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rather than repeat myself.........................~Classic Britcoms~

lady cop

......................but Britcoms are the most brilliant! i think i forgot to mention 'league of gentlemen' :wah:

ArnoldLayne wrote: Oh WOW ! I'm glad you get that . I thought it would be too sort of British and wouldnt translatei think i am the ONLY American that gets it. Bothwell and i went into this weird place that made us very uncomfortable and we walked out. ever since then we referred to it as royston vesy and discussed how we almost ended up in the soup-de-jour!

he's been offline for a couple weeks, but i just emailed him this thread...he'll love it. ....i like hyacinth, but it's been repeated here 9000 times. enough! i can't get BBC but have to be at the mercy of my PBS for Britcoms, and they are unimaginative. i became very sick of 'are you being served'. vastly over-rated. i did like 'allo-allo'. i think 'thin blue line' is pure genius, and rowan atkinson one of the crown jewels. but 'vicar' has the best character development , i want to live in that village.

I love the britcom "EXTRAS" it was on HBO this summer, by the same group as the Office.. excellent.

ArnoldLayne wrote: British sitcoms



The Office



Fawlty Towers



Extras



Absolutely fabulous



Red Dwarf



Only Fools and Horses


I liked Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in the '70s. It would be interesting to see if they hold up 30 years later.

I've been enjoying Father Ted on DVD.

R.B.

i'm sure it's old and off the air by now, but i like watching the re-runs on PBS...

"Are You Being Served?"

Richard Bell wrote: I liked Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em in the '70s. It would be interesting to see if they hold up 30 years later.

I've been enjoying Father Ted on DVD.

R.B.


Father Ted is brilliant and I never tire of the repeats.

Wolverine wrote: i'm sure it's old and off the air by now, but i like watching the re-runs on PBS...

"Are You Being Served?"


Oh, Gawd... that thing !

Ther's an episode where Mr. Rumbold takes ill after eating a spoiled snack. Mrs. Slocombe is temporarily moved into his office in the meantime while he is on the mend.

Mrs. S. doesn't like the colour of the memo pads or desk blotter, so she phones the office supply dept. to order another colour (pink, I think). She 's told that they must use up existing stock before new items can be ordered.

She asks when the current supply of memo pads/blotters will run out. There is a pause, she frowns, and repeats the date, which is far into the future :

1984 !

There's another episode where the ongoing affair between Coronation St.'s Mike & Deirdre is mentioned. Corrie fans will know that was a long time ago.

R.B.

Clancy wrote: 1 Blackadder

2 Fawlty Towers

3 The Office

4 Green Wing

5 Extras

6 Time Gentelmen Please

7 The Thin Blue Line

8 Only Fools And Horses

9 Red Dwarf

10 Porridge

11 Little Britain {sketch show}


sorry but I don't like Red Dwarf, The Office or Little Britain....the rest are fab.

Add...


Open all hours

Citizen smith

Dads Army

Steptoe and Son

One foot in the grave

Fall and rise of Reggie Perrin

Father Ted

Vicar of Dibley

Britas Empire

Bread

Duty Free

Last of the Summer wineGreat thread...bought back some memories....



I wish they would repeat the 'Thin Blue Line'....LC you would love it !!!

Ooooops...I forgot 'On the buses' and 'Rising Damp'...dear old Rigby and Vienna the cat....remember them ?

Oh my! I can't believe that My Family has been left out! The Harpers have given me many laughs over the years.

My favourite in that show is scatterbrained Nick! :-4 :-4

How about Rab C Nesbitt and Chewing the FAT?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/artic ... 5310.shtml

Apart from the accent i think the humour is universal. Funniesst ones were whne he was in Spain and met a spanish Rab c Nesbitt, and the one with the Hebbie jeebies.

Steptoe & Son, Love thy Neighbour, Alf Garnett, the Likely lads, open all hours, porridge.

Bez wrote:



I wish they would repeat the 'Thin Blue Line'....LC you would love it !!!Bez, i have every episode on DVD! i do love it!

lady cop wrote: Bez, i have every episode on DVD! i do love it!


So LC, tell me, did you get wrapped up in Eastenders before thee BBC started jerking PBS around and canceling them from BBC America? :-2

StupidCowboyTricks wrote: So LC, tell me, did you get wrapped up in Eastenders before thee BBC started jerking PBS around and canceling them from BBC America? :-2sadly i have never seen eastenders, i don't get BBC America. i have to rely on PBS. however, i have purchased most of my favorites in compilations. i never tire of them:)

lady cop wrote: sadly i have never seen eastenders, i don't get BBC America. i have to rely on PBS. however, i have purchased most of my favorites in compilations. i never tire of them:)


They were on PBS to begin with. BBC America was a big dissapointment....after I got it it was all home and garden improvment shows.....It's a little better now but I hardly watch TV anymore.........Prior to to it though I had two PBS stations and I would watch a lot of "are you being served lol."

lady cop wrote: sadly i have never seen eastenders, i don't get BBC America. i have to rely on PBS. however, i have purchased most of my favorites in compilations. i never tire of them:)


I don't watch 'Soaps ' much.... they are too depressing but are do love the 'Sit Coms'.



