Whilst we’re on the subject of John Cleese, I’d like to nominate Amanda’s for the ‘bad’ category. It’s not the worst show ever, but more a case of “what was the point in making it in the first place?” It was a US remake of Fawlty Towers starring Bea Arthur as both Basil and Sybil. Well, kind of. They cast Bea in the main role, but instead of having a gender-swapped Sybil character (which I think could have been interesting), they made her a widow and gave her both Basil and Sybil’s lines for some bizarre reason. John Cleese talked about how baffled he was by it in an interview. He said “they told me “we’re doing a remake of Fawlty Towers, but we’ve written out Basil””. The show was a flop, and Bea was devastated having just come off the huge success of Maude. Apparently she vowed to never do another sitcom again. Thankfully, a few years later, Rue McClanahan got her to change her mind and convinced her to take the role of Dorothy in The Golden Girls (which was written with Bea in mind but not initially offered to her, as the producers were convinced she’d say no).
Ironically, the Baldy Man pre-dated Mr Bean. He was originally a character in the 80s Scottish sketch show 'Naked Video'. He worked much better in two minute chunks.
@@IainThomson-dc8ge Yes it was an short film called Photo Booth that was mainly shown at cinemas back in the day infact it won awards for best short film advertisement in that year and was in an channel four poll for the greatest adverts of all time back in the early noughties in which orange man came in third place .
@@CricketEngland Hamlet cigars adapted some of the short sketches into television commercials, I think that's when the idea of a full series got floated?
Rock and Chips was one of them shows were I don't know if it was bad or good. I remember thinking the story was interesting, but throughout I was thinking where is the comedy?. It's a big tonal departure from only fools. Now that I know it's a drama based around the origins of the beloved Only Fools characters the series could possibly benefit from a second watch. It is an interesting show but it's definitely not a comedy, so just be more open to that than I was when I first watched it. Also I feel like the cast for a young del and co was a bit off. James Buckley and co gave good performances but they were probably a bit too old to be playing 15-16 year olds at this point in their careers. For that reason I never really bought into the idea that this was a young Del since James Buckley looked 10 years older than the character he was playing.
First of the bat and NEVER THE TWAIN - I loved this show when I was young... Then again, Windsor Davis was always fantastic!!! I forget the name of his Co-Star... (Ah! Donald Sindon! Amazing Actor!) But together they were AMAZING! They played off each other so well... HOLD THE SUNSET - 2018... And BBC... Yeah, I had stopped watching TV about that time and dont pay a TV license as I still dont watch TV now... So never heard of it! ROCK AND CHIPS - Never watched it, I know it was supposed to be some kind of Only Fools and Horses Prequel Series... And I think that put me off! KATH AND KIM - Why so many I have never heard of??? LOL! THE BALDY MAN - OH GOD NOW THIS ONE I REMEMBER!!! I only ever saw one episode... That was ENOUGH! Just cos something works in a short skit or a TV Commercial does not mean it will make a good sitcom! Gregor Fisher could be very funny... I loved him in Naked Video - But this was DOG SHITE!!!!
The Baldy Man was just awful. Not sure if this was inspired by the Baldy Man but another terrible show I'd recommend is Pompidou staring Mat Lucas as Pompidou. Only ran for 6 episodes in March-May 2015. Based around a down-on-his-luck oddball aristocrat who has lost his fortune and is forced to live in a rundown caravan with his butler and his dog. Every week they try to get food or money and fail, in a world where nobody speaks intelligible English; instead, humans gabble and rhubarb gibberish. Pompidou is immediately comparable to Mr Bean and Laurel & Hardy. But in no way lives up to these excellent shows and is just plane bad.
If you like Kath & Kim, you'll probably like their earlier show, Big Girl's Blouse. A one season sketch show featuring all three women from K&K from 1994.
Paddy mcguinness and Peter kay fell out. Kay had an iron like grip his comedy material. Very controlling guy when it came to writing his shows. Paddy mcguinness found his ideas for a new series were being vetoed. By Peter kay. They have not worked together since max and paddy.
I tell you a TV series that was shite, I had forgotten about it till I saw it again the other day. Clive Dunn - My Old Man, it ran for two series between 1974 & 75, even tho it never said it was I'd say it was a predecessor to Clive Dunn other shite Grandad.
A lot of scottish comedies are brilliant for instance scotch and wry was a sketch show the main star was rikki fulton it always came on new year's eve for year's sadly rikki fulton passed in 2004 a huge miss to the comedy world
Haha My apologies to the Scots. If it's any consolation, 'The Baldy Man' is such a wet fart, I have no doubt Gregor's other work is superior. Certainly couldn't be any worse.
