* Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo ' Allo!

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

* Played by Alan David in the final episode of the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart,

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The ' number of weapons ' joke echoes a similar joke in the first episode " The Man and The Hour " of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, broadcast in July 1968.

Richardson teamed up alongside Absolutely Fabulous star Jennifer Saunders in the BBC sitcom, The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

One Foot in the Grave was a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick.

* In 1975 Milligan co-wrote ( with Neil Shand ) and co-starred in a BBC TV sitcom called The Melting Pot.

Warren Mitchell ( born Warren Misell ; 14 January 1926 ) is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part ( 1965 – 75 ), and its sequels Till Death ... ( ATV, 1981 ) and In Sickness and in Health ( BBC, 1985 – 92 ), all of which were written by Johnny Speight.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

Six years later, ITV continued the sitcom, calling it Till Death .... From 1985 to 1992, the BBC produced a sequel In Sickness and in Health.

* The Party Line ( radio ), a topical sitcom on BBC Radio 4

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

Apart from a cameo in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky and a memorable minor role as a drunken vicar in BBC sitcom The Young Ones, Jones has rarely appeared in work outside of his own projects.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

Nor did ' Tom and Jerry ' vanish with Egan: the celebrated duo have been perpetuated in Warner Brothers ' cartoon cat and mouse and as the male protagonists of BBC television's Seventies ' sitcom The Good Life.

In the BBC television sitcom May to December, solicitor Alec Callender ( portrayed by Anton Rodgers ) is a huge Perry Mason fan ; he often speaks privately to a large poster of Raymond Burr hanging on his office wall.

It is also the title theme of Steve Coogan's BBC 2 sitcom, Saxondale.

Last of the Summer Wine a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was initially broadcast on BBC One, and is regularly broadcast on the television channel Yesterday.

He went on to play multiple characters, but primarily the lookout Able Seaman ' Fatso ' Johnson and Lieutenant-Commander Stanton, in The Navy Lark, a navy based sitcom on the BBC Light Programme, which ran from 1959 to 1977, with Barker featuring in some 300 episodes.

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

The show received less critical acclaim than the similar BBC family sitcom 2point4 children, also written by Andrew Marshall.

The BBC sitcom My Family features lead character Ben Harper ( played by Robert Lindsay ) as a QPR fan.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.

The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Since the launch of Breakfast in 2000, the programme has been simulcast on both BBC One and BBC News, replacing the individual breakfast news programmes that had been run by both channels.

Breakfast on BBC One then generally continues until 09: 15.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

These programmes are simulcast with BBC World News and either BBC One or BBC Two.

In 2004, One Foot in the Grave came tenth in a BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom " with 31, 410 votes.

After the band split in 1986, Brown joined Ron Johnson labelmates A Witness on drums, touring the UK and Europe and appearing on several records ( the 12 " EP ' One Foot in the Groove ' and Strange Fruit Double Peel Sessions ) and three sessions for BBC Radio One DJ John Peel.

The BBC television programme ' One Foot in the Past ' focused on the impending threat to the building.

* Robert W. Foot ( 1889 – 1973 ), director general of the BBC ( 1942 – 1944 )

The show was based on the concept from the BBC series One Foot in the Grave, starring Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie.

* Best BBC sitcom: One Foot In The Grave

* Best BBC sitcom: One Foot In The Grave

* Best BBC comedy series: One Foot In The Grave

* Best BBC sitcom: One Foot In The Grave

* Best BBC sitcom: One Foot In The Grave

* Best BBC sitcom: One Foot in the Grave Christmas Special

Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie ( 7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 ( aged 45 ) to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot.

( 4 March 1892 – 2 January 1957 ) was joint Director-General of the BBC with Robert W. Foot from 26 January 1942 to 6 September 1943.

He joined the BBC as an administrator in 1926, was Assistant Director of Programmes from 1929 to 1932, then Empire Service Director, 1932 – 1935, Controller of Programmes, 1935 – 1938, Deputy Director-General, 1938 – 1942, and in 1942 succeeded Frederick Ogilvie ( jointly with Robert Foot ) as Director-General.

Robert William Foot OBE ( 7 June 1889 – 2 April 1973 ) was Director-General of the BBC, first jointly with Cecil Graves from 26 January 1942 to 6 September 1943 and then solely until he resigned on 31 March 1944.

Before joining the BBC, Foot was a general manager at Gas, Light and Coke Company.

# The distinction between and, often known as the Foot – strut split is maintained ; the quality of (' strut ') is more back and close than that of RP / BBC.

* 1993 BBC One Foot in the Grave

Lloyd persuaded his employers at the BBC to record the singers in the Eel's Foot pub in Eastbridge, Suffolk.

* David Renwick ( born 1951 ), writer and creator of the BBC TV sitcom One Foot in the Grave

The former leader of the British Labour Party, Michael Foot, recalled to the BBC World Service how he heard-and learned-the song while growing up in a Liberal household in the west of England.

There was speculation at the time that the win was fixed so that ITV would draw ratings away from BBC One which was showing the last episode of One Foot in the Grave in the same timeslot.

TCP was referred to numerous times in a running gag in Episode 2 of Series 2 of the BBC sitcom series One Foot in the Grave, alluding to its distinctive and long-lasting odour.