A to Z Of British 90s Sitcoms You Probably Don't Remember (90S UK Sitcoms list)

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  • @davidharvey4433
    @davidharvey4433 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    I must be in the minority but I enjoyed The Brittas Empire

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Me too.

    • @johnd6487
      @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Don’t think you are, loved it as well.. it must be more marmite than I ever realised

    • @joannefalkinder393
      @joannefalkinder393 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It was brilliant

    • @grannym2880
      @grannym2880 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I enjoyed it too. 🤷‍♀️

    • @stephenbranley91
      @stephenbranley91 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I did at the time, but I recently started re-watching it on BritBox and cringed at how awful it was.

  • @louiseogden1296
    @louiseogden1296 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Chris Barrie is amazing! He came to a sci-fi fun day the year I started going out with my soon to be husband, held in Corsham (Wiltshire) Leisure Centre. Obviously, being SF geeks we expected him to talk about Red Dwarf, but he couldn't resist being in a leisure and centre and opening the show in the persona of Gordon Brittas. He and Danny John-Jules did several conventions with that group and I've got photos of us with them up at home. (Hubby unfortunately passed away from cancer a few years ago, so I treasure any memory like that :)).
    And as a receptionist now I hope I'm not too much like Carol. Thankfully the only babies at reception are those belonging to my colleagues!
    My favourite 90s comedy has to be Drop the Dead Donkey -- partly for the political comedy, but also because of the workplace comedy being unfortunately rather true to life.

    • @PandaPandakun
      @PandaPandakun ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm going to meet Chris Barrie tomorrow at London Comic Con ❤️ I'm cosplay Nirvana Crane from the Holoship episode 😁

    • @METALUNICORNLTD
      @METALUNICORNLTD ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry for your loss. But it sounds like you have some great memories

    • @rainblaze.
      @rainblaze. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@PandaPandakun
      Well......?
      Do tell . .... how it go??

    • @timdogdawg4099
      @timdogdawg4099 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm so very sorry for your loss but it sounds like there were some fantastic memories made with the geeky pair of you! Chin up and get those repeats of Drop The Dead Donkey to give you some well deserved laughs.
      As it goes, my youngest son met Chris Barrie at a comic con event a few years ago when he was about 10 (my son, not Chris!) and he said he was a thoroughly decent bloke...albeit he wouldn't allow any photos to be taken unless the punters paid 20 pounds each haha (again Chris, not my son)!
      Anyway, I hope you're well and enjoying life, without it sounding too sympathetic.

    • @Scripture-Man
      @Scripture-Man ปีที่แล้ว

      My condolences on your loss. Thanks for sharing this! :-) Have a good day!

  • @markeastwood74
    @markeastwood74 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Not sure how many episodes of The Brittas Empire I struggled through, but in one episode, it did come up with the genius idea of combining paintball with a safari park. I'm still waiting for that to arrive in real life.

    • @FishpondsLady
      @FishpondsLady ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I actually really liked the Brittas Empire!

    • @SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk
      @SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love BE too has all DVDS

    • @johnd6487
      @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quite enjoyed it myself.. then found myself working in one, where one of my colleagues would often bring it back to mind and frequently compared and referred to the manager as Mr Brittas

    • @SiliconBong
      @SiliconBong ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnd6487 TelevisionNewZealand played most of these, few lasted beyond a week with the exception of the Brittas Empire.
      {RedDwarf@15:50?}

  • @howtubeable
    @howtubeable ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I loved Waiting For God. Tom and Diana made a hilarious couple.

    • @d.mcfadden7343
      @d.mcfadden7343 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you have sky they still show it on sky drama, it's on today at half 5

    • @rickyj5547
      @rickyj5547 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was on the drama channel. It finished today.

  • @NostalgiaBrit
    @NostalgiaBrit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    OMG Russ Abbott! I’d forgotten he existed! I used to LOVE watching his sketch show 😃

    • @GordonHeaney
      @GordonHeaney ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loved it as a kid too. Definitely now in the "not as funny as you remember it" category.

