Another 10 80s British Sitcoms You Probably Don't Remember (80s UK sitcoms List)
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- So how many of these 80s British Sitcoms do you remember?
Even More British 80s Sitcoms You Probably Don't Remember (80s uk sitcoms list)
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I have to disagree with you strongly on Drop the Dead Donkey. One of the best sitcoms of the 90s.
Totally agree with you. I really enjoyed Drop the Dead Donkey - but comedy is naturally subjective and people will always disagree.
Drop the Dead Donkey was brilliant.
I agree Drop the Dead Donkey was really funny!
I never watched Drop the Dead Donkey. When I first heard of it, the premise sounded so similar to Hot Metal that I couldn't see the point of it.
Loved Damian and that teddy bear he took with to disasters to place in the rubble
I still say ‘Language Timothy’ to this day. Almost relishing the fact that nobody will know what the hell I’m talking about
I say it often too...😂
I'm the same, my daughter keeps asking who this Timothy is 😁
Sorry mate, but Drop the Dead Donkey was damn funny.
it still is - the repeats are on All 4 / 4oD
And now coming back as a play with the surviving cast
@@IgorsDen Awesome!
Dear John was brilliant! Extremely well written with many hilarious scenes. Home to Roost was also a favourite of mine and I still watch it today.
I worked on a play with Ralph Bates. Lovely bloke, so sad he passed so soon. Same goes for Simon Cadell.
Always loved Home to Roost - Xmas special is great!
I must admit to having a bit of a crush on the lady in this show
John Thaw was 43 when Home to Roost started. So he was playing his age. We're just so used to seeing younger actors portraying older characters.
I've been waiting for it to crop up on a list. A lot of these were on Friday evenings and my parents always went out so I basically used to sit watching TV (before pub age) and it was an endless stream of crap sitcoms. I have it on DVD but as much as I like Thaw I'd rather sit and watch the Sweeney instead. Same with never the twain, it's the same trope/episode recycled endlessly. It's also why I hate Watching (the series) with a passion, that and Goodnight Sweetheart.
He looked old in The Sweeney ten years earlier
@@orbtastic Why are you here if you don't like sitcoms ?
@@jahno7154 Did I say I don't like ALL SITCOMS?
He always looked older than he was. He was from quite a rough part of Manchester and they all age before their time. 🥰
Who could forget Dear John.....I mean Belinda Lang hubba hubba hubba.
"Sorry!" Remains one of the great BBC sit coms. Interesting looking back though at a lot of sit coms in that era, particularly on ITV. They were often anchored by stars from the theatrical world (Judy Dench and her husband in "A Fine Romance", Julia McKenzie in "Fresh Fields", Hywell Bennett in "Shelley", and Simon Callow in "Chance in a Million"). Generally speaking, the ITV sitcoms also had supporting casts of very sub par theatrical actors who clearly didn't know you had to dial it down for TV and tended to be very wooden as a result.
Fall and rise was like that, rossiter was excellent, John Barron perfect, great and super were caricatures, but reggaes kids were really dreadful. Hammy as f. Uncle jimmy of course was also perfect. ( palmer)
Did anyone ever watch Keep It In The Family (80-83), about a cartoonist and his family? Used to really enjoy that....
Yep. Cuddly Dudley!
Yes that was featured in one of this channel’s previous videos. Good series.
I vaguely remember it. Couldn't he only draw when he was wearing a glove puppet of the character he was drawing?
And then there was Stacey Dorning......🤩
Pauline Yates (Elizabeth Perrin) played Robert Gillespie's wife. Robert appeared in loads of sitcom's, including The Good Life (as Mr Carter the Councillor) and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (as a Police Sergeant). He's still alive at 89!
Wasn't it the wife from Reggie Perron?
Drop The Dead Donkey was funny!!!
I loved Home To Roost as a kid. John Thaw is legendary and could turn his talents to alsorts.
William Moore who played Sydney Lumsden father of Timothy Lumsden in Sorry was the real life husband of Mollie Sugden.
