"concluding that 74% of the population are against conscription. Sir Humphrey successfully convinces the PM to shelve any announcement of his “Grand Design” for the time being. The Ministerial Broadcast “The Ministerial Broadcast” is the second episode of the BBC comedy series ""Yes, Prime Minister"" and was first broadcast 16 January 1986. Prime Minister Jim Hacker is in his office and is extremely jet lagged, having just returned from a trip to Washington. He wished to see the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and Bernard shows him in. However, Hacker keeps falling asleep and Sir Humphrey leaves. When the PM"
"broadcast on 9 March 1987 on BBC Two, with the first series consisting of six episodes. With its popularity and high ratings, a second series commenced on 4 March 1988, followed by a Christmas special in late 1988. The third, fourth and fifth series', which broadcast between 1990 and 1996, and all consisting each of seven episodes, relied heavily on movie parodies, and some music parodies, alongside their own material such as the sketch ""Modern Day Mother and Daughter"" which spawned Saunders' popular sitcom ""Absolutely Fabulous"" in 1992. Classic movies parodied include ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", ""The Exorcist"","
"of sketches, songs and spoof mini-documentaries, with regular soap opera parody ""Acorn Antiques"" making its introduction. This first series reached 4.55 million viewers by the penultimate show, making it the tenth most popular programme that week on the channel. To Wood's surprise, the series then went on to win two BAFTA Awards (see below). The second series of six episodes were broadcast between 10 November and 8 December 1986, this time on the (then) more popular Monday slot on BBC2. It followed a similar format to the first series. By the third week it was the number one most watched"
"BBC2 on Friday 28 March 1980. Although the first season had been screened in the UK in 1964 by Granada TV, and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second-season episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose ""Demon With A Glass Hand"" as the first episode to be broadcast, none of the episodes were screened in series order, with second-season episodes mixed in with first-season episodes. This was also its last UK terrestrial television broadcast. On June"
"for broadcast on Saturday mornings between 1985 and 1986, with broadcasting in segmented form on the ITV Night Network in 1987. A BBC commission led to the series' first simultaneous network broadcast on BBC2 starting on 1 October 1993. On this occasion, the first episode attracted an audience of four million, high enough to award it third position in the BBC2 ratings chart for the week of transmission. Digitally remastered, the series resurfaced on BBC Two in the autumn of 2001. On this occasion, the episode schedule needed to be re-arranged at short notice to avoid offence in the immediate"
"one another) and Corey Burton and Carmel (later Brian Cummings in 1987) took over those roles. CBS canceled the show, and ABC (later acquired by Disney in February 1996) picked it up and showed reruns during the 1986–1987 season; they aired it at 8:00 AM so the two Disney shows would not be in competition with one another. It was a bigger success in the United Kingdom, where the pilot episode aired as a theatrical featurette in 1986 alongside a re-release of Disney's ""Bambi"". In the United Kingdom, ""The Wuzzles"" and ""Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears"" were originally screened"
"later suffer. Although Mac McDonald returned to play Captain Hollister, his scene was filmed at the same time as his appearances in the first episode; ""The End"". Additionally, the line ""What a guy!"" used by Rimmer 1 when spoken to Rimmer 2 was re-used in later series by other characters in reaction to the actions of Rimmer's parallel-universe alter-ego Ace Rimmer. The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 21 March 1988 in the 9:00 p.m. time slot. Both co-creators/writers, Grant and Naylor, consider ""Me²"" as one of the successes of the first series. Grant stating"
"1987 (duration 35 minutes) and the second special on Monday 25 May 1987 (duration 40 minutes). Season Two comprised sixteen episodes and continued the detailed look at films produced and distributed by the Rank Organisation. Produced by Robert Sidaway for Best of British Films & Television and Charisma Films, all the programs were written by Robert Sidaway, Ashley Sidaway, Maurice Sellar and Lou Jones and narrated by John Mills. Production took place during late 1987 and 1988. The first five episodes were initially broadcast commencing on 10 August 1988. The remaining eleven episodes were broadcast between 11 January 1989 and"
