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?

Way way back I can just remember Marriage Lines being on, with a very young Prunella Scales and a very young Richard Briars as two newlyweds. I imagine the series didn't survive the BBC's reuse of tapes.

Nearest and Dearest - was in black and white first then some later episodes in colour. I cried laughing at that programme with my grandma and grandad. I was 11 when it first aired.
I loved watching the
Beverley HillBillies and Mr Ed
Bless This House
Only When I Laugh
On The Buses
My wife Next Door
The Liver Birds
Man About The House

I loved the Quiz show The Golden Shot with Bob Monkhouse
Sale Of The Century
It's A Knockout
Take Your Pick
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Celebrity Squares

My parents had a teasmade. The tea tasted really, really pants which may have killed an otherwise brilliant idea. Ahhh, the 70’s. Such a cosy, comfy time. Terrible clothes, great music. Dad with at least three different colours of safari suit....

Going back to the 70s Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas with Eric and Ernie

Citizen Smith with a very very young Robert Lyndsey.

May to December

Talking Pictures TV and Forces TV run the old sitcoms. Forces is currently showing Shelley and just coming to the end of a run of Bless This House.

The Piglet Files. Nic Lyndhurst as an inept spy.

Dressing For Breakfast 90s comedy with Holly Aird (the original pathologist from Waking the Dead) and Beatie Edney.

Faith in the Future was the spin off

Second Thoughts was its predecessor

There is an episode of Shelley where he gets stitched up by a journalist and goes down to the newspaper office to have it out with them. You can see Drop the Dead Donkey coming to friution.

Shelley is funny on its own.

Agree with a PP who said social history is reflected in these sitcoms. In Shelley you can see the political backdrop of the time particularly Thatcherism in the episodes from 1988 onwards after it had taken a four year break.

Couldnt stand Terry and June.

Loved Ever Decreasing Circles though.

Peter Egan is ageing like fine wine

Have had a right laugh reading this thread! Brings back some good memories.

Does anyone remember 'Love Hurts' (90s) with Adam Faith & Zoe Wanamaker?

EngagedAgain - Making Out was the one Shirley Stelfox (Edna) was in with Margi Clarke. She was also Hyacinth Bucket's sister Rose.

I loved so many of these but as pp's have said it's more a sense of nostalgia for my childhood than them actually being good tv!

I'd forgotten Get Some In was the predecessor to Citizen Smith. I remember it despite it being on when I was 5 to 8 years old.

DD absolutely adored Tony Slattery in Just A Gigolo. She was about seven at the time!

(flashes from the archive of oblivion )

The New Statesman ?
Bless Me Father ? (with Arthur Lowe)

But Citizen Smith and Get Some in weren't related we're they or have I missed something 😊

Robert Lindsey playing Wolfie Smith/Jakey Smith were they the same fictional person?

No, Jakey Smith (Corporal Marsh: "Is that with one f or two?" Smith: "Free.") was not the same character as Wolfie Smith. They just happen both to have been played by Robert Lindsay before he hit the heights with GBH and then plumbed the depths with My Family .

That's what I thought sir

Ooh, I’ve just remembered Brush Strokes, with its Dexy’s theme tune.

I quite fancied Jacko blush

me too! Had quite the crush on him.

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I have the High Life on DVD!

I used to have a copy, sadly lost in a divorce. It was a fantastic show with a really annoying catchy theme tune!