BFI TV 100

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed The BFI TV 100 is a list of 100 television programmes or series that was compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), as chosen by a poll of industry professionals, with the aim to determine the best British television programmes of any genre that had been screened up to that time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Selection and criteria

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The BBC produced 70 of the 100 programmes on the list.
Granada Television produced 7 of the 100 programmes on list—the largest number by a commercial broadcaster.Template:Citation needed

The British Film Institute television programme poll was conducted in the year 2000,Template:Citation needed and its results are reflected in the list that appears in a following section. Initially, a 'big list' of 650 programmes was drawn up by BFI personnel.<ref name=Barnes>Template:Cite news</ref> Television programmes no longer extant in the archives were excluded from consideration.Template:Citation needed The provisional list was split into six categories: Single Dramas, Drama Series and Serials, Comedy and Variety, Factual, Children's/Youth, and Lifestyle & Light Entertainment.Template:Citation needed Some programmes were represented in the list by an entire series; however, for some series—e.g., the anthology The Wednesday Play and the current affairs programme This Week—individual episodes were listed.Template:Citation needed 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).Template:Citation needed 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 necessarily matter to those in other areas of the UK.Template:Citation needed

The provisional list of 650 was then distributed to 1,600 television industry professionals in the UK, who were each given 30 votes.<ref name=Barnes/> Each voter was required to cast a minimum of three votes in every category.Template:Citation needed The judges were also asked to name their top overseas programme (where the U.S. sitcom Frasier was chosen).<ref name=Barnes/>

List

The following are the results of the poll, as reported by the BFI and other sources.Template:Clarify Because the list reports decisions made in the year 2000, programmes and series are presented as they were perceived in that year; as such, ones not yet having concluded by the year 2000 are presented as having an open-ended date span in the "Year(s)" column, even if they have subsequently ended.Template:Verification needed The Genre column, added to the original table, may have a lot of crossover genres and is intended as guide to the "main" genre of each programme.

