appointment with Drama One 15 July 1955 12 August 1955
Archangel One 19 March 2005 20 March 2005
Are You Being Served? One 8 September 1972 1 April 1985
Are You an Egghead? Two 20 October 2008 23 November 2009
Are You Fitter Than a Pensioner? Three 23 September 2010 31 October 2010
Aristocrats One 20 June 1999 25 July 1999
The Ark One 30 March 2015
Around the World in 80 Treasures Two 21 February 2005 18 April 2005
Armadillo One 16 September 2001 30 September 2001
Artemis 81 One 29 December 1981
As I Was Saying One 10 September 1955 15 October 1955
As Seen on TV One 17 July 2009 3 September 2009
As Time Goes By One 12 January 1992 30 December 2005
The Ascent of Man Two 5 May 1973
Ashes to Ashes One 7 February 2008 21 May 2010 Sequel to Life on Mars (2006–2007)
Ask Rhod Gilbert One 27 September 2010 9 November 2011
Assy McGee Two (2010–12)
Three (2010–12)
26 November 2006 Acquired from Adult Swim
Asylum Four 9 February 2015 23 February 2015
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth Two 30 July 2015 13 August 2015
Atlantis One 28 September 2013 16 May 2015
Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild Two 16 November 2012 30 November 2012
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet One 28 April 2002 8 February 2004

B

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Babs One 7 May 2017
The Baby Borrowers Three 8 January 2007 19 January 2007
Babyfather Two 1 October 2001 18 December 2002
Back to the Floor Two 28 October 1997 19 April 2002
Backchat Two
Three
20 November 2013 26 December 2015
Backup One 7 September 1995 2 July 1997
Bad Education Three 14 August 2012 19 February 2023
Badults Three 23 July 2013 7 July 2014
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème Two 29 March 2016 31 May 2017
Baker Boys One Wales 23 January 2011 8 December 2011
The Baker Street Boys One 8 March 1983 1 April 1983
Ballet Shoes (1975) One 5 October 1975 9 November 1975
Ballet Shoes (2007) One 26 December 2007
Ballykissangel One 11 February 1996 15 April 2001
Band of Brothers Two 2001
Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer Two 1 January 1999 5 February 1999
Bang Goes the Theory One 27 July 2009 5 May 2014
Banished Two 5 March 2015 16 April 2015
Baptiste One 17 February 2019 22 August 2021
The Barbara Vine Mysteries BBC One 10 May 1992 3 January 1994
The Barchester Chronicles BBC One 10 November 1982 22 December 1982
Barnaby Rudge One 30 September 1960 23 December 1960
Bat Out of Hell Two 26 November 1966 24 December 1966
Battlestar Galactica Two 10 September 1987 – 3 March 1988 25 August 1997 – 22 April 2001 (repeats) Acquired from ABC; previously aired on ITV
BBC Nine O'Clock News One 14 September 1970 13 October 2000
BBC Sunday-Night Play One 1960 1963
BBC Television Shakespeare Two 3 December 1978 27 April 1985
BBC2 Playhouse Two 13 March 1974 20 May 1983
The Bear Family & Me Two 3 January 2011 5 January 2011
Beat the Brain Two 11 May 2015 19 June 2015
Beau Brummell: This Charming Man Four 20 December 2006
Beau Geste One 31 October 1982 19 December 1982
Beautiful People Two 2 October 2008 18 December 2009
Beck One 2 October 1996 1 November 1996
Becoming Human Three 26 January 2011 20 March 2011
Being Human Three 18 February 2008 10 March 2013
Bella and the Boys Two 2004
Bellamy's People Two 21 January 2010 11 March 2010
Belonging One Wales 1999 16 April 2009
Berkeley Square One 10 May 1998 19 July 1998
Better Things Two 2019 2022
Between the Lines One 4 September 1992 21 December 1994
The Big Allotment Challenge Two 15 April 2014 17 February 2015
Big Break One 30 April 1991 9 October 2002
Big Cats One 2018
Big Deal One 14 October 1984 4 November 1986
Big Guns One 1 January 1958 5 February 1958
Big School One 16 August 2013 10 October 2014
Big Ticket One 28 March 1998 11 July 1998
The Big Trip Travel Show Two 1994 1995
The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton One 1 August 2005 20 November 2006
Bill Oddie Back in the USA Two 11 January 2007 13 February 2007
The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop One 18 March 2015
Bird of Prey One 22 April 1982 27 September 1984
Birds of a Feather One 16 October 1989 24 December 1998
Birdsong One 22 January 2012 29 January 2012
Bizarre Animal ER Three 14 February 2008 30 May 2011
Bizarre ER Three 14 February 2008 16 May 2017
The Black and White Minstrel Show One 14 June 1958 21 July 1978
Black Earth Rising Two 10 September 2018 29 October 2018
Black Narcissus One 27 December 2020
Blackadder One 15 June 1983 2 November 1989
Blackpool One 11 November 2004 10 June 2006
Blake's 7 One 2 January 1978 21 December 1981
Blandings One 13 January 2013 30 March 2014
Blankety Blank One 18 January 1979 – 12 March 1990 26 December 1997 – 28 December 1999
Bleak House (1959) One 16 October 1959 25 December 1959
Bleak House (1985) Two 10 April 1985 29 May 1985
Bleak House (2005) One 27 October 2005 16 December 2005
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff Two 19 December 2011 5 March 2012
Blessed One 14 October 2005 9 December 2005
Blott on the Landscape Two 6 February 1985 13 March 1985
The Blue Planet One 12 September 2001 31 October 2001
Blue Planet II One 29 October 2017 10 December 2017
Bluestone 42 Three 5 March 2013 13 April 2015
Boats that Built Britain Four 4 May 2010 19 May 2010
Bob's Full House One 1 September 1984 27 January 1990
Bodies Three 23 June 2004 13 December 2006
The Body Farm One 13 September 2011 18 October 2011
The Book Quiz Four 17 July 2007 5 May 2008
Bonekickers One 8 July 2008 12 August 2008
Boomers One 15 August 2014 29 April 2016
The Borderers Two 31 December 1968 31 March 1970
Bottom Two 17 September 1991 10 April 1995
The Boys from Baghdad High Two 8 January 2008
Boy Meets Girl Two 3 September 2015 4 August 2016
Boys from the Blackstuff Two 10 October 1982 7 November 1982
The Boy with the Topknot Two 8 November 2017
Breakaway Two
One
12 March 2012 2 November 2012
Brian Pern Four 10 February 2014 29 March 2017
Britain and the Sea One 17 November 2013 8 December 2013
Britain from Above Two 10 August 2008 24 August 2008
Britain Unzipped Three 24 April 2012 21 November 2012
Britain's Great War One 27 January 2014 17 February 2014
Britain's Lost Routes with Griff Rhys Jones One 31 May 2012 21 June 2012
Britain's Missing Top Model Three 1 July 2008 30 July 2008
The British at Work Two 11 March 2011 1 April 2011
The Brits Who Built the Modern World Four 13 February 2014 27 February 2014
The Brittas Empire One 3 January 1991 24 February 1997
Broken One 23 May 2017 4 July 2017
The Bubble Two 19 February 2010 26 March 2010
Buccaneer One 27 April 1980 20 July 1980
The Buccaneers BBC One 5 February 1995 5 March 1995
Bucket Four 13 April 2017 4 May 2017
The Buddha of Suburbia Two 3 November 1993 24 November 1993
Bugs One 1 April 1995 28 August 1999
Bumps One 21 February 2020
Burn Up Two 23 July 2008 25 July 2008
By Any Means Two 4 June 2008 23 December 2011
By Any Means One 22 September 2013 27 October 2013
By the Sword Divided One 16 October 1983 10 March 1985

