The Definitive UK Sitcom List, complete, 3404 lines, updated 1999-02-05 # Copyright (c) 1993-1998 by Dave Budd (D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk). Using this text without crediting the authors would be theft from over 200 contributors worldwide. Any non-profit usage is permitted if this copyright notice remains attached. # A.J.Wentworth BA (82) ITV(Thames) Basil Boothroyd from stories by H F Ellis School maths master and the dreaded third form Arthur Lowe (his last television role), Harry Andrews, Marion Mathie # A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases (67-,71) BBC1 Alan Melville & Henry Cecil (67-), Michael Gilbert & Christopher Bond (71) Exceptionally litiginous man usually wins Alastair Sim, Roy Dotrice, Avice Landon, Thorley Walters # Abigail And Roger (56) BBC Kevin Sheldon Engaged couple in bedsit land Julie Webb, David Drummond, Rosina Enright, Grace Denbeigh-Russell, John Stone # Absolutely Fabulous (92,94,95,special{2eps}96) BBC Jennifer Saunders Magazine fashion exec (ie pretentious workshy hedonist 'society' type) Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield # An Actor's Life For Me (91) BBC Paul Mayhew-Archer. An aspiring actor goes for many auditions and few jobs (from Radio4) John Gordon Sinclair, Victor Spinetti, Gina McKee # The Adventures Of Don Quick (70) ITV(LWT) Peter Wildeblood, Kenneth Hill, Keith Miles, Charlotte & Dennis Plimmer Intergalactic maintenance techie tries to right wrongs [?sitcom] Ian Hendry, Ronald Lacey # Affairs of the Heart (85) ITV(Granada) Paul Daneman Convalescing after a heart attack Derek Fowlds, Sarah Badel # After Henry (88..92(30eps)) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett {straight copy of R4 version} Widow has daughter upstairs and mother downstairs Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood, Jonathan Newth # Agony (79,80,81) ITV(LWT) Len Richmond & Anna Raeburn (79), Stan Hey and Andrew Nickolds (80,81) About an agony-aunt Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles, Peter Blake, Jan Holden, Diana Weston, Jeremy Bulloch, Peter Denyer, Robert Gillespie, Bill Nighy, Robert Austin # Agony Again (95) BBC Carl Gorham, Michael Hatt, Amanda Swift Dizzy agony aunt and chat show hostess: sequel to Agony Maureen Lipman, Maria Charles, Niall Buggy, David Harewood, Doon Mackichan, Sacha Grunpeter, Valerie Edmond # Ain't Misbehavin' (94,95) BBC Roy Clarke Eternal quadrangle Peter Davison, Nicola Pagett, Lesley Manville->Karen Drury, John Duttine, Polly Hemingway # The Airbase (65) BBC2 John Briley American airforce base in rural England David Healy, Eddie Matthews, Alan Gifford, David Kelsey # Albert! (72) ITV(Yorkshire) Rodney Bewes & Derrick Goodwin Continuation of Dear Mother . . . Love Albert (which see) Rodney Bewes, Cheryl Hall, Garfield Morgan, Amelia Bayntun # Albert And Victoria (70,71) ITV(Yorkshire) Reuben Ship Victorian father rules family sternly, but also with affection Zena Walker(70)->Barbara Murray(71)->Frances Bennett(71), Alfred Marks, Kika Markham(70)->Gay Hamilton(71), Petra Markham, John Alkin, Rufus Frampton, John Ash, Miriam Mann # Alcock And Gander (72) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Marriage-bureau-cum-Tom O'Thimble Lucky Pixie shop Beryl Reid, Richard O'Sullivan, John Cater # Alexander The Greatest (71,72) ITV(ATV) Bernard Kops Inducements keep 16yr old rebel at home: domestic mayhem Sydney Tafler, Libby Morris, Garry Warren, Adrienne Posta, Peter Birrel # All Aboard (-59) ?channel Gerald Kelsey, Dick Sharples, John Jowett Ocean liner Arthur Lowe, Avril Angers, Susan Shaw, Richard Coleman, John Gale, Charles Morgan, Richard Thorp, Peter Greenspan # All At No. 20 (86,87) ITV(Thames) Ian Davidson & Peter Vincent; Alex Shearer; Richard Ommanney Woman takes in student lodgers Maureen Lipman, Gabrielle Glaister, Lisa Jacobs, Carol Hawkins(87) Gary Waldhorn, Martin Clunes(87), Gregory Doran(86), David Bannerman(86) # All Gas And Gaiters (p66,67..71:5seasons) BBC Edwin Apps & Pauline Devaney p66: "The Bishop Rides Again" General fun'n'games with bishops etc Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare, William Mervyn, Ernest Clark # All Good Things (91) BBC Lesley Bruce Woman approaching 40 has new (3rd) baby and meddles in people's lives Brenda Blethyn, Warren Clarke, Paul Reynolds, Timothy Stark # All In Good Faith (-86,87,88) ITV(Thames) John Kane Country vicar changes his parish for an inner-city church Richard Briers, Barbara Ferris, James Campbell. # All Night Long (94) BBC Dick Fiddy & Mark Wallington All night bakery in Soho Keith Barron, Maureen Beattie, Dinah Sheridan, Angus Lennie, Jan Winters, John Pythian, Jacqueline Reddin, Robert McKewley, Paul Grunert. # All Our Saturdays (73) ITV(Yorkshire) Stuart Harris, Oliver Free Woman runs textile business and amateur rugby league team Diana Dors, Tony Caunter, Norman Jones, Anthony Jackson, Doug Fisher, John Comer # All Quiet On The Preston Front (94) BBC Tim Firth Sequel series called Preston Front TA volunteers Paul Haigh, Colin Buchanan, Adrian Hood, Susan Wooldridge, Alistair McGowan, Tony Marshall, Kate Gartside, Caroline Gatz, Lucky Athurst, David MacCreedy, Holly Grainger, Ozzie Yue, Keiran Flynn, Sam Graham # All Square (66) ITV(ATV) Michael Bentine? Filthnik is the capital of Ozonia Michael Bentine, Derek Guyler, Benny Lee, Leon Thau # 'Allo! 'Allo! (p82,84,85,86-,87,88-,89,,91,92ab) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft; later Jeremy Lloyd & Mark Adams Resistance, Gestapo, everybody, eat at Rene's cafe in occupied France Gorden Kaye, Sam Kelly, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera, Richard Marner, Kirsten Cooke, Guy Siner, Richard Gibson, Kim Hartman, Kenneth Connor, John D Collins, Nicholas Frankau, Rose Hill, Francesca Gonshaw, Hilary Minster, John Louis Mansi, Arthur Bostrom, Jack Haig # And Mother Makes Five (74ab,75,76) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring, Jonathan Marr{=Wendy Craig}, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke spinoff from AMM3, she marries a man with a child, to make it 5 Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman, Miriam Mann, Tony Britton, Charlotte Mitchell, Maxine Gordon # And Mother Makes Three (71ab-,72,73) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring, David Cumming, Derek Colyer, Peter Buchanan, Peter Robinson Woman has two kids, cat, goldfish Wendy Craig, Robin Davies, David Parfitt, Valerie Lush, Richard Coleman, Miriam Mann, George Selway, Lally Bowers, Gwen Nelson, Keith Marsh # Andy Capp (88) ITV(Thames) Keith Waterhouse after Reg Smythe's cartoons Hartlepool man: Dole, bookies, pub, snooker hall, telly James Bolam, Paula Tilbrook # Are You Being Served? (p72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,81,83,85) BBC1 film77(broadcast on tv 80) Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft Lots of double meanings etc in a department store Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough, Nicholas Smith, Trevor Bannister, Harold Bennett, Arthur English, Mike Berry # Are You Being Served Again? was the US title of Grace And Favour # The Army Game (57,58-ab-,-60,-61) ITV(Granada) Sid Colin, Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire, Lew Schwarz, et al National Service Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Michael Medwin, William Hartnell, Norman Rossington, Bernard Bresslaw, Geoffrey Sumner, Bernard Hunter, CB Poultney, Frank Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Harry Towb, Robert Desmond, Mario Fabrizi, Dick Emery # The Artful Dodger (59) BBC Dave Morris, Frank Roscoe Life and soul of Labour Exchange avoids work and supports Man City Dave Morris, Gretchen Franklin, Joe Gladwin # The Arthur Askey Show (61) ITV(ATV) Dave Freeman 1910 domesticity Arthur Askey, June Whitfield, Arthur Mullard, Patricia Hayes # The Arthur Haynes Show (57-) ITV Johnny Speight, mostly ?sketch show really 2 tramps Arthur Haynes, Dermot Kelly, Nicholas Parsons, ?Patricia Hayes? # As Good Cooks Go (70) BBC Johnny Warren, John Singer Welsh-Irish cook in different location each week Tessie O'Shea # As Time Goes By (92,93,94,95,96,97,98) BBC(Theatre of Comedy/DLTaffnerUKLtd) Bob Larbey Couple attempt to rekindle old flame Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Jenny Funnell, Paul Chapman, Moira Brooker, Philip Bretherton, Frank Middlemass, Joan Sims # Astronauts (81) ITV (Witzend) Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie Three astronauts and a dog + their boring routine lives... Christopher Godwin, Carmen Du Sautoy, Barrie Rutter, Bruce Boa # Atletico Partick (96) BBC Ian Pattison Sex, liniment, and Sunday football Gordon Kennedy, Ronnie Letham, Iain McColl, Tom McGovern, Steven McNicoll, Gavin Mitchell, Aline Mowat, Clive Russell, Anne Marie Timoney, Jonathan Watson, Frances Barrett, Sandy Nelson # Auf Wiedersehen Pet (83-,86) ITV(Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, and others Brickies go to work in Germany; series2 Wolverhampton, Derbyshire & Spain Tim Healy, Gary Holton, Jimmy Nail, Pat Roach, Timothy Spall, Kevin Whately, Christopher Fairbank, Brigitte Kahn, Lysette Anthony, Michael Elphick, Michael Sheard, Heinz Bernard, Peter Birch, Bill Paterson(86), Melanie Hill(86), Madelaine Newton(86), Caroline Hutchinson(86), Su Elliot(86) # B. And B. (68) BBC Michael Pertwee 2 career couple struggle with modern teenage society Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Kim Braden, Mark Griffith # Babes In The Wood (98) ITV Geoff Deane 3 young women who live in St John's Wood, London Karl Howman, Samantha Janus, Denise Van Outen, Natalie Walter # Bachelor Father (70,71) BBC Richard Waring A single foster father. Based on real-life story of P L Jeffcock Ian Carmichael, Sonia Dresdel, Sonia Graham, Briony Roberts, Ian Johnson, Roland Pickering, Beverley Simons, Angela Ryder # Bad Boys (96,?second series?) BBC Ian Pattison [may be comdram] Cockney wide boy stranded in Glasgow's gangland Karl Howman, Freddie Boardley, Alex Norton, Aline Mowat, et al # Ballyskillen Opera House (81) ITV Linda Thornber Old fraud managed ramshackle Irish theatre [sitcom+weekly variety act] Frank Carson, Anna Manahan, Charlie Roberts, Bernadette Short, Angela Catterall # Barney Is My Darling (65-) BBC Barry Took & Marty Feldman Barney returns after 12 years at sea with the Merchant Navy Bill Fraser, Irene Handl, Angela Crow, Pat Coombs # The Bed-sit Girl (65,66) BBC Ronald Wolf & Ronald Chesney Scatty typist in bedsitland Sheila Hancock, Dilys Laye(65), Derek Nimmo(66), Hy Hazell # Beggar My Neighbour (p66,67,68(3series:22eps)) BBC Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland 2 "differently financed" couples are neighbours - the wives are sisters. June Whitfield, Reg Varney, Pat Coombs, Peter Jones->Desmond Walter-Ellis # The Beiderbecke Affair has been adjudged a comedy drama The Beiderbecke Tapes has been adjudged a comedy drama The Beiderbecke Connection has been adjudged a comedy drama (but is it?) # Beryl's Lot (73,74,75,77) ITV(YTV) Kevin Laffan after Margaret Powell 74: Bill McIlwraith Milkman's charlady wife determined to improve herself. Based on true story of Margaret Powell Carmel McSharry, Mark Kingston->George Selway, Verna Harvey, Brian Capron, Anita Carey, Tony Caunter, Barbara Mitchell, Robert Keegan, Annie Leake, Robin Askwith, Norman Mitchell, Queenie Watts, Johnny Shannon # Best Of Enemies (68,69) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Rival MPs Tim Barrett, Robert Coote, Deryck Guyler # Best Of Friends (63) ITV(ABC) Brad Ashton, Bob Block, Gerry Maxin Insurance clerk in family business Charles Hawtrey, Henry Longhurst, Hylda Baker, Sheena Marsh # The Best Things In Life (69,70) ITV(ATV) Bernard Botting, Adele Rose, Jack Trevor Story Alfred Wilcox, engaged for 11 years, prefers it that way. Harry H Corbett, Bob Todd, Pearl Hackney, June Whitfield, Pat Heywood, Carmel McSharry # Beyond The Groove doesn't fit my definition of sitcom # Big Boy Now! (76,78) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor Mother's boy Leslie Crowther, Fabia Drake, Ronald Lewis, Derek Farr # Big Jim And The Figaro Club (p79,81) BBC Ted Walker Building site supervisor vs. workers Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, David John, Priscilla Morgan, Gordon Rollings, Sylvester McCoy, David Beckett, Bob Hoskins(Narrator) # The Big Noise (64) BBC Frank Muir & Denis Norden Disc jockey Norman Rossington, Bob Monkhouse # The Big One (92) C4(Hat Trick) Sandi Toksvig & Elly Brewer Large lodger. Odd-couple-ish, sort of Sandi Toksvig, Mike McShane # Billy Bunter Of Greyfriars School (52..62) BBC Frank Richards From the famous books Gerald Campion, Kynaston Reeves->Raf de la Torre->Jack Melford, John Charlesworth->Anthony Valentine->Julian Yardley, Keith Faulkner->Brian Roper->Jeremy Bulloch, Barry McGregor->Colin Campbell->David Coote->Gregory Warwick, Michael Danvers-Walker->Peter Marden->Lawrence Harrington->Michael Tennant David Spenser->Ronald Moodie->Barry Barnett->Hugh Ward # Billy Liar (73,74) ITV(LWT) Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall Fantasist works at undertakers Jeff Rawle, George A. Cooper, Pamela Vezey, May Warden, Colin Jeavons, Sally Watts(74) # Birds Of A Feather (89,90,91,92,93x,94x,x97,98) BBC(Alomo) One series by Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran At least one series (90) by Peter Tilbury episodes by various writers Convicts' wives Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis, Peter Polycarpou # Birds On The Wing (71) BBC Peter Yeldham Two lady con artists and their target: a young British tourist in Rome Julia Lockwood, Anne Rogers, Richard Briers # A Bit Of A Do (89ab) ITV(Yorkshire) David Nobbs Group of people go through complex series of relationships David Jason, Nicola Pagett, Gwen Taylor, Michael Jayston, Tim Wylton, Stephanie Cole, David Thewlis, Sara-Jane Holm, Wayne Foskett, Nigel Hastings, Karen Drury, Malcolm Hebden, Tracy Brabin, Paul Chapman # ******Blackadder - the various series and specials are listed separately! # The Black Adder (84) BBC Richard Curtis & Rowan Atkinson Middle ages Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Robert East. # Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (87) one-off special Blackadder's Christmas Carol (x88) one-off christmas special # Black-Adder II (86) BBC Richard Curtis & Ben Elton Elizabethan Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne # Blackadder The Third (87) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton Regency Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Stephen Fry # Blackadder Goes Forth (89) BBC Richard Curtis and Ben Elton 1st world war Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny # Blandings Castle (67) BBC John Chapman P G Wodehouse's stories featuring Lord Emsworth Ralph Richardson, Stanley Holloway, Derek Nimmo, Meriel Forbes, Jack Radcliffe, Jimmy Edwards, Fred Emney # Bless Me Father (78,79-,81) ITV(LWT) Peter DeRosa Cynical priest and young curate Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye # Bless This House (71,72,73,74?,75,76,77,film72)ITV(Thames) 74ab and not 75 according to one contributor, but TVGH disagrees various writers, including: 71,73: Vince Powell & Harry Driver film length version 78 72,75,77: Carla Lane 74: Dave Freeman Aging father versus modern youth Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Robin Stewart # Blind Men (97-) ITV Chris England & Nick Hancock 2 couples in the world of domestic furnishings, unwitting neighbours Jesse Birdsall, Sophie Thomson, Jeremy Swift, Andy Taylor # Bloomers (79) BBC James Saunders Resting actor works in florists Richard Beckinsale (his last role), David Swift, Anna Calder-Marshall # Blooming Marvellous (97) BBC1 John Godber & Jane Thornton Couple expecting baby Clive Mantle, Sarah Lancashire, Kathryn Hunt, Iain Rogerson # Blue Heaven (94) C4 Frank Skinner Aspiring Brummie musical duo Frank Skinner, Conleth Hill, Paula Wilcox, John Forgeham # Bold As Brass (64) BBC David Climie pilot play Man Of Brass (63) BBC Ron Watson Brass musician and his family Jimmy Edwards, Beryl Reid, Jill Hyem # Bonehead (60...62) BBC-TV Shaun Sutton Inept criminals Colin Douglas, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Douglas Blackwell # Bonjour La Classe (93) BBC(Talkback) Paul Smith & Terry Kyan Idealistic inneffective new teacher at fee-paying school Nigel Planer, Polly Adams, Timothy Bateson, Victoria Carling, Robert Gillespie, David Troughton, Nicholas