The title may not be a particularly alluring one, but the programme is a thoroughly enjoyable dollop of TV nostalgia, just the thing for a bank-holiday evening. It is introduced as "the story of women taking charge as seen through the camera lens", which means it's full of clips from TV dramas and films about women bosses - or, in the early days, bossy women.

It makes an attempt to be serious through interviews with a huge range of media experts and journalists, as well as celebrities such as Mollie Sugden, Helen Mirren, Stephanie Beacham and Glenn Close, but it's the clips that really count. Stereotypical battleaxes - Hattie Jacques as Matron in the early Carry On films and Peggy Mount in everything - lead the way, followed by scenes from all walks of TV: Noele Gordon in Crossroads, Kate O'Mara in Triangle, Miriam Karlin in The Rag Trade and - possibly the epitome of powerful, glamorous women in the eighties - Joan Collins as Alexis Colby in Dynasty.

It's not all nostalgia, though, as images from series such as This Life and Ally McBeal bring us, and the camera's view of women, up to date.

~ Radio Times