So glad Black Books got the thumbs up. I saw the cast pictured in the thumbnail photo and thought I'd have to declare war on the channel for slandering one of my favourite shows 😄
Are you joking about the Inbetweeners ? That was brilliant and about the best comedy of the last 20 years. If i was to be critical the last 2/3 episodes of series 3 were a bit rubbish and the 2nd film from 2014 was crap.
That was definitely a female vote im sure. Anyone that wasn't a cool kid but also not a geek felt like they were looking in the mirror watching this. Some dated views maybe in far as tv shows go but guess what thats how teenage boys think and act. And agreed the films were not all that but overall its a classic show
I`ll throw my hat into the ring and submit my nominations. Good- The New Statesman (ITV 1987-1992). Rik Mayall is brilliant in this and is sitcom he was in but is very rarely spoken about these days. The supporting cast of Piers, Sarah his wife are brilliant also. Under rated- Look around you (BBC2 2002-2004). A series many people have probably forgotten about. Series 1 consisted of 10 x 10 minute episodes and series 2 consisted of 6 x 30 minute episodes. A satire on 70`s/80`s educational/schools programmes and tomorrows world. Rubbish- My Family (BBC1 2000-2011). This is about the worst sitcom ever in my eyes. Not funny and i feel sorry for some of the cast like Robert Lindsay who have done some decent things in their career. This show felt like it was always on Friday nights on BBC1.
People love to crap all over My Family; personally I think it’s an underrated sitcom, although it went off the rails in later seasons. Look around you was good, New Statesman was rubbish.
You keep mentioning "Let The Blood Run Free". I meant to mention this factoid in the video it appeared but can't find it. I am from Australia, and I remember when "Let The Blood Run Free" was on television for the first time, and there was a unique feature the UK and everyone else missed out on. You see the show was interactive. Each week, the cliffhanger was a choice of three possible scenarios, which viewers would have to vote on, and the most popular choice would be the cliffhanger for that week, and each choice drove and shaped the story in a different direction. So, each script for the next week was determined by which cliffhanger the viewers chose, so each episode was only written that week. It didn't give much prep time for the actors, but these were some of Australia's finest improv comics at the time, so many tunes, the lines were off the cuff. It was shown live, so they were following a script but did any things on the spot. What you saw in the UK was the first season with the endings that viewers in Australia chose, so you probably weren't aware of that. It was like a TV equivalent of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books at the time. Belinda Gibson, who played Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch, was great at improv and many of her mannerisms in the show were her doing them on the spot. She appeared in other shows too, including drama, but I think she is no longer with us. Thought that fact would interest you and your viewers.
A very underrated & forgotten one. After you’ve gone starring nick Lydnhurst & Celia imire. Following a divorced dad who is given the task to look after his estranged teenage kids with the unwanted help of his domineering mother in law. Written by My Family writer Fred Barron, shares a very similar comedic style but with an original plot. Sadly couldn’t compete with coronation street in a pre catch up world and BBC has seemly forgotten about it
I nominate " You Again " starring Jack Klugman. Even the Channel 5 narrator described this as a 'supposed' and 'apparently' a sitcom before introducing it on it's early morning slot back in the early 2000s.
Inbetweeners rubbish? Wow. One thing I'll say about Clive Dunn is that, while he gave me the shits, I never thought he wasn't really an old man. He was getting there in that clip - mid 50s, at any rate - but I always believed he was that character.
I loved Heartbreak High but I haven’t watched it since I was a kid so I’m not sure how well it holds up. I’ve heard surprisingly great things about the reboot though I haven’t watched it.
That is quite the hot take on the inbetweeners! I personally loved it, save maybe the 2nd film and it was a big cultural thing for me and my friends since it was incredibly relatable and reminded me of our schooldays (for reference, I’m 39 so not too much younger than you). I’d be interested in your reasons for thinking it sh**. Although I’d assume you just didn’t find it funny!
I'm going to go horror with this one. Good: Masters Of Horror Often excellent anthology series with episodes directed by greats like John Carpenter, Joe Dante and Dario Argento. Underrated: Freddy's Nightmares An uneven spinoff of the Elm Street series for sure, but the good episodes are great and the Freddy Kreuger wraparounds are a lot of fun. Rubbish: Demons Shameless six episode knockoff of Buffy The Vampire Slayer featuring a modern day teenage decendant of Van Helsing being mentored by Philip Glennister's American accent to kill off the vampire of the week played by moderately recognisable actors looking vaguely embarrassed about the whole endeavour.
The Friday Night Armistice was brilliant in its time. I'm sure it could be successfully revived as things haven't changed massively in 25+ years. Same old 💩💩
I have one to add. It was a UK show but only shown once there but took off overseas, especially in "Australia". It is the 70s comedy "The Goodies". It starred Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and (the late) Tim Brooke Taylor (RIP), who played characters with the same names. Tim was a sissy snooty patriot, Graeme was a scientist and the leader and Bill was the loutish Leftie. Each one represented a class (Tim - upper class, Graeme ( middle class) and Bill (working class). They ran an agency where they hired to do whatever the client asked, and did it in hilarious ways. The show did anything it liked, chasing a giant kitten, capturing the loch ness monster etc. It was a classic. Hope you review this show.