  • @lukedraper142
    @lukedraper142 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Watching this reminded me of a mid-90’s sitcom with John Gordon Sinclair as a newspaper columnist called ‘Nelson’s Column’. Just watched an episode and really enjoyed it again. Maybe most remember it.

    • @stephenderbyshire7849
      @stephenderbyshire7849 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I also remember that and him in a show called ' An actor's life for me'.

    • @michaeldignan4607
      @michaeldignan4607 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was also a journalist in an 80s sitcom called Hot Metal

    • @happinesstan
      @happinesstan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I vaguely remember that,

    • @michaeldignan4607
      @michaeldignan4607 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@happinesstan I think it's available on TH-cam

    • @stephenbranley91
      @stephenbranley91 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephenderbyshire7849 I've been listening to the radio version of this and I prefer it. I think the radio cast is better. Still JGS in the main role, but Caroline Quentin as Sue and Gary Waldhorn as Desmond.

  • @MrKaywyn
    @MrKaywyn ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Waiting For God is a masterpiece.

  • @adriangreetham1386
    @adriangreetham1386 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Joking Apart was far better than suggested here. Steven Moffat employs all the narrative tricks he used to great effect later in Coupling. Series 1 is especially funny and definitely deserves much more love.

  • @jamesstewart7736
    @jamesstewart7736 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I actually remember Chelmsford 123 and used to love it 🤣

  • @AdiSneakerFreak
    @AdiSneakerFreak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    A good list of obscure sitcoms but Brittas was certainly major and remembered by many I’d have thought. Anyway keep up the good work. Top channel mate.

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah.... clutching at straws with "E" there lol

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TFOOS one missing from this list was .. The big one .. at least i think that is what it was called .. it starred sandy tosvic as an english woman who takes in an american as a lodger or similar . channel 4 did that I think

  • @CaitiffPrimogen
    @CaitiffPrimogen ปีที่แล้ว +8

    On The Up brought us the phrase, "Just the one Mrs Wembley?" which I hear quoted a lot by people who can't have possibly seen the series :D

    • @victoriadunnett4745
      @victoriadunnett4745 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The theme tune was such an ear worm!!

    • @johnd6487
      @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oops.. just said that myself.. I really should read all the comments before I put my own in lol

  • @colinrumford2265
    @colinrumford2265 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Before the Hamlet adverts, Baldy Man was a character in Naked Video, a Scottish sketch show which also launched Rab C Nesbit.

  • @jimmythebantam
    @jimmythebantam ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A few more 90s ones; The Piglet Files with Nicholas Lyndhurst, Chalk (from the team behind Joking Apartment), Oh Doctor Beeching (from the Hi Di Hi team), Grace and Favour (follow up to Are You Being Served?), Let Them Eat Cake with French and Saunders and Me You and Him with Punt and Dennis and Nick Hancock).

    • @stephenbranley91
      @stephenbranley91 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chalk was dreadful, but worth watching for a young Nicola Walker as Miss Travers.

    • @Scripture-Man
      @Scripture-Man ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephenbranley91 I took your comment on board and started watching Chalk. I was pleasantly surprised! Really funny programme! Turns out it was written by Steven Moffat, one of my favourite writers. I just wish the characters were a little more realistic and nuanced, instead of full-out insane!

    • @stephenbranley91
      @stephenbranley91 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Scripture-Man perhaps I need to give it another chance!

    • @samsprrr3548
      @samsprrr3548 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I watched everything from the hi di hi team I enjoyed doctor beeching and you rang my lord .

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@samsprrr3548 i preffered oh doctor beeching that was good .. does anyone remember The big one i think that is what it was called starred sandy tosvic as an english woman who takes in an american lodger or similar channel 4 did that i think ..

  • @matthewperris
    @matthewperris ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Who remembers "Time After Time", the Brian Conley sitcom?

    • @GordonHeaney
      @GordonHeaney ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't. Best Regards, Gordon

    • @paddyk3079
      @paddyk3079 ปีที่แล้ว

      With Sam Beckinsale . Who incidentally, was in 2 of these mentioned. "Get Well Soon" & "Duck Patrol"

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      i do .... some clips of it are on you tube .. shame some of these have never been repeated

    • @stephenreeds3632
      @stephenreeds3632 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about that terrible Brush Strokes, which seemed to go on for ever.

