Editors' introduction--Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey *Part I: Editors' introduction: The boundaries of genre; the sitcom--Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey * 'Our usual impasse': The episodic situation comedy revisited--Barry Langford * RememberingButterflies: The comic art of housework--Julia Hallam * They do 'like it up 'em':Dad's Armyand myths of old England--Robin Nelson *Part II: Editors' introduction: Quality and the 'other' drama--Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey * Space for 'quality': Negotiating with the Daleks--Jonathan Bignell * This is the modern world:The Prisoner, authorship, allegory--Mark Bould * Can kinky sex be politically correct?Queer As Folkand the geo-ideological inscription of gay sexuality--Peter Billingham * 'Just that kids' thing': The politics ofCrazyspace, children's television and the case ofThe Demon Headmaster--Maigrave;re Messenger Davies *Part III: Editors' introduction: Revisiting the familiar--Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey * Haunted houses, hidden rooms: women, domesticity and the female Gothic adaptation on television--Helen Wheatley * BBC Drama at the margins: The contrasting fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh TV drama in the nineties--Steve Blandford * The new social realism ofClocking Off--Lez Cooke * Becoming popular: Some reflections on the relationship between television and theatre--Stephen Lacey * Afterword.