Woodson, Peter Woodthorpe, Richard Vernon, Rebecca Callard, Bryan Dick, David Larkin, Daniel Newman, Simeon Pearl, Camilla Power # Bootle Saddles (84) BBC Ray Mansell & Paul Benn 'Wild West'-obsessed Brits take their holidays in Apache Wells, Lancashire Kenneth Cope, Anne Carroll, Shirley Stelfox, Gordon Rollings, Joe Gladwin, Debbie Arnold, John Normington # Bootsie And Snudge (60..63(103eps),74) ITV(Granada) Various writers, including: Barry Took & Marty Feldman, John Antrobus, Ray Whyberd, 63: Peter Miller & James Kelly, 74: David Climie & Ronnie Cass, Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal, and Ray Alan Employed at private club after leaving the army (cf.The Army Game) 74: Bootsie wins the pools, leading to a sort of role reversal Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Clive Dunn, Robert Dorning # Born And Bred (78,80) ITV(Thames) Douglas Livingstone 2 related S.London families, one respectable, the other not Max Wall, Rose Hill, James Grout, Joan Sims, Pat Ashton, Derek James, Christopher Driscoll, Gorden Kaye, Niall Padden, Trevor Peacock, Gillian Raine, Kate Williams # Both Ends Meet (72) ITV(LWT) Brian Chaser, Len Downs, Mike Firman, Patrick Radcliffe Mayhem in a sausage factory Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean, David Howe, Meadows White, Deddie Davies, Pat Ashton, Wendy Richard # Bottle Boys (84,85) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell Dairy Robin Askwith, Brian Glover, Oscar James, Eve Ferret # Bottom (91,92,95) BBC Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson 2 desperate morons share flat Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson # The Bounder (82,83) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell Conman released from prison moves in with bro-in-law, widow next door Peter Bowles, George Cole, Isla Blair # Bowler (73) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Fenn St Gang spinoff: Bowler has a finger in every crooked pie, wants class George Baker, Fred Beauman, Renny Lister, Gretchen Franklin # Boys From The Blackstuff (82) BBC Alan Bleasdale Sequel to original play "The Blackstuff": tarmac gang Tom Georgeson, Eileen O'Brien, Michael Angelis, Julie Walters, Bernard Hill, Alan Legborn, Peter Kerrigan, Gary Bleasdale, Chris Darwin # The Boys From The Bush (91,92) BBC Douglas Livingstone Londoners in Australia Tim Healy, Chris Haywood, Mark Haddigan, Nadine Garner, Pat Thomson, Kris McQuade, Kirsty Child # Brass (83,84):ITV(Granada) (90):C4 John Stevenson & Julian Roach Dark satanic mills (yes I know Blake wasn't talking about cotton mills) Timothy West, Caroline Blakiston, Barbara Ewing, Geoff Hinsliff, Shaun Scott, Emily Morgan, Robert Reynolds, James Saxon, David Ashton, Gail Harrison, John Nettleton, Gary Cady # Bread (86,87ab,88,89,90,91) BBC Carla Lane Scouser family Deborah Grant, Ronald Forfar, Jean Boht, Peter Howitt->Graham Bickley, Victor McGuire, Nick Conway, Gilly Coman->Melanie Hall, Jonathon Morris, Giles Watling, Rita Tushingham, Caroline Milmoe # The Bright Side (85) C4 Willis Hall Woman struggling to get on while husband in prison Paula Wilcox, Paul Copley, Bill Treacher, Johnny Shannon, Madge Hindle, Hilda Braid, Geoffrey Hughes # Brighton Belles (93p) ITV adapted by Christopher Skala from original Golden Girls scripts Middle-aged (and older) women sharing house Sheila Hancock, Wendy Craig, Sheila Gish, Jean Boht # The Brittas Empire (91,92,93,94abx,96x,97) BBC Richard Fegen & Andrew Norriss Smeg-head manages leisure centre Chris Barrie, Pippa Heywood, Julia St John, Michael Burns, Harriet Thorpe, Judy Flynn, Russell Porter, Tim Marriott, Jill Greenacre # Brothers In Law (62) BBC Frank Muir & Denis Norden Callow young barrister Roger Thursby embarks on his career Richard Briers, John Glyn Jones, Richard Waring, June Barry # The Brothers McGregor (85,86,87,88) ITV(Granada) Julian Roach & John Stevenson Black'n'white Liverpudlian brothers are dodgy car dealers Paul Barber, Philip Whitchurch, Jean Heywood, Jackie Downey # Brush Strokes (86,87,88,89,90,91) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Decorators Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Howard Lew Lewis, Jackie Lye, Kim Thomson->Erika Hoffman, Elizabeth Counsell, Mike Walling # Bud (63) ITV(ATV) Barry Laffen Bud Flanagan seeks work after breakup of The Crazy Gang Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jerry Desmonde, Jack Hylton, Charlie Naughton # Bulldog Breed (62) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal & Harry Driver devised Derek Granger Amiable young man provokes chaos Donald Churchill, Amanda Barrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Butterworth, Betty Huntley-Wright # Bust (87) ITV(LWT) Philip Hinchcliffe & Simon Passmore Bankrupt wheeler-dealer Paul Nicholas, Phyllis Logan, Geraldine Alexander # Butterflies (78,79x,80,x82,83) BBC Carla Lane NB: A check of the Times shows that the Guinness book of Classic TV has the wrong dates for this programme. Housewife angst: nice hubby, 2 sons, fancies other bloke but afraid Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall, Bruce Montague # The Cabbage Patch (83) ITV(Central) Joan Greening Family Life from the mother's point of view Julia Foster, Emlyn Price, Betty Marsden # Can We Get On Now, Please? (80) ITV Dennis Woolf Magistrate's court Sheila Steafel, Hugh Paddick, Robert Dorning, Michael Barrington, Charles Lamb, Valerie Phillips # Captain Butler (97) C4 John Smith, Rob Sprackling Pirates Craig Charles, Shaun Curry, Roger Griffiths # Carry On Laughing (72,75ab) 72: ? 75: ITV(ATV) various writers Specially written halfhour CarryOns by various writers Also there were 3 all-new christmas specials by Talbot Rothwell, in 69, 71, and 72(tho somebody said 69,72,73); and one by Sid Colin and Dan Freeman in 70. Various permutations of the Carry On movies' team # Casanova '73 (73) BBC Alan Simpson & Ray Galton. Womanising PR man Leslie Phillips, Jan Holden # Chalk (97ab) BBC Steven Moffat Galfest High School David Bamber, John Wells(97a), Nicola Walker, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Amanda Boxer, Duncan Preston, Andrew Livingstone, Martin Ball, John Grillo # Chalk And Cheese (79) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer Cockneys live in gentrified street Michael Crawford, Gillian Martell, Robin Hawdon, Julia Goodman, Michael Gambon # Chance In A Million (TVGH:85, but all say:84,86ab) C4(Thames) Andrew Norriss & Richard Fegen Unlikely things happen to accident-prone man & his girlfriend Simon Callow, Brenda Blethyn # Charge! (69) BBC ?writer Upper class version of Alf Garnett Robert Morley # Charley's Grants (70) BBC2 John Fortune, John Wells, NF Simpson Hattie Jacques, Willoughby Goddard # The Charlie Drake Show (67-fortnightly) BBC Charlie Drake (?sketch show?) Charlie Drake # Cheap At Half The Price (72) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Antiques shop in Chelsea Roy Kinnear, Doug Fisher, Marjie Lawrence # Chef! (93x,94,96) BBC(APC/Crucial) Peter Tilbury, eps(94) Geoff Deane Flamboyant chef Lenny Henry, Caroline Lee Johnson, Claire Skinner, Roger Griffiths, Erkan Mustafa, (Sophie Thursfield, Ben Forster) # Chelmsford 123 (88,90) C4(Hat Trick) Rory McGrath & Jimmy Mulville Roman Britain Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Phil Pope, Neil Pearson, Howard Lew Lewis Erika Hoffmann. # Chintz (81) ITV(Granada) Alex Adams, Dilys Laye, Peg Lynch Cheshire middle classes Michele Dotrice, Richard Easton, Dilys Laye, Christopher Benjamin # Citizen James (60,61,62) BBC 60: Ray Galton & Alan Simpson 61,62: Sid Green & Dick Hills Battler for lost causes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Liz Fraser, Sydney Tafler # Citizen Smith (77,78-,79,80x) BBC John Sullivan Innocuous trotskyite Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan->Tony Steedman, Hilda Braid, Stephen Greif, Tony Millan, George Sweeney, Cheryl Hall, later series David Garfield, Susie Baker # City Lights (78...?...90) BBC ?writer Scots bank clerk attempts to become a writer Gerard Kelly # The Clairvoyant (p84,86) BBC Roy Clarke Used car salesman with psychic powers Roy Kinnear, Sandra Dickinson # Clarence (p71,88) BBC Bob Ferris(=Ronnie Barker), (pilot)Hugh Leonard Myopic delivery man Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson # Class Act (94,95) ITV Michael Aitkens (billed as comedy drama) ex-rich-bitch out of jail (for fraud) seeks presumed-dead husband's cash Joanna Lumley, John Bowe, Nadine Garner, Richard Vernon, James Gaddas, Neil McCaul # A Class By Himself (72) ITV(HTV) ?writer Stately home in Somerset John Le Mesurier, Peter Butterworth # The Climber (83) BBC Alex Shearer Bakery worker discovers he has high IQ Robin Nedwell, David Battley, Jacqueline Tong, David Williams, Jack Watson # The Clitheroe Kid (?) ?channel ?writer Snotty kid Jimmy Clitheroe, Mollie Sugden, Alfie Hall # Clochemerle wasn't a sitcom within the definition of this list. # Close To Home (89,90) ITV(LWT) Brian Cooke Vet Paul Nicholas, Angharad Rees # Colin's Sandwich (88,90) BBC Paul Smith & Terry Kyan BR complaints person tries to be a writer Mel Smith, Louisa Rix, Mike Grady # Colonel Trumper's Private War (61) ITV(Granada) Bill Craig, Barry Took, Dick Vosburgh, Hugh Woodhouse Summer '40: Trumper on dangerous counter-intelligence missions Dennis Price, Warren Mitchell, William Gaunt, George Tovey # Come Back Mrs Noah (p77,78) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft Housewife & bureaucrats accidentally launched into space Mollie Sugden, Ian Lavender, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Joe Black, Gorden Kaye # Comming Home (81) BBC David Fitzsimmons The Times spells it Coming but the writer's son assures me it has 2 m's Brothers married sisters; elders back from Canada to sort younger's life Roger Sloman, Philip Jackson, Sharon Duce, Linda Marchal, Muriel Maddocks # Common As Muck: series 1 was comdram, series 2 was drama with some comedy # Comrade Dad (p84,86) BBC Ian Davidson & Peter Vincent If England was a communist state... George Cole, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare, David Garlick, Claire Toeman # Conjugal Rites (93,94) ITV Roger Hall 21 year itch (NB a *drama* of same title in 73) Gwen Taylor, Michael Williams, Stephen Moyer, Cordelia Bugeja, Alan MacNaughtan, voice of Warren Clarke # Constant Hot Water (86) ITV(Central) ?writers Rival landladies on the Yorkshire riviera. Pat Phoenix, Prunella Gee # The Continental {or was it The Ritz?} (?) ?channel ?writer Nightclub antics # Coppers End (71) ITV(ATV) David Cumming & Derek Collyer, created Ted Willis Britain's laziest, most corrupt police station Bill Owen, Richard Wattis, Josephine Tewson, George Moon, Royce Mills, Kevin Brennan # The Corner House (87) C4 ?writer 4 guys from gay/men's_awareness writer/performer group Robert Llewellyn, ?Howard Lew Lewis # Cowboys (80ab) ITV Peter Learmouth Incompetent builders Colin Welland, Roy Kinnear, David Kelly # The Creatives (98) BBC Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter An Edinburgh advertising agency fallen on hard times Roger Allam, Jack Docherty, Pippa Guard, Moray Hunter # The Cuckoo Waltz (75,76,77,80 [5series in all?]) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire and John G Temple Hard up couple + twins, well off lodger - there's also a mother-in-law David Roper, Diane Keen, Lewis Collins # Cuffy (83) ITV Francis Essex Village tinker; spinoff from Shillingbury Tales Bernard Cribbins, Jack Douglas # The Culture Vultures (70) BBC ?writer [?sitcom] University boffin Leslie Phillips # Curry & Chips (69) ITV(LWT) Johnny Speight Asian immigrant gets "civilised" by working class Brits Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Fanny Carby, Geoffrey Hughes, Kenny Lynch, Norman Rossington # Dad (97,99) BBC Andrew Marshall Frustrations of fatherhood across 3 generations George Cole, Kevin McNally, Toby Ross-Bryant, Julia Hills # Dad's Army (68,69abc,70x,x71,72,73,74,75x,x76,77,film 76) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft Home Guard Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck(to 73), Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee, Frank Williams, Edward Sinclair, Talfryn Thomas # The Darling Buds Of May has been adjudged a comedy-drama # Dead Ernest (82) ITV(Central) Julian Roach & John Stevenson Teacher dies and goes to heaven Andrew Sachs, Ken Jones, Harry Fowler # Dear John (86,87x,3rd series?) BBC John Sullivan Therapy/encounter group for singles Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang, Peter Blake, Peter Denyer, Rachel Bell # Dear Ladies (83,84ny) BBC Gyles Brandreth Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr Evadne hinge "at home" in Stackton Tressel George Logan, Patrick Fyffe (female impersonators) # Dear Mother ... Love Albert (69,70,71) ITV(Yorkshire) Derrick Goodwin & Rodney Bewes Yorkshire boy in seedy London writes euphemistic letters home (see also Albert, the '72 continuation) Rodney Bewes, Christine Hargreaves, Garfield Morgan, Sheila White # Desmond's (89,90,91-,92,93,94) C4 Trix Worrell 93,94:various writers Hairdressers Norman Beaton, Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder, Gyearbour Asante, Geff Francis, Robbie Gee, Valerie Murray, Kim Walker, Justin Pickett, Chris Toomey(94only?), Dean Gatiss(94only?) # The Detectives (93,94,95x,96,97x) BBC(Celador) Steve Knight & Mike Whitehill Two defective cops - developed from sketches in Canned Carrott Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, George Sewell # The Dickie Henderson Show (60,61,62,63,64,65) ITV(AR) script ed Jimmy Gratton Domestic sitcom Dickie Henderson, June Laverick, John Parsons, Lionel Murton # Dinnerladies (98) BBC Victoria Wood A factory canteen Victoria Wood, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie, Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Julie Walters # Divided We Stand (87) BBC Myra Taylor Unhappily married couple, living in Birmingham Anna Keaveney, Shaun Curry # Doctor At Large (71) ITV(LWT) writers various, include: Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna, Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Oliver Fry, Jonathan Lynn, David A Yallop Continuation of Doctor In The House (after graduation) Barry Evans(71), Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan, Ernest Clark # Doctor At Sea (74) ITV(LWT) writers include: Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Richard Laing, Gail Renard 2 ships doctors Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, John Grieve, Bob Todd # Doctor At The Top (91) BBC1 George Layton & Bill Oddie They're consultants now (I think) Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Jill Benedict # Doctor In Charge (72,73) ITV(LWT) writers include: 1972 - Chapman, McKenna, Garden, Oddie, Lynn, George Layton, 1973 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Phil Redmond, Gail Renard, David Sherlock, David Askey further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan, Ernest Clark, Helen Fraser # Doctor In The House (69,70) ITV(LWT), writers various, include: Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer Medical students hijinks Barry Evans, George Layton, ?Richard O'Sullivan?only1season?, Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, Simon Cuff, Martin Shaw (69), Jonathan Lynn (70) # Doctor On The Go (75,77) ITV(LWT) writers include: 1975 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Laing, Renard, Steve Thorn, Paul Wolfson 1977 - Yallop, Thorn, Wolfson, McKenna, Chapman, Renard, Selwyn Roberts, Douglas Adams, Rob Buckman, Chris Beetles, Brenda Crankmen. ^^pseudonym^^ More medical mishaps. Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davis, Ernest Clark, Andrew Know # Doctor Down Under was an Australian production # Doctors And Nurses (79-) ITV Rob Buckman & Chris Beetles Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff # Doctor's Daughters (81) ITV(ATV) Richard Gordon & Ralph Thomas 3 venerable GPs upset when practice taken over by young women Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch, Lesley Duff, Victoria Burgoyne # Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy (p82) ITV (88) BBC David Nobbs Dogfood truckers: mirror-image runs, affairs other's wives, none realise Malcolm Storry, Peter Blake, Elizabeth Mickery, Arbel Jones # Don't Drink The Water (74,75) ITV(LWT) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes # Don't Forget To Write! (77,78,79) BBC Charles Wood Playwright with writer's block [?sitcom or (1vote)comedy drama?] George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews # Don't Rock The Boat (82,83) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson, John Price # Don't Tell Father (92) BBC Roy Clarke Insufferable actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin, Susan Hampshire # Don't Wait Up (83,84,85-,87,88,90) BBC George Layton Father & son doctors share flat Nigel Havers, Tony Britton, Dinah Sheridan, Jane How # Dora (72ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean # Double First (88) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary # Down The 'Gate (75) ITV Maurice Sellar & Roy Tuvey Billingsgate fish market Reg Varney, Dilys Laye, Tony Melody # Down To Earth (95) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Deposed foreign president's advisor deported back home Richard Briers, Kirsten Cooke, Christopher Blake, Tenniel Evans, Steve Edwin, Stephen Bent, Sandor Eles, Roger Swain # Downwardly Mobile (94) ITV Alistair Beaton & Barry Pilton Broke ex-stockbroker & wife move in with brother & wife Frances De La Tour, Philip Jackson, Josie Lawrence, Stephen Tompkinson # Dream Stuffing (84) C4 Paul Hines & Su Wilkins 2 girls share council flat. "Eighties Liver Birds" Rachael Weaver, Amanda Symonds, Maria Charles # Dressing For Breakfast (95,97,98) C4 Stephanie Calman, Nick Revell(98), Ian Brown(98) Young single woman in search of a man Beatie Edney, Holly Aird, Charlotte Cornwell # Drop The Dead Donkey (90,91,93,94,96,98) C4(HatTrick) Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin TV newsroom Haydn Gwynne(90,91), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson, Ingrid Lacey(not90,91), Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle(not90), Robert Duncan, Stephen Tompkinson # Duck Patrol (98) ITV Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington Thames river police Richard Wilson, Samantha Beckinsale, David Tennant, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jason Watkins, Trevor Cooper, Craig Fairbrass, John Biggins, Sue Johnston, Tony Haygarth # The Dustbinmen (p68,69,70,?3rd series) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal, 3rd series various inc Kenneth Cope, Adele Rose Crew of dustcard Thunderbird Three [pilot: There's A Hole In Your Dustbin, Delilah] Bryan Pringle, Paula Wilcox, Graham Haberfield, Trevor Bannister, John Woodvine(series1), Brian Wilde(series2&3), John Barrett, Tim Wylton # Duty Free (84ab,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell and Jean Warr 2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other. Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor, Carlos Douglas # Educating Archie (58..59) ITV(AR) ?Marty Feldman did the radio version Ventriloquism Peter Brough was in the radio version at least # The Eggheads (61) BBC Richard Waring & David Croft A lighthearted look at student life. # El CID has been adjudged a comedy-drama # Eric Sykes has a listing in Television's Greatest Hits, but most of us remember his various series being titled just Sykes, so that's where I've listed it # Ever Decreasing Circles (84abx,86,87x,x89) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Compulsive organiser Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton, Stanley Lebor, Geraldine Newman # Every Silver Lining (93) BBC Simon Block Jewish couple run East End cafe Frances de la Tour, Andrew Sachs, Oscar Quitak, David Yip, Sarah Malin, Danny Swanson # Executive Stress (86,87) ITV(Thames) George Layton Wife gets job at same publishing firm as husband, has to pretend not Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer(1st ser), Peter Bowles(2nd ser), Paul Boyle, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell # Fairly Secret Army (84,86) C4 David Nobbs Private army in England's home counties Geoffrey Palmer, Michael Robbins, Liz Fraser, Jeremy Child, Diane Fletcher # Faith In The Future (95,96,98) ITV Jan Etherington & Gavin Petrie Mother & daughter from Second Thoughts Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Jeff Rawle # The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin (76,77,78-,x82) BBC David Nobbs Executive has breakdown, becomes success, gives it all away Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yates, John Barron, Sue Nicholls, Sally-Jane Spencer, Tim Preece, Trevor Adams, Bruce Bould, John Horsley # Fancy Wanders (80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green Tramp imagines self and friend into fantastic situations Dave King, Joe Marcell # Farrington Of The F.O. (86?87) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples British Consul General (female) in banana republic Angela Thorne, Tony Haygarth, John Quayle, Joan Sims # Father Charlie (82) ITV(Central) Vince Powell Cockney RC priest becomes chaplain to a convent. Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle, Denyse Alexander, Jamila Massey, Gillian Royale, Deddie Davies, Annet Peters, Wendy Smith, Jean Buik Morton, Iris Fry. # Father Dear Father (68,69,70,71ab,72,73,78-) ITV(Thames) Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer, later episodes by other writers Man has 2 daughters Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson, Joyce Carey, Ursula Howells, Tony Britton, Sally Conabere (78-), Sigrid Thornton (78-) # Father Matthew's Daughter (87) BBC ?writer # Father Ted (95,96x,97,98) C4(HatTrick) Graham Linehan & Arthur Mathews 3 priests and housekeeper on a small island off west of Ireland Dermot Morgan, Ardol O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn # Father's Day (83,84) C4 Peter Spence Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch John Alderton, Dominique Barnes, Rosalind Ayres, Kate Alderton # Fawlty Towers (75,79) BBC John Cleese & Connie Booth Nutter runs small hotel John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall(79) Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts # Feet First (79) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth Jonathan Barlow, Jacquie Cassidy, Lee Montague, Doug Fisher. # The Fenn Street Gang (71-,72-,73) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Please Sir spinoff, members of Form 5C have left school John Alderton, David Barry, Leon Vitali, Carol Hawkins, Barbara Keogh, Peter Cleall # Ffizz (87,89) ITV(Thames) Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss Wine importing company on verge of bankruptcy Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu # Fiddlers Three (91) ITV Eric Chappell Office comedy, remake of The Squirrels using the original scripts Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day, Peter Blake, Tyler Butterworth # Filthy, Rich And Catflap (87) BBC(Paul Jackson Productions) Ben Elton +Rik Mayall Actor, minder, and agent Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer # A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) ITV(LWT) Bob Larbey Prickly relationship Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick # Fire Crackers (64) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson Forgotten fire brigade in forgotten village Alfred Marks, Joe Baker, Cardew Robinson # The First Lady (late60s) BBC ?writer Yorkshire councillor Thora Hird # First Of The Summer Wine (88p,89) BBC Roy Clarke What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain, Peter Sallis, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Richard Lumsden, Helen Patrick, Linda Davidson, Gary Whitaker # Flickers (80) ITV(ATV) Roy Clarke Early days of British cinema Bob Hoskins, Frances De La Tour # For The Love Of Ada (70ab,71) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Two geriatrics fall in love and marry. Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst # Foreign Affairs (64) ITV(Granada) Barry Took Bootsie & Snudge enter the diplomatic service Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps # Foreign Affairs (66) BBC Leonard Samson, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke Spies and diplomats Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker # Foreign Bodies (87ab,89) BBC Bernard Farrell & Graham Reid N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse Colum Convey # The Fossett Saga (69) ITV(LWT) Dave Freeman Victoran era, ambitious writer of penny-dreadfuls Jimmy Edwards, Sam Kydd, June Whitfield # The Fosters (76,77) ITV(LWT) adapted from US "Good Times" by John Watkins Black immigrant family, south London Norman Beaton, Isabelle Lucas, Sharon Rosita, Lenny Henry, Lawrie Mark # Foxy Lady (82,84) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Geoffrey Burridge, Sean Scanlan # Freddie And Max (90) ITV(Thames) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman, Richard Pearson, Ian Congden-Lee, Flaminia Cinque # French Fields (89,90x,91) ITV(Thames) John Chapman & Ian Davidson French continuation of next entry Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther, Robin Kermode # Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86) ITV(Thames) John Chapman (83,84,85,86)=copyright dates - transmission=(84,?84,?85,x85,?86) Accountant & wife after kids have left home Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe # The Front Line (-85) BBC Alex Shearer pilot "On the frontline" mid70s Black policeman shares house with his Rastafarian half-brother Paul Barber, Alan Igbon # Full House (85,?,86) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer Known in US as "Mixed Doubles" Two couples decide to share in the ownership of a house. Christopher Strauli, Brian Capron, Sabina Franklyn, Natalie Forbes # Full Stretch (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais [?just light drama?] Ex-footballer in luxury limo business Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston, Wendy Morgan, Rowena King, (David Howey, Clarence Smith), James Aubrey, (William Armstrong) # Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim (67) BBC1 Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Yorkshire misfit living in 'swinging' London Keith Barron (67) # Further Up Pompeii (75,91) 75:BBC Talbot Rothwell, Sid Collin 91:ITV(LWT) Brian Leveson, Paul Minett 2 one-off specials: continuation of Up Pompeii Frankie Howerd 75: Mark Dignam, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner # The Fuzz (77) ITV(Thames) Willis Hall Michael Robbins, Nigel Lambert # The Gaffer (81,82,83) ITV(YTV) Graham White Light engineering company Bill Maynard, Pat Ashton, Russell Hunter, Chris Langham, Leslie Sarony # Game On! (95,96,98) BBC(Hat Trick) Andrew Davies & Bernadette Davis 3 flatmates Ben Chaplin->Neil Stuke, Matthew Cottle, Samantha Janus, Tracey Keating(96-), Crispin Bonham-Carter(98) # George And Mildred (76,77,78ab,79,film80) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Nicholas Bond-Owen, Simon Lloyd, Roy Kinnear, Avril Elgar, Reginald Marsh, Gretchen Franklin # George And The Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) Harry Driver & Vince Powell Chauffeur & housekeeper Peggy Mount, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh # Get Back (92,93) BBC(Alomo, 93 at least) Lawrence Marks & Maurice Gran 93:some eps Gary Lawson & John Phelps Brothers who made it are hit by recession and return to the council estate Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison # Get Real (98) ITV Paul Waite I watched this and I still can't think of a good single line synopsis. Lindsay Duncan, Lloyd Owen, Simon Godley, Lesley Vickerage # Get Some In! (75,76,77,78) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey National Service: new recruits to RAF Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerald Ryder, Brian Pettifer # Get The Drift (71) BBC ?writer [?sitcom, or club/standup] "Mild and bitter humour" [The Times, 30.vii & 13.viii.71] Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow # Get Well Soon (97) BBC Ray Galton & ? 1947 TV sanatorium (like where Galton&Simpson first met) Eddie Marsan, Matthew Cottle # The Ghostbusters Of East Finchley (95) BBC Tony Grounds Fearless Inland Revenue officers fight fraud: billed as comdram Paul Reynolds, Catherine Holman, Jan Francis, Ray Winstone, Marc Warren, Tony Grounds, Carol Macready, Bill Paterson, Christopher Fulford, Andy Linden, Sheila Reid, Joe Melia, Jean Toussaint, Jane Cox, Liz Daniels, John Clemens # Gimme Gimme Gimme (99) BBC Jonathan Harvey A sex-obsessed woman and her gay flatmate Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Rosalind Knight, Brian Bovell, Beth Goddard # The Gingerbread Girl (93) ITV Alex Shearer [?sitcom] Single mother Janet Dibley, John Diedrich, Tyler Butterworth, Isabella Marsh # Girls About Town (p69,70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose 2 housewives with 7 year itch (69 pilot diff cast) Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey, Robin Parkinson, Peter Baldwin # Girls On Top (85,86) ITV(Central) Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax Four mismatched girls share a flat Tracey Ullman(85+guest86), Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French, Joan Greenwood, # The Glamour Girls (80,82) ITV David Nobbs Sales promotion agency Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth, Tom Price # The Glums (79) ITV Frank Muir & Denis Norden Dad, bonehead son, girlfriend (from 50s radio Take It From Here) Patricia Brake, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards # The Gnomes Of Dulwich (69) BBC Jimmy Perry Garden gnomes Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive # Going Straight (78) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake # The Good Life (75ab-,76,77x,r78) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Self-sufficiency in Surbiton {retitled for USA: Good Neighbors} Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington # Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) BBC Peter Vincent & Peter Robinson Lodger won't leave Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers, Talla Hayes # The Goodies (70,71-,73ab-,75,76,77,80) BBC (x81,82) ITV(LWT) Tim Brooke-Taylor(to75), Bill Oddie, and Graeme Garden. Loony fix-it team Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor # Goodnight And God Bless (83) ITV(Central) Donald Churchill & Joe McGrath Remarried ex-standup comic is successful game show host, inwardly shy Donald Churchill, Judy Loe # Goodnight Sweetheart (93,95x,96,97,98) BBC(Alomo/SelecTV[93-96],Alomo/Pearson[97-]) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, +[various times] Sam Lawrence, Paul Makin, Gary Lawson, John Phelps, Geoff Rowley TV repairman timeslips to 2nd World War London Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan->(97)Elizabeth Carling, Michelle Holmes->(97)Emma Amos, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge # The Goon Show wasn't really sitcom, but: 68, ITV(Thames) Spike Milligan Manic idiocy Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, John Cleese, John Hamilton, Christine Pryor # Grace And Favour (92,93) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft {retitled in USA: "Are You Being Served? Again!"} Are You Being Served spinoff: big country house Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith, Fleur Bennett, Billy Burden, Joanne Heywood, Michael Bilton # The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole (87) ITV(Thames) Sue Townsend Adrian Mole passes through adolescence [sitcom? votes each way] Lulu, Beryl Reid, Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh # The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose (75) BBC Roy Clarke A young policeman so wet behind the ears he could grow rice on his lobes. Paul Greenwood, Bryan Pringle, Tony Haygarth # Grownups (97) BBC(Alomo) Paul Makin UK 30-somethings Penny Bunton, Jason Watkins, James Simmons, Pippa Haywood # Grundy (80) ITV(Thames) Ken Hoare Life-long puritan newsagent comes face-to-face with the permissive society Harry H. Corbett(last tv series), Lynda Baron, David Janson # Haggard (90,92) ITV Eric Chappell Regency spendthrift squire Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly # Hallelujah! (83,84) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples Salvation Army captain in the North Thora Hird, David Daker, Patsy Rowlands # Hancock 61 - BBC Galton and Simpson. 