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Cult | News | I Love | 23 July 2004

50 most influential

Trade paper Broadcast names the most influential TV shows.

A panel of experts have picked the 50 shows that changed TV. Cult favourites such as Doctor Who, Blue Peter and Edge of Darkness were included.

Here's the full list:

Entertainment:

  • Big Brother
  • Changing Rooms
  • Comic Relief
  • Coronation Street
  • Driving School
  • The Generation Game
  • Have I Got News For You
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • The Morecambe and Wise Show
  • Not the Nine O'Clock News
  • Pop Idol
  • Ready, Steady, Go
  • The Royle Family
  • Spitting Image
  • Steptoe and Son
  • That's Life
  • That Was The Week That Was
  • The Word
  • Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
  • Z Cars
Breakfast/Daytime
  • The Big Breakfast
  • This Morning
Factual
  • The World at War
  • Arena
  • Civilisation
  • Culloden
  • The Family
  • Life on Earth
  • Video Diaries
News and Current Affairs
  • Man Alive
  • News at Ten
  • Panorama
  • Police
  • Sky News
  • This Week
  • Tonight
  • World in Action
Drama
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • Brookside
  • Cathy Come Home
  • Boys from the Blackstuff
  • The Singing Detective
  • Doctor Who
  • Edge of Darkness
  • The Forsyte Saga
Children's
  • Blue Peter
  • Teletubbies
  • Tiswas
  • Watch With Mother
Sport
  • Match of the Day



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