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?

I loved the Britas Empire. Must get the box set. Last time I looked it was expensive and I wonder if I would find it as funny now as I did then.

May to September?

porridge
auf wiedersehen pet
brush strokes
minder
...all shite

Still can raise a chuckle at ever decreasing circles

men behaving badly
David Essex as a gyspy on a barge

They filmed bits of 2.4 children in Folkestone. Including at my old school and where my dad used to work at an old NHS pile.

Porridge? PORRIDGE?!

Porridge is one of the best sitcoms ever written!

Loved Benson. Expect its probably banned for being rascist nowadays. :(

Butterflies.

I used to love Allo Allo. I occasional tell DH to listen very carefully, I shall say zis only once.

He is German and has absolutely no idea what I am on about.

some of you must have shite in your eyes

auf wiedersehen pet was fab and technically not a sitcom

We also watched Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and that is still superb IMO.

Also went to see the recent YPM play in the West End. The writing is so sharp.

I still love Butterflies. It was very funny. The older brother from that was recently in Corrie as Audrey's unrealistically young boyfriend Mark-The-Most-Rubbish-Transvestite-in-the-North

Yes, Minister is brilliant.

Southastastra, I learned about accents from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Very educational

No. I'm sorry. No. Auf Wiedersehen Pet was not shite except the 3 and 4 series

Take that back!

upstairs downstairs

Does anyone remember one about a lawyers' office? It had Imelda Staunton and that actor with the big lips and curly hair who is in lots of things but whose name I can't remember. (vague emoticon)

Saw this thread title and immediate thought was The Upper Hand

Does anyone remember one called Colin's Sandwich with Mel Smith in it? DH says I'm making it up but I can distinctly remember watching it. I can't remember anything about it apart from Mel sitting in an office/depot type room though.

May to December dolly ? It was Anton somebody

Oh, I loved Auf Wiedersehn Pet! It was complex and dark and there were some fantastic performances.

Other end of the scale ? anyone remember Duty Free? Cack of the highest (lowest?) order.

BRUSHSTROKES!!!!

Anyone else remember it?

Anyone remember After Henry? I quite liked that. Probably a bit shit now. That and Second Thoughts with Her from the Bisto ads (AH is with Her from the Tesco ads).

I saw Duty Free the other day. Blimey! Wobbly set, dodgy plot. It looked like a play filmed for TV.

Duty Free was indeed cack. But I'll raise you Me and My Girl and That's My Boy...

5 points to anyone who knows what I'm talking about!

After Henry was great, Joan Sanderson and Prunella Scales, you can't go wrong!

Yes Minister is brilliant. I work in central government with senior civil servants, I assume that Yes Minister is issued to them all as a training video. I thought it was funny before I worked there, I think it is funnier now.

I also love Porridge- it is really funny.

Does anyone remember Watching? About a scouse bird and her boyfriend who did birdwatching? Bloody awful.

YY the Upper Hand. That was terrible.

I loved Duty Free for some unfathomable reason as a child. I had a megacrush on Keith Barron

PomBear, you are totally making up Colin's Sandwich.

Gwendoline, I've no idea what you're on about!