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All posts tagged "Sitcom archetypes shouting at each other"
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10.1K4TV: D is for...Duty Free
"OOH AMY!" "Oh David!"
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10.3K16TV: N is for...No Place Like Home
BELOW-PAR BONHOMIE that looked and felt like it should have been on the light channel.
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9.1K21TV: O is for...Only Fools and Horses
"BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH, BUSH".
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4.3K3TV: F is for...
Fresh Fields
NONE-MORE-80S SUBURBACOM
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22.1K43TV: A is for...
‘Allo ‘Allo!
THAT EXCLAMATION mark says it all.
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6.9K9TV: Y is for...
You Rang, M’Lord?
YET ANOTHER load of You Have Been Watching lummoxery from David Croft
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7.7K21TV: I is for...
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
SIMPERING SITCOMMERY involving a single studio set standing in for the entire British World War Two Indian subcontinent campaign and two million...
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6.7K8TV: T is for...
Till Death Us Do Part/In Sickness and in Health
EAR-SPLITTING BIGOTCOM
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4.9K1TV: I is for...
In Loving Memory
THORA HIRD, as usual playing herself, is an undertaker in a bluff, gruff, "take me as you find me" Lancashire funeral firm...
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4.5K1TV: G is for...
Glums, The
APTLY-TITLED SUNDAY evening miserycom, reworking bits of Take It From Here off of the radio.
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9.2K12TV: N is for...
Nearest and Dearest
GRANADA'S BIGGEST-SELLING situation comedy.
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3.6KTV: C is for...
Climber, The
ROBIN "DOCTOR" NEDWELL did little in this tale of ambitious genius Harry Lumsden
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2.6KTV: C is for...
City Lights
SURPRISINGLY LONG-RUNNING Beeb mainstay going out on primetime BBC1 north of Hadrian's Wall and BBC2 below.
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3.0KTV: T is for...
That’s Your Funeral
MUCH LIKE the vogue for programmes beginning with a fulsome TAKE (see above), so programmes opening business with a terse THAT'S are...
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2.7KTV: G is for...
George and the Dragon
SCRATCHY VEHICLE for SID JAMES in post-Hancock hinterland
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4.4K4TV: G is for...
Grundy
HARRY H CORBETT grumbled his last as a curmudgeonly newsagent up against "bleeding permissive society" and LYNDA "NURSE GLADYS" BARON.
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2.7KTV: M is for...
Mr Big
A FAMILY of crooks - with mirth in mind!
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6.1K5TV: L is for...
Liver Birds, The
THIS HAS a lot to answer for, chiefly bequeathing Carla Lane upon the nation and her "daffy" "sassy" "Scouse" "wit".
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3.1KTV: M is for...
Many Wives of Patrick, The
DOPEY OLD buffer forgets where he's left his spouses and gets hitched not once, not twice, not thrice, but six times.
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4.1K2TV: F is for...
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The
SUPREME ROSSITER-ITIS.
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3.2KTV: D is for...
Dustbinmen, The
PROTO-ON THE BUSES rubbish (literally) comedy
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4.5K10TV: F is for...
Father, Dear Father
MIDDLE CLASS MITHERING from put-upon pater PATRICK CARGILL
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3.5K1TV: N is for...
Not On Your Nellie!
SHE'S BACK! Execrable sitcommage with HYLDA BAKER
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4.7KTV: W is for...
Wackers, The
INSUFFERABLE SCOUSE-BASED "adult" sitcom
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10.7K11TV: O is for...
On the Buses
SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEPT ITV in business in the early 70s
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