Click for larger image Man About The House
1973 Thames Television
A comedy great. Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett star as Chrissie and Jo, two flatmates sharing a central London flat. After a wild party, they find catering student Robin (Richard O'Sullivan) asleep in the bath. He's invited to stay when they discover his cooking beats theirs. These titles, filmed almost entirely outside Waterloo tube station, are highly amusing, if only because Thomsett's name appears over a shot of her wiggling bottom!
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Married for Life
1996 Central Television
Married for Life was an unsuccesfull UK remake of the US sitcom, Married... With Children. It only ran for the one series. It starred Russ Abbott and Susan Kyd.

Click for larger image Men Behaving Badly
1990s
Click for larger image Written and created by Simon Nye, Men Behaving Badly centres around two beer swilling flatmates.  The series began on ITV and featured Gary (Martin Clunes) and Dermot (Harry Enfield).  ITV chose to cancel the show after two series and it was picked by the BBC, where it enjoyed much greater success and where Tony (Neil Morrissey) replaced Dermot as Gary's flatmate.  Their childish behaviour, constant TV watching and stupid conversations about women often gets them into trouble with Gary's girlfriend Dorothy (Caroline Quentin) and Deborah (Leslie Ash) from the flat above, the object of Tony's affection.   

Click for larger image Mock The Week
2009
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My Name Is Harry Worth
1974 Thames Television
My Name Is Harry Worth saw Harry as a brush salesman lodging with Mrs Maybury ( Lally Bowers ) at 14 Wentworth Drive. His efforts at trying to do the right things are surpassed by his inability to understand the ways of the world. Written by Ronnie Taylor, George Layton, Jonathan Lynn and produced by William G Stewart of 15 to 1 fame. It ran on Thames for 8 episodes from 22nd Aril 1974 to June 17th 1974.

Click for larger image Nearest And Dearest
1968
On his deathbed, Joshua Pledge leaves his small pickle business to his two middle-aged children, the hardworking Nellie (Hylda Baker), and her 'ne'er do well' brother Eli (Jimmy Jewel).  Created by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, and set in Lancashire, Nearest and Dearest ran for five years in the late 60s and early 70s. Nellie's constant malapropisms drove the comedy in the show.
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Click for larger image Nearest And Dearest
1969
New titles, different writers!  Tom Brennand and Roy Bottomley now pen the gags in this comedy series from Granada.
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Click for larger image Nearest And Dearest
1971
New titles, same writers!
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Click for larger image Never The Twain
1981 Thames Television
Simon Peel (Donald Sinden) and Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies) were two neighbouring Antiques Dealers who were also the best of enemies. Created by Johnnie Mortimer, the series ran from 1981 to 1991 and notched up an impressive 67 episodes.
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Click for larger image No Place Like Home
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Click for larger image Oh Brother
1968
Derek Nimmo stars as Brother Dominic, a novice monk at Mountacres Priory.  His clumsiness, however, constantly leaves him on the verge of being dismissed from his holy orders.  Brother Dominic is a very similar character to Reverend Noote whom Nimmo portrayed in 'All Gas and Gaiters'.
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Click for larger image Oh In Colour
1970
Click for larger image Spike Milligan in a rather dismal comedy sketch show from BBC2. It only ran for 2 months and was shown alongside the infinitely more hilarious "Q" series.

Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt
1976 Yorkshire Television
Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt ran from 1976 to 1977. The series starred Bill Maynard as a hopeless handyman and was written by Alan Plater.

Click for larger image On The Buses
1972
Click for larger image Created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, On the Buses saw bus driver Stan Butler (Reg Varney) living with his overbearing mother (Doris Hare), his frumpy sister Olive (Anna Karen) and his lazy brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). His life is made a misery by bus inspector Blakey (Stephen Lewis), who doesn't take kindly to all the mischief he makes with his pal and conductor Jack Harper (Bob Grant).

Click for larger image Only Fools and Horses
1981
Click for larger image John Sullivan's hugely popular series saw ambitious East End market trader Del Boy Trotter (David Jason) and his younger brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) try and fail in numerous get rich quick schemes. 

Click for larger image Only Fools and Horses
1986 BBC Television
The 1996 Christmas special 'Time On Our Hands' where an antique watch finally makes their fortune, pulled in nearly 25 million viewers, a record for a British sitcom.
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Click for larger image Patrick Kielty Almost Live
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Click for larger image Peep Show
2003
The BAFTA award-winning comedy from Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Peep Show follows the lives of Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb), two university friends who now share a flat in Croydon.  Unusually shot from the point of view of the two main characters, this hugely successful sitcom has been commissioned for a sixth series.
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Click for larger image Perfect Scoundrels
1992
Click for larger image Peter Bowles stars as the suave Guy Buchanan and Bryan Murray as the down market Harry Cassidy, two conmen on a never ending quest to make a fast buck.  Written by Ray Connolly.  

Click for larger image Porridge
BBC TV
Click for larger image Ronnie Barker produces one of his finest performances as Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal, who takes his naïve cellmate Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale) under his wing during his first spell in prison.  Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, Fletcher's constant run-ins with stern prison warder Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) made it one of the most successful comedies of the 1970s.

The Rag Trade
1962 BBC Television
The Rag Trade originally run from 1961 to 1963. The series starred Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Reg Varney, Esma Cannon, Sheila Hancock, and Barbara Windsor. It was revived by LWT in the late seventies and ran from 1978 to 1979. Only Peter Jones and Miriam Karlin returned from the original cast. It was written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.

Click for larger image Red Dwarf
1990s
An episode shown recently on the Dave channel, note their special DOG in the corner!!  
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Click for larger image Red Dwarf - Back To Earth
2009
A brand new adventure commissioned for Dave.  There is a joke put in by the scriptwriters saying that Dave Lister was whom the Dave channel was named after, hence the special DOG in the clip above.
 
Left Clip: episode 1 introduced by Dave Lister (Craig Charles). Right clip: end credits to episode 1.

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Click for larger image Reeves & Mortimer
1993
Click for larger image Vic and Bob in one of their many successful shows for the BBC.  The voice over is Patrick Allen.

Rising Damp
1975 Yorkshire Television
Rising Damp ran from 1974 to 1978. The series starred Leonard Rossiter, Frances De La Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington. It was written by Eric Chappell.

Room At The Bottom
1988 Yorkshire Television
Nesbitt Gunn (James Bolam) is a has-been drama producer for Megla Television.  The station boss, Kevin Hughes (Keith Barron) decides it's time to shake up production staff, and banishes Nesbitt to Light Entertainment, down in the basement.

Rosie
1981 BBC Television
Sitcom about police constable Michael Penrose, otherwise known as Rosie.  Starring Tony Haygarth as PC Wilmot and Paul Greenwood as Rosie.