Chance In A Million was a great forgotten British Sitcom starring Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn
When I watched these shows as a teenager the people always seemed very old, now I'm older than them but they still seem older...
In the late 80s, I'd booked a National Express coach from Cornwall to London, and instead of an in-transit movie, they just had a couple of programmes taped off the telly. The first episode of Home to Roost was one of them. A month later, I took the coach again. Same tape.
I'll bet you still watched it?
@@marccas10 As I recall, the second time I opted to converse with an incredibly sweary chef (thus preempting a TV trend by 20 years).
Loved Drop the Dead Donkey so much I've just finished re-watching it on All-4. Followed by Chelmsford 123. Would love to watch Hot Metal as just about remember it.
For some reason I remember The Bounder. I was only six, but I think my mother fancied Peter Bowles. Please keep making these videos!
I don't blame her, he's quite dashing
I remember it because my mother was working with Eric :-)
I have forgotten most of them, then this brought back "good" memories.
Some of these we watched because there were only 3/4 Channels and sod all else to do!
Loved Penelope Keith, even if she did keep rerunning herself as Margot from "The Goode Life."
Loved "To The Manor Born," 😉
Dear John was fun, the Kate Kirk relationship particularly so. I really liked Home to Roost. No one who ever saw it could ever have forgotten Sorry! and 'Language Timothy'; I still use that phrase to this day. I remember watching The Bounder and enjoying it but remember little about it except that Peter Bowles was great.
Another 10 of the best known sitcoms of the 80s 😉
I remember Dear John, Home to Roost and Sorry! but the rest I have never heard of. Home to Roost is a show I keep forgetting the name of but remember John Thaw being in it. Sorry was great and I still watch it when it is on TV.
'Dear John' was actually pretty good, introducing us to a varied bunch of divorcees trying to restart their social lives with the aid of a weekly support group club meet. An American version was made, (shown in the UK as 'Dear John USA') which wasn't bad either, and shared the club leader character (Jane Carr) with the British series.
Yeah I liked Dear John. The humour was very cruel at times (like when they accidentally massacred Ralph's turtles) but it was very funny.
Were there any sexual problems?
In the late nineties early 2000s I saw Peter Davison in soho propositioning some professional ladies of the night. As I walked past I heard him say in a very posh accent, “so my little lady what’s your speciality”
It beats my remembrance of Peter Leslie dawdling outside Lime St Station after attending the Wayne's World 2 premier in Liverpool....!
Typical. They are all at it! God I'm jealous!
Have you covered Lame Ducks? Now that's one a lot of people have forgotten. Another of my favourite 80s sitcoms was Only When I Laugh.
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I remember some of these pretty well. The number of sitcoms, particularly on ITV, during the 80's was pretty phenomenal. You were almost guaranteed at least one per night, with the weekends being chock-a-block with them. The BBC had their fair share as well. Sorry! Was originally shown on a Thursday night, as I remember, and was, kind of Ronnie C's, answer to Porridge. It did remarkably well and lasted a number of series. Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles seemed to crop up in all matter of shows in the early 80's, at least. Some better than others. I remember the titles of Hot Metal, as the lettering would literally melt into a pool of, presumably, lead. 'That's My Boy!', became part of my Friday night schedule for a while in the latter part of '82. I'd watch The Fall Guy, then That's My Boy, then switch over to watch Cheers! on Channel 4.
I remember most of these. That's My Boy, The Bounder and Sorry have been repeated recently!
The thumbnail of Belinda Lang ........aye carumba!
Belinda Lang....very very tasty
Just been suggested your Channel & having been born in 1972, its right up my street. I loved Sorry it was one of my absolute favs as a young girl.
I watched Dear John (both series) last year and I liked Sorry!
Yes Dear John is the only one I remember, although Brucie in a supermarket sounds familiar! Also great to see someone I know in the Penelope Keith clip!
Peter Denyer played Ralph Dring in Dear John was also Dennis Dunstable in Please Sir.
I Think he also played one of the first openly gay characters in Agony with Maureen Lipman.
