It just doesn't get any better.

 

I'd love to have included Yes Minister and Reggie Perrin in the poll too, but I'd already used up all 25 available slots. I also had to leave out Father, Dear Father and many others. Maybe it calls for a Classic 1970's Britcoms poll - Part Two. I'll save Allo Allo for a Classic 1980's Britcoms poll, which will of course include Only Fools and Horses.

 

I would've voted in your poll too - for either Porridge or Rising Damp - but it's now locked.

By the way, there are a couple here which you will not be able to watch either now, or any time soon, owing to the innate sensibilities of the bleeding heart brigade.

It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, was another classic from the pens of Perry and Croft, the chaps who created Mainwaring and co. Based in the Raj, it is, of course, “racist”. In fact, the Indian characters always came out better than the British, and it was my favourite comedy as a child.

Love Thy Neighbour is another, and with its very liberal (pun intended) smattering of words such as sambo, has not an earthly of ever being seen again in modern times. My objection to this show was not so much its language and attitudes (the main black character always came off better than the ignorant “honky”), but the fact that it was altogether dreadfully unfunny.

Lastly, a quick word about Alf Garnett. What the liberal set don’t seem to realise, or are too wilfully ignorant to accept, is that this show was a deliberate parody of people such as Garnett. The quite brilliant lead, Warren Mitchell, was a Jew, and committed his entire life to equality of thought and religion.

My abiding memory of Citizen Smith was at an election, where Wolfe demanded a recount several times, on account of the fact that he only received 5 votes, there being, of course, 6 signed up members of The Tooting Popular Front.

The David Croft and Jimmy Perry Comedies are all classic slices of gentle British satire, all based on their personal experiences of British life, the class system and the ridiculousness of snobbery both domestic and abroad.

Dads Army has to be the best of their output.

Fatty Owls has my vote because its excellent and as its getting such a pasting of late in the media

The funny thing is, I've never heard of the British sitcom "Meet the Wife",  even though I grew up in Britain during the sixties. 

So I guess in the Beatles song you just thought he was going to go home and have some tea with his wife. 

I never would have even noticed but I happened to have read about it online.