@@neilold7291 Honestly I know it only because my dad had liked it and ive seen bits and pieces but I dont remember ever seeing it repeated, certainly not in the last 30 years. You might be surprised at how few younger than 40 are familiar with it
Yes it's definitely a generational thing. But also remembered by virtually everyone from said generation. It's repeated semi regularly in the UK. On certain channels. Plus it was famous for not being released on the DVD or cd for a very long time, and there's also a big disagreement over whether it's a kids show or not@@JungleTunes94
The Goodies was huge in the UK! It aired before I was born and even I know about it! Are you sure it only aired once here? I’d swear it was repeated loads of times over the years!
@@CarysCreatesThings I remember, "I I think it was Graeme Garden, saying that the BBC didn't like the show and refused to show repeats for a long time, or would bury it. They even had a hard time putting out the DVDs because BBC were notorious for rerecording over old tapes, and they were lucky to salvage copies of episodes to release on DVD. Another TV station, LWT, let the Goodies come over and record shows with them, which so angered the BBC that they denied the Goodies access to any BBC episodes for many years, as they were working for the competition (even after they left LWT). There are hints at the frosty relationship between the Goodies and the BBC, with things like Bill blowing up the BBC in the episode "Gender Education", meant as a finger to the BBC, and how they tried to censor them. They'd often mock the BBC and its personalities and the more upset the BBC got, the more they did it. I remember after Tim Brooke Taylor passed away in 2020, John Cleese played tribute and said that the Goodies, had the BBC not held them down, would have been as big as Monty Python, as Cleese said that the Goodies were just as good as them, but Python got more exposure because of the grudge BBC had against "The Goodies". In short, when the BBC said "Jump", the Goodies didn't say "How high".
Here's a few televisual deep cuts for you: "Take nobody's word for it" (BBC, late 80s), "Do it" (CITV, mid 80s), "Dare to believe" (ITV, 00s), "Space Cadets" (Channel 4, mid 90s), "Scrapheap Challenge" (Channel 4, late 90s-00s), "You are what you eat" (Channel 4, mid 00s).
Utopoa (no not that one) 2014. It was like an Austrailan version of The Offixe set in a building planning department and gets my vote for underrated. Hard to find in its entirety now but lots of clips on UA-cam
I remember a long forgotten tv show which I believe was shown on channel 4, Squawkie Talkie, I remember it being quite funny but upon a rewatch while still having some laughs it hasn't aged well, would love to get your opinion on it
underrated: everyone's heard of Band of Brothers. But before that the same producers made From the Earth to the Moon. A twelve part dramatisation of the Apollo programme. Amazing drama. The fourth episode about Apollo 8 is one of the most emotional and best bits of tv I have ever seen. And the theme tune was superb. Trouble was channel four brought it. And showed it at 11.30am on saturday mornings in the summer of 1999. With absolutely no publicity. So only the space buffs among us have ever seen it. But it is just as good as Band of Brothers in it's own way.
Mentioning Tamsin Greig got me thinking about Love Soup, a 2005 comedy drama written by David Renwick that I enjoyed. Great first series about star crossed lovers. Beautifully written and acted, funny in places. The second series had issues with casting and wasn't as good, but that first series was cracking. Also starred former Jimmy Olsen from the 90s Superman TV show, Michael Landes.
I would have to nominate Bryan Fuller's first show 'Dead Like Me', focusing on a young woman who, after being obliterated by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting Mir space station, starts a new posthumous job as a Grim Reaper, removing peoples souls before they suffer a horrific death so they don't feel the pain of said death. The theme tune was from Stewart Copeland of The Police, showing a very Spyro The Dragon influence (for which he also did the music).
@@espurious definitely good. Mandy Patinkin has some of the best lines I've ever heard, especially when Mason was talking about his card sharp game. "The only movement I'm interested in happens about this time every day, and there's nothing graceful or catlike about it. Excuse me." - as he picks up a newspaper and heads off towards the toilet.
I wasn't overly into Black Books but I liked it. I have never heard of Saturday Night Armistice but from what you showed, it reminds me of the style of Mock The Week or one of those shows. I wasn't into the Inbetweeners either but my sister liked it. One show I'd like to mention for being excellent until it wasn't in the past few years before it got axed and replaced is The Gadget Show on Channel 5 that aired from 2004-2023. I have seen every single episode and I used to love it for the way the presenters showed gadgets, took on challenges with gadgets and showcased upcoming tech. I liked the original presenters Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and Jon Bentley. I also liked some of the other presenters including Ortis Deley, Pollyanna Woodward and Dallas Campbell. When Craig Charles hosted the show from 2017-2022, I thought it was still good, but not as good then when he left, I noticed it started to go downhill and change too much from its original format. From reading comments left by others, they pretty much said the same thing. It ended up getting replaced last year by "Shop Smart, Save Money" which, while not a bad show in itself, it is not a show I am really interested in like I was with The Gadget Show.
I've got some rubbish that my mom liked in the early to mid 2000s, I believe. It was called "Yes, Dear" and aired in the US, about two couples with kids who live together and navigate life. It sounds okay, but believe me, it was the exact opposite. I couldn't believe that it lasted a few seasons because it was terrible. Hearing it from my room was torture enough,. I can't even imagine actually watching it. Still Standing was another show that aired right before it, I think, and it was also trash.
Please do an episode where all the written comments about some of the tv shows, old and new, are totally offensive and so funny, they need to aired, so me and many other subscribers can continue t laugh hysterically! Your shows are great! Lol
"Bill Bailey was Bill Bailey..." which was so right as a foil for Dylan Moran. Watching them interact was like watching a toddler play with a wood chipper only funny.