C

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
The C-Word One 2015
Café Continental TV 1947 1953
Le Café des Rêves Two 26 October 1992 10 February 2000
Cagney & Lacey One
Two
29 March 1982 21 May 2006 Acquired from CBS
Cambridge Spies One 9 May 2003 30 May 2003
Candy Cabs One 5 April 2011 19 April 2011
Canned Carrott One 3 October 1990 26 August 1995
Canterbury Tales One 11 September 2003 16 October 2003
Can't Touch This One 26 March 2016 8 October 2016
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Two
Four
1 October 1993 2 January 2008 Previously shown on ITV
Carrie & Barry One 3 September 2004 3 December 2005
Carrott Confidential One 3 January 1987 26 August 1989
Carrott's Lib One 2 October 1982 30 December 1983
Casanova (1971) Two 16 November 1971 21 December 1971
Casanova (2005) Three 13 March 2005 27 March 2005
The Case One 31 October 2011 4 November 2011
Case Histories One 5 June 2011 2 June 2013
Cash in the Attic One 4 November 2002 24 May 2012
Castles One 31 May 1995 20 August 1995
The Casual Vacancy One 15 February 2015 1 March 2015
Casualty@Holby City One 26 December 2004 27 December 2005
Catchpoint Two 23 March 2019 25 June 2022
Catchword One
Two
17 May 1985 23 May 1995
The Catherine Tate Show Two 16 February 2004 25 December 2007
Cats Two November 1991 13 December 1991
The Cazalets One 22 June 2001 27 July 2001
CCTV Three 2003
Celebdaq Three 14 February 2003 2004
Challenge Anneka One 8 September 1989 15 October 1995
Champion the Wonder Horse BBC TV
One
15 July 1956 23 January 1993 Acquired from CBS
Chandler & Co One 12 July 1994 1 September 1995
Changing Rooms One 4 September 1996 28 December 2004
Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe Four September 2009
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe Four 2 March 2006 16 December 2008
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe Two 31 January 2013 29 December 2016
The Chase One 16 July 2006 26 August 2007
Chef! One 28 January 1993 30 December 1996
The Child in Time One 24 September 2017
Children of the North Two 30 October 1991 20 November 1991
Children's TV on Trial Four 26 May 2007 31 May 2007
The Chinese Detective One 30 April 1981 5 November 1982
Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth Two 14 February 2016 16 February 2016
Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years' War Four 11 February 2013 25 February 2013
The Choir Two 4 December 2006 28 December 2015
Christabel Two 16 November 1988 7 December 1988
A Christmas Carol (2019) One 22 December 2019 24 December 2019
Cilla One 30 January 1968 17 April 1976
Citizen Khan One 27 August 2012 23 December 2016
The City and the City Two 6 April 2018 27 April 2018
City Central One 4 April 1998 19 June 2000
City in the Sky Two 5 June 2016 – 19 June 2016 27 April 2020 – 29 April 2020
Civilisation Two 23 February 1969 18 May 1969
Civilisations Two 1 March 2018
Class Three 22 October 2016 3 December 2016
The Cleopatras Two 19 January 1983 9 March 1983
Clique Three 5 March 2017 9 April 2017
Clocking Off One 23 January 2000 6 April 2003
Close to the Enemy Two 10 November 2016 22 December 2016
Coast Two 22 July 2005 13 August 2015
The Colbys One 24 January 1986
Colditz One 19 October 1972 1 April 1974
Collateral Two 12 February 2018 5 March 2018
The Collectors One 1 March 1986 3 May 1986
Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough One 3 April 2004 25 June 2005
Come Back Mrs. Noah One 13 December 1977 14 August 1978
Come Fly with Me (2000) Choice 2 October 2000 17 May 2002
Come Fly with Me (2010) One 25 December 2010 27 January 2011
Come Home One 27 March 2018 10 April 2018
Come Outside Two 23 September 1993 18 March 1997
Comedy Playhouse One 15 December 1961 – 9 July 1975 29 April 2014 – 15 September 2017
Coming of Age Three 21 May 2007 8 March 2011
Common As Muck One 7 September 1994 12 February 1997
Commonwealth Jazz Club Two 2 September 1965 6 October 1965
Congo Two 30 January 2001 13 February 2001
Connections 17 October 1978 19 December 1978
The Coroner One 16 November 2015 2 December 2016
Count Arthur Strong Two
One
8 July 2013 14 July 2017
Coupling Two
Three
12 May 2000 14 June 2004
Cowboy Trap One 7 September 2009 6 July 2013
Crackerjack! One 14 September 1957 – 21 December 1984 17 January 2020 – 5 March 2021
Cradle to Grave Two 3 September 2015 15 October 2015
The Crane Gang Two 22 September 2013 6 October 2013
The Creatives Two 2 October 1998 16 February 2000
Crime and Punishment Two 12 February 2002 13 February 2002
Crime Traveller One 1 March 1997 19 April 1997
Crimes of Passion Four 30 August 2014
Crimewatch One 7 June 1984 20 March 2017
Crims Three 8 January 2015 12 February 2015
The Crimson Field One 6 April 2014 11 May 2014
Crocodile Shoes One 10 November 1994 22 December 1994
Crocodile Shoes II One 14 November 1996 19 December 1996
Crooked House Four 22 December 2008 24 December 2008
Cruise of the Gods Two 23 December 2002
The Cry One 30 September 2018
Cuckoo Three 25 September 2012 4 January 2019
Cuffs One 28 October 2015 16 December 2015
Cunk on Christmas One 29 December 2016
Cunk on Britain Two April 2018
The Cut Two 19 September 2009 18 December 2010
Cutting It One 16 April 2002 12 July 2005

D

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Dad One 25 September 1997 21 December 1999
Daily Politics Two 8 January 2003 24 July 2018
Daktari One 17 October 1966 6 January 1977 Acquired from CBS
Dallas One 1979 – 1991 1996 – 1998 Acquired from CBS
Dalziel and Pascoe One 16 March 1996 22 June 2007
Damages
Damilola, Our Loved Boy One 7 November 2016
Dancing on the Edge Two 4 February 2013 10 March 2013
Daniel Deronda (2002) One 23 November 2002 7 December 2002
Dangerfield One 27 January 1995 19 November 1999
Danger Mouse CBBC 28 September 2015 30 October 2016
Dangerous Knowledge Two
Four
8 August 2007 11 June 2008
Danny and the Human Zoo One 31 August 2015
Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family One 23 January 2019 – 30 January 2019 6 February 2019 – 12 February 2019
Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure Two 24 March 2015 – 7 April 2015 10 May 2018 – 25 May 2018
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World Two 29 July 2012 12 August 2012
Dark Money One 8 July 2019 16 July 2019
The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan One 8 September 2008 27 October 2008
The Dark Side of the Moon One 13 September 1983 18 October 1983
Dave Allen at Peace Two 2 April 2018
Davina One 15 February 2006 – 12 April 2006 5 September 2006 –
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy One 13 August 2006 – 27 August 2006 5 September 2006 – 7 September 2006
The Day of the Triffids (1981) One 10 September 1981 15 October 1981
The Day of the Triffids (2009) One 28 December 2009 29 December 2009
The Day Today Two 19 January 1994 23 February 1994
The Day the Universe Changed One 19 March 1985 21 May 1985
A Day with Dana Two 1 December 1974 12 January 1975
Dead Head Two 15 January 1986 5 February 1986
Dead of Night Two 5 November 1972 17 December 1972
Dead Ringers Two 15 March 2002 29 March 2007
The Dead Room Four 24 December 2018
Dear Ladies Two 15 March 1983 16 December 1984
Death and Nightingales Two 28 November 2018
Death Comes to Pemberley One 26 December 2013 28 December 2013
The Death of Yugoslavia One 3 September 1995 6 June 1996
Death Unexplained One 7 February 2012 21 February 2012
Deceit One 2 April 2000 9 April 2000
Decidedly Dusty One 9 September 1969 28 October 1969
Decline and Fall One 31 March 2017 14 April 2017
The Deep One 3 August 2010 31 August 2010
Detective 30 March 1964 9 November 1969
Defending the Guilty Two 19 September 2018 22 October 2019
Desperate Romantics Two 21 July 2009 25 August 2009
Detectorists Four 2 October 2014 26 December 2022
Diagnosis: Murder One
Two
3 January 1993 24 May 2011 Acquired from CBS
Diana and I Two 4 September 2017
The Diary of Anne Frank (1987) One 4 January 1987 25 January 1987
The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) One 5 January 2009 – 9 January 2009 12 January 2022 – 19 January 2022
The Diary of Samuel Pepys One 7 March 1958 13 June 1958
Dickensian One 26 December 2015 21 February 2016
Die Kinder Two 14 November 1990 19 December 1990
Didn't They Do Well One 15 January 2004 18 March 2004
dinnerladies One 12 November 1998 27 January 2000
Dirty War Two 26 September 2004
Disney Time One 25 December 1964 31 August 1998
The Disorderly Room One 1937 1939
Dixon of Dock Green One 9 July 1955 1 May 1976
Doctor at the Top One 21 February 1991 4 April 1991
Doctor Foster One 9 September 2015 3 October 2017
Doctor Who Confidential Three 26 March 2005 1 October 2011
Doctor Who Extra iPlayer 23 August 2014 27 December 2017
Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS One 29 November 1993
The Doctors One 19 November 1969 1971
Doing Money Two 5 November 2018
Dolphins - Spy in the Pod One 2 January 2014 9 January 2014
Dombey and Son (1969) One 17 August 1969 9 November 1969
Dombey and Son (1983) One 16 January 1983 20 March 1983
Don't Forget the Driver Two 9 April 2019 14 May 2019
Don't Scare the Hare One 23 April 2011 22 October 2011
Don't Tell the Bride Three (2007–14)
One (2015)
8 November 2007 – 15 December 2015 24 June 2015 – 29 July 2015
Doomwatch One 9 February 1970 14 August 1972
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery Two 25 March 1987 30 May 1987
Down to Earth One 28 August 2000 6 March 2005
Dragons Alive One 24 March 2004 7 April 2004
Dreamspaces Three 16 February 2003 5 February 2004
The Driver One 23 September 2014 7 October 2014
Dry Your Eyes One NI 10 March 2006 2007
Dublin Murders One 14 October 2019 5 November 2019
The Duchess of Duke Street One 4 September 1976 24 December 1977
Duckman Two 6 January 1995 3 October 1997 Acquired from USA Network
Dynasties One 11 November 2018 9 November 2018
Dynasty One 1 May 1982

E

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Earth: The Power of the Planet Two 20 November 2007 18 December 2007
Earth's Great Rivers Two
Two NI
1 January 2019 – 3 January 2019 10 April 2023 – 12 April 2023
Earth's Greatest Spectacles Two 5 February 2016 19 February 2016
Earth's Natural Wonders One
Four
5 August 2015 – 7 March 2018 7 June 2020 – 27 July 2023
Earth's Seasonal Secrets One 2016 2017
Earth's Wildest Waters: The Big Fish Two 2015
Earthflight One 29 December 2011 29 January 2012
EastEnders: E20 Online
Three
8 January 2010 21 October 2011
EastEnders Revealed Choice
Three
1998 1 January 2016
The Edge One
Two
16 March 2015 13 November 2015
Edge of Darkness Two 4 November 1985 9 December 1985
Edwardian Farm Two 10 November 2010 19 January 2011
Eldorado One 6 July 1992 9 July 1993
Electric Dreams Four 29 September 2009 13 October 2009
Emma Goes to Bollywood Two 25 June 2005
Empire One 27 February 2012 26 March 2012
Enterprice Three 29 November 2018 8 March 2020
Epic Win One 20 August 2011 24 September 2011
Episodes Two 10 January 2011
Equator One
Two
6 October 2006 – 20 October 2006 31 August 2014 – 21 September 2014
Eric, Ernie and Me Four 29 December 2017
The Escape Artist One 29 October 2013 12 November 2013
The European Union: In or Out Two 2 April 2014
Eurovision: Your Country Needs Blue One 16 April 2011
Eurovision: Your Country Needs You One
Two
Four
22 January 1957 8 February 2019
Excalibur One 1974 1975
Exile One 1 May 2011 3 May 2011
Extras One
Two
21 July 2005 27 December 2007

