Programmes that have aged poorly and programmes that have aged well?

[HaveYouHadYourBreak]

What programmes that you loved have surprised you on rewatching?

I've just finished the first series of This Life and was surprised at how well it has aged for the most part (but so much smoking!). It was refreshing to see people with imperfect teeth and pubic hair and wobbly bums living in a grotty house share past their early 20s. I'm re-living my youth with the music too.

But Coupling! Oof! I remember it being really good but some clips I've seen (like making sex videos without consent and the way women are talked about) demonstrate exactly why I've never seen any re-runs.

The Next Generation hung off Patrick Stewart, who is a terrific actor.

All 4 (Channel 4 equivalent of BBC iPlayer) will take you back to Craggy Island

It is a brilliant line, but not original to Carry on Cleo. Wikipedia: In 2007, the pun "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me", spoken by Kenneth Williams, was voted the funniest one-line joke in film history. The line was not written by Rothwell but borrowed with permission from a Take It from Here script written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

The thing is, Olive isn't bad looking at all either. It's just a horrible programme, it was dated when it was made!

The Inspector Morse books are unreadable.

The personality of the central character was changed completely for the series. Maybe not enough but it was heavily changed.

Cold Feet is still fantastic now

I love Hi-De-Hi but that hasn’t aged well in the slightest

More love for the Thin Blue Line, the elephant impression still makes me roar with laughter, and Father Ted. Seeing Mrs Doyle running a pub in Coronation Street is so wrong 🤣

Loved fawlty towers and Allo Allo but they couldn’t be made made now.

Which actor is there rumours about?

Think David Jason but don't know what the rumours pertain to.

Those kind of rumours are only ever about one or two things, usually harassment or underage stuff 😳 I hate to think what though 😞.

Someone said the Upper Hand but actually I think the characters and even the situation are quite modern! Still funny and warm.

Weirdly, a lot of 80's American TV they show on that Legend channel is astonishingly 'woke': Knightrider; the A team, even to a point Charlie's Angels, because the themes are social justice and right overcoming right. And then Star Trek is in a class of its own. Even the tech in Knightrider stands the test of time.

Ahh but Jerry had a secret thing for Barbara - I remember an episode where they were all drunk and he told her! I was annoyed with her for gently telling him off, given Tom was always flirting with Margo! Although I did think Tom did that to tease Margo rather than because he meant it. Agree he was immensely annoying though, and I always felt that poor Barbara just went along with his schemes to keep him happy like a good 70s wife! I'm sure she didn't really want to live like that, deep down

House, even though it's not that old, has not aged well.
Men behaving badly & game on were not great at the time. Now today unwatchable.

Missed Friends 1st time around, discovered and loved it in my 20s. Now its awful.
Agree with pp that Frasier has aged better, though not as well as Cheers.

Had anyone rewatched Terry and June?
Might have to give it a go and see.

'The Likely Lads', funny in the day but so sexist now.

One series I think has stood up surprisingly well is the original Randall and Hopkirk deceased. Surprising free of the racist and sexist language typical of the period and great plots. And yes - I know that Jeannie is the secretary - bur is treated respectfully throughout.
Compared to many series from the period (The Persuaders, The Sweeney for example) it's like chalk and cheese.
The Prisoner is still watchable too

Currently watching 'George and MIldred' love the gentle humour and easy going story lines.

My 21 year old loves Fawlty Towers. I think it was quite old fashioned , knowingly, at the time, so doesn't age per se (minus a few tweaks). Both my DSs in their 20s love Peep Show and some series of Blackadder. Younger DS likes Frank Spencer. Pratfalling doesn't age!

Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em hasn’t aged well. How did I ever find Frank Spencer endearing or funny? The fuckwittery of him would have modern me raging! 😂

I love Only Fools and Horses though. Brilliant back then and now.

I used to love this and popped into my head as one that might not have.
agree with other about sex and the city not ageing well and I still love Fraiser.
off to try this life as I missed it at the time

Some of it could be made today. But it made me think of a Harry Enfield sketch. A customer is in a posh cafe but moans the the price is too high for a Chocolate Tart. Harry Enfield moves the E to make it read Chocolat Tarte and the customer is happy and orders it.

I think it's easier/better to tell if things have aged well be knowing if GenZ/Alpha watch them rather than whether someone in their 40s/50s still does. That's partly nostalgia.

My two lap up The Simpsons and as I said Peep Show. They also watch The Middle. Can't remember what 'classic' DS was attempting the other day but it left him cold. It's mainly that older programmes are slower paced.

The first series of Homeland absolutely still flies. I wonder if Cracker would seem overly intense now?

Oh, yes, and DS2 loves Frasier.

I am also watching this life @HaveYouHadYourBreak! But for the first time.

I agree it’s aged well.

Friday Night Dinner always watchable.

Film not TV but I tried showing the kids Twins and didn’t get past the first 10 minutes, horrible sexist leering from Danny DeVito

I still love Little Britain and Come Fly with Me.

I think it is people’s humour that hasn’t aged well.

People don’t want to accept that a lot of characters in those shows were fairly accurate portrayals of some people in society an exaggeration.