@@iangascoigne8231 Many men of a certain vintage do. She was attractive, but not so much that you didn't think you had a chance with her! Women like Susan George, Raquel Welch etc were just way out of your league, but Paula....
Miss Jones and Son: the good old days, when a person could ring their GP late at night and speak to them personally...........and even get them to come out and treat them!
A Small Problem: "Are you taking the mickey?" [...tumbleweeds... ...empires rise and fall...] "What me?" [Lone embarrassed laugh from an adjoining corridor; otherwise crickets] The secret of great comedy is ti
I remember the theme tune to The Misfits: Its not easy, livin' in the old UK, its not easy, but The Misfits do okay. Other than that and the Cuckoo Waltz I've never even heard of the rest...
I originally came to this channel thinking I was so into the obscure television out there because I had seen Metal Mickey and nobody I knew could remember it. I now know I was an amateur.
One thing i have noticed watching these vids....how often i come across actors and actresses that I recognise and have seen a lot over the 80s and 90s....but no idea the names lol
I'd been trying to remember the title of the sitcom which had musical numbers in it. Thanks for including it. As I remember it, it had very few songs and they were repeated ad nauseam.
I liked A Small Problem. Supposedly it generated a lot of complaints at the time because people didn't understand that it was satirical. I think it aired on BBC2, on the slot that Red Dwarf eventually filled.
The only reason I've heard of No That's Me Over Here is because Graham Chapman of Monty Python wrote for it, as did Eric Idle, in fact. Chapman also wrote two more Corbett sitcoms: Now Look Here and its sequel The Prince of Denmark.
No recall on 9 of them. However the Cuckoo Waltz seemed to be on Granada for some years (not in other regions perhaps) - recalled because the actors went on to other things (David Roper turned up in EastEnders) and production improved markedly from the clip you showed (the first episode I think)
Goodness. Jonathan Pryce. Local boy to me, though about ten years older, so we weren't at school together. They have a picture of him up in the local Wetherspoons as a local hero.
Another one to mention, Mornin’ Sarge - kind of a pre-Thin Blue Line Thin Blue Line with Robin Driscoll, Tony Haase and Paul Brooke, all of whom have appeared in Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson who was in Thin Blue Line!
The idea of a short problem sounds like it was ripped off from the Goodies episode "South Africa" (1975) where they have apartheight, discrimination of small people.
Kate Fahy, or rather Katherine Fahy, Lady Pryce, is the wife of (Sir) Jonathan Pryce, although they didn't exactly rush into the institution of marriage having had three children together before the tying of the knot in 2015. The first in 1983, having met in 1972, nine years before Roger doesn't live here anymore.
Father Matthews Daughter starred James Bolam as a catholic priest who has to act as guardian to an orphan. I remember very little about it except it got terrible newspaper reviews... Bolam also starred as the cartoon character Andy Capp for 6 episodes in 1988.
A Small Problem looks fascinatingly bleak. I just looked it up and even the theme tune gives me the shivers... and I'm 6ft 2in. I''m definately watching it over the weekend.
Of those, I was only aware of the mainstream one that had four series, The Cuckoo Waltz. Of that one I vaguely remember the theme tune, the stars and little else. Funny how there were only 3 to 4 channels in the 80s (and half the time BBC2 was showing the test card, snooker, old films or OU broadcasts), yet we seem to have had more forgotten sitcoms than there were weeks in the decade. PS. The 2000s Misfits wasn't that bad.
If a programme didn't turn out to be a good as was intended, or not popular, it would be shown at odd times. ITV in particular would show them outside of (what we know call) prime time. They had to protect their income by putting the most popular programmes in advertiser friendly slots. Some sitcoms would find themselves moved to after the late night news or weekend afternoons. Sometimes with big gaps between episodes. It's no wonder they aren't remembered .
One thing this channel has taught me that in years gone by, there were a great many new shows produced even tho the audiences and channels were considerably smaller, even if many of those shows were forgettable. These days we're lucky to get the occasional talent(less) show, or reality show and a million repeats. Is there any point in broadcast tv these days?
Um... The audiences are significantly smaller now than back then. Hundreds of satellite and cable channels, streaming services and UA-cam... TV channels are lucky to get a tenth of the audience they did when there were only three channels and Nik internet.
@@AndrewHalliwell The viewing audiences are very much smaller now than back then I agree, but I would argue that is perhaps linked to the dross often served up. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my wording, what I meant was maximum possible audience, as in number of pairs of eyes available to watch your product. There are some 10-20million more people living in the UK now than back then. No one is willing to take a risk on making anything 'new' to try and pull in large amounts of viewers.