  • @NostalgiaBrit
    @NostalgiaBrit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I remember 'Waiting For God' being one of the shows my biological father was very into…. I remember recognising the main male character being played by the chap who played Mr Clutterbuck in 'The Amazing Mr Blunden' 😆😂🤣

    • @enkisdaughter4795
      @enkisdaughter4795 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Graham Crowden - I’ve got Waiting for God on DVD; it’s still hilarious.

  • @peterhill8398
    @peterhill8398 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember the Brittas Empire, in Australia the ABC ran it on weeknights in the 6.00pm timeslot.

  • @DerekNewtonKeswick
    @DerekNewtonKeswick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Richard Herring & Stewart Lee used to take the piss out of “lazy comedy hacks” in their show (TMWRNJ) and I couldn’t help think of that while watching this.

    • @DukeOfKidderminster
      @DukeOfKidderminster ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And then you got off the bus.

    • @komodosp
      @komodosp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@flippingell8849Aaaaaaahhhhh... So I didn't imagine that!

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Some really good ones here. I loved Mullberry, great show. Not on this list, but from the nineties. Waiting for God was my favorite that is actually on your list.

    • @victoriadunnett4745
      @victoriadunnett4745 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also loved mulberry! Quite sad tho

    • @billyhills9933
      @billyhills9933 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Now there was a show with a dark premise that somehow turned into a standard sitcom.
      It reunited Karl Howman and Tony Selby from Get Some In (though KH was only a replacement in the last series).

  • @awalkinthedark5267
    @awalkinthedark5267 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I used to watch the Brittas Empire when I was little. There were so many scenes that traumatized me! The time they had a crocodile in the pool, when they nearly decapitated a maintenance worker with a welding torch, the horribleness of Brittas's relationship with his depressed wife. There was so much I can't unsee!

  • @johnd6487
    @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow.. On The Up.. I’d forgotten it, yet the minute you brought it up the catchphrase ‘Just the one Mrs Wembley?’ came straight to mind

  • @davy_K
    @davy_K ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't imagine a worse idea than a UK version of Married with Children starring Russ Abbot. Jesus.

  • @Jillian2900
    @Jillian2900 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving your channel and the wave of nostalgia. I've been binge watching. Thank you. Also, you (narrator) remind me strongly of Fine Time Fontayne (Ian Crossley) of the Blackburn Files. It must be the Northern accent.

  • @davidjjharding
    @davidjjharding 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I loved waiting for god. Stephanie Cole and Graham Cowden were a treat.

  • @friendlyadvice7302
    @friendlyadvice7302 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You had me at "Heil Honey, I'm Home".

  • @djmattblack
    @djmattblack ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Chemlsford 123 was great, it featured Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mullville from the Channel 4 sketch show Who dares wins, which also featured Baldrick himself Aka Tony Robsinson. Rory McGrath of course went on to star on They think its all over.

  • @groovygraham
    @groovygraham ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember watching "Families" and also "Revelations" Both on late at night.

  • @shockz16
    @shockz16 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A couple I'd like to throw in the hat are..
    Starting Out (1999), Starring
    Siobhan Hayes of My Family and
    Ricci Harnett aka Rise of the footsoldier's Carlton Leach no less.
    The Dectectives (1993), Starring Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell. Maybe this one isn't obscure enough though.

    • @timdogdawg4099
      @timdogdawg4099 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Detectives was hilarious!!

  • @Turnbull50
    @Turnbull50 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I really loved the Brittas Empire I also loved Is It Legal and I found it side splittingly hilarious. So our comedy tastes do not match. If I found Is It Legal was on DVD I would have bought it.

  • @evelynwilson1566
    @evelynwilson1566 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved Terry and Julian, and Sean's Show. Waiting For God was excellent. I think Heil Honey I'm Home showed on one of the cable channels, which were trying to be a bit shocking. I don't think many people saw it. I never watched The Baldy Man but I loved the adverts.

  • @Gmackematix
    @Gmackematix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think there was a framing story for Heil Honey I'm Home, that it was supposed to be a lost American sitcom from the 1950s.

