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British Comedy's

by Ben_A_R • Created 9 years ago • Modified 2 months ago
A list of British comedy sketch shows and sitcoms I've watched.
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  • David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Lennard Pearce in Only Fools and Horses (1981)

    1. Only Fools and Horses

    1981–200364 epsTV-PGTV Series
    9.0 (62K)
    Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.
    CreatorJohn SullivanStarsDavid JasonNicholas LyndhurstRoger Lloyd Pack
  • Citizen Smith (1977)

    2. Citizen Smith

    1977–198030 epsTV Series
    7.0 (1.1K)
    Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting. He leads a small group called the Tooting Popular Front with aspirations to create a communist Britain. However, as a result of being disorganised, his chances range from slim to none.
    StarsRobert LindsayMike GradyHilda Braid
  • The Two Ronnies (1971)

    3. The Two Ronnies

    1971–198793 epsTV Series
    7.8 (3.8K)
    This long-running BBC comedy show consisted of sketches and humourous musical routines.
    StarsRonnie BarkerRonnie CorbettThe Fred Tomlinson Singers
  • Trevor Bannister, Arthur Brough, John Inman, Wendy Richard, Mollie Sugden, and Frank Thornton in Are You Being Served? (1972)

    4. Are You Being Served?

    1972–198569 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.0 (9.9K)
    The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.
    CreatorsJeremy LloydDavid CroftStarsMollie SugdenJohn InmanFrank Thornton
  • Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999)

    5. Gimme Gimme Gimme

    1999–200119 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.5 (3.4K)
    Raucous 90s sitcom starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus as awful flatmates. Tom is an out-of-work actor with a sharp tongue, and Linda La Hughes is his dysfunctional friend.
    StarsKathy BurkeJames DreyfusBeth Goddard
  • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen (1999)

    6. The League of Gentlemen

    1999–201722 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.4 (13K)
    An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transgender taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.
    StarsMark GatissSteve PembertonReece Shearsmith
  • Chris Barrie in The Brittas Empire (1991)

    7. The Brittas Empire

    1991–199752 epsTV-14TV Series
    7.1 (4K)
    Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he's around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen.
    CreatorsRichard FegenAndrew NorrissStarsChris BarrieHarriet ThorpeMichael Burns
  • Rowan Atkinson in The Thin Blue Line (1995)

    8. The Thin Blue Line

    1995–199614 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.5 (8.7K)
    Various mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot.
    CreatorBen EltonStarsRowan AtkinsonMina AnwarJames Dreyfus
  • Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

    9. Blackadder Goes Forth

    19896 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.8 (61K)
    Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
    StarsRowan AtkinsonTony RobinsonStephen Fry
  • Anthony Booth, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, and Una Stubbs in Till Death Us Do Part (1965)

    10. Till Death Us Do Part

    1965–197553 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.4 (1.1K)
    A working-class Cockney bigot with biased and ill-informed opinions of everything shares them bluntly and carelessly.
    CreatorJohnny SpeightStarsWarren MitchellAnthony BoothUna Stubbs
  • Ronnie Barker in 7 of 1 (1973)

    11. 7 of 1

    19737 epsTV Series
    7.5 (125)
    An anthology of single plays starring actor-comedian Ronnie Barker. Two of the plays were developed into their own sitcoms: Open All Hours and Porridge.
    StarsRonnie BarkerDavid JasonJoan Sims
  • Ronnie Barker in Porridge (1974)

    12. Porridge

    1974–197720 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.3 (7.3K)
    The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.
    StarsRonnie BarkerBrian WildeFulton Mackay
    The pilot for this is in the aforementioned series "7 Of 1"
  • Going Straight (1978)

    13. Going Straight

    19786 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.0 (1.4K)
    Following his release from Slade prison, Fletcher tries to stick to the straight and narrow, but it isn't easy.
    StarsRonnie BarkerPatricia BrakeRichard Beckinsale
  • Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal in The Good Life (1975)

    14. The Good Life

    1975–197830 epsTV Series
    8.0 (4.4K)
    Tom Good quits the rat race, and with wife Barbara turns the garden of their Surbiton house into a smallholding. Their neighbours, snobbish Margo Leadbetter and her conventional husband Jerry, feel variously amused, offended and impressed.
    StarsRichard BriersFelicity KendalPenelope Keith
  • Arthur Bostrom, Kirsten Cooke, Sue Hodge, Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera, and Guy Siner in 'Allo 'Allo! (1982)

    15. 'Allo 'Allo!

    1982–199285 epsTV Series
    8.4 (28K)
    In France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René.
    CreatorsDavid CroftJeremy LloydStarsGorden KayeCarmen SilveraVicki Michelle
  • Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours (1976)

    16. Open All Hours

    1976–198525 epsTV Series
    7.6 (6.3K)
    Arkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small-town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville, and a particularly dangerous till.
    StarsRonnie BarkerDavid JasonLynda Baron
    The pilot for this is in the aforementioned series "7 Of 1"
  • Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn, Dermot Morgan, and Ardal O'Hanlon in Father Ted (1995)

    17. Father Ted

    1995–199825 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.6 (47K)
    Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.
    StarsDermot MorganArdal O'HanlonFrank Kelly
  • John Cleese, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs, and Prunella Scales in Fawlty Towers (1975)

    18. Fawlty Towers

    1975–197912 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.8 (106K)
    Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
    CreatorsConnie BoothJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew Sachs
  • Michelle Holmes, Dervla Kirwan, and Nicholas Lyndhurst in Goodnight Sweetheart (1993)

    19. Goodnight Sweetheart

    1993–201659 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.4 (3.6K)
    British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
    CreatorsMaurice GranLaurence MarksStarsNicholas LyndhurstVictor McGuireChristopher Ettridge
  • Still Game (2002)

    20. Still Game

    2002–201963 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.9 (10K)
    Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional area of Craiglang, Glasgow.
    StarsFord KiernanGreg HemphillPaul Riley
  • Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Ray Fearon, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, and Norman Lovett in Red Dwarf (1988)

    21. Red Dwarf

    1988– 75 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.4 (39K)
    The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
    CreatorsRob GrantDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-Jules
  • The Likely Lads (1964)

    22. The Likely Lads

    1964–196620 epsTV Series
    7.1 (810)
    Terry and Bob have been friends since childhood. Bob is the sensible one, trying hard to get on with his job and life. Terry is the wild one, always ready to lead Bob astray.
    StarsJames BolamRodney BewesBartlett Mullins
  • Only When I Laugh (1979)

    23. Only When I Laugh

    1979–198229 epsTV Series
    6.8 (1.1K)
    A naive middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward which he will share with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff.
    StarsJames BolamPeter BowlesChristopher Strauli
  • The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)

    24. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

    1976–197921 epsTV Series
    8.0 (2.3K)
    This story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.
    StarsLeonard RossiterPauline YatesJohn Barron
  • Peter Bowles and Penelope Keith in To the Manor Born (1979)

    25. To the Manor Born

    1979–200722 epsNot RatedTV Series
    7.4 (2.9K)
    Following her husband's passing, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton is forced to sell her stately home. While she comes to terms with her downward mobility, she decides to show the new owner a thing or two about "nobility".
    CreatorPeter SpenceStarsPenelope KeithPeter BowlesAngela Thorne

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