I can't praise Duckman enough! I have the DVD box sets of all four seasons that I imported from the States. In the U.K, BBC 2 gave it the same graveyard time slot as Seinfeld and Larry Sanders and didn't even show the entire series.
White Gold was an absolutely fantastic. Flawless casting. It’s a shame that the BBC didn’t quite know how to handle the gorgeous Ed Westwick’s legal tribulations (this was during the height of public outrage and moral panic over Hollywood’s shady sexual underbelly). He was never actually prosecuted, but the Corporation put him on hold in the course of their “investigations”. The series came to a very satisfying conclusion, however, after 12 stellar episodes.
I like Gregor Fisher, but never liked The Baldy Man. One show I liked but I sometimes forget about is "A Touch of Cloth". It was a comedy series that was a parody of British police procedural dramas. It starred John Hannah and Suranne Jones as mismatched investigators. There was only 6 episodes in 3 series and it aired on Sky One from 26 August 2012 to 10 August 2014. I haven't seen it in years, but from what I remember, I found it very funny.
I laughed at that Never the Twain clip. Through all those clips from bad ones I have sat there stony faced. But that one made me laugh. Never saw it, but that has to be a good sign. John Cleese has had huge alimony bills for a while, so I think that was behind his choice to do the one here. The foreign character in that only fools and horses prequel clip sounds like Darren Farley's impression of Mikel Arteta. Underrated; Third Rock from the Sun. Always overshadowed because Red Dwarf was on at the same time and as a science fiction comedy it had a much bigger profile in this country, but Third Rock was always great. And had proper actors rather than comedians, so it worked better. For me.
@@paultapner2769 Would you class Seinfeld as underrated? Because that wasn’t particularly successful in the UK, yet it’s considered one of the most successful American sitcoms of all time. At least Third Rock got a prime time slot on Sky One! I think they aired Seinfeld on Sky One at one point, but it was in the graveyard slot on BBC2. I wouldn’t consider either show to be underrated.
I was generally a fan of Gregor F's other work. But I totally agree about The Baldy Man. It was funny for 30 seconds in an earlier Hamlet advert (the photo booth one). But this was an unfortunate decision by soulless Carlton exec's to rinse that out dry.
Kath and Kim rubbed me up the wrong way, even down the way it was shot... they were going for a documentary approach, but the "comic" acting was way too broad ; it felt way too self-conscious. Also, I had no idea After the Sunset was written by Charles McKeown... he went from Brazil and Baron Muchausen to this?
Low hanging fruit but Mrs Browns Boys is worse than intercourse with a cactus! On the flip side, Max and Paddy Road to Nowhere was perfection! Wish they made a second series.
The baldy man was another character that Gregor Fisher created in the Scottish sketch show naked video in which the character also appeared in an cigarette commercial for hamlet: the mild cigar titled Photo Booth in the late 80’s . Rab c also appeared in various commercials in the 80’s & 90’s .
I think Spaced has been shown already. Everyone knows Friday Night Dinner but has Green Wing had a mention yet? Another excellent show that Mark Heap appears in. Everything and everyone is funny. Great cast and great writing. It's shot well too with a great soundtrack. I still listen to the soundtrack often, it's that good. Surprising for a TV show because effort was put into every aspect of the show, including the soundtrack and how it fit into the show.
Hi Lee. Mark is my husband. We thought we had to tell you about hold the sunset. Excellent cast but meh...did like rock and chips. Kellie bright was really good. Kath and Kim ❤ No more to say there!
Would definitely recommend you check out "The smoking room" an hilarious BBC sitcom with a mix of actors from Classic British comedy shows & some great newer actors. Amazing that it's so forgotten.
You know what should suggested? Police Squad! It was the predecessor to the The Naked Gun movies. It starred Leslie Neilson and was very much like the movies. Lots of great sight gags, one-liners and jokes. Only lasted 6 episodes but it was just pure dumb, silly fun. Don't know if it counts as 'excellent' or 'underrated' but I certainly one of the two
Did you hear why it got axed? A TV executive said that people won't like the show because, to enjoy it, you have to notice all the sight gags and people don't have a long attention span.
@@dhenderson1810 I remember hearing something about that. I assumed they just got offered big money to do Naked Gun. After Airplane 1&2 and Top Secret they must have known they’d have a hit on their hands.