  • @heartbeatcity23
    @heartbeatcity23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice to see this one list finally made
    Now all that’s left is the 70s and the early 2000s
    Keep up the great works

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On my to-do list mate

    • @heartbeatcity23
      @heartbeatcity23 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TFOOS right on!

  • @fortheloveofzuckuss1724
    @fortheloveofzuckuss1724 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Does anyone remember The Peter Principle with Jim Broadbent as a bank manager? One of my favourite 90's sitcoms.

    • @montymole7114
      @montymole7114 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of my favorites with the gorgeous Claire Skinner. Great program

    • @matthewperris
      @matthewperris ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was awesome!

    • @pferreira1983
      @pferreira1983 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's a show that was unfairly treated by the BBC and should have gone on longer. It was so funny. 😂

  • @Roberto_79
    @Roberto_79 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Joking apart, absolutely fantastic and Stephen went on to give us in my opinion, the best sitcom ever “coupling“

  • @SAMTYLER1974
    @SAMTYLER1974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How about Hippies, the "forgotten" sitcom from Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews of Father Ted and IT Crowd fame? Not as funny as either of the former but still worth a watch with a great cast including the aforementioned Darren Boyd alongside Simon Pegg, Julian Rhind-Tutt and the always utterly gorgeous Sally Phillips. It also featured the wonderful Kevin Eldon in one episode and the spellchecker nightmare that is Peter Serafinowicz
    I'd also add an honourable mention for The Peter Principle which was hardly groundbreaking stuff but still watchable and worth a chuckle if only for the magnificent Jim Broadbent in the lead role

  • @ChannelNEM
    @ChannelNEM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have only heard of Chelmsford 123 and Brighton Bells because of your channel
    Remember The Brittas Empire and the reception using the filing cabnet to keep her baby in.
    Must thank you for including a programme which included Richard Lumsden in, didn't know his name but his face has bugged me for months and months. Not his looks but I can remember him being in a programme and not knowing what it or he were called. So I have finally tracked it down. Thank You
    Loved Sean's Show "By-bye, bye....by-bye..bye...bye...bye"

    • @MATTY110981
      @MATTY110981 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember Brighton Bells getting promoted at the time on Carlton and being told it was a remake of the Golden Girls.
      I was perplexed why anyone would remake a sitcom that was already very popular in Britain.

  • @daleywhaley
    @daleywhaley ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't forget the non-event "Babes In The Wood"

  • @elizabethclayton2587
    @elizabethclayton2587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very good thanks 😌

  • @carpii
    @carpii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wonder if anyone remembers ‘If you see God tell him’? (1993)
    It starred Richard Briers as a wheelchair bound simpleton, who took all advertisements as factual.
    It only ran for one series, I remember really enjoying it at the time

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It rings a bell definitely

    • @johnd6487
      @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember it a little.. mostly him cleaning the toilet with every chemical possible then deciding happiness was a cigar called Hamlet and demonstrating why such cleaning chemicals don’t mix

  • @sobo5476
    @sobo5476 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brittas Empire is a classic, always remember it being on the telly on a Saturday just before the Brian Conley show and the lottery.

  • @dave1the1deer1hunter
    @dave1the1deer1hunter ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Operation Good Guys was actually a funny sit com from the 90's

    • @Tcoldsteel
      @Tcoldsteel ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was hilarious. I believe The Office copied the mockumentary format

  • @Bumphuk
    @Bumphuk 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    @12:40 the words "write the theme tune, sing the theme tune" came to mind for some reason...

  • @GioMarron
    @GioMarron ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I LOVED Chelmsford 123. I think
    It’s available on some service related to Channel 4 as I remember giving it another view a few years ago.
    I think it was, like most, built of it’s time and wouldn’t be given the time of day now, but I loved it at the time
    Rory McGrath play Badvoc, the local chieftain, and Jimmy Mulville was Aulus Paulinus, the Roman governor of Britain.
    I need to see if I can find it again. Loved it

    • @johnd6487
      @johnd6487 ปีที่แล้ว

      I rewatched it fairly recently as well, it’s on All4, or was last time I had a look.. they’ve got quite a lot of their back catalogue on there at the moment

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      talking of channel 4 does anyone remember the big one starring sandi tosvic taking in an american lodger ?