I didn't expect to like "Black Books" as much as I did. Usually, I don't care for the "horrible people being horribly horrible to other horrible people" trope but there was just something about the trio that clicked with me, and I thought the show was an absolute scream.
I would usually nominate There's Something About Miriam but then Channel 4 did that documentary series so I won't bother. Anyway, i will submit suggest Police Squad as an excellent/underrated series. It was the precursor to The Naked Gun movie and was a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker production starring Leslie Nielson. It was a silly show with great one-liners and sight gags. Only lasted 6 episodes but it's a favourite of mine.
I have watched Black Books so many times it's a great I love it! I might have to binge watch again very soon. "She's my summer girl and in the autumn I'll dump her because she's my summer girl!"
Good - Filthy, Rich and Catflap. A one series wonder from 3/4 of the Young Ones. Typically slapstick, focussing on the life of a self deluded never-was-been light entertainer, his bodyguard and agent. Just wonderful stuff, especially when they keep accidentally bumping off Milkies Underrated - Grange Hill. In its earlier series a very hard hitting school drama, which addressed serious social issues from racism, abuse, drugs, all sorts. And all without being overly sensationalist. Good chunk of those years available on BritBox too, which is nice. Bad - The Mighty Boosh. Just awful awful rot. Surrealism doesn’t work when you’re nodding and winking at the audience. It also encouraged Noel Fielding’s career, which was a massive error of judgment. His “Luxury Comedy” was more of the same drivel.
A show that i found terrible was: Chums. (1999 -2003)ITV Saturday mornings. It started Ant & Dec, Cat Deeley. It was a British parody of the American comedy Friends. Apparently this may have been a hit & quite a few known people made ,written and did music for it. As friends is a show i like i found this terrible stupid silly. I also so remember seeing a VHS tape of it in a shop called Woolworths. Underrated: Oh, Doctor Beeching! It had a Pilot in 1995 then S1 to S2 was 1996 -1997 BBC 1. I watched the show when it was coming out i remember it was funny with Su Pollard. I also liked trains.
To be fair to Chums,it wasn't an actual TV show and never tried to be. It was a weekly sketch on SMTV Live. It was never intended to be taken seriously as a sitcom.
@@manumental86Yeah, I agree! Chums is a weird choice as it was a regular skit on SMTV Live! That would be like nominating Trevor & Simon’s Singing Corner sketch from Going Live as worst show! And as for it being “stupid and silly”, it was a spoof of a popular show so that was kind of the point. I would usually be the last person to defend Ant & Dec, but in this case I think it’s warranted.
BBC 1's "My Family" is currently being repeated on Dave. Amazing cast. Inexcusably bad writing. It was the BBC's first stab at making a sitcom by writer's room committee.
Excellent: Only When I Laugh. Divides opinion this one but like the best sitcoms it has a hint of darkness about it. The three patients can’t function in the real world so have to go to increasing lengths to escape it. I could watch Peter Bowles and James Bowlam read the phone directory. Underrated: Outside Edge. Brilliant cricketing sitcom with a similar busybody main character to Ever Deceasing Circles. Well thought of but oddly rarely repeated or mentioned. Terrible: Believe Nothing. I’ve pitched this before but a very underwhelming semi sequel to The New Statesman. Rik Mayall plays Professor Adonis Cnut, newly inducted member of the secret society that controls the world. Not as bad as some on here but terrible given the quality of it’s predecessor.
Agree with you about Only When I Laugh, watched a while back on ITVX the chemistry between the 3 leads is great, if you ever have to go into hospital just sing "I'm h-a-p-p-y" LOL
Some sitcoms, aside from the obvious classics, tend to fall into a strange no mans land. That of not being that good, but having good characters in them amongst the dross. Bread and count Arthur strong definitely fall into this category for me
One i thought was underrated was Rik Mayall in an Itv sitcom called Believe nothing, was written by the same team that wrote the new statesmen, it only lasted 1 series and wasn't well received, he played Adonis Cnut (pronounced Ker-newt) a university professor , it got compaired to the new statesmen a lot and just wasn't as popular, well i liked it anyway, mind you I like anything with rik mayall in. How about Shane with Frank skinner, it was on ITV, it only lasted 1 series, although another series was filmed but was never aired, Not surprised, it was complete crap, he played a taxi driver I think and he just basicilly played himself, i like him on his chatshow and on the radio but this was as funny as piles.
I never saw that, but I have fond memories of Rik Mayall. Though, being American limited my exposure; mostly his older stuff, Young Ones, Blackadder & Drop Dead Fred... actually, I'm not sure I saw him in anything past the mid 1990's.
I'd never heard of, (or watched), any of these. The Clive Dunn one is basically every other part Clive Dunn has done for television, 1970's onwards. Corporal Jones in a modern setting, if you will. Rather one dimensional, to say the least.
That was a great show! I loved it; ABC network 2009 - 2010, and should have run longer. imho The pacing, the characters and the Veridian Dynamics "commercials"... so much good stuff!
