TERRIBLE TV sitcoms of the 80s and 90s

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I can't find the remote control - have just watched Keeping Up Appearances and now Allo Allo is on.

What a crock of shit.

Terribly contrived situations with 'hilarious' consequences.

Patricia Routledge is a great actress but the canned laughter, slobby family and just everything in it is so dire.

And Allo Allo - I don't get it. Who thought it would be funny to have a comedy about german occupation and the French resistance? Made by the BBC? With canned laughter? And Madonna with a big boobies? Were people complete divs back then?

Rhoda was Mary Tyler Moore's sister or something, wasn't she.

Most things with Nicholas Lyndhurst are shite, buppy.

Yes, Goodnight Sweetheart.

Poor Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Birds of a Feather. I'm sure someone has said it but it was awful. Really awful. Doreen used to piss me off with her big hair and pointy face.

I love loads of the old sitcoms. I do remember 'Thompson' Dire and v cringeworthy.

Terry and June, Ever Decreasing Circles, The Good Life, On the Buses (but I don't do Carla Lane (!) )

And as a child apparently I was addicted to 'Rings On Their Fingers' - Martin Jarvis & Diane Keen and 'That's My Boy' (Molly Sugden

Surgical Spirit! Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Oh wow, I'v been reading back and remember 'Colin's Sandwich' and ' The Kit Curran Radio Show' too. hahaha!

Surgical Spirit was such a Friday night LWT over-lit sitcom. A bit rubbish for sure.

No Frills with Kathy Staff

What was the one with Hwyel Bennett? Shelly?

Gems with a very young Tony Slattery.

The Kids at 47A

The Labours of Erica

I like 'Solo' with Felicity Kendall. Nobody's ever heard of it though. And I think it was Carla Lane. So that and Butterflies I love but now't else.

And to give this thread a twist; what sitcoms do you think our children will be writing threads about in twenty years or so?

I reckon My Family. "How did it keep going for ten years?! I reckon Wannamaker was blowing off the comedy commissioner at the Beeb..."

I hated 'Shelley' & 'Rising Damp', I lump them together, for some reason.

Me and my girl
Thats my boy!
Mind your language
George and Mildred
Robins nest
man about the house
I could go on............

Take a Letter Mr Jones with Rula Lenska and John Inman about a woman with a male secretary.

There are no words for that one.

My son will still watch: OFAH, My Family, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey. And all the old programmes his Mum has made him watch over the years!

I can't believe some of the brilliant ones being mentioned here.

Sorry was fantastic. Language Timothyyyyyyy

Babes in the something was fucking SHITEOLA

Oh and I despise anything by Carla Lane. All that bollocky angsty crap interspersed with repetitive non funny crap.

Never the Twain

What was the one with Liza Goddard who worked at an advertising agency?

Big John Little John

'Sorry' was brill, if only for the Mother.

I've listed ones I love. < misses point of thread >

Also what was the one with Liza Goddard and Nigel Planer? He played a rock star getting secret piano lessons.

Also Nigel Planer where he played a French teacher.

I couldn't bear 'Watching' either. It was so popular at the time.

I totally don't get My Family at all.

It's not funny

Oh ffs what was that one where John Thor was the dad and his son came to live with him. His son was Gail Platt's last husband out of Coronation Street. The theme tune was Consider Yourself but in a jazz style.

Another terrible one.

My eleven yr old loves 'My Family'

There's the answer!

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