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I Love British Sitcoms

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  • Hancock's Half Hour (1956)

    1. Hancock's Half Hour

    1956–196057 epsTV Series
    8.4 (625)
    TV version of the popular BBC radio show of the same name, with Tony Hancock as the modern man of the world (in his own eyes). Sid James is there to bring him back to earth.
    StarsTony HancockSidney JamesJohnny Vyvyan
  • Hancock (1961)

    2. Hancock

    19616 epsTV Series
    8.5 (197)
    Comedian Tony Hancock stars, in this BBC situation comedy TV series, as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living in East Cheam.
    StarsTony HancockHugh LloydJune Whitfield
  • Hancock (1963)

    3. Hancock

    196313 epsTV Series
    7.3 (75)
    StarsTony HancockWilfrid LawsonPatsy Smart
  • Steptoe and Son (1962)

    4. Steptoe and Son

    1962–197457 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.8 (3.6K)
    British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
    StarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettFrank Thornton
  • Anthony Booth, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, and Una Stubbs in Till Death Us Do Part (1965)

    5. 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
  • Dad's Army (1968)

    6. Dad's Army

    1968–197780 epsTV Series
    8.1 (7.6K)
    A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.
    CreatorJimmy PerryStarsArthur LoweJohn Le MesurierClive Dunn
  • Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal in The Good Life (1975)

    7. The Good Life

    1975–197830 epsTV Series
    8.0 (4.3K)
    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
  • Two's Company (1975)

    8. Two's Company

    1975–197929 epsTV Series
    7.8 (357)
    An American author hires a British butler and discovers that they are polar opposites.
    CreatorBill MacIlwraithStarsElaine StritchDonald SindenJohn Savident
  • Barry Evans in Mind Your Language (1977)

    9. Mind Your Language

    1977–198642 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.7 (10K)
    A diverse group of immigrants and foreigners learn English at an adult education school in London.
    CreatorVince PowellStarsBarry EvansGeorge CamillerJacki Harding
  • To the Manor Born (1979)

    10. 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
  • Butterflies (1978)

    11. Butterflies

    1978–198328 epsTV Series
    6.9 (1.4K)
    Ria, a happily married suburban housewife, reaches the age when she feels like life is passing her by.
    StarsWendy CraigGeoffrey PalmerBruce Montague
  • Yes Minister (1980)

    12. Yes Minister

    1980–198422 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.6 (18K)
    The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
    StarsPaul EddingtonNigel HawthorneDerek Fowlds
  • Yes, Prime Minister (1986)

    13. Yes, Prime Minister

    1986–198716 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.6 (14K)
    James Hacker was propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - Number 10.
    StarsPaul EddingtonNigel HawthorneDerek Fowlds
  • Trevor Bannister, Arthur Brough, John Inman, Wendy Richard, Mollie Sugden, and Frank Thornton in Are You Being Served? (1972)

    14. Are You Being Served?

    1972–198569 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.0 (9.8K)
    The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.
    CreatorsJeremy LloydDavid CroftStarsMollie SugdenJohn InmanFrank Thornton
  • The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)

    15. 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
  • Rising Damp (1974)

    16. Rising Damp

    1974–197828 epsTV Series
    7.7 (3K)
    Popular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long-suffering tenants.
    StarsLeonard RossiterDon WarringtonFrances de la Tour
  • Joanne Heywood, John Inman, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith, Mollie Sugden, and Frank Thornton in Are You Being Served? Again! (1992)

    17. Are You Being Served? Again!

    1992–199312 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.6 (1.6K)
    The staff of the defunct Grace Brothers department store reunite to run a rural hotel.
    StarsMollie SugdenFrank ThorntonJohn Inman
  • Up Pompeii! (1969)

    18. Up Pompeii!

    1969–197014 epsTV Series
    7.6 (420)
    Lurcio is a much-put-upon slave in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. More often than not, Lurcio finds himself keeping his owner's family members apart, in order to keep them together.
    StarsFrankie HowerdElizabeth LarnerKerry Gardner
  • Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous (1992)

    19. Absolutely Fabulous

    1992–201239 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.2 (22K)
    The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.
    StarsJennifer SaundersJoanna LumleyJulia Sawalha
  • May to December (1989)

    20. May to December

    1989–199439 epsTV Series
    7.2 (426)
    Alec Callendar, a Pinner solicitor, meets and falls in love with Zoe Angel, a woman half his age: their relationship, as well as the ups and downs of Alec's office mates: his secretaries, Hilary and Miss Flood, and Alec's son, Jamie.
    CreatorPaul MendelsonStarsAnton RodgersFrances WhitePaul Venables
  • As Time Goes By (1992)

    21. As Time Goes By

    1992–200567 epsTV-PGTV Series
    8.3 (5.3K)
    The Korean War, and a long lost letter, separate the lives of young lovers Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle, whose paths cross again by happenstance.
    StarsJudi DenchGeoffrey PalmerMoira Brooker
  • Patricia Routledge in Keeping Up Appearances (1990)

    22. Keeping Up Appearances

    1990–199545 epsTV-PGTV Series
    7.9 (19K)
    A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.
    StarsPatricia RoutledgeClive SwiftGeoffrey Hughes
  • Arthur Bostrom, Kirsten Cooke, Sue Hodge, Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera, and Guy Siner in 'Allo 'Allo! (1982)

    23. '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
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie in The Goodies (1970)

    24. The Goodies

    1970–198276 epsTV Series
    7.7 (2K)
    The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."
    CreatorsTim Brooke-TaylorGraeme GardenBill OddieStarsTim Brooke-TaylorGraeme GardenBill Oddie
  • Matthew Holness in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004)

    25. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

    20046 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    8.5 (21K)
    This parody series is an unearthed 80s horror/drama, complete with poor production values, awful dialogue and hilarious violence. The series is set in a Hospital in Romford, which is situated over the gates of Hell.
    StarsRichard AyoadeMatt BerryMatthew Holness

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