Great video as always. I would vote Chamnel 4's Phoneshop in the ''underrated' category. I tjought it was consistently funny with a goof cast and characters.
A sitcom I remember fondly from my youth is "Rosie". It was a follow-on from "The Growing Pains of PC Penrose" (which I never saw) and starred Paul Grenwood and Tony Haygarth. It was written by Roy Clarke and I think it is an overlooked and underrated gem.
I'd like to nominate Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway ( somebody take it away please! ) and 'The Masked Singer/Dancer' ( cretinous rubbish which is an insult to the intelligence of a gnat ).
I’ve never seen the original Kath and Kim but NBC did an American version in 2008 that totally bombed. It was one of the worst US adaptations of a foreign sitcom ever!
Hold The Sunset played on my PBS station a few years ago and I wasn’t impressed by it. Cleese is capable of so much better. And the adult son character was absolutely insufferable!
Anyone remember Stay Lucky with Dennis Waterman and Susan George? I think it was supposed to be a comedy drama like Minder but not as good. If memory serves, George was either let go or bailed out after a few episodes.
I read Denis's autobiography and iirc he said that Susan George acted really stuck up with everyone because she'd been in Hollywood movies. It wasn't gelling so they got someone else in.
Underrated: Lead Balloon. Me and the missus loved this show - it's well written with great characters. It is a bit like an English "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
Everyone lauds Kath and Kim, and rightfully so, but doesn’t anyone else remember the sketch show for which the concept was originally created? Big Girl’s Blouse was a brilliant all-woman sketch comedy show, and a predecessor of Smack the Pony. Hilarious!
Kath and Kim was great. The Da Kath and Kim code however?…er?..They go on holiday ffs. Would ask for a list of wretched ‘all go on holiday together’ movies. But that’s far too easy
I think that Posh Nosh deserves to be on the list of best comedies. It’s very funny. Kath & Kim is excellent. In the food show theme, let me throw out another Australian gem: The Katering Show. It’s on UA-cam, or used to be; it’s excellent!
Loved Never The Twain as really young lad,my grandad loved it,Rock n Chips was pretty decent too IMO.Nicholas Lyndhurst and Matt Lucas are absolute Legends who I love to see on my tele.
One of the "comedies" I hated the most (aside from Mrs Brown and Citizen Khan, it's an afront that they play on UK "Gold" alongside true classics) is "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps". So unfunny. It was supposed to be edgy, laddish humour like Men Behaving Badly, but it contained none of the character. The so-called jokes were quite often just rude or gross, not that I am a prude at all, it's just that being rude alone is not funny.
For your ‘Underrated and Overlooked’ or even ‘Genre Shows’ pile. G vs. E ran for two series from ‘99 to 2000 on both USA Network and Scifi Channel in the US. The show was awesome. Created by The Pate Brothers, Josh and Jonas, it starred Clayton Rohner and Richard Brooks as Chandler Smythe (best character name ever) and Henry MacNeil. Two dead guys who work for The Corps. An otherworldly afterlifey agency who’s job it is, is to save lost souls in Los Angeles, particularly Hollywood. The stories and scripts were awesome. The cast was tops. The Mandolorian was on an episode. This is one of my favorites of all time.
Prisoner Cell Block H I used to love.I remember it being on at about 11 or half past at night in the UK.Shocking set that wobbled and not very good acting by some but it was so entertaining.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the pequel spin off to Last Of The Summer Wine, set just before the outbreak World War 2, which focused on a young Norman Clegg. Peter Sallis played the role of his own characters father, a decorator who was continually painting the front gate.
I do remember watching, 'The Baldy Man', and did give it a chance, but it has to be said that there's certain instances were a sketch from another popular comedy show that's been drawn out into, not only a complete episode, but a complete series, (2 series, apparently), isn't going to go down very well. Much like trying to spread a single dollop of jam over all the slices of a whole loaf of bread. The humour was so thinly spread as to be practically unnoticeable. The fact that it was in the style of how the previous Mr. Bean was played, i.e. no dialogue, didn't help, either. There were one or two instances of genuine comedy, but they were few and far between. Good for a 30 second advert, (Hamlet), or a sketch on a comedy show, (Naked Video), but as an entire series? Nah..
A quiz called 'Wogan's Perfect Recall was broadcast on Channel Four a few years ago. It was an awful attempt by the Togmister to try and convince people he could host a quiz. I always felt 'Through The Keyhole' with the brilliant David Frost and Llyod Grossman was an excellently entertaining show. An underrated quiz show was 'Fifteen to One', which was hosted by William G. Stewart and aired on Channel Four.