F

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
The Face of Britain Two 30 September 2015 28 October 2015
The Fall Two 13 May 2013 28 October 2016
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin One 8 September 1976 24 January 1979
Fame Academy One
Three
4 October 2002 4 October 2003
Family Guy Two (2005; 2015)
Three (2007–16)
22 October 2005 14 February 2016 Acquired from Fox
Family Guy: Creating the Chaos Three 18 April 2009
Family Guy: Groundbreaking Gags Three 8 May 2011
Family Guy: The Story So Far... Three 18 April 2009
Family Guy: The Top 20 Characters Three 8 May 2010 9 May 2010
Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show Three 8 May 2010
Family Guys?: What Sitcoms Say About America Now HD
Two
27 October 2012
Famous, Rich and Hungry One 12 March 2014 13 March 2014
Farscape Two 29 November 1999 19 August 2007 Acquired from Nine Network
Fast and Loose Two 14 January 2011 4 March 2011
The Fast Show Two 27 September 1994 29 December 1997
Fast Track World News 12 January 2013 1 February 2014
Father Figure One 18 September 2013 23 October 2013
Father Ted: The Passion of Saint Tibulus Two 8 November 2008 Previously shown on Channel 4
Fawlty Towers Two 19 September 1975 25 October 1979
Feather Boy One 16 March 2004 1 April 2004
Feel the Force Two 8 May 2006 12 June 2006
Feud Two 16 December 2017 Acquired from FX
The Field of Blood One 8 May 2011 9 August 2013
Film... One 16 November 1971 28 March 2018
Finley the Fire Engine One
Two
CBeebies
23 July 2007 4 May 2014
Fireman Sam One (series 1–4)
CBeebies (series 5)
17 November 1987 25 December 2005
five by five Three 27 March 2017
Five to Eleven One 27 October 1986 1990
The First Churchills One 27 September 1969 13 December 1969
The First Team Two 28 May 2020 2 July 2020
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars One
Two
25 June 1977 11 October 1997
Fleabag Three 21 July 2016 8 April 2019
Flight of the Conchords Four 15 April 2010 22 June 2010
The Flintstones One
Two
4 September 1985 Acquired from ABC; previously shown on ITV
Flower Pot Men One
CBeebies
18 December 1952 4 September 2002
The Flumps One 14 February 1977 9 May 1977
Food and Drink Two 6 July 1982 13 April 2015
Food Poker Two 29 October 2007 7 December 2007
For Facts Sake One 15 October 2018 19 November 2018
For the Children One 1937
9 June 1946
1939
December 1952
For What It's Worth One 4 January 2016 26 June 2016
Forces of Nature One 4 July 2016 25 July 2016
The Forsyte Saga Two 7 January 1967 1 July 1967
Fox Wars One 22 October 2013
Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe Two 11 June 2006 2 July 2006
Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage Two 8 July 2008 13 August 2008
Francesco's Venice Two 16 October 2004 6 November 2004
Frank Skinner's Opinionated Two 16 April 2010 15 December 2011
Freaky Eaters Three 14 February 2007 7 April 2009
French and Saunders Two (1987–93)
One (1994–2017)
9 March 1987 25 December 2017
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Two 14 January 1991 2004 Acquired from NBC
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross One 2 November 2001 16 July 2010
From There to Here One 22 May 2014 5 June 2014
The Frost Report One 10 March 1966 26 December 1967
Frozen Planet One 26 October 2011 28 December 2011
Funland Three 23 October 2005 7 November 2005

G

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Galactica 1980 Two 17 March 1988 – 1 June 1988 16 March 1998 – 10 June 2001 (repeats) Acquired from ABC; previously aired on ITV
Galápagos One
Two
26 September 2006 – 13 October 2006 23 March 2013
Gallowglass One 10 January 1993 24 January 1993
The Game Two 5 November 2014 10 December 2014
The Gamechangers Two 15 September 2015
Game On Two 27 February 1995 6 February 1998
Ganges Two 3 August 2007 17 August 2007
Gangsters One 9 September 1976 10 February 1978
Garrow's Law One 1 November 2009 4 December 2011
Gavin & Stacey Three (2007–08)
One (2008–10; 2019)
13 May 2007 25 December 2019
The Generation Game One 2 October 1971 8 April 2018
Genius Two 20 March 2009 31 October 2010
The Genius of Invention Two 24 January 2013 14 February 2013
George Washington Two 27 July 1986 – 5 August 1986 1 August 1988 – 30 August 1988 Acquired from CBS
Get Back One 26 October 1992 15 November 1993
The Ghostbusters of East Finchley Two 16 November 1995 21 December 1995
Ghostwatch One 31 October 1992
Gimme Gimme Gimme Two (series 1–2)
One (series 3)
8 January 1999 14 December 2001
The Girl in the Café One 25 June 2005
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Two 29 January 2012
God's Wonderful Railway One 6 February 1980
Going for a Song One 6 October 1965 3 February 2002
Going Live! One 26 September 1987 17 April 1993
Going Straight One 24 February 1978 7 April 1978
The Good Life One 4 April 1975 10 June 1978
The Good Old Days One 20 July 1953 31 December 1983
Goodbye, Mr. Chips One 29 January 1984 4 February 1984
The Goodies Two 8 November 1970 18 February 1980
Goodness Gracious Me One
Two
12 January 1998 – 19 February 2001 26 May 2014 – 25 August 2015
Goodnight Sweetheart One 18 November 1993 28 June 1999
Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me Two 26 December 2016 27 December 2016
Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance One 24 February 2021 14 March 2021
Gormenghast One 17 January 2000 7 February 2000
Grace & Favour One 10 January 1992 8 February 1993
Grandma's House Two 9 August 2010 24 May 2012
Grandstand One
Two
11 October 1958 28 January 2007
Great Barrier Reef (2012) Two 1 January 2012 15 January 2012
Great Barrier Reef (2015) One 30 December 2015 13 January 2016
The Great British Bake Off Two
One
17 August 2010
6 August 2014
22 October 2013
26 October 2016
Great British Garden Revival Two 9 December 2013 21 January 2015
Great Railway Journeys Two 23 October 1980 6 April 1999
The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart Two 24 January 2010 7 February 2010
The Great Train Robbery One 18 December 2013 19 December 2013
The Great War One 30 May 1964 22 November 1964
The Green Man One 28 October 1990 11 November 1990
Ground Force One 19 September 1997 24 July 2005
The Grove Family One 9 April 1954 28 June 1957
Growing Pains One 16 May 1992 14 July 1993
The Gruffalo One 25 December 2009
The Gruffalo's Child One 25 December 2011
Grushko One 24 March 1994 7 April 1994
The Guess List One 12 April 2014 24 May 2014
Guesstimation One 11 July 2009 29 August 2009
Gunpowder One 21 October 2017 4 November 2017
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot Two 14 March 2004 21 March 2004

H

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Hamish Macbeth One 26 March 1995 4 May 1997
Hancock's Half Hour One 6 July 1956 30 June 1961
The Hanging Gale One 14 May 1995 4 June 1995
Happy Birthday BBC Two Two 20 April 2004 16 April 2014 – 24 April 2014
Happy Valley One 29 April 2014 5 February 2023
Hard Sun One 6 January 2018 10 February 2018
Harry One 18 September 1993 12 April 1995
Harry and the Hendersons One
Two
27 September 1991 23 February 2001 Acquired programming from Universal Television
Harry & Paul One
Two
13 April 2007 2 December 2012
Harry Enfield & Chums Two
One
8 November 1990 28 December 1998
Hayley in Disneyland One 25 December 1962
Head Hunters One 7 October 2019 15 November 2019
Heartburn Hotel One 20 July 1998 28 July 2000
Hebburn Two 18 October 2012 22 December 2013
Hereward the Wake One 12 September 1965 26 December 1965
Heroes Two 2006 2010 Acquired from NBC
Hi-de-Hi! One 1 January 1980 30 January 1988
Hidden One 6 October 2011 27 October 2011
Hidden Kingdoms One 16 January 2014 30 January 2014
Highlands – Scotland's Wild Heart One 11 May 2016 1 June 2016
Him & Her Three 6 September 2010 19 December 2013
Hinterland One Wales
Four
4 January 2014 – 18 December 2016
A History of Ancient Britain Two 2011
A History of Britain One 30 September 2000 18 June 2002
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Two 5 January 1981 9 February 1981
Hold the Back Page One 12 November 1985 28 January 1986
Hole in the Wall One 20 September 2008 12 December 2009
Holiday One 2 January 1969 19 March 2007
Holidays in the Danger Zone Two 31 January 2003 1 June 2005
The Hollow Crown Two 30 June 2012 21 May 2016
Hollywood 7 One 27 September 2001 20 December 2001
Hollywood Science Two 2001 2002
Home Again One 5 May 2006 9 June 2006
Home Farm Twins One 7 January 1999 30 March 2000
Homefront One 1992 1997
Honey for Tea One 13 March 1994 24 April 1994
Honey, We're Killing the Kids
The Honourable Woman Two 3 July 2014 21 August 2014
Hope and Glory One 22 June 1999 5 November 2000
Hope Springs One 7 June 2009 26 July 2009
Horne & Corden Three 10 March 2009 14 April 2009
Hospital People One 21 April 2017 12 May 2017
Hostages Four 2014
Hotel Babylon One 19 January 2006 14 August 2009
Hotel of Mum and Dad Three 3 October 2013 7 November 2014
House of Cards One 18 November 1990 9 December 1990
The House of Eliott One 31 August 1991 6 March 1994
House of Fools Two 14 January 2014 30 March 2015
The House of Tiny Tearaways Three 1 May 2005 21 December 2007
The House that £100k Built Two 18 September 2013 31 March 2017
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? One 29 July 2006 16 September 2006
How Do You View? TV 26 October 1949 9 September 1953
How God Made the English Two 17 March 2012 31 March 2012
How Not to Live Your Life Three 27 September 2007 22 December 2011
How to Grow a Planet One 7 February 2012 21 February 2012
How TV Ruined Your Life Two 25 January 2011 8 March 2011
How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Two 2015
Howards End One 12 November 2017 3 December 2017
Howards' Way One 1 September 1985 25 November 1990
Human, All Too Human Two 9 August 1999 11 August 1999
The Human Animal One
Knowledge
27 July 1994 – 31 August 1994 29 November 2000 – 31 January 2002
The Human Body One 20 May 1998 25 June 1998
The Human Face One 7 March 2001 25 March 2001
Human Planet One 13 January 2011 3 March 2011
Human Universe Two 7 October 2014 4 November 2014
The Hunt One 1 November 2015 13 December 2015
Hunted One 4 October 2012 22 November 2012
Hustle One 24 February 2004 17 February 2012

