Quintessentially British - the Ealing comedies. Dated but somehow all the more charming. Was Whisky Galore one of them? Sometimes it was called Tight little island.

Sherlock Holmes in all his incarnations, Poirot and Miss Marple, the Forsythe Saga, Upstairs Downstairs, the Dutchess of Duke Street, Foyle's war.

There was a series called, I think, The Inheritance, about a cloth weaving dynasty in the North of England, but I have not seen it ever again since the first screening so it might not survive.

Last of the Summer Wine is just so funny. If I ever find myself with a wearysome protracted illness I will get all of the programs on some sort of perpetual playing device and set it going. That should make for an interesting cause of death.