hi
there has been an ongoing poll to find the top ten sitcoms of all time in the uk. it took over ten weeks.

the top ten was announced last night

here they are:

1. ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
2. BLACKADDER
3. THE VICAR OF DIBLEY
4. DAD'S ARMY
5. FAWLTY TOWERS (my fav)
6. YES MINISTER
7. PORRIDGE
8. OPEN ALL HOURS
9. THE GOOD LIFE
10. ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

not the order i would have chosen

do you agree with the list? what would of been your top ten?

1. Joking Apart
2. Blackadder (though probably only the first two series, possibly the fourth)
3. Red Dwarf (only the first six series)
4. The High Life
5. Fawlty Towers
6. Ever Decreasing Circles
7. One Foot In The Grave
8. The Book Group
9. Porridge
10. Yes Minister

Shows I would include that weren't on the list include
1. Are You Being Served?
2. Red Dwarf
3. Allo, Allo
4. Grace and Favour (Are You Being Served? Again)

Got to add Worst Week Of My Life to my list somewhere I think. It's terrific! :)



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I haven't seen everything on that list, and a couple surprise me. Is "Open All Hours" the other Ronnie Barker show, where his son is that guy who played a detective as well as the father on that family show with Catherine Zeta Jones. If so, I liked that one. here is my list.

Fawlty Towers
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Are You Being Served (early seasons, went from a very good show to a very bad one in my opinion)
One Foot in the Grave
Waiting for God
On the Buses (shallow stuff I know, but hey)
Absolutely Fabulous
Rising Damp
Butterflies

Things like Mr.Bean, Two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Monty Python obviously aren't sitcoms, although Mr.Bean is a recurring character and some of his episodes (skits) are a half hour. If so, put Mr.Bean in.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mickey
[B]Got to add Worst Week Of My Life to my list somewhere I think. It's terrific! :)

i agree best thing on tv for quite a while :)

Originally posted by Steve's Roadhouse
I haven't seen everything on that list, and a couple surprise me. Is "Open All Hours" the other Ronnie Barker show, where his son is that guy who played a detective as well as the father on that family show with Catherine Zeta Jones. If so, I liked that one. here is my list.

Fawlty Towers
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Are You Being Served (early seasons, went from a very good show to a very bad one in my opinion)
One Foot in the Grave
Waiting for God
On the Buses (shallow stuff I know, but hey)
Absolutely Fabulous
Rising Damp
Butterflies

Things like Mr.Bean, Two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Monty Python obviously aren't sitcoms, although Mr.Bean is a recurring character and some of his episodes (skits) are a half hour. If so, put Mr.Bean in.


i agree with you about 'are you being served' it became how stupid can we make Mr. Humpries look this week :)

Mr.bean,The Two Ronnies etc were sketch shows not regarded as sitcoms.

'The darling buds of may' was the Cathrine Zeta Jones one,popular in the UK, i wasn't into it myself.

1. Blackadder
2. OFaH
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Dad's Army
5. Red Dwarf

I think Blackadder wins by far though. (Apart from the first series)

Yes, Absolutely Fabulous DEFINATELY needs to be there!

Originally posted by RF
2. BLACKADDER

Aah, and to think, I could've had my username as Three Fingered Pete... :(

Originally posted by Aardvark
Aah, and to think, I could've had my username as Three Fingered Pete... :(

haha it's never too late to change. go email the moderator, Three Fingered Pete ;).

Originally posted by DianeDiane
haha it's never too late to change. go email the moderator, Three Fingered Pete ;).

Wha- I can do that?

...

I mean... Yes! Of course! I knew that!

I was of course, going to do that anyway... Aha... Yeah...


Who's the moderator?

I would try sending a private message to "TJ" or "JethroSimpson" - the two names that appear at the top of this forum....next to the word "moderators"...but of course you knew that too ;)

cheers to your rebirth, Three Fingered Pete.

Just when I think I've gotten my list down to ten, I think of another one to add; therefore, excluding "Monty Python," but where does that leave "The Goodies," here are, if not the best, then the funniest Britcoms, that I have seen.

