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.

Both the novel and its sequel have also been dramatised for BBC Radio.

Touch the Sky Prairie was included in the BBC television documentary, Life — a sequel to the award-winning Planet Earth series.

Hill first came to prominence in Britain through his Yosser Hughes, a Liverpool working class man ultimately driven to the edge by an uncaring system, in Alan Bleasdale's BBC Play for Today, The Black Stuff and its more famous series sequel ( also by Bleasdale ), Boys from the Blackstuff.

In 1976, BBC Television adapted the book and its sequel into the popular TV serial, also entitled I, Claudius.

On 19 May, 2012, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a sequel to the film called Kind Hearts and Coronets-Like Father, Like Daughter.

It Sticks Out Half a Mile was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles as a sequel to the television war sitcom Dad's Army, for which Snoad and Knowles had written radio adaptations.

He also played a serial killer in 2005's Cold Blood and its 2007 sequel, as well as the explorer Giovanni Belzoni in BBC One's Egypt.

The success of the series and its favorable impression on BBC executives lead to Abbott being commissioned to write a sequel, before the first series had even been aired.

* Hunter ( British TV series ), a 2009 BBC One sequel series to Five Days

However, probably his most famous work was as producer of the Alec Guinness-starring BBC serials Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ), and its sequel Smiley's People ( 1982 ).

Smiley's People was dramatised by John Hopkins for television for the BBC in 1982, as a sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ), again starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.

Later, the editors loosened their policy on links between the Virgin and BBC novels, even publishing direct sequels to novels by the other publisher ; for example, Justin Richards ' Millennium Shock was a sequel to his earlier Virgin Missing Adventure System Shock.

James Christopher Bolam, MBE ( born 16 June 1935 ) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads ?, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Dr Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of Grandpa in the children's BBC programme Grandpa in My Pocket.

The BBC were also pleased with the success of The Quatermass Experiment and in 1955 a sequel, Quatermass II, was broadcast, with John Robinson in the title role following Tate's death.

Nigel Kneale was commissioned to write a sequel to The Quatermass Experiment in early 1955, having recently signed a two-year extension to his BBC staff writer's contract.

The first Quatermass film had been a major success for Hammer and, eager for a sequel, they purchased the rights to Nigel Kneale's follow up before the BBC had even begun transmission of the new serial.

Nonetheless, the film version was a success and Donlevy returned for the sequel, Quatermass 2 ( Enemy From Space in the US ), in 1957, also based on a BBC television serial.

A sequel, Ji Pradhanmantriji ( Yes Prime Minister ) was also licensed from the BBC, but was never made as ratings for Ji Mantriji were below average and all of the episodes were not aired.

For the 1998 radio SciFi drama Paradise Lost in Cyberspace ( Colin Swash, BBC ) McGivern teamed up with old Hitchhiker's colleague Stephen Moore and Lorelei King ( member of cast in the 2005 Hitchhiker's radio show sequel ).

In the late 1990s, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a sequel / pastiche called Richard Barton, General Practitioner, in which Dick Barton's son Richard is a country doctor caring for his apparently senile father, who retreats into fantasies based on his past adventures, believing that there are devilish enemies lurking around him.

A sequel one-off, Viva Blackpool, starring David Morrissey reprising his role as Ripley Holden, and Georgia Taylor reprising her role as his daughter Shyanne was shown on the BBC on Saturday 10 June 2006.

Other notable Superior Software games for the BBC and Electron include Overdrive, Citadel, Thrust, Galaforce, Stryker's Run, Ravenskull, Codename: Droid ( sequel to Stryker's Run ), Palace of Magic, Bonecruncher, Quest, Pipeline, Exile and Ricochet.

However by this time the BBC Micro was declining in popularity — Citadel 2, written by " Symo " ( Simon Storr ) was one of the last BBC Micro games released — and the sequel is little known.

* The Return of Thalidomide — BBC

Several years later, on the commentary track for the DVD of Return of the Jedi, Burtt identified the language that he heard in the BBC documentary as Kalmyk, a tongue spoken by the isolated nomadic Kalmyk people.

* Fossil fools: Return to Piltdown BBC

In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ( 2001 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) Bilbo is played by Ian Holm, who had played Frodo in the BBC radio series 20 years earlier.

One of McGough's more unusual compositions was created in 1981, when he co-wrote an " electronic poem " called Now Press Return with the programmer Richard Warner for inclusion with the Welcome Tape of the BBC Micro home computer.

In 2002, following the success of Jackson's movies, the BBC reissued the series in three sets corresponding to the three original volumes ( The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King ).

A new series, Return to Lakesiders, was filmed by the BBC in 2007 and was broadcast on BBC Two 18 – 22 August 2008.

Further novelisations of Doctor Who-related productions were published by Virgin under the New Adventures and Missing Adventures lines ( including an adaptation of the BBC Radio play The Ghosts of N-Space and the independently-produced spin-offs Downtime and Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ), while BBC Books would later adapt the 1996 TV-movie, the 2003 webcast, Scream of the Shalka and, in March 2012, the unbroadcast story, Shada.

In 1984, he began rehearsing the character Tik-Tok for the Walt Disney film Return to Oz, and this was covered by the long-running BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter.

His career began in 1991 when he directed a short feature ' The Return of Neville Dedd ' for the youth programming strand Def II on the BBC Two network.

* Return Of The Goodies ( BBC, 2005, Interviewee )

Executive producer Russell T Davies drew heavily on Jubilee to create " Return of the Daleks " for his pitch to the BBC, a story which Davies hoped to recreate the menace shown by the Daleks in their 1963 debut The Daleks.

* BBC article: Return of the Blaby Tomatoes

Dench, as Miss Matty Jenkins, co-starred with Eileen Atkins, Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis, in the BBC One five-part series Cranford.

The village has been used as a film and television set, notably for the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, the 2007 BBC production of Cranford.

In 2007 he played major roles in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace, and the five-part adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford novels, both for BBC TV.

The BBC TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Cranford was partly filmed at West Wycombe Park, along with TV series Inspector Morse.

His television work includes three BBC period dramas: The Moonstone with Keeley Hawes, Madame Bovary with Frances O ' Connor and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford.