SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows a
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bookskds — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 04:16 PM)
SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows are well known.
I am curious which lesser known Britcoms are among your favourites.
For me I love Fresh Fields/French Fields and May to December (I really like Anton Rogers). I also would put Thin Blue Line and Come Back Mrs Noah on there."Excuse me! I'm making perfect sense. You're just not keeping up."
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geode — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 08:10 PM)
SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows are well known.
"Only Fools and Horses" is extremely well-known to the British, but not to Americans, so I think it would depend on the audience to whom you ask this question.
However, perhaps "Butterflies" is less known even in the UK.
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marieisme — 13 years ago(July 18, 2012 03:27 PM)
No, Honestly, and Doctor in the House come to mind. I believe those were both from the mid-70s.
No, Honestly was available for a time on VHS so I was able to get that (in fact, I started watching it again yesterday), but I've never been able to find Doctor in the House in a format I can watchI'm in the US.
There was another one I liked called Solo, which starred Felicity Kendal. As I remember, there weren't many episodes to it, and I don't remember much at all about it now.
And there was another show I don't remember the name of now, but I think it starred Elaine Stritch as an American, who had a very proper English butler she was always at loggerheads with.
Enjoyed The Two Ronnies, as well. And Dave Allen at Large, or something like that???
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Mousuke — 13 years ago(August 09, 2012 02:17 PM)
Human Remains is indeed excellent. I also really like Jam, Nighty Night, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place and Snuff Box - they do all have 'cult' followings though so they are only lesser known to the average joe on the street.
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wears-alan — 13 years ago(August 11, 2012 08:38 AM)
The show you are referring to with Elaine Strich and Donald Sinden as her butler was called Two's Company. There was a follow up to No Honestly starring Lisa Goddard (of Skippy fame) called Yes Honestly. If you liked the Young Ones you would also like Bottom and Filthy, Rich and Catflap!!
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marieisme — 13 years ago(August 14, 2012 03:17 PM)
Thank you, wears-alan. Yup, Two's Company was it.
I didn't know about the follow-up to No, Honestly. I'll have to look into that oneI don't know as I'd like it, tho, without the original cast.
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TheSnappySneezer — 13 years ago(August 14, 2012 10:25 PM)
Growing up with the US takes on all three of these, I kind of prefer the US Three's Company, rank Ropers as equals to George and Mildred and think Robin's Nest is the best of the three UK series and far superior to Three's a Crowd. I still love all six series though. The waiter on Robin's Nest steals the show from the episodes I saw.
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FieryJack — 13 years ago(July 29, 2012 03:03 PM)
Most of our old sitcoms enjoy repeats on digital channels somewhere. A few that don't seem to (or I missed them),,,, Just Good Friends,,, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin,,, Three Up, Two Down,,, and (I think it was called) Fairly Secret Army.
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s-grimaldi — 13 years ago(August 03, 2012 02:42 PM)
Does Irish count? Father Ted is one of the funniest things ever made.
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s-grimaldi — 13 years ago(August 03, 2012 02:50 PM)
Just thought of a few more:
Green Wing (http://www.imdb.com/board/10423661/) the completely insane Brit answer to Scrubs
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s-grimaldi — 13 years ago(August 03, 2012 02:51 PM)
Oh and Spaced (http://www.imdb.com/board/10187664/) I promise I'll stop now!
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Morgana0 — 13 years ago(August 16, 2012 09:42 AM)
Does anyone remember the name of a comedy situated in a foreign language school? I loved that one though now it would be impossible to do a show like that as it would be considered politically incorrect, which it was I admit but I still loved it.
I think I remember the name: Mind Your Language.
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