"as well as Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate, to take on the roles of the real life characters. The film was bought by Goldcrest and sold to the BBC. The first series was originally transmitted in February 1984, and repeated in October/November 1985 and September 1988. The second series was originally transmitted in September/October 1986 and repeated in September 1987 and December 1991/January 1992, making it a very rare example of a series transmitted as late as the 1990s on BBC TV which no longer exists in broadcast quality. Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House Tottie: The Story of"
"or end credits. The spin-off show was an immediate cult hit, doubling Channel 4's viewing figures for its slot. A second season, which broadened the original concept to include celebrity interviews and a studio audience, was produced in late 1985, and a third and final season ran in 1986. The second and third seasons were shown first on the US cable channel Cinemax, and on Channel Four an average of six months later. A Christmas special was produced at the end of the second season and seen by UK audiences just before the regular run of the season, and just"
"episodes have alluded to him remembering events from both previous incarnations' lives. The first series aired on BBC2 in 1988. 12 series have so far been produced, with a 13th planned for 2019. The concept for the show was originally developed from the sketch-series """" on the BBC Radio 4 show ""Son of Cliché"" in the mid-1980s, written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Their influences came from films and television programmes such as """" (1966), ""Silent Running"" (1972), ""Alien"" (1979), ""Dark Star"" (1974) and ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (1981), but also had a large element of British-style"
"In ""The Listener"" at the end of its run it was described, not unaffectionately, by Andy Medhurst as ""a Macmillanite sitcom"" to which Thatcherism was as alien as socialism. All nine series and four Christmas Specials have been released on DVD in Region 2. The Complete Collection 10 disc boxset DVD Region 2 has also been released on 23 October 2017. Terry and June Terry and June is a BBC television sitcom, which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1979 to 1987. The show was largely a reworking of ""Happy Ever After"", and starred Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a"
"The successors were introduced on 16 February 1991. However, in 2010, for the 80's season. the 'TWO' logo made an appearance. And on 7 October 2013, this, along with others was brought back for BBC Two's ""Afternoon Classics"" block. BBC2 used a number of special idents through its years, mainly for use at Christmas. Special idents were commissioned for this. A few other special idents were made: BBC Two 'Two' ident The BBC Two 'Two' ident was the station identification used on BBC2 between 30 March 1986 and 16 February 1991. It was the last non corporate look for the"
"starred in the revival of classic 1970s BBC sitcom ""Porridge"". He played the role of Fletch, grandson of Ronnie Barker's original main character, locked up for cyber-crime. Originally a one-off, the show was commissioned to full series in October 2016. The first series was broadcast in October 2017 on a 6 week run on BBC1 as well as the full series being released at the same time on the BBC iplayer. The BBC has yet to confirm if there will be a Second Series. In 2016 Bishop played Nigel Farage in a one-off BBC2 comedy entitled ""Nigel Farage Gets His"
"1984, during which it was announced that ""Micro Live"" would be back on BBC2 as a regular monthly one-hour series starting in October of that year. A second season of ""Micro Live"" launched in 1985 as a weekly half-hour programme and was followed by a third series of weekly half-hour shows in 1986. The series broadcast its last programme on 28 March 1987. The scope of the programme was much wider than the preceding computer series and had a less formal feel due to its live nature. Not only did it cover more subject areas but it also featured more"
"in their schedules. The second series premiered on London Weekend Television (LWT) in a non-prime-time slot on Saturday 4 September 1976 at 11.30am, with ATV following on just a few hours later at 5.40pm. Granada, Westward and Ulster started to screen the series in early 1977, Grampian, and Tyne Tees did not screen the series until later in the year. Scottish started to screen the series on 9 April 1978 on Sunday afternoons. HTV did not pick the series up until 1984 and then only showed nineteen out of the twenty-four episodes from Year Two (the last episodes were not"