A couple of forgotten shows for you firstly head over heels 1993 Carlton television was set in a finishing school the girls with sneak out at night to visit a coffee bar to hear rock and roll music it was set in the 1950s Anne Anne bell from tenko what's the headmistress next program midnight Caller a programme in the 80s and 90s from either NBC or CBS 11:1411:1411:14 about an overnight disc jockey who's still solves crime after leaving his job as a policeman it starred Gary Cole both of these programs get the thumbs up from me Thumbs Down give me give me give me and Wren and Stimpy
How About Ghosts it has to be the most Over rated show in BBC History it is just not funny! and how many series did it get? I'd watch walls drying for 48 hours than this Drivel! compare it with the Ghosts of Motley Hall well you can't as there's no comparison one is funny GOMH one really isn't!
4: 30 WAIT! WHAT THE ACTUAL...? SO I AM GENUINELY NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS TEH INBETWEENERS IS BAD??? HOLY FUGGING SHITE!!!! I never watched the Series... But my Daughter is a fan of the show and I had to endure watching some of the movie... And I just did not get what was supposed to be so "Ground-breaking, Relatable and Funny" - I know people Bitch and Moan about The Big Bang Theory, But At least with that - I can actually REALTE to most of the Characters... I am as Awkward around Girls as Raj, I flirt as Badly as Howard, I have ABSOLUTLY been a Leonard, And if my wife were still alive, I am sure she woudl say I am 100% a Sheldon Cooper... Are they a bit extreme and to some offensive stereotypes? Yes... But people only get upset over that as they know in their hearts that THEY EXHIBIT those stereotypes... I EMBRACE IT! I NEVER had that feeling with The Inbetweeners, Which I should have had as it was Very British... They were a far more offensive Stereotype than The Big Bang!!! And I was way past School by the time The Inbetweeners Aired... But @bulletproofblouse is 100% RIGHT! If I wasn't one of those he would have desperately tried to avoid, I woudl also have been desperately trying to avoid them! (When I was at school, I was the Cray Baby in the corner... NO ONE is going to make a TV show about that so I will NEVER be able to relate!!!)
Big bang is as bad sorry it is, try watchin without the laughter track. It's got ok funny moments. Both do but full episodes are mega cringeworthy and both are pretty ropey with the humour too..
That first one looked all kinds of garbage. What sensible Australian would wear a Hawaii shirt frinstance? Australia is 10X nicer than Hawaii. Clive Dunn one suffers from the fact that in the 1970's, if an actor had any degree of success in a show, that actor would then invariably be rolled out in anything and everything that they could convince them to appear in. Due to there only being about 100 actors to choose from back then. Inbetweeners veers wildly from absolutely rofl funny moments, to buttock clenchingly unfunny parts. James Buckley's character 'Jay' is possibly the most dislikeable character ever to appear in a TV show. You just sit there wanting to smack him in the mouth. I HAVE watched the whole thing through several times. Mostly for Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Polly. (Will's mum.) That woman is off the scale attractive. Black Books is in my top 10 of sitcoms that I binge watch the whole thing at least yearly. For me Tamsin Greig is the best thing in it. Like every show she is in basically. So I'll agree to disagree with you on that one. Last one. Can't stand Armando Iannucci. Even as a lifelong Conservative voter, I couldn't criticise him for ragging on John Major. A man who would comfortably be the worst Conservative party leader of all time had Rishi Sunak not come along to relieve Major of that honour.
Inbetweeners Rubbish!!!!? no NO NO Excellent Show!
Its aged like milk and just has ok moments I cannot get through a full episode now.. guess I've grown out of it. 👍
@@bewd4310 I'm 61 guess I haven't grown up yet lol
I loved the series, the films not so much.
@@petersp63we all have our own ways of maturing.. we're all different
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So glad Black Books got the thumbs up. I saw the cast pictured in the thumbnail photo and thought I'd have to declare war on the channel for slandering one of my favourite shows 😄
my thought exactly😊
He didnt do that but looks like The Inbetweeners fandom is going to war 😂
I loved Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Channel 4 2004)
Are you joking about the Inbetweeners ? That was brilliant and about the best comedy of the last 20 years. If i was to be critical the last 2/3 episodes of series 3 were a bit rubbish and the 2nd film from 2014 was crap.
agree with everything you just said
Was surprised to see that get vote down as rubbish, Inbetweeners was a good show.
For me it’s almost up there with the office, peep show and Alan partridge
I agree, I think the Inbetweeners was really funny, loved the characters, and still find it funny now. I think they're wrong here, way off
That was definitely a female vote im sure. Anyone that wasn't a cool kid but also not a geek felt like they were looking in the mirror watching this. Some dated views maybe in far as tv shows go but guess what thats how teenage boys think and act.
And agreed the films were not all that but overall its a classic show
I`ll throw my hat into the ring and submit my nominations.
Good- The New Statesman (ITV 1987-1992). Rik Mayall is brilliant in this and is sitcom he was in but is very rarely spoken about these days. The supporting cast of Piers, Sarah his wife are brilliant also.
Under rated- Look around you (BBC2 2002-2004). A series many people have probably forgotten about. Series 1 consisted of 10 x 10 minute episodes and series 2 consisted of 6 x 30 minute episodes. A satire on 70`s/80`s educational/schools programmes and tomorrows world.
Rubbish- My Family (BBC1 2000-2011). This is about the worst sitcom ever in my eyes. Not funny and i feel sorry for some of the cast like Robert Lindsay who have done some decent things in their career. This show felt like it was always on Friday nights on BBC1.
yeah My Family was just utter crap.
People love to crap all over My Family; personally I think it’s an underrated sitcom, although it went off the rails in later seasons.
Look around you was good, New Statesman was rubbish.
