Older British Sitcoms
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Topics not related to music
Forum Name: General Polls
Forum Description: Create polls on topics not related to music
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=106738
Printed Date: January 30 2025 at 21:19
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Older British Sitcoms
Posted By: AlanB
Subject: Older British Sitcoms
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 07:27
| What's your favourite from this list of classic British sitcoms? |
Replies:
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 07:46
| ^ Having this poll without Fawlty Towers is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 08:00
| Blackadder, followed by Porridge and Dad's Army. |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 08:35
|
I have a friend who looks and acts just like the tightwad groveler on Rising Damp.....not a bad show but light years behind the two seasons of Faulty Towers.
------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 08:40
| I should vote for Yes Minister or Blackadder...but I loved The Good Life. |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 08:41
I know it's a minority opinion but I hated Fawlty Towers.
|
Mascodagama wrote:Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 09:08
How did I forget Fawlty Towers?
 Sorry....... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 09:30
|
I sense that "Other" will do quite well here because even just limiting the choice to anything from the 60s, 70s and 80s opens the polling up to quite a few well-loved sitcoms that are not listed such as The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served, Up Pompeii!, Last of the Summer Wine, Butterflies, The Likely Lads and What Ever Happened to The Likely Lads, 'Allo 'Allo, The Liver Birds, Man About The House, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perin, To The Manor Born, The New Statesman and Only Fools And Horses. (and many more besides). Anywaay... I've voted "Other: The Goodies" ------------- What? |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 10:47
The BBC have never repeated The Goodies, and there seems to be some kind of dispute around this. I used to love it. Voted for Dad's Army from the list, with more than honourable mention for the mad hotelier. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 11:39
|
Other..Fawlty Towers Followed closely by Backadder from the list :-) ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 11:51
|
I expected a Yes Minister/ Yes Prime Minister vote, Lazland. I don't have clear favourite, though the one that started in the 80s that I most recently enjoyed was The New Statesman (with Rik Mayall). I didn't find it a very consistently good show, though, throughout its run. My favourite scene involves a speech given by Alan B'Stard at a conference where he promotes a book called Sex is Wrong. Favourites in the list have included Yes PM (brilliant show), Porridge, Black Adder and Rising Damp. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is an "other" particular favourite. I think I'll give Rising Damp a vote. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 12:28
It's certainly odd that they haven't given how popular it was and how long it ran for. Repeats of 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' radio show are on constant rotation on iPlayer Radio so it's not as if the Beeb has some long-running grudge against the Goodies themselves. Given that BBC Worldwide are happy to recycle practically everything else through its UKTV subsidiary (Dave, W and Gold) it's not as if they'd have to sacrifice any of their precious BBC 1 or 2 high-quality prime time (erm... BBC Caravanner of the Year...) to repeat it. ------------- What? |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 13:55
|
Two other missing here... Doctor in the House (1969-1970) & On the Buses (1969) My folks used to watch them during dinner and even as a kid I actually thought they were pretty funny as well. But really Terri...you didn't like Fawlty Towers ?? One of the few people I've met that didn't. And I can say that because... I'VE MET YOU  ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 16:05
Yes, given my avatar, a reasonable statement  There is, actually, a reason why not. As brilliant as the tv series were, the books of them were vastly superior, certainly when read through the eyes of a lifelong civil servant. They go into the detail of civil service machinations and manipulations far better than the shows ever did, and come highly recommended if you can get them. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 16:56
Well, given your avatar, it just goes to show that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. ;) That makes sense. My parents use to have those books, and I may have them in the garage. They downsized and I took quite a few of their books here. My dad was a civil servant and loved the books. I'm sure I can get them at amazon if I can't find them here. Off on a tangent, but while those books which I believe are based on a show may be better than the show, with that other wonderful British Prime Ministerial series, House of Cards, which was based on Dobb's book, I found the television adaptation much more enjoyable than the book. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:05
Felicity Kendal... sigh   |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:11
|
And seeing as Jan Francis is back on the TV in "I want my wife back" (which is quite funny despite the crap title), I'll throw in a mention for "Just Good Friends", which is something else I haven't seen repeated. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:11
| I, perhaps oddly, liked Felicity Kendal best in the much reviled, but not by me, Chamomile Lawn. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:29
| Are You Being Served? |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 17:58
| Do you consider Rumpole of the Bailey a sitcom? Liked Leo McKern and his supporting cast very much. |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 18:33
I don't find people being humiliated funny. I used to spend every episode cringing. It never worked for me as a comedy.
|
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 18:34
agreed, the books are great, but the books didn't have Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington.
|
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 18:35
My husband would agree with you...and I wouldn't blame him one bit.
|
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: May 18 2016 at 03:26
|
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 18 2016 at 10:56
It's more of a comedy-drama (dramedy) than a situation-comedy (sitcom) - while they can have a serious side, sitcoms are generally played for laughs whereas comedy-dramas are more dramas with comedy in them. I prefer the radio versions of Rumpole (Timothy West played the older Rumpole and now Benedict Cucumberbatch is currently playing the younger Rumpole). ------------- What? |
Posted By: Guy Guden
Date Posted: May 18 2016 at 19:46
Didn't know about the radio versions of Rumpole, Dean. Thanks. I should track those down and have a glass of Chateau Thames.
|
Posted By: ProfPanglos
Date Posted: September 19 2017 at 23:14
| The Many Wives of Patrick |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: September 20 2017 at 07:23
|
Other: Red Dwarf followed closely by Black Adder then The Young Ones... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: September 20 2017 at 10:45
|
Young Ones ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: September 20 2017 at 15:08
|
In this poll i mis "Allo Allo" -------------  
|