Dear John was a pretty good comedy. "Were there any sexual problems?"
And Kirk, to a flatulent old lady "Thats alright, Mrs H, you have that on me! "
Forces TV, before the channel ended, used to show a lot of 70's/80's forgotten sitcoms. There were a three sitcoms that I remember from the early 80's, that I haven't seen since and I wonder if anyone else recalls. The first was Doctor's Daughters which I remember as being awful. The second was Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself of which the whole series was confusing for my young brain and there was another which I can't for the life of me remember the title, starring Lesley Ash that had a theme tune by Chas and Dave which sang the plot which went "Nancy is a junior secretary, In an advertising agency..." to the tune of Serenade No.13 in G Major. Please can someone confirm this as I know I haven't dreamt it up. The sitcom was pants and I'm sure it never made another series. Keep up the good work!
You didn't dream it I remember it too. She was the quintessential "average person" whose opinions reflected what the average person in the street would think on any given issue. I can't remember what its called either but according to wikipedia it was "The Happy Apple" - which doesn't sound right...
It was called The Happy Apple. This is from IMDB:-
Nancy was the new secretary at the Happy Apple advertising agency.Despite being ill-educated, she had a remarkable gift; she could come up with the most brilliantly simple and most effective advertising slogans without trying. Of Course her bosses exploited her ability to the full.
@@mirage123451 Thank you for that
@@jonathonrowley3535 Thank you for the clarification
Yeah I just got into watching some old stuff on Forces TV and then they scrapped the channel!
Belinda Lang, oh yes!
I quoted "Dear John" just the other night.
Having farted slightly louder than I was expecting, I simply said "That's OK Mrs O, have that one on me.."
No-one got the reference.
How about Southern’s ‘That Beryl Marsden…!’ from 1981? Starring Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt and a very young Jonathon Morris. Sadly ‘Beryl’ herself is never actually seen in the series
Anything John sullivan wrote was class
John Sullivan's most famous work is Only Fools and Horses and the spin-off Green Green Grass, and but he wrote quite a few sitcoms, notably Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends.
His son Jim co-wrote Only Fools and Horses The Musical with Paul Whitehouse, which is running in the West End (until Feb 2023). Very authentic, highly recommend.
It was very odd when Bruce Forsyth took over on Trippers day. Despite all his talents, he could not act to save his life.
Makes you realise that sitcoms were the reality TV of the day, cheap as chips and churned out by the dozen, remember some of these but barely watched any of them, thankfully.. great video btw 👍
Loved that's my boy.
7:30 Bloody hell, it's Dave Quinnan from The Bill!
He waa also in Scum amongst other things.
‘Laura and Disorder’ a weird Wendy Craig one. Just scraped in at 89.
I remember that one. Quite enjoyed it at the time. Wonder how it's aged?!!
Sink Or Swim starred Peter Davison and Robert Glennister. Holding The Fort starred Davison, Patricia Hodge and Matthew Kelly. Both shows ended when Davison took over as Doctor Who.
They didn't end immediately when Davison took over Dr Who. He continued to film all 3 during 1981/2.
Anybody would think that you don’t like Drop the Dead Donkey
Drop The Dead Donkey was one of the best sitcoms of the 90s and next year there's going to be a stage version of it featuring most of the original cast and written by the writers of the show.
I'm remembering most of these now, some of my favourites there too
Belinda Lang married to Hugh Fraser ,Captain Hastings in Poirot.
I used to fancy Belinda Lang!
@@thefurrybastard1964 she was hot
@@drsyn9616 Yes, yes she was.
@@thefurrybastard1964 - So did I! Totally MILF.
Lucky git. 😉
Fun Fact: Dear John featured Peter Denyer (as Ralph, the nerdy one with the taped glasses), who for may years was Britain's most performed living playwright (he wrote many pantos that are very popular at amateur level).
was he also dennis in please sir
Well spotted!
"Get. On. Down."
Yes Dennis Dunstable. Awwww neat Eric!!
I started singing the tune to Dear John as I was watching that .
