As chosen by ITV controllers (in alphabetical order)
1. Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2. An Audience With...
3. The Avengers
4. The Benny Hill Show
5. The Bill
6. Blind Date
7. Brideshead Revisited
8. Candid Camera
9. Cold Feet
10. Coronation Street
11. Cracker
12. The Darling Buds of May
13. Death on The Rock
14. Emmerdale
15. Family Fortunes
16. Footballers' Wives
17. Heartbeat
18. Hillsborough
19. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
20. Inspector Morse
21. It'll Be Alright on the Night
22. The Jewel in the Crown
23. Jimmy's
24. The Kenny Everett Video Show
25. Minder
26. The Muppet Show
27. The Naked Civil Servant...
28. Opportunity Knocks
29. Pop Idol -
30. Prime Suspect -
31. The Prisoner
32. Ready, Steady, Go!
33. Rising Damp
34. Seven Up
35. The South Bank Show
36. Spitting Image
37. Stars in Their Eyes
38. Sunday Night at the London Palladium
39. Survival
40. The Sweeney
41. This Is Your Life
42. This Morning
43. Tiswas
44. Tonight With Trevor McDonald
45. A Touch of Frost
46. Upstairs Downstairs
47. Whicker's World
48. Who Wants to be a Millionaire
49. The World at War
50. World in Action