@@mrbrit1218 Bit wrong, there. Good Omens was a huge success( and that was an Amazon/BBC coproduction). Vox Machina’s very good, too. Taskmaster, originally a Dave original, now on channel four, the list goes on.
I’m waiting for you to cover The Happy Apple, starring Leslie Ash. I’ve searched for it and cannot find any references. It was about Nancy, a secretary working at an advertising agency. Am I the only one who remembers this?
I've noticed on a few recent ones that he says a lot of people have mentioned various shows, but he's still included them - he's already knee-deep in the No Footage Available sitcoms though, so it's not looking good. _The Happy Apple_ seems unique in being remembered by so many people, all of whom are convinced that no-one else does!
I actually thought you were going to mention the BBC 1 1990s sitcom "Side by Side", when Gareth Hunt was shown in the thumbnail. It's perhaps one to add in the future.
A Small Problem? The Goodies started that idea where there was a dictatorship of "Apart Height" where anyone under a certain height got rounded up and put away. They were out catching jockeys! The Goodies idea was a one off and madw you stop and think. Trying to make a series out of a single joke was never going to work.
I remember "The Cuckoo Waltz" quite well - as for the rest of them - *shrug*. Though, "A Small Problem" - now, I'm not getting all judgemental, but yikes, who thought that was a good idea? Jesus.
@@FranzSanchez-ky9up Agreed. Diane Keen has the kind of bone-structure that seems to confer an everlasting beauty. (See also Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy and, more recently, Natalie Imbruglia.)
OK I got one: Cuckoo Waltz. That's almost the limit of my memory recall. All I remember before that is Play Away and Pipkins. Shortly after emerging, exhausted and traumatised from a gooey void.
It might be from the seventies but does anyone remember My Wife Next Door with John Alderton and Hannah Gordon? All I remember is Alderton basically played Privet Hedges from Please Sir because that's really all he can play and Hannah played his estranged wife and they accidentally buy houses next door to each other. It's a will they get back together sort of comedy. The bit I remember most though is Hannah.......😘😉😋
@@annoldham3018 yes it was, im mistaken about rodney bewes how-ever, only 7 episodes made, thank you at least im not going crazy it really was out there
@@CdEmm50 It was in '92 and only had one season. The main character, Mulberry, is the son of death, and he is supposed to 'take' this sweet old lady. but he is too soft hearted. Hilarity did ensue.
Miss Jones and Son caused a big fuss at the time because of the subject matter (single mum) probably from the Daily Telegraph and similar newspapers! Remember the Cuckoo Waltz, well the theme tune anyway
What was that Richard Friffiths/Dennis Healy bollocks? The Bolton Evening News wet itself because Healy's 'character' was from Notlob! He even listened to tapes of Boltonians talking so he could get the accent right. He needn't have bothered. Frances DLT might have been in it too.
I remember having a huge crush on Paula Wilcox when I was a kid in the 70s.
So did I.
@@iangascoigne8231 Many men of a certain vintage do. She was attractive, but not so much that you didn't think you had a chance with her! Women like Susan George, Raquel Welch etc were just way out of your league, but Paula....
Who didn't?
Me too.
I only discovered her recently and I have a crush on her now.
Paula wilcox has definitely been a legend in her lifetime, proper stood the test of time
The whole ensemble cast of The Smoking Room were outstanding.
Y'would, though...
Only one of those I remember is the Cuckoo Waltz, mainly as I had a thing for the lovely Diane Keen.
Wasn't she in summat set in a village in the early 80s?
This channel is a treasure trove of well-deserved and rightfully forgotten garbage. I love it!
Absolutely brilliant channel one of the very best on UA-cam!! Keep up the brilliant work
Miss Jones and Son: the good old days, when a person could ring their GP late at night and speak to them personally...........and even get them to come out and treat them!
Yup, mone was Dr. Harvey
Two brilliant actors in the last scene - Jonathan Pryce & Norman Rodway. Wouldn't have minded seeing more of that.
The Cuckoo Waltz was written by Sarah Lancashire's dad Geoffrey
A Small Problem: "Are you taking the mickey?" [...tumbleweeds... ...empires rise and fall...] "What me?" [Lone embarrassed laugh from an adjoining corridor; otherwise crickets]
The secret of great comedy is ti
Glad it wasn’t just me who noticed that horrible gap
Which one was that ?
Did Gareth Hunt really make a gay Santa joke ? 😀
I’m afraid he did. (It was the 70s though).
You know, I've no idea but I can't get enough of these, thanks for sharing 👍
I remember the theme tune to The Misfits: Its not easy, livin' in the old UK, its not easy, but The Misfits do okay. Other than that and the Cuckoo Waltz I've never even heard of the rest...
