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

Rewatching Dawson's Creek for the first time in 10 years and it feels like series 1 was shot on 1.5x speed because everyone is speaking faster and at a higher pitch than I remember. Still sort of enjoying it though.

I think the Thick of It is timeless, but haven't had a watch through in a couple of years.

Yes prime minister is still brilliant, I relisten to it on bbc sounds whenever it's on.
Open all hours , porridge, only fools and horses, are all great.
Rising damp , alf garnett , mrs browns boys are terrible but I thought they were they 1st time round too.

I actually caught a program this morning called “oh Dr Beeching “ from 95 about a train station , I’ve never seen it before but in one clip 2 girls were going on on their bikes and the father remarked on his girls short skirt , a neighbour poked his head out of an upstairs window asking who had a short skirt and to wait a minute while he put his glasses on to have a look , he came back with his glasses and said how he never got to see the girl in the short skirt . It was so cringy and just shows how not that long ago girls were still fair game for men to ogle at .

Till death us do part and Love thy neighbour definitely haven’t aged well

On the buses was crap at the time ..I hated it even as a kid.
Porridge was genius ..loved it.

Dinnerladies has aged beautifully

Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby is up there with any of TV and movie history's most brilliant pieces of casting. They don't write comedy like they used to, sadly.

The Thick of it was and still is absolutely brilliant and so was Veep - you never needed to know what side of the isle they were representing - both were equally awful 🤭.

Yes love the music too! I managed to find all of the DVDs years ago and recently found the soundtrack by Vonda Shepard in two different charity shops. Bought both of the CDs one for indoors and one for the car - so many great uplifting songs to sing along to.

Still relevant. The thick of it. It doesn’t matter what party is in power, I’m sure they’re all like this.
Sadly outdated (although I wish it wasn’t). Howard’s way.

Tom in The Good Life is a monster. Forever messing things up and making Barbara's life harder just because he's had a midlife crisis then flirting with Margot in front of her.

I am stunned that I ever thought he was lovely and Jerry was stuffy and boring. Jerry is just quietly being a perfect husband.

ER has aged amazingly well. The x files less so and sex and the city is still mostly great if you concentrate on the relationship of the women. Friends however is a bit irritating.

I’m currently watching the 1980’s version of A Woman Of Substance. I love that it’s sticking to the book, I don’t love the awful music and the terrible overacting.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum wouldn't work now for all sorts of reasons.

But I fell into rewatching May to December recently and found it an absolute delight - not perfect but warm and charming.

Any comedy that doesn't rely on sexist stereotypes is obvious, but I find myself flinching when I see a woman slap or throw a drink over her partner when he's being a dick 😳.

Yes Prime minister
Dad’s army
Inspector Morse (this is my comfort watch)

I used to love Mind your Language. Watching it now I’m surprised it was shown even then!

Agree. We still fall back on many of the catchphrases.

P. G. Wodehouse (an unparalleled genius in my book) wrote about a world that never really existed even when he was a young man, so Jeeves and Wooster (and Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle people) could never really date. What a genius that man was.

I think The Fast Show has aged well.

Home Improvement seems incredibly sexist and misogynistic. Some bits do make me chuckle though 😂

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.

Ally McBeal has not aged well - all that sexism and office-based power dressing looks very passe now. I do still love the music though!

I used to like coupling but I think it would get cancelled pretty fast if it was shown today - and for good reason.....

The Good Life is almost unwatchable now. Tom was supposed to be happy go-lucky, but the way he rides roughshod over Barbara’s feelings and how seedy he is towards Margot just makes it skin crawlingly awful.

Yes Minister could have been filmed yesterday (aside from the drinking in the office, and his wife reaching for a Valium because they’ve run out of cigarettes 😂😂😂)

Vicar of Dibley, To the Manor Born and Jeeves and Wooster are other favourites.