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?

Leonard was pretty creepy. Stalking her. His wasn't physically attractive at all. Shudder!

I think it worked better because they didn’t. It was “an affair of the heart!”

I've probably seen all of Porridge, Open All Hours, Some Mothers Do 'Av Em, and Last of the Summer Wine (courtesy of my older sibling who liked the "old" programmes).

I was always more into The Good Life, and have been re-watching Series 1 recently. I also liked To the Manor Born and Keeping Up Appearances, but at the moment, I'm watching some of the very early episodes of Call the Midwife.

Mary Whitehouse …no way shagging was going to be on screen…even talking about it got her on a rant 🤣

Porridge was brilliant. Great cast and of course the fantastic and hugely missed Richard Beckinsale. I was flabbergasted when I heard news of his sudden death😢

Why? They were brilliantly funny!!!

100% agree, I’m 66 and we definitely had the best TV before everything became woke and spoiled 😢.

What in God's name are you watching? There's far too much nostalgia about today. You can find most comedy shows of the last 50 years on various channels these days (& on radio BBC Radio 4 extra). You can pretend it's 1973 all over again! Or, radio wise, 1954!

Yes! It was a lovely dynamic

and her and Jerry (just heard Margo calling him in my head) bought a cow for them for Xmas!!! 🐮

😂😂. She would!

she was only supposed to be like a very small side character occasionally seen

but wow didn’t she own in..I love her lines

and her marigolds and pinys 🥰

That made me lol

Jerry and the curry smell wafting!! 😂

1980's is ahead of my time but I used to work somewhere where the 'Fork Handles/Four Candles' joke was told to me all the time by customers. It went over my head so eventually I watched the sketch and didn't find it all that funny tbh 😂

It's funny 'cos I watched Outnumbered for the first time this year and loved it, was in the mood to get into a new British sitcom so put Gavin & Stacy on, that really wasn't my vibe!

I love Derry Girls, thought that was hilarious. I also love The Goes Wrong Show but I love Mischief so I love pretty much anything they do. I also rewatched all of The IT Crowd and Black Books, watched them as a teenager - Black Books was a good rewatch, the last season was pretty crap though.

Are you being served still makes me laugh out loud, simple humour at it's best

The drivel that masquerades as "comedy" these days is about as funny as a dose of the clap 🤣🤣

The way Margot use to call Jerry’s name! Penelope Keith was wonderful!

Classic Margot, buying them a cow for Christmas!!! 🤣. Didn’t it have a ribbon around its neck!

By today’s standards yes, but I never thought it was when I watched it. Ria never minded!

It had a ribbon and a big cow bell..I think

they knitted them the green jumpers

I tried to type out the sound of her calling Jerry - Je ray! But I can’t - you know what I mean

The green jumpers were priceless! Tom and his “cottage industry!”

I meant to say, I forgot about the cow bell!

😂

The daily telegraph

Miss mountshaft!

the episode where she is Maria 😂😂 in the am dram sound of music

Margot was such a snob! Didn’t Tom have to swap with her! Jerry and his “political chicken pox!”

If Ria’s maiden name was ‘Dyer’ and she was on the school register….

No??

I’ll get my coat …

Ok - I didn’t the social class element in Thr Good Life at all !!!!!

j used to think Margo and Jerry were middle class and Tom and Barbara were working/lower class and that was the essence of the humour! Until my Dad politely informed me that no, both couples were middle class …