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Whoops Baghdad. Wodehouse Playhouse. Categories: 1970s British television series by genre. British comedy television series by decade. 1970s comedy television series.
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), who insists that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet". [1] The show consisted of five series and 44 ...
A key humorous base of the series was a parody of the British class system, which permeated a range of relationships and interactions between the show's characters, such as conversations between the maintenance men and sales personnel or management. The episodes rarely featured locations outside the store, mostly being focused on the shop floor ...
Monty Python. Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) [2][3] were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, which aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974.
Doc Martin. Doc Martin is a British medical comedy-drama television series starring Martin Clunes as Doctor Martin Ellingham. It was created by Dominic Minghella [1] developing the character of Dr Martin Bamford from the Nigel Cole comedy film Saving Grace (2000). [2] The programme is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed ...
Backs to the Land. Big Boy Now! Billy Liar (TV series) Birds in the Bush. Bless Me, Father. Bless This House (British TV series) Bloomers (TV series) Bootsie and Snudge. Both Ends Meet.
Waiting for God (TV series) Waiting for God. (TV series) Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 28 June 1990 to 27 October 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management and their own families.
The Goodies were a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940–12 April 2020), Graeme Garden (b. 18 February 1943) and Bill Oddie (b. 7 July 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show from 1970 until 1982, combining sketches and situation comedy.