From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: sitcom list - a-f Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 93 16:33:24 GMT Organization: Manchester Computing Centre Lines: 427 The definitive UK sitcom list, part A-F, updated 93-01-15, 426 lines A Bit of a Do Group of people go through complex series of relationships David Jason, Nicola Pagett, Gwen Taylor A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) Prickly relationship Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick A J Wentworth BA (Thames: 1982) School maths master and the dreaded third form Arthur Lowe (his last television role), Harry Andrews A Roof over My Head (77) [?sitcom] Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews A Sharp Intake of Breath Factory//diff scenario each episode: sitcom? sketch show? David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson A Soft Touch (78) John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman A Touch of Spice 2 young women start a catering company A Very Peculiar Practice University docs: old alcy; nasty tory; manipulative feminist; nice guy Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn Absolutely Fabulous (92) Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield After Henry Widow has daughter upstairs and mother downstairs Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood Agony (79,80,81) About an agony-aunt Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles ALF {USA} An Alien Life Form lives with a US family Alice {USA} Divorcee works as waitress Linda Lavin, Vic Morrow All at Number 20 Woman takes in student lodgers Maureen Lipman, Gabrielle Glaister All Gas & Gaiters General fun'n'games with bishops etc Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare, William Mervyn All in the Family {USA} US version of Till Death Us Do Part Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner, Sherman Hemsley Allo Allo (?,92) Resistance, Gestapo, everybody, eat at Rene's cafe in occupied France Gorden Kaye, Sam Kelly, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera An Actor's Life for Me An aspiring actor goes for many auditions and few jobs John Gordon Sinclair, Victor Spinetti And Grandmother Makes Four (exists?) (spinoff from next entry) Woman has a mother as well as 2 kids Wendy Craig And Mother Makes Three (72,73) Woman has two kids Wendy Craig And Mother Makes Five (74,76) spinoff from above, marries man with a child, to make it 5 Wendy Craig Andy Capp Hartlepool man: Dole, bookies, pub, snooker hall, telly James Bolam Archie Bunker's Place {USA} Bar; spinoff from All in the Family Carroll O'Connor, Martin Balsam, Anne Meara Are You Being Served Lots of double meanings etc in a department store Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard As Time Goes By (92,93) Couple attempt to rekindle old flame Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (isn't this really a drama with comic elements?) Brit builders in Germany Jimmy Nail, Kevin Whately, Tim Healy Bachelor Father A single foster father Ian Carmichael Bagdad Cafe {USA} A slightly wacky small motel Whoopi Goldberg Barney Miller {USA} US detectives Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda, Jack Soo, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Steve Landesburg, Ron Carey, Gregory Sierra, James Gregory Batman {USA} [sitcom?] Caped crime fighter Adam West, Burt Ward Benson {USA} Soap spin-off, Benson starts out as butler in governor's mansion Robert Guillaume, Rene Auberjonois Bewitched {USA} Nice young couple - she's a witch! Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorhead, Dick Yorke(early), Dick Sargeant(later) Big Boy Now! (76) Leslie Crowther, Fabia Drake, Ronald Lewis, Derek Farr Big Jim and The Figaro Club ([79],81) Building site supervisor vs. workers [79 was a one-off] Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, David John, Priscilla Morgan Billy Bunter (just Bunter? sitcom?) Kid's show from the famous books Jimmy Edwards? Billy Liar (73) Compulsive liar works at undertakers Jeff Rawle Birds of a Feather (90,91,92) Convicts' wives Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson Blackadder: see The Black Adder, Black-adder II, Blackadder The Third, Blackadder Goes Forth also: (were these series or one-offs?) Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (88); Blackadder's Christmas Carol (88) Blackadder II (86) Elizabethan Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne Blackadder the Third (87) Regency Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood Blackadder Goes Forth (88) 1st world war Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny Bless Me Father (78,79-80,81) Cynical priest and young curate Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri Bless This House (73,74?,76) Aging father versus modern youth Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson Bloomers (79) Resting actor works in florists Richard Beckinsale (his last role) Blossom {USA} Girl growing up Miyam Bialik Bootsie & Snudge (?,74,?) Employed at private club after leaving the army (cf.The Army Game) Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Clive Dunn Born and Bred (78,80) [?sitcom] 2 related S.London families, one respectable, the other not Max Wall, Rose Hill, James Grout, Joan Sims Bottle Boys Dairy Brian Glover, Robin Asquith Bottom (91) 2 desperate morons share flat Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson Brass (1 plot per episode? if not, not a sitcom!) Dark satanic mills (yes I know Blake wasn't talking about cotton mills) Timothy West Bread Scouser family Deborah Grant Brothers-in-Law somebody said: 2 black brothers, one a policeman somebody else said: Richard Briers (but he's not black) Brush Strokes (86,87,88-9,90,91) Decorators Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Howard Lew Lewis, Jackie Lye, Kim Thomson, Elizabeth Counsell Budgie [sitcom?] Small time crook Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson Butterflies (78,79,80,83) Housewife angst: nice hubby, 2 sons, fancies other bloke but afraid Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall, Bruce Montague Can We Get on Now, Please? (80) Magistrate's court Sheila Steafel, Hugh Paddick Car 54 Where Are You? {USA} US cops Fred Gwynne Chalk and Cheese (79) Chance in a Million Unlikely things happen to a man & his girlfriend Simon Callow, Brenda Blethyn Charles Endell Esquire [some say comedy drama not sitcom] Budgie spinoff Iain Cuthbertson Charles In Charge Male au pair Scott Baio Cheers {USA} Boston bar Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Woody Harrelson, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt Chelmsford 123 Roman Britain Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville Chico & The Man {USA} Grumpy old bigot hires chicano to work in auto repair shop Freddie Prinz, Jack Albertson Chintz (81) Suburbia Michele Dotrice, Richard Easton Citizen Smith (77,78,78-9,79) Innocuous trotskyite Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan then Tony Steedman, Hilda Braid, Stephen Greif City Lights Scots bank clerk attempts to become a writer Gerard Kelly Clarence {BBC2} (88) Myopic man starts delivery business/delivery man retires to country Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, ?(DJason=gardener,MoiraFoote) Close To Home Vet Paul Nicholas, Angharad Rhys Coach {USA} College football coach deals with problems of life & players Craig T Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke Colin's Sandwich (88) BR complaints person tries to be a writer Mel Smith, Louisa Rix Come Back Mrs Noah (77-8) Housewife & bureaucrats accidentally launched into space Mollie Sugden, Ian Lavender, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Joe Black, Gorden Kaye Coming Home (81) [?sitcom] Roger Sloman, Philip Jackson, Linda Marchal, Muriel Maddocks Comrade Dad If England was a communist state... George Cole Cowboys (80a,80b) Incompetent builders Colin Welland, Roy Kinnear, David Kelly Curry & Chips Spike Milligan Cuthie (?1984) Bernard Cribbins Dad's Army (68,?,72,73,74,75,77) Home Guard Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee Dead Ernest (82) Teacher dies and goes to heaven Andrew Sachs Dear John Therapy/encounter group for singles Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang Dear John USA {USA} Therapy/encounter group for singles Judd Hirsch Designing Women [satellite only?] 4 women in business together as designers Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Dixie Carter Desmond's (....92) Hairdressers Norman Beaton, Carmen Monroe Diana Brit fashion consultant moves to NY Diana Rigg, David Sheiner, Carol Androsky, Richard B Schull, Barbara Barrie Diff'rent Strokes {USA} 2 poor black kids adopted by rich white man Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain Different World {USA} Cosby spinoff: daughter goes to college Lisa Bonet, Dawnn Lewis, Marisa Tomei, Jasmine Guy Doctor at Large (72) continuation of Doctor In The House with new lead Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies Doctor at Sea 2 ships doctors Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies Doctor in Charge (73) further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge Ernest Clark Doctor in the House (69-70,70,71,?) General hospital mayhem Barry Evans, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan (1 season), Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark Doctor on the Go (75,?76,77) Doctor Down Under (81) 2 Brit docs emigrate to Aus Geoffrey Davies, Robin Nedwell/or/George Layton Doctor at the Top (91) [is this correct title for 'Doctors on Top' ?] Doctors and Nurses (79-80) Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff Doctors on Top Some of the old mates from other Doctor series together again, basically Robin Nedwell, George Layton Doctor's Daughters (81) [sitcom?] 3 venerable GPs upset when practise taken over by 3 young women Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch Don't Drink the Water Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes Don't Forget to Write! (77,79) Playwright with writer's block George Cole, Gwen Watford Don't Rock the Boat Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson Don't Tell Father Actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin Don't Wait Up Father & son doctors share flat Nigel Havers, Tony Britton Doogie Howser MD {USA} Genius kid becomes doctor very young Neil Patrick Harris Dora Dora Bryan Double First (88) Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary Dream On {USA} Guy keeps getting movie clips in his brain Drop the Dead Donkey (?,?,93) TV newsroom Haydn Gwynne(not 93), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson, Ingrid Lacey, Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Stephen Tompkinson Duty Free (84?,?) 2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other. Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor, Carlos Douglas Educating Archie (did this really make it to TV?) Ventriloquism El CID (91) [sitcom? atleast2voteagainst] 2 ex-cops retire to the Costa del Sol and do some private eyeing Alfred Molina(notlastseries), John Bird, Donald Churchill Empire Road (78,79) [?sitcom] W.Indians & Asians in industrial inner city Norman Beaton Empty Nest {USA} Pediatrician has 2 grown daughters (lives next door to Golden Girls!!) Richard Mulligan Evening Shade {USA}(sitcom?) Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner Ever Decreasing Circles Compulsive organiser Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton Executive Stress (86,87) 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 F Troop {USA} US Cavalry Forrest Tucker, Ken Barry, Larry Storch Fairly Secret Army Attempt to start private army in England home counties; Perrin spinoff Geoffrey Palmer Family Ties {USA} Family stuff Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J Fox, Justine Bateman, Michael Gross Farrington of the F.O. (86) British woman diplomat in banana republic Angela Thorne Father Dear Father (7x?, Aus 7x?) Man has 2 daughters Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pine, Sally Conabere, Sigrid Thornton Father's Day Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch John Alderton, Dominique Barnes, Fawlty Towers Nutter runs small hotel John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth Feet First (79) [?sitcom] Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth Joe Melia, ? McGann ffizz Wine company Richard Griffiths Fiddlers Three (91) Office comedy, ripoff of The Squirrels Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day Filthy, Rich & Catflap Actor, minder, and agent Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer First of the Summer Wine {BBC1} (88) What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain Foley Square {USA} NY DA's office Alex Harrington, Margaret Colin, Hector Elizondo Foreign Bodies N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse Forget Me Not (76) [?sitcom] Patricia Brake Foxy Lady Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper Diane Keen Frank's Place {USA} New Orleans restaurant run by guy from Boston Tim Reid, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Robert Harper, Francesca P Roberts Freddie & Max {Thames} (90) Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman French Fields (89,90) French continuation of next entry Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther, Robin Kermode Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86) Accountant & wife after kids have left home Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe Full Stretch {ITV} (93) Ex-footballer in luxury limo business Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston (Wendy Morgan, Rowena King, David Howey, Clarence Smith, James Aubrey, William Armstrong) All creatures will make merry (on pain of death) Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033 George & Mildred (76,77,78,79) Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Nicholas Bond-Owen George & the Dragon Peggy Mount, Sid James Get Back (92) Working class brothers who made it are hit by recession and have to return to the council estate Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison Get Smart {USA} US techno-spy spoof Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Bernie Kopell, Edward Platt, Victor French, King Moody, Dick Gautier Get Some In! (75,76,77,78) National Service Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerard Ryder, Brian Pettifer Gilligan's Island {USA} 7 people marooned on island Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Tina Louise, Jim Backus Girls on Top Girls share a flat Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French Going Straight (78) Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) Lodger won't leave Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers Grace & Favour (?,93) {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 Grandad (79,80) Old caretaker of rehearsal hall Clive Dunn Green Acres {USA} Townies go farming Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram Haggard (?,92) Tudorbethan spendthrift squire Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale Hancock Tony Hancock Hancock's Half Hour Morose person vs. the world Tony Hancock, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield William Kerr, Hattie Jacques Happy Days {USA} US high school kids have cool biker friend Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Pat Morita, Scott Baio, Erin Moran Happy Ever After (76,77,78) Retired couple, Terry+June sequel Terry Scott, June Whitfield Happy Families Attempts to find scattered family members Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson Harry & the Hendersons Bigfoot thing Harry Worth (sitcom?) Single man on edge of middle age Harry Worth Have I Got You ... Right Where You Want Me? (81) Still 'going steady' after 10 years Ian Lavender, Kim Braden Head of the Class {USA} Bright kids have cool teacher Howard Hesseman, Scott Baio, Robin Givens, Billy Connolly (?!) Hell's Bells (86) Derek Nimmo Hello Cheeky (76) [sitcom?-sketches?] from radio4 Dick Emery? Here's Harry Harry Worth Hi-De-Hi! (79,80,81,?,83,84,85,?,87) Holiday camp Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(79+), Jeffrey Holland, David Griffin(83+?) Hilary (84,86) Talk show producer's assistant Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody Hogan's Heroes {USA} POWs do espionage Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Werner Klemperer, John Banner Holding the Fort (80,81,82) She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly Home James Chauffeur Jim Davidson Home to Roost Son comes to live with long-divorced father John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale Honky Tonk Heroes (81) S London Country&Western club James Grout, Sheila Steafel Hope It Rains (91,92) Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter Tom Bell, Holly Aird Horne A'Plenty (?1950s) Kenneth Horne Hot Metal (87,88) Tabloid circulation wars Richard Wilson(87), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86), Richard Kane Hot l Baltimore {USA} Denizens of the lobby of once-grand hotel, now dilapidated James Cromwell, Richard Masur, Conchata Ferrell, Al Freeman Jr House Calls {USA} (81,?) Young hospital administrator versus doctors Wayne Rogers, Lynn Redgrave, David Wayne How's Your Father? (74) Aging father lives with daughter and her husband Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins How's Your Father? (79,80) Widower with 2 teenage children Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming Hugh & I Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott Hugh & I Spy Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,?77,78,79) The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea I Dream of Jeannie {USA} USAF pilot has attractive female genie Larry Hagman, Barbara Eden, Bill Daly I Love Lucy {USA} Cuban nightclub bandleader married to wacky redhead Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance In Loving Memory (79,80,?) Mother & son run funeral parlour Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny In Sickness and In Health Till Death Do Us Part spinoff Warren Mitchell Inside George Webley Worrier Roy Kinnear It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (?,76,77,78,80,?) British army concert party in WW2 Burma Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes It Takes a Worried Man (81,83) Mid life crisis Peter Tilbury, Christopher Benjamin It's Garry Shandling's Show {USA/CAN?} (sitcom? approaches sketch/standup) Comedian lives in flat, has wacky neighbors Garry Shandling It's Your Move Teenager Jason Bateman Jeeves & Wooster (90,91) Valet saves socialite from scrapes Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie Joannie Loves Chaachi {USA} Happy Days spinoff Scott Baio, Erin Moran Joint Account (89) Female bank manager Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird Joking Apart {BBC2} (93) Divorce Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies Just Good Friends On/off relationship Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis Just William (early 60s) Richmal Crompton's famous stories Dennis Waterman Just William (77,77-78) Richmal Crompton's famous stories Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford Kate & Allie {USA} Two divorced mothers share apartment Susan St James, Jane Curtin Keep It in the Family (80a,80b,81,82,83) Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83), Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83) Keeping