Even as a Never The Twain apologist, I'm surprised to see it not go in the "underrated" but the "excellent" column. Here's an idea for a video idea - Top 10 Prisoner: Cell Block H characters?
There was a show called something like not this morning with Stewart Lee and another dude. I found it hilarious at the time, but went back to it and it hadn’t aged well.
I’m sure there was another silent comedy thing called Les. It was a spin off of Vic Reeves Big Night Out starring Vic’s assistant Les. I don’t think it was much good either.
@@TFOOS Aside from Doctor Who and a couple episodes of QI, I don't get how Matt Lucas keeps being given series. Never found any of his stuff very funny.
6:45 I would have classed Kath & Kim as rubbish and overrated personally, I tried to get into it but I just find it really boring and unfunny. For female lead Aussie sitcoms I thought Fisk was a far better show.
Anyone remember balls of steel and Balls of Steel australia again more cringe tv but could be hilarious! Also the show summer heights high a mockumentary of the aussie school system. You might like as you enjoy the Aussie stuff. The main character is disingenuous with everyone and makes everything about themself. There was another gameshow with Jimmy Carr called your face or mine(what were they thinking) people went on the show and their partner had to say who wss better looking out of them and their brother cousin etc 😆 and think the audience voted too. 😅 Completely demoralising.
Is there ever been a good prequel, in film or TV? Even prequels to excellent source material are a letdown, eg... Rock & Chips Star Wars prequels Hannibal Rising I think it’s a flawed concept, generally.
Have another bad comedy once again that wooden actress Alison Steadman was in it has was Russ Abbott and Stephanie Beecham not funny at all the BBC only do two good comedies in inside no 9 and 2 doors down!!
If you've not done it. I am a massive fan of Scot sitcom Still Game. I'm an Englishman. And this is fabulous.
Love Still Game it's brilliant
We need an English Still Game fan club.
I aways really enjoyed "A very peculiar practise" with Peter Davidson. Good theme tune too.
White gold was very good. Went down the drama road but from what i remember it was funny. Ben chaplin was very good in it
Whilst we’re on the subject of John Cleese, I’d like to nominate Amanda’s for the ‘bad’ category. It’s not the worst show ever, but more a case of “what was the point in making it in the first place?”
It was a US remake of Fawlty Towers starring Bea Arthur as both Basil and Sybil. Well, kind of. They cast Bea in the main role, but instead of having a gender-swapped Sybil character (which I think could have been interesting), they made her a widow and gave her both Basil and Sybil’s lines for some bizarre reason. John Cleese talked about how baffled he was by it in an interview. He said “they told me “we’re doing a remake of Fawlty Towers, but we’ve written out Basil””.
The show was a flop, and Bea was devastated having just come off the huge success of Maude. Apparently she vowed to never do another sitcom again. Thankfully, a few years later, Rue McClanahan got her to change her mind and convinced her to take the role of Dorothy in The Golden Girls (which was written with Bea in mind but not initially offered to her, as the producers were convinced she’d say no).
Ironically, the Baldy Man pre-dated Mr Bean. He was originally a character in the 80s Scottish sketch show 'Naked Video'. He worked much better in two minute chunks.
Also he was in the hamlet cigars adverts
@@IainThomson-dc8ge Oh, yes, I forgot about that.
The welsh poet is my favorite character in the show.
@@IainThomson-dc8ge
Yes it was an short film called Photo Booth that was mainly shown at cinemas back in the day infact it won awards for best short film advertisement in that year and was in an channel four poll for the greatest adverts of all time back in the early noughties in which orange man came in third place .
@centrevezgaming4862 Yes, it was on Scottish TV constantly for years.
The Baldy Man worked better, in its original format, as a recurring character in those quick sketches during Naked Video.
It seemed like it was trying to rip off "Mr Bean".
@@CricketEngland Hamlet cigars adapted some of the short sketches into television commercials, I think that's when the idea of a full series got floated?
Rock and Chips was one of them shows were I don't know if it was bad or good. I remember thinking the story was interesting, but throughout I was thinking where is the comedy?. It's a big tonal departure from only fools. Now that I know it's a drama based around the origins of the beloved Only Fools characters the series could possibly benefit from a second watch. It is an interesting show but it's definitely not a comedy, so just be more open to that than I was when I first watched it.
Also I feel like the cast for a young del and co was a bit off. James Buckley and co gave good performances but they were probably a bit too old to be playing 15-16 year olds at this point in their careers. For that reason I never really bought into the idea that this was a young Del since James Buckley looked 10 years older than the character he was playing.