I

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
I, Claudius Two 20 September 1976 6 December 1976
I Love... Two 22 July 2000 3 November 2001
I, Lovett Two 9 June 1989 28 April 1993
Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip - An Emotional History of Britain Two
Two Scotland
2 October 2012 15 October 2012
Ice Age Giants Two 19 May 2013 2 June 2013
Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet Two 21 October 2013 4 November 2013
I'd Do Anything One 15 March 2008 31 May 2008
Ideal Three 11 January 2005 30 June 2011
If... Two 10 March 2004 30 May 2006
I'll Get This Two 6 November 2018 12 May 2020
Ill Behaviour iPlayer
Two
22 July 2017, 20 August – 3 September 2017
I'm Alan Partridge Two 3 November 1997 16 December 2002
I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band! Two 1 May 2010 5 June 2010
The Impressionists 30 April 2006 14 May 2006
The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson One 31 October 2009 21 December 2011
In and Out of the Kitchen Four 11 March 2015 25 March 2015
In Deep One 19 February 2001 4 March 2003
In the Club One 5 August 2014 7 June 2016
In the Dark One 11 July 2017 1 August 2017
In The Flesh Three 17 March 2013 8 June 2014
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great 14 July 1998 4 August 1998
In the Night Garden... Two
CBeebies
19 March 2007 6 March 2009
In the Red Two 26 May 1998 9 June 1998
In My Skin Three 14 October 2018 7 November 2021
In the Teeth of Jaws Two 8 November 1997
In with the Flynns One 8 June 2011 21 September 2012
India: Nature's Wonderland Two
Four
1 September 2015 – 8 September 2015 31 January 2022 – 1 February 2022
The Indian Doctor One 15 November 2010 8 November 2013
Informer One 16 October 2018 20 November 2018
Inside Claridge's Two 3 December 2012 17 December 2012
Inside Life CBBC 13 October 2009 15 December 2009
Inside Men One 2 February 2012 23 February 2012
Insides Out One 15 September 1999 22 December 2000
Inside the Perfect Predator One
Two NI
25 March 2010 7 May 2021
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries One 23 December 1990 29 August 1994
Inspector George Gently One 8 April 2007 30 October 2017
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries One 12 March 2001 1 June 2008
Inspector Montalbano Four 13 December 2008 – 2 July 2022 28 December 2019 – 13 May 2023
The Interceptor One 10 June 2015 29 July 2015
Into the West Two 4 November 2006 Acquired from TNT
Invasion of the Job Snatchers Three 2 April 2014 7 May 2014
The Invisible Man (1975) One 26 September 1975 27 August 1976 Acquired from NBC
The Invisible Man (1984) One 4 September 1984 9 October 1984
The Invisibles One 1 May 2008 5 June 2008
I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse Three 15 February 2015 30 March 2015
It Ain't Half Hot Mum One 3 January 1974 3 September 1981
It's Lulu One 11 July 1970 24 November 1973
It's Only a Theory Four 6 October 2009 24 November 2009
It's Only TV...but I Like It One 3 June 1999 16 August 2002

J

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Jam & Jerusalem One 24 November 2006 23 August 2009
Jamaica Inn One 21 April 2014 23 April 2014
James May's Man Lab Two 31 October 2010 25 April 2013
Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands Two 8 April 2015 22 June 2015
Jekyll One 16 June 2007 28 July 2007
Jet Set One 20 January 2001 8 August 2007
Jinx CBBC
Two
31 October 2009 23 January 2010
John Bishop's Britain One 24 July 2010 27 December 2011
Joking Apart Two 7 January 1993 7 February 1995
Jonathan Creek One 10 May 1997 28 December 2016
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell One 17 May 2015 28 June 2015
Jonny Briggs One 11 November 1985 20 January 1987
Jonny Quest One 6 January 1965 – 30 June 1965 1 November 1966 – 2 May 1967 (repeats) Acquired from ABC
Josephine Terry's Kitchen One 11 November 1946 12 May 1947
Josh Three
One
11 November 2015 6 November 2017
Joshua Jones One
Two
Children's BBC
CBeebies
1992 2009
Judge John Deed One 9 January 2001 18 January 2007
Juke Box Jury One (1959–1967; 1979)
Two (1989–1990)
1 June 1959 25 November 1990
Juliet Bravo One 30 August 1980 21 December 1985
Jumbo: The Plane that Changed the World Two 27 February 2014
Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands Three 22 February 2011 28 February 2013
Junior Paramedics Three 27 February 2014 8 April 2014
Just Good Friends One 22 September 1983 25 December 1986

K

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
K-9 and Company One 28 December 1981 Doctor Who spin-off; pilot for a proposed series
Kaleidoscope TV 22 November 1946 26 June 1953
Kat & Alfie: Redwater One 18 May 2017 22 June 2017
Keeping Up Appearances One 29 October 1990 25 December 1995
The Kenny Everett Television Show One 24 December 1981 18 January 1988
Kevin Bridges: What's the Story? One 8 February 2012 14 March 2012
A Kick Up the Eighties One 21 September 1981 24 January 1984
Killer Magic Three 24 March 2015 28 April 2015
The Kids Are All Right One 12 April 2008 14 June 2008
The King Is Dead Three 2 September 2010 14 October 2010
King Charles III Two 10 May 2017 One-off drama
King Gary One 10 January 2020 3 September 2021
King Lear Two 28 May 2018 One-off drama
King of the Rocket Men Two
One
9 March 1981 – 20 March 1981 23 December 1991 – 7 January 1992
Kiss Me Kate One 4 May 1998 26 December 2000
Kiss of Death One 26 May 2008 One-off drama
Knots Landing One 26 April 1980
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge Two 16 September 1994 21 October 1994
Knowitalls Two 27 July 2009 14 August 2009
Kojak One 23 August 1974 6 March 1982
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire Two 11 June 2009 6 July 2009
The Kumars at No. 42 Two (2001–04)
One (2005–06)
12 November 2001 18 August 2006
Kyle XY Two 2007 2009
KYTV Two 12 May 1989 22 October 1993

L

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Ladhood Three 24 November 2019 5 September 2022
Land of the Tiger Two 17 November 1997 26 December 1997
Laramie One (1959–65) 17 October 1959 – 19 September 1965 30 April 1985 – 15 January 1987 (repeats) Acquired from NBC
Two (1985–87)
Lark Rise to Candleford One 13 January 2008 13 February 2011
The Last Enemy One 17 February 2008 16 March 2008
The Last Kingdom Two 10 October 2015 4 May 2017 Moved to Netflix for series 3–5
Last of the Summer Wine One 4 January 1973 29 August 2010
Last Tango in Halifax One 20 November 2012 20 December 2016
The Last Post One 2017
The Late Edition Four 2005 2008
The Late, Late Breakfast Show One 4 September 1982 8 November 1986
The Late Show Two 1989 1995
Laurel and Hardy One 3 June 1948
Two 26 Dec 1964
The League of Gentlemen Two 11 January 1999 – 31 October 2002 (series) 8 November 2017 – 12 January 2020
18 December 2017 – 20 December 2017 (specials)
Lee Mack's All Star Cast One 18 June 2011 23 July 2011
Lee Nelson's Well Funny People Three 14 March 2013 26 April 2013
Lee Nelson's Well Good Show Three 10 June 2010 13 October 2011
Leonardo CBBC 2011 2012
Les Misérables (2018) One 30 December 2018 3 February 2019
Life One 12 October 2009 14 December 2009
Life in Cold Blood One 4 February 2008 3 March 2008
Life in Squares Two 27 July 2015 10 August 2015
Life in the Air One 3 April 2016 17 April 2016
Life in the Freezer One 18 November 1993 23 December 1993
Life in the Snow One 29 December 2016
Life in the Undergrowth One 23 November 2005 21 December 2005
The Life of Birds One 21 October 1998 23 December 1998
The Life of Mammals One 20 November 2002 5 February 2003
Life of Riley One 8 January 2009 1 June 2011
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern Four 10 February 2014 24 February 2014
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television One 2002
Life on Earth Two 16 January 1979 10 April 1979
Life on Mars One 9 January 2006 10 April 2007
Life Story One 23 October 2014 27 November 2014
Light Fantastic Four 1 December 2004 22 December 2004
The Likely Lads Two 16 December 1964 23 July 1966
The Line of Beauty Two 17 May 2006 31 May 2006
The Link One 5 May 2014 17 July 2015
Liquid News Choice (2000–03)
One (2001–03)
Three (2003–04)
30 May 2000 1 April 2004
Liquid Television Two 13 May 1991 26 October 1992 Co-production with MTV
Little Britain Three
One
9 February 2003 30 December 2006
Little Britain USA One 2008
Little Dorrit One 2008
The Little Drummer Girl One 2018
Little House on the Prairie One 3 January 1975 26 June 1976 Acquired from NBC
Little Miss One 14 February 1983 22 December 1988
Little Women One 26 December 2017 28 December 2017
Live & Kicking One 2 October 1993 15 September 2001 Live broadcast
Live at the Electric Three 31 May 2012 28 February 2014 Live broadcast
The Living and the Dead One 28 June 2016 2 August 2016
Living Britain Two 31 October 1999 5 December 1999
Living in the Past Two 23 February 1978 11 May 1978
The Living Planet One 19 January 1984 12 April 1984
Local Heroes Two 1994 2000
London Spy Two 9 November 2015 7 December 2015
The Long Song One 2018
Look and Read One
Two
9 January 1967 29 March 2004
Look Around You Two 10 October 2002 7 March 2005
The Lost Decade Four 2005 2006
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends Two 15 January 1998 30 October 2000
Love Hurts One 3 January 1992 18 March 1994
Love, Lies and Records One 16 November 2017 21 December 2017
Love, Nina One 20 May 2016 17 June 2016
Love Soup One 27 September 2005 17 May 2008
Lovejoy One 10 January 1986 4 December 1994
Lum the Invader Girl Choice 5 August 2000
Lunch Monkeys Three 12 May 2008

