Forgotten sitcoms

[citoyen]

Fair enough. Reminds me of Charlie Brooker's line about The Wire - he envied anyone who hadn't seen it because they still had the pleasure of watching it for the first time to look forward to.

[rob]

(All quiet on the) Preston Front ?

Funnily enough I was reminded of this the other day when a colleague mentioned the local band when he was at Lancaster University were the Milltown Brothers.   'Here I Stand' was the theme tune.

[Mr Larrington]

...Dr Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice.

Oh yes!

[izza]

I forget some of the names of the series’ but in terms of characters there were also:

- Penny and Vince
- Alf Garnett
- Robins nest
- Worzel Gummidge
- it Ain’t half hot Mum
- Never the Twain
- Tooting popular front


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[Ian H]

Of those in Citoyen's original post I do not even recognise the titles, let alone have any idea what they were about.  That's almost worrying, as I thought I  at least had a notion of what was on TV even if I didn't actually watch it.

[ian]

Of those in Citoyen's original post I do not even recognise the titles, let alone have any idea what they were about.  That's almost worrying, as I thought I  at least had a notion of what was on TV even if I didn't actually watch it.

It must be something about being an Ian. We are the chosen ones. Not Iains though, when it comes down to it, the cycloptic Ians will always win out. C.f. Clares vs. Claires. I'd watch that if it were on pay-per-view, mind.

[Mr Larrington]

Ians, pah! We Daves can make ourselves invisible to CCTV, y'know.

[mattc]

"What's MASH?" says the media/film/tv graduate-with-a-1st. 

No, I didn't kill him

Very remiss of you.

Sounds like a xkcd://1053 situation to me...

"What's that?" is not a frustrating reply (let alone enraging).

BUT when you get something like:
"Never seen it. I don't get why people rave about it - it sounds rubbish."

Do the NRA have a UK branch??

[spindrift]

Made a star of Nicholas Lyndhurst before he became a Trotter.
 All the more remarkable given that his screen brother was a bronzed, curly haired adonis who disappeared from view almost immediately.

That's cos he was a terrible actor. I really hated that bloke, he seriously couldn't act for toffee. Called people "man". Had curly hair. He really was appalling.

[mattc]

Of those in Citoyen's original post I do not even recognise the titles, let alone have any idea what they were about.  That's almost worrying, as I thought I  at least had a notion of what was on TV even if I didn't actually watch it.

Perhaps you did know them, but now you've FORGOTTEN them?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

...Dr Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice.

Oh yes!

I've been meaning to get that series for a long time. Now it's on order..

[Torslanda]

'Surgical Spirit' was wittily observational, you'd swear Victoria Wood had written it.

'Waiting for God' was fun, too. Because Old people.

[Steph]

Picking up on an earlier string of comments, I have a full set of Black Books on DVD, as well as CDs with the theme music. Which leads me to:

Monkey Dust is one of my all-time favourite collections of sick and depressingly brilliant humour, together with an utterly inspired theme music.

It's by Eels, and is called "That's not really funny"

"Clive, where have you been? You went out to get a paper, and you've been gone four months"
"Don't look in the boot of the car"

"I love you so much, Daddy!"

"[cough wheeze] Are you Suzy, thirteen?"

[Tim Hall]

How about The Beiderbecke Trilogy?

Excellent, but not a sitcom. I had a thing for Barbara Flynn then.... (when it was first shown)

Mmmmm. I was totally besotted with Average-size Jill Swinburne... and Dr Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice.

Me three. I think it's her voice wot does it.

[pcolbeck]

Monkey Dust is one of my all-time favourite collections of sick and depressingly brilliant humour, together with an utterly inspired theme music.

It's by Eels, and is called "That's not really funny"

Mark Oliver Everett who basically is the Eels is brilliant. Dark often humorous music. His dad was the physicist who came up with the many worlds interpretation in quantum theory.

[Mr Larrington]

Good news for Eels fans is that they're playing the Brixton Academy¹ in July.  Bad news for Eels fans is that a ticket will set you back somewhere north of forty quid, which is why my mate Mr Sheen will not be going.

1: other venues may be available, but I haven't looked.

[Woofage]

'Surgical Spirit' was wittily observational, you'd swear Victoria Wood had written it.

Used to love that. You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Mrs Sabatini.

Anyone remember Dressing for Breakfast? Beatie Edney and Holly Aird starred. A bit like a female version of Men Behaving Badly.

[citoyen]

A friend just posted on facebook a pic of his daughter running round with a bucket on her head, which reminded me of "You can run but you can't hide your legs" from the first episode of Mr Don & Mr George - a sitcom spin-off from Absolutely, with Jack Docherty and Moray Hunter.

Just been reminding myself of it via All4:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/mr-don-and-mr-george/on-demand/14510-001

A bit more hit and miss than I remember!