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?

It would be if they were actually funny, particularly Miranda.

You are not wrong OP. I flicked over to an episode of Man About The House the other week and it had both me and DH chuckling away at George's antics. Fawlty Towers is another one that makes me laugh.

Ah.I’ve never watched Motherland but hesrf a lot about it !

The contemporary equivalent of this:

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

Is this:

BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk
Here We Go - BBC iPlayer

I was thinking about this thread over lunch and though of Mammoth.

You would love it OP. It's pure 1970s.

Just remembered another one. We also enjoyed George and Mildred as a family.

Somehow I doubt it. There was a lot of casual racism and sexism ... and where there wasn't (e.g. Till Death Us Do Part) some people missed the point.

Remember how long "The Black and White Minstrel Show" ran for.

I seem to be the only person I have ever met who loves After Henry. Its soothing and clever and has Prunella Scales and Mrs Richards the deaf lady from Fawlty Towers. My happy place 💛

I guess not...there was all the dodgy stuff with his secretary (played by Sue Nicholls)!

I love Sue Nicholls in Rentaghost - Reginald Perrin before my time !!

I remember watching an old episode of Are you being served when they all had a fancy dress party in an old country house. It was so over the top and camp but hysterically funny.

I loved the film of them going to Spain - Costa Plonka!

Another Wendy Craig one I used to watch was And Mother Makes Three. It was made at the beginning of the 70s before Butterflies.

What's wrong with you all? You've got Mrs Brown's Boys!!!

Ah that was way before my time 😭 but I loved her in Nanny !

I watched Butterflies when i was in my mid 20's. Found in unbearably sad. Same with Goodnight Sweetheart, never saw anything funny in bigamy.

I’d forgotten about Nanny! All the 70s sitcoms are before my time but I just really liked a lot of them.

There was also another series called And Mother Makes Five.

Not in Mammoth there isn't. It's not like On the Buses.

Loved Rising Damp and the Likely Lads as mentioned above. Only Fools and Horses too.

Rising damp is another one which certainly couldn't be made today - although (as is nearly always the case) the use of racism and sexism was actually to ridicule the racists.

Has to be Only Fools & Horses. It's timeless

Anyone remember Steptoe and Son? The poor, long suffering son!

Loved it. The cast was perfect. Richard Briars (who I loved in the Marriage Lines, but couldn't take to in The Good Life), Penelope Wilton and Richard Egan who was born to play his character. Never seems to get much recognition.

My memory was the first series of Only Fools and Horses was quite a smart commentary on the rise of Thatchers Britain - hints of social commentary.

Then either I or the scripts changed, as it pretty soon seemed to devolve into standard sitcom fodder where the addition of "You plonker, Rodney" was the signal to laugh.

Citizen Smith, anyone ?