  • @shockz16
    @shockz16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't remember the majority of these. However episodes of the Baldy Man were always shown on Britannia Airways flights when we used to go on holiday during that era, funnily enough I don't ever remember seeing it on the TV though.

  • @yoptastic8463
    @yoptastic8463 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do remember most of these, whether good or bad. I was in my mid to late teens in the early 90's and I remember a few were my favourites like Chelmsford 123 with Rory McGarth as Briton Badvok and Jimmy Mullville as Roman Leader Aulus Paulinus and Philip Pope as sidekick Grasientus, it was generally on after 10 O' clock because it was quite adult humour. Seans Show was one after 10pm on Channel 4 and was funny almost in a Neil from the Young Ones kind of way and I loved the removal of the 'Fourth Wall' concept and the sock on the radiator that never dried! I did love Chris Barrie in The Brittas Empire as he was riding high at the time off the back of being one of the main Spitting Image voices, doing much comedy on Radio and also Red Dwarf - a busy man! I also do remember Gordon Kennedy in Althetico Party but also shouting 'Stoney-Bridge' in the sketch show Absolutely! with Morwiena Banks and it's great to see Gordon quite regually on TV in various programms to this day. I did watch also the super Julian Clary after the sucess of The Joan Colins Fan Club on Channel 4 in the 80's, in Terry and Jullian which itself was a re-hash for C4 again of an old BBC Radio 4 comdey with Kenneth Williams and Hugh paddick called Round the Horne, I just used to love Jullians' outfitts every week and the camp double entendres! Thank you very much for this trip down funny lane. Oh and Gregory Fisher who was the Baldie Man went on to have much sucess for a long time with down-and-out Glaswien alcoholic Rab C Nesbitt but started out with a Baldie Man character in a series of Hamlet Cigar ads in the 80's which was so popular and funny at the time that he got an actual spin-off show but it was sadly not as good. 😊👍❤📺🎬🎥

  • @vickymatthews1358
    @vickymatthews1358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sitting Pretty and May to December. These were a couple of my favourites at the time that were not mentioned. I'm not sure how they'd stand up now. 🤔

  • @panenka7656
    @panenka7656 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Peter Principle staring Jim Broadbent as an incompetent bank manager ran for 2 series and is well worth a watch... very funny and on here.

  • @DreFromMaine8472
    @DreFromMaine8472 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have NEVER heard of Captain Butler, and I'm a huge Red Dwarf fan! Craig Charles shouldnt have bothered doing it is what I say!

  • @wayne7521
    @wayne7521 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brittas empire , Blot on the landscape , black adder goes forth

  • @Rhubba
    @Rhubba ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the 90s there was a bit of lifting from the USA. Brighton Belles was a British Golden Girls, Married For Life was Married With Kids and Sean's Show was It's Gary Shandling's Show.
    The Brittas Empire was well known but what about Chris Barrie's other sitcom from the 90s? A Prince Among Men where he plays retired footballer and NOT a Kevin Keegan clone.
    Other 90s sitcoms largely forgotten now: So Haunt Me (modern family get haunted by an old Jewish lady ghost), Sitting Pretty and Nightingales.

  • @Tomurow
    @Tomurow ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ha. I must've watched too much TV in my teens 'cos I remember pretty much all of these!

  • @LindaRacic
    @LindaRacic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember most of these , loved Haggard ,Waiting For God and The Brittas Empire

  • @markthomas9568
    @markthomas9568 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I loved waiting for god i used to watch it with my mum on Thursdays. I have the box set now. It was funny with Basil the lady magnet.

  • @markgoldspink5109
    @markgoldspink5109 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved joking Apart, First season was awesome and enough nerds put pressure on so it was released from the archives so can be bought.

  • @robertmcelwaine7024
    @robertmcelwaine7024 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember On the Up. Joan Sim's character, Mrs. Wembley had the catchphrase "Just the One", as she was a bit of a heavy drinker. I'm curious as to how it didn't run longer than it did, as I recall it being fairly successful.