@@AsherPiesman Sorry to other commentators but I never liked Rik Mayall, he was pretty much the same whatever he was in.
You keep mentioning "Let The Blood Run Free".
I meant to mention this factoid in the video it appeared but can't find it.
I am from Australia, and I remember when "Let The Blood Run Free" was on television for the first time, and there was a unique feature the UK and everyone else missed out on.
You see the show was interactive. Each week, the cliffhanger was a choice of three possible scenarios, which viewers would have to vote on, and the most popular choice would be the cliffhanger for that week, and each choice drove and shaped the story in a different direction.
So, each script for the next week was determined by which cliffhanger the viewers chose, so each episode was only written that week. It didn't give much prep time for the actors, but these were some of Australia's finest improv comics at the time, so many tunes, the lines were off the cuff. It was shown live, so they were following a script but did any things on the spot.
What you saw in the UK was the first season with the endings that viewers in Australia chose, so you probably weren't aware of that. It was like a TV equivalent of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books at the time.
Belinda Gibson, who played Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch, was great at improv and many of her mannerisms in the show were her doing them on the spot. She appeared in other shows too, including drama, but I think she is no longer with us.
Thought that fact would interest you and your viewers.
A very underrated & forgotten one. After you’ve gone starring nick Lydnhurst & Celia imire. Following a divorced dad who is given the task to look after his estranged teenage kids with the unwanted help of his domineering mother in law.
Written by My Family writer Fred Barron, shares a very similar comedic style but with an original plot.
Sadly couldn’t compete with coronation street in a pre catch up world and BBC has seemly forgotten about it
I can't agree with you about The Inbetweeners, thought it was fantastic.
I nominate " You Again " starring Jack Klugman. Even the Channel 5 narrator described this as a 'supposed' and 'apparently' a sitcom before introducing it on it's early morning slot back in the early 2000s.
To this day, I can't rewatch Black Books and hear Fran's name without hearing Peter Serafinowicz in my head saying "FRRRAAAAAAAAANNN?" 😂
Inbetweeners rubbish? Wow. One thing I'll say about Clive Dunn is that, while he gave me the shits, I never thought he wasn't really an old man. He was getting there in that clip - mid 50s, at any rate - but I always believed he was that character.
I nominate Heartbreak high, aussie early nineties teen drama. Brings back the good ol days to me.
I loved Heartbreak High but I haven’t watched it since I was a kid so I’m not sure how well it holds up. I’ve heard surprisingly great things about the reboot though I haven’t watched it.
The Nightingales with Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall and James Ellis deserves a mention, it was brilliant.
That was my choice too 👍
Hated it
That is quite the hot take on the inbetweeners! I personally loved it, save maybe the 2nd film and it was a big cultural thing for me and my friends since it was incredibly relatable and reminded me of our schooldays (for reference, I’m 39 so not too much younger than you). I’d be interested in your reasons for thinking it sh**. Although I’d assume you just didn’t find it funny!
I'm in my sixties and I loved the Inbetweeners too. I also loved Friday Night Dinner and Plebs.
I'm going to go horror with this one.
Good: Masters Of Horror
Often excellent anthology series with episodes directed by greats like John Carpenter, Joe Dante and Dario Argento.
Underrated: Freddy's Nightmares
An uneven spinoff of the Elm Street series for sure, but the good episodes are great and the Freddy Kreuger wraparounds are a lot of fun.
Rubbish: Demons
Shameless six episode knockoff of Buffy The Vampire Slayer featuring a modern day teenage decendant of Van Helsing being mentored by Philip Glennister's American accent to kill off the vampire of the week played by moderately recognisable actors looking vaguely embarrassed about the whole endeavour.
Clive Dunn “SHYT” lmao
The Friday Night Armistice was brilliant in its time. I'm sure it could be successfully revived as things haven't changed massively in 25+ years. Same old 💩💩
I have one to add.
It was a UK show but only shown once there but took off overseas, especially in "Australia".
It is the 70s comedy "The Goodies".
It starred Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and (the late) Tim Brooke Taylor (RIP), who played characters with the same names.
Tim was a sissy snooty patriot, Graeme was a scientist and the leader and Bill was the loutish Leftie. Each one represented a class (Tim - upper class, Graeme ( middle class) and Bill (working class).
They ran an agency where they hired to do whatever the client asked, and did it in hilarious ways.
The show did anything it liked, chasing a giant kitten, capturing the loch ness monster etc. It was a classic.
Hope you review this show.
It'd be harder to find someone who doesn't remember the goodies
@@neilold7291 Honestly I know it only because my dad had liked it and ive seen bits and pieces but I dont remember ever seeing it repeated, certainly not in the last 30 years. You might be surprised at how few younger than 40 are familiar with it
Yes it's definitely a generational thing. But also remembered by virtually everyone from said generation. It's repeated semi regularly in the UK. On certain channels. Plus it was famous for not being released on the DVD or cd for a very long time, and there's also a big disagreement over whether it's a kids show or not@@JungleTunes94
The Goodies was huge in the UK! It aired before I was born and even I know about it! Are you sure it only aired once here? I’d swear it was repeated loads of times over the years!
@@CarysCreatesThings I remember, "I I think it was Graeme Garden, saying that the BBC didn't like the show and refused to show repeats for a long time, or would bury it.
They even had a hard time putting out the DVDs because BBC were notorious for rerecording over old tapes, and they were lucky to salvage copies of episodes to release on DVD.