63 - ITV(ATV) Godfrey Harrison, Richard Harris & Dennis Spooner, Terry Nation 66 and 67 series were sketch/variety Morose person Tony Hancock # Hancock's Half Hour (56,57ab,-59,59,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson Morose person vs. the world Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(1st 2 seasons), Hattie Jacques(occasional) # The Happy Apple (83) ITV(Thames) Keith Waterhouse from play by Jack Pulman Secretary in ad agency Lesley Ash, Nicky Henson, John Nettleton, Jeremy Child # Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman(76) writers vary in 2nd and 3rd series Suburban couple Terry Scott, June Whitfield # Happy Families (85) BBC Ben Elton Attempts to find scattered family members Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Helen Lederer # Hardwicke House (87) ITV(Central) ?writer(ex comprehensive school teacher) Makes Grange Hill look like a kindergarten for angels: banned after 2 eps Roy Kinnear, Granville Saxton, (shown as 1 long one) Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson in unscreened episode # Hark At Barker (69p,70) ITV(LWT) Various writers, including: Peter Caulfield, Bernard McKenna, Chris Miller, Bill Oddie, Gerald Wiley(Ronnie Barker) Lord Rustless: lecherous old duffer on verge of second childhood Ronnie Barker, Frank Gatliff, Josephine Tewson, David Jason, Mary Baxter, Moira Foot # Harry Worth (67,68,69?) BBC Ronny Taylor Single man on edge of middle age finds life confusing Harry Worth # Have I Got You ... Where You Want Me? (81) ITV Philip Harland & Paul Harris. Still 'going steady' after 10 years Ian Lavender, Kim Braden, Ray Lonnen # Health And Efficiency (-94,95) BBC Andrew Marshall Surgical team B versus the cuts, the illnesses, and each other Gary Olsen, Felicity Montagu, Roger Lloyd Pack, Deborah Norton, Victor McGuire, Adjoa Andoh # Heartburn Hotel (98x) BBC John Sullivan and Steve Glover Down market residential hotel in Birmingham Tim Healy, Clive Russell # Hello Cheeky was a sketch show. # The Hello Goodbye Man (84) BBC David Nobbs Incompetent salesman for a pharmaceuticals firm Ian Lavender, Mary Tamm, Ken Harrington, Dominic Guard # Hell's Bells (86) BBC Jan Butlin Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law, Penelope Horner # Help! (86,88) BBC Joe Boyle Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers Stephen McGann, Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles # Her Majesty's Pleasure (69) ITV(Granada) Leslie Duxbury Prison warders feel trapped too Ken Jones, John Sharp, John Nettleton, John Normington, Tommy Mann, Neville Smith # Here's Harry (61,62?,63,64) BBC Vince Powell & Harry Driver , Frank Roscoe, & others Nice chap, Harry, but a bit of a bumbler Harry Worth # Hi-De-Hi! (p80,81ab-,82x-,83-,84,x-86,86x,87,x-88) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft Holiday camp Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(-84), Jeffrey Holland, David Griffin(84), Diane Holland, Barry Howard, Nikki Kelly, Rikki Howard, Felix Bowness, Leslie Dwyer, The Webb Twins, Chris Andrews, Susan Beagley # High And Dry (87) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer Bloke buys a derelict pier in 1946 Bernard Cribbins, Richard Wilson, Vivienne Martin, Angus Barnett # The High Life (p94,95) BBC Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson Glasgow air shuttle Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart # Hilary (-85,86) BBC Peter Robinson & Peter Vincent Talk show producer's assistant Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody, Philip Fox, Owen Whittaker # His And Hers (70,72) ITV(Yorkshire) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland Freelance journalist stays home, accountant wife works in the City Ronald Lewis, Sue Lloyd->Barbara Murray, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Madeline Smith, Norman Rossington # His Lordship Entertains (72) BBC Jonathon(sp?) Cobbold = Ronnie Barker Lord converts ancestral home into hotel. Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, David Jason # HMS Paradise (64) ITV(AR) Maurice Wiltshire Royal Navy. Was the tv version of radio's The Navy Lark Richard Caldicott, Robin Hunter, Ronald Radd, Frank Thornton # Holding The Baby (97,98) ITV Henry Normal; 98 eps: MArk Wadlow, Chrsi Neil, ? Lone father Nick Hancock->Hugh Bonneville(98), Joe Duttine, Sally Phillips # Holding The Fort (80,81,82) ITV(LWT) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly # Home James (87,88,89,90 or is that 89-90?) ITV Geoff McQueen Chauffeur; Spin off from "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle" Jim Davidson, George Sewell, Harry Towb, Vanessa Knox-Mawer(to88), Sherrie Hewson(to88), Juliette Grassby(90) # Home To Roost (85,86,87x,89-) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell Son comes to live with long-divorced father John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale, Elizabeth Bennett(85,86), Joan Blackham(87) # Honey For Tea (94) BBC Michael Aitkens American widow takes 20yr old son to college in Cambridge Felicity Kendal, Nigel Le Vaillant, Leslie Phillips, Alan David, Patrick McCollough # Honky Tonk Heroes (81) ITV(ATV) Ray Connolly S London Country&Western club [3 1hour plays: may not count as sitcom] James Grout, Sheila Steafel # Hope It Rains (91,92) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter Tom Bell, Holly Aird, Eamon Boland # Horace is listed as drama in Television's Greatest Hits # Horne A'Plenty was a sketch show # Hot Metal (86,88) ITV(LWT) Andrew Marshall & David Renwick Tabloid circulation wars Richard Wilson(88), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86), Richard Kane, Geoffrey Hutchings, John Gordon-Sinclair (86), Caroline Milmoe (88) # The House Of Windsor (94) ITV various writers, including: Mark Wadlow,Russell T Davies, Chris Fewtrell&Zeddy Lawrence Behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace Warren Clarke, Leslie Phillips, Neil Stacy, Serena Gordon, Barry Howard, Sean Gallagher, Louise Germaine, Margaret Courtenay, Preston Lockwood # The House That Jack Built (77) BBC Shelagh Delaney [?sitcom] newly married couple Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce # How Do You Want Me? (98) BBC Simon Nye City comedian moves to his wife's small country village. Dylan Moran, Charlotte Coleman, Frank Finlay, Emma Chambers, Clive Merrison, Mark Heap, Geraldine McNulty # How's Your Father? (74,75) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson Aging father lives with daughter and her husband Michael Robbins, Barbara Young, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon, Arthur English, Sheila Steafel # How's Your Father? (79,80) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton Widower with 2 teenage children Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming, Giles Watling # Hugh And I (62,62,64,66) BBC John Chapman Two friends from Lobelia Avenue, Tooting, dreamers in pursuit of a quick million Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard # Hugh And I Spy (68) BBC John Chapman Two friends muddle their way through unlikely adventures Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott # I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,78,79) BBC Peter Tinniswood The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea(75,76)-> Keith Drinkel(78,79) # I Thought You'd Gone (84) ITV(Central) Peter Jones & Kevin Laffan Couple move to country from Croydon after kids leave home Peter Jones, Pat Heywood # I Woke Up One Morning (85,86) BBC Carla Lane Alcoholism Peter Caffrey, Robert Gillespie, Frederick Jaeger, Michael Angelis # I, Lovett (p89,93) BBC Norman Lovett & Ian Pattison Eccentric inventor and his cynical talking dog Norman Lovett, Sara Cooper, Dicken Ashworth, voices of Geoffrey Hughes, Leon Sinden, Mary Riggans, Bernard Cribbins, Ian Sexon # If It Moves--File It (70) ITV(LWT) Troy Kennedy Martin Bungling bureaucrats John Bird, Dudley Foster, John Nettleton # In Exile (98) C4 Tunde Babalola Deposed African dictator in exile in London Patrice Naiambana, Emily Joyce, Fraser James, Owen Brenman, Paul Beech # In For A Penny (72) ITV(LWT) John Hawkesworth & John Whitney Humiliations of an old man in the lowly job of lavatory attendant Bob Todd, Jack Woolgar # In Loving Memory (p69Thames,79,80,82,83-,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Dick Sharples Aunt & nephew run funeral parlour Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny # In Sickness And In Health (85,86x,87,89,90,92) BBC Johnny Speight Till Death Do Us Part spinoff Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols(85), Carmel McSharry, Arthur English, Una Stubbs, James Ellis (?90) # The Incredible Mr Tanner (81) ITV(probThames) Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer 2 street entertainers, one an escapologist Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear, Joseph O'Conor # Inside George Webley (70) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall Worrier Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowland # Interference (83) C4 ?writer Pirate TV Station S (for Subversive) Fiona Richmond, Arnold Brown, Martin Beaumont # The Irish RM (83,84,85) C4 Rosemary Ann Sisson comedy-drama really Resident Magistrate no match for the Irish Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray, Anna Manahan, Beryl Reid, Doran Godwin, Lise Ann McLaughlin # Is It Legal? (95p,96,98) ITV Simon Nye New partner for run-down solicitors Diana Quick(p)->Imelda Staunton, Patrick Barlow, Richard Lumsden, David Terence(p), Jeremy Clyde, Kate Isitt, Matthew Ashforde, Nicole Arumugam # It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (74,75,76,77,78,80,81) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft British army concert party in WW2 Burma Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes, George Layton, Michael Knowles, Don Estelle, Donald Hewlett # It Takes A Worried Man (81)ITV(Thames) (83) C4 Peter Tilbury Insurance salesman, broken marriage, hates job, series of crises Peter Tilbury, Nicholas Le Prevost, Gaye Brown, Andrew Tourell, Christopher Benjamin, Diana Payan, Sue Holderness # It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling (71) BBC Jilly Cooper & Christopher Bond Four dollies in a flat (based on J Cooper's newspaper cartoon strip) Jane Carr, Jennifer Croxton, Elizabeth Knight, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Lloyd # Jeeves And Wooster (90,91,92,93) ITV(Granada) P.G.Wodehouse, dram Clive Exton Valet saves youngish aristocrat from scrapes Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robert Daws, Elizabeth Spriggs, Mary Wimbush Adam Blackwood, Francesca Folan->Elizabeth Morton, Roger Brierley Richard Garnett->Richard Brain, John Turner, Ralph Michael Michael Siberry->Pip Torrens, Brenda Bruce->Patricia Lawrence # Jim Tavare Pictures Presents (95) BBC Jim Tavare, David Dowse, Al Murray Comedian with double bass Jim Tavare, Samuel Perez, Julian Dutton # Joan And Leslie (56..58) ITV ?writer Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds # John Browne's Body (69) ITV(ATV) Rene Basilico Bungling female detective Peggy Mount, Naunton Wayne # Joint Account (89,90,91) BBC Don Webb Female bank manager Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird # Joking Apart (p91,93,95) BBC(Pola Jones) Steven Moffat Divorce Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies, Tracie Bennett, Paul Raffield # Just A Gigolo (93) ITV Carl Gorham & Michael Hatt & Amanda Swift Ex-teacher becomes paid escort Tony Slattery, Paul Bigley, Rowena King # Just Good Friends (83,84x,86) BBC John Sullivan On/off relationship Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis # Just Jimmy (68) ITV(ABC) Ron McDonnell TV version of The Clitheroe Kid Jimmy Clitheroe, Mollie Sugden, Danny Ross # Just Liz (80) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Girl awaits fiance's return from Bahrain Sandra Payne, Rodney Bewes, Gorden Kaye, Terence Alexander, Avril Angers # Just William (62) BBC Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ? Richmal Crompton's famous stories Dennis Waterman # Just William (63) BBC Richmal Crompton, dramatised by ? Richmal Crompton's famous stories again Denis Gilmore # Just William (77ab-) ITV(LWT) Richmal Crompton, dramatised by Keith Dewhurst Richmal Crompton's famous stories Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford, Diana Dors # Just William (94,95) BBC ?writer Another adaptation..... Oliver Rokison, David Horovitch, Polly Adams, Rebecca Johnson, Benjamin Pullen, Tiffany Griffiths # Keep It In The Family (71) ITV(YTV) David Nobbs & Peter Vincent Couple have one parent each living with them Tim Barrett, Vivienne Martin, Joyce Grant, Jack Haig # Keep It In The Family (80ab,81,82,83) ITV(Thames) Brian Cooke(80a,80b) 81:eps Brian Cooke, David Barry, Peter Learmouth, Dave & Greg Freeman 82:eps Dave & Greg Freeman, Peter Learmouth, David Barry 83: Dave & Greg Freeman Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83), Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83) # Keeping Mum (97,98) BBC Geoffrey Atherden Aging mother demands to be looked after Stephanie Cole, Martin Ball, David Haig, Meera Syal, Rosalind Adams # Keeping Up Appearances (90,91x,92,93x,x94,95x) BBC Roy Clarke Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes, Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90)->Mary Millar(not90), David Griffin(not90) # Kindly Leave The Kerb (71) ITV(LWT) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke London busking escapologist and manager Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth # King Leek (p97) ITV William Ivory Tyneside champion leek growers Tim Healey, Su Elliott, Chris Connel, Adam Pearson, James Garbutt, Leslie Schofield, Rebekah Joy Gilgan, Craig Heaney, Sammy Johnson # Kinvig (81) ITV(LWT) Nigel Kneale Electrical repairman and friend obsessed with alien spaceships Tony Haygarth, Patsy Rowlands, Colin Jeavons, Prunella Gee, Patrick Newell, Simon Williams, Alan Bodenham, Stephen Bent, Danny Schiller # Kiss Me Kate (98) BBC Chris Langham and John Morton In and around the office of a woman counsellor Caroline Quentin, Chris Langham, Amanda Holden, Cliff Parisi, Darren Boyd # Kit Curran (86) C4 Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin Followup to The Kit Curran Radio Show after radio station goes bust Denis Lawson, Clive Merrison, Lindsay Duncan, Paul Brooke. # The Kit Curran Radio Show (84) ITV(Thames) Andy Hamilton Local radio DJ Denis Lawson, Clive Merrison, Paul Brooke, Brian Wilde # Knowing Me, Knowing You...With Alan Partridge (94,x95) BBC(Talkback) 95 xmas special "Knowing Me, Knowing Yule....With Alan Partridge" Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Armando Iannucci Spoof chatshow - not really sitcom? Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan # KYTV (p89,90,92,93) BBC Angus Deayton & Geoffrey Perkins Spoof satellite tv station. On the sketch show borderline, imho. Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Philip Pope, Geoffrey Perkins # L For Lester (82) BBC Dudley Long Deliberately incompetent driving instructor Brian Murphy, Amanda Barrie, Richard Vernon, Hilda Braid # The Labours Of Erica (89,90) ITV(Thames) ?writer Erica has schoolgirl list of things to achieve by age 40 Brenda Blethyn # The Lady Is A Tramp (83,84) C4 Johnny Speight Two women drifters in a van Patricia Hayes, Pat Coombs # Lame Ducks (84,85) BBC Peter J. Hammond Group of misfits and loners Lorraine Chase, John Duttine, Patric Turner, Brian Murphy, Tony Millan # Land Of Hope And Gloria (92) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett Marketing a stately home Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell # Langley Bottom (86) ITV(YTV) Barry Cryer & John Junkin A Yorkshire village (pop 227 including the Asian grocer) Bernard Cribbins, Tim Barrett, Don Crann, Elvi Hale, Barbara Hicks, Rhoda Lewis # The Larkins (58,59,60,63) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson Cockney couple keep country pub. From Radio4 (was then the Home Service) ^from TV's Greatest Hits: episode descriptions don't match this too well David Kossoff, Peggy Mount, Hugh Paddick, Barbara Mitchell, Shaun O'Riordan, Ronan O'Casey # The Last Of The Baskets (71,72) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson Heir and butler Arthur Lowe, Ken Jones, Patricia Hayes, Richard Hurndall # The Last Salute (97) BBC Simon Nye & Tim Binding Rival AA and RAC patrolmen in the 60s Paul Bown, Philip Jackson, Jo Unwin, David Shane, Brett Fancy, Ben Pullen. # Last Of The Summer Wine (73p,75,76,77-,ny78,x78,79x,x81,82xx,83x,x84,85,86ny&x,87x,88x, 89x,90x,91x,92,93,95abx,96x,97,98) BBC Roy Clarke 3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Michael Bates(-75)->Brian Wilde(76-85)->Michael Aldridge(86-89)-> Brian Wilde(90-), John Comer(-83), Mike Grady(86-), Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Thora Hird(86-), Jean Alexander(88x-), Robert Fyfe(85-), Juliette Kaplan(85-), Jean Fergusson(85-), Joe Gladwin(75-86), Blake Butler(-76), Rosemary Martin(-73), Philip Jackson(76), Gordon Wharmby(?83-), Jonathan Linsley(85-), Sarah Thomas(86-), Danny O'Dea(87-), Stephen Lewis(90-) # The Last Song (81,83) BBC Carla Lane Middle aged divorcee & young girlfriend Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Thomas, Caroline Blakiston, Barbara Flynn(81), Hetty Baynes, Gay Wilde(83) # Late Expectations (87) BBC ?writer Middle aged woman gets pregnant... Nanette Newman, Keith Barron, Sara Griffiths # Laura And Disorder (89) BBC Jonathan Marr and Ross Bentley Relative returns from USA Wendy Craig # Law And Disorder (94) ITV Alex Shearer A female barrister Penelope Keith, Simon Williams, Charles Kay, Eamon Boland, John Junkin, Emma Davies # Lazarus And Dingwall (91) BBC Kim Fuller and Vicky Pile Daft cops Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (The Oblivion Boys), Peter Bland, Race Davies # The League Of Gentlemen (99) BBC Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith Remote northern town Royston Vasey is very strange and not very nice Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith # Leave It To Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) H V Kershaw Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell # Leaving (84,85) BBC Carla Lane Middle aged couple get divorce. Keith Barron, Susan Hampshire. # The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (96) BBC David Nobbs Reggie left a will with a 'commit an absurd act' clause Geoffrey Palmer, Patricia Hodge, Pauline Yates, John Barron, John Horsley, Sue Nicholls, Tim Preece, Sally-Jane Spencer, Bruce Bould, Theresa Watson # The Lenny Henry Show (87,88) BBC Stan Hey & Andrew Nickolds, ?Kim Fuller Pirate DJ in back of cafe Lenny Henry, Vas Blackwood, Gina McKee. # Let There Be Love (82) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Confirmed bachelor falls in love with widowed mother of three Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman, Henry McGee # Life After Birth (96) C4 Simon Block & Teresa Poland 2 girls share a flat, one has a new baby Emma Cuniffe, Paula Bacon, Jackie Downey, Paula Wilcox, Rachel Davies, Fraser James # Life Begins At Forty (78,?79,80) ITV(YTV) Jan Butlin 40yr old becomes 1st time dad Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach # A Life Of Bliss (60-61) BBC Godfrey Harrison. A shy, confused bachelor's life is riddled with misunderstanding. George Cole, Sheila Sweet, Colin Gordon, Isabel Dean. # The Life Of Riley (75) ITV(Granada) Brian Finch Widower insurance agent with roving eye has disapproving god-fearing son Bill Maynard, Frank Lincoln # Life With The Lyons (55-56) BBC (57-60) ITV/AR Bebe Daniels Lyon & others Synopsis: Real life American family in Britain. Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels Lyon, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, Molly Weir, Doris Rogers, Skeeter the dog. # Life Without George (87,89) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson 88,89 according to TV's Greatest Hits Woman rebuilds life after being dumped Carol Royle, Simon Cadell, Ronald Fraser, Michael Thomas, Rosalind March(88)->Elizabeth Estensen(89) # The Likely Lads (65ab,66,film84) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais 2 young blokes on Tyneside James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Sheila Fearn # Little Armadillos (84) C4 ?Jim Sweeney & ?Steve Steen Two mad criminal brothers (NOT the Krays!) own a seedy nightclub Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Helen Lederer, Daniel Peacock # A Little Big Business (63,64) ITV(Granada) Paul Jackman, Jack Pullman The furniture business David Kossoff, Francis Matthews, David Conville, Joyce Marlowe, Martin Miller, Billy Russell # The Liver Birds (69,71,72,74,75x,76abx,77x,78,96) BBC Carla Lane & Myra Taylor & Lew Schwartz, at least in early series. 2 young girls in Liverpool Pauline Collins(69)->Nerys Hughes, Polly James->Elizabeth Estensen, John Nettles(4 series), Mollie Sugden # Lollipop (72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry Followup to Lollipop Loves Mr Mole; Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount # Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry Fulham couple; marriage of opposites Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner # The Lonelyheart Kid (84) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer School sweethearts live together for years but drift apart as she matures Robert Glenister, Deborah Farrington, Julia Goodman # The Loner (75) ITV(YTV) Alan Plater actually a series of comedy play One man's fight against officialdom Les Dawson # The Losers (78) ITV Alan Coren Unsuccesful wrestler and his agent Leonard Rossiter # The Love Of Mike (60) ITV(AR) ?writer Dance band trumpeter, eternally broke, forever chasing girls Michael Medwin, Brian Wilde, Goerge Roderick, Carmel Mcsharry # Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,73- or 73,74 ,75- or 75ab- ,film78) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Black'n'white neighbours Rudolph Walker, Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Nina Baden-Semper # Loved By You (97,98) ITV Danny Jacobson & Paul Reiser Newlyweds (copy of US "Mad About You") John Gordon Sinclair, Trevyn McDowell, Gary Love, Kim Thomson, Gillian Bevan, Steven Alvey # Lovely Couple (79) ITV Christopher Wood Reluctantly engaged couple # The Lovers (70,71,{film72}) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal (71 Geoffrey Lancashire) No sex before marriage Paula Wilcox, Richard Beckinsale # Lucky Feller (76) ITV Terence Frisby Dipstick, driving a bubble car and attempting to woo a blonde David Jason, Robert Lindsay, Cheryl Hall # Luv (93,94) BBC Carla Lane [comedy drama surely says one: I didn't laugh] Working class boy made good has communications problems with family Michael Angelis, Sue Johnston, Sandy Hendrickse, Russell Boulter, Stephen Lord, Peter Caffrey, Julie Peasgood, Jackie Downey, # Maggie And Her (78,79) ITV Leonard Webb Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl # The Magnificent Evans (84) BBC Roy Clarke Randy Welsh photographer and antiques dealer Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan. # Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (91,92,93,94) BBC Tony Robinson Marian was the real boss [knockabout kid's stuff really] Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson Wayne Morris # Man About The House (73,74ab&film,75ab,76) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Guy & 2 girls share flat Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Doug Fisher # Mann's Best Friends (85) C4 Roy Clarke Redundant Water Board martinet tries to bring order to a boardinghouse Fulton Mackay, Barry Stanton, Barbara Hicks, Patricia Brake, Bernard Bresslaw, Clive Merrison # The Many Wives Of Patrick (76,77,78) ITV(LWT) Richard Waring Predicaments of a much married and divorced man Patrick Cargill # Marjorie and Men (85) ITV(Anglia) John Gorrie Long-divorced bank clerk decides to look for a new husband Patricia Routledge, Patricia Hayes # Marriage Lines (63-66) BBC Richard Waring Newlyweds Richard Briers, Prunella Scales # Married For Life (96) ITV adapted Carl Gorham & Michael Hatt UK version of Married With Children Russ Abbot, Susan Kyd, Lucy Blakely, Peter England, Hugh Bonneville, Julie Dawn Cole # May To December (89,90x,91,92,93,94) BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane Old solicitor with young wife (girlfriend in 1st series) Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson(to90)->Lesley Dunlop(90onwards), Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams, Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89), Ashley Jensen(94) # Me And My Girl (84,85ab,87,88ab) ITV(LWT) John Kane, Bernard McKenna, Colin Bostock-Smith, others He's in advertising, has a daughter Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson, Joanne Ridley # Me Mammy (69,70,71) BBC Hugh Leonard Meek son, dom. mother, dom. sexmad girlfriend, mucho catholic jokes Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce, Anna Manahan, Ray McAnally, David Kelly # Me, You, And Him (92) ITV Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis + Nick Hancock 3 post-uni guys Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nick Hancock, Harriet Thorpe # Meet The Champ (60) ?BBC ?writer Gormless boxer Bernard Bresslaw # Meet The Wife (64,66) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Couple married 25 years [from 63 Comedy Playhouse 'The Bed'] Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird # Megavision (?) ?channel ?writer TV company Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman # Men Behaving Badly (91,92ab) ITV(Thames) (94,x97,xxx98) BBC(Hartswood) Simon Nye Bedsit males Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrissey(92->), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin, Leslie Ash, Ian Lindsay, Valerie Minifie # Men Of Affairs (73) ITV(HTV) Michael Pertwee Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell # Men Of The World (94,95) BBC(Alomo) Daniel Peacock Know-it-all travel agent passes "wisdom" to lodger David Threlfall, John Simm # Mess Mates (60,61,62) ITV(Granada) Talbot Rothwell & Lew Schwarz Crew of the SS Guernsey Archie Duncan, Victor Maddern, Sam Kydd, Fulton Mackay, Dermot Kelly # Metal Mickey has been adjudged as kid's stuff # Middlemen (77) BBC Alan Plater [?sitcom] Prosthetic toenail salesman Frank Windsor, Francis Matthews, Avril Elgar # Mike And Bernie (71-) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Down-and-out music-hall act tries for a comeback Mike and Bernie Winters # Mind Your Language (77-,78,79,80:3eps only) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell English classes for immigrants, very non-PC Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal, Zara Nutley, Jacki Harding # Minder has been adjudged a comedy-drama: a rather good one! 1st series started Oct79; final series started Jan94. # The Misfit (70,71) ITV(ATV) Roy Clarke {not to be confused with 81 series Misfits} Ex-colonial gent bewilderd by aftermath of swinging 60s Ronald Fraser, Simon Ward, Susan Carpenter # Misfits (81) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell 2 drifters sheltered by widow Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd # Misleading Cases (71) BBC ?APHerbert:original Punch articles/book Should be A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim, Avice Landon, Thorley Walters # Miss Jones And Son (77) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring Single mum Paula Wilcox, Luke Steensil, Cass Allen, Charlotte Mitchell, Norman Bird, David Savile, Catherine Kirkwood # The Mistress (85,87) BBC Carla Lane [?sitcom] Mistress-angst Felicity Kendal, Jack Galloway(85)->Peter McEnery(87), Jane Asher # Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?] Muriel Odunton, Christopher Blake, Joan Sanderson # Mog (85,86) ITV(Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais. Based on a book by Peter Tinniswood. Comedy adventures of a petty crook hiding out in a mental institution Enn Reitel. # Moody And Pegg (74,75) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones 2 people both have apparently valid lease on flat so share Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring, Terence Alexander # The More We Are Together (71) ITV ?writer # Mornin' Sarge (89) BBC Pete McCarthy, Robin Driscoll, Tony Haas, Rebecca Stevens Loony cop-shop Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke # Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors (89) BBC Tony Hawks & Neil Mullarkey Singing idiots fix cars Tony Hawkes # The Most Likely Girl (57) ITV(ATV) ?writer Beryl Reid, Noele Gordon # Mother's Ruin (94) ITV John Stevenson 50yr old bachelor with girlfriend and dragon-tongued mother Roy Barraclough, Dora Bryan, Julia Deakin, Kay Adshead, Jason Done # Moving (85) ITV Stanley Price Moving house Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup # Moving Story (94,95) ITV Jack Rosenthal and other writers including: Bill Gallagher, Willis Hall, Michael Russell, Bernard Dempsey Team of removals men (billed as comdram but fits my sitcom def quite well) Warren Clarke, Philip Davis, Con O'Neill, Ronny Jhutti, Kenneth Colley, Sheila Kelley, Melanie Kilburn, Meera Devon, Emma Amos # Mr Aitch (67) ITV(AR) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Mr Aitch owns half a house on a bomb site Harry H Corbett, Norman Chappell, Gordon Gostelow # Mr Bean doesn't quite fit the sitcom definition but deserves a mention # Mr Big (77ab) BBC Peter Jones & Christopher Bond Criminal mastermind Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins # Mr Digby Darling (69,70-) ITV(YTV) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland Rid-o-rat pesticide company Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Michael Bates # Mr Don And Mr George (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter Surreal Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter # Mrs Thursday (66,67) ITV(ATV) Ted Willis also Robin Smyth Charlady made chair of company; "one hour light drama" Kathleen Harris # Mulberry (92,93) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan, Tony Selby, Mary Healey # Mum's Boys (68) BBC Jimmy Grafton & Jeremy Lloyd Ex-chorus girl and conjuror's assistant has 2 sons (by different fathers?) Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, Pete Murray # My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) Jonathan Lynn, George Layton Nowhere-near identical twin brothers: student and policeman Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason, Tenniel Evans # My Dead Dad (92) C4 John McKay TV producer haunted by embarrassing father, from stage play "Dead Dog Dad" Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon # My Good Friend (95,96) ITV Bob Larbey George Cole, Richard Pearson, Minnie Driver # My Good Woman (72ab,73-) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor Man believes himself in decline, wife is champion do-gooder Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims, Keith Barron # My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC Richard Waring Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates # My Husband And I (56) ITV Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton Evelyn Laye, Frank Lawton # My Husband And I (87,88) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer Personnel Officer gets retired husband job as Commissionaire at her work Mollie Sugden, William Moore, Deddie Davies and Carol Hawkins. # My Name Is Harry Worth (74) ITV(Thames) Ronnie Taylor Harry Worth as himself living in digs Harry Worth, Lally Bowers # My Old Man (74,75) ITV(YTV) Gerald Frow Crusty old war veteran lives with daughter & her husband in flat Clive Dunn, Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke # My Son Reuben (74[tvgh75]) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell Dry cleaner with stereotypical overbearing Jewish mother Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye # My Wife Next Door (72,73,80) BBC Richard Waring Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages John Alderton, Hannah Gordon # My Wife's Sister (56-) ITV(Granada) Reuben Ship Continuation of Our Dora after Dora Bryan left: only the names changed Helen Christie, Martin Wyldeck, Eleanor Summerfield # My Wonderful Life (97,98) ITV Simon Nye Chaotic life and loves of a busy nurse and mother Emma Wray, Vicky Connett, Amanda Riley, Elizabeth Berrington, Tony Robinson, Oliver Furness, Hamish Clark, Gary Webster, Philip Glenister # The Navy Lark TV version was called HMS Paradise # Nearest And Dearest (68,69,70-,72,73,film78) ITV(Granada) created by Vince Powell & Harry Driver, writers include: Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley, John Stevenson, ?Donald McGill Eli & Nellie Pledge, brother & sister, owners of a pickle factory Jimmy Jewel, Hylda Baker, Madge Hindle, Joe Gladwin, Edward Malin # Nearly Departed was American, despite Eric Idle # Nelson's Column (94,95) BBC Paul Mayhew-Archer Journalist John Gordon Sinclair, Sophie Thompson, Steven O'Donnell, Elizabeth Counsell, Camille Coduri # The Nesbitts Are Coming (80) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples Family of itinerant