M

[edit]
Title Channel First broadcast Last broadcast Notes
Mad Men Four 2 March 2008
Madagascar Two 9 February 2011 23 February 2011
Madhouse on Castle Street One 13 January 1963
Maestro Two 12 August 2008 13 September 2008
The Magicians One 1 January 2011 11 February 2012
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men One 16 November 1989 16 February 1994
Making Out One 6 January 1989 12 November 1991
Malcolm in the Middle Two 6 April 2001 2009
Man in an Orange Shirt Two 31 July 2017 7 August 2017
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth One 14 July 1930
Manchild Two February 2002 April 2003
Manga! Two 7 January 1994 Hosted by Jonathan Ross
Mapp & Lucia One 29 December 2014 31 December 2014
Martin Chuzzlewit Two 7 November 1994 12 December 1994
Marvellous Two 25 September 2014
Mary, Mungo and Midge One 7 October 1969 30 December 1969
The Mary Whitehouse Experience Two 3 October 1990 6 April 1992
Match of the Day from Northern Ireland One Northern Ireland
Two Northern Ireland
1985 present
Match of the Day Kickabout Two
CBBC
8 January 2011 27 March 2021
Material Girl One 14 January 2010 18 February 2010
The Matt Lucas Awards One 10 April 2012 17 December 2013
Mechannibals Two 2005
Megamaths Two 16 September 1996 4 February 200
Meet the Ancestors Two 8 January 1998 2004
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard Four 17 April 2012 1 May 2012
Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture Two 24 February 2012 9 March 2012
Men Behaving Badly One 1 July 1994 28 December 1998
Men of the World One 14 March 1994 30 August 1995
Merlin One 20 September 2008 24 December 2012
Merlin: Secrets and Magic One 19 September 2009 21 December 2009
Messiah One 26 May 2001 21 January 2008
Miami Vice One 4 March 1985 20 August 1990
The Michael McIntyre Chat Show One 10 March 2014 25 December 2014
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow One (2009—11)
HD (2009)
One HD (2010—11)
6 June 2009 25 December 2011
Michel Roux's Service HD
Two
12 January 2011 3 February 2011
Middlemarch Two 12 January 1994 16 February 1994
The Mighty Boosh Three 18 May 2004 20 December 2007
Millionaire Manor One 3 December 2005 4 March 2006
Mind the Gap: London vs the Rest Two 3 March 2014 10 March 2014
The Miniaturist One 26 December 2017 27 December 2017
Miranda Two (2009–10)
One (2012–15)
9 November 2009 1 January 2015
Misbehaving Mums To Be Three 14 April 2011 10 June 2011
The Missing One 28 October 2014 30 November 2016
Mister Maker CBeebies 17 September 2007 25 December 2009
Mister Winner Two 25 March 2020
Monarch of the Glen One 27 February 2000 23 October 2005
The Money Programme Two 5 April 1966 9 November 2010
Mongrels Three 22 June 2010 19 December 2011
Mongrels Uncovered Three 7 November 2011
Monkey Dust Three 9 February 2003 8 February 2005
Monkey Planet One 2 April 2014 16 April 2014
Monty Python's Flying Circus One (1969–73)
Two (1974)
5 October 1969 5 December 1974
The Moonstone One 31 October 2016 4 November 2016
The Moorside One 7 February 2017 14 February 2017
The Morecambe & Wise Show Two
One
2 September 1968 25 December 1977
Most Annoying People Three 27 December 2006 26 December 2011
MotherFatherSon Two 6 March 2019 24 April 2019
Motherland Two/iPlayer 6 September 2016 23 December 2022
Mountain: Life at the Extreme Two 2017
Moviedrome
Mr Benn One 25 February 1971 31 March 1972
Mr. Men One 31 December 1974 22 December 1988
Mr Tumble Two
CBeebies
1 September 2003 12 February 2016
Mrs Wilson One 27 November 2018 11 December 2018
Muffin the Mule One
CBeebies
20 October 1946 – 1955, 27 January 1957
September 2005 and August 2008
Mulberry One 24 February 1992 25 May 1993
Mum Two 13 May 2016 19 June 2019
The Munsters Two 1 April 1965
Muppet Magic One 2 February 1986
The Muppet Show One 8 February 1986 3 September 1999
Muppets Tonight One 13 September 1996 4 Oct 1996 Acquired from ABC
Murder Two 26 August 2012 17 March 2016
The Murder Game One
Three
29 March 2003 24 May 2003
Murder in Successville Three 6 May 2015 24 May 2017
Murder Most Horrid Two 14 November 1991 2 April 1999
Murder, She Wrote Two
One
30 June 2002
Music Makers Two
CBBC
1994 2007
The Musketeers One 19 January 2014 1 August 2016
My Family One 19 September 2000 2 September 2011
My Hero One 4 February 2000 10 September 2006
My Mother and Other Strangers One 13 November 2016 11 December 2016
My Wife Next Door One 19 September 1972 12 December 1972
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Two 10 January 2012 11 January 2012

N

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
The Naked Chef Two 14 April 1999 19 December 2001
The Naked Choir Two 22 September 2015 27 October 2015
Naked Us One 2004
The Name of the Rose Two 2019
Nationwide One 1969 1983
Natural World Two 1983 2020
Nature's Epic Journeys One 2016
Nature's Great Events One 2009
Nature's Greatest Dancers One 2015
Nature's Microworlds Four 2012 2013
Nature's Miracle Babies One 2011
Nature's Miracle Orphans One 2014
Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution Four 2016
Neighbours One 1985 2008
Never Mind the Buzzcocks Two 1996 2015
The New Adventures of Superman One
Two
8 January 1994 2002 Acquired from ABC
New Blood One 9 June 2016 21 July 2016
New Street Law One 2006 2007
New Tricks One 2003 2015
New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands Two 2016
Newsround One
CBBC
1971 – 2012, 2002 – present
Nigella Express Two 2006 2009
Nighty Night Three 2004 2005
Nineteen Eighty-Four One 12 December 1954 16 December 1954 Live broadcast
The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow One 3 September 1988 15 December 1990
Noel's House Party One 23 November 1991 20 March 1999
Not in Front of the Children One 26 May 1967 9 January 1970
Not the Nine O'Clock News Two 16 October 1979 8 March 1982
Numberblocks Four
CBeebies
2017 2022
Numbertime Two 1993 2001
NW Two 14 November 2016

O

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Ocean Giants One 14 August 2011 28 August 2011
Ocean Odyssey One 24 May 2006 29 June 2006
Oceans Two 12 November 2008 19 December 2008
Odd One Out One 16 April 1982 19 April 1985
Odyssey Two 28 June 2015 13 March 2018
The Office Two (2001–02)
One (2003)
9 July 2001 27 December 2003
Oh, Brother! One 13 September 1968 27 February 1970
Oh, Doctor Beeching! One 14 August 1995 28 September 1997
Oh Happy Band! One 3 September 1980 8 October 1980
The Old Grey Whistle Test Two (1971–88)
Four (2018)
21 September 1971 23 February 2018
The Old Guys One 31 January 2009 13 August 2010
Oliver's Travels One 11 June 1995 9 July 1995
Oliver Twist One 18 December 2007 22 December 2007
The Omid Djalili Show One 17 November 2007 25 May 2009
On the Record One 18 September 1988 15 December 2002
On the Spot One 29 July 2000 2 September 2000
One by One One 29 January 1984 2 May 1987
One Foot in the Grave One 4 January 1990 20 November 2000
One Man and His Dog Two (1976–2012)
One (2013–present)
17 February 1976 present
One Night One 26 March 2012 30 March 2012
One of Us One 23 August 2016 13 September 2016
The One... One 25 December 2010 16 January 2012
The Onedin Line One 15 October 1971 26 October 1980
Only Fools and Horses One 8 September 1981 25 December 2003
Open All Hours Two (1973–76)
One (1981–85)
23 March 1973 6 October 1985
Operation Good Guys Two 29 December 1997 31 August 2000
Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow Two 5 January 2014 12 January 2014
Ordinary Lies One 17 March 2015 22 November 2016
Ordeal by Innocence One 1 April 2018 15 April 2018
Orphan Black Three 20 September 2013 4 October 2015
The Other Half One 7 June 1997 2 February 2002
Our Friends in the North Two 15 January 1996 11 March 1996
Our World News 2007 present
Our Zoo One 3 September 2014 8 October 2014
Out of the Blue (1995) One 23 May 1995 9 September 1996
Out of the Blue (2008) One (2008)
Two (2008–09)
28 April 2008 29 January 2009
Outcasts One 7 February 2011 13 March 2011
Overshadowed Three 1 October 2017
OWL/TV

