h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*thinks*

In no particular order:

The Office
Open All Hours
Black Adder
Red Dwarf
Spaced
My Family
M*A*S*H - what a depressing theme tune.


There is also a programme shown in the UK on Trouble called My Wife and Kids with the bald Wayans brother - I think that is quite funny but I don't think it'll score very highly in any polls.

Hey, I noticed as well.

I'll accept that Teachers is more of a drama, but I'd reckon Scrubs falls in sit-com territory. Okay, so there's a certain amount of character developement (Dr. Kelso's nice, Dr. Cox is nasty. No, wait, Kelso's nasty, Cox is nice, well sort of - he just has trouble connecting emotionally. And he hates a lot of people.), but each show tends to have a main situation around around which everything else fits.

*looks at post 50*
Someone likes Chalk.

*ponders adding Police Squad! between Open All Hours and Yes, Minister*

Seeing as The League of Gentlemen appears to have been disqualified, can I move everything below that in my list up one and add Open All Hours at number 10?

Oh, Chalk.... I'd forgotten about that.

Hehe... yep, I liked Chalk

It wasn't the best received programme ever, though was it?

Personally I thought it wasn't too bad, but hardly brilliant.

I seem to remember series 2 was better than series 1.

Or was it series 1 that was better than series 2? Well, one or the other.

Have I missed out on a classic? What is this Chalk everyone is talking about?

Liam.

Mid '90s sitcom set in a school and focusing, not unreasonably, on the teachers. Hence: chalk.

My memory is a bit hazy now but I remember it included the obligatory grumpy character who spoke only in swearwords.

Yeah, mine too - hazy memory, that is. I can't have been that old when it was on... maybe as a young teenager I was at about the right level for the jokes

Tonsil Revenge: FYI, I was paying attention, I just decided to ignore you.

Colombo, indeed!

B

A824681 updated again.

Not many big movers, although Open All Hours appears to have crept into the top 20.

B

Surprise there's not been a vote for Are You Being Served yet. That was a classic in its day.

*Checks his Excel spreadsheet.*

You're right - it's often the case that people forget about it, though, as was the case with The Young Ones for a long time on this thread.

B

Let's have a warm hand for Mrs Slocombe's Pussy!

I'm *so* late coming to this, but if I may...?:

1. Porridge
2. One Foot in the Grave
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Steptoe and Son
5. Dad's Army
6. The Young Ones
7. Absolutely Fabulous
8. The Good Life
9. The Black Adder (et al)
10. Drop the Dead Donkey



Jimster

You're not at all late - think of it as an ongoing project.

B

Actually Master B, seeing as you're not allowing The League of Gentleman, count that as a vote for Mrs Slocombe and Mr. Humphreys

If anyone's getting the vote, it's Young Mr. Grace's Nurse!

Yes, Colombo!
Where else are you going to see upper class twits tortured slowly before they go to jail?
The House of Lords doesn't count.

1.Red Dwarf
2.Dad's Army
3.Blackadder
4.The Young Ones
5.Men Behaving Badly
6.Porridge
7.The Good Life
8.It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum
9.One Foot In The Grave
10.Butterflies



The Minister

The House that Jack built, I've noticed has absolutly no mentions, so you all think its rubbish as well do you!!!

I think the characters are all evil and have hidden agenders, can't we have at least one nice character, please!!!