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An anthology series with each episode focused on the life of a renowned composer.

Nine O'Clock Live replaced Quarter to Nine on GMTV in September 1994.

Milkshake! is presented by a number of different presenters who introduce children's TV shows every morning on Channel 5.

Channel 5 Nature Documentary

In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the subsequent six years, a million Irish people died of starvation and a more than a million others fled abroad in order to escape the ravages of hunger and disease.

Match of the Seventies is a British sports documentary television series broadcast on BBC1 in two series between 26 July 1995 and 2 September 1996. Presented by Dennis Waterman it featured highlights of the English football seasons during the 1970s.[1] It begins in the summer of 1970, shortly after England's defeat in the World Cup in a season in which Arsenal won the double and concludes at the end of the 1979-1980 season with an increasingly dominant Liverpool side retaining their league title.

Channel 5 Nature Documentary covering the Oceans

TV sketch comedy featuring Caroline Aherne, John Thomson, and Steve Coogan.

Four-part spoof "rockumentary" written by and starring Graham Fellows. At the age of 55, Sheffield-born former security guard and now "versatile singer/songwriter" John Shuttleworth, realises he must hit the big time before it's too late, and sets off on a rock tour of Britain with his portable organ and neighbour and agent Ken Worthington.

Caveman Hairy Jeremy has adventures in this prehistoric and somewhat absurdist French stop-motion animation.

Specials was a 1991 BBC Birmingham series about Special Constables in a fictional Midlands town. Twelve 50- minute episodes were made. The series was shot on videotape at Pebble Mill, Birmingham and using locations around West Bromwich and Birmingham, England.

Historian Simon Schama explores the relationship between culture and the natural environment. He begins by looking at forests - places of myth and memory, fear and worship.

WYSIWYG is a 1992 CITV children's series broadcast in ITV. Five episodes were produced. It stars Julie Dawn Cole as Maz, Clive Mantle as Globyool, and Nick Wilton as Wysiwyg.

Presenter Neil Innes has fun exploring the origins of well-known words; and phrases in AWAY WITH WORDS. The 13-part series follows him on his travels from Yarmouth to Ely, Southend, Newmarket, Luton, Southwold, Duxford, Ipswich, Norwich, Corby, Bletchley, Cambridge and Colchester. But it won't be a map so much as a dictionary that he will have as a guide as he looks for the unlikely sources of all sorts of everyday names and sayings, and talks to some of the people who can throw light on them.

This documentary re-creates the momentous Frankfurt trial. Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner build the film around taped testimony from more than 200 Auschwitz survivors. Twenty-two former members of Hitler's SS, many of whom had carved out comfortable lives for themselves in postwar West Germany, stood trial in 1963 before 360 witnesses who accused them of murdering millions.

Top Gear Motorsport was a British television programme, covering various forms of motor racing, broadcast on BBC Two from 1994 to 1998. It was a spin-off programme from the popular motoring series Top Gear. The programme was presented by former Formula One driver and Top Gear presenter Tiff Needell. Other presenters were Penny Mallory, Tony Mason, Steve Berry, Mark James and Bob Constanduros. The series covered a wide variety of motor racing categories, including the World Rally Championship, the British Rally Championship, British Formula Three, Formula Renault and Formula Vauxhall Junior, British Superbikes and Eurocars.

DIY show featuring Tommy Walsh.

Documentary strand getting to the heart of its subjects - people and issues involved with the arts and popular culture.

Channel 5 Newsbloke Rob Butler hosts two people. Some anagrams appear on screen, first person to get it gets the points, the more points the quicker it is got. After five anagrams, there are three general knowledge questions. And then more anagrams, more questions and so on until Crack The Cryptic. A long phrase with no letters filled in is shown. They are also given a cryptic clue. Some of the words in the phrase are taken from the answers to the anagrams and questions. As letters are filled in, the points value drops so the quicker you get it, the higher the bonus. Broadcast by Bazal for Channel 5, 1998 to 1999 (as part of Good Afternoon).

The British correspondent in Lebanon, Robert Fisk, tries to find the roots of misunderstanding between the Muslims and the Western World, and why some Muslims do not trust the West. He travels from Lebanon to Palestine, then to Egypt, and finally concludes his journey in the terrorized Balkan. He also makes a short trip to Poland, showing an eloquent description of the Holocaust.

War Walks was a BBC documentary series presented by historian, Professor Richard Holmes. The series was about several famous European battles. It included descriptions of the battles, the events leading up to them and the events resulting from them.

The show aired on ITV1 on Saturday 6 November 1999

Have you ever wondered just what makes your cat tick? We are both fascinated and infuriated by this most enigmatic of animals: lovable pet one minute, merciless hunter the next. Here television's top feline presenter and cat expert Roger Tabor reveals why cats behave the way they do and shows us how we can learn to understand and appreciate their impact on our lives in eight short programmes.

Channel 5 Wildlife Documentary

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Time Team Extra was a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1998. Presented by Robin Bush, it was a companion programme to the archaeology series Time Team, that first aired on Channel 4 in 1994. Time Team Extra is an eight-part series, with each episode accompanying an episode of Time Team's fifth series. The episodes looked more into the history of the site being excavated.