Up Appearances (90,91) Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes, Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90), Mary Millar(91) Knight & Daye {USA} Old friend radio djs re-meet L for Lester (~83) Incompetent driving instructor Brian Murphy Lame Ducks Collection of misfits Lorraine Chase, John Duttine Land of Hope and Gloria Marketing a stately home Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell Last of the Baskets Ken Jones as heir, Arthur Lowe as butler Last of the Summer Wine (74.....92) 3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde/Michael Bates/Michael Aldridge Mike Grady Laura & Disorder Relative returns from USA Wendy Craig Laverne & Shirley {USA} 50s Milwaukee girls working at brewery: Happy Days spinoff Penny Marshall Leave It to Charlie (78,79a,79b) Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell Let The Blood Run Free {Aus} (92) Spoof hospital soap Let There Be Love (82) Confirmed bachelor falls in love with mother of three Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman Life Begins at Forty (78,?79,80) 40yr old becomes 1st time dad Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach Life with the Lyons Life Without George Woman rebuilds life after being dumped Carol Royle Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (late 70s) domestic sitcom Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount Love Thy Neighbour (?,75-76) Black'n'white neighbors Rudolph Walker Lovely Couple (79) Reluctantly engaged couple Lucky Feller (76) David Jason Luna (86ish) 12ish girl lives on moon Maggie and Her (78,79) Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl Maid Marian & Her Merry Men [sitcom?] (?,93) We all knew Marian was the boss even before we watched this... Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson Wayne Morris Major Dad {USA} US Marine major raises family of girls Gerald McRaney Man About the House (73,74a,74b,75a,75b,76) Guy & 2 girls share flat Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce Marriage Lines Newlyweds Richard Briers, Prunella Scales Married with Children {USA} The ultimate sleazy family Kathy Segal, Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Ed O'Neill Mary {USA} Mary Tyler Moore Maude {USA} (usa dates 72-3,73-4,74-5,75-6,76-7,77-8) All In The Family spinoff; somebody said: Domineering housewife somebody else said: someone's liberal cousin somebody who seems to know a lot said: Suburban upper-middle-class outspoken politically liberal woman and her 2nd/Nth marriage Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanaghan Hermione Baddeley, Adrienne Barbeau May to December (89,90,90-1) Old solicitor with young girlfriend (wife in later series) Anton Rodgers, Leslie Dunlop(90-1), Eve Matheson(89,90) Me and My Girl He's in advertising, has a daughter Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson Me Mammy Meek son of domineering mother has domineering sexmad girlfriend (lots of catholic jokes) Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce Me, You, and Him (92) 3 post-uni guys Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nich Hancock Meet the Wife Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird Megavision TV company Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman Men Behaving Badly (91,92) Bedsit males Harry Enfield(91), Leslie Ash, Neil Morrisey(92) Men of Affairs (73) [?sitcom] Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell Metal Mickey (80,81a,81b,82-3) Family life with a robot Irene Handl, Michael Stainton, Georgina Melville, Ashley Knight, Lucinda Bateson, Lola young, Gary Shail Mind Your Language English classes for immigrants Barry Evans Misfits (81) 2 drifters sheltered by widow Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd Misleading Cases Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim Miss Jones and Son (77) Single mum Paula Wilcox Mixed Blessings (78a,78b,80) Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?] Murial Odunton, Christopher Blake Mog [?sitcom] About a bloke called Mog Moody & Pegg (sitcom?) Mork & Mindy {USA} Alien lives with nice girl Robin Williams, Pam Dawber Mornin' Sarge Loony cop-shop Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors Singing idiots fix cars Tony Hawkes Mother & Son {AUS} Aussie senile manipulative mother Garry MacDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henry Szepes Moving (85) Moving house Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup Mr Big (77a,77b) Criminal mastermind Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins Mr Ed {USA} Talking horse Mrs Thursday Charlady made chair of company Mulberry Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan My Brother's Keeper Brothers: student and policeman My Dead Dad (92) TV producer haunted by embarrassing father Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon My Favorite Martian {USA} Man's room-mate is a Martian Bill Bixby, Ray Walston My Good Woman (?72,73-4) Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims My Honourable Mrs (75) Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates My Mother the Car {USA} Mother rein*car*nated Jerry Van Dyke, Ann Southern My Son Reuben (75) [?sitcom] Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye My Three Sons {USA} Single father has 3 sons Fred McMurray, William Frawley, William Demerest, Don Grady, Tim Considine, Stanley Sullivan My Two Dads {USA} Girl has 2 dads! Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, Florence Stanley, Paul Reiser My Wife Next Door (72) Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages John Alderton, Hannah Gordon M*A*S*H {USA} US army doctors in Korea Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, Wayne Rogers, Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Alan Arbus, McLean Stevenson(early), Harry Morgan(later) Nearest & Dearest Owners of a pickle factory Jimmy Jewel, Hylda Baker Nearly Departed Ghost Eric Idle Neat and Tidy (sitcom?) {USA?} Guy & girl run from Mafia thru Europe on motorcycle, Elvis soundtrack Nick Neat, ? Tidello Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width Tailors, Jewish&Irish. Lots of cultural jokes John Bluthal, Joe Lynch Never the Twain (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,?88,?89,90,?] 2 antique dealers with adjoining shops (were partners) (kids engaged) Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies Newhart {USA} Hotel in ski resort in Vermont Bob Newhart, Mary Frann Nice Work (80? 