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Last Updated
03 Jan 2007

On the BBC Radio 4 show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, one of the rounds includes suggestions for TV & Radio shows made more up-market, sophisticated or intellectually challenging. Here are some of the teams' suggestions, along with some of my suggestions. If you have any ideas you would like included, please e-mail me here, and I will add the best ones (with full credit to you of course)

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The Bill becomes L'Addition, S'il Vous Plait York
08 Nov 1999
Jim Davidson's Generation Game becomes Charles Darwin's Generation Game York
08 Nov 1999
Post-Modernist Pat, & His Black & White Abstract Cat York
08 Nov 1999
Grange Hill becomes Gordonstoun Heights York
08 Nov 1999
Only Fools & Horses becomes Three Day Eventing York
08 Nov 1999
Overdue repeats ofThe Goodies become The Betters York
08 Nov 1999
Casualty becomes I'm sorry this is a private hospital, we can't handle emergencies York
08 Nov 1999
Play School, with Brian & Emmanuel Cant York
08 Nov 1999
Pets Win Pullitzer Prizes York
08 Nov 1999
Home & Away, At Our Other Home York
08 Nov 1999
They Think It's The Louvre York
08 Nov 1999
Animal Hospital becomes Animal Feng Shui Consultancy York
08 Nov 1999
ER becomes IQ York
08 Nov 1999
Who Wants To Be A Molierre? Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
The Bill becomes The Invoice Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Animal Hospital becomes BUPA Pets Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Bruce's The Price Is Immaterial Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Doctor Whom Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Goodness Gracious Moi Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Scooby Doo Therefore I Am Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Edgar Allen-Poe Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
The Archbishop Of Dibley Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Channel 4 Racine from Newmarket Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Through The Keyhole At One's Other Home Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Ready, Steady, Ask Cook To Start Dinner Now Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Watchdog without Anne Robinson Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
They Think It's Range Rover Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
Repeats of The Goodies Bournemouth
13 Nov 2000
The Forsyte Aga Bradford
20 May 2002
Drop The Dea Sea Scrolls Bradford
20 May 2002
The Earl Grey Whistle Test Bradford
20 May 2002
Never Mind The Peacocks Bradford
20 May 2002
Last Of The Summer Chateaux Lafite 1959 Bradford
20 May 2002
Who Wants To Be A Molier Bradford
20 May 2002
Baddiel & Skinner - Planned Bradford
20 May 2002
Can't Cook, Sack Cook Bradford
20 May 2002
E.R. = mc²R Bradford
20 May 2002
The Weakest Link, with Robert Robinson Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Have I Got Ted Hughes For You Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Drop The Dead Don Quixote Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Soames Forsyte's Play Your Cards Right Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Dad's Arty Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Conan The Vegetarian Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Jean-Paul Sartre In Their Eyes Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ I'm Sorry I Have A Clue with Tim Rice-Davies, Samantha & Sven Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Supercilious Sweep with Brian Sewell Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Pop Idol becomes Pop Just Having A Gap Year Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ How To Cook With Delius Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Upstairs, Upstairs Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Holby United Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ So Graham Greene Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ So Isaac Newton Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ The Wallis Simpsons Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Bob Says A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Blind Date with Schiller Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Breakfast With Proust Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Neighbours becomes No Neighbours For Miles, Darling Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ U2 with Edward De Bono Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ The Shipping Forecast turns into Yachting Trends Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ The Viscount Linley Mysteries Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Changing Looms with William Morris Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Prime Minister's Question Tim Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Head Gardener's Question Time Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Stephen Hawking With Dinosaurs Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ International Grand Masterchef Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Defoe & Pascal Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Nanny Get Your Gun Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
[ Freud On Fish Not broadcast] Bradford
20 May 2002
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