"episode begin. The opening titles featured a bouncy theme tune consisting of flutes and synthesizers composed by Graeme Miller and Steve Shill, and a popular still of Moomintroll holding a hat. The UK adaptation consisted of 100 five-minute episodes. Series 1 consisting of 50 episodes was first broadcast Mondays to Fridays at 4:15 pm, 24 January to 1 April 1983 on CITV. Series 2 consisting of another 50 episodes first aired Monday to Fridays at 4:15 pm, 7 January to 15 March 1985 on CITV. The order above is the correct broadcast order, for when the episodes were first shown"
"not known if Williams' comments led to the wrong announcement. It was also exposed that the second half of the ceremony was not broadcast live but with a delay of half-an-hour, yet viewers were still encouraged to vote for the People's Choice Award, even though the votes had been counted and the trophy presented half-an-hour before. The second series started airing on UKTV G2 in January 2006. Series one continued on UKTV Gold. The second series was also being screened on BBC America, and repeated on BBC Two, from June 2006. Following the success of series two, Tate launched a"
"release of the series was also produced in 1996. The series is also available in Region 1 DVD in a box-set of the complete series. In addition, an audio recording taken from the television episodes is available on cassette and compact disc. Blackadder II Blackadder II is the second series of the BBC sitcom ""Blackadder"", written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 9 January 1986 to 20 February 1986. The series is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and sees the principal character, Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to"
"Blackadder II Blackadder II is the second series of the BBC sitcom ""Blackadder"", written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 9 January 1986 to 20 February 1986. The series is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and sees the principal character, Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors. The series saw a number of significant changes from the format of ""The Black Adder"", notably Ben Elton replacing Rowan Atkinson as the"
"followed, heavily promoted by an advert in which the cast members danced and mimed to the Pussycat Dolls' hit single ""Don't Cha."" It ran from 10 January to 14 February 2006, and was a ratings success. After the series finished, BBC Three dedicated an evening to the show, airing each episode in succession. The second series ran from 13 November to 25 December 2006. It had a new title sequence and theme tune, consisted of seven thirty-minute episodes (including a Christmas special) and matched the first series' success. Both the first and second series were shown on BBC Two in"
"programme, right after its first episode on 22 February 2006. After the spin-off's first series, the BBC decided to move the companion show to BBC Two, after it had decided to move ""The Apprentice"" to BBC One in order for it to be viewed by a mainstream audience. Chiles remained as the host following the move until the end of its fourth series, when he decided to leave the BBC upon signing a deal to work on programmes for ITV. Following his departure from ""You're Fired!"", the broadcaster unveiled comedian Dara Ó Briain as his replacement, who hosted the show"
"series to deal with a science fiction plot based on real scientific theory, which was to become a common occurrence in later ""Red Dwarf"" episodes. For this particular episode, time dilation and various assorted time anomalies caused by travelling close to the speed of light (or indeed even at the speed of light) are referenced in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. ""Future Echoes"" was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 21 February 1988 in the 9:00 p.m. evening time slot. Although the pilot episode ""The End"" gained over five million viewers, this was now tailing off slightly"
"first two series into 52. The shows had to be further edited to remove adult language and sexual references to make them suitable for the desired family-viewing timeslot, and hence the plots often became confusing as key scenes were removed and much of the humour was lost. From 5 April 1988, the edited shows began an ITV network run, slotted on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.30pm in direct competition with ""EastEnders"" on BBC-1. There were viewer complaints about the editing, and after a few weeks Thames and TVS both opted out of the run and instead showed the original uncut"
"first broadcast on the BBC iPlayer. ""Part Two"" was first broadcast on the CBBC Channel at 5.15 p.m. on Monday 13 October 2008 and was repeated on BBC One at 4.35 p.m. on Monday 20 October 2008. Writing for ""Dreamwatch"", Matt McAllister asserts that there may not be ""quite enough here to sustain a double-episode worth"" but observes that there are ""memorable scenes, including an ingenious final showdown."" He states that Walsh is ""appropriately sinister...as Odd Bob the Clown"" and describes Rani as ""likeable"", noting that having her father as the new Headteacher is ""a nice little twist"". McAllister thinks"