89ish?) Academics and industrialists Haydn Gwynne, Warren Clarke Night Court {USA} Rookie judge Harry Anderson, Richard Moll, Paula Warfield, John Laroquette, Selma Diamond(early), Markie Post(late) Nightingales (?,93) Psycho nightwatchmen Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall, James Ellis Nine To Five {USA} Secretaries No Appointment Necessary (77) Hairdresser's shop Roy Kinnear, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers No Frills (88) [?sitcom] Several generations of women in a family Kathy Staff, Katharine Schlesinger No Job For a Lady (90,91) Labour Lady MP Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, George Baker, Paul Young, Garfield Morgan No Place Like Home (83,84,85) Kids keep coming back William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Marcia Warren, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Martin Clunes, Dee Sadler, Stephen Watson, Beverley Adams, Daniel Hill No, Honestly Pauline Collins, John Alderton Nobody is Norman Wisdom (73) [?sitcom or comedy/sketch?] Norman Wisdom Nobody's Perfect {ITV} (80,82) UK version of Maude Elaine Stritch, Richard Griffiths, Kim Braden, Moray Watson Northern Exposure {USA} (92,93) [2 vote against sitcom] City-boy doctor fetches up in Alaska Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Darren E Burrows, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles, John Cullum, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Peg Phillips, Adam Arkin, Grant Goodeve, Catherine De Prume, Diane Delano Not in Front of the Children Nuclear family Wendy Craig, Ronald Hines Not With A Bang Only a few people left alive Josie Lawrence, Now Look Here (73) [?sitcom] Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach Nurses {USA} (92) About nurses! Arnetia Walker, Stephanie Hodge, Mary Jo Keenan, Ada Maris, Kenneth David Gilman, Carlos Lacamara, Jeff Altman N.U.T.S. (76) [?sitcom, comedy/sketch?] Roy Kinnear, All creatures will make merry (on pain of death) Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033 Odd Man Out (77) [?sitcom] John Inman, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Julian Orchard, Peter Butterworth Oh Brother Monastery fun Derek Nimmo Oh Father (73) Oh Brother followup, Nimmo now a priest Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Derek Francis, Laurence Naismith, Pearl Hackney, David Kelly Oh Happy Band (80) Brass band leads fight against new airport Harry Worth Oh No It's Selwyn Froggit! (77,78) rerun just 'Selwyn Froggatt', second series just 'Selwyn' Utterly accident prone pillock Bill Maynard, Megs Jenkins On the Buses (73) Bus crews Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis On The Frontline On the Up (90) Selfmade millionaire car hire magnate has trouble with social class Dennis Waterman, Joan Sims One Foot in the Grave (90) It always goes wrong for retired Victor Meldrew Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Angus Deayton One-upmanship (74,76,78) [?sitcom, more a sketch show really?] Richard Briers, Peter Jones Only Fools and Horses (81,?,90,90-1) Market traders David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield, Leonard?(grandad) Only When I Laugh (79,80,81) A men's ward in an NHS hospital James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson Open All Hours (76,81a,81b,82,85) Corner shop in Bradford Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron Our Man at St Mark's (60s) City vicar in country town Leslie Philips->Donald Sinden, Francesca Annis Out of this World Half-alien child Maureen Flannigan Parahandy (63ish) Tugboat on the Clyde Pardon The Expression (66) One and only Coronation St spinoff Arthur Lowe, Betty Driver Parker Lewis Can't Lose {USA} (?satellite only) High school pranks Corin Nemel, Abraham Benrubi Partners (?) Perfect Scoundrels [?sitcom: amusing sometimes but 'funny' ?] Conmen end up doing good deeds Peter Bowles, that guy from the irish rm Perfect Strangers {USA} American writer's greek(ish) cousin comes to stay Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot Petticoat Junction {USA} Small rural community Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Baxter Pig in the Middle (80,81) Husband, wife, temptress neighbor Liza Goddard, Dinsdale Landen(80), Joanna Van Gyseghem, Terence Brady(81) Plaza Patrol Security men Cannon & Ball Please Sir Inner city school John Alderton, Derek Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett Police Squad {USA} Surreal/inane cop show Leslie Nielsen, Alan North Porridge (74,75,76,77,78) Prison Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde Peter Vaughan, Christopher Biggins Potter (79,80,?) Retired mint factory director Arthur Lowe (Robin Bailey after AL died), Harry H Corbett(80 Punch Drunk (93) Boxing in Glasgow Kenny Ireland, Diana Hardcastle, John Kazek Punky Brewster {USA} Soleil Moon-Frye, George Gaynes(Gaines?) Queenie's Castle Diana Dors Rab C. Nesbitt {BBC} (?,?,93) Glaswegian life Gregor Fisher, Elaine C Smith, Tony Roper, Barbara Rafferty Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (?drama with comic touches?) (69,?,71) Ghost of private eye helps out with cases Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope Red Dwarf (88a,88b,89,91,92) [no I'm not putting in Red Dwarf II etc as separate] Space spoof Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn(89-) Norman Lovett(88ab), Hattie Hayridge(89-) Relative Strangers Rentaghost (kids - sitcom?) (?,80,81,?) Bungling ghosts Michael Staniforth Rep (ITV:1982) Struggling theatre in Northern seaside town Iain Cuthbertson, Patsy Rowlands, Caroline Mortimer, John Fraser, Brian Carter Return Of Shelley Graduate still on dole Hywel Bennet Rhoda {USA} Jewish girl in NY; MaryTylerMooreShow spinoff Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Lazlo Music, Nancy Walker Rich Tea & Sympathy (sitcom?) Biscuit factory Patricia Hodge, Warren Clarke, Jean Alexander, Ray Lonnen? Rings On Their Fingers (78,79,80) Long term live-togethers finally marry Martin Jarvis, Diane Keen Rising Damp (74,75,77,78) Bedsitland Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale(not78), Frances De La Tour Don Warrington Robin's Nest (77,78a,78b,79,80,81) Bistro Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton, David Kelly Roll Over Beethoven Rock star in big house has classical piano lessons Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard Romany Jones Life on a mobile homes park Arthur Mullard Room at the Bottom (? v.old 60s?) Room Service (79) Room service manager of big London