it’s the world’s oldest national
broadcasting organization and these are
its best bits yeah so you know it’s
fabulous Tony welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 BBC shows is everything
yes gonna get up you know for this list
we’ve looked at all BBC shows there are
no criteria limitations in terms of
genre or era as long as the show is on
BBC and not ITV or any other British TV
channel then it’s in contention
number ten Fawlty Towers hi baby not
into wine Peck sees a dream no it’s no
dream of stopping it right a show that
spans just two series one in 1975 and
one in 1979 there were but 12 episodes
of Fawlty Towers ever made but those 12
episodes helped shape modern-day comedy
and especially sitcom writing no nerves
I’m just saying take it easy well like
all of us just take it easy right
nothing’s going I’m just saying take it
out but gotta say take it easy without
starting a panic the show centers on
Basil Fawlty played by John Cleese the
erratic owner of the eponymous Hotel
watches duh set upon the English Riviera
and Torquay basil is joined by Sybil his
wife Polly the chambermaid and Manuel
the Spanish waiter yeah oh no no no no
no no
yeah if it all sounds like the
components of a really good joke that’s
because it is stock you
number nine the Graham Norton Show start
a multi award-winning chat show Graham
Norton never fails to get big names to
appear on his sofa and he never fails to
get them doing ridiculous things in the
name of entertainment
I don’t want it wasn’t the person
standing next to me in the in the veil
there was the pleasantest on the
opposite man in the rain
is it still raining Norton himself rose
to fame on the UK’s channel 4 but moved
over to the BBC in 2005 so the premise
the premise upon being honest before but
to see it KREM astounded it’ll dry and
the Graham Norton show itself began life
on BBC two before knocking Jonathan Ross
out of BBC One’s prestigious Friday
night slot in 2010 the rest is hilarious
a list history
number eight the office look at the face
color the touching that awareness
beaming well I do know is if in the
boxcar Lena factory though with a
country you put your amazing mind again
in large part we have the BBC to thank
for Ricky Gervais in general extras is
probably considered one of the channels
greatest ever comedies
yeah and Who am I so the stocks garage I
could never remember what’s that
supposed to be funny you tell me you’re
in it but it’s just overshadowed on
today’s countdown by Gervase first major
outing the office going home cause my
baby’s gone she’s not dead
who’da thought that the dull daily lives
of employees at a Slough based Paper
Company would make for IRRI defining
comedy no so it’s totally gone don’t
worry about it I’m holding it over so it
was fun I just know it’s gone the office
takes a look at the tiny trivialities
details and desperations of human
behavior and blows them up into a show
that can have you laughing cringing and
crying all at the same time what have we
learned from this not to leave your
dildo lying around
don’t litter out your site because can
wind up anywhere this oh what’s that
number 7 Yes Minister now what are your
views on the integrated national
transport policy I Yes Minister takes us
behind the scenes at the British
government said to be the favorite TV
program of the then actual Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher it follows
the eternal struggles of MP Jim hacker
an aspiring politician who works as
Minister of administrative affairs
ultimately burner
most of our journalists are so
incompetent that have the gravest
difficulty in finding out that today is
Wednesday it’s actually Thursday most
episodes revolve around hackers
proposing legislation before having it
beaten down or else hackers desperate
attempts to blockade another’s ideas
have you made it look as though you were
going to do something and then dot
nothing like you usually do it’s in how
squabbling at its best and it absolutely
gets our vote no doubt in my mind that
this committee is on to something number
6
Monty Python’s Flying Circus people on
till you shouldn’t treat the general
public black idioms will be origins yeah
we are not who AM L your name your
niddah you I can show you hey Luke
perhaps the most pioneering British
comedy show ever made Monty Python’s
Flying Circus was originally broadcast
between 1969 and 1974 it’s with these
two happy-go-lucky rogues got our story
vegan
for it is the international crime
fighter and playboy its blend of
observational gags innuendo and surreal
sketches was unlike anything else before
it and anything similar since is often
described as Python ask Polly parrot
wake up Polly now that’s what I call it
did put it so good it inspired its own
adjective Flying Circus was it’s very
own variety show a philosophical
intellectual satirical stab at
everyone’s sense of humor the Spanish
Inquisition wasn’t expected but pythons
place on this list must have been nobody
expects the Spanish Inquisition in fact
those who do exchange weapons our chief
weapons are um surprise surprise number
five loser you’ve been in the pablo bar
wherever and you know you just know the
guy next to the cover yes exactly
well I grew up around soldiers the way
wool socks choose that’s a soldier
idris elba takes the lead for our next
show an award-winning crime series that
has achieved international success two
different murders completely different
Mo’s separated by a decade and a half a
country you know Burgess must have been
20 years older than this loser centers
on the titular character Detective Chief
