Twenty of the best

Metro Reporter11 April 2012
The Weekender

This month, BBC2 celebrates its 40th birthday. It's brought us everything from Monty Python to This Life and the Office. We take a look at twenty of the best programmes to have begun their life on BBC2...

  • Match of the Day(1964)
  • Kangaroos(1964)
  • Not Only... But Also(1965)
  • Colour(1967)
  • Pot Black (1969)
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus(1969)
  • Fawlty Towers(1975)
  • Life On Earth(1979)
  • Not The Nine O'Clock News(1979)
  • Boys From The Blackstuff(1982)
  • The Young Ones(1982)
  • Floyd on Fish(1984)
  • Red Dwarf(1988)
  • Twin Peaks(1990)
  • The Day Today(1994)
  • Two Fat Ladies(1996)
  • Sister Wendy's Story of Painting(1996)
  • The League of Gentlemen(1999)
  • The Office(2000)
  • Little Britain(2003)