hotel tries to keep order Bryan Pringle Root Into Europe Henry Root travels in Europe George Cole Roots (81) Stanley Meadows, Joy Shelton, Allan Corduner Roseanne {USA} Mid-west family Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Laurie Metcalf, John Goodman Rosie (77,78,79,81) Sensitive copper; followup to Growing Pains of PC Penrose Paul Greenwood, Ian Wilmot, Tony Haggarth Roy's Raiders delivery firm James Grout, Sara Crowe, Rebecca Stevens Rude Health Unpleasant GP John Wells Rule Britannia! (75) Tony Melody, Richard Davies, Russell hunter, Joe Lynch, Jo Warne Rumpole of the Bailey (78,79,83,87,88,91) Flamboyant/eccentric defence barrister Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe Bates(78-83), Marion Mathie(87-), Julian Curry, Jonathan Coy, Geoffrey Palmer Screaming Girls all dated same guy, who turns out not to be dead after all Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton Scully Scouse scally Andrew Scofield, Elvis Costello, lots of liverpudlians Sean's Show (sitcom?) Sean lives in a small flat and pines for Susan Sean Hughes Second Thoughts (?,92-3) Man might remarry if ex-wife would leave him alone James Bolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Mark Denham, Geoffrey Whitehead Second Time Around (74) Michael Craig, Patricia Brake, Sheila Steafel Seconds Out (81,81-2) No-hope boxer Robert Lindsay, Lee Montague Seinfeld {USA} (?sitcom ?satellite only) Neurotic NY standup comic Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss Send in the Girls (78) Sales promotion girls Annie Ross, Elisabeth Sladen, Brian Miller, Andrew Sachs Sergeant Bilko {USA} [originally "You'll Never Get Rich"] US Army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool Phil Silvers Seven Faces of Jim Jimmy Edwards Sharon and Elsie Secretary & typist in greeting card factory Brigit Forsyth She's the Sherriff {USA} Woman takes over as sherriff[sp?] when husband killed Suzanne Sommers Shelley (79-80,80-81,?,?90,92) On the dole with a degree Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair Shillingbury Tales (81,?) Picturesque English village Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Bernard Cribbins Shrinks (91) [?sitcom, I thought supposed to be drama but didn't watch] Bill Paterson, Yvonne Bryceland Side by Side Singles 4 people go to singles club Susie Blake, Judy Loe, Eamonn Boland Sink or Swim (80-1,81) Brothers living on canal boat Peter Davison, Robert Glenister, Sara Corper Sitting Pretty {BBC} (92) Airhead returns to family when husband dies bankrupt Diane Bull, Heather Tobias, Alison Lomas, Vilma Hollingbury Six More Faces of Jim Jimmy Edwards Sledge Hammer {USA} Tough cop satire David Rasche, Anne-Marie Martin Slinger's Day Supermarket manager Bruce Forsyth Small Wonder {USA?} Girl is really a robot Snakes and Ladders (?89) 2 people on wrong side of lines after N-S divide becomes an apartheid Ade Edmunson, John Gordon Sinclair So Haunt Me (92,93) Typical_Jewish_mother ghost Tessa Peake-Jones, George Kostigan, Miriam Karlin So You Think You've Got Troubles irish factory (sitcom?) Warren Mitchell Soap {USA} Surreal/inane things happen to family Billy Crystal, Robert Guillaume, Richard Mulligan, Katherine Helmond Solo (81,82) Single woman struggles for independance Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore (81), Elspet Gray Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (?,73a,73b,?,76,78) Wimp gets into scrapes Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice Son of the Bride (73) Terry Scott Sorry! (81,?) Guy never left home - domineering mother Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself 1:Man leaves wife, moves into inherited house, punk squatter 2:Librarian inherits house with oddball neighbors Robin Bailey Sounding Brass (80) Brass band in deperate need of cash Brian Glover, Gwen Taylor Split Ends Hairdressers Anita Dobson Spooner's Patch (79-80,80) Comic policeman Ronald Fraser(79-80), Donald Churchill(80), Patricia Hayes Spring and Autumn (73,?,76) Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins Square Deal [?] hunk next door to yuppies, earth mother+useless bloke downstairs Steptoe & Son (?,70,?) Rag'n'bone men Harry H Corbett, Wilfred Bramble Straight Down The Middle Struck by Lightning (80) Frankenstein spoof Supergran Gudrun Ure, Iain Cuthbertson Surgical Spirit Surgeons squabble Nicola MacAuliffe, Duncan Preston Sweet Sixteen (83) 16years age difference romance twixt architect&contractor Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Mike Grady, Joan Blackham Sykes (59,>,73,?74,75,76,77,78,79,?) Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Derek Guyler, Richard Wattis(pre75) Tabitha {USA} Bewitched spinoff Take A Chance (80-1) Theatrical digs grandly known as The Rose Marie Hotel Take A Letter, Mr Jones (81) Career woman with male secretary Rula Lenska, John Inman Take My Wife (79) Struggling standup comic and his agent Sheila Hancock, Duggie Brown, Victor Spinetti Tales from the Poopdeck (kids - sitcom?) Helen Atkinson-Wood Tandoori Nights (mid-80s) Taxi {USA} Taxi depot antics Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Andy Kaufman, Tony Danza Terry & Julian (92) Julian Clarey moves in with A.N.Other and camps it up (what a surprise) Julian Clarey, Lee Simpson Terry & June (79,80,81,82,?) Dull things happen to suburban couple Terry Scott, June Whitfield That Beryl Marston...! (81) Divorced couple can't stay apart Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt That Girl ?1: Girl moves to city, gets boyfriend ?2: NY girl tries to break into show business Marlo Thomas That Sinking Feeling (is this really Sink Or Swim ??) Peter Davison, Robert Glenister That's Love Lawyer and wife fall out occasionally Jimmy Mulville, Diana Hardcastle, Tony Slattery That's My Boy (81) Cleaner discovers employer is son she gave up for adoption Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Jennifer Lonsdale All creatures will make merry (on pain of death) Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033 The 19th Hole Barman/dogsbody at golf club Eric Sykes The Addams Family {USA} Extremely eccentric family, based on the cartoon strip Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Ted Cassidy, Blossom Rock, Lisa Loring, Ken Weatherwax, Jackie Coogan The Aldrich Family The Army Game National Service Alfie Bass The Betty White Show {USA?