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Favourite Sitcoms

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Can anyone suggest somethng that wasnt first shown in black and white.!
 
Steptoe & Son
Hancocks half hour
Citizen Smith
The Likely Lads
Fawlty Towers
Hi de hi
Reggie Perrin
Rising damp
Yes Minister
On the buses
The good life
The New Statesman
Outnumbered (1st couple of series)
Mrs Browns boys (when they didn't swear openly)
 
Just Good Friends. Only partially ... OK completely because of Jan Francis :)
 
Till death us do part was brilliant and Warren Mitchell played the part so well.
it was always a must watch show in our house.
Dads Army was the best ever ,closely followed by Porridge and only fools.
as for things like The Office and anything attached to Gervais just dosent float my boat at all.
too much old school i think.
 
Green Wing, Nighty Night, Mighty Boosh tick the boxes for weird Brit comedy.

Love Peep Show, Teachers and Alan Partridge as well.

Think it's becoming 'cool' to slate The Office but I thought this and Extras were superb.
 
Porridge; Fletcher's switch from pleading to righteous indignation when he finds out that Godber has already agreed to throw the boxing match is priceless and the final punchline is an absolute classic

Fawlty Towers; only 12 episodes yet so many classic lines from all the characters. Manuel, the Major & the moose is brilliant.

Only Fools & Horses; having worked in that area for a few years and crossed paths with a number of these chancers it almost qualifies as a documentary.

Dad's Army; apart from the irritating Corporal Jones :angry:.

Mrs. Brown's Boys; I'd love it just as it was written but the ad libs, screw ups and improvisation as they try & stitch each other up makes it priceless.

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister; the best use for politicians, taking the proverbial out of them.
 
I think that Only fools and Porridge are the two best there has ever been and ever will be

For me personally a good sitcom must have excellent characters. Del Boy and Fletcher are absolute examples of this, superbly written and almost lifelike, even though they are caricatures.

My other favorites are Father Ted, The Thick of It, Black Adder, Step toe and son for example are all based around superbly comic characters and amazing writing.

I think any good British sitcoms are a very rare beast these days and the vast majority of things on these days (im only 36) is garbage.

Apart from Father Ted Crilly, Malcolm Tucker, Partridge, Brian Potter, Rab Nesbitt and a few others. Nothing comes close to the rouges and scoundrels created in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

Dying art form in the UK

EDIT - I have just remembered Peep Show and the in betweeners. Both fantastic
 
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tugglesf239 said:
I think that Only fools and Porridge are the two best there has ever been and ever will be

For me personally a good sitcom must have excellent characters. Del Boy and Fletcher are absolute examples of this, superbly written and almost lifelike, even though they are caricatures.

My other favorites are Father Ted, The Thick of It, Black Adder, Step toe and son for example are all based around superbly comic characters and amazing writing.

I think any good British sitcoms are a very rare beast these days and the vast majority of things on these days (im only 36) is garbage.

Apart from Father Ted Crilly, Malcolm Tucker, Partridge, Brian Potter, Rab Nesbitt and a few others. Nothing comes close to the rouges and scoundrels created in the 60's, 70's and 80's.

Dying art form in the UK

EDIT - I have just remembered Peep Show and the in betweeners. Both fantastic
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Yes it does, it's just that people tend to have very selective memories and are only exposed to the best stuff from that era. There was a vast amount of dross as well.

It is widely acknowledged that we are currently going through a golden era on TV, it is just that you have to look a bit harder for it now as TV is so fragmented with the Sky channels and on demand TV.

You should be thinking the best song has yet to be written, the best TV show is yet to be shown, your best golf shot is yet to be hit. As if not you are already wishing your life away.
 
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So many great British sitcoms of the 70s, of which most have been mentioned above although don't forget Butterflies.

In more recent times have enjoyed Coupling & Episodes (both of which were best for the first two series), and Frasier and The Big Bang Theory from the US.

I've never got The Office or Mrs Brown's Boys - just not for me.
 
Ross61 said:
All a bit politically incorrect these days. Saw a couple of episodes of on the buses recently. I don't remember it being so sexist. I suppose when I watched it at the time it was first aired it was the norm.
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You could add Mind Your Language to the list. So racially incorrect it's another that'll never (rightly) get aired again. I also don't remember On The Buses being quite so sexist but as you say sitting watching it at the time you're impervious to it all
 
HomerJSimpson said:
You could add Mind Your Language to the list. So racially incorrect it's another that'll never (rightly) get aired again. I also don't remember On The Buses being quite so sexist but as you say sitting watching it at the time you're impervious to it all
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I went to see an episode of Mind your Language being made. Francoise Pascal was a stunner.:thup: Don't remember anything else about the programme though.
 
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