8:05 well from what I've seen here, it looks s***e!
First of the bat and NEVER THE TWAIN - I loved this show when I was young... Then again, Windsor Davis was always fantastic!!! I forget the name of his Co-Star... (Ah! Donald Sindon! Amazing Actor!) But together they were AMAZING! They played off each other so well...
HOLD THE SUNSET - 2018... And BBC... Yeah, I had stopped watching TV about that time and dont pay a TV license as I still dont watch TV now... So never heard of it!
ROCK AND CHIPS - Never watched it, I know it was supposed to be some kind of Only Fools and Horses Prequel Series... And I think that put me off!
KATH AND KIM - Why so many I have never heard of??? LOL!
THE BALDY MAN - OH GOD NOW THIS ONE I REMEMBER!!! I only ever saw one episode... That was ENOUGH! Just cos something works in a short skit or a TV Commercial does not mean it will make a good sitcom! Gregor Fisher could be very funny... I loved him in Naked Video - But this was DOG SHITE!!!!
The Baldy Man was just awful.
Not sure if this was inspired by the Baldy Man but another terrible show I'd recommend is Pompidou staring Mat Lucas as Pompidou. Only ran for 6 episodes in March-May 2015. Based around a down-on-his-luck oddball aristocrat who has lost his fortune and is forced to live in a rundown caravan with his butler and his dog. Every week they try to get food or money and fail, in a world where nobody speaks intelligible English; instead, humans gabble and rhubarb gibberish. Pompidou is immediately comparable to Mr Bean and Laurel & Hardy. But in no way lives up to these excellent shows and is just plane bad.
If you like Kath & Kim, you'll probably like their earlier show, Big Girl's Blouse. A one season sketch show featuring all three women from K&K from 1994.
Paddy mcguinness and Peter kay fell out. Kay had an iron like grip his comedy material. Very controlling guy when it came to writing his shows. Paddy mcguinness found his ideas for a new series were being vetoed. By Peter kay. They have not worked together since max and paddy.
I tell you a TV series that was shite, I had forgotten about it till I saw it again the other day. Clive Dunn - My Old Man, it ran for two series between 1974 & 75, even tho it never said it was I'd say it was a predecessor to Clive Dunn other shite Grandad.
10:34 so can anyone explain why I couldn't stop laughing at this? Also, I remember Gregor from the brilliant Naked Video sketch show.
it should have been called never again
A lot of scottish comedies are brilliant for instance scotch and wry was a sketch show the main star was rikki fulton it always came on new year's eve for year's sadly rikki fulton passed in 2004 a huge miss to the comedy world
lol, ways to get Scotland on your ass number 124... have a go at Gregor Fisher 🤣
Haha My apologies to the Scots. If it's any consolation, 'The Baldy Man' is such a wet fart, I have no doubt Gregor's other work is superior. Certainly couldn't be any worse.
Duckman was meh but Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show was a little known gem.
Underrated, " Duckman", Frank Zappa cartoon series about a drunk, lecherous private detective. Very rude, very funny.
I can't praise Duckman enough! I have the DVD box sets of all four seasons that I imported from the States. In the U.K, BBC 2 gave it the same graveyard time slot as Seinfeld and Larry Sanders and didn't even show the entire series.
Loved Duck man 👍
farscape is underatted and you've gotta talk about Red Dwarf at some point!
Rock & Chips and Hold The Sunset both look AWFUL!
Id forgotten all about Hold the sunset, well id tried hard to...
0:32 does anyone else here sing Morecambe and Wise to this tune?
White Gold was an absolutely fantastic. Flawless casting. It’s a shame that the BBC didn’t quite know how to handle the gorgeous Ed Westwick’s legal tribulations (this was during the height of public outrage and moral panic over Hollywood’s shady sexual underbelly). He was never actually prosecuted, but the Corporation put him on hold in the course of their “investigations”. The series came to a very satisfying conclusion, however, after 12 stellar episodes.
I agree
You should do a video on british sikcom's from the 70s like Love Thy Neighbour and the authors like it 😊
I like Gregor Fisher, but never liked The Baldy Man. One show I liked but I sometimes forget about is "A Touch of Cloth". It was a comedy series that was a parody of British police procedural dramas. It starred John Hannah and Suranne Jones as mismatched investigators. There was only 6 episodes in 3 series and it aired on Sky One from 26 August 2012 to 10 August 2014. I haven't seen it in years, but from what I remember, I found it very funny.
