The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part D-I, 727 lines

[Dave Budd]

The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part D-I, 727 lines, updated 961129
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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
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The Darling Buds Of May has been adjudged a comedy-drama
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Dead Ernest (82) ITV(Central) Julian Roach & John Stevenson
Teacher dies and goes to heaven
Andrew Sachs, Ken Jones, Harry Fowler
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Dear John (86,87x,3rd series?) BBC John Sullivan
Therapy/encounter group for singles
Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang, Peter Blake
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Dear Ladies (83,84ny) BBC Gyles Brandreth
Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr Evadne hinge "at home" in Stackton Tressel
George Logan, Patrick Fyffe (female impersonators)
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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
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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?)
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The Detectives (93,94,95x,96) BBC(Celador) Steve Knight & Mike Whitehill
Two defective cops - developed from sketches in Canned Carrott
Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, George Sewell
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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
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Divided We Stand (87) BBC Myra Taylor
Unhappily married couple, living in Birmingham
Anna Keaveney, Shaun Curry
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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
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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
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Doctor At The Top (91) BBC1 George Layton & Bill Oddie
They're consultants now (I think)
Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Jill Benedict
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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
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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)
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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
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Doctor Down Under was an Australian production
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Doctors And Nurses (79-) ITV Rob Buckman & Chris Beetles
Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff
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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
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Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy (p82) ITV (88) BBC David Nobbs
2 truckers take dogfood between Wales & NE England, meeting halfway.
Peter Blake and a lugubrious looking chap whose name escapes me(ie the
contributor of this entry)
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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
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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
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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
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Don't Tell Father (92) BBC Roy Clarke
Insufferable actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor
Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin, Susan Hampshire
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Don't Wait Up (83,84,85-,87,88,90) BBC George Layton
Father & son doctors share flat
Nigel Havers, Tony Britton
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Dora (72ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
<synopsis>
Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean
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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
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Down The 'Gate (75) ITV Maurice Sellar & Roy Tuvey
Billingsgate fish market
Reg Varney, Dilys Laye, Tony Melody
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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
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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
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Dream Stuffing (84) C4 Paul Hines & Su Wilkins
2 girls share flat: punk & richkid. "Eighties Liver Birds"
Rachael Weaver, Amanda Symonds, Maria Charles
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Dressing For Breakfast (95) C4 Stephanie Calman
Young single woman in search of a man
Beatie Edney, Holly Aird, Charlotte Cornwell
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Drop The Dead Donkey (90,91,93,94,96) 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
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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
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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
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Educating Archie (58..59) ITV(AR) ?Marty Feldman did the radio version
Ventriloquism
Peter Brough was in the radio version at least
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The Eggheads (61) BBC Richard Waring & David Croft
A lighthearted look at student life.
<cast>
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El CID has been adjudged a comedy-drama
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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
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Ever Decreasing Circles (84abx,...,87,x89?ny90) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
Compulsive organiser
Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton
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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
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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
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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
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Faith In The Future (95,96) ITV Jan Etherington & Gavin Petrie
Mother & daughter from Second Thoughts
Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Jeff Rawle
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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
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Fancy Wanders (80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
Tramp imagines self and friend into fantastic situations
Dave King, Joe Marcell
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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
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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.
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Father Dear Father (68,69,70,71ab,72,73) 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
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Father Matthew's Daughter (87) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
<cast>
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Father Ted (95,96) 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
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Father's Day (83,84) C4 Peter Spence
Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch
John Alderton, Dominique Barnes, Rosalind Ayres, Kate Alderton
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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
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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.
