Continuing from Part I
Never heard of several of these choices..
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 2, 2016 9:54 PM |
They brought back 'Birds of a Feather' about a year or so ago for a new series after more than a decade.
What's it like?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 2, 2016 10:21 PM |
What about Good Neighbors?!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 2, 2016 10:49 PM |
Peter Sallis from "Last of the Summer Wine" is still alive.
Just turned 95.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 2, 2016 10:51 PM |
I watch Good Life/Neighbors only for Penelope Keith. Can't stand the couple.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 3, 2016 1:44 AM |
Voted
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 3, 2016 6:58 AM |
Vicar of Dibley leads Father Ted.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 3, 2016 8:18 AM |
Vicar was great because it was twee and broad at the same time. And, well, Dawn French.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 3, 2016 8:24 AM |
That dumb girl in VOD gets a bit too much.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 3, 2016 2:04 PM |
Vote
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 3, 2016 9:54 PM |
I notice in both threads the conspicuous omission of IT AIN’T HALF HOT, MUM.
It’s to be expected though, as no channel airs it anymore. I suppose that’s because of the racial humour. It’s a shame in some ways; while the jokes were often thin or dusty, the musical numbers were always top-notch and the show did fine work keeping music-Hall standards alive in the 60s & 70s. Don Estelle was a songbird.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 13, 2017 5:32 PM |
Be honest, ppl are only voting for VoD because of Richard Armitage’s guest appearances.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 13, 2017 5:42 PM |
What, none of you fuckers ever heard of a little show called Two's Company?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 13, 2017 5:59 PM |
Any such poll without Allo, Allo is illegitimate.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 13, 2017 6:08 PM |
I thought Father Ted was hilarious. All the actors were great and I loved Graham Norton as the trendy young priest. I was never fond of The Vicar of Dibley. Couldn't stand Bless Me Father (ugh !)
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 13, 2017 7:36 PM |
I'm surprised the OP didn't throw in a PBS pledge drive appeal. These are like the top 10 shows old people watch on Saturday nights.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 13, 2017 8:27 PM |
Rename your thread OP -- Least Known British Sitcoms Part Who Cares.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 13, 2017 8:47 PM |
OP MY FAMILY was absolutely egregious and went on far too long. Even the divine Zoe Wanamaker & the delectable Robert Lindsay couldn’t do a thing with it. The only funny element in the whole program was the batshit (and creepy-hot) eldest son who’d surface occasionally to smash the frame. Everything else was pablum.
Robert’s best sitcom was the blissfully-Surreal and obscure late-night gem that was 1990’s NIGHTINGALES. It’s been almost 30 years and I still don’t understand it, nor do I want or need to. It’s a lovely example of what magic can happen when you allow improv actor to just....go. It’s like a sitcom written by Thomas Pynchon.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 13, 2017 10:02 PM |
I can't decide between OFITG and Father ted. It's vexing.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 13, 2017 10:05 PM |
Father Ted is the best - though it's not British, it's Irish.
The best British sitcom - AbFab - is not listed
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 13, 2017 10:08 PM |
Raised by Wolves - newish and hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 13, 2017 11:14 PM |
Would "Bob and Margaret" qualify? It's an animated Canadian-British series and it was hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 13, 2017 11:50 PM |
I also love CHEF.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 14, 2017 12:24 AM |
Good gawd r21 I thought I was the only person left alive who remembered that! It was truly inspired. (There’s nobody here but us chickens!)
I loved Plebs. Set in Ancient Rome, about three British guys - two scribes and their slave. The slave, Grumio, was hysterical.
Also Green Wing. Stupendously funny, set in a hospital with the sublime Michelle Gomez as the psychotic HR consultant. If you can find Green Wing do yourself a favor and watch it.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 14, 2017 1:18 AM |
The Thick of It
Peep Show
Alan Partridge
The Office
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by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 14, 2017 1:32 AM |
"Miranda" starring Miranda Hart and featuring a pre-"Lucifer" Tom Ellis.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 14, 2017 6:01 AM |
I guess all the big and popular ones were used up in the first thread? AbFab, The Blackadder comedy series, Mr. Bean, Fawlty Towers, Little Britain, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 14, 2017 6:22 AM |
Steptoe and Son was comedic genius. Pathos, drama, slapstick, clever soliloquies, endlessly talented performances. It’s old but truly excellent.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 14, 2017 7:49 PM |
I chuffing loved the first three seasons of PLEBS.
The fourth is rubbish. Losing Stylax, Cynthia & Metella has really fucked it. At least we've still got Grumio.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 19, 2018 10:16 PM |
What about The New Statesman?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 19, 2018 10:27 PM |
Mrs Brown
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 19, 2018 10:33 PM |
One should also consider Yes, Minister.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 19, 2018 10:38 PM |
And where is the link to part I, lazy OP? Can't believe no one has mentioned this.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 19, 2018 10:40 PM |
I never tire of watching "As Time Goes By". It's so witty and sweet. Judy Dench and Geoffrey Palmer are so well matched, and play off of one-other effortlessly, and the supporiing cast is wonderful.
It wasn't among the choices above, but I still love "Are You Being Served?". I know that it's extremely dated, politically incorrect, and probably amounts to something of a guilty pleasure, but I don't care. Slocombe, Humphries, Lucas, Brahms and Peacock still make me laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 19, 2018 10:49 PM |
My local PBS stations seem to finally have let go of the British comedies. Thirty years of One Foot in the Grave and Are you Being Served played almost on a loop really stretched things to the breaking point.
I suppose the licensing fees for the excellent new programs like The IT Crowd and W1A are too high.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 19, 2018 10:52 PM |
Also Red Dwarf an Monty Python's Flying Circus.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 19, 2018 10:55 PM |
"Vicious" reruns were airing on PBS for quite a while, though I think they might have ended, as I haven't noticed any episodes lately. They seem to be focusing more on British dramas now, things like "Call the Midwife", and the wonderful mystery anthology, "Unforgotten".
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 19, 2018 11:16 PM |
I had thought that One Foot in the Grave was relatively obscure.
Dishy cop Harry was the best thing about As Time Goes By. Judy and Sandy seemed like quite a lesbo-erotic pairing to me. Alastair was kind of cute at times, but usually so obnoxious as to cancel that out. Mrs. Bale, frankly, owned the show.
I knew Josephine Tewson as the landlady on Shelley, before seeing Liz next door on KUA.
My dad loved the series Rising Damp.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 19, 2018 11:36 PM |
All Dads love Reggie Perrin too, R45.
Leonard Rossiter just spoke to middle-aged male angst, somehow.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 20, 2018 6:48 AM |
Did Lydia Rose Bewley know Tom Rosenthal before PLEBS? They seem close friends (have they dated?), and share a connection with fellow young comic actor Simon Bird (best-known as Will from INBETWEENERS); Bewley knows Bird through INBETWEENERS, Rosenthal knows him through FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER.
Bewley/Rosenthal have excellent chemistry on-screen, and I wanted to see more of it with Metella & Marcus as a couple on PLEBS. As Stylax (RIP) pointed out they made a perfect pair and seemed to fall in love quickly & easily after sleeping together. The couple could have been a natural dramatic through-line to underscore all the Plebeian hijinks. Then again, I suppose it would have been a bit much to have middle-class Marcus grow to love two slaves (Grumio is basically a brother and/or heterosexual life-partner to him at this point).
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 20, 2018 11:12 PM |