Hooray for The Young Ones
I originally came to this channel thinking I was so into the obscure television out there because I had seen Metal Mickey and nobody I knew could remember it. I now know I was an amateur.
Same here. Great name, by the way...(insert 'Red Badge of Courage' wink-wink here...)
@@stephenwalker2924 Thanks. I was actually named after a cousin of my mother's but I do 'allow' the mystique to do with it.
I remember watching Metal Mickey here in New Zealand in the mid 1980s.
One thing i have noticed watching these vids....how often i come across actors and actresses that I recognise and have seen a lot over the 80s and 90s....but no idea the names lol
I'd been trying to remember the title of the sitcom which had musical numbers in it. Thanks for including it. As I remember it, it had very few songs and they were repeated ad nauseam.
I liked A Small Problem. Supposedly it generated a lot of complaints at the time because people didn't understand that it was satirical. I think it aired on BBC2, on the slot that Red Dwarf eventually filled.
The only reason I've heard of No That's Me Over Here is because Graham Chapman of Monty Python wrote for it, as did Eric Idle, in fact. Chapman also wrote two more Corbett sitcoms: Now Look Here and its sequel The Prince of Denmark.
And co-written with Barry Cryer
Cukoo waltz was very successful and fondly remembered by many
No recall on 9 of them. However the Cuckoo Waltz seemed to be on Granada for some years (not in other regions perhaps) - recalled because the actors went on to other things (David Roper turned up in EastEnders) and production improved markedly from the clip you showed (the first episode I think)
I wonder what Lewis Collins did next....
How,that is a poser...
We got it up here in Scotland.
It seemed to get a fair run on Westward Television/TSW. I'm not convinced the rest of them made it to the pointy corner of the country.
The Cuckoo Waltz was written by Geoffrey Lancashire, Sarah’s dad. He also wrote many episodes of Corrie.
I really like this channel. Commentary is just right. But even the so called bad shows remind me of how much fun the old days were .
Thanks mate.
Who's doing the voice over to your vlogs ? As the voice sounds so familiar 🤔 Thanks
I dont think I ever knew about these ones in the first place!
I recall a show called “hope it rains” about a poor man’s Madame Tussaud’s in some beach town. No idea why it sticks as it was pretty crap.
It starred Tom Bell and the actress who played Ace in Dr Who iirc.
@@Anthingll Tom Bell was brilliant at playing slightly seedy and unhinged characters. His Jack the Hat in the Krays was Superb
"And on tonight's episode of Roger Doesn't Live Here Any More, the part of Jonathan Pryce will be played by 80s-era Chris De Burgh..."
Also Cuffy, with Bernard Cribbins which was a Central sitcom, a spin-off from an ATV show called Shillingbury Tales
I think The Shillingbury Tales is currently being broadcast on one of the minor channels, possibly Talking Pictures.
Cuckoo Waltz was very popular. Deckchairs in the house.
I think The Cuckoo Waltz was quite popular. The only one on this list I remember anyway.
iconic stuff
Goodness. Jonathan Pryce. Local boy to me, though about ten years older, so we weren't at school together. They have a picture of him up in the local Wetherspoons as a local hero.
Another one to mention, Mornin’ Sarge - kind of a pre-Thin Blue Line Thin Blue Line with Robin Driscoll, Tony Haase and Paul Brooke, all of whom have appeared in Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson who was in Thin Blue Line!
The idea of a short problem sounds like it was ripped off from the Goodies episode "South Africa" (1975) where they have apartheight, discrimination of small people.
Apartheight was originally a proramme by the Goodies many years before that programme
Kate Fahy, or rather Katherine Fahy, Lady Pryce, is the wife of (Sir) Jonathan Pryce, although they didn't exactly rush into the institution of marriage having had three children together before the tying of the knot in 2015. The first in 1983, having met in 1972, nine years before Roger doesn't live here anymore.
I remember a sitcom called "Maggie and her" with Irene Handl and Julia Mckenzie (1978-79) which I quite liked really
Father Matthews Daughter starred James Bolam as a catholic priest who has to act as guardian to an orphan. I remember very little about it except it got terrible newspaper reviews... Bolam also starred as the cartoon character Andy Capp for 6 episodes in 1988.
A Small Problem looks fascinatingly bleak. I just looked it up and even the theme tune gives me the shivers... and I'm 6ft 2in.
I''m definately watching it over the weekend.
It's nice to see the general view of the Daily telegraph hasn't changed over the years.
"Garreth hunt"....cockney rhyming slang at its best ...
you certainly did well today. i'd never heard of any of them
A Small Problem has proper "Get 'Em Out By Friday" vibe about it.
