50 great british sit coms

[mutanthalibut]

Surely voting for something that isn't your favourite IS wasting a vote?

[mutanthalibut]

Thanks for that.

[steve56]

dont wait up/sorry werent mentioned at all.

[The Last Word]

I imagine by British they meant created by a British production comp. and broadcast widely across the Isles. Something like that, anyway - I didn't see it or intend to.

However, if long-running sit-coms enjoyed by millions are to the fore, I'd be interested to see where The Royal Family are ranked (and that's not a misprint, by the way).

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[jeffhaskeft]

there were quite a few not mentioned i just can't remember them.
what was that one called that stared tim thingy from the goodies called?
he played golf alot

[steve56]

hi jeff,tim-brooke taylor,python wasnt mentioned either was it?or chance in a million.

[Pervert]

Python wouldn't be there since it wasn't a sit-com. Chance wasn't there, nor was the under-rated Only When I Laugh or Surgical Spirit.

There was a fleeting glimpse of the truly outrageous and unfunny On The Buses and Love Thy Neighbour, plus the rather cheesy (but you couldn't help envying Richard O'Sullivan) Man About The House.

Most of the really successful ones depend on a strong central character. Sybil, Polly and Manuel were all fine, but it needed Basil to make the Towers truly Fawlty. Fletch, Del Boy, Edmund, Victor, Sir Humphrey, Arkwright etc all prove this.

[Bob Singleton]

steve56 wrote:

> dont wait up/sorry werent mentioned at all.
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That's because they didn't make it to the top 50!!! And rightly so in my opinion.

I like 9 out of the top 10 (never took to Open All Hours), and am going to find it difficult which one to choose...

My top 5? Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life and Dad's Army. In the end, probably because it gives us such a brilliant insight into how government works, was superbly scripted and had a wonderful trio of actors I think I'm going to go for Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister.

A few favourites that didn't make the top 10 (first one didn't even make the top 50) were Hot Metal, The Likely Lads, Phoenix Nights and Men Behaving Badly.

[Pervert]

Yeah, Hot Metal and Whoops Apocalypse were criminally overlooked.

The latter had a lot going for it: David Kelly's Abdab (constantly blindfolded), Barry Morse as US President Johnny Cyclops, Richard Griffiths as the Soviet premier who kept dying and being replaced by a lookalike ("Russia is a great country," "We have a sworn testimonial here from person who says he likes living in Russia . . . . and signed statements from his friends and family saying he was not coerced into making the statement"), Peter Jones as a Jim Callaghan/Roy Jenkins type British PM who thought he was Superman, early appearances by Alexei Sayle and Rik Mayall (Biff, singing the campaign song, "Johnny, Johnny Cyclops, never started world war three . . ."), and best of all John Barron as the President's adviser Deacon ("If the good lord had meant us not to panic, eh'd never have given us incontinence pants").

[steve56]

pheonix nights yes i agree,and fawlty towers,brush strokes wasnt in the top 50 nor was dear john.