Jennifer Saunders

Patsy has a penchant for alcohol, especially for a famous brand of champagne. Eddie is obsessed with her curves and perpetually electrified by cocaine, soothed by countless different sleeping pills.

A BBC talk show with a different celebrity host each week. It was said that the host always had a free hand in the selection of the guests.

Stand up and sketches from the brightest new comedy stars.

A charity concert organized by Rob Buckman, in aid of training cancer treatment specialists.

20 million people across the UK helped to raise £26.9 million on the second Red Nose Day. At night, the BBC once again gave over their studio's to Lenny Henry, Griff Rhys Jones and Jonathan Ross to present a marathon of mirth, mayhem and fund raising.

The 1989 show returned to the roots of the series with an emphasis on comedy and eschewing the music that, by the 1987 show, had come to be an equal component of the Balls. The cast was a blend of the 1960s and '70s generation of performers (John Cleese, Michael Palin, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) with '80s newcomers such as Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Lenny Henry, Rory Bremner, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane and Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones). The show took place over four nights in late August through early September 1989 at London's Cambridge Theatre and was directed -- in a demonstration of cross-generational entente -- by John Cleese and Absolutely Fabulous cocreator/star Jennifer Saunders. The show was the last Ball to feature any of the original performers. When the Amnesty shows resumed in the 1990s and 2000s, the Ball had passed to a new generation

Comedians and musicians entertain/perform at a charity gala in support of victims of HIV/AIDS, hosted by Stephen Fry.

Children's Saturday morning magazine/variety show featuring cartoons, sketches, games, music videos, special guests and features.

Breakfast news and magazine programme.

Clive Anderson mixes comedy and his legal training to conduct a series of irreverent interviews with various guests. Also included is a satirical look at topical events.

A variety show celebrating thirty years of Amnesty International.

The Full Wax is a comedic talk show that originally aired on BBC from January 19, 1991 to June 10, 1993. The writer and hostess is Ruby Wax, an American comedian who is well-known in Britain.

Top telly included Mr Bean in a 'Blind Date' spectacular, Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton taking on assorted sporty celebs in "Have I Got A Question Of Sport For You". More serious stuff included documentaries with Joanna Lumley in Eritrea, Tony Robinson in Uganda - reporting on the AIDS epidemic - and Lenny Henry in war torn Somalia.

The classic long-running prime time TV investigative news magazine.

A lunch-time comedy chatshow. It was a huge success initially but audience figures declined slowly eventually resulting in viewing figures merely deemed "satisfactory" by Channel 4.

The BBC's much loved weekly 3 and a quarter hour live Saturday Morning programme, aimed at children.

Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

A mix of celebrity chat, gossip and games.