Of those, I was only aware of the mainstream one that had four series, The Cuckoo Waltz. Of that one I vaguely remember the theme tune, the stars and little else. Funny how there were only 3 to 4 channels in the 80s (and half the time BBC2 was showing the test card, snooker, old films or OU broadcasts), yet we seem to have had more forgotten sitcoms than there were weeks in the decade. PS. The 2000s Misfits wasn't that bad.
If a programme didn't turn out to be a good as was intended, or not popular, it would be shown at odd times. ITV in particular would show them outside of (what we know call) prime time. They had to protect their income by putting the most popular programmes in advertiser friendly slots. Some sitcoms would find themselves moved to after the late night news or weekend afternoons. Sometimes with big gaps between episodes. It's no wonder they aren't remembered .
@@prk55 Funnily enough Diane Keene was later in an episode of the Professionals where she was shot by Lewis Collins as Bodie.
I remember really liking The Incredible Mr Tanner -- mind you, I'd forgotten all about it until today!
Wow a list of 10 I've never heard of and am ambivalent towards.
Yeah? Well I'm more ambivalent than you. Can't prove it though.
"Pie in the sky" I think.
I love this bloke's accent!
I served Diane keen in a shop I worked in a few years ago, she still look gorgeous.
Saw her in the early 70s sex comedy ‘The Sex Thief’ - quite hirsute.
@@AtheistOrphan Everyone was quite hirsute in the early 70s. There are websites and things if you are interested in that kind of stuff...😉
@@AtheistOrphan Just remembered. I should have just shouted: 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' at you...
@@stephenwalker2924 - ‘The horror, the horror.......’
One thing this channel has taught me that in years gone by, there were a great many new shows produced even tho the audiences and channels were considerably smaller, even if many of those shows were forgettable. These days we're lucky to get the occasional talent(less) show, or reality show and a million repeats. Is there any point in broadcast tv these days?
Um... The audiences are significantly smaller now than back then. Hundreds of satellite and cable channels, streaming services and UA-cam... TV channels are lucky to get a tenth of the audience they did when there were only three channels and Nik internet.
@@AndrewHalliwell The viewing audiences are very much smaller now than back then I agree, but I would argue that is perhaps linked to the dross often served up. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my wording, what I meant was maximum possible audience, as in number of pairs of eyes available to watch your product. There are some 10-20million more people living in the UK now than back then.
No one is willing to take a risk on making anything 'new' to try and pull in large amounts of viewers.
@@mrbrit1218 Bit wrong, there. Good Omens was a huge success( and that was an Amazon/BBC coproduction). Vox Machina’s very good, too. Taskmaster, originally a Dave original, now on channel four, the list goes on.
I’m waiting for you to cover The Happy Apple, starring Leslie Ash. I’ve searched for it and cannot find any references. It was about Nancy, a secretary working at an advertising agency. Am I the only one who remembers this?
No your not. It was a really good show - also starred Nicky Henson. 40 year ago this summer as I type this - 1983.
I've noticed on a few recent ones that he says a lot of people have mentioned various shows, but he's still included them - he's already knee-deep in the No Footage Available sitcoms though, so it's not looking good. _The Happy Apple_ seems unique in being remembered by so many people, all of whom are convinced that no-one else does!
I actually thought you were going to mention the BBC 1 1990s sitcom "Side by Side", when Gareth Hunt was shown in the thumbnail. It's perhaps one to add in the future.
A Small Problem? The Goodies started that idea where there was a dictatorship of "Apart Height" where anyone under a certain height got rounded up and put away. They were out catching jockeys!
The Goodies idea was a one off and madw you stop and think. Trying to make a series out of a single joke was never going to work.
I loved a small problem when I was a kid
I remember "The Cuckoo Waltz" quite well - as for the rest of them - *shrug*. Though, "A Small Problem" - now, I'm not getting all judgemental, but yikes, who thought that was a good idea? Jesus.
Yeah, Bodie from Professionals... girl was fit though
Paula Wilcox was smoking hot. ❤
Agreed, and so was Diane Keen.
@@ftumschk Even on Doctors years later (when she was in her 60's), I thought she was smoking hot. I gave up on that show after she left.
@@FranzSanchez-ky9up Agreed. Diane Keen has the kind of bone-structure that seems to confer an everlasting beauty. (See also Audrey Hepburn, Twiggy and, more recently, Natalie Imbruglia.)
OK I got one: Cuckoo Waltz. That's almost the limit of my memory recall. All I remember before that is Play Away and Pipkins. Shortly after emerging, exhausted and traumatised from a gooey void.
