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?

ssd wasn't Mary Mungo and Midge a pre-school children's cartoon?

Oh my word, I’ve just discovered there’s an Allo, Allo Officer Crabtree phrase book. Now we can all spook Fronch just lick him!
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Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam

Faith in the Future

I loved Butterflies and Bread. Original Joey was soooo sexy to teenage me!
My favourite was 'just good friends', but I remember thinking at the time that Penny deserved do much better than weak, pathetic, flaky Vince. Them getting married in the end wasn't a happy ending imo.

I'd forgotten 'that's love'. I remember one episode where they are discussing how many sexual partners each of them had pre marriage and she lies to make hers less. Think she said 7 instead of 15. Old sitcoms are a great tracker of social history.

Bread was great, Carla Lane wrote very real comedy. I loved Jean Boht as Ma Boswell and was delighted to meet her a few years ago when DH did some work for her husband. She seemed a right old hippy so was right up my street.

LIlo Lil “that tart” used to make me laugh.

Richard Wilson has a drama school accent - he's from a working class Greenock family. Scottish accents weren't really acceptable (unless playing drunks or highland heroes!) until relatively recently.

I'm hooked on a seventies day time series showing currently on Talking Pictures. It's Rooms - about a boarding house in London and each two part episode tells the story of a resident. As I was at school in the 70s I rarely saw it but remember thinking it would be so glamorous to live somewhere like that - in London! Watching now it seems really shabby and sad. Very well done though and some excellent acting. The episode i watched last night had Susie Blake and Maureen Lipman who were probably two unknowns then. There's a disclaimer before every episode saying it was made in the 70s and some viewers might find some of the attitudes offensive.

They had the same disclaimer before Widows but it didn't make it any less shocking!

Faith in the Future - thank you Charley1988. There was also a spin off after Bolam left with Simon Pegg as Julia Sawahla's boyfriend.

‘Sykes’ with Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques playing twins who shared a house.

Julia McKenzie and Anton Rogers in a domestic sitcom about a married couple.
‘Ever Decreasing Circles’.

Of course people had teasmades, they were a big thing back in the day.

I loved...

Never The Twain
Don’t Wait Up
Me and My Girl
Keep It In The Family
Agony
Butterflies
Life Without George
The Mistress
The Good Life
The Other ‘Arf
Watching
May To September
Fresh Fields

They were a way of life. 8-8:30 pm for the cosy ones, 9pm for the slightly edgier. I still remember catchphrases to this day - “it’s only Sonia!”

Has anyone mentioned Hi de Hi ? Sunday night nostalgia

i remember rooms i was skiving off school a lot one day dad walked in and said what was i doing home? asked him why he was home he said he was having a quiet five mins on his way through he was a lorry driver he said to me 'dont tell your mum about me and i wont tell her about you!'
loved citizen smith too power to the people and come the revolution!

the first lot of hi de hi was good didnt like it when Jeffery left and the RAF charmer arrived
glad it was not only me who had a crush on Joey in Bread! Greetings!

I remember an episode of ‘That’s Love’ where they sacked Olive the gorgeous nanny because the dad character fancied her

Always nice to meet a fellow Joey appreciator
Was gutted when the actor was replaced!

Widows wasn't s comedy though, was it? Arent they remaking She's out? (I think the follow up to Widows)

Someone mentioned Get Some In. I can't remember the plot but I can remember the theme music for some reason

When I was little there was a comedy on called Not in front of the children, which when for some reason I stayed up late (probably about 8 o clock!) and caught it I felt very sophisticated and risquee because I was a child! And it was on in front of me!

Does anyone remember the one called Lame Ducks that had Lorraine Chase in it?

I think David Essex might have been in it too, as a sexy lock-keeper.

Anyone remember Surgical Spirit? Set in an operating theatre suite, with Nicola McAuliffe playing Sheila Sabatini, the hilariously sarcastic female consultant surgeon, who terrorised her colleagues and patients alike.
It was so refreshing to have a female lead in a sitcom, instead of them just being the long suffering wife and butt of the male star’s jokes.

Yes, it was great.

I liked Waiting For God, as well, with Stephanie Cole.

Slightly later but Keeping Up Appearances. It always makes us laugh as our cousin is a proper Hyacinth

Television was so much ‘nicer’ in the olden days. Humerous but not unkind.

If you were white, straight and middle class, that is ... plus married.

Not all, but prado strikes with 80% (again).

Does anyone remember 'Meet the Wife', with Freddie Frinton and Thora Heard? It was in the 60's.

What was that series called that had Thermo-man and the talking baby in it?

My Hero