petty crooks Maggie Jones, Clive Swift, Deirdre Costello, John Price, Christian Rodska, Ken Jones, Tony Melody # Never A Cross Word (69-) ITV(LWT) Donald Churchill Downgraded Ronald resigns, Deirdre becomes breadwinner: battle of sexes Paul Daneman, Nyree Dawn Porter, Barbara Murray, Charlotte Mitchell # Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width (68,69,70,71,film78) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Tailors, Jewish&Irish. Lots of non-PC "cultural" jokes John Bluthal, Joe Lynch # Never Say Die (70) ITV(YTV) Peter Tinniswood Emmott Robinson Ward of Victoria Memorial Hospital, Yorkshire Reginald Marsh, Patrick Newell, Noel Purcell, Larry Noble, Teddy Green, Wilfrid Brambell, Ken Parry, Hugh Walters, Mary Healey # Never Say Die (87) C4 Lou Wakefield [?possibly comdram] Naive new manager of an old people's home Charlie Chester, Arthur English, Irene Handl (?also Lou Wakefield) # Never The Twain (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,?89,90,91) ITV(Thames) 81,82: Johnnie Mortimer 83: eps Brian Platt,John Kane,Vince Powell,Peter Tilbury,Dick Hills 84: eps John Kane,Vince Powell,Dick Hills 85: eps John Kane,Vince Powell 86: eps John Kane,Vince Powell 87: eps John Kane,Vince Powell,Johnnie Mortimer 2 antique dealers,adjoining shops,ex-partners,kids engaged,marry Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies, Teddy Turner, Derek Deadman(82- ), Maria Charles (82- ), Julia Watson(81-83), Robin Kermode(81-83) # The New Adventures Of Lucky Jim (82) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Not Kingsley Amis's novel, but the character transplanted to the 60s. Northerner fruitlessly seeks permissive society in Swinging-60s London Enn Reitel # The New Statesman (p84,85) BBC Douglas Watkinson Welshman elevated to the peerage Windsor Davies, Anna Dawson # The New Statesman (87,89,91ny,92,x94[BBC]) ITV(Yorkshire)/SelecTV(94) ny91 "Who Shot Alan B'Stard" x94[BBC] "A. B'Stard Exposed" Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran Unscrupulous MP Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan, Terence Alexander # Next Of Kin (95x,96,97) BBC Jan Hetherington & Gavin Petrie Couple stuck with grandchildren when their parents die Penelope Keith, William Gaunt, Tracie Bennett, Mark Powley, Matthew Clarke Ann Gosling, Jamie Lucraft # The Nineteenth Hole (89) ITV(Central) Johnny Speight Secretary at golf club Eric Sykes # Nice Day At The Office (94) BBC Paul Shearer & Richard Turner Data processing office workers Timothy Spall, John Sessions, Nicola Stephenson, Anna Massey, David Haig, Brian Pettifer # Nice Work wasn't really a sitcom # Nightingales (90,93) C4(Alomo) Paul Makin Psycho nightwatchmen Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall, James Ellis # No Appointment Necessary (77) BBC ?writer Hairdresser's shop Roy Kinnear, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Robert Dorning # No Frills (88) BBC ?writer Several generations of women in a family Kathy Staff, Katharine Schlesinger # No Job For A Lady (89,90,91) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer Labour Lady MP Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, George Baker, Paul Young, Garfield Morgan # No Place Like Home (-84x,86ab,88) BBC Jon Watkins Kids keep coming back William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Marcia Warren, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Martin Clunes, Dee Sadler, Stephen Watson, Beverley Adams, Daniel Hill # No Problem! (83,84,85) C4(LWT) Mustapha Matura & Farrukh Dhondy 5 (black) adult children in Willesden, London: parents retired Jamaica Malcolm Frederick, Judith Jacob, Janet Kay, Sarah Lam, Victor Romero Evans Shope Shodeinde # No, Honestly (74,75 or 74-) ITV(LWT) Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady He's an unemployed actor, she's an author of children's books. Pauline Collins, John Alderton, James Berwick, Fanny Rowe, Kenneth Benda # No - That's Me Over Here! (67-68) ITV(AR) (70) ITV(LWT) Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Barry Cryer Little man from suburbia, always finds disaster Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach, Henry McGee # Nobody Is Norman Wisdom (73) ITV(ATV) Watt Nicol & John Sichel Walter Mitty type with protective & possessive mother Norman Wisdom, Natalie Kent, Priscilla Morgan # Nobody's Perfect (80,82) ITV(LWT) ?writer UK version of Maude: couple for 8 years, 2nd marriage for both Elaine Stritch, Richard Griffiths, Kim Braden, Moray Watson, Ruby Head # Norman (70) ITV(ATV) Ray Cooney & John Chapman Over-ambitious under-talented musician leaves tax office for showbiz Norman Wisdom # Not In Front Of The Children (67,68,69-,70) BBC Richard Waring Nuclear family - spin-off: forerunner of And Mother Makes Three Wendy Craig, Paul Daneman, Roberta Tovey, Hugo Keith-Johnston, Jill Riddick # Not On Your Nellie (74..75(3ser=17eps)) ITV(LWT) Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley Bolton lass runs Fulham pub Hylda Baker, Roger Howlett, David Rayner, Roger Brierley, Alexandra Dane, Leo Dolan, John Barrett, Ashiq ? # Not With A Bang (90) ITV(LWT) Tony Millan and Mike Walling Only a few people left alive Josie Lawrence, Ronald Pickup, Mike Grady, Stephen Rea # Now And Then (83,84) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey 'Normal middle aged Englishman' recalls childhood via watching son John Alford, Bernard Holley, Marc Gilbey # Now Look Here (71,73) BBC Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer Mummy's boy, pretends to be liberal, finds himself at odds with the world. Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach, Madge Ryan->Gillian Lind, Richard O'Sullivan. # Now, Take My Wife . . . (71) BBC1 Charles Laurence (Not to be confused with later ITV(Granada) "Take My Wife") Domestic silliness Sheila Hancock, Donald Houston, Liz Edmiston (Lynne Frederick in pilot) # N.U.T.S. was a sketch show # Odd Man Out (77) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell Woman co-inherits candy factory with effeminate half-brother she never knew she had. John Inman, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Julian Orchard, Peter Butterworth # Oh Brother! (68,69,70,71) BBC David Climie & Austin Steele Mountacres Priory Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Geoffrey Hibbert, Patrick McAlinney, Edward Malin # Oh, Dr Beeching! (96,97) BBC David Croft & Richard Spendlove Small railway station at tiem of Beeching's cuts Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland, Julia Deakin, Barbara New, Stephen Lewis, Ivor Roberts, Perry Benson, Terry John, Lindsay Grimshaw, Paul Aspden, Tara Daniels # Oh Father (73) BBC ?writer Oh Brother followup, Nimmo now a priest Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Derek Francis, Laurence Naismith, Pearl Hackney, David Kelly # Oh Happy Band (80) BBC Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft Brass band leads fight against new airport Harry Worth, The Aldershot Brass Ensemble # Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggit (74,76,77) ITV(YTV) Alan Plater rerun just 'Selwyn Froggitt' Utterly accident prone council workman Bill Maynard, Megs Jenkins, Ray Mort, Bill Dean, Richard Davies # The Old Boy Network (91) ITV(SelecTV/Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Spy thing Tom Conti, John Standing, Robert Lang # The Old Campaigner (p67,68-) BBC Michael Pertwee Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Cecil, Elaine Taylor # The Olympian Way (81) BBC Tara Prem Health club Alan Lake, Lois Dane, Hugh Fraser # On The Buses (69,70,70-,71,72,73) ITV(LWT) films 76,?,? On The Buses, Mutiny On The Buses, Holiday On The Buses Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Later, writers include: Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis Bus crews Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis, Cicely Courtneidge->Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant, Anna Karen # On The House (70,71) ITV(YTV) Sid Colin Building site chaos in Yorkshire John Junkin, Kenneth Connor, Tommy Godfrey, Peter Atard, Gordon Rollings, John Normington # On The Up (90,91,92) BBC Bob Larbey Selfmade millionaire car hire magnate has trouble with social class Dennis Waterman, Joan Sims, Sam Kelly, Dora Bryan, Jenna Russell, Judy Buxton # Once Upon A Time In The North (94) BBC(Philip Partridge) Tim Firth On redundancy, Len Tollit sets up cellphone company Bernard Hill, Bill Stewart, Christine Moore, Susan McArdle, Andrew Whyment, Bryan Pringle, Bob Mason # One Foot In The Grave (90abx,x91,92,93x,x94,95x,x96,x97) BBC David Renwick It always goes wrong for retired Victor Meldrew Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Angus Deayton, Owen Brennan(93), Doreen Mantle, Janine Duvitski (Eric Idle: title song, bit part) # One For The Road (95) C4 Gary Sinyor Idealistic young ex-timeshare salesman travels Europe with videocamera Alan Davies # One-Upmanship was a sketch show # Only Fools And Horses (81x,82x,83x,85x,86x,x87,x88,89x,x90,-91xx,x92,x93,xxx96) BBC John Sullivan Market traders David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield(85-), Lennard Pearce(-83), Gwyneth Strong, Roger Lloyd Pack # Only When I Laugh (79,80,81,82) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell A men's ward in an NHS hospital James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson, Isla Blair(?81only), Derrick Branch # Open All Hours (p73,76,81,82x,85) BBC Roy Clarke Corner shop in Bradford Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, Barbara Flynn, Maggie Ollerenshaw # Operation Good Guys (-98) BBC Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick Spoof cop doc David Gillespie, Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick, Gary Beadle, John Beckett, Mark Burdis, Perry Benson, Roy Smiles, Kim Taylforth, Larry Broderick, Dominic Anciano # The Optimist (83,84) C4 ?writer ?sitcom His dreams are played out in real life but never end up how they should Enn Reitel # The Other 'Arf (80,81,82,84) ITV(ATV,84:Central) Terence Howard Cockney girl has posh MP boyfriend Lorraine Chase, John Standing # The Other One (77,79) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey ?2 guys meet on holiday, end up working for same company Richard Briers, Michael Gambon # Our Dora (56) ITV(Granada) Reuben Ship GI's widow returns to live with married sister in England [Dora Bryan left after 4 episodes: see My Wife's Sister for continuation] Helen Christie, Martin Wyldeck, Dora Bryan # Our House (61) ITV(ABC) Norman Hudis Many characters living under the same roof Hylda Baker, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Harry Korris, Leigh Maddison, Johnny Vyvyan # Our Man At St Mark's (63..66) ITV(AR) James Kelly, Peter Miller City vicar in country town Leslie Phillips->Donald Sinden, Francesca Annis, Ann Lawson (63), Joan Hickson, Harry Fowler (64-) # Ours Is A Nice House (69,70) ITV(LWT) Harry Littlewood Northcountry boarding house Thora Hird, Ruth Holden # Outside Edge (94,95x,96) ITV Richard Harris Village cricket club Brenda Blethyn, Robert Daws, Josie Lawrence, Timothy Spall, Denis Lill, Jeremy Nicholas, Ben Daniels # Over The Rainbow (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais "Four music business hopefuls": one of the ex-Commitments women owns pub Angeline Ball, Bronagh Gallagher, Eamon Morrissey, Peter Sullivan, Ian Targett, Roger Walker, Linda Regan # Paradise Island (77) ITV(Thames) Michael Haley Shipwrecked in the Pacific Bill Maynard, William Franklyn # Pardon The Expression (66) ITV(Granada) Harry Driver & Jack Rosenthal episodes by various writers Coronation St spinoff: Mr Swindley as chain store assistant manager Arthur Lowe, Betty Driver, Paul Dawkins # Paris (94) C4 Graham Linehan, Arthur Matthews Bohemian cafe society of 1920s Paris Alexei Sayle, Neil Morrissey, Liz Kettle, Allan Corduner # Partners (81) BBC Richard Waring Divorcing couple are partners in floundering bathroom-fittings firm Derek Waring, Millicent Martin, Elizabeth Counsell # The Paul Squire Show (81-) ITV(ATV) ?writer [barely sitcom] Making of a comedy show Paul Squire, Bobby Knutt, Anna Dawson, Bernard Spear, Debbie Arnold # Perfect Scoundrels (90) ITV ?writer Conmen end up doing good deeds: more of a comdram really Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray # A Perfect State (97) BBC Michael Aitkens Small fishing town declares independence Gwen Taylor, Rudolph Walker, Alan David, Matthew Cottle, Richard Hope, Trevor Cooper, Danny Webb, Emma Amos, Jacqueline Defferary # The Peter Principle (97) BBC Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Dan Patterson A bank manager promoted well beyond his ability Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Stephen Moore, David Schneider, Daniel Flynn, Janette Legge, Tracy Keating # Pig In The Middle (80,81) ITV(LWT) Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham Husband, wife, temptress neighbor Liza Goddard, Dinsdale Landen(80), Joanna Van Gyseghem, Terence Brady(81) # The Piglet Files (90,91,92) ITV(LWT) Paul Minett & Brian Leveson Inept british spies (what other kind do we have?) Nicholas Lyndhurst, Clive Francis, Michael Percival, Serena Evans John Ringham # Pilgrims Rest (97) BBC Bernard McKenna Dilapidated transport cafe Gary Olsen, Gwen Taylor, Jonathan Aris, John Arthur, Pierre Forest, Jay Simpson, Nina Young # The Pink Medicine Show (78) ITV(LWT) Chris Beetles, Rob Buckman Spoof medical show Chris Beetles, Rob Buckman, Lynda Bellingham, Nickolas Grace, Peter John # Pinkerton's Progress (83) BBC Charles McKeown Lyttleton Old School, second rate and run for the comfort of the staff Geoffrey Whitehead, Derek Farr, Eleanor Bron, Charles McKeown # Plaza Patrol (91) ITV(YTV) Richard Lewis & Louis Robinson Security men in a shopping plaza Tommy Cannon & Bobby Ball # Please Sir! (68,69,70,71-,?film) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey Inner city school John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett Erik Chitty, Richard Davies, Peter Cleall, Malcolm McFee, Liz Gebhardt, Penny Spencer -> Carol Hawkins, David Barry, Peter Denyer # Poor Little Rich Girls (84) ITV(Granada) Charles Laurence Cousins meet after 15 years each wrongly thinking other is rich Maria Aitken, Jill Bennett # Pond Life (96) C4 Candy Guard Dolly Pond tries to escape her dreary life [animation] # Porkpie (95,96) C4 Trix Worrell Porkpie (from Desmond's) wins the lottery Ram John Holder, Derek Griffiths # Porridge (74,75x,x76,77,film82) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Prison pilot play "Prisoner and Escort" 73 Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan, Christopher Biggins, David Jason, Ken Jones, Felix Bowness # Potter (79,80,83,84) BBC Roy Clarke Retired mint factory director Arthur Lowe(79,80)->Robin Bailey(83,84), Harry H Corbett(80) John Barron, Noel Dyson, John Warner # A Present For Dickie (69-) ITV Jimmy Grafton & Johnny Hayward Mother-in-law syndrome Dickie Henderson, Fabia Drake, June Laverick, Billy Burden, Jerry Ram, Dennis Ramsden # Preston Front (95,97) BBC Tim Firth The lives of TA volunteers (sequel to All Quiet On the Preston Front) Paul Haigh, Colin Buchanan, Adrian Hood, Susan Wooldridge, Alistair McGowan, Tony Marshall, Kate Gartside, Caroline Gatz, Lucky Athurst, David MacCreedy, Holly Grainger, Ozzie Yue, Keiran Flynn, Sam Graham # A Prince among Men (97,98) BBC Tony Millan & Mike Walling Footballer and entrepreneur Tony Prince Chris Barrie, Francesca Hunt, Samantha Power, Susie Blake, Timothy Bentinck, Bryan Pringle, Cliff Parisi # Pull The Other One (84) ITV(Central) Michael McStay Domestic sitcom: couple and grandma Michael Elphick, Susan Tracy, Lila Kaye # Punch Drunk (93) BBC Clayton Moore Boxing in Glasgow Kenny Ireland, Diana Hardcastle, John Kazek # Queenie's Castle (70,71,72) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall Matriarch owns flats Diana Dors, Freddie Fletcher, Barrie Rutter, Brian Marshall, Tony Caunter, Lynne Perrie # Rab C. Nesbitt (90,92,93,94x,96,97,98) BBC Ian Pattison Glasgow: life in the Gorbals Gregor Fisher, Elaine C Smith, Tony Roper, Barbara Rafferty, Andrew Fairlie, John Kazek, Brian Pettifer, Iain McColl # The Rag Trade (61,62,63:77,78) BBC(60s),ITV(LWT)(70s) Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney Clothing manufacturers 60s(BBC) Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Esma Cannon 70s(ITV) Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen, Diane Langton, Rachel Davies # Red Dwarf (88a) BBC(BBC NorthWest ) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor (88b,89) BBC(Paul Jackson Prod.) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor (91,92,93) BBC(GrantNaylor ) Rob Grant & Doug Naylor (97) BBC(GrantNaylor ) Doug Naylor Space spoof (no I'm not putting in Red Dwarf II etc as separate) Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn(89-) Norman Lovett(88ab), Hattie Hayridge(89-) # The Refuge (87) C4 Sue Townsend Caroline Blakiston, Julia Hills, Lou Wakefield # Relative Strangers (85,87) C4(HumphreyBarclayProductions) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran Carefree bachelor Fitz discovers he has a 17-year old son Holding The Fort spinoff Matthew Kelly, Mark Farmer # Rentaghost has been adjudged kidstuff # Rep (82) ITV ?writer Struggling theatre in Northern seaside town Iain Cuthbertson, Patsy Rowlands, Caroline Mortimer, John Fraser, Brian Carter # The Return Of Mr Bean (91) ITV(Thames, Tiger Television) Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll Mr Bean doesn't say much - so mostly sight gags! Rowan Atkinson # The Return Of Shelley (88) ITV(Thames) Andy Hamilton He returns to the dole in yuppie England from 5yrs teaching English abroad Hywel Bennett, Caroline Langrishe, Andrew Castell # Rich Tea And Sympathy (91) ITV David Nobbs [billed as comdram] Biscuit factory Patricia Hodge, Dennis Quilley, Jean Alexander, Lionel Jeffries. Anne Reid, Ray Lonnen, Tracie Bennett, James Warrior, Claudia Bryan, Jason Flemyng, Chris Garner, Lorraine Ashbourne, Sara Griffiths # Rings On Their Fingers (78,79,80) BBC Richard Waring Long term live-togethers finally marry Martin Jarvis, Diane Keen # Rising Damp (74p,75-ab,x76,77,78,film83) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell Bedsitland Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale(not78), Frances De La Tour Don Warrington # The Ritz (87) BBC ?writer Nightclub bouncers. Spinoff/sequel: The Continental # The River (89) BBC Michael Aitkens Lock keeper David Essex, Katy Murphy # Robin's Nest (77,78ab,79,80,81) ITV(Thames) various writers, see {..} {77,78a, 80x: Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke, editors throughout} {78b: BMcKenna,CBingham&TBrady,JWatkins,TFeely,WHall,KHoare,DFreeman } {79: DFreeman,ARose,BMcKenna,GLayton,DNorton&RTaylor,RWaring&GRenard } {79special: George Layton; 80: George Layton(4eps), Adele Rose(2eps) } {81: George Layton} Bistro (spinoff from Man about the House) Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton, David Kelly # Roger, Roger (98 {p97,98 ?}) BBC John Sullivan Minicab drivers Robert Daws, Paul Sharma, Keith Allen, Pippa Guard, David Ross, Philip Glenister, Terence Maynard, John Thomson, Helen Grace, Barbara Durkin, Jude Akuwudike, Janet Brown, Ricci Harnete, Kirstie Kober, Lauren Ashby, Tina Jones, Hi Ching, Yvonne D'Alpra [how many of these aren't actually regulars?] # Roll Over Beethoven (85,86) ITV(Central/Witzend) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran Rock star in big house has classical piano lessons Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard, Richard Vernon # Romany Jones (73,75) ITV(LWT) writers include: Peter Denyer, Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Life on a mobile homes park Arthur Mullard, James Beck->Jonathan Cecil, Jo Rowbottom->Gaye Soper, Queenie Watts # A Roof Over My Head (77) BBC ?writer [?sitcom] Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews # Room At The Bottom (86,88) ITV(Yorkshire) Ray Galton and John Antrobus Inept TV producer is demoted from drama to game shows Keith Barron, James Bolam, Deborah Grant, Marina Sirtis *also an early 60s one with same title? # Room Service (79) ITV(Thames) Jimmy Perry Room service manager of big London hotel tries to keep order Bryan Pringle, Freddie Earlle, Chris Gannon # Root Into Europe (92) ITV William Donaldson Henry Root, super-patriot bigot, exposes the Continent as decadent & vile George Cole, Pat Heywood # Roots (81) ITV(ATV) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran A jewish dentist (?cancelled at ~3 eps) Stanley Meadows, Joy Shelton, Allan Corduner # Rosie (77,78,79,81) BBC Roy Clarke Sensitive copper; followup to Growing Pains of PC Penrose Paul Greenwood, Ian Wilmot, Tony Haygarth # The Rough With The Smooth (p71,75) BBC ?writer 2 writers share flat, upper vs lower class, work on radio soap Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin # Roy's Raiders (91) BBC ?writer delivery firm James Grout, Sara Crowe, Rebecca Stevens # The Royle Family (98) BBC Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Henry Normal [billed as comdram] Council house family in Greater Manchester Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, Sue Johnston, Ricky Tomlinson, Doreen Keogh, Ralf Little, Jessica Stevenson # Rude Health (87) C4 ?writer 3 disparate GPs in a Home Counties surgery John Wells, John Bett, Paul Mori # Rule Britannia! (75) ITV ?writer Tony Melody, Richard Davies, Russell Hunter, Joe Lynch, Jo Warne # Rumble (95) BBC Al Hunter Ashton & Tim O'Mara (1,4); Tim O'Mara (2,5); Brian Glover (3,6) Wrestling Lesley Joseph, Brian Glover # Sadie, It's Cold Outside (75) ITV ?writer Rosemary Leach # Safe And Sound (96) BBC Timothy Prager Belfast motor mechanics (comdram really) Des McAleer, Sean McGinley, Michelle Fairley, Gabrielle Reidy, Saoirse O'Dwyer, Conor O'Dwyer # Sam And Janet (67) ITV(ATV) David Cumming Comfortably-off couple at war with one another John Junkin, Joan Sims, Harry Locke # Screaming (92) BBC Carla Lane Women sharing house all once had relationships with same guy, who turns out not to be dead after all {poss comdram not sitcom} Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton, Jill Baker # Scully (84) C4 Alan Bleasdale Scouse scally [pilot play "Sculley's New Year's Eve" 78 BBC] Andrew Scofield, Elvis Costello, Kenny Dalgliesh, Ray Kingsley, Mark McGann, Tom Georgeson, Sam Kelly # Sean's Show (92,94) C4 Sean Hughes Sean lives in a small flat and pines for Susan; spoof of sitcom Sean Hughes, Eileen Way # Searching (95) (ITV) Carla Lane Dysfunctional women in therapy centre attempt to cope with their problems. Prunella Scales, Julia St. John, Regina Freedman, Clare Cathcart, Victoria Carling, Amanda Bellamy # Seaview (83,85) BBC Chris Barlas Seaside boarding house [possibly kidstuff but Times describe as sitcom] # Second Thoughts (91,92-,93,94) ITV(LWT) Jan Etherington & Gavin Petrie Man might remarry if ex-wife would leave him alone [from Radio4] James Bolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Mark Denham, Geoffrey Whitehead, Ian Henderson # Second Time Around (74) BBC Richard Waring Divorced man finds love with younger woman Michael Craig, Patricia Brake, Sheila Steafel, Gerald Flood, Jacqueline Clarke # Seconds Out (81ab-) BBC Bill MacIlwraith No-hope boxer Robert Lindsay, Lee Montague, Leslie Ash, Ken Jones # The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 (85) ITV(Thames) Sue Townsend Adrian Mole in puberty [?sitcom: some votes for] Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Beryl Reid, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh # Selwyn (78) ITV(YTV) Lawrie Kinsley & Ron McDonnell see also Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggitt Selwyn becomes ents officers at holiday camp Bill Maynard, Bernard Gallagher # Send In The Girls (78) ITV ?writer Sales promotion girls Annie Ross, Elisabeth Sladen, Brian Miller, Andrew Sachs # Seven Faces Of Jim was not a proper sitcom # Sharon And Elsie (84,85) BBC Arline Whittaker Secretary & typist in greeting card factory Brigit Forsyth, Janette Beverley # A Sharp Intake Of Breath (78,79,80,81) ITV(ATV) various writers including: Ronnie Taylor, Kenneth Cope, Leslie Duxbury David Jason as the little man battling against authority David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson, Alun Armstrong # Shelley (79,80,x80:-81,82ab,83-,89-,90,ny91,92) ITV(Thames) Peter Tilbury Writers include (from 82a) Colin Bostock-Smith; (89) Andy Hamilton; Barry Pilton(89-); Guy Jenkin(89-) On the dole with a degree: see also The Return of Shelley (under R) Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Caroline Langrishe(89->), Andrew Castell(89->) # The Shillingbury Tales (p80,81) ITV(ATV) Francis Essex Picturesque English village; see also Cuthie, a spin-off Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Douglas # Shine On Harvey Moon (82ab,84,85,95) ITV(Central/Witzend) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran Postwar austerity after being demobbed from the RAF Kenneth Cranham, Pauline Quirke, Maggie Steed, Elizabeth Spriggs, Dudley Sutton, Suzanne Bertish, Lee Whitlock 95: Nicky Henson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Linda Robson, Nigel Planer, Lee Whitlock # Shirley's World (72) ITV(ATV) ?writer Screwball journalist travels the world (first shown US, but UK production) Shirley MacLaine, John Gregson # Side By Side (92,93) BBC Richard Ommanney Mismatched neighbours Louisa Rix, Gareth Hunt, Julia Deakin, Mia Fothergill, Alex Walkinshaw, Christopher Scoular, Jackie Smith-Wood # Singles (88,89,91) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell & Jean Warr 4 people go to singles club Susie Blake, Judy Loe, Eamonn Boland, Roger Rees. # Sink Or Swim (81-ab,82) BBC Alex Shearer Brothers living on canal boat Peter Davison, Robert Glenister, Sara Corper # Sitting Pretty (92,93) BBC John Sullivan Airhead returns to family when husband dies bankrupt Diane Bull, Heather Tobias, Alison Lomas, Vilma Hollingbury # Six More Faces Of Jim was not a proper sitcom # Slap! - Love, Lies and Lipstick (98) C4 Tim Dynevor Department store and bank staff in romantic mixups Melanie Kilburn, Steven Duffy, Camilla Power, Kaye Wragg, Robert McKewley, Bob Mason, Noreen Kershaw, Greg Baines, Joan Campion, Cliff Howells # Slapstick And Old Lace (71) ITV Charlie Drake Charlie Drake # Slinger's Day (85) ITV(Thames) created Brian Cooke, various writers Supermarket manager (sequel to Tripper's Day after Rossiter died) Bruce Forsyth # Small People (?) ?channel ?writer Christopher Ryan # A Small Problem (87) BBC Tony Millan & Mike Walling Heightist apartheid Christopher Ryan, Mike Elles # Small World wasn't really a sitcom # Snakes And Ladders (89) C4 Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran 2 people on wrong side of lines after N-S divide becomes an apartheid Ade Edmondson, John Gordon Sinclair # So Haunt Me (92x,93,94) BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson Typical_Jewish_mother ghost Tessa Peake-Jones, George Costigan, Miriam Karlin, Laura Simmons, Jeremy Green # So You Think You've Got Troubles (91) BBC Johnny Speight Irish factory (sitcom?) Warren Mitchell, James Ellis # Sob Sisters (89) ITV(Central) Andrew Marshall Snobby ex-diplomat sister returns to England to live with poorer sister Gwen Taylor, Polly Adams, Freddie Jones # A Soft Touch (78) ITV(ATV) Connor Fraser Man dreams of showbix career, wife hopes he'll get a proper job John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman # Solo (81,82) BBC Carla Lane Single woman struggles for independence Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore (81), Elspet Gray, Michael Howe(82) # Some Matters Of Little Consequence (71) BBC2 ed David Nobbs [?sitcom] Kenneth Griffith, Frank Thornton, Sheila Steafel # Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (73ab,x74,x75,78x) BBC Raymond Allan & Michael Crawford(78) Accident prone dimwit Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice # Sometime Never (96) ITV Jenny Lecoat Sara Crowe, Ann Bryson, Harry burton, Lucinda Fisher, Paul Chapman "Two close friends" aka the girls from the Philadelphia cheese ads # Son Of The Bride (73) BBC John Kane Terry Scott, Molly Sugden # Sorry! (81,82abx,85,86,87,88) BBC Ian Davidson & Peter Vincent Guy never left home - domineering mother Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore # Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself (81,82) ITV David Firth & Peter Tilbury Librarian leaves wife, moves into inherited house, punk squatter Robin Bailey # Sorry I'm Single (67) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronals Chesney Residents of a group of flatlets Derek Nimmo, Gwendolyn Watts, Elizabeth Knight, Pik-Sen Lim # Sounding Brass (80) ITV ?writer Brass band in deperate need of cash Brian Glover, Gwen Taylor # South of the Border (85) ITV(Yorkshire) Peter Tinniswood Proud Yorkshireman is forced to move to the south. Brian Glover, Belinda Sinclair, Mossie Smith # Spark (97) BBC Roy Clarke Life, loves & mid-life crisis of 40-something bachelor James Fleet # Split Ends (89) ITV(Granada) Len Richmond Hairdressers Anita Dobson, Harry Ditson, Peter Blake # Spooner's Patch (79p-,80,82) ITV(ATV) Johnny Speight & Ray Galton Comic policeman Ian Bannen(79pilot)->Ronald Fraser(79-80)->Donald Churchill(80), Patricia Hayes, Peter Cleall, John Lyons, Norman Rossington, Dermot Kelly # Spring And Autumn (p72,73,?,76) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver Pensioner goes to live with his daughter Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins, Gaye Brown, June Barry, Larry Martin # Square Deal (88,89) ITV Richard Ommanney hunk next door to yuppies, earth mother+useless bloke downstairs # The Square Leopard (80) ITV ?writer Struggling young solicitor lodges with widowed mother of 5 John Leyton # The Squirrels (p74?74p,75,76ab-) ITV(ATV) Eric Chappell Accounts office of an TV hire company Bernard Hepton, Shaun O'Riordan, Ken Jones, Patsy Rowlands, Alan David, Ellis Jones, Karin McCarthy # Steptoe And Son (62p,63,64,65,70ab,72,x73,74) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson Films "Steptoe And Son" 72, "Steptoe And Son Ride Again" 73 Rag'n'bone men Harry H Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell # Straight Down The Middle (?) ?channel ?writer # The Strange World Of Gurney Slade (60) ITV(ATV) Sid Green & Dick Hills; created Anthony Newley A young man wanders through life in a state of fantasy. Anthony Newley # Streets Apart (?when) BBC Adrienne Conway London cabbie meets old flame, now lit. agent pretends to be secretary 2nd series: economic/class disparity known Amanda Redman, James Hazeldine, June Barry, Desmond McNamara # Stressed Eric (98) BBC Carl Gorham Animation. Single parent office worker Eric has the life from hell. Voices: Alexander Armstrong, Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front, Mark Heap, Gordon Kennedy, Geoff McGivern, Doon MacKichan, Paul Shearer, Alison Steadman # Struggle (83) C4 Peter Jenkins Loony-left leader of a socialist-controlled London borough council Tim Pigott-Smith # The Sun Trap (80) BBC David Nobbs Ex-pat Brits on Mediterranean island Terence Alexander, Joan Benham, Graham Crowden, Donald Churchill, Zena Walker # Supergran has been adjudged as kid's stuff # Surgical Spirit (89,90,91,92,93,94,95) ITV(Granada) Peter Learmouth 94 series credits a 'writing team' who seem to do an ep each, including: Peter Learmouth, Graeme Garden, Raymond Dixon, Annie Wood Squabbling surgeons Nicola MacAuliffe, Duncan Preston, Marji Campi, David Conville, Emlyn Price, Suzette Llewellyn, Simon Harrison, Beresford Le Roy, Andrew Groves # Sweet Sixteen (83) BBC Douglas Watkinson 16years age difference romance twixt architect&contractor Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Mike Grady, Joan Blackham, John Rapley, Victor Spinetti # Sykes (59,60,72,73,?74,75,76,77,78,79) BBC Eric Sykes (59: Johnny Speight) Adventures of a bachelor and his sister there was a 1971 series, subtitled: "Sykes and a Big, Big Show" Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Richard Wattis(pre75) # Take A Chance (80-) ITV ?writer probably doesn't count as sitcom after all Theatrical digs grandly known as The Rose Marie Hotel # Take A Letter, Mr Jones (81) ITV(Southern) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Career woman with male secretary Rula Lenska, John Inman, Miriam Margolyes # Take My Wife (79) ITV(Granada) Anthony Couch Struggling standup comic and his agent Sheila Hancock, Duggie Brown, Victor Spinetti # Take Three Girls (69-,71) BBC Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady 3 girls share a flat Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson, Angela Down # Take Three Women (82) BBC Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady Continuation of Take Three Girls Liza Goddard, Susan Jameson, Angela Down # Tales From The Poopdeck was kidstuff and maybe not even sitcomish at all # The Tales Of Para