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?

Oh, goody, there are South Africans here. Do you remember Fat Cake Palace (Vetkoekpaleis) about the shenanigins in a cafe that sells fat cakes? I think having a food called fat cakes was the funniest thing about it.

Mmm.. vetkoek. Tempted to buy a deep fat frier just so I can make them. They won't be as good as they are in SA though :(

Anyone remember "Shelley" with Hwyll Bennett(sp?).

A man who never leaves his bedsit. Hmm.

Quite liked the theme music though.

Cakes that go in a deep fat frier? Yikes

The ones that really get me going are the Koeksusters - fried dough in syrup!!

Do any Saffers remember the series 'Orkney Snork Nie' and 'The Villagers'!

Dreams of opening a fried cakes/dough shop. I think there's a gap in the market round here. Sounds just what we need.

The Cuckoo Waltz.
I challenge everyone to remember that.
Lewis Collins (The Professionals) was the lodger with bouffant hair.
I can see the other two actors, but can't remember their names, but I think the wife is now in Doctors.
I quite liked it.

Babes In The Wood anyone? That was dire.

And what was that one that French and Saunders did about the Fremch Revolution?

Sorry!

I remember David Essex in The River!!

Does anyone remember a sit com about a very old woman and the son of death (and spring) coming to kill her off and ending up as one of her staff?

I seem to remember it was named after the main character and his name was something to do with nature, also that the guy who was the lead was Karl someone. I did think for years it might have been the fruits of my overactive imagination but one day when I remembered the name I googled and there it was!

It was a very gentle programme despite the subject. Something like Mulberry?

I can remember the theme tune to the Cuckoo Waltz

and I can still watch Allo Allo

oh god oh god oh god

have we had Duty Free yet?

rathlin

Was the one you're thinking of with two families living together called 'A New Kind of Family', and the families seemed to chop and change around with no explanation?

Only when I laugh.... 3 guys in hospital forever...

French Fields... zzzzzzz

Duty Free... 2 couples stuck in Spain forever....

You rang m'lord.... Supposedly like Upstairs Downstairs...

Oh Doctor Beeching...remember it being really baaad...

The golden girls was fucking great!

Thank you for being a friend... Travel down the road and back again..."
it was so out there for it's time - blanche and her sexual exploits, I remember clearly one joke about using the whipped cream in the bedroom. She was about 75 I love it!

rhonda yes it was Mulberry!

Has anyone mentioned 'Orrible? Written and starring Johnny Vaughn? (actually, I qutie liked it)

And that awful superhero one with Ardal O'Hanlon - I never understood how it kept getting re-commissioned.

oh, and 'In Loving Memory' with Thora Hird

My Two Dads!!!!

Have to say I have just collapsed uncontrollably in puerile giggles at the name of this actor who "starred" in it.

Also recall vast swathes of time spent watching Doogie Howser MD.

My Hero. Unspeakably dire.

Yes it was Mulberry!

V odd programme but I liked it.

Have we touched on American ones - there was one that was on in mornings in school holidays witha blonde girl who's dad was an alien and spoke to her in a jar. The theme tune was Would you like to swing on a star.

My Two Dads. Nowadays it would have a very different plot line!!

There was one late night C4 with a man making decisions and little people who lived inside his brain which it used to cut to. Bizarre and not v funny.

Emma Thompson was in a her own sketch show called Thompson which was appalllingly bad. Truly awful!

Only When I Laugh - thanks (not) for reminding me, I'm now singing "I'm h-a-p-p-y". Had Grandpa in my Pocket James Bolam in it. Talking of whom, how about The Likely Lads?