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100 Greatest British Television Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened.

Initially, a 'big list' of 650 programmes was drawn up by BFI personnel, and this provisional list was then distributed to a range of television industry professionals in the UK, who were each given 30 votes. The listing was split into six categories: Single Dramas, Drama Series and Serials, Comedy and Variety, Factual, Children's / Youth, and Lifestyle & Light Entertainment. Each voter was required to cast a minimum of three votes in every category. News stories were mostly excluded — with exceptions such as the coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales — on the basis that it would be impossible to determine whether it was the coverage or the news itself that made them important. Sport was excluded for similar reasons, and also because many events such as the 1966 World Cup, while important to those in England, would not matter to those in other areas of the United Kingdom.

Some programmes were represented on the list as an entire series, while for some series such as the anthology The Wednesday Play and current affairs show This Week, individual episodes were singled out. Early television programmes no longer existing in the archives were excluded from consideration.

Although obviously not including any programmes made in 2000 or later, the list is useful as an indication of what were generally regarded as the most successful British programmes of the 20th century.

The full list ran as follows:

  1. Fawlty Towers BBC2 1975-1979
  2. Cathy Come Home (The Wednesday Play) BBC1 1966
  3. Doctor Who BBC1 1963-1989, 1996, 2005-
  4. The Naked Civil Servant ITV 1975
  5. Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC2 1969-1974
  6. Planet Earth BBC1 "2006"
  7. Boys from the Blackstuff BBC2 1982
  8. Parkinson BBC1/ITV 1971-1982, 1998-2007
  9. Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister BBC2 1980-1988
  10. Brideshead Revisited ITV 1981
  11. Abigail's Party (Play for Today) BBC1 1977
  12. I, Claudius BBC2 1976
  13. Dad's Army BBC1 1968-1977
  14. The Morecambe & Wise Show ITV/BBC1 1961-1983
  15. Edge of Darkness BBC2 1985
  16. Blackadder Goes Forth BBC1 1989
  17. Absolutely Fabulous BBC2/BBC1 1992-1996, 2001-2004
  18. The Wrong Trousers BBC2 1993
  19. The World at War ITV 1973-1974
  20. The Singing Detective BBC1 1986
  21. Pennies From Heaven BBC1 1978
  22. The Jewel in the Crown ITV 1984
  23. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ITV 1998-
  24. Hancock's Half Hour BBC1 1956-1961
  25. Our Friends in the North BBC2 1996
  26. 28 Up ITV 1985
  27. The War Game (The Wednesday Play) BBC1 1965 (transmitted 1985)
  28. Spooks BBC1 2002-
  29. That Was The Week That Was BBC1 1962-1963
  30. An Englishman Abroad BBC1 1983
  31. The Royle Family BBC1 1998-2000, 2006
  32. Life On Earth BBC2 1979
  33. The Old Grey Whistle Test BBC2 1971-1987
  34. University Challenge ITV/BBC2 1961-1987, 1994-
  35. Porridge BBC1 1974-1977
  36. Blue Remembered Hills (Play for Today) BBC1 1979
  37. Mastermind BBC1/BBC2 1972-1997, 2003-
  38. I'm Alan Partridge BBC2 1997, 2002
  39. Cracker ITV 1993-1996, 2006
  40. Life on Mars BBC 2005-2006
  41. Top of the Pops BBC2/BBC1 1964-2006
  42. Inspector Morse ITV 1987-2000
  43. Grange Hill BBC1 1978-2008
  44. Steptoe and Son BBC1 1962-1965, 1970-1974
  45. Only Fools and Horses BBC1 1981-1996, 2001-2003
  46. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (series 1) ITV 1983-1986
  47. Tiswas ITV 1974-1982
  48. Elgar BBC 1962
  49. Nuts in May (Play for Today) BBC1 1976
  50. Father Ted Channel 4 1995-1998
  51. The Avengers ITV 1961-1969
  52. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy BBC2 1979
  53. The Forsyte Saga BBC2 1967
  54. Hillsborough ITV 1996
  55. Dennis Potter: The Last Interview (Without Walls Special) Channel 4 1994
  56. Bar Mitzvah Boy (Play for Today) BBC1 1976
  57. Edna, the Inebriate Woman (Play for Today) BBC1 1971
  58. Live Aid for Africa BBC1 1985
  59. World In Action ITV 1963-1998
  60. Thunderbirds ITV 1965-1966
  61. Talking Heads/Talking Heads 2 BBC2 1987, 1998
  62. Ready Steady Go! ITV 1963-1966
  63. Z-Cars BBC1 1962-1978
  64. Culloden BBC1 1964
  65. The Ascent of Man BBC2 1973
  66. A Very British Coup Channel 4 1988
  67. Civilisation BBC2 1969
  68. Prime Suspect ITV 1991-1996, 2003-2006
  69. The Likely Lads / Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? BBC2/BBC1 1964-1966, 1973-1974
  70. Have I Got News for You BBC2/BBC1 1990-
  71. The Snowman Channel 4 1982
  72. Walking with Dinosaurs BBC1 1999
  73. Nineteen Eighty-Four BBC1 1954
  74. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin BBC1 1976-1979
  75. Quatermass and the Pit BBC1 1958-1959
  76. Between The Lines BBC1 1992-1994
  77. Blind Date ITV 1985-2003
  78. Talking to a Stranger (Theatre 625) BBC2 1966
  79. The Borrowers BBC1 1992
  80. One Foot in the Grave BBC1 1990-2000
  81. Later with Jools Holland BBC2 1992-
  82. Tutti Frutti BBC2 1987
  83. The Knowledge ITV 1979
  84. House of Cards BBC1 1990-1995
  85. This is Your Life BBC1/ITV 1955-1964, 1969-2003
  86. The Tube Channel 4 1982-1987
  87. The Death of Yugoslavia BBC2 1995
  88. Till Death Us Do Part BBC1 1966-1975
  89. A Very Peculiar Practice BBC1 1986-1992
  90. Michael Moore's TV Nation BBC2 1995
  91. This Life BBC2 1996-1997
  92. Death on the Rock (This Week) ITV 1988
  93. The Nazis: A Warning from History BBC2 1997
  94. Drop the Dead Donkey Channel 4 1990-1998
  95. Arena BBC2 1975-
  96. The Railway Children BBC1 1968
  97. Teletubbies BBC2 1997-2001
  98. Spitting Image ITV 1984-1996
  99. Pride and Prejudice BBC1 1995
  100. Made in Britain ITV 1982

See also

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