Eastenders rarely has anything nice happening in it....i know it's supposed to reflect real life, but when on the rare occasions i sit down in front of the TV, I want to be entertained and have a laugh.



I do watch Discovery Channel. Biography Channel, National Geographic and quite a few gardening programmes and athletics, some football, Wimbledon,....blimey i sound like a telly addict

Sat. night is Britcom night on PBS here, but i am sick unto death of are you being served!!! Bez i don't watch soaps either, or any network programming really, just keep it on the news and sometimes TCM classic old movies.

lady cop wrote: Sat. night is Britcom night on PBS here, but i am sick unto death of are you being served!!! Bez i don't watch soaps either, or any network programming really, just keep it on the news and sometimes TCM classic old movies.


At the weekend I often have BBC news 24 on...it keeps me up to date with what's going in the world. I have had a bit more time to myself lately and like you, I've been watching a few old movies...can't beat them...

The infamous Reliant 3-wheeler featured in "Only Fools & Horses" was built a quarter of a mile from my house.

The factory no longer exists and these days, a housing estate is in it's place.

This is an iconic vehicle in Britcom history, although your average Joe wouldn't be seen dead in one.

Attached files

Clancy wrote: ....here's a blast from the past for you , Bez








Wolfy...come the revolution.... Thanks Clancy

Just when I'd got over it, I'm missing Nana Moon again

Uncle Kram wrote: Just when I'd got over it, I'm missing Nana Moon again


She used to crack me up when she called him 'Foxy'...

Bez wrote: I don't watch 'Soaps ' much.... they are too depressing but are do love the 'Sit Coms'.



Eastenders rarely has anything nice happening in it....i know it's supposed to reflect real life, but when on the rare occasions i sit down in front of the TV, I want to be entertained and have a laugh.



I do watch Discovery Channel. Biography Channel, National Geographic and quite a few gardening programmes and athletics, some football, Wimbledon,....blimey i sound like a telly addict


Eastenders was funny though, you don't understand, we don't get very much British TV, and what we do get is usually "period pieces" or they are old and outdated....Eastenders was somewhat current and the fun with that was connecting with others (through casual conversation....before computer was ever on my table or lap) and talking about it.:wah:

just as a silly aside...i have never seen it, but a friend of mine used to refer to Bothwell and i as "coronation street meets COPS" :wah:

I know they're not really sitcoms, but I do like Hospital series evers since i watched Emergency Ward 10 as a kid in the 1960s. Cardiac Arrest was the only comedy one I can remember. Helen Baxendale was excellent.



Others I remember:




General Hospital

Marcus Welby MD

Young Doctors

ER

Casualty

Holby CityAnyone remember any more ?

lady cop wrote: just as a silly aside...i have never seen it, but a friend of mine used to refer to Bothwell and i as "coronation street meets COPS" :wah:


Yeah "Coronation Street" is one we never got. I have been watching British since I met a friend from over there back in 1987. We have lost touch, he lived in Dulwich and had graduated from Leeds University.

When Gary & Minty are on form in EastEnders, it's as funny as anything you'd see in a sitcom

Uncle Kram wrote: When Gary & Minty are on form in EastEnders, it's as funny as anything you'd see in a sitcom


I love Minty...he's so ...lovable ??

Uncle Kram wrote: When Gary & Minty are on form in EastEnders, it's as funny as anything you'd see in a sitcom


I don't know who they are :-1



the most curent one here was Roy telling Pat he hated her ear rings and he kicked her out.:-1 lol

StupidCowboyTricks wrote: I don't know who they are :-1



the most curent one here was Roy telling Pat he hated her ear rings and he kicked her out.:-1 lol


ROL.....Roys been dead for ages but the earings survived unfortunately....

Bez wrote: ROL.....Roys been dead for ages but the earings survived unfortunately....






Before that I was waiting for Tiffney to get killed......I missed that. (becuse they would change the times they would show the Eastenders all the time)

I got satellite and didnt know hardly any of the cast and Din was just about to come back......BBC America jerked it so it's not on anymore on BBC America..........LOL

Is she really fluent in Gaellic?