Inspector John Luther a man who was both
skilled at his job but a little
psychologically damaged because of it as
well just need a way in to know what
it’s like to be him
it’s no feel anything this is a police
drama but it’s not just about fast cars
gunfights and the odd explosion there’s
a deeper more complex story here which
has had critics raving with every series
released this thing this weird thing
between us it has to end why she’s not
right Alice they started off because I
was scared of you and I thought if I
could be your friend I could control you
and I can’t control you I’m still scared
of you number 4 Sherlock who are you
what do you do what do you think I’d say
private detective but at least don’t go
to private detectives I’m a consulting
detective only one in the world I
invented the job Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is probably one
of the best-known and most loved
literary characters ever created and
ever since its first series in 2010
Sherlock has turned that classic story
into a contemporary saga my employer is
a tremendous fan of your blog your
employer particular enjoy the one about
the aluminium crush give em starring
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
as Holmes and the unerring Watson the
show has achieved massive worldwide
success set primarily in London it’s
often cited as the most quintessentially
British thing on TV today sorry are you
guys the police yeah everything all
right
yeah
welcome to London the UK’s most watched
drama series since 2001
it’s elementary viewing clearly you’ve
got news was about the Leeds triple
murder it was the gardener nobody
noticed the earring number three black
at her do you think he’s a genius no sir
I do not unless of course the definition
of genius in his ridiculous dictionary
is a fat dullard or wobble-bottom
British TV is awash with period dramas
but Black Adder bucked the trend in the
80s establishing itself as a period
comedy if anyone wants to talk to me
you’re gonna wanna the Black Adder is a
venomous reptile and women are his prey
the show which stars Rowan Atkinson as
Edmund Blackadder ran for four full
series which were set at four
significant points in British history
explores punch off the mumbo-jumbo for
the tropical disease are suntan and a
bag of brown lumpy thing what’s your end
levels got a picture of them in the
lavatory however no matter where you are
on the timeline Blackadder’s always
cynical and his dog’s body Baldrick
always has a cunning plan
Ulric you look like a deer Thank You
mono look if we have a ducky yourself
cast of characters here are literally
incomparable to any other sitcom it
really is the best of British comic
acting you know the true love of my life
my love my love
the UPS someone you are the only one for
me I merely what
I am the investor what no one told me I
had a bid number to top gear
it started as a fairly routine motoring
magazine program but over time and
especially since a 2002 relaunch top
gear has become one of the most
successful entertainment shows on the
BBC even though I was driving on lava
that had fallen days ago it was still
red hot and the top gear vodka
tyre-cooling system was working overtime
of course everything on the show
revolves around cars there we go Milan
Robin
oh no I’ve crashed it I’ve crashed it
almost immediately I mean literally 20
feet there are road test reviews
features covering the world’s most
prestigious manufacturers and then there
are lots of funny farcical and often
controversial road trips races and
automobile experiments
I got away
from the day
in general this show rarely lets its
finger slip from the pulse and never
lets its foot off the pedal mercifully
though the road soon straightened out
which meant Hammond and I could
absolutely go-go-go-go
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions all the
time he’s been waiting his chance now
he’s ready sure you wash your hand
very depressed not course not though I’m
on top of the world I feel like a born
again Union 32 pounds 32 pence
those are my strums that all good
heavens that’s a disaster
why do they make hexagon shape the zag
”’l form uses the minimum amount of wax
for the maximum amount of storage in a
given area number one Doctor Who I’m a
doctor by the way what’s your name
Rose nice to meet you rose run for your
life you could search through all of
time and space sift through all the tiny
wimey stuff but you’ll never find a BBC
show better than Doctor Who well you
were going to explain everything he
didn’t give me a chance did he
it’s something very strangely wrong here
first aired in 1963 and reintroduced for
modern audiences in 2005 it’s become a
hugely significant part of British
popular culture who are you then doctor
well you could what sort of alien are
you I’m just the doctor from what planet
please nuts if you know what it is
millions tune in every week to follow
the doctor his TARDIS and his companions
as they fight Daleks Cybermen and
anything else the universe can muster
bowties are cool but this show is
brilliant and now to quote the Time Lord
himself an LZ as an old uh Shayan
captain
a phrase of great power and wisdom and
consolation to the soul entitled what’s
that then Rosie
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite BBC show sometimes it must be
difficult not to feel as if you really
are a cliff just keep trying to push you
over it for more best of British top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
he hit me on that friend no you hit him
on the head
no naughty moose