It might be from the seventies but does anyone remember My Wife Next Door with John Alderton and Hannah Gordon?
All I remember is Alderton basically played Privet Hedges from Please Sir because that's really all he can play and Hannah played his estranged wife and they accidentally buy houses next door to each other. It's a will they get back together sort of comedy.
The bit I remember most though is Hannah.......😘😉😋
Couple more; Days Like These (which was cancelled halfway through its run ) and Side by Side with Gareth Hunt
The first couple of 2009 Misfits series are great.
i seem to remember one called chints or chintz possibly michelle dottrice ( excuse spelling ) and rodney bewes
God yes, that was a shocker!🤣🤣🤣
@@annoldham3018 yes it was, im mistaken about rodney bewes how-ever, only 7 episodes made, thank you at least im not going crazy it really was out there
Reginald Marsh and the blind lady from Don't look know
Who remembers Dixon of Dock green
And Z cars
@6:25 I'm surprised that writing partnership doesn't even get a mention.
I'll try again, any info on if Mulberry was popular in the UK? I loved it when it played in the US.
Don't remember that, I was born 1960 and remember most comedy shows.
We only had three channels untill channel 4 appeared in early 80s.
@@CdEmm50 It was in '92 and only had one season. The main character, Mulberry, is the son of death, and he is supposed to 'take' this sweet old lady. but he is too soft hearted. Hilarity did ensue.
@@PtolemyJones ahh, ok ptolemy. I was not in England then, I was working in the middle East for a few years.
@@CdEmm50 that must have been interesting. If you get a chance see if you can stream it somewhere.
Kind of Living is/was a classic
Here's one probably not heard of Sometime, Never staring those two from the Philadelphia adverts and Happiness starring Paul Whitehouse
No, total
And complete unawareness of any of them. “Forgot about” assumes I knew about them in the first place!
I counted 11.
Miss Jones and Son caused a big fuss at the time because of the subject matter (single mum) probably from the Daily Telegraph and similar newspapers! Remember the Cuckoo Waltz, well the theme tune anyway
What about the AMAZING (rolls eyes) "According to Bex"
What was that Richard Friffiths/Dennis Healy bollocks?
The Bolton Evening News wet itself because Healy's 'character' was from Notlob! He even listened to tapes of Boltonians talking so he could get the accent right.
He needn't have bothered.
Frances DLT might have been in it too.
Richard Friffiths?
@Atheist Orphan G not an F - but you knew that.
Didn't you?
Richard Griggiths.
1:42 Didn't the Goodies do a skit similiar to that?
Good lord, how many horrors are there! Seems like they are never ending - lol!
He's scraping the bottom of the barrel with this lot lol
I remember A small problem, i cant believe they werent able to find a better comedy vehicle for Christopher Ryan as he was a pretty funny comedy actor
6:25 Graham Chapman from Monty Python?
I don't remember any of these being shown in Australia.
Quite probably.
What was the comedy when the lady kept saying phenomenal.
Be more remarkable if anyone remembered them :)
Gareth Hunt was a right "Gareth".
Why oh why does everyone in these comments remember 'The Cuckoo Waltz' and nothing else? (I also only vaguely remember that and nowt else...)
Modern Misfits was great in the first few series, it went down hill though.
Chris Ryan claims to be persecuted because of his height - you _do_ surprise me. 🤣
A Small Problem is one of the strangest concepts I've ever heard for a sitcom.
how about Rosie and Hope It Rains
A touch of spice BBC1
I only remember 1 the cuckoo waltz
Another one. The beautiful people BBC2 2008-2009.
Was that the one set in the 90s? Loved that!
@@mgthestrange9098 It was yes. It`s never been repeated from what i can find. Also Olivia Coleman was in it before she was mega famous.
I don’t think you’ve run out of the sitcoms and TV shows yet I think you’ve still got a long list to go there are a few decades that must be purged
Some classic dross 😏
Nobody's perfect with Richard Griffiths, I think the start of each show featured cartoon style images of the cast.
Shame you never did Brass ?
This is Miss Jones then canned laughter. Why?
Didn't we watch some tripe?!
you: Christopher Ryan. me: who? you: Mike from the the Young Ones. me: oh yeah (spud gun too)
He was little Dave Hedgehog
@@craigstratford5086 yes indeed!
And a Sontaran in Doctor Who, Matt Smith era.
Only ever heard of the cuckoo waltz, but they all seem awful. Hard to believe I even had a telly
all failing comedies have 1 thing in common,,they have someone who has just been in a big hit comedy show and try to cash in.
Not a word said againts MISFITS!