What Are Televisions Greatest Sitcoms?

[M. Robert Gibson]

In 2004 there was poll to find the greatest British sitcoms

Top 50 TV Sitcoms - British Comedy Guide

A list of the best British comedy Sitcoms on TV.

www.comedy.co.uk

Can't argue with the top spots, although obviously I'd have Fawlty Towers at number 1

 

[paranoid marvin]

Watching.

A tv series fondly remembered by those who, err... remember it. Shy birdwatcher meets extrovert Liverpudlian, and they - somehow - hit it off (most of the time). Probably best rembered for the catchy theme tune.

Rentaghost

Hit kids tv show back in the day. Quite a change part way through the run when it became much more of a pantomime. But I thought it was brilliant, and another very catchy theme tune.

Both series available on Youtube

 

[BAYLOR]

In 2004 there was poll to find the greatest British sitcoms

Top 50 TV Sitcoms - British Comedy Guide

A list of the best British comedy Sitcoms on TV.

www.comedy.co.uk

Can't argue with the top spots, although obviously I'd have Fawlty Towers at number 1

Ive seen a few of those shows.

 

[BAYLOR]

Make Room For Danny staring Danny Thomas was a pretty good series . This one also had crossover episode in which Lucy and Ricki Ricardo showed up for an episode. .

The Andy Griffith Show I s a show rewatch over and over again . This show was a spinoff of The Dany Thomas Show and it in turn had a spinoff Gomer Pyle USMC with Jim Neighbors .

 

[farntfar]

Watching.

I hadn't thought of watching in ages.
I loved it.

 

[Vladd67]

Coupling had its moments, the original British one that is not the US remake.

 

[BAYLOR]

One Day At A Time

 

[CrazyKB]

All in the family
Seinfeld
The Jeffersons
Trailer Park Boys
(old) The Simpsons
South Park

 

[BAYLOR]

All that Glitters a Norman Lear A 1977 gender role comedy tv series . It ran for 65 episodes in syndication.

 

[CupofJoe]

The Likely Lads and Whatever happened to the Likely Lads - Consistently good writing.
Admittedly the language and attitudes have moved on a bit in the last 50 years.

 

[Danny McG]

 

[Pyan]

The Good Life
Yes, Minister/Prime Minister
Detectorists
All the Blackadders apart from S1
Fawlty Towers

 

[paranoid marvin]

Anyone remember Chelmsford 123? Rory Mcgrath in a very funny laddish comedy. All available through the gift of YouTube.

 

[farntfar]

A couple more good ones thatdon't think anyone has mentioned

Shelley
and
Citizen Smith

 

[Pyan]

...Citizen Smith

I remember Woolfy and the Tooting Popular Front! "Power to the People!" "Freedom for Tooting!".

 

[paranoid marvin]

I remember Woolfy and the Tooting Popular Front! "Power to the People!" "Freedom for Tooting!".

A lot of sitcoms from this era revolve around unions, dinner parties and the class divide, things many younger viewers would have very little concept of

 

[BAYLOR]

A lot of sitcoms from this era revolve around unions, dinner parties and the class divide, things many younger viewers would have very little concept of

You see that sort of thing Are You Being Served . With the character Mr Mr Bert in his interactions with people like Captain Peacock who in management

 

[farntfar]

Nobody's mentioned the IT Crowd yet, have they.

 

[Ursa major]

Nobody's mentioned the IT Crowd yet, have they.

That's only because Jen still has the box containing the Internet.

 

[BAYLOR]

Welcome Back Kotter with a young John Travolta at the start of his career. It was terrific sitcom.