"star Bonneville said, ""Absolutely. They could go and help with the organisation of the Rio Games in 2016...but ultimately, this is a crack team that could go anywhere and manage anything – the City, say, or the armed services. The NHS also needs rebranding. They could get Ian in to announce, 'If health is about anything, it's about managing expectations. We have got to get people to appreciate there are a lot of positive things about ill health. We need to make it sexy'."" A sequel was announced by the BBC in late 2013 and broadcast March 19 to April"
"is available on the DVD box set. It was repeated in 1985 on BBC2 on Thursday early-evenings. It was originally broadcast in 1986 on BBC2 on Tuesday early-evenings. It is available on the DVD box set. It was repeated in 2002, 2003 & 2004 on the digital TV channel Challenge. The four missing episodes disappeared in a mass wiping of children's television programmes in the early 1990s. A six DVD box set of the series was released on 12 June 2017, rated U. The U rated DVD is region 2 encoded, with a running time of 665 minutes. The artwork"
"main terrestrial channels that day. The following two episodes broadcast on 31 January and 7 February received 800,000 viewers (4% of the audience). The final episode had 823,000 viewers. This resulted in the series attracting an average audience of 935,000. In comparison, ""Little Miss Jocelyn"", the programme that was broadcast immediately before ""Never Better"" over the same six weeks on BBC Two, attracted an average of 1.1 million viewers. The first series started on 10 January 2008 on BBC Two, as part of the channel's ""Thursdays are Funny"" line-up. The episodes are scheduled to be broadcast on Thursday nights at"
"the BBC by a private collector in May 1982, and the first three episodes were located in Cyprus in late 1984; the fourth and fifth episodes remain missing, existing only as off-air recordings from 1964. The existing episodes were screened as part of the National Film Theatre's Bastille Day schedule on 14 July 1999, with links between the episodes by Ford. The assassination of John F. Kennedy the day preceding the launch of ""Doctor Who"" overshadowed the first episode; as a result, it was repeated a week later, on 30 November, preceding the second episode. The first episode was watched"
"since been surpassed by ""Bionic Woman"" on ITV2, which gained 2.553 million in March 2008). The audience share was 12.7%, increasing to 13.8% for the second episode (shown immediately after the first episode on the same day), despite viewership dropping to 2.498 million. Ratings for later episodes dropped to around 1.1 to 1.2 million viewers during the first showing on BBC Three (the lowest being 0.8 million for week ending 24 December 2006), but nevertheless, the show remained the most-viewed programme on BBC Three by a wide margin. Viewing figures for the repeat screenings on BBC Two later the same"
"second and third series, an hour-long special, entitled Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey aired on Channel 4 at 10pm on Boxing Day 1986. This programme had already premiered in the US on 18 December 1986, under the title The Max Headroom Christmas Special and was repeated several times over the holiday period on Cinemax. In the UK, the show was repeated by Channel 4 on Christmas Eve 1988. Following the success of ABC's ""Max Headroom"" science fiction adventure series, another talk show featuring Max was recorded, The Original Max Talking Headroom Show, this time in New York. The six-part series"
"The Two Doctors The Two Doctors is the fourth serial of the 22nd season of the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"", which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 16 February to 2 March 1985. The serial is set on an alien space station and in and around Seville. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), his former travelling companion Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and his current companion Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant) work to save the younger Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) from the biogeneticist Dastari (Laurence Payne), who intends to"
"1986, Australia on 5 January 1987, Norway on 27 April, and Barcelona on 30 June (dubbed into Catalan). On 9 July 1987, it was announced that the show would be aired in the United States on PBS. BBC Worldwide licensed 200 hours of ""EastEnders"" for broadcast in Serbia on RTS (dubbed into Serbian); it began airing the first episode in December 1997. The series was broadcast in the United States until BBC America ceased broadcasts of the serial in 2003, amidst fan protests. In June 2004, the satellite television provider Dish Network picked up ""EastEnders"", broadcasting episodes starting at the"