British Comedy TV Series I've Seen (Past & Present)
These are all the ones I've seen that I really liked or half way liked.
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- CreatorMarty FeldmanBarry TookStarsAlfie BassBill FraserRobert DorningFormer Sergeant Major Claude Snudge meets up with Corporal Bootsie when they both start work at an exclusive Gentlemen's Club.The majority of the surviving episodes of series 1 & 2.
- StarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettFrank ThorntonBritish sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
- StarsJames BolamRodney BewesDon McKillopTerry and Bob have been friends since childhood. Bob is the sensible one, trying hard to get on with his job and life. Terry is the wild one, always ready to lead Bob astray.Only the surviving episodes
- CreatorJohnny SpeightStarsWarren MitchellAnthony BoothUna StubbsA working-class Cockney bigot with a biased and experienced opinion of everything shares them bluntly and carelessly.Mainly series 4-7 in color
- StarsRonnie CorbettRosemary LeachHenry McGeeNo That's Me Over Here sees Ronnie battling the relentless forces of time while struggling to keep his place in a ruthless suburban status race. Bewildered by office politics, rapidly losing the fight to retain his non-fattening centre, and belittled at every opportunity by his patronising neighbour, he's the kind of chap who gets dressed up only to be unceremoniously brought down.Only series 3
- CreatorRonald ChesneyRonald WolfeStarsAnna KarenBob GrantStephen LewisJack-the-lad bus driver and conductor Stan and Jack enjoy the female employees more than their work and Inspector Blake is relentless in his attempts to make their lives a misery.
- StarsSpike MilliganEric SykesKenny LynchA Pakistani Irishman Kevin O'Grady arrives in England and joins the workforce at a novelty objects manufacturers. He also shares digs with his factory manager. He quickly becomes bemused with British labour practices and suffers the slings and arrows of racism.
- CreatorHarry DriverVince PowellStarsIrene HandlWilfred PicklesBarbara MitchellThe series gently charts the relationship between Yorkshireman Walter Bingley and Londoner Ada Cresswell, septuagenarians who meet while Ada is visiting her late husband's grave.
- CreatorHarry DriverVince PowellStarsSidney JamesDiana CouplandRobin StewartSid and Jean struggle to understand their teen kids' progressive ways. The couple lives in London with protest-loving son Mike and trendy daughter Sally.
- CreatorHarry DriverVince PowellStarsJack SmethurstRudolph WalkerNina Baden-SemperA white working-class socialist has his world turned upside down when an educated black man moves in next door.
- StarsJames BolamRodney BewesBrigit ForsythReturning from the Army, Terry finds his best mate Bob is marrying Thelma, Terry's former partner. Their lives intertwine as Terry reintegrates, challenging the relationships between the three.
- StarsMichael CrawfordMichele DotriceJessica ForteAccident-prone Frank Spencer fails to navigate the simplest tasks of daily life, while also trying to look after his wife and baby.
- StarsJimmy JewelLarry MartynCharlie HawkinsTommy is an older man in the Autumn of his years who takes young boy Charlie under his wing.
- CreatorJeremy LloydDavid CroftStarsMollie SugdenJohn InmanFrank ThorntonThe misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.Minus the pilot
- StarsLeslie PhillipsJan HoldenYolande TurnerPR man Henry loves his wife, but can't help being a serial womanizer. In order to keep his marriage together, he leads a double life, but never manages to avoid the most awkward, farcical situations imaginable.
- CreatorRoy ClarkeStarsPeter SallisJane FreemanKathy StaffThree old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.
- StarsRonnie CorbettRosemary LeachDavid WarwickRonnie Corbett finds himself a publican when screen wife Rosemary Leach inherits "The Prince of Denmark".
- StarsClive DunnPriscilla MorganEdward HardwickeSam Cobbett's home is to be demolished and he is forced to stay with his daughter and son-in-law, with hilarious results. Somehow, he can't pull himself into the 1970's much to his son-in-law's dismay.
- StarsBob HoskinsJohn ThawPat AshtonHouse burglar George Dobbs returns home from three years in prison to find his best friend has moved into his house with his wife. But loving them both in different ways, he doesn't have the heart to turn either of them out.
- CreatorRonald ChesneyRonald WolfeStarsStephen LewisPat CoombsDerek GriffithsThis short-lived sequel to On the Buses (1969) saw Blakey move to Spain with his sister.
- StarsLeonard RossiterDon WarringtonFrances de la TourPopular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly, racist landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long-suffering tenants.
- StarsRonnie BarkerBrian WildeFulton MackayThe prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.
- CreatorVince PowellStarsKen JonesSheila FayAlison SteadmanBilly Clarkson tries to settle back into family life after being away for two years.
