Notice it was written by Michael Aitkens, who'd had a success earlier in the decade with 'Waiting for God'. Fun fact (for me): he spent 10 years in Australia in the 70s and 80s as an actor and writer, and I saw him once in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House's Drama Theatre at the interval of a play, smoking and drinking alone.
@@mikekaraoke Yeah i think they showed the entire series. i remember Brenda and Malcolm having a heart-to-heart at Liverpool Dock in the finale if i remember correctly. Some of my favourites that spring to mind are: Red Dwarf (series 1 to 6 only! :)), Rab C Nesbitt, Only when i Laugh and Bread.
Nice video, though I'm not sure Cold Feet belongs here. It ran for 5 series 1997-2003 but was remembered well-enough and fondly-enough that it, of course, returned for a further 4 series from 2016-2020 so hardly a distant memory.
there was a sitcom late 80's with Mel Smith called "Collins Sandwich" . Mel Smith played a british rail customer relations clerk, but was desperate to be a writer.. it ran for 2 series from what i remember it was quite good.
I do recall watching Sunnyside Farm, wouldn't say that fondly, but it does very look familiar. The last one seems to trigger something too. I don't think I watched it, but do remember seeing Emma Wray as a nurse in something while I was channel-hopping
Small bit of trivia for you - the writer of "Love Lies and Lipstick", Tim Dynevor, is married to none other than Sally Whittaker (eventually taking her husband's surname) - otherwise known as Sally Webster/whatever surnames she's taken along the way (god knows there's been plenty) in Coronation Street since 1986. I never saw her husband's work. Not sure I'm fussed, dunno about you.
I remember really liking Sunnyside Farm but I've not seen it since it first went out. If I remember rightly, Blur did the theme tune and Matt Lucas played a fairly prominent part. Was 'Exile' the same show with Ben Miller in it? I didn't watch it, but it got pretty good reviews, as far as I remember.
Was it your intention to play Little Britain by Dreadzone during the sequence about A Perfect State? Huge fan of that group and they are currently on their 30th anniversary tour.
Yeah there is a comedy from the 90s I don’t know if anyone remembers but I think it was called 2 point 4 children? I think that was what it was called? It was quite good well I did anyway. But the guy who played the dad ended up dying. I always remember the episode where it was New Year’s Eve on the millennium and they were all panicking about the Y2K bug. 😂
There was a short lived sitcom about a family who lived on the border between South Ireland and Northern Ireland. All I remember was the biritish army running through the house.
Been following you for a while, and unless I'm very much mistaken (Murray Walker) you haven't yet done Me, You and Him, featuring post Mary Whitehouse Experience Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis and your West Ham supporting mate (!) Nick Hancock
@@HappyCynic yes but channel 4 studio were . Only the house outside and other outside settings were filmed in Ireland . I was an extra spent the whole day pissing rain for a 6 minutes shoot Which was cut to a minute. Drink please lol 😀
Bloomin shit, best comedy Robert Lindsey was in Citizen Smith, best comedies were 70s and 80s, EG, Citizen Smith, Likely Lad's, Going Straight, Rising Damp, In Sickness And In Health, Steptoe And Son, Some Mother's Do Have Them, Porridge, Dad's Army, Only When I Laugh, but to name a few,, anything I have forgotten
Yes I remember seeing Embassy that one time. I remember the scenes about his office chair adjusting at inconvenient times. Many would say it's xenophobic now. Jokes about the foreign food being weird was common.
There’s a comedy series on BBC2 at the moment called ‘The Cockfords’ starring Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston playing EXACTLY the same character as she did in ‘The Royale Family’. Also somewhat bizarrely features Bobby Ball!
Bobby was quite a good actor. I once saw Cannon and Ball at the height of their fame walking along Princes Street in Edinburgh. So many people gathered around them they had to take shelter in a kilt shop!
@@Anthingll - Thanks. I didn’t know that. Unusual for the BBC to buy content from Gold, usually the other way round! And I had forgotten that Ball died. Thanks once again.