Four series?! Never heard of it!!
The UK Dear John is good, enjoyed the yank version as well.
Love this channel cause I was living in Canada when all these shows aired, so I never saw or heard of any of them
Rachel Bell ‘Louise’ in Dear John, played ‘lil’ in cafe scene’ To Hull and Back’
Hot Metal and The Kit Curran Radio Show are the only ones I've never heard of. The Bounder and The Brothers McGregor I never even knew were sitcoms. Home To Roost is nearly a all time classic a very underrated sitcom
Hot Metal was very good and at least one series had a bizarre twist in the plot.
I loved The Kit Curran Radio Show. Bought the video* a couple of years ago and sat in stoney faced disappointment through four episodes before bunging it off to the charity shop.
Edit: *DVD not video.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Its funny how some old comedy's we thought were good all of a sudden don't travel through time very well. The Benny Hill Show springs to my mind.
I remembered them all. Even the ones i saw only one episode of vefore giving up.
Hot Metal and Dear John are my pick of the bunch with DJ having a successful run in the States with, post Taxi, Judd Hirsch in the lead role. Sorry and Home to roost were okay, didn't see the rest.
Hot Metal was ok but funnier than DTDD?? Don’t think so, there is a reason I almost forgot about Hot Metal and fondly remember and rewatch the DDTD.
I can remember watching 9 of these , sweet Sixteen being the one i dont remember as for Hot Metal i have it on DVD along with Drop The Dead Donkey both are good Sitcoms...
Talking Pictures TV had an epsiode (as far as I can see, just the one so far) of a sitcom called Get Back. Ray Winstone (playing Ray Winstone as always) as Dad and Kate Winslet as his young daughter. Ray finds a preganancy test in the bathroom. Cue typical assorted misunderstandings and shouts of "I'll kill him".
Most of these are hardly forgotten are they !
I remember Slinger's Day but didn't realise it was a remake of an earlier series.
Tripper's Day, what a title, what a WHAT IF!
I remember Dear John, Ralph Bates was quite good but sadly he died far too early. The bloke in the clip with the bag had an alter ego called Kirk St Moritz. Remember him? He even did a TV ad for Pepsi. "Johnny how come you're such a hit with da goils?"
The yanks did their own version of Dear John but even though it was a straight almost word for word copy as usual when they get their hands on British comedy it doesn't work.
I think the main problem with all these shows is they were too narrow in their outlook. There wasn't much latitude for expansion in the writing. A supermarket, a builder etc. Without the talents of Galton and Simpson (Steptoe) or Clement and Le Frenais (Porridge) Sullivan (Only Fools) and Clark (Summer Wine) and you don't have characters you take to like Fletcher, Delboy and Compo you are on a hiding to nothing. Then again even those writers had their failures.
Dear John was remade in the US, running for 4 seasons on NBC 1988-1992. The American version starred Judd Hirsch. When broadcast in the UK, it was retitled 'Dear John USA'. I remember seeing both versions in Australia, the British original aired on the ABC here while the US remake aired on one of the commercial networks.
And yes, the US remake lasted longer than the British original. And wouldn't be the only time that happened! If I remember correctly, the central character in the US version didn't seem to have the same financial worries and he also seemed to have better luck finding female companionship.
Presumably there weren't any... *sexual* problems.
@@richardgale4827 A few years ago I saw the woman who used to ask _that_ question at the theatre. She was playing Hyacinth Bucket in a peculiar play based on Keeping Up Appearances.
Unfortunately the American series didn't have any of the pathos of the UK one. Judd Hirsch was far too upbeat, but I suppose that's what American audiences like or, at least, what American networks tell the audiences they like.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Wow, what a wonderful bit of casting.
What about Robin Driscoll's "Wilderness Road"? Universally panned, but I loved it.
"Language, Timothy!"
Interesting Yorkshire Television based Home To Roost and That’s My Boy in London - most regional ITV stations set shows firmly in their own areas
Lame Ducks, starring Lorraine Chase, ran for 2 series from 1984 to 1985. I expect most people have never heard of this one, forgotten about it.
