To wish we had more TV like this?

[SaintlyLady]

Last night I watched The Two Ronnies Xmas Special from 1982 and Sorry! from 1988.

i literally laughed out loud at some of the sketches in the Two Ronnies -

and Sorry! is an excellent example of my VERY favourite TV genre -

Home Counties set,
middle class,
middle aged,
middle England, ‘
’middle of the road’
sitcoms 🙌

AIBU to want these programmes back on linear BBC1 and ITV?

Wonderful piano theme tune to Ever Decreasing Circles

Same. I adore The Good Life.

"The ooh aah bird is so called because it lays square eggs" 😂😂😂

Omg YES!!!!!! It was fabulous! 🙌

I forgot Dads Army - I used to sing “who do you think you’re kidding Mr Kipper” until my friend told me it was Mr Hitler about 20 years later

brilliant comic timing and talent

Yes it is. It is the prelude op. 34 no. 15 by the Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich.

😂😂😂

It’s the way Margo says “i don’t get it” when she reads the joke out! 🤣.

Lovely music!

I’ve never seen it.

i meant to ask you, did you ever watch Ever Decreasing Circles?

Since "The Good Life" is getting so much love, who remembers Vyvians rant in "The Young Ones"

No! No! NO! I'm not watching the bloody Good Life! Bloody bloody bloody! I hate it! It's so bloody nice! Felicity "Treacle" Kendall and Richard "Sugar-Flavored-Snot" Briars! What do they do now? Chocolate bloody Button ads, that's what! They're just a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable, middle-class eccentric - and I - HATE - THEM!

No…it looked too intellectual
for me - was quite young at that time

just the name!

😂😂😂

it’s ringing a bell!

looking it up now - treacle Kendall 😂😂😂

Just watched it 😂😂😂😂

he rips the signature tune flower at the beginning 😂😂😂

me thinks ade Edmondson life now is rather what Vivian is ranting about! 😂😂😂

🤣🤣

That’s so funny! 🤣 🤣 I will have to watch this!

Of course the humour gets funnier when you remember that Tom and Barbara were very much the BBC version of counter culture in the 70s, much as "alternative comedy" was in the 80s.

Speaking of which, who remembers "Who Dares Wins" ? Or "OTT (Over The Top) the "adult" TISWAS.

Yes - the balloon dance - I have in my head bob carolgese doing it - cant spell!

This is the Daily Mail 😂😂😂

Ok here is the telegraph - thank you 😂

The best line is still

“don’t swear Jerry, and don’t bleed in the sink, I’ve just cleaned it” 😂

I find too much racism and sexism in old comedy. It's very sad to see how acceptable it was.

“Beds do not make themselves, Jerry. And don't 'woman' me."

Margo had some of the best lines! You couldn’t fault Penelope Keith!

I stole your one about the bleeding in the sink!

“what about, that’s the last time I act the tart for you Jerry”

😂😂😂😂