I seem to vaguely remember a sitcom on ITV on Friday nights around the late 90’s I think, it was based in the 70’s about a load of friends just hanging around together, I remember it being awful but I can’t think what it’s called, I don’t know if that’s been mentioned on here yet or not
Cold Feet was massive! The pilot was cringeworthy and very generic laugh-track free sitcom, but it evolved into comedy-drama, and then, I'd say, into almost straight drama by the final original seasons.
My wonderful life also stared Tony Robinson and it was a pleasure to see him as something other than Balearic even if he was still playing a good. And was written by Simon nye, of men behaving badly.
I recall a sitcom...must have been 90s. It was about a removal firm...that's all. Adventures in moving furniture. Saw a few episodes and it disappeared.
Cold Feet was poor with a capital 'pish' in my own humble opinion. I know some people liked it. But all of those people are clinically mad, also in my opinion.
No wonder I didn't remember the one set in a bank as it was after Father Ted and I definitely gave that overhyped programme a miss. God awful. Not as bad as Cold Feet though. My Wonderful Life, now you're talking.
I find her voice annoying. She's from Birkenhead, but she seems to have trouble doing a convincing scouse accent. She is, however, as cute as a bug's ear.
The only thing I remember about Sunnyside Farm was Matt Lucas playing a farmer but when he steps out from behind the wall he’s wearing fishnet stockings from the waist down.
There are plenty of lame so-called comedies that deserve to be forgotten. Even more so now - the anaemic, "don't offend anyone" diarrhea that passes for comedy.
'A Perfect State' sort of rings a bell. It does seem to be based on 'A Passport to Pimlico'.
Notice it was written by Michael Aitkens, who'd had a success earlier in the decade with 'Waiting for God'. Fun fact (for me): he spent 10 years in Australia in the 70s and 80s as an actor and writer, and I saw him once in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House's Drama Theatre at the interval of a play, smoking and drinking alone.
Watching was both an 80's/90's series!
I have all the seasons on DVD. And love it when the repeats are on TV.
But... But watching wasn't even in the list!
Hmm, has been covered time gentlemen please yet? Or is that the 2000s?
I recently watched it again on Forces TV before it shutdown last year. Still brilliant.
@@8bitgamerC64 What all seasons, or just some??
What are some of your other fav sitcoms from the 80's/90's??
@@mikekaraoke Yeah i think they showed the entire series. i remember Brenda and Malcolm having a heart-to-heart at Liverpool Dock in the finale if i remember correctly.
Some of my favourites that spring to mind are: Red Dwarf (series 1 to 6 only! :)), Rab C Nesbitt, Only when i Laugh and Bread.
Didn't "Sunnyside Farm" feature a theme tune by Damon Albarn from Blur? That's all I remember. I certainly don't remember laughing.
I remember Matt Lucas had his arse out on the other side of that wall
Nice video, though I'm not sure Cold Feet belongs here. It ran for 5 series 1997-2003 but was remembered well-enough and fondly-enough that it, of course, returned for a further 4 series from 2016-2020 so hardly a distant memory.
there was a sitcom late 80's with Mel Smith called "Collins Sandwich" . Mel Smith played a british rail customer relations clerk, but was desperate to be a writer.. it ran for 2 series from what i remember it was quite good.
Just found this channel, as a Brit currently living in the US, I’m practically tearing up with nostalgia.
You reminded of a brilliant sitcom - Stella Street - on BBC2 i think.
Many years ago I watched a series of a show called to have and to hold .I've never been able to find clips or dvd of it I loved it
I do recall watching Sunnyside Farm, wouldn't say that fondly, but it does very look familiar. The last one seems to trigger something too. I don't think I watched it, but do remember seeing Emma Wray as a nurse in something while I was channel-hopping
I remember my parents watching ‘blooming marvellous’ and having a good laugh at it 😅
Small bit of trivia for you - the writer of "Love Lies and Lipstick", Tim Dynevor, is married to none other than Sally Whittaker (eventually taking her husband's surname) - otherwise known as Sally Webster/whatever surnames she's taken along the way (god knows there's been plenty) in Coronation Street since 1986. I never saw her husband's work. Not sure I'm fussed, dunno about you.