P

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Pacific Abyss One 2008
Pan Am Two 2012
The Paper Chase Two 26 April 1979 5 April 1986 Acquired from CBS and Showtime
Parade's End Two 24 August 2012 21 September 2012
The Paradise Club One 19 September 1989 27 November 1990
Parkinson One 19 June 1971 24 April 2004
Parks and Recreation Four 6 March 2013 2 April 2014
Partners in Crime One 26 July 2015 30 August 2015
The Passing Bells One 3 November 2014 7 November 2014
Pat and Margaret One 11 September 1994 One-off drama
Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise Two 25 September 2015 9 October 2015
Pathways of Belief Two 7 October 1996 2001
Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds One 4 November 2013 29 November 2013
Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood Two 27 May 2011 10 June 2011
Paula Two 25 May 2017 8 June 2017
Pebble Mill at One One 2 October 1972 29 March 1996
Pennies from Heaven Two 7 March 1978 11 April 1978
The Pennine Challenge One 17 November 1991 8 December 1991
The Pennine Way (1972) One 6 August 1972 One-off drama
The Pennine Way (2015) One 10 April 2015 1 May 2015
People Just Do Nothing Three 20 July 2014 17 December 2018
People Like Us Two 2013 2014
The People's Quiz One 24 March 2007 23 June 2007
Perfect World One 25 February 2000 25 June 2001
Perfection Two
One
17 January 2011 30 March 2015
Performance Two 5 October 1991 21 March 1998
Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners Two 25 February 2014 11 March 2014
Personal Affairs Three 16 June 2009 14 July 2009
Peter Kay's Car Share One 29 April 2015 28 May 2018
Petrocelli One 21 April 1978 – 2 November 1979 8 December 1997 Acquired from NBC
Petrolheads Two 12 February 2006 19 March 2006
The Phil Silvers Show One 20 April 1957 5 November 2004 Acquired from CBS
Pianos I Have Known TV 28 January 1958 25 February 1958
Picture Book TV 14 February 1955 23 September 1963
A Picture of Britain One 5 June 2005 10 July 2005
Picture Page One 8 October 1936 1939
The Pink Panther Show One (1970–86)
Two (1986–2011)
12 September 1970 28 November 2011
Pinwright's Progress TV 29 November 1946 16 May 1947
Pitch Battle One 17 June 2017 22 July 2017
Planet Dinosaur One 14 September 2011 19 October 2011
Planet Earth One 5 March 2006 10 December 2006
Planet Earth II One 6 November 2016 11 December 2016
Planet Earth: The Future Four 26 November 2006 10 December 2006
Planet Earth Live One 6 May 2012 24 May 2012
The Planets (1999) Two 29 April 1999 17 June 1999
The Planets (2019) Two 29 May 2019 25 June 2019
The Planners Two 31 January 2013 21 March 2013
The Planners Are Coming One 11 September 2008 14 April 2009
The Plantagenets Two 17 March 2014 31 March 2014
Play for Today One 15 October 1970 28 August 1984
Play for Tomorrow One 13 April 1982 18 May 1982
Play of the Month One 19 October 1965 12 September 1983
The Play on One One 19 January 1988 29 August 1991
Play School Two
One
21 April 1964 11 March 1988
Playdays One
Two
17 October 1988 28 March 1997
A Poet in New York Two 2014
The Polar Bear Family and Me Two 2013
Poldark (1975) One 5 October 1975 4 December 1977
Poldark (2015) One 8 March 2015 26 August 2019
The Politician's Husband Two April 2013
The Politics Show One 2003 2011
Pop Life Two 2012
Porridge One 5 September 1974 25 March 1977
Posh Nosh Two 2003
Postman Pat One
CBeebies
16 September 1981 29 March 2017
Pound Shop Wars One 2014
The Power of Nightmares Two 2004
Pramface Three 2012 2014
Prehistoric Autospy Two 2012
Press One 2018
Pride One 2004
Pride and Prejudice (1995) One 1995
A Prince Among Men One 15 September 1997 14 June 1998
Prisoners' Wives One 31 January 2012 4 April 2013
The Private Life of a Masterpiece Two 8 December 2001 25 December 2010
The Private Life of Plants One 11 January 1995 15 February 1995
Protecting Our Children Two 30 January 2012 13 February 2012
Public Account One 6 January 1975 3 July 1978
Public Enemies One 4 January 2012 6 January 2012
Pulling Three 23 November 2006 17 May 2009
Pulse
Puppy Love Four 13 November 2014 18 December 2014

Q

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Q... Two 24 March 1969 25 October 1982
Quantum Leap Two 13 February 1990 28 December 1999 Acquired from NBC
Quatermass II BBC TV 22 October 1955 26 November 1955 Second installment in the Quatermass series
Quatermass and the Pit BBC TV 22 December 1958 26 January 1959 Third installment in the Quatermass series
The Quatermass Experiment (1953) BBC TV 18 July 1953 22 August 1953 First installment in the Quatermass series; 4 of 6 episodes missing
The Quatermass Experiment (2005) Four 2 April 2005 One-off drama; remake of the 1953 serial
Queers Four 31 July 2017 3 August 2017
A Question of Genius Two 16 March 2009 4 June 2010
Quincy, M.E. One 22 June 1994 2003
Quirke One 25 May 2014 8 June 2014

R

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track Two 12 February 2013 19 March 2013
Raven One
CBBC
2002 2010
Ready Steady Cook Two (1994–2010)
One (1997–2003, 2020–21)
24 October 1994 15 April 2021
Real Rescues One 15 October 2007 25 October 2013
Real Story One 10 March 2003
Red Alert One 1999 2000
Red Dwarf Two 15 February 1988 5 April 1999
Reflex One 2014
Reg One 6 June 2016
Reggie Perrin One 2010 2011
Rellik One 2017
Remington Steele One 3 September 1983 27 September 1994 Acquired from NBC
Remember Me One 23 November 2014 7 December 2014
The Ren & Stimpy Show Two 10 January 1994 10 May 1999 Acquired from Nickelodeon
The Replacement One 28 February 2017 14 March 2017
Requiem One 2 February 2018 6 March 2018
The Restaurant Two 29 August 2007 17 December 2009
Restoration Two 8 August 2003 25 April 2009
Restoration Home Two 5 July 2011 28 August 2013
Rev. One 28 June 2010 28 April 2014
Revenge of the Egghead Two 24 February 2014 4 April 2014
Rex the Runt Two (1998–2001)
Four (2005)
21 December 1998 19 April 2005
Rich Hall's Fishing Show Four 2003
Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel Two 2007
The Riff Raff Element One 1993 1994
Rillington Place One 29 November 2016 13 December 2016
Ripper Street One 30 December 2012 24 July 2017
Ripping Yarns One 1976 1979
River One 13 October 2015 17 November 2015
The Rob Brydon Show Two 2010 2012
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive Three 2006–2007
Robin Hood (1953) BBC TV 17 March 1953 21 April 1953
Robin Hood (2006) BBC One 7 October 2006 27 June 2009
Robot Wars Two
Choice
1998
2016
2003
2018
Rock Profile Two 24 December 2000 – 18 March 2001 18 March 2022
The Rockford Files One
Two
18 March 1975 6 October 2015 Acquired from NBC
Roger & Val Have Just Got In Two 6 August 2010 14 March 2012
Rome Two 2005 2007
Roots One 8 April – 1 May 1977 9 May 1981 – 13 June 1981 Miniseries; acquired from ABC
Two 19 September 1978 24 October 1978
Roots: The Next Generations One 30 September – 11 November 1979 27 June – 8 August 1981 Miniseries; acquired from ABC
Rough Science Two 2000 2005
Roughnecks One 16 June 1994 21 December 1995
The Route Masters: Running London's Roads Two 18 June 2013 2 February 2014
The Royle Family Two
One
14 September 1998 25 December 2012
Running Blind 10 July 1979 17 July 1979
Russell Howard's Good News Three
Two
22 October 2009 17 December 2015