Another TV station, LWT, let the Goodies come over and record shows with them, which so angered the BBC that they denied the Goodies access to any BBC episodes for many years, as they were working for the competition (even after they left LWT).
There are hints at the frosty relationship between the Goodies and the BBC, with things like Bill blowing up the BBC in the episode "Gender Education", meant as a finger to the BBC, and how they tried to censor them. They'd often mock the BBC and its personalities and the more upset the BBC got, the more they did it.
I remember after Tim Brooke Taylor passed away in 2020, John Cleese played tribute and said that the Goodies, had the BBC not held them down, would have been as big as Monty Python, as Cleese said that the Goodies were just as good as them, but Python got more exposure because of the grudge BBC had against "The Goodies".
In short, when the BBC said "Jump", the Goodies didn't say "How high".
Here's a few televisual deep cuts for you: "Take nobody's word for it" (BBC, late 80s), "Do it" (CITV, mid 80s), "Dare to believe" (ITV, 00s), "Space Cadets" (Channel 4, mid 90s), "Scrapheap Challenge" (Channel 4, late 90s-00s), "You are what you eat" (Channel 4, mid 00s).
Utopoa (no not that one) 2014. It was like an Austrailan version of The Offixe set in a building planning department and gets my vote for underrated. Hard to find in its entirety now but lots of clips on UA-cam
I remember a long forgotten tv show which I believe was shown on channel 4, Squawkie Talkie, I remember it being quite funny but upon a rewatch while still having some laughs it hasn't aged well, would love to get your opinion on it
underrated: everyone's heard of Band of Brothers. But before that the same producers made From the Earth to the Moon. A twelve part dramatisation of the Apollo programme. Amazing drama. The fourth episode about Apollo 8 is one of the most emotional and best bits of tv I have ever seen. And the theme tune was superb. Trouble was channel four brought it. And showed it at 11.30am on saturday mornings in the summer of 1999. With absolutely no publicity. So only the space buffs among us have ever seen it. But it is just as good as Band of Brothers in it's own way.
Mentioning Tamsin Greig got me thinking about Love Soup, a 2005 comedy drama written by David Renwick that I enjoyed. Great first series about star crossed lovers. Beautifully written and acted, funny in places. The second series had issues with casting and wasn't as good, but that first series was cracking. Also starred former Jimmy Olsen from the 90s Superman TV show, Michael Landes.
I would have to nominate Bryan Fuller's first show 'Dead Like Me', focusing on a young woman who, after being obliterated by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting Mir space station, starts a new posthumous job as a Grim Reaper, removing peoples souls before they suffer a horrific death so they don't feel the pain of said death. The theme tune was from Stewart Copeland of The Police, showing a very Spyro The Dragon influence (for which he also did the music).
Nominating it for good, yeah? It's one of my favourite shows. Cast is incredible, lots of talent. Weird show in a good, unique, way.
@@espurious definitely good. Mandy Patinkin has some of the best lines I've ever heard, especially when Mason was talking about his card sharp game.
"The only movement I'm interested in happens about this time every day, and there's nothing graceful or catlike about it. Excuse me."
- as he picks up a newspaper and heads off towards the toilet.
I wasn't overly into Black Books but I liked it. I have never heard of Saturday Night Armistice but from what you showed, it reminds me of the style of Mock The Week or one of those shows. I wasn't into the Inbetweeners either but my sister liked it.
One show I'd like to mention for being excellent until it wasn't in the past few years before it got axed and replaced is The Gadget Show on Channel 5 that aired from 2004-2023. I have seen every single episode and I used to love it for the way the presenters showed gadgets, took on challenges with gadgets and showcased upcoming tech.
I liked the original presenters Jason Bradbury, Suzi Perry and Jon Bentley. I also liked some of the other presenters including Ortis Deley, Pollyanna Woodward and Dallas Campbell. When Craig Charles hosted the show from 2017-2022, I thought it was still good, but not as good then when he left, I noticed it started to go downhill and change too much from its original format. From reading comments left by others, they pretty much said the same thing.
It ended up getting replaced last year by "Shop Smart, Save Money" which, while not a bad show in itself, it is not a show I am really interested in like I was with The Gadget Show.
I've got some rubbish that my mom liked in the early to mid 2000s, I believe. It was called "Yes, Dear" and aired in the US, about two couples with kids who live together and navigate life. It sounds okay, but believe me, it was the exact opposite. I couldn't believe that it lasted a few seasons because it was terrible. Hearing it from my room was torture enough,. I can't even imagine actually watching it. Still Standing was another show that aired right before it, I think, and it was also trash.
I can nominate Crapston Villas. Clay mation comedy set in a London suburb.
It's a bit spicy.
That’s what that was called! It popped into my head recently, did Graham Norton do a voice in it?
Please do an episode where all the written comments about some of the tv shows, old and new, are totally offensive and so funny, they need to aired, so me and many other subscribers can continue t laugh hysterically! Your shows are great! Lol
"Bill Bailey was Bill Bailey..." which was so right as a foil for Dylan Moran. Watching them interact was like watching a toddler play with a wood chipper only funny.
I didn't expect to like "Black Books" as much as I did. Usually, I don't care for the "horrible people being horribly horrible to other horrible people" trope but there was just something about the trio that clicked with me, and I thought the show was an absolute scream.
Your judgement has to be called into question...
Disagree %100 about The Inbetweeners myself 😵
I would usually nominate There's Something About Miriam but then Channel 4 did that documentary series so I won't bother.