Allo, Allo
Are You Being Served?
Blackadder
Doctor in the House
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Keeping Up Appearances
My Hero
On the Buses
Rising Damp
Up Pompeii

I will post a few of mine.

OF course at the top is

Jeeves and Wooster. great acting and photog nothing better


The Vicar of Dibley Girl Power
Rising Damp quirky but hard to break away from
Are you being served the 70's meet the 80's
Black Adder more fry and laurie
Keeping Up Appearances one can get to much of Mrs Bucket

Hi I am new here. This looks like a fun site. My favorite Britcoms are
Keeping up appearances
One foot in the grave
Abfab
As time goes by
Vicar of Dibley
Faulty towers
My family.
I was suprised to see that keeping up appearances did not make the list of top ten.

You know. The first couple times I watched Keeping Up Appearances, I thought it was hilarious. All the characters are great. I just find that every episode is so similar. The same jokes over and over. Still fun stuff though. Maybe I should watch again. It's been awhile.

I am just amazed that Jeeves and Wooster didn't show up. I have never seen anything better.

J&W isn't a sitcom. It's a comedy-drama. Likewise something like You Rang M'Lord. A sitcom is generally the half hour format. I agree, though, J&W was excellent. Bizarrely one of many wonderful shows that were never repeated in the UK. Nobody really seems to know why. It was so good to see it all again when the DVDs came out.

Well....now that you mention it. Jevees and wooster is not a sitcom.
Thanks

Every episode of “Are You Being Served?” that I have watched so far has made me laugh so hard.

(Mr. Humpheries): “Glass of water for Mr. Grainger!”

(Mr. Humpheries, deep voice, sounds like Captain Peacock's): “Menswear.”

And in case anyone is wondering about the exact spelling of Mrs. Slocombe's last name, it's spelled S-L-O-C-O-M-B-E even though some episodes that are closed captioned either spell it as “Slocum” or “Slokum”.

(Mr. Grace): “You've all done very well!”
(All): “Thank you, Mr. Grace!”

--

Mike, who is starting to sound/act like Mr. Rumbold

I forgot to add...

Wasn't “Rumpole of the Bailey” (I think that was the title) a British sitcom?

--

Mike

I vote for

Keeping Up Appearances

Last Of The Summer Wine

AYBS? and AYBS? Again

The Goode Neighbors

Solo (with the Good Neighbors' Barbara in it)

Butterfly

AbFab

Chef (I just found this one. I like Lenny Henry!)

How could those shows not be on the list?!! Especially Nighty Night. I guess it's sort of new, but it's a total obsession for me.
Has anyone else seen it on Oxygen, friday nights at 11pm ET? The season finale is next Friday!!!

http://www.oxygen.com/nightynight/

I have a feeling it's going to be bigger than The Office, which is also brilliant and should also be on the list. How about this, what are your top RECENT Britcoms?!

no Coupling?

WTF?!


I don't know about the rest of my version of that list, but I'd put The Young Ones right at the top. In fact, I'd put it at the top of the entire English-speaking sticoms list!


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Are You Being Served? The only number ons show of all time in England.

I'm really still compiling my own collection so some of these are unknown to me. Fawlt is awesome, hard to top, I'll need to familiarize myself with those above it, besides Vicar which IU love, but wouldn't have put above Fawlty myself.
Is Bottom not a SitCom proper? it's my favorite, at least right now, Rik and Ade are about as good as it gets at physical comedy, Rik must have spent many an hour studying his own face, he does a million things with it.


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1. ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
2. BLACKADDER
3. THE VICAR OF DIBLEY
4. DAD'S ARMY
5. FAWLTY TOWERS (my fav)
6. YES MINISTER
7. PORRIDGE
8. OPEN ALL HOURS
9. THE GOOD LIFE
10. ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

One glaring omission has to be "To The Manor Born." Great sitcom; Penelope Keith was perfect as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
I caught a few episodes on local PBS station in the mid-80s....then haven't seen it again since I saw the box set at Best Buy.

