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

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

* Gary: Tank Commander, a British television sitcom

* Hole ( Bottom episode ), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom

* Yes Minister, a satirical sitcom about a generic British government, widely described by politicians as accurate

In 1989, he played the title role in the sitcom Colin's Sandwich, playing a British Rail employee with aspirations to be a writer.

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

The British sitcom Peep Show is shown entirely through the viewpoints of the characters and lets the audience hear the two lead characters ' thoughts.

The British TV sitcom Up Pompeii uses situations and stock characters from Plautus's plays.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

* The Thin Blue Line ( TV series ), a British sitcom set in a police station, starring Rowan Atkinson, David Haig and Serena Evans

The White Russian is also the drink of choice of Maurice Moss, an IT guy on the British sitcom The IT Crowd.

* Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1968, in 1970, and from 1972 to 1975.

The ale is mentioned in the popular blues rock song " Thirty Days in the Hole ", by British group Humble Pie and was recently seen drunk in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

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.

The 1970s is often regarded as the golden era of British sitcom.

Desmond's ( 1989 – 94 ) was the first British sitcom with a black cast set in the workplace, and Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 – 98 ) brought topicality to the form as it was recorded close to transmission.

* Martin Wainwright, The Guardian, 7 June 2005, " Del Boy is top of the class, say sitcom scientists " – scientist develops formula for measuring ( British ) sitcom success

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years, which was produced in a new version in 2000.

De Sica appeared in the British television series The Four Just Men ( 1959 ).

A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).

Queen Alexandra has been portrayed on British television by Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan in Edward the Seventh, Ann Firbank in Lillie, Maggie Smith in All the King's Men, and Bibi Andersson in The Lost Prince.

He had a small role in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, joining an all-star cast of British and American TV and film luminaries.

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

Burke County citizens participated in the Battle of Kings Mountain that pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the British commander Ferguson at Kings Mountain, SC in the American Revolution, rather than waiting for him to come to them, militiamen throughout the Blue Ridge crossed over the mountains and thus were called the " Over Mountain Men ".

The incident was the subject of a 1940 British Government propaganda film, Men of the Lightship.

* In Children of Men, the British Isle of Man is used as a penal colony for political dissidents of the authoritarian dystopia.

The British folk punk group The Men They Couldn't Hang wrote and recorded a song about the event called " The Ghosts of Cable Street ," available on their second album " How Green Is The Valley " from 1985 on MCA records and subsequently on their 2004 live cd " Smugglers and Bounty Hunters " released in 2005 on Secret Records.

There are several Old Welsh pedigrees of princely " Men of the North " ( Gwŷr y Gogledd ) which may represent the kings of the British kingdom in the area, which may have been called Bryneich.

During the 1960s and 1970s when he starred in the satirical radio programme about life in the British civil service The Men from the Ministry with Richard Murdoch.

Following his appearance in Josephine and Men, John and Roy Boulting turned again to Le Mesurier and cast him as a psychiatrist in their 1956 Second World War film, Private's Progress, in a cast that featured a number of leading British actors of this period, such as Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price and Terry-Thomas.

Electric folk ( aka British folk rock ) is the name given to the form of folk rock pioneered in Britain during the late 1960s by the bands Sweeney's Men, Fairport Convention, and Pentangle.

Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy that was created and written by Simon Nye.

He was also interviewed in the 1970s British documentary series The World at War, as well as " Men Who Brought the Dawn " episode of the Smithsonian Networks War Stories ( 1995 ) and Hiroshima ( 2005 ).

In October 2009 Davison was seen in a small but memorable role as a bank manager in Micro Men, a drama about the rise of the British home computer market in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Three British journalists, Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard, writing under the name of " Cato " in their book Guilty Men, called for the removal from office of fifteen public figures they held accountable, including Chamberlain and Baldwin.

In 1996, he co-starred in the NBC sit-com Men Behaving Badly, an American take on the hit British series of the same name.

In 2003 he also returned to his beloved R-n-B / blues heritage to record an album of standards in Sydney, with Australia's Jimmy Barnes, entitled Live in the Basement, by Jon Lord and the Hoochie Coochie Men, showing himself to be one of British rock music's most eclectic and talented instrumentalists.

Other major British films of 60s included Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Zulu ( 1964 ) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ).

* Mere Dead Men, a British punk band

He also wrote histories of BBC Radio 3 ( on which he had regular stints as broadcaster ), the British satire boom of the 1960s, Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s ( 2002 ), and a centennial history of the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1985.