Terry and June and other sitcoms in similar genre

[Charley1988]

I used to love this program and felt that this was the template for sitcoms if it's time and everything else was a variation on a theme - anyone remember the sitcom with Judi Dench playing opposite her real life husband - i think she sang the theme tune (before this became a joke in Littelt Britain) . Am I BU in being nostalgic for the days of this kind of TV - do you think these kind of progs would seem a bit dated now?

I do not like Reeves and Mortimer humour at all

Am I the only person who has picked up on someone saying upthread that they didn't find "A Bouquet of Barbed Wire" very funny ????

So did I mama.

I’m late to the party but does anyone remember the Rag Trade?I’m sure Cathy from Eastenders was in it IIRC, also Take a letter Mr Jones with John Inman who was the male secretary to Rula Lenska I think.

I just watched the opening credits of Life Without George on YouTube - it's heartbreaking with a beautiful theme tune.

I wonder if they were getting confused with Mrs Bouquet in Keeping up Appearances? Bouquet of Barbed Wire was about incest and wife beating wasn’t it? certainly not a comedy!

Watching! Thanks to the poster who mentioned that because I couldn't think of the name and wondered if anyone else would get a reference to a scouser with big hair (I could be talking about myself there!).

Butterflies - we loved the t-shirts they used to wear at the dinner table, particularly the one that said idiot with an arrow pointing at the person next to you.

Bread - greetings - oh my word, the first Joey was way better. I don't know why, because if you met someone IRL that dressed entirely in leather with a vintage Jag you'd think differently.

I saw a few minutes of a black and white version of Bless this House recently, and while Sid James was coming out with some sexist remarks his wife was effortlessly bashing each one down! I don't think Love Thy Neighbour will be repeated but I'd like to see one because from what I remember, the racist never won/was always wrong and the wives got on well. I could have entirely the wrong memory of it though.

The one with Joe McGann and Honor Blackman as well - The Upper Hand.

Mixed Blessings about a mixed marriage couple with both families disapproving of them bring married to each other, the guy from That’s My Boy played the lead man, The only thing I can really remember about it was the theme tune.

I’m late to the party but does anyone remember the Rag Trade?I’m sure Cathy from Eastenders was in it

She was indeed. Miriam Karlin was the lead, and she was also in another long forgotten sitcom - So Haunt Me. A downsizing family discovered their house was haunted by an old Jewish woman

Oh yes The Upper Hand! I so wanted Caroline’s Barn conversion and glam life style when I was young!

I think most of,the comedies went over my head as I was a child in the 70s. Could sing all the theme tunes - very sad😊

Had to google the one Michael Elphick was in - three up, two down - already mentioned I think.

I loved Terry and June, Reginald Perrin and Fawlty Towers growing up. Later on I remember enjoying Men behaving Badly and an obscure one called “is it legal”, about a solicitors office. Modern comedies - Motherland, warren and W1a have all had me cackling recently.

I also wanted to live in ‘Dalantrace’

Was the Rag Trade a Sunday night one about women in a factory who kept striking? "everybody ahhhht" ???

Bouquet of Barbed Wire was the first programme with sex in it I ever watched Frank Finlay and his awful daughter Prue and his wife boffing dead Prue's husband Gavin. It was a baptism of fire for sure lol

Another obscure one - On The Up (Dennis Waterman). Just the one, Mrs Wembley?

I’m very sad Eggsy I use that phrase when someone offers me a drink!

Didn't To The Manor Born have virtually the same theme tune as Yes Minister? I think they were written by the same people.

A bit later but I loved 2.4 Children and The Brittas Empire. I love the early 90s cosiness of the houses in Keeping Up Appearances and One Foot in the Grave, remind me of my grandma's house.

Rag Trade - all out, sisters!

I still use the Mrs Wembley line too!

2.4 children, forgotten about that one. I will be searching the TV channels for some of these

I saw Allo Allo on the stage too, just the same as the TV show and Herr Flick can really play the violin!

I walk by the houses of The Good Life most days,
Hillingdon not Surbiton.

Yes I know it Paddington

I haven't RTFT but I sincerely hope the best one of all time has been mentioned.
Fawlty Towers. I have cried watching it. Genius.

My uncle owned Margot and Jerry's house.

Shelley, starring Hywel Bennett, was great. And I'm glad someone mentioned Didn't Know You Cared, I really liked it.