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I dont get why people like British shows. I am sure they are very good but it seems like every British show is 6 eps per season. You barely get into it and it is gone
It is a shame that British comedies only usually last for about six episodes, yes. You often feel like they should have done some more episodes.
Mind you, a lot of British comedies are repeated over and over on our channels. Sometimes they show a previous series before showing the new episodes.
I have always puzzled over Benny's popularity in America. He was such an old fashioned English comic. I believe the singer Dean Martin thought Benny was the funniest man ever.
Benny was another of those tragic men, who was rather odd in real life, and lived through his comedy. When his show was dropped, and he was accused of being old fashioned, and a comedy dinosaur, he went into decline, and died.
'One Foot In The Grave' is really funny. Victor Meldrew is still to be seen on the telly complaining vigorously!! My wife says I remind her of Victor sometimes........
'Monty Python' at it's best is hilarious. What people forget is that much of it wasn't funny. In a half hour episode there may have been two funny bits. It was experimental comedy at the time, and very hit and miss.
I spoke to my dad about this last night, and he went into "retrospective mode" and gave out a whole list of old TV programs. I still can't recall many of them now, but how about:-
Magpie
Tiswas
Captain Scarlet
UFO
Space 1999
Tomorrow's World
Krypton Factor
It's a Knockout
Inspector Morse
Great Egg Race
The Good Life
Rumpole of the (something or other)
There was a load more he wheeled off, before going into "retrospective verbatim mode!"
Have never heard most of the above, apart from perhaps Tiswas and Inspector Morse, oh and The Good Life (if only because of Felicity Kendall )
I spoke to my dad about this last night, and he went into "retrospective mode" and gave out a whole list of old TV programs. I still can't recall many of them now, but how about:-
Magpie
Tiswas
Captain Scarlet
UFO
Space 1999
Tomorrow's World
Krypton Factor
It's a Knockout
Inspector Morse
Great Egg Race
The Good Life
Rumpole of the (something or other)
There was a load more he wheeled off, before going into "retrospective verbatim mode!"
Have never heard most of the above, apart from perhaps Tiswas and Inspector Morse, oh and The Good Life (if only because of Felicity Kendall )
Geez......... I remember all of them........ 'Magpie' was just a 'Blue Peter' ripoff. Same format, but kids loved both shows. 'Tiswas' was real funny Saturday morning telly. Much of it went right over the kid's heads, so dad's could watch it as well. 'Captain Scarlet', 'UFO', and Space 1999, were all from the same company that made 'Thunderbirds.' 'Tomorrow's World' and 'Great Egg Race' were for the more intelligent viewer....
'Tiswas' discovered some talent....... Spit the dog and his owner Bob were but just two. They even got invited on to talk shows.........
Did anyone see the remakes of 'Are You Being Served?' and 'Porridge'? I thought they were ok, but some people were complaining about them not being as good as the originals. But what did people expect?! No-one can ever hold a candle (or four!) to Ronnie Barker.
On Friday, the BBC are showing an episode of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' and a prequel to 'Keeping Up Appearances'.
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