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?

What about the Nigel Havers one where both he and his father were doctors? They were the doctors Latimer but the opening credits had some wording stating "the two doctor Latimers". Used to annoy my mother every week

I thought Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was shite at the time, and still do... Just not funny.

Unlike GetOrf's crush on Keith Barron which no-one commented on.

at balloonslayer suggesting ria in butterflies should have learnt to cook

i never realised how middle class butterflies was until i watched the repeats. i think we used to laugh alot at the middle classes in sit coms in the 80s

birds of a feather was of it's time.

oh and 'dear john' is on youtube - i watched it all one boring month it's fantastic to watch back just as funny

Butterflies was a bit confusing as a young child. Why did Ria keep going to meet Leonard (was it) in the park?

LaPruneDeMaTante You went to a lesson with Kellie Bright? Kate from the Archers? Oh my!!!!

Who remembers Me and My Girl . It had Richard o Sullivan and Tim Brooke Taylor in it . Richard played a widower bringing up his teenage daughter. I think it started in 83 or 84. I LOVED it. Sorry if its already been mentioned. I havent read the whole thread.

I bet none of you will remember "Doctors' Daughters" which used to be on tv on Sunday evenings (just before "Elizabeth R", so must have been late 1970s/early 1980s). It was ridiculously sexist and featured the two (very busty) daughters wanting to follow in their daddies' footsteps and become doctors. But somehow pretty much all that happened to them was that their clothes sort of fell off. Every episode. Aged about 8 or 9, I used to sit and watch it while visiting the grandparents with my mum and dad and I loved it.

I think that Doctors Latimer one started my schoolgirl crush on Nigel Havers.

"It Ain't Half Hot, Mum"? Clunked from stereotype to cliché and back again.

Written by the same team/writer who did Dad's Army, wasn't it? I saw that again recently when in the UK and still found amusing even though you could foresee everything to come.

I still like Dad's Army . It's sort of "comfortable".

I can't remember what the doctor one was called but Simon Williams was also in it.

....speaking of Birds of a Feather - those two were in 'Shine on Harvey Moon' too - they worked in the rubber johnny factory

I still remember "Please Sir" with affection though.

There's a boy I know who is pretty awful and his Mum is always saying "Aaah. Innee sweet? " He throws his weight around and the second anyone stands up for themselves he runs to her in tears.

No one knows what I mean when I say he is Frankie Abbot.

Shine on Harvey Moon is my favourite programme of all time. If I have to watch one programme for the rest of my life, that'd be it.

Please Sir, where the pupils were all in their late twenties and looked it too. .
Remind me what Shine on Harvey Moon was, I vaguely remember it.
The very height of comedy when I was young was The Morecombe and Wise Show. Everybody watched it, I wonder if I'd still find it funny today. It doesn't seem to get any repeats.

That's the one LadyBeagleEyes

They did that a lot in the 70s didn't they? Like in the Railway Children, Sally Thomsett was about 22 and clearly has big boobs yet is playing a six year old. I mean, WTF?

Oh sorry. I've just checked. I exaggerated. She was 20 and playing an 11 year old. So actually perfectly sensible casting then.

I loved Hi de Hi and I wish they would repeat instead of 'allo, allo' which i don't like as much.

also like dad's army even my 14 year old likes this,

Black Adder,

Do you remember 'no place like home' with a young Martin Clunes and the Crabtrees. it was rubbishy but still watched it.

loved Terry and June but again very dated.

Harvey Moon was great too.

George and Mildred so seventies.

oh and the dreaded 'Selwyn Frogett' with a stupid theme tune. same guy who played Greengrass in hearbeat.

Haha belledame re my crush on Keith Barron.

also 'Sink or Swim' in the early 80's with Peter Davison with an annoying brother.

'Rosie' about a policeman with an annoying theme tune.

yy to the Rosie theme tune. I think that's why I'd never be able to call a DD Rose. She'd end up as Rosie and I'd never get the bloody thing out of my head!

The Nigel Havers doctors one was called Don't Wait Up!

I remember

Robin's Nest
May to December
Butterflies
Bread
Birds of a Feather
One Foot in the Grave

Not really a sitcom but I LOVED Cagney and Lacey, and Sapphire and Steel. As well as US sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Diff'rent Strokes.

And I readily admit to laughing like a drain at Men Behaving Badly.

Don't Wait Up! Of course...

Oh blimey, tenuous link alert. My Grandparents used to go to the same church (in Streatham) as Deryck Guyler, the caretaker in 'Please Sir'

hahaha.

Duty Free, anyone?

Does Lovejoy count? I used to love that...(nice to see Lady Jane back in Downton - even if it is in less posh surroundings)