I laughed at that Never the Twain clip. Through all those clips from bad ones I have sat there stony faced. But that one made me laugh. Never saw it, but that has to be a good sign.
John Cleese has had huge alimony bills for a while, so I think that was behind his choice to do the one here.
The foreign character in that only fools and horses prequel clip sounds like Darren Farley's impression of Mikel Arteta.
Underrated; Third Rock from the Sun. Always overshadowed because Red Dwarf was on at the same time and as a science fiction comedy it had a much bigger profile in this country, but Third Rock was always great. And had proper actors rather than comedians, so it worked better. For me.
I don’t think Third Rock from the Sun was underrated at all. It was massively popular, especially in the US. It won 7 Emmys!
@@CarysCreatesThings It just never seemed to get the attention in this country that Red Dwarf did.
@@paultapner2769 Would you class Seinfeld as underrated? Because that wasn’t particularly successful in the UK, yet it’s considered one of the most successful American sitcoms of all time. At least Third Rock got a prime time slot on Sky One! I think they aired Seinfeld on Sky One at one point, but it was in the graveyard slot on BBC2. I wouldn’t consider either show to be underrated.
@@CarysCreatesThings Never seen it.
I agree with you on the Never the Twain theme tune. I recommend looking up the full length version by Jack Trombey. It’s surprisingly funky.
Yes, brilliant tune
@@TFOOS Jack Trombey was an excellent composer. He also wrote the Van Der Valk theme tune, and King Arthur’s Theme from Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
I was generally a fan of Gregor F's other work. But I totally agree about The Baldy Man. It was funny for 30 seconds in an earlier Hamlet advert (the photo booth one). But this was an unfortunate decision by soulless Carlton exec's to rinse that out dry.
Yes very much one to forget
Kath and Kim rubbed me up the wrong way, even down the way it was shot... they were going for a documentary approach, but the "comic" acting was way too broad ; it felt way too self-conscious.
Also, I had no idea After the Sunset was written by Charles McKeown... he went from Brazil and Baron Muchausen to this?
Low hanging fruit but Mrs Browns Boys is worse than intercourse with a cactus!
On the flip side, Max and Paddy Road to Nowhere was perfection! Wish they made a second series.
I bloody loved Duckman.
It was great
Better Off Ted! And the Loop!
The baldy man was another character that Gregor Fisher created in the Scottish sketch show naked video in which the character also appeared in an cigarette commercial for hamlet: the mild cigar titled Photo Booth in the late 80’s .
Rab c also appeared in various commercials in the 80’s & 90’s .
I think Spaced has been shown already. Everyone knows Friday Night Dinner but has Green Wing had a mention yet?
Another excellent show that Mark Heap appears in. Everything and everyone is funny. Great cast and great writing. It's shot well too with a great soundtrack. I still listen to the soundtrack often, it's that good. Surprising for a TV show because effort was put into every aspect of the show, including the soundtrack and how it fit into the show.
Not featured green wing yet thanks for the suggestion 👍
@@TFOOS No problem. Thank you for the wonderful UA-cam channel
Hi Lee. Mark is my husband. We thought we had to tell you about hold the sunset. Excellent cast but meh...did like rock and chips. Kellie bright was really good.
Kath and Kim ❤
No more to say there!
Ah! Well thanks for suggesting it 👍👍
Would definitely recommend you check out "The smoking room" an hilarious BBC sitcom with a mix of actors from Classic British comedy shows & some great newer actors.
Amazing that it's so forgotten.
Featured that one on the video before this 👍
You know what should suggested? Police Squad! It was the predecessor to the The Naked Gun movies. It starred Leslie Neilson and was very much like the movies. Lots of great sight gags, one-liners and jokes. Only lasted 6 episodes but it was just pure dumb, silly fun. Don't know if it counts as 'excellent' or 'underrated' but I certainly one of the two
Police Squad was fantastic. I remember taping them on VHS when they were on TV. Perfect intro for Frank Drebin.
Did you hear why it got axed?
A TV executive said that people won't like the show because, to enjoy it, you have to notice all the sight gags and people don't have a long attention span.
@@dhenderson1810 I remember hearing something about that. I assumed they just got offered big money to do Naked Gun. After Airplane 1&2 and Top Secret they must have known they’d have a hit on their hands.
@@dhenderson1810 I had heard something to that effect, yeah.
Great video as always. I would vote Chamnel 4's Phoneshop in the ''underrated' category. I tjought it was consistently funny with a goof cast and characters.