No. Title<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Broadcast on Year(s) Genre
1 Fawlty Towers BBC2 1975–1979 Comedy and Variety
2 "Cathy Come Home" (The Wednesday Play)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BBC1 1966 Single Dramas
3 Doctor Who 1963–1989, 1996 Children's/Youth
4 The Naked Civil Servant ITV (Thames Television) 1975 Single Dramas
5 Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC1 / BBC2 1969–1974 Comedy and Variety
6 Blue Peter BBC1 1958– Children's/Youth
7 Boys from the Blackstuff BBC2 1982 Drama Series and Serials
8 Parkinson BBC1 1971–1982, 1987–1988, 1998– Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
9 Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister BBC2 1980–1988 Comedy and Variety
10 Brideshead Revisited ITV (Granada) 1981 Drama Series and Serials
11 Abigail's Party  (Play for Today)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BBC1 1977 Single Dramas
12 I, Claudius BBC2 1976 Drama Series and Serials
13 Dad's Army BBC1 1968–1977 Comedy and Variety
14 The Morecambe & Wise Show BBC2 / BBC1 / ITV (Thames) 1961–1983
15 Edge of Darkness BBC2 1985 Drama Series and Serials
16 Blackadder Goes Forth BBC1 1989 Comedy and Variety
17 Absolutely Fabulous BBC2 / BBC1 1992–1996
18 The Wrong Trousers BBC2 1993 Children's/Youth
19 The World at War ITV (Thames) 1973–1974 Factual
20 The Singing Detective BBC1 1986 Drama Series and Serials
21 Pennies from Heaven BBC1 1978
22 The Jewel in the Crown ITV (Granada) 1984
23 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ITV 1998– Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
24 Hancock's Half Hour BBC 1956–1961 Comedy and Variety
25 Our Friends in the North BBC2 1996 Drama Series and Serials
26 28 Up ITV (Granada) 1985 Factual
27 The War Game   BBC1 1965 Single Dramas
28 The Magic Roundabout 1965–1977 Children's/Youth
29 That Was the Week That Was BBC 1962–1963 Comedy and Variety
30 An Englishman Abroad BBC1 1983 Single Dramas
31 The Royle Family BBC2/BBC1 1998– Comedy and Variety
32 Life on Earth BBC2 1979 Factual
33 The Old Grey Whistle Test 1971–1987 Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
34 University Challenge ITV (Granada) / BBC2 1961–1987, 1994–
35 Porridge BBC1 1974–1977 Comedy and Variety
36 "Blue Remembered Hills"  (Play for Today)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1979 Single Dramas
37 Mastermind  (original format) BBC1 / BBC2 1972–1997 Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
38 I'm Alan Partridge BBC2 1997 Comedy and Variety
39 Cracker ITV (Granada) 1993–1996 Drama Series and Serials
40 Coronation Street 1960–
41 Top of the Pops BBC1 / BBC2 1964–2006 Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
42 Inspector Morse ITV (Central) 1987–2000 Drama Series and Serials
43 Grange Hill BBC1 1978–2008 Children's/Youth
44 Steptoe and Son 1962–1965, 1970–1974 Comedy and Variety
45 Only Fools and Horses 1981–1996
46 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet  (series 1Template:Citation needed) ITV (Central) 1983
47 Tiswas ITV (ATV) 1974–1982 Children's/Youth
48 Elgar BBC 1962 Single Dramas
49 "Nuts in May"  (Play for Today)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BBC1 1976
50 Father Ted Channel 4 1995–1998 Comedy and Variety
51 The Avengers ITV (ABC) 1961–1969 Drama Series and Serials
52 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BBC2 1979
53 The Forsyte Saga 1967
54 Hillsborough ITV (Granada) 1996 Single Dramas
55 Dennis Potter: The Last Interview  (Without Walls SpecialTemplate:Citation needed) Channel 4 1994 Factual
56 Bar Mitzvah Boy  (Play for Today)<ref>Template:Cite web)</ref> BBC1 1976 Single Dramas
57 "Edna, the Inebriate Woman"  (Play for Today)<ref>Template:Cite web)</ref> 1971
58 Live Aid BBC1 / BBC2 1985 Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
59 World In Action ITV (Granada) 1963–1998 Factual
60 Thunderbirds ITV (ATV) 1965–1966 Children's/Youth
61 Talking Heads / Talking Heads 2 BBC1 / BBC2 1988 / 1998 Drama Series and Serials
62 Ready Steady Go! ITV (Rediffusion) 1963–1966 Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
63 Z-Cars BBC1 1962–1978 Drama Series and Serials
64 Culloden 1964 Single Dramas
65 The Ascent of Man BBC2 1973 Factual
66 A Very British Coup Channel 4 1988 Drama Series and Serials
67 Civilisation BBC2 1969 Factual
68 Prime Suspect ITV (Granada) 1991–2006 Drama Series and Serials
69 The Likely Lads / Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? BBC2 / BBC1 1964–1966 / 1973–1974 Comedy and Variety
70 Have I Got News for You 1990–
71 The Snowman Channel 4 1982 Children's/Youth
72 Walking with Dinosaurs BBC1 1999 Factual
73 Nineteen Eighty-Four BBC 1954 Single Dramas
74 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin BBC1 1976–1979 Comedy and Variety
75 Quatermass and the Pit BBC 1958–1959 Drama Series and Serials
76 Between the Lines BBC1 1992–1994
77 Blind Date ITV (LWT) 1985– Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
78 Talking to a Stranger  (Theatre 625)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> BBC2 1966 Single Dramas
79 The Borrowers BBC1 1992–1993 Children's/Youth
80 One Foot in the Grave 1990–2000 Comedy and Variety
81 Later... with Jools Holland BBC2 1992– Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
82 Tutti Frutti 1987 Drama Series and Serials
83 The Knowledge ITV (Thames) 1979 Single Dramas
84 House of Cards BBC1 1990 Drama Series and Serials
85 This Is Your Life BBC1 / ITV (Thames) 1955–1964, 1969– Lifestyle & Light Entertainment
86 The Tube Channel 4 1982–1987
87 The Death of Yugoslavia BBC2 1995 Factual
88 Till Death Us Do Part BBC1 1966–1975 Comedy and Variety
89 A Very Peculiar Practice 1986–1992
90 TV Nation BBC2 1995 Factual
91 This Life 1996–1997 Drama Series and Serials
92 "Death on the Rock" (This Week)<ref>Template:Cite web)</ref> ITV (Thames) 1988 Factual
93 The Nazis: A Warning from History BBC2 1997
94 Drop the Dead Donkey Channel 4 1990–1998 Comedy and Variety
95 Arena BBC2 1975– Factual
96 The Railway Children BBC1 1968 Children's/Youth
97 Teletubbies BBC2 1997–
98 Spitting Image ITV (Central) 1984–1996 Comedy and Variety
99 Pride and Prejudice BBC1 1995 Drama Series and Serials
100 Made in Britain ITV (Central) 1982 Single Dramas

BBC led broadcasters in terms of numbers of programmes/series produced, with 70. Granada Television was the second most represented with 7, and Thames Television and Channel 4 tied for third with 6 each. Central produced four of the listed titles, while ATV produced two, and London Weekend Television, ABC Weekend TV and Associated-Rediffusion produced one each.

See also

References

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Further reading and viewing

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