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

Everyone?
All Brits?

Might be the reason why people all over the world dislike British people.

Yes we should. It’s what the British have always done.

I remember On the Buses got repeated initially in the 90s and I was braced for it being like an extended party political for the NF but I was pleasantly relieved there wasn't as much racism as id expected. Maybe they just didn't show the worst episodes.

The film versions of it are absolutely horrendous though, particularly how they treat Olive. She's sexually assaulted in a swimming pool at one point in the holiday camp and the sitcom has been repeated more recently and she's just bullied like hell. Poor Anna Karen died quite recently in a fire. Used to work as an exotic dancer with Barbara Windsor.

ITV3 are now doing their bank holidays Thing of rerunning ancient Carry Ons and the film version of steptoe. Within the first 5 minutes Albert has tried to poach neighbours chickens and Harold has just been jumped on by Diana Dors next to the dead body of her husband. OKAAAAAY!

I'm mainly sticking with it for when Yootha Joyce turned up

Aside from the many, many issues with On The Buses, it was pure nastiness how appallingly Olive was treated throughout - when she was actually one of the nicer characters, yet still shamed for nothing more than her plain looks.

Blakey was a deeply unpleasant chatacter, yet because he was a man, he was always treated by Stan and Jack with a kind of respectful friendly rivalry; yet Olive was shown no mercy at all and horribly abused for being a woman who dared not to be stunningly beautiful. Their mum was also treated dismissively and as nothing more than a 'service person', but because she was old, she at least was never judged for her looks.

Yes, we should still be allowed to take the piss out of accents etc

Currently watching 'George and MIldred' love the gentle humour and easy going story lines.

But we were so much happier , maybe because we just took things as they were not trying to find fault like discrimination, sexism etc in everything we see.

But we were so much happier , maybe because we just took things as they were not trying to find fault like discrimination, sexism etc in everything we see.

What about In The Thick Of It? I've not rewatched it, but I had to stop watching it when it was first out because it was a bit too real and made me feel uncomfortable about my politics adjacent role. I expect it probably looks pretty tame now given recent events.

YABU for posting this in AIBU section and for not saying at the start what type of programmes you mean. Didnt expect this to be about TV shows.

I know many of us of a certain age will gushing about how amazing Only Fools and Horses was; but there was a lot about it that was problematic and hasn't aged well at all. I think there's a good reason why it's never really shown on the main BBC channels anymore.

I also wonder if it may end up removed from the streaming services too 'at some point', if any of the rumours about one of the main actors turn out to be proven as true.

Aside from that, it's always annoyed me that OFAH flooded the schedules from the start as UK-wide entertainment, whilst the peerless Still Game was largely dismissed as 'Scottish interest' only. I'm from the English Midlands, so culturally no closer to a Cockney than a Weegie; yet I can still love SG for the unparalleled comedic genius that it was (whilst I've never found OFAH any more than smile-worthy, myself).

For what it's worth, I always thought that Dear John (also written by John Sullivan) was far, far superior to OFAH; but that too is very dated now and would never be made these days.

Completely agree about The Good Life.

I absolutely love Fawlty Towers, always did, always will, but I suspect some people would struggle with some of it now.

We are currently watching The Sweeney (recorded from Talking Pictures, channel 82 on Freeview) and absolutely revelling in it. It's distilled essence of the 1970s as far as I'm concerned. I never really got into Morse, and one of the reasons was that John Thaw was and always will be Jack Regan for me. I wouldn't say it's aged well, because many people younger than me would have conniptions at some of the dialogue, and the sexism is off the scale. My husband has a virtual bingo card for each episode and calls out every sighting of a fag, a Jag, a lag and a slag. Usually a good few of all of them every single time.

League of Gentlemen was always quite an uncomfortable watch but I don’t think it would get made now. The stuff with the German exchange teacher was horrible.

What programmes that you loved have surprised you on rewatching?

I've just finished the first series of This Life and was surprised at how well it has aged for the most part (but so much smoking!). It was refreshing to see people with imperfect teeth and pubic hair and wobbly bums living in a grotty house share past their early 20s. I'm re-living my youth with the music too.

But Coupling! Oof! I remember it being really good but some clips I've seen (like making sex videos without consent and the way women are talked about) demonstrate exactly why I've never seen any re-runs.