- StarsRichard BriersFelicity KendalPenelope KeithTom Good quits the rat race, and with wife Barbara turns the garden of their Surbiton house into a smallholding. Their neighbours, snobbish Margo Leadbetter and her conventional husband Jerry, feel variously amused, offended and impressed.
- StarsJohn CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew SachsHotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- StarsRonnie BarkerDavid JasonLynda BaronArkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville and a particularly dangerous till.
- StarsTerry ScottJune WhitfieldBeryl CookeTerry and June Fletcher are a middle-aged, middle-class couple who find themselves alone when their adult daughters Susan and Debbie leave home. But they're not along for long before Aunt Lucy moves in, bringing her garrulous mynah bird. Terry frequently hits upon an idea and acts on it in his foolhardy and obsessive manner whatever the consequences, while June remains patient and tolerant.
- StarsDavid JasonCheryl HallPeter ArmitageShorty Mepstead, a shy plumber lives in South London with his mother and brother, ladies' man Randolph.
- StarsYootha JoyceBrian MurphyNorman EshleyGeorge and Mildred Roper have just moved into a middle-class neighborhood.
- CreatorRonnie TaylorStarsDavid JasonJacqueline ClarkeRichard WilsonBritish sitcom in which happy-go-lucky character Peter Barnes comically and haphazardly tries to deal with the daily frustrations his life throws at him.
- StarsJohn InmanJosephine TewsonPeter ButterworthNeville Sutcliffe (John Inman) leaves the safety of his Blackpool fish and chip shop to take over his deceased father's seaside rock factory in Littlehampton with his step-sister Dorothy.
- StarsRichard BriersMichael GambonMichael ChesdenTwo passengers meet in reception at Gatwick airport. Although unknown to each other, they find they are on the same flight and staying in the same hotel. Two characters as different as chalk and cheese have a series of misadventures on holiday in Spain.
- StarsRonnie BarkerPatricia BrakeRichard BeckinsaleFollowing his release from Slade prison, Fletcher tries to stick to the straight and narrow, but it isn't easy.
- CreatorPeter TilburyStarsHywel BennettBelinda SinclairJosephine TewsonJames Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
- StarsTerry ScottJune WhitfieldReginald MarshTerry and June Medford are a middle aged couple who find the trials of life more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives.
- StarsJames BolamPeter BowlesChristopher StrauliA rather naive, middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff.
- StarsRonnie CorbettBarbara LottWilliam MooreA 41-year-old man is unable to leave home because of his domineering mother.
- StarsWarren MitchellDandy NicholsPatricia HayesAlf and Elsie Garnett retire to Eastbourne, so Rita and Michael Jr. become the main characters who try to keep Alf out of trouble.
- StarsJohn InmanRula LenskaGina MaherJoan Warner, a top executive, deals with sexism at work and incompetent employees while trying to balance being a mom and handling her quirky maid. Her male secretary Graham Jones helps her handle it all.
- CreatorJohn SullivanStarsDavid JasonNicholas LyndhurstRoger Lloyd PackComedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.
- StarsMollie SugdenChristopher BlakeJennifer LonsdaleIda Willis goes to her employment agency, and finds herself with a new job - that of housekeeper to Robert Price and his wife. She soon discovers the man is her son Shane, whom she gave up for adoption many years earlier.
- StarsRichard BriersHannah GordonTalla HayesRichard Briers stars as layabout journalist Travis Kent who weasels his way into lodging at Victoria (Hannah Gordon's) house.
- CreatorRichard CurtisStarsRowan AtkinsonBrian BlessedElspet GrayIn the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.
- StarsBernard CribbinsJack DouglasLinda HaydenFurther adventures of Cuffy, the tramp from the village of Shillingbury.
- StarsRichard BriersPenelope WiltonPeter EganMartin Bryce lives in a quiet suburban close with his wife Anne. He does his best to "organise" the leisure time of all of the other inhabitants of the close, running umpteen societies and doing "good works".
- StarsJulia McKenzieAnton RodgersAnn BeachPopular British sitcom about middle-aged suburban couple William and Hester Fields. Hester is suffering 'empty-nest syndrome' after their two children have left home, so she keeps trying to find new hobbies and interests.
- StarsSimon CallowBrenda BlethynBill PertweeTom Chance's life is filled with coincidences, leading to his meeting Alison and frequent wrongful arrests. Despite evidence, the Police Sergeant instructs officers not to arrest him due to the pattern of coincidences.
- StarsWarren MitchellCarmel McSharryArthur EnglishAlf and Else are getting old, Rita's left home, Else's confined to a wheelchair. Alf must now do battle with the Social Security system.
- StarsDawn FrenchJennifer SaundersRuby WaxFour women who are nothing alike end up living together in a flat in England.
- StarsRichard BriersBarbara FerrisFrank MiddlemassA country vicar moves with his family to an urban parish.