} Betty White as a teacher Betty White The Beverley Hillbillies {USA} Hillbillies strike oil, move to Beverley Hills Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer Jr, Nancy Kulp, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas The Black Adder (84) Middle ages Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny The Bounder (early 80s) Conman released from prison moves in with sister&bro-in-law Peter Bowles, George Cole The Brittas Empire {BBC1} (91,92,93) Smeg-head manages leisure centre Chris Barrie, Pippa Haywood, Julia StJohn, Michael Burns, Harriet Thorpe, Judy Flynn, Russell Porter, Tim Marriott, Jill Greenacre The Brothers MacGregor Black'n'white Liverpudlian brothers The Bunkers {USA} US version of Till Death... The Charlie Drake Show (sitcom?) Charlie Drake The Clitheroe Kid Snotty kid Jimmy Clitheroe The Continental (The Ritz?) Nightclub antics The Cosby Show {USA} Doctor has family Bill Cosby, Lisa Bonet, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe The Cuckoo Waltz (75,?76,77) Hard up couple have well off lodger - there's a mother-in-law as well Diane Keen, Lewis Collins The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd {USA} Single girl in NY Blair Brown < Diary of a> Teenage Health Freak [correct wording of title?] Daniel Peacock The Dick Van Dyke Show {USA} 3 comedy writers in NY Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Carl Reiner The Dickie Henderson Show (sitcom?) Dickie Henderson The Dukes of Hazzard {USA} Young southern rural USA car nuts outwit sheriff Sorrell Booke, Catherine Bach, John Schneider, Tom Wopat, Denver Pyle, James Best, Ben Jones, Peggy Rea The Dustbinmen The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Executive has breakdown Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yeats, John Barron The Famous Teddy Z {USA} Kid accidentally gets job as agent for famous actor John Cryer, Alex Rocco The Fenn Street Gang Please Sir spinoff The Flying Nun (US, ABC 1967-70; UK in 1968, at least) Wing shaped habit/hat enable nun to fly! (or something equally dumb) Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood, Alejandro Rey, Shelley Morrison, Linda Dangcil The Fosters (76,77) Black family, S. London The Fresh Prince of Bel Air {USA} Philly ghetto kid moves in with rich relatives in Bel Air Will Smith The Fuzz (77) [sitcom?] The Gaffer Builders, or engineering firm ? Bill Maynard The Ghost & Mrs Muir (on UK TV?) Widow moves into haunted house Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare The Ghosts of Motley Hall Haunted house Arthur English The Glamour Girls (80) Sales promotion agency Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth The Glums (79) Dad, bonehead son, girlfriend (from 50s radio Take It From Here) Patricia Brake, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards The Gnomes of Dulwich Garden gnomes Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd The Goldbergs {USA} (shown in UK?) The Golden Girls {USA} (NBC:85-,86-,87-,88-,89-,90-,91-) Ageing single women share house Rue McLanaghan, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Betty White The Good Life (75,75-,76,77) Self-sufficiency in suburbs Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington The Goodies (sitcom?) Loony fix-it team Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor The Greatest American Hero {USA} (ABC:81,81-,82-) Wimp has super-suit William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare, Don Cervantes The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (87) [sitcom? several votes each way] Adrian Mole passes through adolescence Lulu, Beryl Reid, Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (75) [?sitcom] Gently humourous view of police life Paul Greenwood, Bryan Pringle The Happy Apple Secretary Lesley Ash The Hogan Family {USA} Bland family: aunt & 3 boys Sandy Duncan, Jason Bateman The Honeymooners {USA} (CBS:55-,56) Loudmouth NY bus driver /or/ working class NYers Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph The House That Jack Built (77) newly married couple Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce The Incredible Mr Tanner (81) 2 street entertainers, one an escapologist Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear, Joseph O'Conor The Irish RM (83,84) Resident Magistrate no match for the Irish Peter Bowles, Brian Murray, Anna Manahan The Kit Curran Radio Show Local radio Denis Lawson The Labours of Erica Erica has schoolgirl list of things to achieve by age 40 Brenda Blethyn The Larkins David Kossof, Peggy Mount The Last Song (81) Middle aged divorcee & young girlfriend Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Thomas The Lenny Henry Show pirate DJ in back of cafe Lenny Henry The Life of Riley William Bendix The Likely Lads (mid60s, 3 series) 2 young blokes on Tyneside James Bolam, Rodney Bewes The Little World of Don Camillo (81) N.Italian village: communist mayor feuds with Catholic priest Mario Adorf, Brian Blessed, Cyril Cusack The Liver Birds (?72,73,?,75,76,77,78,?) 2 young girls in Liverpool Nerys Hughes, Polly James/Elizabeth Estensen The Losers (78) Unsuccesful wrestler and his agent Leonard Rossiter The Lovers (72) No sex before marriage Paula Wilcox, Richard Beckinsale The Lucy Show {USA} Lucille Ball The Magnificent Evans Randy Welsh photographer Ronnie Barker The Many Wives of Patrick (76,77,78) Predicaments of a bigamist Patrick Cargill The Mary Tyler Moore Show {USA} Single girl in TV news bureau Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin McLeod, Betty White, Ted Knight, Valerie Harper The Mistress (?,85,?) [sitcom?] Mistress-angst Felicity Kendal, Jack Galloway The Monkees {USA} [sitcom? a couple votes in favour] Pop band adventures Michael Nesmith, Mickie Dolenz, Peter Tork, Davy Jones The Munsters {USA} Weirdos (but nowhere near as good as The Addams Family) Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis The Munsters Today {USA} Weirdos The New[further?] Adventures of Lucky Jim Enn Reitel The New Statesman Unscrupulous MP Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton The Nutt House {USA} US hotel thing Cloris Leachman The Odd Couple {USA} 2 bachelors share apartment Tony Randall, Jack Klugman The Old Boy Network spy thing Tom Conti The Olympian Way (81) Health club The Other 'Arf (80,81,?) Cockney girl has posh MP boyfriend Lorraine Chase, John standing The Other One (77,79) ?2 guys meet on holiday, end up working for same comapany Richard Briers, Michael Gambon, ?Peter Egan The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sergeant Bilko) (US, 1955-59 CBS) US army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool Phil Silvers The Piglet