Sitcoms 70's-90's

[Marine Boy]

Re: On The Buses or last of the summer wine

I seem to recall my family sitting down to watch On The Buses at the time, and I think I enjoyed it - though I don't have very clear memories. For Last of the Summer Wine, I'm with others here in that the Foggie and Compo years were the best.

[Richard1978]

Re: On The Buses or last of the summer wine

I was too young for OTB but have seen the films loads of times along with some TV episodes on repeats.

I first remember watching LOTSW around 1982-3 & liking it until Bill Owen died.

[Trickyvee]

Roger the lodger?

There was a sit com where the cast frequently mentioned "Roger, the lodger, the single man from next door!". Can anyone remember which sit com this was?

[amethyst]

Re: Worst TV sit Com ever.....

Keeping up appearancesdreadful

[HG]

Re: Roger the lodger?

There was a sit com where the cast frequently mentioned "Roger, the lodger, the single man from next door!". Can anyone remember which sit com this was?

There's No Place Like Home

[Moondog]

Re: Worst TV sit Com ever.....

How could I have forgot My Hero followed closely by Father Ted.

WTF Father Ted was brilliant, Black Books was Graham Linehan's only cr*p sitcom, Bill Bailey did nothing for that show.

[havasack]

Re: Worst TV sit Com ever.....

WTF Father Ted was brilliant, Black Books was Graham Linehan's only cr*p sitcom, Bill Bailey did nothing for that show.

Yet I preferred Black books to Father Ted.

Worst sitcom eh ? Loads down the years, many that only saw light of day for a series or two, but of the longer running ones that some people obviously loved and thought were great, Last of the summer wine as mentioned many times but at least I can see why it would appeal to certain people, Brush strokes on the other hand, I could never understand who would watch it.

FWIW I always viewed the vicar of dibley as just being a latter day LOTSW.

[Richard1978]

Re: Sitcoms 70's-90's

Have some threads merged here?

If anything The Vicar of Dibley was a grower on me, I wasn't sure of it at first but gradually got into it. A bit daft at times but funny.

I know we've had a full thread about sitcoms that have run for too long, LOTSW is a classic case. I really liked it for years but it was never the same after Bill Owen died.

2.4 Children & The Brittas Empire were two shows where the quality dropped a lot during their times on air.

Anyone remember Hippies? I was written by one of the writers of Father Ted, & was expected to do well, but never really clicked.

[80sChav]

Re: Worst TV sit Com ever.....

I think I recall The Upper Hand being not half as good in later Series, though still good but Slingers Day with Bruce Forsyth was great for it's era I thought and I found Bruce amazing in it - though generally i'm far from a fan of anything he does, it was novel for the 1980s I found. I don't know what other members think to Lov by Carla Lane? I thought it was quite good for the 2 Series it ran though admitted it was poor in parts. It never got going totally I felt because it was next after Bread in Carla's work and was no easy feat to create another good comedy but given time it would of been a great comedy I feel. I liked Michael Angaliss in it as I have every piece of work I've watched with Michael in.

[Richard1978]

Re: Sitcoms 70's-90's

I can remember Lov was a bit hit & miss, some nice ideas but somehow it didn't quite gel as well as it could have.