  • @XianHu
    @XianHu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for including the chapters with timestamps; very appreciated (even if they may not all be named correctly 15:50) 🙂

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I find that these sometimes just appear, I hadn't put these on myself. Often wondered how they get on there

    • @XianHu
      @XianHu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TFOOS Interesting, I didn't know that. It must be something within TH-cam, I suppose

  • @nsierra2297
    @nsierra2297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Baldy Man actually gave me nightmares as a child!

  • @yellowcougar18
    @yellowcougar18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There was a UK remake of 'That 70's Show' that came out in '99, called 'Days like These'.
    It lasted one season, and shouldn't even have lasted that.

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

    • @MATTY110981
      @MATTY110981 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recall it didn’t even last a whole season and the plan was to have a 20ish episodes like an American sitcom.
      Also unlike other British remakes of American sitcoms. The producers of That 70’s show were involved in its creation.

  • @andrewquick4176
    @andrewquick4176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    LOVED BRITTAS EMPIRE

  • @DynamixWarePro
    @DynamixWarePro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I grew up in the 90s but I haven't heard of most of these except The Brittas Empire which I quite liked, Waiting For God, Heil Honey I'm Home and Married For Life which I only found out about last year. I also vaguely remember The Baldy Man but it was probably from adverts more than the actual show.

  • @4justo740
    @4justo740 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:33. Didn't Ray Galton and Alan Simpson meet in a TB recovery ward after the war which is how their partnership began and led to Hancock and Steptoe.

  • @waynenewark5363
    @waynenewark5363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The actress in the clip from Is It Legal starred in the show Coupling.
    BTW - I liked The Brittas Empire

    • @Gmackematix
      @Gmackematix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes. She is Kate Isitt (Legal?)!

    • @TheYoungDoctor
      @TheYoungDoctor ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She was Sally in Coupling.

  • @Agnethatheredhairkid
    @Agnethatheredhairkid ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved 'Haggard', 'Waiting For God' and 'No Job For A Lady'. Even my impossible to please father loved them. I also have a virtual pet spider called Elvis!
    Never watched 'The Brittas Empire'. Not too keen on Chris Barrie, there's something about him I can't warm to.

  • @rebdj
    @rebdj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some good and bad memories in this video, great stuff!

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for commenting - your comment will be featured in the next episode of "Footnotes" on this channel

  • @martinsmith8487
    @martinsmith8487 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Richard Lumsden played ‘Foggy’ in first of the summer wine

  • @goweresque
    @goweresque ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about Game On, with the lovely Samantha Janus? Or is that too memorable?

  • @imfpredicts
    @imfpredicts ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Joking Apart series 2 was the funniest thing made in Britain in the 90's. It was far more anarchic than the description and just ran its course. I watch the dvd regularly. Seriously, the personified penis episode almost killed me laughing.

    • @quaid667
      @quaid667 ปีที่แล้ว

      The first episode of series 2 is brilliant. Then again, every episode was amazing.

    • @jimbrown7196
      @jimbrown7196 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was in agony laughing at S2 E1.

  • @michailokeefeMooMoo
    @michailokeefeMooMoo ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video very informative and interesting. Lol of theses were very crap too

  • @jimbrown7196
    @jimbrown7196 ปีที่แล้ว

    Joking Apart was superb. Any comedy that comes up with a gem such as "Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh", is alright with me.

  • @monkeytennis8861
    @monkeytennis8861 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brittas Empire was really famous.
    I remember that TB one - weird set up.
    I liked Is It Legal? I know it wasn't good though.

  • @XianHu
    @XianHu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    15:50 Is that the same set used for the chapel scenes in "The Vicar of Dibley"?

  • @TheBarrymanfan
    @TheBarrymanfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is why I love your channel I always learn something.
    I loved is it legal and I own all three series on dvd. Patrick Barlow who played Bob was the shopping channel presenter Bridget Jones's mum had an affair with in case you didn't know.
    I also loved the Brittas Empire but I have to agree Colin was not for teatime.
    I was a huge fan of LOS DOS BROS Cavin Clerkin you might remember from IT crowd as the man who coaxed Roy into being a getaway driver and Darren Boyd was in Smack the Pony.
    I do very much remember Captain Butler...It used to be on late at night.