Absolutely Fabulous (my fave by far)

And the rest in some, but not entirely fixed order:

Black Adder
Keeping up Appearences
One Foot in the Grave
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
Vicar of Dibley

I am VERY new here, and must be older than the lot of you, because my top 10 would have to include "Doctor in the House." That has to be one of the funniest shows I've ever seen, bar none.

After 1-3, my favorites are in no particular order. I love them all.

1. Fawlty Towers
2. Blackadder (including The Cavalier Years, Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Back & Forth)
3. Doctor in the House
3. Father Ted
4. Vicar of Dibley
5. The Good Neighbors
6. To the Manor Born
7. Chef
8. Yes, Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister)
9. One Foot in the Grave
10. As Time Goes By

I haven't got ten,here are mine...

Bread
The Brittas Empire
Black Adder
Mr Bean
Love Thy Neighbour
Dont rock the boat
Fawlty Towers
Some mothers do 'ave 'em

I don't quite have 10 but here my list:
1. Mr. Bean
2. Keeping Up Apperances
3. Are You Being Served?
4. Vicar of Dibly
5. Thin Blue Line
6. Monty Python
7. One Foot In The Grave
8. Fowlty Towers
9. Father Ted

1. yes minister (very clever plots and great writing)
2. good neighbors (i enjoyed this show very much, and the cast was great)
3. rising damp (i only have one of these taped, wish i had more)
4. butterflies (another show i miss seeing on pbs)
5. one foot in the grave (they dont even carry this one anymore here in iowa:( )


i personally didnt care for many of the newer britcoms imported to the states. dibley, i just didnt like at all. and as time goes by, keeping up appearances, were very one dimensional i felt. i wish they had a better selection of oldies on bbc america also. its about the same as ive been seeing on pbs here for many yrs.:(

In no particular order:

Spaced
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
Vicar of Dibley
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Fawlty Towers
Home to Roost
Father Ted
One Foot in the Grave

Okay, 2 and a half years later, I've got a new list. I hadn't even heard of Only Fools and Horses then (now seen up to 1989) and I've added Open All Hours (classic) and The Office (haven't seen the US version, never will).


Fawlty Towers
Only Fools and Horses
Open all Hours
One Foot in the Grave
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
The Office
On the Buses
Rising Damp
Butterflies

okay, here's my top ten Brit comedies (in no particular order) based on stuff that I have watched over the years:

Fawlty Towers
Absolutely Fabulous
Are You Being Served? and Grace & Favor
Keeping Up Appearances
Mr. Bean
Vicar Of Dibley
Coupling
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Having It Off
Murder Most Horrid

honorable mention:

Upper Hand
Agony Again :)

My top five are:

1. Are You Being Served?
2. Keeping Up Appearances
3. My Family
4. Coupling
5. As Time Goes By

No-one has mentioned George & Mildred? A classic :lol:

1/ Are You Being Served?
2/ George and Mildrid
3/ The Vicar of Dibley
4/ Man About The House
5/ AbFab
6/ On The Buses
7/ Jam & Jerusalem (Clatterford)
8/ Murder Most Horrid
9/ Bless This House
10/ The Liver Birds

I can agree with all of you, but one of my favs hasn't been mentioned.... I have gotten hooked on the new show on BBC America "Not Going Out" Dunno if that new one will ever make anyone's top ten, but maybe if it has a long enough run.... I think it has top ten potential.

Coupling (the first three seasons at least) are a guilty pleasure.

I miss The Vicar of Dibley and Black Adder.... thank God for TV online and DVD.

BTW I think Britcoms have anything we are producing here in the U.S. hands down. We used to have fun sitcoms, but lately they seem to lack originality. IMHO

AB FAB
The Vicar of Dibley
To the manor born
Fawlty Towers
Coupling
Are you being served
Keeping up appearances
The Catherine Tate Show
Last of the Summer Wine
As time goes by