The two-hour series finale aired on May 26, 2013, moving the show to a special Sunday slot.

This was run on the Sunday tea-time slot, where they often ran fairly faithful adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience.

With heavily pregnant wife to worry about being bashed I booked a late Sunday slot at 730pm.

Each episode is 60 minutes long and aired on BBC One at the 8pm Sunday slot.

In its usual Sunday slot last year, the rating was a 6.8.

His first break into radio came with a Sunday slot on Downtown Radio.

Alan Freeman took over in Sept 1961, but finally took the show to a regular Sunday slot at 4 pm on 7 Jan 1962.

But both comedies fizzled when they bowed in their new Sunday slots during the course of the week.

The show moved back to its Sunday slot in 1994 and has remained there ever since.