British television science fiction

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British television science fiction refers to programmes in the genre that have been produced by both the BBC and Britain's largest commercial channel, ITV. BBC's Doctor Who is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world,^[1] and has been called the "most successful" science fiction series of all time.^[2]