Worst British Sitcoms of all time!

[Babygirl66]

In your opinion what is the worst British sitcom of all time.

My definition of Sitcom, is a comedy that prime purpose is to be “funny”. For Example shows such as Being Human, Fleabag, my mad fat dairy, Brasic and Jonathan Creek don’t count as whilst they contain humour they are not what most would consider a sitcom as they contain to much of a serious undertone. (Not saying these are bad shows, I just see them refer to as sitcoms a lot when they technically are not)

Does anyone remember the sitcom Doctors' Daughters? It was spectacularly awful! I was a child when it was on, so must have been late 70s or early 80s. It had a really catchy theme tune that went "doctors daughters, doing what their daddies do..." and the hilarious thing was that both the young women wanted to be doctors, even as a kid I found it baffling why the idea of women doctors would be funny!

Anyone on here old enough to recall (and shudder at the memory of) Love Thy Neighbour? Vile, vile, vile - even for the time.
I don't think I like any sitcoms really, apart from magnificent The IT Crowd.

Keeping up Appearances. Funny at first but ran on for way too long.

My Family was good until Nick left and then it got repetitive. Abi and Roger were some of the worst sitcom characters I can think of, and when they brought Alfie in as the kind of "Nick replacement" I just cringed.

Never understood the appeal of Red Dwarf or Bottom either.

Are You Being Served was the one with Mrs Slocombe. I liked it as a kid but of course the smuttiness & double entendres went over my head. They’d never get away with that programme now.
I find Mrs Browns Boys very funny!

Citizen Kahn
Hold the Sunset
Koji & ?? The Brenda Blethyn one, such a shame - love Vera!

They just don't make them good anymore - only Fools, The Good Life, One Foot in the Grave etc.

The Brittas Empire.
Game on.
The Royale Family was awful.

My Hero! That weird baby!!

Any “comedy” at all, even Ab Fab with Jennifer Saunders or Dawn French. I cannot beat them as I find them very self-conscious “ooh, I’m being a funny woman in comedy”. Miranda does this too, but I find her more charming. French and Saunders really annoy me. When I lived in the UK they were wildly popular, so I may be alone in this.

I recently saw JS in The Stranger & was shocked to see she can actually act, she just can’t do comedy.

Men Behaving Badly

I don't know if we can compare 1970' sit com with current sit com. It's not a 'like for like' comparison, because of so many things - political correctness, what competition there was on TV at the time, comedy climate, etc.

Maybe if we broke it down by decade it would be easier to say - ie the worst sit com of the 60', 70's 80's etc...

Mrs Browns Bloody Boys would still make the overall shittiest shit though. But everyone is different (I love Upstart Crow, for example).

The Green Green Grass is fucking horrible

Fawlty Towers. Didn’t find it funny as a child and still can’t see anything funny in it now.

MBB. Reminds me of a neighbour. She’s not funny either.

Miranda. Nope. I am quite dour in general though and dislike slapsticky humour.

Loved The Royle Family and Early Doors.

Cuckoo
The first series was sort of OK - Greg Davis plays the dad and the daughter comes back from a gap year married to a weird hippy guy who now has to live with them. Andy Samberg was fairly funny as Cuckoo.

But in the second series, clearly Samberg wasn't interested any more so his character (the main and eponymous character!) Is written out and replaced by his "son" played by Jacob from Twilight. Cue the whole thing jumping the shark instantly in the first 5 minutes of season 2.

A quick Google tells me it's apparently now on season 5 which I find baffling

A lot of these if programs mentioned were the ones i loved as a kid.
We would watched them with our Dad and all laughed together (bonding)
I guess a lot of stuff when over my head and as pp says it was very different back then.
I've never seen MBB but my mil
Loves it.
Step toe was sad thought

Glad no ones mentioned dads army though :)

SpringQuartet Allo Allo - never watched it and always thought that the concept of a sit com set in occupied France was completely wrong

As a teen I had the same argument with my father about this show. Then I watched it. It isn't about laughing at the war/occupied France. It is actually a very clever parody of the War Film genre. Watch any of the classic war films and then watch Allo Allo. You'll get it.

Dads Army - Awful!

Mrs Browns Boys - dire

I did enjoy Friday Night Dinner but the caravan poo episode was too much.

Agreed
The first few series of that I thought were great but they've run out of storylines. Not that surprising given that there are only 5 characters, all the characters are very one dimensional and they hardly ever leave the house - there isn't much scope.

On the Buses. I really hated that programme, but my mother thought it was utterly hilarious and insisted on watching it religiously. The very fact that it springs so readily to my mind shows how my psyche was scarred by it.

Hyperdrive.

Seriously. After episode 4 my friend said wonderingly to me "I laughed once this week". I remember saying "even Miranda Thingy couldn't salvage it" and it disappeared never to return.

• and we were both part of Hyperdrive's core demographic.

I'm afraid I quite enjoyed Mrs Brown's Boys. And Citizen Khan. Didn't watch the Royle Family, watched but never laughed at The Office (to be fair I don't think we were supposed to).

@SueEllenMishke agreed. Me and DH don't mind a bit of only fools but have commented before that you wouldn't be allowed to get away with some of the things said anymore. I think that's why we like it, bit of reminiscing of the old days

'Allo 'Allo was a parody of The World At War I was told.

I never saw that, so didn't get it.

The Brittas Empire was truly shit.

I wish they'd re-run every Terry and June ever made

What was the sitcom Ronnie Corbett - featured “language Timothy” a lot? It was dire.

The World at War was a documentary voiced by Laurence Olivier. 'Allo 'Allo was a parody of Secret Army which was about the resistance in France.