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Never saw Captain Butler which surprises me as its the sort of thing I'd have given a go back them

    • @TheBarrymanfan
      @TheBarrymanfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was NO Red Dwarf that's for sure :) it was OK.
      I was a big fan of Is it legal as I say I completely forgot it moved channels.
      Itv to channel 4.
      A bit like Men behaving Badly which started on Itv for 2 series and then moved to BBC.

  • @Benjiesbeenbetter.
    @Benjiesbeenbetter. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The only thing I can remember from Brighton Belles is their attempt to recreate the Golden Girls joke:
    "Hello, I'm Blanche Devereaux. That's French for
    Blanche Devereaux. "
    Somehow "Hello, I'm Brigit Donelly That's Irish for
    Brigit Donelly " doesn't have the same ring.

  • @colinrumford2265
    @colinrumford2265 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Remember Chelmsford 123 very well and watched all of them. Also had as a guest Philip Pope (Cwying) from their Who Dares Wins team.

  • @1emmajones
    @1emmajones ปีที่แล้ว

    I live Sean’s show!! Please. Love it. Thanks for the this video. So funny what they got away with them. Love Julian too. X

    • @gusyonok9950
      @gusyonok9950 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sean's Show was amazingly good, but tucked away in a very late Friday night slot as i remember. Wonder if that sock is dry yet?

  • @chessoc7799
    @chessoc7799 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chelmsford 123 was a favorite and still is. So was waiting for god ( I think that one still gets repeated on some channels ). Its a shame sitcoms seem to be dying out.

  • @danielharvey1489
    @danielharvey1489 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A shame Colin's Sandwich didn't get a look in. 2 series from 88-90 and in my opinion, total genius.

    • @stephenderbyshire7849
      @stephenderbyshire7849 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I enjoyed it too; I still remember the 'best man' speech episode.

  • @Dark_Nemesis4300
    @Dark_Nemesis4300 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved "Is it Legal". I still do!

  • @fallingmusic
    @fallingmusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you do another video of forgotten 90’s sitcoms?

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm making one right now 👍

  • @orb505
    @orb505 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Loads to choose from in the 90's. A few I remember:
    L - Lazarus & Dingwall. 1991,
    H - I remember Haggard, it was bad. "Home To Roost" also with Reece Dinsdale was far better!
    N - Nightingales? No one seems to remember this. Brilliant series only ran for 2 though, have the DVD
    O - Totally agree, On the Up was great. I have the complete 3 series on DVD
    Baldy Man dates back to the sketch show Naked Video, the Hamlet ad was a direct lift from one of their sketches (Fisher being in Naked Video as well)
    Good list though!

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I almost included Nightingales but thought too many people would complain and say they remembered it lol

    • @Gmackematix
      @Gmackematix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nightingales. Nobody here but us chickens!

    • @martinsmith8487
      @martinsmith8487 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course I remember‘nightingales’ there’s nobody here but us 🐓

    • @martinsmith8487
      @martinsmith8487 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who dares wins 1983

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      lazarus and dingwall starred the blokes from carling black label advert sadly another lost from the archives

  • @chrishowgill888
    @chrishowgill888 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here's a couple for you hunt down! The Front Line, with Paul Barber & Tony Scoggo (think that's right) Laura & Disorder (Wendy Craig)
    Oh yeah, also Cowboys - (Peter Learmouth?)

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh yeah cowboys . i just about remember that .. another one that is missing is the gaffer

  • @kimgrattage6049
    @kimgrattage6049 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never heard of these either. Captain Butler is what that bloke who was in it loved saying, Bollocks. lol

  • @stevencowie7151
    @stevencowie7151 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved Sean's Show. RIP.

  • @michealhealy2846
    @michealhealy2846 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video. Does anyone remember Chalk from around 96/97? It was set in a school and centred around the head teacher. I thought it was OK at the time, but if we look back now it was probably terrible.

    • @TheYoungDoctor
      @TheYoungDoctor ปีที่แล้ว

      Written by Steven Moffat.