S

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Sacred Wonders of Britain Two 30 December 2013 13 January 2014
Salamander Four 8 February 2014
Salting the Battlefield Two 27 March 2014
The Sandie Shaw Supplement One 10 September 1968 15 October 1968
The Sarah Jane Adventures One
CBBC
1 January 2007 18 October 2011 Doctor Who spin-off
The Sarah Millican Television Programme Two 8 March 2012 22 December 2013
SAS: Rogue Warriors Two 6 February 2017 20 February 2017
Saturday Playhouse One 4 January 1958 1 April 1961
Scallywagga Three 29 April 2008 30 March 2010
Scene 1968 2002
School's Out One 5 April 2006 1 September 2007
Science Shack Two 2001 2002
Scoop CBBC January 2009 August 2011
ScreenPlay Two 9 July 1986 27 October 1993
ScreenPlay Firsts Two 17 August 1987 29 September 1993
The Sculptress One 24 February 1996 3 March 1996
Sea of Souls One 2 February 2004 19 April 2007
Second City Firsts Two 15 October 1973 13 May 1978 23 episodes missing
Secret Fortune One 12 February 2011 29 December 2012
The Secret Show Two
CBBC
16 September 2006 27 October 2007
The Secrets One 7 September 2014 12 September 2014
See You in Court One 29 March 2011 17 May 2011
Semi-Detached Two 6 August 2010 10 September 2020
Seven Ages of Britain One 31 January 2010 21 March 2010
Seven Ages of Rock Two 19 May 2007 30 June 2007
Seven of One Two 25 March 1973 6 May 1973
Sex on the Edge Three 2016
Sexy Beasts Three 14 February 2014 9 September 2014
The Shadow Line Two 5 May 2011 16 June 2011
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Two 9 November 1992 14 December 1994
Shakespeare Unlocked Two 2012
Shark: Beneath the Surface One 7 May 2015 21 May 2015
Shaun the Sheep Two
CBBC
5 March 2007 18 November 2016
Sherlock One 25 July 2010 15 January 2017
The Shiny Show CBeebies
One
Two
11 February 2002 30 July 2002
The Shock of the New Two
Four
21 September 1980 – 9 November 1980 12 September 2023 – 2 October 2023
Shoestring One 30 September 1979 21 December 1980
Shooting Stars Two (1993–2011)
Choice (2002)
27 December 1993 12 September 2011
Should I Worry About...? One 9 September 2004 18 August 2005
Show Me the Monet Two 2011
Shrill Three 15 December 2019 7 May 2021
Siblings Three 7 August 2014 8 February 2016
Silk One 22 February 2011 31 March 2014
Simon Schama's Power of Art Two 2006
Simon Schama's Shakespeare Two 2012
The Simpsons One
Two
23 November 1996 7 May 2004 Acquired from Fox
The Singing Detective One 16 November 1986 21 December 1986
Six-Five Special One 16 February 1957 27 December 1958
The Slate
Slim John One 1969
Small Talk One 24 July 1994 18 December 1996
SMart One (1994–2006)
Two (2007–08)
CBBC (2009)
5 October 1994 4 April 2009
SMarteenies CBeebies February 2002 January 2008
Smiley's People Two 20 September 1982 25 October 1982
Snog Marry Avoid? Three 23 June 2008 9 December 2013
The Snow Wolf Family & Me Two 2014
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga Two 1994 1997
So Haunt Me One 23 February 1992 6 February 1994
So What Now? One 26 March 2001 22 May 2001
So You Think You Can Dance One 2 January 2010 11 June 2011
Solo One 11 January 1981 17 October 1982
Some Girls Three 6 November 2012 22 December 2014
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em One 15 February 1973 25 December 1978
Something Else Two 11 March 1978 5 November 1982
Something Special Two
CBeebies
1 September 2003 present
South Pacific Two 10 May 2009 14 June 2009
South Side Story Three 26 January 2015 2 March 2015
Space: 1999 One (1994)
Two (1998–99)
30 August 1994; 11 May 1998 5th Jun 1999 Previously shown on ITV
Space Precinct Two 1995 2003
Spender One 8 January 1991 29 December 1993
Spies of Warsaw Four 9 January 2013 16 January 2013
Spirit Warriors CBBC 22 January 2010 26 March 2010
Spooks One 13 May 2002 23 October 2011
Spooks: Code 9 Three 10 September 2008 7 October 2008
Sports Review BBC TV 30 April 1937 1946
Spy in the Wild One 12 January 2017 19 February 2020
SS-GB One 19 February 2017 19 March 2017
Stand by to Shoot BBC TV 6 June 1953 11 July 1953
Star Cops Two 6 July 1987 31 August 1987
Star Trek One 12 July 1969
19 August 1992
15 December 1971
19 January 1994
Acquired from NBC
Star Trek: The Animated Series 31 August 1974 22 December 1974 Acquired from NBC
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Two 28 September 1995 Acquired programming from Paramount Television
Star Trek: The Next Generation 26 September 1990 6 May 1992 Acquired programming from Paramount Television
Star Trek: Voyager One 26 August 1996 Acquired from UPN
The Star Trek Story One 26 August 1996
Starlight BBC TV 3 November 1936 1949
The State Within One 2 November 2006 7 December 2006
Steptoe and Son One 7 June 1962 26 December 1974
Still Game One 6 September 2002 28 March 2019
Still Open All Hours One 26 December 2013 23 December 2019 Sequel to Open All Hours
Stingray Two 11 September 1992 21 January 2004 Previously shown on ITV
Stingray: The Reunion Party Four 2 January 2008
The Story of China Two 2016
Storyboard BBC TV 28 July 1961 1 September 1961
Strange One 9 March 2002 5 July 2003
The Street One 13 April 2006 17 August 2009
Streets Apart One 24 October 1988 9 October 1989
Students on the Edge Three 2018
Sugartown One 24 July 2011 7 August 2011
Summer of Rockets Two 22 May 2019 26 June 2019
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents Three 4 January 2011 8 July 2015
Sunday Night Theatre BBC TV 5 March 1950 20 December 1959
Sunshine One 7 October 2008 21 October 2008
SunTrap One 27 May 2015 1 July 2015
Super Cute Animals One 2015
Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals Two 2014
Super Smart Animals One 2012
Supergiant Animals One 2013
Supermarket Secrets One 4 July 2013 3 April 201
Supernatural: The Unseen Powers of Animals One 1999
Supersized Earth One 2012
The Supersizers... Two 20 May 2008 27 July 2009
Survivors (2008) One 16 April 1975 8 June 1977
Survivors (2008) One 23 November 2008 23 February 2010
Swallows and Amazons Forever! Two 14 March 1984 2 May 1984
Sweat the Small Stuff Three 30 April 2013 7 January 2015
Sykes One 14 September 1972 16 November 1979
Sykes and a... One 29 January 1960 16 November 1965
Sykes and a Big, Big Show One 26 February 1971 2 April 1971
The Syndicate One 27 March 2012 4 May 2021

T

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Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Takeover Bid One 26 May 1990 15 July 1991
Takin' Over the Asylum Two 27 September 1994 1 November 1994
Tales from Soho BBC TV 21 January 1956 25 February 1956
Tales from the Green Valley Two 19 August 2005 4 November 2005 First installment in the BBC historic farm series
The Tales of Para Handy One 31 July 1994 21 August 1995
Tales of the Gold Monkey One 5 November 1982 21 June 1983 Acquired from ABC
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads One 1987 1998
Talking to a Stranger Two 1966
Tatau Three 2015
Taxi One 1978 1983
Teacher Didn't Tell Me BBC TV 1957 1957
Telecrime BBC TV 10 August 1938 25 July 1939
Telecrimes BBC TV 22 October 1946 28 November 1946
The Telegoons BBC TV
One
5 October 1963 1 August 1964
Teletubbies One
Two
CBeebies
1997 – 2001, 2002 – present
Television Newsreel BBC TV 5 January 1948 4 July 1954
Tenko One 22 October 1981 1985
Test the Nation One 11 May 2002 27 August 2007
Testament: The Bible in Animation One 16 October 1996 11 December 1996
Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise Two 2017
That Day We Sang Two 2014
That Mitchell and Webb Look Two 2006 2010
That Puppet Game Show One 2013 2014
Theatre 625 Two 3 May 1964 5 August 1968
Theatre Night Two 15 September 1985 21 July 1990
Theatre Parade 1936 1938
They Think It's All Over One 14 September 1995 9 June 2006
The Thick of It Four
Two
19 May 2005 27 October 2012
The Thin Blue Line One 13 November 1995 23 November 1996
Thirteen Three 28 February 2016 27 March 2016
Thirty-Minute Theatre Two 7 October 1965 9 August 1973 241 episodes missing
This Country Three 8 February 2017 23 March 2020
This Life Two 18 March 1996 7 August 1997
This Time Tomorrow One 5 July 2008 23 August 2008
This World Two
World News
2004 present
Threads One 23 September 1984
Three Girls One 16 May 2017 18 May 2017
Three Men in a Boat Two 3 January 2006 28 December 2011
Three Up, Two Down One 15 April 1985 18 June 1989
Through Hell and High Water Two 13 February 2006 17 February 2006
Thunderbirds Two
Four
20 September 1991 Previously shown on ITV1
Till Death Us Do Part One
Four
1965 – 1975, 2016
Time Commanders Two
Four
4 September 2003 – 13 March 2005 12 September 2016 – 27 December 2016
The Time Machine BBC TV 25 January 1949 Live broadcast
Time Trumpet Two 3 August 2006 7 September 2006
Timewatch Two 29 September 1982 15 November 2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy One 10 September 1979 22 October 1979
Tipping the Velvet Two 9 October 2002 23 October 2002
To the Ends of the Earth Two 6 July 2005 20 July 2005
To the Manor Born One 30 September 1979 – 29 November 1981 25 December 2007
To Walk Invisible One 29 December 2016
Tomorrow's World One 7 July 1965 16 July 2003
Tonight's the Night One 18 April 2009 3 December 2011
Too Much TV Two 29 February 2016 1 April 2016
Top Cat One 16 May 1962 1989
Top Gear America Two
Three
2011 present
Top of the Lake Two 2013 2017
Top of the Pops One
Two
1 January 1964 30 July 2006
Top of the Pops 2 Two 17 September 1994 22 December 2017
Torchwood Three
Two
One
22 October 2006 9 September 2011 Doctor Who spin-off
Total Wipeout One 2009 2012
Totally Saturday One 2009
Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor Three 2006 2008
Tough Young Teachers Three 2014
The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities One 2007
Tracy Beaker Returns CBBC 2010 2012
Tracey Ullman's Show One 11 January 2016 17 March 2017
Traffic Cops One 2003 2015
Trainer One 1991 1992
The Traitors One 2022
The Traitors US One 2023
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom One 2007
Trapped! One
CBBC
2007 2010
Treasures of Ancient Rome Four 3 September 2012 17 September 2012
Trexx and Flipside Three 6 July 2008 3 August 2008
The Trials of Life One 3 October 1990 19 December 1990
Triangle One 5 January 1981 6 July 1983
Tribes, Predators & Me Two 20 March 2016 – 21 September 2017 30 October 2023 – 6 November 2023
The Trip Two 1 November 2010 31 March 2020
Troy: Fall of a City One 17 February 2018 7 April 2018
Truckers One 10 October 2013 7 November 2013
Trust Me One 8 August 2017 7 May 2019
The Tube Two 20 February 2012 26 March 2012
Tudor Monastery Farm Two 13 November 2013 18 December 2013 Fifth installment of the BBC historic farm series
The Tudors Two 5 October 2007 2010
Tumble One 9 August 2014 13 September 2014
Turks & Caicos Two 20 March 2014
Turn Back Time – The High Street One 2 November 2010 7 December 2010
Turnabout One 26 March 1990 7 October 1996
Two Fat Ladies Two 9 October 1996 28 September 1999
Two Greedy Italians Two 4 May 2011 17 May 2012
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps One
Choice
Three
26 February 2001 24 May 2011
The Two Ronnies One 10 April 1971 25 December 1987
The Two Ronnies Sketchbook One 18 March 2005 25 December 2005
Two Thousand Acres of Sky One 1 January 2001 21 February 2003
Two Tribes Two 18 August 2014 31 August 2015
Two Up, Two Down One 11 May 1979 15 June 1979
Tyger Takes On... Three 15 May 2014 19 November 2015