Handy (94,95) BBC Bob Black Decrepit coastal steamer and crew on the Clyde (cf The Vital Spark) Gregor Fisher, Andrew Fairlie, Rikki Fulton, Sean Scanlon, Paul Young # Tandoori Nights (85) C4 Farrukh Dhondy Two rival Indian restaurateurs, one a widower with two daughters Saeed Jaffrey, Rita Wolf, Badi Uzzaman, Tariq Yunus, Zohra Segal. # Tears Before Bedtime (83) BBC Richard Waring Middle-aged couple with inconsiderate children run away from home Geraldine McEwan, Francis Matthews # Teenage Health Freak (91,93) C4(Limelight) Daniel Peacock additional material Keith Allen (91) Adolescent anguish Alex Langdon, Daniel Peacock, Liza Walker, Tilly Vosburgh, Ella Wilder, Aaron Carrington, Samantha Edmonds (93) # The 10%ers (p93,94,96) ITV Doug Naylor West End talent agency Denis Lill(p93)->Clive Francis(94), Benedict Taylor, Elizabeth Bennett, Gabrielle Cowburn, Colin Stinton, Hilda Braid, Irene Sutcliffe # Terry And Julian (92) C4 Julian Clary, Paul Merton, and somebody else Julian Clary moves in with A.N.Other and camps it up (what a surprise) Julian Clary, Lee Simpson # Terry And June (79,80x,81x,82abx,83,85) BBC writers include: John Kane, Jon Watkins, Terry Ravenscroft, Colin Bostock-Smith, John Chapman & Eric Merriman, David Grigson Dull things happen to suburban couple: sequel to Happy Ever After Terry Scott, June Whitfield # That Beryl Marston...! (81) ITV(Southern) Jan Butlin Curiosity shop owner's husband has affair Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt, Peter John, Jonathon Morris # That's Love (87?,88?,90) ITV Terence Frisby Lawyer and wife fall out occasionally Jimmy Mulville, Diana Hardcastle, Tony Slattery(90), Neil Pearson # That's My Boy (81,83x,84x,85) ITV Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton Cleaner discovers employer is son she gave up for adoption Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Jennifer Lonsdale, Clare Richards, Ian Lavender # That's Your Funeral (p70,71) BBC Peter Lewis Basil Bulstrode's funereal establishment, Bill Fraser, David Battley, Raymond Huntley # Them (72) BBC1 Johnny Speight [not sure whether this might be comdram] Two tramps, one Irish, the other Cockney Cyril Cusack, James Booth # Then Churchill Said To Me (82) BBC ?writer [First shown on UK Gold due to Falklands conflict ] Lackey in the War Office Frankie Howerd # There Comes A Time (85) ITV(Yorkshire) Wally K Daly Executive "about to make medical history"; Rare fatal disease Andrew Sachs, Judy Cornwell # Thick As Thieves (74) ITV(LWT) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Released prisoner finds wife living with best friend Bob Hoskins, John Thaw, Pat Ashton # Thicker Than Water (81) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples Yorkshire widower with 2 unmarried musical sons Joss Ackland, Colin Farrell, Peter Denyer # The Thin Blue Line (95x,96) BBC Ben Elton Out-of-date detective Rowan Atkinson, David Haig, Kevin Allen, Serena Evans, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus, Rudolph Walker # Thingumybob (68) ITV(LWT) Kenneth Cope Retirement Stanley Pickles, Rose Hill, John Junkin, Kate Williams, William Maxwell, Peta Vernon-Till # Third Time Lucky (82) ITV ?writer Divorced couple want to remarry, but there are complications Derek Nimmo, Nerys Hughes, Angela Douglas, Gerald Flood # This Is David Harper (90) C4 Tony Sarchet Spoof investigative journalist (follow-on from This Is David Lander) Tony Slattery # This Is David Lander (88) C4 Tony Sarchet Spoof investigative journalist Stephen Fry # Three In A Bed (72,?) ITV(Thames/Yorkshire) ?writer, in collaboration with (somebody) Firkin Northern pub darts team, POSSIBLY PILOT ONLY Roy Barraclough, # Three Live Wires (61) ITV(AR) James Kelly & Peter Miller TV sales & repair shop Michael Medwin, Bernard Fox, Deryck Guyler, George Roderick # Three Up, Two Down (85,86) BBC Richard Ommanney Couple+baby up, her mother + his father down. her mid class, him lower Michael Elphick, Lysette Anthony, Neil Stacy(86), Angela Thorne Ray Burdis # Till Death Us Do Part (p65,66,-67,68,72x,74ab-,75,81) BBCto75,ITV81 Johnny Speight 76 spring bank holiday special "Till Closing Time Us Do Part" A bigot Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nicholls(until75,not p65), Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth, Patricia Hayes, Alfie Bass(from75) # Time After Time (94,95) ITV Paul Minett & Brian Leveson Ex-con tries to go straight Brian Conley, Samantha Beckinsale, Kate Williams, David Shane, Richard Graham, Georgia Allen, Neil McCaul # Time Of My Life (80) BBC Jim Eldridge Man loses his job and wife Mark Kingston, Amanda Barrie # To The Manor Born (79x,80,81) BBC Peter Spence Woman has to sell stately home and move to gatehouse Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne, Gerald Sim, John Rudling, Michael Bilton, Daphne Heard, Daphne Oxenford, Anthony Sharp, Joyce Windsor # Tom, Dick, And Harriet (82,83) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke Old reprobate widower moves in on son and daughter-in-law Lionel Jeffries, Ian Ogilvy, Brigit Forsyth # The Tony Hancock Show (56ab-) ITV(AR) 1st series probably not sitcom Tony Hancock # The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs (74) ITV(LWT) Bernard McKenna & Richard Laing Bungling MI5 man David Jason # Tottenham 2 (98-) C4 Ashmeed Sohoye Two layabouts in Tottenham # A Touch Of Spice (89) BBC ?writer 2 young women start a catering company # The Train Now Standing (72,73) ITV(LWT) ?writer Stationmaster on an overlooked branch line. Bill Fraser, Hugh Walters # Tripper's Day (84) ITV(Thames) created Brian Cooke, various writers Supermarket manager Leonard Rossiter (last role), Pat Ashton, Gordon Gostelow, James Ellis # Troubles And Strife (85,86) ITV Shaun O'Riordan Young handsome single vicar Stephen Pacey, Diana Weston # Trouble In Mind (91) ITV Colin Bostock-Smith Psychiatrist Richard O'Sullivan, Susan Penhaligon) # The Trouble With You, Lilian (71) ITV(LWT) Jennifer Phillips Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes # Turn Out the Lights (67) ITV(Granada) Peter Eckersley & Kenneth Cope 2nd Coronation Street Mr Swindley spin-off: now amateur ghost hunter Arthur Lowe, Robert Dorning # Turnbull's Finest Half-Hour (72) ITV(Yorkshire) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland Tiny local independent-television station Michael Bates, Raymond Huntley, Liz Fraser, Roddy Maude-Roxby # Turtle's Progress (79,80) ITV Edmund Ward Petty crooks acquire lorryload of safe deposit boxes John Landry, Michael Atwell # Two In Clover (69,70) ITV(Thames) Harry Driver & Vince Powell 2 city dwellers move to a ramshackle farm Victor Spinetti, Sidney James # The Two Of Us (86,87,89,90) ITV(LWT) Alex Shearer Young couple Nicholas Lyndhurst, Janet Dibley, Patrick Troughton(86),Tenniel Evans(87) # Two Old Dears (73) ITV ?writer Two bickering sister-in-laws share house. Dropped immediately after first episode savaged by critics. Joan Hickson, Wynne Clark # 2point4 Children (91,92x,93x,94x,95x,96x,98) BBC Andrew Marshall Average family encounter bizarre situations Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen, Julia Hills, John Pickard, Claire Woodgate(91,92)->Clare Buckfield(93->) # Two Up, Two Down (79) BBC ?writer {this is not an error for 3 up 2 down} Squatters in couple's new Manchester dream house Su Pollard # Two's Company (75,76,?77,78) ITV(LWT) Bill McIlwraith American writer in London has stormy relationship with butler Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden # Tygo Road (?late80s/early90s) BBC ?writer Chaotic community centre Kevin McNally # Unfinished Business (98,99) BBC Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran Divorcee and ex-husband Harriet Walter, Henry Goodman, Jaye Griffiths, Brigitte Kahn, Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, William Mannering # Union Castle (82) ITV(Granada) Douglas Argent Trade union peer lives in castle owned by pension fund Stratford Johns # Up Pompeii! (p69,70ab) BBC Talbot Rothwell & Sid Colin (after Plautus) film 71 Up Pompeii Sid Colin, also spinoff films Up The Chastity Belt, Up The Front, same character but different time periods (crusades, WW1) Slapstick & titillation in ancient Pompeii Frankie Howerd, Max Adrian->Wallas Eaton, Elizabeth Larner, Georgina Moon, Kerry Gardner, Willie Rushton(a), Trisha Noble(a), Jeanne Mockford # Up The Elephant And Round The Castle (83-,85ab) ITV(Thames) Anthony Parker parts of 85a seen in 84 in some regions Cockney capers Jim Davidson, Marina Sirtis # Up The Garden Path (?,93) ITV Sue Limb Schoolteacher in search of love {from Radio4} Imelda Staunton, Mike Grady, Nicholas Le Provost, Tessa Peake-Jones, Rene Zaggers, Susan Kyd, Tom Mannion, Neil McCaul # Up The Workers (p73,74,76) ITV(ATV) Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley Midlands components factory Henry McGee, Lance Percival, Norman Bird # The Upchat Connexion (78) ITV Keith Waterhouse Successor to above Robin Nedwell # The Upchat Line (77) ITV Greg Freeman; Keith Waterhouse Fast talking bachelor sponges off everybody John Alderton # The Upper Crusts (73) ITV(LWT) ?writer Margaret Leighton, Charles Gray # The Upper Hand (90,91,92,93,95) ITV John Donley & Clay Graham; 93: various writers Male housekeeper; UK version of Who's The Boss? Diana Weston, Joe McGann, Honor Blackman, Kellie Bright, William Puttock # Us Girls (92,93) BBC Lisselle Kayla Interfering grandmother Mona Hammond, Nicola Blackman, Allister Bain, Marlaine Gordon, Kerry Potter, Dona Croll, Trevor Thomas, Oke Wamba # Vacant Lot (67) ITV(ABC) ?writer ?sitcom Nicky Henson # Valentine Park (87) ?channel ?writer Gardeners in a public park David Thewlis # Very Big Very Soon (91) ITV(Central) Daniel Peacock Theatrical agent representing no-hopers Paul McShane # The Very Merry Widow (67-,68?) BBC Alan Melville Moira Lister # The Very Merry Widow And How (69) BBC Alan Melville Market researcher for consumer magazine Moira Lister, Sally Thomsett, Nicholas Parsons, Donald Hewlett # A Very Peculiar Practice (86,88) BBC Andrew Davies [?sitcom?comdram?] special: A Very Polish Practice - Davison, Troughton, Kanska University docs: nice guy, nasty tory, old alcy, manipulative feminist Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn, Amanda Hillwood(86+1ep), Joanna Kanska(88) # The Vicar Of Dibley (94,x96,x97,98) BBC Richard Curtis plus Paul Mayhew Archer, Kit Hesketh Harvey Small village gets female vicar Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, Emma Chambers, Liz Smith, John Bluthal, Trevor Peacock, Roger Lloyd Pack # The Vital Spark (59,70s) BBC Neil Munro Decrepit coastal steamer & crew on the Clyde 59: Duncan McCrae, Alex McEvoy, Walter Carr, John Grieve 70s: Roddy McMillan # The Wackers (75) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell Liverpool family: sortof followup to The Squirrels [cancelled after 2eps?] Ken Jones, Sheila Fay, David Casey, Alison Steadman, Keith Chegwin, Pearl Hackney, Joe Gladwin # Waiting For God (90,91,92x,93,94) BBC Michael Aitkens 2 inmates kick against restrictions in an old folks home Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole, Janine Duvitski, Daniel Hill, Andrew Tourell, Sandra Payne # Watch This Space (80) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney TV advertising Liza Goddard, Peter Blake, Christopher Biggins, Leo Dolan, Gillian Taylforth # Watching (87,88,89,89-,90-,92,93) ITV(Granada) Jim Hitchmough A love story of sorts Emma Wray, Paul Bown, Liza Tarbuck, John Bowler, Patsy Byrne, Noreen Kershaw # We'll Think Of Something (86) ITV(Thames) Geoff Rowley Man too proud to sign on the dole Sam Kelly, Marcia Warren # Well Anyway (76) BBC ?writer John Fortune, John Bird # West End Tales (81) ITV(ATV) Keith Waterhouse Petty crook in Soho Robin Nedwell, Garfield Morgan, Larry Martyn, Toni Palmer, Peter Childs, Susan Skipper # Whack-O! (56..60,{radio61..63},71-) BBC Frank Muir & Denis Norden film 60 "Bottoms Up" Headmaster Jimmy Edwards, Julian Orchard # What You Lookin' At? (93) ITV Trix Worrell A London youth club. "Kid's stuff" really. Robert McKewley, Trevyn Mcdowell, Bill Moody, Gary McDonald, Angela Wynter, Marcia Hewitt, Kelly Marcel, Caroline Waldron # Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? (73,74x) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais The later adventures of those 2 Tynesiders James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth # Where The Buffalo Roam (95) BBC Mark Bussell & Justin Sbresni Scousers attempt to make it big Stephen McGann, Ricky Tomlinson, Anne Reid # The Whitehall Worrier (67) BBC1 Alan Melville Civil service capers Robert Coote, Moira Lister, Jonathan Cecil, Daphne Anderson # Whizzkid's Guide (81) ITV(Southern) ?writer School life Arthur Mullard, Kenneth Williams, Rita Webb # Who Is Sylvia? (67:only 3 parts) ITV(ATV) Charlie Drake Man seeks perfect mate via marriage bureau Charlie Drake, Kathleen Byron # Whoops Apocalypse (82,film86) ITV(LWT) Andrew Marshall & David Renwick Last days before the quark bomb {called sitcom by Times but debatable} John Cleese, Barry Morse, Alexei Sayle, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Griffiths, Bruce Montague, David Kelly, Joe Melia, John Barron, Charles Kay. # Whoops Baghdad (with a ! ?) (73) BBC Sid Colin, David McKellar, David Nobbs [Ray Turvey & Maurice Sellar] Sort of Up Pompeii in the Middle East Frankie Howerd, Derek Francis, Hilary Pritchard, Anna Brett # Wild, Wild Women (69) BBC1 Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney London sweatshop at the beginning of the twentieth century Barbara Windsor, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Daphne Heard, Pat Coombs, Toni Palmer, Jessie Robbins # Wilderness Road (86) BBC Bob Goody & Richard Cottan Pub, its offy and tenants in run-down part of London Robin Driscoll, Leslie Sands, Peter Jonfield, Gary Olsen, Veronica Quilligan, David Sibley # Wink To Me Only (p68,69) BBC Jennifer Phillips Beryl Reid, Hugh Paddick # Winning Widows (61,62) ITV(ATV) Sid Green & Dick Hills Widowed sisters share house Peggy Mount, Avice Landon # The Worker (69-) ITV(ATV) Charlie Drake & Lew Schwarz Accident prone bloke goes for new job each week Charlie Drake, Henry McGee # The World Of Wooster (65-67, 3series) BBC Richard Waring, from P G Wodehouse Wodehouse's famous stories about Bertie Wooster and his manservant Jeeves Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price # Worzel Gummidge has been adjudged to be kid's stuff # Wuffer (83) BBC ?writer Council dog warden has extraordinary powers with dogs [kidstuff?] # Wyatt's Watchdogs (late80s) BBC ?writers Neighbourhood watch people Brian Wilde, Trevor Bannister # Yanks Go Home (76) ITV(Granada) various writers Wartime comedy series Lionel Murton, Stuart Damon, Richard Oldfield,Alan MacNaughtan # Yes Minister (80,81,82,x84) BBC Antony Jay & Jonathan Lynn Civil service machinations Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds # Yes, Honestly (?,76,77) ITV Charlotte Bingham & Terence Brady No Honestly with different couple Liza Goddard, Donal Donnelly # Yes, Prime Minister (86,87-) BBC Antony Jay & Jonathan Lynn More civil service machinations Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds # You Must Be The Husband (87,88) BBC Colin Bostock-Smith Wife is writer of best seller steamy romance, husband makes less dosh Tim Brooke-Taylor, Diane Keen, Sheila Steafel, Garfield Morgan, Brian Hall, Michael Stainton # You Rang M'Lord (88,89,90,93) BBC Jimmy Perry & David Croft Servants and masters: mostly same cast and jokes as Hi-de-Hi Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Bill Pertwee, Brenda Cowling, Mavis Pugh, Susie Brann, Perry Benson, Barbara New, Catherine Rabett(has dated Prince Andrew, not in the show!) # You're Only Young Twice (77,78,79x,x80,81) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton Home for elderly women Pat Coombs, Peggy Mount, Lally Bowers, Charmaine May, Diana King, Peggy Ledger # You're Only Young Twice (71) ITV(ATV) Jack Trevor Story Old people's home Adrienne Corri # Young At Heart (80,81,82) ITV Vince Powell Trauma of retirement for hard-working pottery worker John Mills, Meg Jenkins # The Young Ones (82,84) BBC Ben Elton,Rik Mayall,Lise Mayer +Alexei Sayle University students share a house Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle # Yus My Dear (Yus M'Dear ?) (76) ITV Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney Romany Jones follow-up: they move into a house Arthur Mullard, Queenie Watts # {end of complete list}