- StarsRowan AtkinsonTony RobinsonTim McInnernyIn the Tudor court of Elizabeth I, Lord Edmund Blackadder strives to win Her Majesty's favour while attempting to avoid a grisly fate should he offend her.
- StarsRalph BatesPeter BlakePeter DenyerJohn Lacey comes home one evening to discover a letter from his wife, starting with "Dear John" and informing him that she is leaving him. Lonely and now divorced, John joins a club where lonely divorced people can meet.
- CreatorJohn AntrobusStarsJames BolamKeith BarronDeborah GrantNesbitt Gunn, failed drama producer, has been moved to the lower reaches of television and now has to face up to life in the quiz game department under the watchful eye of his ruthless and tyrannical boss, Kevin Hughes.
- StarsMollie SugdenWilliam MooreDeddie DaviesThe high-powered head of personnel at a prestigious advertising agency, finds her professional and personal lives colliding when her husband takes a job as chief doorman for her company. This British series stars Mollie Sugden as personnel manager Nora and her real-life husband William Moore as her on-screen mate, George.
- StarsEmma WrayPaul BownLiza TarbuckA young couple from Merseyside and their off again/on again relationship.
- StarsRowan AtkinsonTony RobinsonHugh LaurieIn the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George amidst the fads and crazes of the time.
- StarsRonnie BarkerJosephine TewsonPhyllida LawClarence is a myopic delivery man who retires to the countryside, and goes from one mishap to another due to his short-sightedness
- CreatorPeter TilburyStarsHywel BennettAndrew CastellCaroline LangrisheAfter nearly five years away teaching in the Middle East, Shelley flies back into the UK. He's shocked to find a new world of high rent, yuppies, and wine bars--but Shelley is still Shelley--ready wit, work-shy behaviour, and all.
- StarsBrian WildeTrevor BannisterAnne RidlerSitcom focusing on a local Neighbourhood Watch group.
- StarsHannah GordonPeter EganJohn BirdBank manager (Hannah Gordon) wants to retire, but her house husband (Peter Egan) likes things the way they are, and doesn't want to go back to work.
- CreatorPaul MendelsonStarsAnton RodgersFrances WhitePaul VenablesAlec Callendar, a Pinner solicitor, meets and falls in love with Zoe Angel, a woman half his age: their relationship, as well as the ups and downs of Alec's office mates: his secretaries, Hilary and Miss Flood, and Alec's son, Jamie.Stopped watching after series 2, because I preferred Eve Matheson as Zoe. But, I have recently decided to continue watching the rest of the series soon.
- StarsRowan AtkinsonTony RobinsonStephen FryStuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.
- StarsRichard WilsonAnnette CrosbieDoreen MantleVictor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.
- StarsPatricia RoutledgeClive SwiftGeoffrey HughesA snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.
- CreatorRowan AtkinsonRichard CurtisStarsRowan AtkinsonMatilda ZieglerRobin DriscollBumbling, childlike Mr. Bean has trouble completing the simplest of day-to-day tasks, but his perseverance and resourcefulness frequently allow him to find ingenious ways around problems.
- StarsMollie SugdenJohn InmanFrank ThorntonThe staff of the defunct Grace Brothers department store reunite to run a rural hotel.
- CreatorMaurice GranLaurence MarksStarsNicholas LyndhurstVictor McGuireChristopher EttridgeBritish sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
- StarsRichard BriersAdrian EdmondsonImelda StauntonAn elderly man receives a head injury which affects his attention-span and leads him to become a devout believer in television commercials.
- StarsDawn FrenchJames FleetTrevor PeacockA boisterous female minister comes to serve in an eccentricly conservative small town's church.
- StarsRichard BriersChristopher BlakeKirsten CookeRichard Briers is Tony, a former Cultural Advisor to a South American dictator who flees back to England after a revolution. Used to being pampered and feted, he must adapt to the harsh realities of life. He lodges with his brother and sister-in-law, and gets a labouring job with his brother's landscaping firm. The comedy and drama elements focus on the conflict between his former pampered life and the harsh realities of just surviving.
- StarsMatthew CottleSamantha WomackNeil StukeThe misadventures of three twenty-something flatmates, bound together by circumstance. Mandy is sexually active, Martin is sexually inactive, and their troubled landlord Matthew never leaves the flat.
- StarsDermot MorganArdal O'HanlonFrank KellyThree misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.
- CreatorBen EltonStarsRowan AtkinsonMina AnwarJames DreyfusVarious mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot.
- StarsSteve CooganSimon GreenallFelicity MontaguA failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.
- CreatorJan EtheringtonGavin PetrieStarsRichard WilsonDavid TennantSamantha BeckinsaleGentle sitcom about the not-so-glamourous, slow-pace life of the Ravensbeck River Police.