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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
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Ffizz (87,89) ITV(Thames) Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
Wine importing company on verge of bankruptcy
Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu
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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
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Filthy, Rich And Catflap (87) BBC(Paul Jackson Productions)
Ben Elton +Rik Mayall
Actor, minder, and agent
Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer
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A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) ITV(LWT) Bob Larbey
Prickly relationship
Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick
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Fire Crackers (64) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson
Forgotten fire brigade in forgotten village
Alfred Marks, Joe Baker, Cardew Robinson
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The First Lady (late60s) BBC ?writer
Yorkshire councillor
Thora Hird
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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
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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
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Foreign Affairs (64) ITV(Granada) Barry Took
Bootsie & Snudge enter the diplomatic service
Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps
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Foreign Affairs (66) BBC Leonard Samson, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke
Spies and diplomats
Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker
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Foreign Bodies (87ab,89) BBC Bernard Farrell & Graham Reid
N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse
Colum Convey
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The Fossett Saga (69) ITV(LWT) Dave Freeman
Victoran era, ambitious writer of penny-dreadfuls
Jimmy Edwards, Sam Kydd, June Whitfield
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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
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Foxy Lady (82,84) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire
Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper
Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Geoffrey Burridge, Sean Scanlan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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The Fuzz (77) ITV(Thames) Willis Hall
<synopsis>
Michael Robbins, Nigel Lambert
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The Gaffer (81,82,83) ITV(YTV) Graham White
Light engineering company
Bill Maynard, Pat Ashton, Russell Hunter, Chris Langham, Leslie Sarony
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Game On! (95,96) BBC(Hat Trick) Andrew Davies & Bernadette Davis
3 flatmates
Ben Chaplin->Neil Stuke, Matthew Cottle, Samantha Janus,
Tracey Keating(96)
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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
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George And The Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) Harry Driver & Vince Powell
Chauffeur & housekeeper
Peggy Mount, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Gingerbread Girl (93) ITV Alex Shearer [?sitcom]
Single mother
Janet Dibley, John Diedrich, Tyler Butterworth, Isabella Marsh
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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
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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,
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The Glamour Girls (80,82) ITV David Nobbs
Sales promotion agency
Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth, Tom Price
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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
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The Gnomes Of Dulwich (69) BBC Jimmy Perry
Garden gnomes
Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive
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Going Straight (78) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
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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
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Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) BBC Peter Vincent & Peter Robinson
Lodger won't leave
Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers, Talla Hayes
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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
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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
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Goodnight Sweetheart (93,95x,96) BBC(Alomo/SelecTV)
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
TV repairman timeslips to 2nd World War London
Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan, Michelle Holmes, Victor McGuire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Haggard (90,92) ITV Eric Chappell
Tudorbethan/regency/georgian(you choose) spendthrift squire
Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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Hallelujah! (83,84) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
Salvation Army captain in the North
Thora Hird, David Daker, Patsy Rowlands
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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
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Hancock's Half Hour (56,57ab,59-ab,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)
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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
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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
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Happy Families (85) BBC Ben Elton
Attempts to find scattered family members
Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Helen Lederer
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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
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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
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Harry Worth (67,68,69?) BBC Ronny Taylor
Single man on edge of middle age finds life confusing
Harry Worth
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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
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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
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Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
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The Hello Goodbye Man (84) BBC David Nobbs
Incompetent salesman for a pharmaceuticals firm
Ian Lavender, Mary Tamm, Ken Harrington, Dominic Guard
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Hell's Bells (86) BBC Jan Butlin
Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law, Penelope Horner
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Help! (86,88) BBC Joe Boyle
Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
Stephen McGann, Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
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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
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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
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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
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High And Dry (87) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
Bloke buys a derelict pier in 1946
Bernard Cribbins, Richard Wilson, Vivienne Martin, Angus Barnett
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The High Life (p94,95) BBC Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson
Glasgow air shuttle
Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart
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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
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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
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His Lordship Entertains (72) BBC Jonathon(sp?) Cobbold = Ronnie Barker
Lord converts ancestral home into hotel.
Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, David Jason
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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Horace is listed as drama in Television's Greatest Hits
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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
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Horne A'Plenty was a sketch show
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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)
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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
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The House That Jack Built (77) BBC Shelagh Delaney [?sitcom]
newly married couple
Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce
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How's Your Father? (74) ITV ?writer
Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins
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How's Your Father? (74,75) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson
The Cropper family
Michael Robbins, Barbara Young, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon,
Arthur English
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How's Your Father? (79,80) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton
Widower with 2 teenage children
Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming, Giles Watling
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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
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Hugh And I Spy (68) BBC ?writer
<synopsis>
Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
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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)
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I Thought You'd Gone (84) ITV(Central) Peter Jones & Ken Laffan
Couple move to country from Croydon after kids leave home
Peter Jones, Pat Heywood
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I Woke Up One Morning (85) BBC Carla Lane
Alcoholism
Peter Caffrey, Robert Gillespie, Frederick Jaeger, Michael Angelis
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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
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If It Moves--File It (70) ITV(LWT) Troy Kennedy Martin
Bungling bureaucrats
John Bird, Dudley Foster, John Nettleton
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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
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In Loving Memory (p69Thames,79,80,82,83-,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Dick Sharples
Aunt & nephew run funeral parlour
Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
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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
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The Incredible Mr Tanner (81) ITV(probThames) Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer
2 street entertainers, one an escapologist
Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear, Joseph O'Conor
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Inside George Webley (70) ITV(YTV) Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Worrier
Roy Kinnear, Patsy Rowland
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Interference (83) C4 ?writer
Pirate TV Station S (for Subversive)
Fiona Richmond, Arnold Brown, Martin Beaumont
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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
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Is It Legal? (95p,96) 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
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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
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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
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