On his 40th birthday, Tom Good (Richard Briers) decides he can no longer stomach his meaningless corporate job, and convinces his bemused but supportive wife Barbara (Rosemary & Thyme’s Felicity Kendal) that they should abandon the rat race, opt out of consumer culture, and become completely self-sufficient. All of which comes as something of a shock to their good-hearted but very proper neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter, played by Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born) and Paul Eddington (Yes, Minister). [more]

A comedy about the loves, hopes and disappointments of the staff and punters at a Liverpool bingo palace, all waiting for their winning number in life. Ray calls the bingo and presides over a motley staff that include Christine on catering, blind to the devotion she arouses in floorman Martin, whose life is a world away from that of handy mechanic and ladies' man Bobby, and the regulars who have lives every bit as complicated as the staff. Stars Paul O’Grady, Edna Doré (Mo Butcher in EastEnders), and Rosie Cavaliero.

Ronnie Barker stars as Albert Arkwright who wants to make plenty of money while spending as little of it as possible. He runs the small corner shop with the help of his nephew, Granville (David Jason) who, after ten years working for his uncle, has risen to the mighty rank of errand boy. When he's not in his shop, Arkwright devotes most of his energy to the pursuit of Nurse Gladys Emanuel (Lynda Baron), his long-standing fiancée.

The late, great Dermot Morgan stars as the lovable but – shall we say – morally flexible Father Ted Crilly. Ardal O’Hanlon (Doctor Who, Skins) co-stars as the well-meaning but spectacularly dense Father Dougal McGuire, and Frank Kelly plays the drunken, lecherous and completely unhinged Father Jack Hackett. Banished from the mainland for assorted ecumenical misdeeds, these three men of the (soiled) cloth still manage to wreak holy havoc in their island exile, embarking on a series of misadventures. [more]

The Cold War is long over – everywhere but the picturesque Scottish village of Auchnacluchnie, where Flight Lt. Harrison (Christopher Lang) and his fellow airmen keep an RAF early warning station running (badly), much to the annoyance of the eccentric locals.

Fans of the acclaimed British comedy-drama series Doc Martin will be relieved to learn that the foul-tempered physician (played with exquisite truculence by star Martin Clunes) hasn’t mellowed in the slightest. In fact, having been left at the altar by fetching schoolteacher Louisa Glasson (Caroline Catz) at the end of last season, he’s more hostile than ever – if that’s possible. And his life is about to get even more complicated, as viewers will discover on the fourth season of Doc Martin. [more]

The beloved Mollie Sugden, one of British comedy's greatest gifts to the world, plays Nora Powers, the officious head of personnel at a prestigious advertising agency. Nora’s personal and professional lives collide unhappily when her husband George - played by Sugden’s real-life husband, William Moore -- joins the company as chief doorman. [more]

Leesen verry carefully, I weel zay zis only once: ’Allo, ’Allo!, a hilariously broad send-up of World War Two dramas, is one of the most successful British comedies of all time. Gorden Kaye stars as Rene, the owner of a small café in Occupied France, whose efforts to ride out the war in peace are complicated by the Gestapo, the Resistance, his wife and mistress, the British airmen hiding upstairs and a priceless painting concealed in a garlic sausage.

Comedian Victoria Wood created and stars in this bittersweet, working-class ensemble comedy about a group of women toiling in the canteen of a Manchester factory. When not scraping bits of dinner into plastic dustbins, the level-headed Bren (Wood) and her co-workers bicker, fantasize, fall in love, weigh themselves and generally do whatever they can to make life bearable. A blend of earthy humour and genuine emotion made this series an award winner. With Julie Walters as Bren’s batty mother Petula.

Prepare to be surprised. In this classic British comedy series, Hugh Laurie plays a character who couldn’t be further from the brilliant but abrasive Dr. House: the addlepated upper-class English gentleman Bertie Wooster. The good-hearted but hapless Bertie lurches from one social predicament to the next, only to be extricated with subtlety and skill by the masterful Jeeves, played by Stephen Fry (Blackadder, Gosford Park).

This classic British sitcom follows the misfortunes of cantankerous old grouch Victor Meldrew as he rails against the injustices of the world around him. Five times winner of Top BBC Sitcom. Starring Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) , Annette Crosbie (Margaret Meldrew), Angus Deayton (Patrick) and Janine Duvitski (Pippa).

Goodbye, city life! When Boycie (John Challis), Peckham’s shiftiest used car salesman, runs afoul of those notorious south London gangsters the Driscoll brothers, his only option is to go into hiding, or “they’ll be wearing my kneecaps as earmuffs.” Much to the displeasure of his vain, brassy wife Marlene (Sue Holderness) and his oafish teenage son Tyler (Jack Doolan), Boycie’s chosen refuge is a rambling farmhouse in Shropshire – or, as Marlene acidly describes it, “the little house on the prairie.” But is a slick London wheeler-dealer like Boycie really suited to the life of a country gentleman?

Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies) stars as Timothy Lumsden, a single, fortysomething librarian still living at home, trapped under the thumb of his domineering mother (Barbara Lott), a scheming tyrant who seems determined to thwart his every desire – especially when it comes to the opposite sex.