SO many people love Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python, etc, etc. The top shows a
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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
for a long time too, but it's not available right now. they do bring back programs, so it could come back. I first watched this series via DVDs from my library. LOVE IT. -
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
.
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.
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zoso_uk — 12 years ago(September 10, 2013 01:11 PM)
Rab C Nesbitt. It's based in Glasgow though, so it's unlikely people outside of the UK (even sometimes outside of Scotland lol) will understand the speech. But if you're lucky enough to 'get it', it's genius. The early years were absolutely hilarious. Gregor Fisher is without doubt the best drunk actor I have ever seen.
I did not hit you. I simply high-fived your face. -
gorbals406 — 12 years ago(September 22, 2013 04:28 PM)
Rab C Nesbitt. It's based in Glasgow though, so it's unlikely people outside of the UK (even sometimes outside of Scotland lol) will understand the speech
I agree that it's genius, but no one outside of Glaswegians will understand it, not even a lot of other Scots.
I posted on another board that the episode called
Semmitry
, S06E04 should have won an award for being the best show I've ever watched dealing with cancer.
"Faith is the substitution of emotion for evidence."
Rab C. Nesbitt
"To a religious mind, atheism is the most conventional way of being unconventional."
Rev. Ives