I used to watch it.
I remember just 4 this time.
Dear John was briliant.
I remember: Dear John, Home to Roost, That's My Boy and Sorry
.....Sorry!.... Never forget those opening titles...
Very catchy! 👍
I enjoyed Hot Metal, though personally prefered Drop the dead Donkey.
Forgive me if I've missed it but have you covered Happy Apple starring Lesley Ash?
I remember most of these ,I have fond memories of the brothers mcgregor ,sorry was good as was dear John.
I'm realizing the "serious" adult themed sitcoms I never liked but ones with a hint of silly I enjoyed
Does anyone remember help ? About the 3 guys from Liverpool on the dole ?
A series called HELP! It ran for two series (12 episodes)
If you haven't done them already there's A Small Problem starring Christopher Ryan, No Place Like Home with Martin Clunes and Frontline starring Paul Barber
Ooh, you're slipping, mate - I remember most of these.
I enjoy these but it would be miles better if you showed more than 5 seconds of the shows
Peter Bowles, playing Peter Bowles.
I remember them all :( ...... Leave me alone.
Fiddlers Three is one of the non-classics I remember with Peter Davison, Peter Blake and Paula Wilcox.
Clive Merrison (Kit Curran Radio Show) and Michael Williams (A Fine Romance) remain the only two actors to have played Sherlock Holmes and Watson in dramatisations of every SH & W story (for BBC Radio 4).
A touch of spice bbc1,am I the only one where remember this it was so bad it was good 😂
Yep. It was amazingly bad.
Who could ever forget Sorry?
South Of The Border starred Brian Glover as an overly insular Yorkshire man who moves to the South for some reason. Troubles and Strife might just be the most forgettable sitcom ever made but I remember it cos Tarrant from Blakes 7 played a vicar in it. The Gaffer was on ITV and starred Bill (Selwyn Fogget) Maynard as an Arthur Daley type character.
I remember a critic describing Brain Glovers character in south of the border as a northern Alf Garnett
Hot metal is currently available on Brit box, well worth a look.
The young woman at the door being addressed by Mollie Sugden at 4:23 is *really* familiar... anyone know who she is?
Ok these are more the second tier below the most remembered, but not really in the forgotten tier. I also think we need to interface vis a vis your misplaced feedback re Drop the Dead Donkey. Hot Metal was mildly amusing but not in DTDD's league.
That actor in Dear John clip "and it's not gonna be me". He's been in something much bigger... can't place him.... can anyone help please??
Only three that I don't remember today.
Is there a full version of the theme song to your vi,deos If so what the title of the track and name of band thx God bless you
Hi it's called "Jenkomatic" and was recorded by me circa 2002 ish.
@@TFOOS I love it
I remember Dear John... and DTDD was superb with a good payoff at the end too
Sorry was excellent and Dear John was very good as well
I bet I watched them all.
Dear John was really funny especially with the late .
Kevin Lloyd in that glam rock
Gear hilarious.
Also Belinda Lang was hot .
Oh to be 13 again lol 🤪
What about the Irish RM???
There’s a reason why we forgot about these. Or, never watched them in the first place.
I loved Hot Metal and both series are currently available for free on the new ITVX platform.
Kit Curran had a memorable theme tune ruined by a talkie bit.
For the Brothers McGregor to run 4 series and having never heard of it is bit a strange for as I recall and watched all of the others mention.
Rather enjoyed The Bounder - been years since I've seen it though and perhaps nostalgia is at play.
Yet again another one of your videos highlights the pitiful output for ITV comedy over the last few years. None of it one the main channel and just left to wither and die on one of the obscure channels.
I liked trippers day and slingers day. Didn’t see them first time around and they are hard to get on utube now.
Watching this I realise there are probably a hundred TV shows I only remember by theme tune.
Anyone remember "The Irish RM"? Peter Bowles again.
“Fair enough” Sorry, and Tripper’s Day, we’re the only ones I recall or at least watched
Dear John was remade in the USA with Judd Hirsch