Filthy Rich & Catflap

In the winter of 87' I first got acquainted with this wonderful group of comedians. I later watched the Young Ones and Bottom, but Filthy, Rich and Catflap remains my favorite by far.It is much more clever and funny, better written. This is my favorite comedy of all time. Difficult to believe it is so underestimated.The reason may be the harsh criticism on various BBC and show business stars. Moreover, they also criticized the BBC establishment. That was too much for some of those dinosaurs during that Thatcher era. I don't know if more episodes were necessary, since the six produced are masterpieces. I also understand that Rick Mayall was not pleased with the final result, and wanted more say in the show; to that I can only say- Rick you were marvelous, but the show was great too.

This Is A truly great comedy that provides laughs for the viewer from start to finish. The characters Rich and Eddie Catflap are the forerunners for the characters Ritchie and Eddie in Bottom. I feel it was a shame that this great work did not enjoy more success and a second series, although on the other hand if it did enjoy more success then Bottom might not ever being made as the similarities between the two comedies are not hard to find. Although there is only the one series and is not the most recognizable comedy it is still a cracking comedy and worth a watch. If you have trouble finding it visit the playback universal website or try somewhere like HMV it won't be cheap but worth the money.

The fact that this brilliant show was so quickly forgotten, and so underestimated, is a dirty rotten shame!

Just like Bottom and The Young Ones this show is brilliant and offers you laugh after laugh. It's quite hard to say what went wrong, but only six episodes were produced and as far as I know only shown once on BBC and a few other channels. Just like Bottom and Young Ones can be purchased on DVD/VHS in stores worldwide, this show is only available on amazon.co.uk via 2nd hand.....it could look like someone's simply trying to wipe the show's existance off the face of the earth, which, to my hand, should be a punishable crime.

Watch this show if you can find it, it's brilliant!!!!

This series, which by the way is a brilliant satire on celebrity and the state of it, stars 1/3 of The Young Ones and was filmed in between that series and Bottom. This is not very (or at all) well known in the U.S. sadly. Although all Young Ones Fans would love it. Imagine BOTTOM and THE YOUNG ONES combined, shake em up a bit and FILTHY, RICH AND CATFLAP is what you'd get. The shows get better upon repeat viewings and the jokes don't beat you over the head (as on BOTTOM). Highly recommended for all fans of any comedy at all.

Like i said in the summary, if you know a lot about 1980s British pop culture, you will love this show.But if you don't, you will not get most of the jokes.They constantly reference British celebrities that no one outside of Britain has ever heard of and never will unless they research them just because of this show.That being said, this show is still much better than Bottom.The first episode is about killing milkmen and it set the bar very high.A bar that they would frequently duck under for the rest of the series, while still managing to be better than most shows.Of course, only having one series changes how people feel about a show.I'm sure if they ran this into the ground like they did with Bottom, it would've ended up being terrible.Give this a shot(at least the first episode), you just might like it.