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   On 2025-09-17 19:11:18 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
      
   > The Doctor wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Blueshirt  wrote:   
   >>> The True Melissa wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How about Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder?   
   >>>   
   >>> BBC 1970's:   
   >>>   
   >>> Fawlty Towers - Dad's Army - Some Mother's Do 'Av 'Em.   
      
   Open All Hours   
   Porridge   
   Are You Being Served?   
   Man About the House   
   George & Mildred   
   Robin's Nest   
   To the Manor Born   
   The Good Life   
   Lucky Feller   
   ...   
      
      
      
   >>> BBC 1980's   
   >>>   
   >>> Blackadder - Yes, Minister - Only Fools & Horses.   
      
   Birds of a Feather   
   A Fine Romance   
   You Rang, M'Lord?   
   Brush Strokes   
   Never the Twain   
   Hi-De-Hi   
   May to December   
   ...   
      
      
      
   >>   
   >> The 1990s?   
   >   
   > Hmmm... I was living in New York for the latter half of   
   > the 1990's so I had little access to British TV shows. But   
   > off the top of my head, the Victor Meldrew sitcom   
      
   One Foot in the Grave   
      
      
      
   > and "Keeping Up Appearances" would have been a couple of the most popular...   
   > maybe "Allo Allo" or "Men Behaving Badly" would be up there   
   > too?   
      
   "Allo Allo" was mostly the 1980s, although it did end in 1992.   
      
   Also:   
   Waiting for God   
   The Vicar of Dibley   
   As Time Goes By   
   ...   
      
      
   Of course, there was lots of awful drivel too over the years as well:   
   The Young Ones   
   Absolutely Fabulous   
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