SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows a
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vinsane — 13 years ago(November 25, 2012 01:37 PM)
@OP Aside from Come Back Mrs Noah, I agree with the ones you've mentioned and would add in:
Blackadder
Joking Apart (story of the guy who did Coupling but his first marriage)
Coupling (don't be put off by the reputation of the US version)
Kiss Me Kate
Chef! (first two series are much better than the last)
Red Dwarf (gets odd after the first couple of series)
A Perfect State
A Fine Romance
The Brittas Empire
Executive Stress
Goodnight Sweetheart (drops off a bit after first series)
Surgical Spirit
Waiting for God
Dressing for Breakfast (impossible to find, unfortunately)
2point4 Children
The Vicar of Dibley
The Upper Hand
Drop the Dead Donkey (references are dated and mostly British)
Is It Legal?
Ever Decreasing Circles
One Foot in the Grave
Up The Garden Path
The Two of Us
Birds of a Feather
Spitting Image (like SNL meets Drop the Dead Donkey with puppets)
The Piglet Files
Bless Me Father
Desmond's (love it or hate it)
After Henry
So Haunt Me
Next of Kin (very watchable considering what it is about)
Mulberry (quirky)
Agony Again
Reggie Perrin (I still need to watch the original ones)
In Loving Memory (Thora Hird)
Butterflies (a bit talky)
Keep It in the Family (redone in U.S. as Too Close for Comfort)
The Darling Buds of May (a young Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Doctor in the House (very hard to find now)
Second Thoughts (and its sequel) Faith in the Future
Only When I Laugh (bit of a train wreck you can't help looking at)
No Job for a Lady
Side by Side (worth a look)
Upwardly Mobile
My Husband and I (Molly Sugden)
Moving (can't be found)
To the Manor Born
Three Up, Two Down
Yes (Prime) Minister
Jeeves and Wooster (trails off after about third series)
The Liver Birds (iffy after first series)
Murder Most Horrid (is an anthology so some shows are missable)
About Face (another anthology)
Never the Twain (got derailed during second series)
Root Into Europe
Blott on the Landscape
These are the comedic ones that are at least worth looking at. Happy hunting.
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vinsane — 9 years ago(May 19, 2016 03:22 PM)
I've yet to see any Blandings productions though I may have some stuff amidst a Wodehouse Collection I have somewhere as an ebook. I must dig it out again.
J&W indeed was just the four series. Episodes 3.5 and 3.6 saw them back from the States. The fourth series went back to NY to begin before the last two episodes being England again. I have grown to nearly despise the "Americanized" episodes now so I tend to skip through them mostly.
Looking at the airing sequence now, I'd revise my earlier statement in favour of the drop-off in quality occurring after episode 2.4 the cow-creamer one. There were still nice funny bits, but it all became very repetitive as well.
Penelope Keith's political turn in No Job for a Lady has never been re-aired in my corner of the world sadly so it's down to a brief snippet here and there off the web for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYylUhbKVN0
Sometimes I think can nearly watch her read from a telephone book.
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randommovies2002 — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 01:47 PM)
Sorry, I didn't realize you had replied until today.
Penelope Keith's political turn in No Job for a Lady has never been re-aired in my corner of the world sadly so it's down to a brief snippet here and there off the web for me.
Which part of the world would that be? If you're in the US, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Acorn TV.
https://signup.acorn.tv/?gclid=CNDDkZvmm80CFdgegQod2kYAig
Acorn TV is showing Blandings. They have exclusive distribution, and they've had it since the first series came out, so I think they'll keep it for a bit.
https://acorn.tv/franchise/blandings
They had
No Job for a Lady
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vinsane — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 02:48 PM)
I'm not from the U.S. actually. I live in that other former colony across the pond from
Old Blighty
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Thanks for the leads but, if I ever get a strong hankering to binge watch, I shall dust off my old VHS tapes and see if the old machine will play them after all these years. Meanwhile, I'll keep an eye on the discount DVD bins for any good old Britcoms.
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vinsane — 13 years ago(December 07, 2012 07:28 AM)
I don't think anyone has mentioned So You Think You've Got Troubles.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10101201/combined
I don't think it's ever been released on DVD so it's not going to be easy to find unless your local TV service buys the rights, as hasn't happened in my area for a very long time. Only a single series was produced as I remember but it was very different and brilliant.
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MarlboroMoro — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 08:09 AM)
I know people have mentioned them already but "Spaced" and "Black Books" are my all time favourites along with Red Dwarf, but these are relatively well known. All the others are great too, oh and "The Mighty Boosh" I don't know how well known that is outside the UK.
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emuboy — 12 years ago(June 29, 2013 07:06 PM)
In Australia, very few people have heard of The Worst Week of My Life, which centered around the misadventures of the bumbling Howard Steel, his long-suffering wife Mel, her humorless parents Dick and Angela and other characters, such as Mel's drama queen younger sister, strange uncle and Howard's loopy PA. A comedy where everything possible goes wrong for the well-intentioned Howard, this is possibly the funniest show I have ever seen, but so obscure.
While not strictly a sitcom, as it was more comedy-drama, one of the best British shows was The Hello Girls, which was made in the mid 1990s and centered around a group of girls working at a telephone exchange in the late 1950s. So obscure and forgotten is The Hello Girls that I was beginning to think I had imagined the whole thing, until I found evidence that it actually existed on the internet. -
brucecorneil1960 — 12 years ago(June 30, 2013 03:54 AM)
Loved the early Dave Allen shows (Dave Allen at Large) in the 1970s. Unfortunately, he became very crude and foul - mouthed when he came back on to TV years later. Not sure what he was trying to achieve. Possibly trying to keep up with younger comics. Still, he was great in his prime.