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List of BBC sitcoms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6563173
Source-derived summary

This is a list of radio and television situation comedies produced by the BBC.

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2point4 Children

4 O'Clock Club

15 Storeys High

500 Bus Stops

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

Hancock's Half Hour

Happiness

Happy Ever After

Happy Hollidays

Heartburn Hotel

Hell's Bells

Help

Hi-de-Hi!

Hippies

His Lordship Entertains

Hold the Sunset

Home Again

Home Time

Honey for Tea

How Do You Want Me?

How Not to Live Your Life

Hugh and I

Hugh and I Spy

Hyperdrive

I

J

Jam & Jerusalem

Joking Apart

Josh

Just Good Friends

Justin's House

K

Keeping Mum

Keeping Up Appearances

Kiss Me Kate

L

M

N

Next of Kin

No Place Like Home

No Strings (1974 TV series)

Not Going Out

Not in Front of the Children

O

P

Peter Kay's Car Share

Porridge

Pramface

A Prince Among Men

People Just Do Nothing

Pulling

Q

Quacks

R

Rab C. Nesbitt

Red Dwarf

Rev

Rings on Their Fingers

The River (British TV series)

Rosie

The Royal Bodyguard

The Royle Family

S

T

U

Up Pompeii!

Upstart Crow

Up the Women

Uncle

V

The Vicar of Dibley

The Visit

The Vital Spark

W

Whoops Baghdad

Y

Yes Minister

Yes, Prime Minister

The Young Ones

You Must Be the Husband

You Rang, M'Lord?

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