    • @neil993
      @neil993 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember loving it at the time but I'm pretty sure it was probably dreadful. Although it had Nicola Walker in it before she played the same detective role in everything, and in it she was probably my first celebrity crush lol

  • @Paul_1971
    @Paul_1971 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely loved Fiddlers Three as a youngster - wish they were on DVD. Big fan of Eric Chappell sitcoms.

  • @smeggeruk
    @smeggeruk ปีที่แล้ว

    I could be wrong, but the David Tennant photo used in the thumbnail is his portrayal of Campbell Bain from Takin' Over the Asylum, and I don't see that in the list of chapters (not that it should be, as it is a dramatic comedy with minimal comedy)...I don't think he's been in any of the shows mentioned either
    I'm NOT wrong here, but Red Dwarf is definitely not a past sitcom, it is still going fairly strong with the last episode (a feature length episode, called "the promised land") came out in 2020 (a good 6 months before this video first aired) and the previous two episodes in 2016 and 2017...it's definitely not something people "don't remember". There'll be more episodes of it, and I'm pretty sure it's the only sitcom of the list that is still going

  • @XianHu
    @XianHu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:58 I've never seen the show, but the title made me think of the 2005 movie "Keeping Mum" which I enjoyed very much.

  • @davis123321123
    @davis123321123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love Sean's Show, have the first series on dvd somewhere

    • @TFOOS
      @TFOOS  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was one of my faves

    • @robaspinall988
      @robaspinall988 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TFOOS some more that are missing .. the gaffer ... cowboys and the big one ..

  • @dinogoldie9716
    @dinogoldie9716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blue Heaven, Captain Butler, Game On, Me you and him, Nightingales,
    So haunt me.

  • @GavTatu
    @GavTatu ปีที่แล้ว

    chelmsford 123... loved that !

  • @FranzSanchez-ky9up
    @FranzSanchez-ky9up ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember Terry and Julian. It was like Mrs. Brown's Boys, before it's time... I liked it, but then I was only nine years old.

  • @Autopsy6
    @Autopsy6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sean's Show was great!

  • @davidfrancis6491
    @davidfrancis6491 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still love chelmsford 123 its a very under estimated show the dvd is still available and worth a watch

  • @mauk2861
    @mauk2861 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw the first 2 episodes in the studio audience, and the out-takes were better than the comedy bits!

  • @tonywilkins9616
    @tonywilkins9616 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    For years I wondered if I had somehow imagined that Craig Charles played a pirate. Now I know

  • @DreFromMaine8472
    @DreFromMaine8472 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know Sam Kelly from Allo, Allo, which I liked, On The Up, which was OK, and Barbara, which I hated. Never heard of Haggard!

  • @LeePender1973
    @LeePender1973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We got Brittas Empire on public TV in the US. It wasn't great. We also got Waiting for God, which was fantastic.

  • @adrianmcardle85
    @adrianmcardle85 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:08 the brittas empire "that grubby bloke colin used to really put me off my lunch"

  • @mrandrew1243
    @mrandrew1243 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brittas empire was class 👌

  • @carolthomas6334
    @carolthomas6334 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Out of all of these I remember up the garden path which was ok but I also remember and love the brittas empire, waiting for god and on the up x.

  • @Marty2011uk
    @Marty2011uk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chelmsford 123, the same Guys from Absolutely. C123 is similar to Black Adder.
    Season 1
    Arrivaderci Roma -- 9 March 1988 (played entirely in Latin until Aulus arrives in Britain)
    What's Your Poison? -- 16 March 1988
    The Girl of My Dreams -- 23 March 1988
    One For The Road -- 30 March 1988
    Vidi Vici Veni -- 6 April 1988
    Peeled Grapes and Pedicures -- 13 April 1988
    Season 2
    Heads You Lose -- 9 January 1990
    Get Well Soon -- 16 January 1990
    Bird Trouble -- 23 January 1990
    Odi, et Amo -- 30 January 1990
    The Secret War -- 6 February 1990
    Mine's a Double -- 13 February 1990
    Something Beginning With 'E' -- 20 February 1990