Anyway, i will submit suggest Police Squad as an excellent/underrated series. It was the precursor to The Naked Gun movie and was a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker production starring Leslie Nielson. It was a silly show with great one-liners and sight gags. Only lasted 6 episodes but it's a favourite of mine.
I have watched Black Books so many times it's a great I love it! I might have to binge watch again very soon.
"She's my summer girl and in the autumn I'll dump her because she's my summer girl!"
watching that Saturday Night Armistice clip reminded me of an excellent show back in the day: That's Life!
Modern Toss from the early 2000s on channel 4. It was great, despite being farted on by society as nobody seems to remember it exists!
Good - Filthy, Rich and Catflap. A one series wonder from 3/4 of the Young Ones. Typically slapstick, focussing on the life of a self deluded never-was-been light entertainer, his bodyguard and agent. Just wonderful stuff, especially when they keep accidentally bumping off Milkies
Underrated - Grange Hill. In its earlier series a very hard hitting school drama, which addressed serious social issues from racism, abuse, drugs, all sorts. And all without being overly sensationalist. Good chunk of those years available on BritBox too, which is nice.
Bad - The Mighty Boosh. Just awful awful rot. Surrealism doesn’t work when you’re nodding and winking at the audience. It also encouraged Noel Fielding’s career, which was a massive error of judgment. His “Luxury Comedy” was more of the same drivel.
Good Kevin Eldon nod there in the Black Books section.
Powerless (2017) from NBC was brilliant.
The Inbetweeners was a great six-part series. Sadly, they made three series.
Clive Dunn was awful in everything he was in. I can't watch Dad's Army as I find him so irritating. Love your videos.
Ever heard of a TV fantasy drama from the early 2000s called Carnival? Starred Nick Stahl! BLOODY DEPRESSING!
St Kilda IS a red light district and has been since before WW2 at least.
A show that i found terrible was:
Chums. (1999 -2003)ITV Saturday mornings. It started Ant & Dec, Cat Deeley.
It was a British parody of the American comedy Friends.
Apparently this may have been a hit &
quite a few known people made ,written and did music for it. As friends is a show i like i found this terrible stupid silly. I also so remember seeing a VHS tape of it in a shop called Woolworths.
Underrated: Oh, Doctor Beeching! It had a Pilot in 1995 then S1 to S2 was 1996 -1997 BBC 1. I watched the show when it was coming out i remember it was funny with Su Pollard. I also liked trains.
To be fair to Chums,it wasn't an actual TV show and never tried to be. It was a weekly sketch on SMTV Live. It was never intended to be taken seriously as a sitcom.
@@manumental86Yeah, I agree! Chums is a weird choice as it was a regular skit on SMTV Live! That would be like nominating Trevor & Simon’s Singing Corner sketch from Going Live as worst show! And as for it being “stupid and silly”, it was a spoof of a popular show so that was kind of the point. I would usually be the last person to defend Ant & Dec, but in this case I think it’s warranted.
Oh, and I adore Su Pollard, but I thought Oh, Doctor Beeching was dreadful!
@@CarysCreatesThings Well you're probably correct about the show I only really remember the actress and I haven't seen it since the 90s.
@@manumental86 Understood thank you. I know it was part of SMTV live but I thought it could be a show as it had a VHS release.
I talked to a guy who had worked with Dylan Moran and said he was pretty much like that
Kevin Eldon is a seriously underrated actor.
Another underrated show for 9 series anyway was London's burning then it turned into a soap opera
I always thought The Secret Life of Us had the vibes of the BBC series from the late 1990s This Life.
BBC 1's "My Family" is currently being repeated on Dave. Amazing cast. Inexcusably bad writing. It was the BBC's first stab at making a sitcom by writer's room committee.
I gave full credit to the two stars for saying in an interview that they'd make maybe 2 good episodes a year and the rest were crap.
Excellent: Only When I Laugh. Divides opinion this one but like the best sitcoms it has a hint of darkness about it. The three patients can’t function in the real world so have to go to increasing lengths to escape it. I could watch Peter Bowles and James Bowlam read the phone directory.
Underrated: Outside Edge. Brilliant cricketing sitcom with a similar busybody main character to Ever Deceasing Circles. Well thought of but oddly rarely repeated or mentioned.
Terrible: Believe Nothing. I’ve pitched this before but a very underwhelming semi sequel to The New Statesman. Rik Mayall plays Professor Adonis Cnut, newly inducted member of the secret society that controls the world. Not as bad as some on here but terrible given the quality of it’s predecessor.
Agree with you about Only When I Laugh, watched a while back on ITVX the chemistry between the 3 leads is great, if you ever have to go into hospital just sing "I'm h-a-p-p-y" LOL
I now want to see Black Books!
Black Books! One of my all-time favorites!
Inbetweeners was lad culture toss failing to hang it's coat on the irony hook.
Some sitcoms, aside from the obvious classics, tend to fall into a strange no mans land. That of not being that good, but having good characters in them amongst the dross. Bread and count Arthur strong definitely fall into this category for me
More of your synth music too, my good man.
I thought The Inbetweeners was the funniest comedy since I'm Alan Partridge. Each to their own though.
With you all the way on The Inbetweeners.
