The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part W-Z, 168 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. # 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 part W-Z}