A sitcom I remember fondly from my youth is "Rosie". It was a follow-on from "The Growing Pains of PC Penrose" (which I never saw) and starred Paul Grenwood and Tony Haygarth. It was written by Roy Clarke and I think it is an overlooked and underrated gem.
I'd like to nominate Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway ( somebody take it away please! ) and 'The Masked Singer/Dancer' ( cretinous rubbish which is an insult to the intelligence of a gnat ).
Before one starts to mimic Benny hill and Mr bean he should think again.
I’ve never seen the original Kath and Kim but NBC did an American version in 2008 that totally bombed. It was one of the worst US adaptations of a foreign sitcom ever!
Never the Twain ❤
I assume you've covered "My Family". Even a great actor like Robert Lindsay couldn't save it from being utter rubbish.
Hold The Sunset played on my PBS station a few years ago and I wasn’t impressed by it. Cleese is capable of so much better. And the adult son character was absolutely insufferable!
Anyone remember Stay Lucky with Dennis Waterman and Susan George? I think it was supposed to be a comedy drama like Minder but not as good. If memory serves, George was either let go or bailed out after a few episodes.
I read Denis's autobiography and iirc he said that Susan George acted really stuck up with everyone because she'd been in Hollywood movies. It wasn't gelling so they got someone else in.
@@Chris_34 Yeah, apparently she was unhappy Waterman's trailer was a few inches longer than hers!!!!
@@63mckenzie LOL! Dennis was in Minder and The Sweeney so he deserved a slightly longer trailer 😂
Jan francis was far superior in it the new episodes stunk!
Stay luckys right here on youtube. 👍 avoid the new woman and watch the Jan Francis ones.
Underrated: Lead Balloon. Me and the missus loved this show - it's well written with great characters. It is a bit like an English "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies were great in Never the Twain.....but the scripts were shit
Two talented actors who could have done much better.
I quite liked Rock and Chips. Similar to First of the Summer Wine, understated and overshadowed by the comedy it sought to prequel.
Everyone lauds Kath and Kim, and rightfully so, but doesn’t anyone else remember the sketch show for which the concept was originally created? Big Girl’s Blouse was a brilliant all-woman sketch comedy show, and a predecessor of Smack the Pony. Hilarious!
Kath and Kim was great. The Da Kath and Kim code however?…er?..They go on holiday ffs.
Would ask for a list of wretched ‘all go on holiday together’ movies. But that’s far too easy
I think that Posh Nosh deserves to be on the list of best comedies. It’s very funny.
Kath & Kim is excellent. In the food show theme, let me throw out another Australian gem: The Katering Show. It’s on UA-cam, or used to be; it’s excellent!
Cheers I'll look them up
I'd put Posh Nosh in the 'underrated' category as I totally forgot it existed until you mentioned it! I do remember finding it hilarious though.
Loved Never The Twain as really young lad,my grandad loved it,Rock n Chips was pretty decent too IMO.Nicholas Lyndhurst and Matt Lucas are absolute Legends who I love to see on my tele.
Never the Twain reminds me of a 1960's American sitcom called "The Mothers-In-Law" stared.Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard.
One of the "comedies" I hated the most (aside from Mrs Brown and Citizen Khan, it's an afront that they play on UK "Gold" alongside true classics) is "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps". So unfunny. It was supposed to be edgy, laddish humour like Men Behaving Badly, but it contained none of the character. The so-called jokes were quite often just rude or gross, not that I am a prude at all, it's just that being rude alone is not funny.
Two Pints was okay - it reflected its era pretty well, and was more realistic than Men Behaving Badly.
For your ‘Underrated and Overlooked’ or even ‘Genre Shows’ pile. G vs. E ran for two series from ‘99 to 2000 on both USA Network and Scifi Channel in the US. The show was awesome. Created by The Pate Brothers, Josh and Jonas, it starred Clayton Rohner and Richard Brooks as Chandler Smythe (best character name ever) and Henry MacNeil. Two dead guys who work for The Corps. An otherworldly afterlifey agency who’s job it is, is to save lost souls in Los Angeles, particularly Hollywood. The stories and scripts were awesome. The cast was tops. The Mandolorian was on an episode. This is one of my favorites of all time.
Prisoner Cell Block H is on that's TV in the UK at the moment 😊
Prisoner Cell Block H I used to love.I remember it being on at about 11 or half past at night in the UK.Shocking set that wobbled and not very good acting by some but it was so entertaining.
