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?

Mulberry DVD is on Play.com!!

upahill - when she was on Desert Island Discs, Em talked about how traumatised she was because no one liked her sketch show (boo hoo)

Out Of This World was the one with the girl and the dad alien I think

Also, there was Small Wonder (?) about a little girl robot called Vicky

She had interludes of dance as I recall.

Omg " Thompson" was sooooooooo shit. Didn't it have some kind of dance theme to it? Oh it was truly, truly a heap of poo.

"The wonder years" was excellent but not totally a comedy...

I went to see an episode of 'You Rang m'lord' being filmed - (don't ask)
DIRE sitcom - of the early 90s? with lots of ex-'stars' of Hi-Di-Hi
The floor manager kept shouting at the audience as we weren't laughing !!!!

I remember Cuckoo Waltz. Chris and Fliss and the lodger Gavin. They had deckchairs in their lounge!

Anyone remember the programme the Kit Curran Radio Show?

Definitely, something along the lines of, " ultra fantastico, here on the radio, Kit Curran"

What about Slingers Day where Bruce Forsyth was a supermarket manager. I think it was morphed from Trippers Day

Hallelujah - Thora hird in the salvation army

A fine Romance with Judi Dench

Sorry was dire.

Anyone remember Til Death do us part.

Love thy neighbour. Just could not make those today.

One I used to like was Waiting for god.

No mention of One foot in Grave - ace.

Oh dear, the sag of depression that accompanied most of these theme tunes. Somehow we'd survived the punishing boredom of Nationwide with sadistic cuddly Frank Bough, and then, Oh God, another perky tune and people going in and out of veneered doors while labouring non-jokes based on non-reality. No wonder the Young Ones was like a bomb going off in our cerebral cortices.

I did like The Good Life to be fair which was just as unreal as any of them. Anyone remember Fiddlers Three with Peter Davison as one of three accountants? I saw about 5 minutes of it once. At least it died decently.

Vetkoek ... yum. Especially with mince. It was AmaZING. I do have a vague recollection about a TV show about a vetkoek shop. There was also one about a lawyer's office with the guy from the Chicken Licken adverts.

How could I forget Orkney Snork Nie, especially Ou Boet and his wife who wore the same t shirt and had the thing "seeeeeee dit" and he went into this whole thing about "ou boets se blah blah blah". I actually have "Orkney Snork Nie, die movie, dis lekker by die see" on DVD. Should watch it some time ...

rathlin it was called "step by step" apparently. I had a major crush on the cousin who lived in the back garden. There was a HILARIOUS episode when a french person came to visit and the cousin asked him "so, how do you say stuff in French, like what is the French word for souffle?" "souffle" "Oh! Cool" then the rest of the episode he would say "hello, or as the French would say, hello".

Please please tell me someone else remembers Bottle Boys. It was about milkmen and I can still remember all the words to the theme tune. My brother is the only other person apart from me who remembers it.

GreenEyes Yes! Small Wonder! Spent years trying to remember the name of that programme!

On the Buses is on terrestrial. I watched it last night (with my mouth open in shock). Horrible. I must insist that anybody who next tells me how society is going to the dogs should watch it.
My Family is rubbish
Loved Roseanne. And Rhoda - anyone remember them?

Does anyone remember " that's love" ?

I didn't have a t v from 1984 until about 1997/98.

I am glad!

Carlajean, someone (can't remember who) mentioned Rhoda yesterday. Loved it. But agree that when folk reminisce about the Golden Age of TV I do think about some of the crap shown then.

Some of the series cited on this thread I don't remember at all.

Among those mentioned here, I hated On the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour (but were they more 70s?) and Sorry!

Sorry, cba to read the entire thread but does anyone remember that terrible one with Nicholas Lyndhurst and that lady with the black hair who used to wear big denim shirts all the time?

It was fucking turgid.

'The Two Of Us'? They lived in a basement flat?

The Two Of Us. That's the crock of shit one!

Also the one where Nicholas Lyndhurst was in the war but he wasn't really, he just went back in time to the war to cheat on his realtime girlfriend with a wartime sweetheart. That was terrible.

Rhoda was super. Well actually it might have been dire - but I wanted to be her and her friend when I grew up (as well as Wonder Woman, and Charlies Angels, and the Bionic Woman).

I used to spin around on the off chance that I might actually turn into WW.

Bupcakes - Goodnight sweetheart??