Files (90,92) Inept british spies (what other kind do we have?) Nicholas Lyndhurst, Clive Francis, Michael Percival, Serena Evans The Rag Trade (61...?, 77,78) Clothing manufacturers 60s(BBC) Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin 70s(ITV) Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen, Diane Langton The River Lock keeper David Essex, The Rough with the Smooth (75) 2 writers share flat, upper vs lower class, work on radio soap Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 (85) [sitcom? some votes for] Adrian Mole in puberty Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Beryl Reid, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh The Square Leopard (80) Struggling young solicitor lodges with widowed mother of 5 John Leyton The Squirrels Skiving department store workers Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Connor The Standard (78) [??sitcom] Newspaper Colette O'Neill, Neil Stacey, Tom Watson The Strange World of Gurney Slade Anthony Newley? The Sun Trap (80) Ex-pat Brits on Mediterranean island Terence Alexander, Joan Benham, Graham Crowden, Donald Churchill, Zena Walker The Three Stooges {USA} (sitcom?) Imbecilic adventures Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs Bungling MI5 man David Jason The Train Now Standing (?,73) Bill Fraser The Two of Us (86,87,?) Young couple Nicolas Lyndhurst, Janet Dibley, Patrick Troughton(86),Tenniel Evans(87) The Upchat Line (77) Fast talking bachelor sponges off everybody John Alderton The Upchat Connexion (78) Successor to above Robin Nedwell The Upper Crusts (?,73) Margaret Leighton, Charles Gray The Upper Hand (?,92) Male housekeeper; UK version of Who's The Boss? Diana Weston, Joe McGann, Honor Blackman The Very Merry Widow Moira Lister The Wonder Years {USA} (sitcom?) Boy grows up Fred Savage The Worker Accident prone bloke goes for new job each week Charlie Drake The Young Ones Student house Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan There Comes a Time (85) Executive learns he is "about to make medical history" Andrew Sachs, Judy Cornwell Thicker Than Water (81) Yorkshire widower with 2(3?) unmarried musical sons Third Time Lucky (ITV:1982) Divorced couple want to remarry, but there are complications Derek Nimmo, Nerys Hughes, Angela Douglas, Gerald Flood Three Up, Two Down (85,86) Couple+baby up, her mother + his father down. her mid class, him lower Michael Elphick, Lysette Anthony, Neil Stacy(86), Angela Thorne Ray Burdis Three's Company {USA} Stateside version of Man About The House John Ritter, Suzanne Sommers, Joyce Dewitt Till Death Us Do Part (6?,?,75,81,?) A bigot Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth Patricia Hayes To the Manor Born (79,80,81) Woman has to sell stately home and move to gatehouse Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne Tom, Dick, and Harriet Lionel Jeffries, Ian Ogilvie, Brigit Forsyth Tripper's Day Supermarket manager Leonard Rossiter Trouble & Strife Trouble In Mind Psychiatrist Richard O'Sullivan, Susan Penhaligon) Turtle's Progress (79,80) Petty crooks acquire lorryload of safe deposit boxes John Landry, Michael Atwell Two Old Dears (?1972-73) [?sitcom] Joan Hickson, Wynne Clark Two Point Four Children Housewife has plumber husband & nympho neighbor, fancies mystery biker Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen Two Up, Two Down (79) (this is not an error for 3 up 2 down) Squatters in couple's new Manchester dream house Two's Company (75,76,?77,78) American writer in London has stormy relationship with butler Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden Tygo Road Chaotic community centre Union Castle Stratford Johns Up Pompeii Slapstick & tittilation in ancient Pompeii Frankie Howerd Up The Elephant & Round The Castle Cockney capers Jim Davidson Up The Garden Path Imelda Staunton Up The Workers (73,?,76) Henry McGee, Lance Percival, Norman Bird Us Girls Valerie {USA} Woman raises 3 boys whose father is away a lot coz he's a pilot (?) Valerie Harper, Jason Bateman Waiting For God (9?,91) 2 inmates kick against restrictions in an old folks home Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole, Janine Duvitski, Daniel Hill Watch This Space [?series ?sitcom] TV advertising guest star Magnuus Pyke Watching (86,?,90,?) A love story of sorts Emma Wray, Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuck Well Anyway (76) John Fortune, John Bird West End Tales (81) Petty crook in Soho Robin Nedwell Whack-o! (60s?) Headmaster Jimmy Edwards Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (?72,73,74) The later adventures of those 2 Tynesiders James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth When Things Were Rotten Medieval Dick Gauthier, Bernie Koppell Whizzkid's Guide (81) School life Arthur Mullard, Kenneth Williams, Rita Webb Whoops Apocalypse (80s?) [sitcom?] Last days before the quark bomb John Cleese, Barry Morse, Alexei Sayle, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Griffiths, Bruce Montague, David Kelly, Joe Melia Whoops Bagdad (74or73{73ifaseeminglywellinformedpersoniscorrect}) [?sitcom] Frankie Howard Who's the Boss? {USA} US male housekeeper. Tony Danza Wilderness Road Down&outs in depressed area Robin Driscoll WKRP in Cincinatti {USA} US radio Howard Hesseman, Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, Frank Bonner, Richard Sanders, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid Worzel Gummidge Scarecrow Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs Yanks Go Home (76) [?sitcom] Yes Minister (80,81,82) Civil service machinations Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds Yes, Prime Minister (85-,87) More civil service machinations Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds Yes, Honestly (?,76,77) No Honestly with different couple Liza Goddard, Donal Donnelly You Must Be The Husband (87,88) Wife is writer of best seller steamy romance, husband makes less dosh Tim Brooke-Taylor, Diane Keen, Sheila Steafel, Garfield Morgan You Rang M'Lord (?,90) Servants and masters Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland You're Only Young Twice (77,78,79,81yorkshireonly?) Home for elderly women Pat Coombs, Peggy Mount, Lally Bowers Young At Heart (80,81) Trauma of retirement for hard-working pottery worker John Mills, Meg Jenkins Yus My Dear (76) mullard has a wife even thicker fatter and uglier than he is Arthur Mullard, Queenie Watts All creatures will make merry (on pain of death) Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033