Worst Sitcom Ever.....Allo Allo

a worthy contender tbf but there is some mighty stiff competition from that era 

Never liked that (an understatement) and never liked whatever the crap was called, based in a department store (was it "I'm Free"?

metal mickey a shocking omission

Have to say when it first came out I thought it was funny,but seeing it now it's obvious it hasn't stood the test of time

Dads army apart everything croft and perry did was dire.

Duty Free & Never The Twain were on the same night i think and had a Messi/Ronaldo type rivalry for worst ever ; you'd see one and think christ that is the worst half hour of TV ever then the other one would top it

@rob_dylan -- Dads army apart everything croft and perry did was dire.

Even in sitcoms, the quality of acting matters, and Dads Army had both Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier in the main parts to help on that front. Take them out and you're left with an awful lot of unfunny slapstick from Corporal Jones.

That said, Allo Allo and Are You Being Served? were Croft and Lloyd, not Perry. (From wikipedia) Croft and Perry wrote Dads Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi De Hi, and You Rang M'Lord. Croft and Lloyd wrote the two already condemned and several I really can't remember at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Croft_(TV_producer)#Written_with_Jeremy_Lloyd

Aunty Post     08 Aug 15 18:02 
Never liked that (an understatement) and never liked whatever the crap was called, based in a department store (was it "I'm Free"?



Are You Being Served

you guys cant watch the new "comedy" on tv nowadays,they make are you being served look like hancocks half hour

Good moaning!



Who sod that it hasn't stood the test of tomb? Doesn't everyone knee that Officer Cribtree still has an active twotter?

https://twitter.com/offcrabtree

david nobbs died today, he was the creator of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, now that was a proper sitcom

rip

Nobbs pops clogs.

last of the summer wine worst surely and it ran forever

I give you...... 'The Upper Hand'. Desperate vehicle for Joe McGann, remember him? Presumably Honor Blackman was in it purely for the money?
As a student we used to be glued to it, as much hilarity could be taken from the canned laughter which tended to bear no relation to anything that was happening on the screen.
How could it? Nothing funny ever happened, ever.

yes that was bad.........the girl whose danny dyers mrs in eastenders was in it

I'm with cardifffc here, Last of the Summer Wine was surely the most painful long runner.

Only ever seen it a couple of times and the hilarity appeared to revolve around someone old being pushed down a Yorkshire lane in a shopping trolley / whhelchair / out of control bike etc, whilst some more old people ran after him waving their arms around...

Four years on and I still can't forget the terrible Royal Bodyguard with David Jason the viewing figures say it all: Episode 1 - 8.35 million by episode 5 it was down to 2.1 million. Why on earth the BBC released it on DVD I will never know.

I've seen far worse than Allo Alo.

I thought Desmonds was bad until they did a spin off, Porkpie, as that lasted just 12 episodes to the 71 of Desmonds then clearly Channel 4 thought the same.

Allo Allo is classic British farce. Some suspiciously foreign types on this thread imo.

Took a girl to see the stage version with the TV cast at the Whitehall Theatre one evening nearly 30 years ago, and it was probably the only date where she was actually happy.

There have been lots of bad ones.  On the buses must be one of the worst.

"I shall say this only once " Michelle from Allo Allo was also in The Upper Hand

On the buses must be one of the worst.

Forgot that one rob.... excruciatingly bad.

Think you have just slated one of the best shows of its day. It was funny at the time same as Allo Allo,

Both the Germans and the French said they could never have made Allo Allo because of the war and were envious of us because we could make light hearted fun of the war

Think you have just slated one of the best shows of its day. It was funny at the time same as Allo Allo,

which is exactly the point, most sitcoms simply don't stand the test of time - love thy neighbour, anybody?

Allo Allo was dire but saved by the occasional gratuitous sexy outfit close up
Summer Wine has to be right down there, epitomised Sundays for me - the most boring day of the week by a country mile.

2 pints of lager, written by a retarded amoeba, makes terry and june look like sgt bilko

Citizen Khan

Friday Night Dinner Ok, so not the worst ever, but one of the worst of recent years surely.

Sitcoms that did pass the test of time.....
Fawlty towers
Till death us do part
Dads army(if you forgive the slapstick)
Only fools
Porridge

Is this a UK only market ??!!

It is for me.  Never seen a truly great us sitcom.  Curb your enthusiasm comes close.

Was gonna put up Golden Girls rob !!

Keeping Up Appearances

Allo Allo was genius compared with stuff like Duty Free

The WORST ONE ever was
The Thin Blue Line .
Rowan Atkinson's only failure.
It was absolutely appalling .

There was Helga ..
I saw a stage version of Allo Allo
Were the good looking Helga had
Swastikas high up on her suspender belts..
She kept showing them , and got a laugh every time,
So she did it even more --

The nineteenth hole wins hard held

Allo Allo was funny and sexy, a minor classic.

Currently working my way through my 'In Sickness & In Health' box set.

Very funny!

And there's far worse than Allo Allo out there.

Hi Di Hi was dreadful!

In sickness and in Health and til death us do part really were great, just a shame that they barely get mentioned anymore.Never seen it but I suspect love thy neighbour was sh1te.

I'll have half.

Love Thy Neighbour wasn't very sophisticated, but did a way better job than the Garnett sitcoms of making bigotry look ignorant and supporters of both the Labour Party (the white neighbour) and the Tories (the black neighbour) appear deluded.

Garnett was a hero to far too many people. The satire just washed over them. Absolutely nobody could watch the bickering blokes and their exasperated wives in Love Thy Neighbour and applaud them.

If it washed over them then that’s their problem.  Watching Alf get seething angry about stuff was well funny.  Loved his distorted logic too.

Don't get me wrong. I love Till Death... and the way Johnny Speight illustrated the lunacy of bigots when you give them free rein to explain themselves.

The trouble was, with most viewers at the time hailing Alf as a spokesman for common sense, it wasn't "their problem". Instead it was anyone who could be pigeonholed into a minority by Alf's logic who faced the problems.

Men behaving badly. Totally unfunny. The only remotely good thing about it was Lesley Ash.
Dead heat with Miranda. Big bird falls over and shows her arse. Surely only funny to big birds who fall over and show their arses?

Anyone who puts On The Buses in their list needs urgent medical attention. Duty Free was the worst

I loved "Love Thy Neighbour" I presume therefore I'm a racist ?

No just a honky

ch5 best sitcom voted by the public had allo allo in the top 10 1 place ahead of only fools and quite and  way ahead of dads army........who were these idiots  who voted

thats the standard of ch5 viewer for you

surgical spirit - is by far the worse tv show on the planet.

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The WORST ONE ever was
The Thin Blue Line .
Rowan Atkinson's only failure.
It was absolutely appalling .


Comedy is subjective, I thought it was brilliant.