broadcasting organization and these are
its best bits yeah so you know it’s
fabulous Tony welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 BBC shows is everything
yes gonna get up you know for this list
we’ve looked at all BBC shows there are
no criteria limitations in terms of
genre or era as long as the show is on
BBC and not ITV or any other British TV
channel then it’s in contention
number ten Fawlty Towers hi baby not
into wine Peck sees a dream no it’s no
dream of stopping it right a show that
spans just two series one in 1975 and
one in 1979 there were but 12 episodes
of Fawlty Towers ever made but those 12
episodes helped shape modern-day comedy
and especially sitcom writing no nerves
I’m just saying take it easy well like
all of us just take it easy right
nothing’s going I’m just saying take it
out but gotta say take it easy without
starting a panic the show centers on
Basil Fawlty played by John Cleese the
erratic owner of the eponymous Hotel
watches duh set upon the English Riviera
and Torquay basil is joined by Sybil his
wife Polly the chambermaid and Manuel
the Spanish waiter yeah oh no no no no
no no
yeah if it all sounds like the
components of a really good joke that’s
because it is stock you
number nine the Graham Norton Show start
a multi award-winning chat show Graham
Norton never fails to get big names to
appear on his sofa and he never fails to
get them doing ridiculous things in the
name of entertainment
I don’t want it wasn’t the person
standing next to me in the in the veil
there was the pleasantest on the
opposite man in the rain
is it still raining Norton himself rose
to fame on the UK’s channel 4 but moved
over to the BBC in 2005 so the premise
the premise upon being honest before but
to see it KREM astounded it’ll dry and
the Graham Norton show itself began life
on BBC two before knocking Jonathan Ross
out of BBC One’s prestigious Friday
night slot in 2010 the rest is hilarious
a list history
number eight the office look at the face
color the touching that awareness
beaming well I do know is if in the
boxcar Lena factory though with a
country you put your amazing mind again
in large part we have the BBC to thank
for Ricky Gervais in general extras is
probably considered one of the channels
greatest ever comedies
yeah and Who am I so the stocks garage I
could never remember what’s that
supposed to be funny you tell me you’re
in it but it’s just overshadowed on
today’s countdown by Gervase first major
outing the office going home cause my
baby’s gone she’s not dead
who’da thought that the dull daily lives
of employees at a Slough based Paper
Company would make for IRRI defining
comedy no so it’s totally gone don’t
worry about it I’m holding it over so it
was fun I just know it’s gone the office
takes a look at the tiny trivialities
details and desperations of human
behavior and blows them up into a show
that can have you laughing cringing and
crying all at the same time what have we
learned from this not to leave your
dildo lying around
don’t litter out your site because can
wind up anywhere this oh what’s that
number 7 Yes Minister now what are your
views on the integrated national
transport policy I Yes Minister takes us
behind the scenes at the British
government said to be the favorite TV
program of the then actual Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher it follows
the eternal struggles of MP Jim hacker
an aspiring politician who works as
Minister of administrative affairs
ultimately burner
most of our journalists are so
incompetent that have the gravest
difficulty in finding out that today is
Wednesday it’s actually Thursday most
episodes revolve around hackers
proposing legislation before having it
beaten down or else hackers desperate
attempts to blockade another’s ideas
have you made it look as though you were
going to do something and then dot
nothing like you usually do it’s in how
squabbling at its best and it absolutely
gets our vote no doubt in my mind that
this committee is on to something number
6
Monty Python’s Flying Circus people on
till you shouldn’t treat the general
public black idioms will be origins yeah
we are not who AM L your name your
niddah you I can show you hey Luke
perhaps the most pioneering British
comedy show ever made Monty Python’s
Flying Circus was originally broadcast
between 1969 and 1974 it’s with these
two happy-go-lucky rogues got our story
vegan
for it is the international crime
fighter and playboy its blend of
observational gags innuendo and surreal
sketches was unlike anything else before
it and anything similar since is often
described as Python ask Polly parrot
wake up Polly now that’s what I call it
did put it so good it inspired its own
adjective Flying Circus was it’s very
own variety show a philosophical
intellectual satirical stab at
everyone’s sense of humor the Spanish
Inquisition wasn’t expected but pythons
place on this list must have been nobody
expects the Spanish Inquisition in fact
those who do exchange weapons our chief
weapons are um surprise surprise number
five loser you’ve been in the pablo bar
wherever and you know you just know the
guy next to the cover yes exactly
well I grew up around soldiers the way
wool socks choose that’s a soldier
idris elba takes the lead for our next
show an award-winning crime series that
has achieved international success two
different murders completely different
Mo’s separated by a decade and a half a
country you know Burgess must have been
20 years older than this loser centers
on the titular character Detective Chief
Inspector John Luther a man who was both