One i thought was underrated was Rik Mayall in an Itv sitcom called Believe nothing, was written by the same team that wrote the new statesmen, it only lasted 1 series and wasn't well received, he played Adonis Cnut (pronounced Ker-newt) a university professor , it got compaired to the new statesmen a lot and just wasn't as popular, well i liked it anyway, mind you I like anything with rik mayall in.
How about Shane with Frank skinner, it was on ITV, it only lasted 1 series, although another series was filmed but was never aired, Not surprised, it was complete crap, he played a taxi driver I think and he just basicilly played himself, i like him on his chatshow and on the radio but this was as funny as piles.
I never saw that, but I have fond memories of Rik Mayall. Though, being American limited my exposure; mostly his older stuff, Young Ones, Blackadder & Drop Dead Fred... actually, I'm not sure I saw him in anything past the mid 1990's.
@@XianHu I think it's on you tube
@@alexjohnston8889 Thank you, I take a look
I liked/disliked game on with Samantha janus. By and large it was crap, but occasionally it could be actually pretty funny
As a cult classic I would like to mention prisioner cell block H, it’s like the Aussie version of Bad Girls
Of course Prisoner Cell Block H was loosely based on Within the Walls.
Tamsin Greig is a wee cutie. She also played Sacharissa Cripslock. Which gives her extra points of geekitude!. So you are demostratively wrong sir!
I'd never heard of, (or watched), any of these. The Clive Dunn one is basically every other part Clive Dunn has done for television, 1970's onwards. Corporal Jones in a modern setting, if you will. Rather one dimensional, to say the least.
Check out better Off Ted.
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That was a great show! I loved it; ABC network 2009 - 2010, and should have run longer. imho The pacing, the characters and the Veridian Dynamics "commercials"... so much good stuff!
great selection
The Inbetweeners is superb
A couple of forgotten shows for you firstly head over heels 1993 Carlton television was set in a finishing school the girls with sneak out at night to visit a coffee bar to hear rock and roll music it was set in the 1950s Anne Anne bell from tenko what's the headmistress next program midnight Caller a programme in the 80s and 90s from either NBC or CBS 11:14 11:14 11:14 about an overnight disc jockey who's still solves crime after leaving his job as a policeman it starred Gary Cole both of these programs get the thumbs up from me Thumbs Down give me give me give me and Wren and Stimpy
aussie Friends without the laugh track. Wow! that was appalling.
Black books superb
8:18 you are not on your own................... I know what you mean
I despise Inbetweeners. That sort of thing was old when Sid James was doing it.
How About Ghosts it has to be the most Over rated show in BBC History it is just not funny! and how many series did it get? I'd watch walls drying for 48 hours than this Drivel! compare it with the Ghosts of Motley Hall well you can't as there's no comparison one is funny GOMH one really isn't!
4: 30 WAIT! WHAT THE ACTUAL...? SO I AM GENUINELY NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS TEH INBETWEENERS IS BAD??? HOLY FUGGING SHITE!!!!
I never watched the Series... But my Daughter is a fan of the show and I had to endure watching some of the movie... And I just did not get what was supposed to be so "Ground-breaking, Relatable and Funny" - I know people Bitch and Moan about The Big Bang Theory, But At least with that - I can actually REALTE to most of the Characters... I am as Awkward around Girls as Raj, I flirt as Badly as Howard, I have ABSOLUTLY been a Leonard, And if my wife were still alive, I am sure she woudl say I am 100% a Sheldon Cooper...
Are they a bit extreme and to some offensive stereotypes? Yes... But people only get upset over that as they know in their hearts that THEY EXHIBIT those stereotypes... I EMBRACE IT!
I NEVER had that feeling with The Inbetweeners, Which I should have had as it was Very British... They were a far more offensive Stereotype than The Big Bang!!!
And I was way past School by the time The Inbetweeners Aired... But @bulletproofblouse is 100% RIGHT! If I wasn't one of those he would have desperately tried to avoid, I woudl also have been desperately trying to avoid them! (When I was at school, I was the Cray Baby in the corner... NO ONE is going to make a TV show about that so I will NEVER be able to relate!!!)
Big bang is as bad sorry it is, try watchin without the laughter track. It's got ok funny moments. Both do but full episodes are mega cringeworthy and both are pretty ropey with the humour too..
That first one looked all kinds of garbage. What sensible Australian would wear a Hawaii shirt frinstance? Australia is 10X nicer than Hawaii.
Clive Dunn one suffers from the fact that in the 1970's, if an actor had any degree of success in a show, that actor would then invariably be rolled out in anything and everything that they could convince them to appear in. Due to there only being about 100 actors to choose from back then.
Inbetweeners veers wildly from absolutely rofl funny moments, to buttock clenchingly unfunny parts. James Buckley's character 'Jay' is possibly the most dislikeable character ever to appear in a TV show. You just sit there wanting to smack him in the mouth. I HAVE watched the whole thing through several times. Mostly for Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Polly. (Will's mum.) That woman is off the scale attractive.
Black Books is in my top 10 of sitcoms that I binge watch the whole thing at least yearly. For me Tamsin Greig is the best thing in it. Like every show she is in basically. So I'll agree to disagree with you on that one.
Last one. Can't stand Armando Iannucci. Even as a lifelong Conservative voter, I couldn't criticise him for ragging on John Major. A man who would comfortably be the worst Conservative party leader of all time had Rishi Sunak not come along to relieve Major of that honour.
Miranda is terrible unfunny terrible and unfunny
I'm sorry but The Inbetweeners was great. Might be time to delete your channel if that's your honest view.