Programmes that have aged poorly and programmes that have aged well?

@localnotail My favourite Alan Partridge is his leaving party at the hotel when the head receptionist loses it with him.
All the pent up anger of 6months coming out in a few seconds.

The only rude, angry person on this thread is you. Think what you like. Pick a fight with someone else 👍

Are you always this rude?

What is your experience?

I am English. I don't take "Brits abrod" style holidays, and I have always been made to feel welcome wherever I have travelled. I am respectful of local customs, eat in local restaurants and support the local economy wherever I go.

Please don't tar all English people with the same brush. Maybe the common denominator is you.

Loved this at the time because the Wendy Craig character was very much not my mum, though I wished she was.
I also remember an earlier Wendy Craig series where she played the part of a Nanny and would go to different grand houses.
its frustrated me for many years that I can’t find it online anywhere

Thunderbirds!

In many ways, it is still amazing. It has some signs of the 1960s; very male-oriented, with women more often damsels in distress (or bad drivers, a point specifically discussed in one episode: “you didn’t say whether the driver that caused that huge fire was male or female!”). But the storytelling and visuals are still great, considering it was all filmed with models, long before any CGI. It’s also interesting to watch what kind of technology it predicted for the 2020s.

I remember loving the theme tune to it. I saw it a few times but was a bit too young to understand what it was about.

Probably showing my age now but does anyone remember Butterflies with Wendy Craig?

I remember watching that as a child and wondering if this was what married life was like? It's full of 70s attitudes but I loved the stoic absurdity of Craig's dysfunctional character who can't cook being caught up in being a traditional wife role and having two grown (sexist) sons and a (old school) husband to deal with. It was written by a woman so it was wonderfully perceptive and human and feminist without being in-yer-face 'I hate men' feminism.

Maybe Im missing something here, yes its true that some older shows were problematic, racism, sexism, women in suspenders being chased by men etc
Fast forward to 21st century offerings and we have the F word (and others) thrown around like confetti, graphic and gratuitous scenes of violence and murder, and explicit, virtually naked graphic sexual scenes etc.
So who is saying this is more acceptable than the old stuff?

In your opinion. I find them just as funny as I did as a child when they were first released.

I doubt that the people who were the brunt of the jokes were so much happier.
Making fun of people.who are different from you, have less power, and are more vulnerable is not funny and nor should it be

Tasha Yar, chief of security - though she never had enough to do and left the show because of it. I really loved Dr Pulaski’s character though. Tough and non simpering. Could probably drink Worf under the table.

The Golden Girls has aged well but with that cast it could hardly not.

I agree dinner ladies will never age . Victoria Wood was a genius

Carry on abroad and carry on Matron are not in least funny , unless you think it's funny to make fun of foreigners and pregnant women.
They weren't funny at the time and they are even less funny now!

Shooting Stars in the 90s with Vic Reeves perving over Ulrika Jonsson

Red Dwarf has gone from “aged well” to “current politics” 🤣

https://www.reddit.com/r/GreatBritishMemes/comments/1qh9p6y/kryten_explains_trumps_foreign_policy/

I still love The League of Gentlemen - its hilarious. The other shows I think are timeless:
All Alan Partrtidge ones (especially when he was living in a hotel)
Royale Family
Dinner Ladies
The Fast Show (love it!)
Ab Fab
Mighty Boosh - I find them hilarious

I love British comedy from the early 2000s

I agree that Little Britain did not age well, I get the idea behind its offensiveness (as its supposedly mocking the racist/ ableist/ homophobic characters and goes for the shock) but I was surprised even then it was aired. Though it was a time when comics were allowed to say unbelievable offensive shit under the guise of being "ironic" - while not being actually ironic.

Dorothy would be starting an AIBU thread if she were real with 90%+ telling her to leave him

No I haven’t 🤣

Oh god yes, I watched men behaving badly recently, and the whole time I was screaming at Dorothy to just leave him to rot and go live her life! So depressing.

No, you have judged every English person, you are guilty of the same thing that you are pointing fingers about.

I've recently re-watched the old Inspector Lynley mysteries (iPlayer). They've stood up well with great characters and acting and not gory.
The sexism that Barbara faces working in the police is probably a tiny fraction of what actually happened in the 90s/00s. I've been watching them with my 16yo DD so we've had some good discussions.

My mum had a pretty spot on radar for what she'd call inappropriate programs so TV was highly censored if she was about. I appreciate it now, but didn't at the time. I wasn't allowed to watch Friends as a young teen- but having watched it subsequently, it is definitely of it's time.

Frasier, Blackadder and MASH are ok. Star Trek, re-runs of Randall and Hopkirk and Hancock's Half Hour were dinner time viewing. And Dad's Army is still a classic. The one where they all try to look younger still has me in stitches.

Just telling my experience. Read better.

Gosh, xenophobia is never far below the surface, is it? Do better.

As pointed out on Reddit, Regan/Thaw was barely in his 30s and Dennis Waterman was 26 but they sound soooo old

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldbritishtelly/comments/1scdocf/this_is_what_a_32_year_old_and_a_26_year_old/

There was definitely a lot of retconning of Morse for Endeavour. I remember Morse with him snappily referring to "Women's libbers" with the female pathologist Grayling is introduced but in the 60s version in endeavour he's the height of emotionally aware wounded hero

Weird though isnt it, that despite the horrors of English people, every fucker and his dog wants to be here!!