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

Black Adder
Father Ted
Red Dwarf

all still fab 😃

I don't recommend the books, I got a couple of chapters in to the first one before giving up - it's horrifically out-dated and he is a completely unlikeable sleeze.

Yy to fast show, also harry Enfield- Kevin the teenager will never age! Also some of the 90’s comedy shows like Newman and Baddiel, Mary White House experience, punt and Dennis I still like to rewatch.

er yes. But also St Elsewhere- yes it’s aged, but in a good way. Fascinating to see almost historical medicine, patients refusing black doctors, the stigma around HIV and AIDS, and how far medicine has come.

That's because It's BRILLIANT!

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Father Ted is on Channel 4 app.

I think Seinfeld has aged perfectly, for they were horrible people from the beginning - they're just even more horrible now.

I'm watching The Twilight Zone (1959!!!) and if we forget about the lack of diversity, it's surprisingly watchable.

Blackadder and Father Ted are still great. Still also love old Sherlock Holmes’s, Miss Marple and Poirot.
l use to watch Father Ted on the channel 4 app. But I also still have DVD’s.

It's unbearably sexist at times but yes, it's also like a parallel universe now. It was a little idealistic in the late 90s but now seems incredibly naive.

I also love Kerry Weaver in ER now. As a teenager I thought she was sooo annoying but now I totally get her frustration at trying to make everything more efficient and everyone hating you!

Samantha is my favourite character by far now. She is also very kind (in a no nonsense way) and a really good friend. I love the episode when she gives new mum Miranda her hair appointment and looks after Brady.

Absolutely love Samantha on SATC. She was very ahead of her time. I’m try. I’ll try anything once 😅

I love The Royale Family and watch it regularly on iPlayer. I long to return to those days. Some of what Jim says can be a bit risky. He was mean to Antony (lurch).

Right! Less sexist than the other guys but yes there are some fairly ooh that's not ok moments with CJ. I can't quite remember them clearly but I noticed last rewatch.

Oh I don’t think Morse had aged at all well, in fact I found it almost unwatchable. I remembered him as a gruff rather avuncular man who women seemingly find attractive but on rewatching recently he’s a total sleaze. When the new female pathologist joins the team and he asks her out… she’s about 30 years younger and he is not gracious about her gentle rebuff at all. I think he has a dodgy relationship with a witness or someone linked to the case in almost every episode.

Agree re Men Behaving Badly. I recently started rewatching it from the start and found series 1, where Harry Enfield was Martin Clunes' flat mate, really quite sweet and funny. But roll on series 2 where Neil Morrisey joins and it comes into its sexist own. There's an episode midway through that was really homophobic too and I admitted defeat at that point.

Love inspector morse and it’s my comfort watch too but Morse making a pass at all the female witnesses is a bit cringe.

I couldn't disagree more! We have had a WW marathon and have just a few episodes to go. I don't think it's a question of aging badly but of wishing that we were in its a time of moral earnestness, when intellect and language matter and of course imagining what a president could be in the fact of the loathsome specimen that's in the White House today. And so many of the issues, Gaza, immigration etc are all too topical some 20 years on.

That’s another of my comfort shows, The Royle Family.
It makes me feel so warm and happy, and nostalgic for those late 90s/early 00’s days.

Yew Minister is every bit as relevant and funny as it ever was. Even the sexist lines such as 'Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she has big tits'. It ain't half hot mum was one I was disappointed to rewatch and felt it aged badly.

The Royle Family. A piece of genius that’s never aged, still just as brilliant as it was the day it was made,

I couldn’t watch the thick of it until I’d left Whitehall - it felt like a documentary!

The last blackadder episode will always be relevant, unfortunately.

It’s both reassuring and depressing that Yes minister remains so completely relevant. Genius writing.

Even Mr Bean is a bit questionable. I was watching one last night as my little girl loves it. In the swimming pool one he end up flashing a group of school girls, and in the school open day he uses static to make a girl's skirt go up to reveal her knickers, which is meant to be hilarious. I'm sure if it was made now it would be different.

But most of those that haven’t aged well were also shit at the time. Either unfunny like Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coupling etc or plainly full of racist/homophobic/etc shit like Little Britain. I grew up watching presenters and characters on kids TV who were disabled or from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds and then along came Little Britain and it was completely obviously for people who still wished it was the 70s with blatant mockery of disabled people, black people, Asian people and women of all types. Load of crap.

Except he bought that house when he was on less than eighteen and a half grand a year.