Sunnyside Farm is the only one I remember habitually watching. It may have been a bit hit-and-miss but wasn't a total washout.
I remember really liking Sunnyside Farm but I've not seen it since it first went out. If I remember rightly, Blur did the theme tune and Matt Lucas played a fairly prominent part.
Was 'Exile' the same show with Ben Miller in it? I didn't watch it, but it got pretty good reviews, as far as I remember.
4:10 - Never thought i'd see Matt Lucas and "The dad from my parents are aliens" in the same scene!
I live in Dublin Ireland and Cold Feet is probably the only one here that I've heard of.
Emma Wray was so popular since Watching but I heard she quit acting.
Another cracking episode!
Was it your intention to play Little Britain by Dreadzone during the sequence about A Perfect State? Huge fan of that group and they are currently on their 30th anniversary tour.
No Penelope Keith. Wow! Thanks for the latest instalment & get well soon.
Yeah there is a comedy from the 90s I don’t know if anyone remembers but I think it was called 2 point 4 children? I think that was what it was called? It was quite good well I did anyway. But the guy who played the dad ended up dying. I always remember the episode where it was New Year’s Eve on the millennium and they were all panicking about the Y2K bug. 😂
There was a short lived sitcom about a family who lived on the border between South Ireland and Northern Ireland. All I remember was the biritish army running through the house.
The Fitz.
Been following you for a while, and unless I'm very much mistaken (Murray Walker) you haven't yet done Me, You and Him, featuring post Mary Whitehouse Experience Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis and your West Ham supporting mate (!) Nick Hancock
A perfect State looks like it had potential. Reminded me a bit of Vicar of Dibley, sitting around a a council table with nutters spouting silliness.
Robert Lyndsey was at his best in Nightingales.
Best Irish comedy Give my head Peace.
1998 till 2023 brilliant and incredibly funny.
Red hand Luke for priminister 🤗
Best Irish comedy is Father Ted, IMO.
@@HappyCynic made in Britain lol
Molloy was a brilliant early 90s
Comedy starring bishop Brennan
As a lazy security guard.
@@martryan2060 Financed by Channel four, written by and starring Irish people.
@@martryan2060 And Craggy island ain't in Britain.
@@HappyCynic yes but channel 4 studio were .
Only the house outside and other outside settings were filmed in Ireland .
I was an extra spent the whole day pissing rain for a 6 minutes shoot
Which was cut to a minute.
Drink please lol 😀
John Godber's done some good stuff for the stage.
Bloomin shit, best comedy Robert Lindsey was in Citizen Smith, best comedies were 70s and 80s, EG, Citizen Smith, Likely Lad's, Going Straight, Rising Damp, In Sickness And In Health, Steptoe And Son,
Some Mother's Do Have Them, Porridge, Dad's Army, Only When I Laugh, but to name a few,, anything I have forgotten
1:48 no but I do remember those plus codes
Yes I remember seeing Embassy that one time. I remember the scenes about his office chair adjusting at inconvenient times. Many would say it's xenophobic now. Jokes about the foreign food being weird was common.
I used to have such a crush on Emma Wray back in the day, she was so drop dead gorgeous and sexy !!
Pretty sure Caroline Langrishe was in "Embassy"
They had A Perfect State in New Zealand...
A Kind of Living Starring Tim Healy and Richard Griffin
There’s a comedy series on BBC2 at the moment called ‘The Cockfords’ starring Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston playing EXACTLY the same character as she did in ‘The Royale Family’. Also somewhat bizarrely features Bobby Ball!
Bobby was quite a good actor. I once saw Cannon and Ball at the height of their fame walking along Princes Street in Edinburgh. So many people gathered around them they had to take shelter in a kilt shop!
