Twenty of the best

Metro Reporter11 April 2012
The Weekender

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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)

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