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- Two pigs run a TV station - but these ones are puppets. Most of the singing and dancing is done by other puppets, but they were joined by guest stars like Frank Sinatra , 'Tom Jones' and Harry Secombe , as well as The Beatles, (who were regularly parioed by the puppet bird group "The Beakles"). Not great entertainment, but then I'm not 5 years old anymore.
- An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.
- A short segment made by the BBC for their "Nationwide" 6pm news magazine programme. Featured Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Liberal MP Cyril Smith, and Tom Jackson leader of the Post Office Workers Union. Smith was the heaviest MP of modern times, and the three where renowned as having the biggest eyebrows, biggest body and biggest handlebar moustache in public life.
- 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.
- One new true crime each week, either modern (the murder of Mrs X in the 1980s) or historical (Maybrick's murder in the 1880s). Michael Winner introduces the show and because of low production values, interrupts with 2 or 3 voiceovers to speed the plot. Winner usually manages to be as patronising as possible as he recounts the cloying moral-of-the-tale in his closing piece to camera.
- A panel of four celebrities are given a subject on which they have to speak for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
- Fly-on-the-wall documentary series following Gordon Ramsay, formerly of the Aubergine Restaurant, during eight of the most intense months of his life as he strives to create a restaurant which will earn him three Michelin Stars.
- Reality show. A couple, their daughter and two grandchildren volunteer to spend several weeks living under wartime conditions. That includes all their clothing, including underclothes and nightwear; being constantly pushed to keep up with traditional grooming methods and dealing with severe shortages of all grooming products such as tooth care products, all types of soap and shampoo, shaving supplies for Michael; learning to live with rationing (12 ounces of candy a month, 4 ounces of ham a week, etc.,) and digging up the back yard partly for extra vegetables and partly for an "Anderson" air raid shelter. Several historians and "experts" formed a War cabinet to direct events, and push the family through 6 years of war in those weeks.
- Izzard sets out to discover just how English the English are. Even though the last successful military take-over was 1066 he looks at the waves of immigration and influences that have made England a melting pot. He reminds everyone that the Royal Family have only been "Windsor" since 1917 when they adopted the new name. Bad enough to be fighting your cousin the Kaiser, but to be fighting the place that gave you your name (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) was absolutely intolerable old chap!
- Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
- A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal (Elaine Cassidy), which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun (Christine Tremarco) became his wife.