[Raak] I think I'm in danger of leading you into a siding here. So that we can get back on the main track, let me reveal that the medium in question is TELEVISION (which can of course be put into the tangible form of videotape or DVD).

(Well, presumably before it was on television it was in a script, which is a concrete tangible form by any defition surely?)

[rab] Doctor Who related? NO
(Fair enough, I was just interpreting your question as trying to distinguish a particular class of artforms of, say, the sculpture variety. If you count stuff like scripts, then which art forms don't have tangible form? Even computer games are stored tangibly on a HDD.)

Projoy] Re non-tangible art forms - how about improvised stand-up comedy?

[Ig] Is the original programme in which The Answer first appeared still on? NO
(is a real-life performer insufficiently tangible for you, then? :))

[Projoy] I was thinking of apocryphal/folk stories, that kind of thing.

[rab] British? YES
[Inkspot] A series? YES

And you do know what I mean by that, if you don't try and think too hard :)

[rab] I hope you'll forgive me for giving the answer as I DON'T KNOW. History records the name of said show, but not its genre. Quite startled at how recalcitrant this subject is proving.

[rab] On further thought, the best answer is almost certainly NO to the genre question.

Handy summary: It's an ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, (ABSTRACT (ANIMAL)). On the card is a name - the name of something essentially fictional that is and isn't a person. One of the animal parts is part of a human, the other animal part is partially a person, and partially another specific mammal. The mineral part is man-made. Appeared first in a British TV Show (in English) that is no longer on.

OK let's try a different tack.

[rab] First episode before 1980? YES

Late entry from me.... Will be a bit of a bad steal if I'm right.

[Lib] MPFC? NO.

Re improv - touché

[Ig] Internal organ? NO
[rab] name of show=words on card (or selection of permutation of)? NO