Loved that show and wentworth
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the pequel spin off to Last Of The Summer Wine, set just before the outbreak World War 2, which focused on a young Norman Clegg.
Peter Sallis played the role of his own characters father, a decorator who was continually painting the front gate.
It was mentioned in a previous video on this channel. Don't remember which one though
Hold the sunset is a great choice, the only good thing about it is the theme tune.
I do remember watching, 'The Baldy Man', and did give it a chance, but it has to be said that there's certain instances were a sketch from another popular comedy show that's been drawn out into, not only a complete episode, but a complete series, (2 series, apparently), isn't going to go down very well. Much like trying to spread a single dollop of jam over all the slices of a whole loaf of bread. The humour was so thinly spread as to be practically unnoticeable. The fact that it was in the style of how the previous Mr. Bean was played, i.e. no dialogue, didn't help, either. There were one or two instances of genuine comedy, but they were few and far between. Good for a 30 second advert, (Hamlet), or a sketch on a comedy show, (Naked Video), but as an entire series? Nah..
Nope
Kath and Kim absolutely garbage 🗑️
as a child the baldy man scared the shit out of me, i love Greg though
A quiz called 'Wogan's Perfect Recall was broadcast on Channel Four a few years ago.
It was an awful attempt by the Togmister to try and convince people he could host a quiz.
I always felt 'Through The Keyhole' with the brilliant David Frost and Llyod Grossman was an excellently entertaining show.
An underrated quiz show was 'Fifteen to One', which was hosted by William G. Stewart and aired on Channel Four.
@@CricketEngland Keith Lemon was an awful host of Through The Keyhole. I think Sandy Toksvig's version of fifteen to one was scrapped.
Even as a Never The Twain apologist, I'm surprised to see it not go in the "underrated" but the "excellent" column. Here's an idea for a video idea - Top 10 Prisoner: Cell Block H characters?
It'd be Joan Ferguson ten times lol
@@TFOOSSame!
I completely agree about the 99cent store Mr Bean. That was sacrilege. They should be ashamed.
Terrible wasn't it!
Hold the Sunset on paper should have been brilliant with that cast.....what a waste of talent
What is the theme song and who sings it?
I have heard it before but can't put my finger on it.
Hated never the twain
Stoke Poe-jess 🙂
There was a show called something like not this morning with Stewart Lee and another dude.
I found it hilarious at the time, but went back to it and it hadn’t aged well.
A TV series worth a mention still game very funny
Yep, love it
Well I loved hold the sunset
If we’re going down the Matt Lucas route, ‘Pompidou’ was another of those silent comedy jobs in the Mr Bean/Baldy Man mode and it was terrible.
Oh no do I have to watch more Matt Lucas? 🤣🤣
I’m sure there was another silent comedy thing called Les. It was a spin off of Vic Reeves Big Night Out starring Vic’s assistant Les. I don’t think it was much good either.
@@TFOOS Aside from Doctor Who and a couple episodes of QI, I don't get how Matt Lucas keeps being given series.
Never found any of his stuff very funny.
6:45 I would have classed Kath & Kim as rubbish and overrated personally, I tried to get into it but I just find it really boring and unfunny.
For female lead Aussie sitcoms I thought Fisk was a far better show.
Where’s your accent from?
All over the place
Anyone remember balls of steel and Balls of Steel australia again more cringe tv but could be hilarious!
Also the show summer heights high a mockumentary of the aussie school system. You might like as you enjoy the Aussie stuff. The main character is disingenuous with everyone and makes everything about themself.
There was another gameshow with Jimmy Carr called your face or mine(what were they thinking) people went on the show and their partner had to say who wss better looking out of them and their brother cousin etc 😆 and think the audience voted too. 😅 Completely demoralising.
Rock and chips was useless as an early Fools and Horses but so was First of the Summer Wine both trying to hit the nostalgia customers
Is there ever been a good prequel, in film or TV?
Even prequels to excellent source material are a letdown, eg...
Rock & Chips
Star Wars prequels
Hannibal Rising
I think it’s a flawed concept, generally.
IMO Rock and Chips was a let down, I didn't laugh once and that's from a John Sullivan script. It should have been so much better.
Rock and Chips was never meant to be a sitcom. It was a comedy drama thats why it wasnt laugh a minute funny like ofah.
I have to agree about Lyndhurst: there's always been something about him that just keeps me away.
Have another bad comedy once again that wooden actress Alison Steadman was in it has was Russ Abbott and Stephanie Beecham not funny at all the BBC only do two good comedies in inside no 9 and 2 doors down!!