The Patent Office issued a ruling in favour of the BBC in 2002.

* BBC History of World War II, a television series, initially issued from 1989 to 2005.

Regrettably, many of the videotapes and film reels of these seminal TV shows were later erased by the BBC ( an affliction which wiped out large portions of other British television productions as well, such as Doctor Who ), although some of the soundtracks ( which were issued on record ) have survived.

In 1985 BBC Video issued four compilation videocassettes containing highlights from the first three series edited into 90 minute features.

In February 2011, Lesley Curwen of the BBC World Service, interviewed David Carrington, the newly appointed president of the commission, about the risk of defaulting on bonds issued to finance “ what could be the most expensive sewage system in history .”

In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet ( 1966 ), Keep an Eye on Amélie ( 1973 ), The Cherry Orchard ( 1981 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Ghosts ( with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987 ), Make and Break ( with Robert Hardy, 1987 ), Can You Hear Me Thinking?

The BBC issued some episodes of Yes Minister, and all of Yes Prime Minister on VHS.

The BBC, through 2 Entertain Video, also issued several Region 2 DVDs:

In addition to commercial recordings, the BBC Legends label has issued six CDs of radio performances from the 1960s with Silvestri conducting the Bournemouth Orchestra.

In August 2010, the Dutton CD label issued three works taken from 1959 BBC broadcasts: the Comedy Overture Doctor Merryheart and 11th Symphony ( with Harry Newstone conducting the London Symphony Orchestra ) and the 9th Symphony ( Norman del Mar and the LSO ).

His recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ( 1937 – 39 ) and the Philharmonia Orchestra ( 1952 ) were issued by EMI.

His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by RCA Victor, save for two single-sided recordings for Brunswick in 1926 ( his first by the electrical process ) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a series of excellent recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's HMV label ( which was RCA Victor's European affiliate ).

His Symphony No. 1 (' Grand Symphony ') was even issued on a CD supplement to an issue of BBC Music Magazine.

Some live performances of Monteux conducting the Metropolitan Opera, and among others the San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Symphony orchestras survive alongside his studio recordings, and some have been issued on compact disc.

These two singles, plus three tracks from a BBC recording, were issued on the ' Hux ' label as Live and on Song in April 2006.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

* 14 November: The International Broadcasting Union issued its Geneva Plan which reduced the number of BBC wavelengths.

The BBC issued its recording of Tzuke's " Radio 1 in Concert " performance from 1981, and Polygram issued a compilation album entitled Stay With Me Till Dawn which drew on Tzuke's first three albums released on Rocket Records with tracks from the Turning Stones album on Polydor Records.

On March 21 Khan issued a threatening statement, saying " those Afghans from our city, through BBC and Radio Azadi, harm the dignity of our people ...

In fact, BBC Enterprises issued specific instructions to wipe all six episodes of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, named as such, in August 1974, just six months after the story's transmission ; for reasons unknown, however, only Episode 1 was actually junked.

All six episodes are available on BBC DVD, having previously been issued on VHS.

* BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 1971 ( Windsong, 1993 ; also issued as Soft Machine & Heavy Friends by Hux, 2005 )

* BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert 1972 ( Windsong, 1994 ; also issued as Softstage by Hux, 2005 )

Radio Times was first issued on 28 September 1923, carrying details of BBC radio programmes ( newspapers at the time boycotted radio listings, fearing that increased listenership might decrease their sales ).

From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Note that this is subtly different to the ' thanks ' list in the original BBC Model B.

BBC Radio 7 broadcast the six-part series, an abridged reading by Rufus Sewell of the original Doctor Syn novel, from January 4th 2010 to January 11th.

* BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

However, BBC books such as The Infinity Doctors and Unnatural History imply that the Doctor's origin is complex and that every version is somehow " true " ( such as Susan's claim in the original version of An Unearthly Child that she was born in the 49th century ).

He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

BBC 7 repeated the original versions on 21 and 28 September 2003.

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

A common misconception is that the Doctor Who production team at BBC Wales were so impressed by how much more resilient the toy sonic screwdriver was than the real prop, that they obtained moulds of the original prototype of the toy to use in the 2006 series, in fact, this was not the case.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

The dimensions and colour of the TARDIS props used in the series have changed many times, as a result of damage and the needs of the show, and none of the BBC props has been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model.

This special episode has not been seen since its original broadcast, although it still exists in the BBC archive.

When UHF television allowed a greater number of television stations to broadcast, the BBC launched a second network, BBC Two ( and the original service was later renamed BBC One ).

In 1986, the BBC released the BBC Domesday Project, the results of a project to create a survey to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book.

* Play School ( UK TV series ) – the original BBC production

* Play School ( New Zealand TV series ) – New Zealand version based on the BBC original