skilled at his job but a little
psychologically damaged because of it as
well just need a way in to know what
it’s like to be him
it’s no feel anything this is a police
drama but it’s not just about fast cars
gunfights and the odd explosion there’s
a deeper more complex story here which
has had critics raving with every series
released this thing this weird thing
between us it has to end why she’s not
right Alice they started off because I
was scared of you and I thought if I
could be your friend I could control you
and I can’t control you I’m still scared
of you number 4 Sherlock who are you
what do you do what do you think I’d say
private detective but at least don’t go
to private detectives I’m a consulting
detective only one in the world I
invented the job Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is probably one
of the best-known and most loved
literary characters ever created and
ever since its first series in 2010
Sherlock has turned that classic story
into a contemporary saga my employer is
a tremendous fan of your blog your
employer particular enjoy the one about
the aluminium crush give em starring
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman
as Holmes and the unerring Watson the
show has achieved massive worldwide
success set primarily in London it’s
often cited as the most quintessentially
British thing on TV today sorry are you
guys the police yeah everything all
right
yeah
welcome to London the UK’s most watched
drama series since 2001
it’s elementary viewing clearly you’ve
got news was about the Leeds triple
murder it was the gardener nobody
noticed the earring number three black
at her do you think he’s a genius no sir
I do not unless of course the definition
of genius in his ridiculous dictionary
is a fat dullard or wobble-bottom
British TV is awash with period dramas
but Black Adder bucked the trend in the
80s establishing itself as a period
comedy if anyone wants to talk to me
you’re gonna wanna the Black Adder is a
venomous reptile and women are his prey
the show which stars Rowan Atkinson as
Edmund Blackadder ran for four full
series which were set at four
significant points in British history
explores punch off the mumbo-jumbo for
the tropical disease are suntan and a
bag of brown lumpy thing what’s your end
levels got a picture of them in the
lavatory however no matter where you are
on the timeline Blackadder’s always
cynical and his dog’s body Baldrick
always has a cunning plan
Ulric you look like a deer Thank You
mono look if we have a ducky yourself
cast of characters here are literally
incomparable to any other sitcom it
really is the best of British comic
acting you know the true love of my life
my love my love
the UPS someone you are the only one for
me I merely what
I am the investor what no one told me I
had a bid number to top gear
it started as a fairly routine motoring
magazine program but over time and
especially since a 2002 relaunch top
gear has become one of the most
successful entertainment shows on the
BBC even though I was driving on lava
that had fallen days ago it was still
red hot and the top gear vodka
tyre-cooling system was working overtime
of course everything on the show
revolves around cars there we go Milan
Robin
oh no I’ve crashed it I’ve crashed it
almost immediately I mean literally 20
feet there are road test reviews
features covering the world’s most
prestigious manufacturers and then there
are lots of funny farcical and often
controversial road trips races and
automobile experiments
I got away
from the day
in general this show rarely lets its
finger slip from the pulse and never
lets its foot off the pedal mercifully
though the road soon straightened out
which meant Hammond and I could
absolutely go-go-go-go
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions all the
time he’s been waiting his chance now
he’s ready sure you wash your hand
very depressed not course not though I’m
on top of the world I feel like a born
again Union 32 pounds 32 pence
those are my strums that all good
heavens that’s a disaster
why do they make hexagon shape the zag
”’l form uses the minimum amount of wax
for the maximum amount of storage in a
given area number one Doctor Who I’m a
doctor by the way what’s your name
Rose nice to meet you rose run for your
life you could search through all of
time and space sift through all the tiny
wimey stuff but you’ll never find a BBC
show better than Doctor Who well you
were going to explain everything he
didn’t give me a chance did he
it’s something very strangely wrong here
first aired in 1963 and reintroduced for
modern audiences in 2005 it’s become a
hugely significant part of British
popular culture who are you then doctor
well you could what sort of alien are
you I’m just the doctor from what planet
please nuts if you know what it is
millions tune in every week to follow
the doctor his TARDIS and his companions
as they fight Daleks Cybermen and
anything else the universe can muster
bowties are cool but this show is
brilliant and now to quote the Time Lord
himself an LZ as an old uh Shayan
captain
a phrase of great power and wisdom and
consolation to the soul entitled what’s
that then Rosie
do you agree with our list what’s your
favorite BBC show sometimes it must be
difficult not to feel as if you really
are a cliff just keep trying to push you
over it for more best of British top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
he hit me on that friend no you hit him
on the head
no naughty moose
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