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and also write any facts you can remember about it. No googling.
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The Strangerers.
I'll start:
The Strangerers.
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fawlty towers
short lived but quite popular series from the seventies based on a socially inept hotelier basil fawlty... |
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Chance in a million.
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sports night...
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chance in a million was class.
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the strangerers was a very shortlived sky comedy series about two aliens who came to earth. it starred jack docherty and someone else famous who i can't quite remember, possibly alexander armstrong.
i think it went out in about 1999 and was part of an attempt by sky to make homegrown product instead of relying on the simpsons. |
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i remember the name chance in a million but nothing else about it - was simon callow involved?
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Hugh and I
Black and white, mid 60's BBC1,Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd. Not bad. |
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sica dan
superb Tom Chance |
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dream stuffing
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Meet the Huggetts (5 star nap)
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Bottle Boys - so bad it was funny
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Chance was indeed a vehicle for Mr Callow
One week he had to find a nude photo of Shirley Williams |
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i don't remember meet the huggets, hugh and i or the bottle boys
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Can't remember any of them!
'Orrible, wrtten by, and starring Johhny Vaughan. Men Of The World, starring a young John Simm. |
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Don't Forget To Write
Late 70s Starred George Cole and Francis Matthews. It was good. Only ran for one or two seasons though. |
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that one with sean locke in a tower block with his weird asian roommate
can't even remember what it was called wasn't funny either. |
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Clarence
Sitting Pretty |
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'The Bottle Boys', a comedy about a milkman. Amazing that it got a second series.
The series has acquired something of a reputation as one of the worst British sitcoms ever produced. Mark Lewisohn, writing in the Radio Times Guide to Comedy observes that "ITV sitcoms had often plumbed the depths, but this was the limit", and also notes that Bottle Boys was reputedly despised by comedy executives at ITV. Furthermore, he goes on to pick Bottle Boys as his "worst ever" British sitcom. Writer Vince Powell was no stranger to working on shows that attracted a bad press, however, having created two of the most notorious comedy shows of the 1970s - Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language. The programme also made number 97 in Channel Four's "TV Hell" list show, a retrospective of television's low points of the last fifty years. A clip of Richard Davies and Robin Askwith arguing over a customer who was having trouble "with her tits" was used to demonstrate the level of humour viewers could expect. |
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What was the one with Thora Hird as a funeral director, circa late 70's?
Very funny it was. |
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ghostbusters was the one in the tower block called something like 15 floors up? i played poker with benedict wong from it once.
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in loving memory.
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My Wife Next Door
and one about garden gnomes starring Terry Scott - would have to Google to get the name of that one |
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THE LARKINS
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Mind Your Language - set in a language school. Not very funny series, main joke seeming to be - aren't foreigners funny. Can't remember who was in it.
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The guy from Dr in the House - Barry something?
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And the gorgeous french wifey - her name has gone too.
It's an age thing |
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Big Charlie was in Mind Your Language
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Naked Video
Laugh? I Nearly Paid my Licence Fee A Kick up the Eighties |
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Dear John
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FRANCOISE pASCAL!
And caps lock is annoying |
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Heil Honey, I'm Home
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun find their lives turned upside down as the Goldsteins move in next door, with hilarious consequences. |
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Nightingales with Robert Lindsay. Nobody here but us chickens.
The Ritz about a nightclub and a spin off The Continental |
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Relative Strangers
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I LOVE LUCY
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Mothers Ruin
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red dwarf
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you must be as old as me do wah
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