20th Century BBC Comedy

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty"s incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.

Comedy that follows two brothers from London"s rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that"ll make them millionaires.

Arkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small-town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville, and a particularly dangerous till.

In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family"s working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher"s Britain.

The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.

A boisterous female minister comes to serve in an eccentrically conservative village"s church.

Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.

The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.

Alan Partridge hosts his own chat show on the BBC. He insults and belittles almost all of his guests and is humiliated by the rest.

UK comedy sketch show depicting most forms of stereotypical British society.

Accident-prone Frank Spencer fails to navigate the simplest tasks of daily life, while also trying to look after his wife and baby.

Comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders satirically present aspects of British life, films such as Batman Forever and Pulp Fiction.

Adventures and misadventures of Lord Meldrum, his family and their servants in the 1920s.

This long-running BBC comedy show consisted of sketches and humourous musical routines.

Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he"s around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen.

Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.

British sketch comedy starring the likes of Rowan Atkinson and Mel Smith.

Comedy about the workers in a factory canteen.

The misadventures of three twenty-something flatmates, bound together by circumstance. Mandy is sexually active, Martin is sexually inactive, and their troubled landlord Matthew never leaves the flat.

Comic goings-on in this series. Ted"s the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money. Gladys has her eye on the boss, and Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner"s outfit for a "yellow coat."

Famous chef Gareth Blackstock struggles with dividing time between wife Janice and the restaurant. It"s a good thing he can let off steam with his remarks.

Follows the lives of the Porters; a seemingly average family whose world is frequently turned upside-down, due to bad luck and bizarre occurrence.