People still watch BBC 2!?
wow, I thought everyone had cancelled their TV licence...
That was originally on Gold. Gregor Fisher took over Bobby Balls’ role for series 2 after Ball died.
@@Vandal_Savage we have........and still watch BBC2
@@Anthingll - Thanks. I didn’t know that. Unusual for the BBC to buy content from Gold, usually the other way round! And I had forgotten that Ball died. Thanks once again.
This has got to the point that the hidden gems have been covered. These ones aren't worth a passing mention.
I seem to vaguely remember a sitcom on ITV on Friday nights around the late 90’s I think, it was based in the 70’s about a load of friends just hanging around together, I remember it being awful but I can’t think what it’s called, I don’t know if that’s been mentioned on here yet or not
I think you're alluding to the failed remake of US comedy, "that 70's show" (rosie marcel was in it).
Days like these. It was a woeful attempt to remake that 70s show
Have you done I Lovett??
Cold Feet was massive! The pilot was cringeworthy and very generic laugh-track free sitcom, but it evolved into comedy-drama, and then, I'd say, into almost straight drama by the final original seasons.
Co Durham, Northumberland, Westmoreland and Cumberland were never including in the Doomsday Book either so perhaps they could declare independence?
I may have been the only person who watched all the episodes of slap love lies and lipstick , no one seems to remember it
Sunnyside Farm, the main guy dressed like Jarvis Cocker to try and look cool, that dates it.
Comedy show Happiness starring Paul Whitehouse and Real Women staring Pauline Quirk among others And Common as Muck
Happiness was in the 2000s
At last sunny Side farm made the list
Another 90s one: The Old Boy Network written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
My wonderful life also stared Tony Robinson and it was a pleasure to see him as something other than Balearic even if he was still playing a good. And was written by Simon nye, of men behaving badly.
I'll watch anything with Samantha Janus in it. Except Eurovision. I'll even suffer through Pie in the Sky.
She really was bad in Eurovision. A real embarrassment. One of our worst ever ever entries (and there have been quite a few).
How come you can say farmers ok but not farm?
I recall a sitcom...must have been 90s. It was about a removal firm...that's all. Adventures in moving furniture. Saw a few episodes and it disappeared.
"Moving" i believe
One character was called " Adrenalin" correct?
I wish the writer of A Perfect State had watched Passport To Pimlico first. It might have been funny then.
I'd be amazed if he hadn't seen it. It’s a blatant rip-off
@@ianfryer8386 All the worse then.
You look at some of these rubbish...forgettable so-called sitcoms, and you realise what actors would lower their standards to...just to keep busy.
Cold Feet was poor with a capital 'pish' in my own humble opinion. I know some people liked it. But all of those people are clinically mad, also in my opinion.
Why can’t you say the word farm ?
It's his accent.
Embassy was pretty poor from what I remember, Mitchell & Webb's The Ambassadors from the 2000s was much better. Sunnyside Farm was terrible.
I remember my wonderful life, it was shite. I think a lot of these sitcoms got watched because there was only 4 channels and no internet
No wonder I didn't remember the one set in a bank as it was after Father Ted and I definitely gave that overhyped programme a miss. God awful. Not as bad as Cold Feet though.
My Wonderful Life, now you're talking.
mmmmm emma wray, delish :P.
I find her voice annoying. She's from Birkenhead, but she seems to have trouble doing a convincing scouse accent. She is, however, as cute as a bug's ear.
The only thing I remember about Sunnyside Farm was Matt Lucas playing a farmer but when he steps out from behind the wall he’s wearing fishnet stockings from the waist down.
Gwyneth Taylor, Keith Barron.
Actors that kept cropping up!
Bernard Cribbins too.
Others?
There are plenty of lame so-called comedies that deserve to be forgotten. Even more so now - the anaemic, "don't offend anyone" diarrhea that passes for comedy.
Sunnyside Farm was awful
How did cold feet make this list?