U

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Unbeatable One 10 May 2021 present
Uncle Three 13 January 2014 12 February 2017
Underground Ernie Two 5 June 2006 23 December 2006
The Underground Murder Mystery BBC TV 19 January 1937
United! One 4 October 1965 2 March 1967
Up Pompeii! One 30 March 1970 26 October 1970
Up Sunday One 16 January 1972 23 December 1973
Up the Women Four (2013)
Two (2015)
30 May 2013 25 February 2015
Upstairs, Downstairs One 26 December 2010 25 March 2012 Co-production with PBS Masterpiece

V

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
The Vampyr: A Soap Opera Two 29 December 1992 – 2 January 1993 9 January 1993
Venice 24/7 Four 7 March 2012 11 April 2012
The Verdict Two 11 February 2007 15 February 2007
Versailles Two 1 June 2016 6 August 2018
A Very British Airline Two 2 June 2014 16 June 2014
A Very British Scandal One 26 December 2021 28 December 2021
A Very English Scandal One 20 May 2018 3 June 2018
Vexed Two 15 August 2010 5 September 2012
The Vicar of Dibley One 10 November 1994 23 December 2020
Vic and Bob's Big Night Out Two (2017); Four (2018–19) 29 December 2017 (pilot); 28 November 2018 – 18 March 2019 19 March 2020
The Victim One 8 April 2019 11 April 2019
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV Two 11 January 1985 18 December 1987
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea One 10 April 2013 – 11 April 2013 8 September 2013
The Village One 31 March 2013 14 September 2014
The Virgin Queen One 22 January 2006 12 February 2006
Virtual Murder One 24 July 1992 28 August 1992
The Voice UK One 24 March 2012 9 April 2016

W

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
W1A Two 19 March 2014 23 October 2017
Wacky Races One 7 October 1969 17 June 1999
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home One 23 December 1984 20 September 1986
Waking the Dead One 4 September 2000 11 April 2011
Walking with Beasts One 15 November 2001 21 December 2001
Walking with Cavemen One 27 March 2003 23 April 2003
Walking with Dinosaurs One 4 October 1999 8 November 1999
Walking with Monsters One 5 November 2005
The Wall One 12 October 2019 2 April 2022
Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions One (2002–03)
Three (2009–12)
24 December 2002 – 23 March 2003 1 May 2009 – 10 June 2012
Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention One 3 November 2010 8 December 2010
Walliams & Friend One 24 December 2015 27 December 2016
The Walshes Four 13 March 2014 27 March 2014
Walt Disney One 25 December 1960
Walt Disney One 25 December 1963
Walt Disney Two 10 December 2016 17 December 2016
Walt Disney on Making a Film One 15 October 1953
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color One 4 September 1971 2 January 1972
Wanderlust One 4 September 2018 9 October 2018
War & Peace One 3 January 2016 – 7 February 2016
The War of the Worlds One 17 November 2019 – 1 December 2019
War Walks Two 26 July 1996 19 December 1997
Warren One 25 February 2019 1 April 2019
Wasp's Nest BBC TV 18 June 1937 Live broadcast
The Way of the Warrior Two 11 May 1983 – 29 June 1983 9 May 1989 – 20 June 1989
Watch with Mother One 1951 1972
Watchdog One 14 July 1985 17 October 2019
Watchdog Test House One 10 March 2014 20 March 2015
Watermen: A Dirty Business Two 15 April 2014 20 May 2014
Watership Down One 22 December 2018 – 23 December 2018
Watson & Oliver Two 20 February 2012 30 May 2013
Way to Go Three 17 January 2013 21 February 2013
Ways of Seeing Two 8 January 1972 29 January 1972
We Are History Two 3 April 2000 30 October 2001
We Love Sitcom One 9 September 2016
The Wednesday Play One 28 October 1964 27 May 1970
West 10 LDN Three 10 March 2008
We've Got Your Number One 27 February 1999 22 May 1999
What the Ancients Did for Us Two 16 February 2005 – 13 April 2005 23 January 2008 – 23 April 2008
What Do Artists Do All Day? Four 19 March 2013 26 August 2015
What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us Two 7 October 2003 11 November 2003
What Not to Wear Two (2001–2003)
One (2004–2007)
29 November 2001 4 October 2007
What the Papers Say Two 1989 2008
What Remains One 25 August 2013 15 September 2013
What the Romans Did for Us Two 6 November 2000 11 December 2000
What the Stuarts Did for Us Two 21 October 2002 11 November 2002
What the Tudors Did for Us Two 23 September 2002 14 October 2002
What the Victorians Did for Us Two 3 September 2001 22 October 2001
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? One 9 January 1973 24 December 1974
White Gold Two 28 May 2017 10 April 2019
White Heat Two 8 March 2012 12 April 2012
White Van Man Three 22 March 2012 29 March 2012
Whites Two 28 September 2010 2 November 2010
The White Queen One 16 June 2013 18 August 2013
Whoops Baghdad One 25 January 1973 1 March 1973
Whose Doctor Who BBC Two 3 April 1977
Why Don't You? One 20 August 1973 21 April 1995
Wild Africa Two 7 November 2001 12 December 2001
Wild Arabia Two 22 February 2013 8 March 2013
Wild Brazil Two 14 January 2014 16 January 2014
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom Two 29 November 2013 13 December 2013
Wild Caribbean Two 16 January 2007 6 February 2007
Wild China Two 11 May 2008 15 June 2008
Wild Down Under Two 12 September 2003 17 October 2003
Wild In Your Garden Two 2003
Wild Ireland: The Edge of the World Two 2017
Wild New World Two 3 October 2002 7 November 2002
Wild Wales One 2010
Wild West: America's Great Frontier Two 2016
Wildlife on One One 6 January 1977 17 February 2005
Wildlife on Two Two 1977 2005
Wilfred Three 16 August 2011 2015
Winning Lines One 12 June 1999 16 October 2004
Wipeout One 25 May 1994 17 April 2003
The Wire Two 2009
The Witness for the Prosecution One 26 December 2016 27 December 2016
Wogan One 4 May 1982 3 July 1992
Wolf Hall Two 21 January 2015 25 February 2015
The Woman in White One 22 April 2018 7 May 2018
The Wombles One 5 February 1973 24 October 1975
The Wonderful World of Disney One 8 April 1972 7 May 1984
Wonders of Life Two 27 January 2013 24 February 2013
Wonders of the Monsoon Two 5 October 2014 2 November 2014
Wonders of the Solar System Two 7 March 2010 4 April 2010
Wonders of the Universe Two 6 March 2011 27 March 2011
Words and Pictures Two 17 October 1970 28 October 2006
Working Lunch Two 19 September 1994 30 July 2010
The World About Us Two 3 December 1967 20 July 1986
The World of Walt Disney One 25 December 1961
World Series of Dating Three 26 March 2012 8 May 2012
World Tour of Scotland One 12 July 1994 – 16 August 1994 18 September 1995 – 23 October 1995
World's Craziest Fools Three 6 June 2011 11 March 2013
World's Most Dangerous Roads Two 4 September 2011 9 January 2013
World's Sneakiest Animals Two 25 December 2015 – 14 January 2016 31 July 2023 – 8 August 2013
The World's Strictest Parents Three 1 September 2008 15 December 2011
World's Weirdest Events Two 3 September 2015 20 March 2016
The Worst Week of My Life One 12 March 2004 22 December 2006
WPC 56 One 18 March 2013 13 March 2015
Wright Around the World One 25 October 2003 8 January 2005
The Wright Way One 23 April 2013 28 May 2013
The Wrong Door Three 28 August 2008 2 October 2008
The Wrong Mans Two 24 September 2013 23 December 2014

X

[edit]
Title Channel First broadcast Last broadcast Notes
X Change One (2000–01)
Two (2001–04)
CBBC (2002–06)
24 July 2000 31 March 2006
The X-Files Two (1994–2004)
One (1996–2000)
19 September 1994 20 March 2004 Acquired from Fox

Y

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
A Year in the Life of a Year Four 30 December 2016 30 December 2017
Years and Years One 14 May 2019 18 June 2019 Co-production with HBO
Yellowstone Two 15 March 2009 29 March 2009
Yellowstone: Wildest Winter to Blazing Summer Two 3 January 2017 5 January 2017
Yes Minister Two 25 February 1980 17 December 1984
Yes, Prime Minister Two 9 January 1986 28 January 1988
You Know What People Are One 1 June 1955 6 July 1955
You Rang, M'Lord? One 29 December 1988 24 April 1993
Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum Three 19 July 2009 18 September 2011
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles One (1994–95; 2002–03)
Two (1995–2005)
20 November 1994 24 April 2005 Acquired from ABC
The Young Ones Two 9 November 1982 19 June 1984
Your Life in Their Hands One
Two
11 February 1958 8 November 2005
Your Wardrobe One 5 April 1949 21 Dec 1950

Z

[edit]
Title Channel First Broadcast Last Broadcast Notes
Z-Cars One 2 January 1962 20 September 1978
Zen One 2 January 2011 16 January 2011
Zoo Quest One 21 December 1954 31 May 1963

See also

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