- CreatorSally WainwrightStarsAmanda RedmanPeter DavisonSarah SmartA normal everyday family strike it rich by winning the lottery. Their life dramatically changes with their new-found wealth.
- StarsSimon PeggJessica HynesJulia DeakinFriends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.
- CreatorDylan MoranStarsDylan MoranBill BaileyTamsin GreigBernard Black runs a book shop, though his customer service skills leave something to be desired. He hires Manny as an employee. Fran runs the shop next door. Between the three of them many adventures ensue.
- StarsSean LockBenedict WongDan MershThe lives of two men sharing a flat in South London.
- CreatorSimon NyeStarsMartin FreemanPeter SerafinowiczKen MorleyThe series revolves around the store staff as they engage in a daily wisecrack battle with packs of DIY obsessed clients.
- StarsSimon DayPhilip JacksonRobert WilfortBilly Bleach is a Londoner and pub know-it-all who is relocated to Norfolk in rural England under a witness protection programme after he witnesses a gangland killing in this spinoff of the fast show
- CreatorPaul AbbottStarsDavid ThrelfallRebecca AtkinsonAlice BarryThe lives and relationships of a group of siblings and their estranged father Frank Gallagher on a rough Manchester estate.
- CreatorDominic MinghellaMark CrowdyCraig FergusonStarsMartin ClunesCaroline CatzIan McNeiceThe trials and tribulations of Martin Ellingham, a brilliant but socially challenged doctor who moves from London to the picturesque village of Port Wenn in Cornwall.
- CreatorVictoria PileStarsSally BrettonOliver ChrisOlivia ColmanFunky hospital-based sketch-comedy-drama type show.Only watched series 1
- StarsPeter KayPaddy McGuinnessLisa HammondHopeless doormen Max and Paddy leave clubland and embark on a series of wild and exciting adventures in their prized motorhome, "Easy Rider" style.
- StarsJohnny VegasGraham DuffNicola ReynoldsMoz is a drug dealer and has very strange clientele who come and go from his flat.
- CreatorJohn SullivanStarsJohn ChallisSue HoldernessDavid RossShifty car salesman Boycie and his wife Marlene leave their council estate in Peckham, London to start a new life in a rambling farmhouse in Shropshire.
- StarsChris O'DowdRichard AyoadeKatherine ParkinsonThe comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss and their grifting supervisor Jen, a rag-tag team of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.
- StarsSteve CooganJames BachmanRasmus HardikerTommy, an ex-roadie, runs a pest control biz in Stevenage post-divorce. He lives with Magz and mentors his assistant Raymond, seeing himself as a maverick dispensing wisdom.
- CreatorFred BarronStarsNicholas LyndhurstCelia ImrieRyan SampsonThe daily lives of Jimmy, his two kids and his mother in law whilst his wife is in Africa.
- CreatorDerren LittenStarsJake CanusoJanine DuvitskiTony MaudsleyBritish comedy series following holidaymakers at the Solana Resort in Benidorm. Hilarity ensues as guests try to get value for their Euros.
- StarsSimon BirdJames BuckleyBlake HarrisonFollows four friends and their antics during their final years of school.
- CreatorJames CordenRuth JonesStarsJoanna PageMathew HorneAlison SteadmanGavin and Stacey have been continuing their romance on-line and by telephone for the last six months. Now they want to be together but will their friends and family let them?
- StarsSteve CooganBernard HillLisa MillettBing, a gambler, risks his family and livelihood due to his addiction. Struggling financially and emotionally, he must overcome his gambling problem to save his relationships with wife Bernadette and son Joe, regaining what he's lost.Mainly more drama than comedy
- CreatorJesse ArmstrongSam BainStarsRoger Lloyd PackClive SwiftJane AsherTwo retired gentleman share a house together , always competing for the affections of their attractive neighbour Sally
- CreatorJames WoodTom HollanderStarsTom HollanderOlivia ColmanSteve EvetsThe misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.
- StarsRuth JonesMark HeapSteve EdgeThe hikes, arguments, heartaches, friendships and rivalries of a dysfunctional rambling club full of misfits.
- StarsSimon AmstellLinda BassettRebecca FrontA successful television presenter has doubts about the direction of his career in the business and decides to quit to start searching for something more meaningful to do with his life.
- CreatorDeep SehgalTom WareStarsSanjeev BhaskarAyesha DharkerJacob OakleyIn a comedy-drama set in the 1960s, a South Wales coal mining community is changed forever following the death of the local doctor, whose replacement comes as quite a shock to the villagers.On another site, it described it as a dramedy or light-hearted drama.
- StarsBrendan O'CarrollJennifer GibneyEilish O'CarrollA comedy centered on a loud-mouthed Irish matriarch whose favorite pastime is meddling in the lives of her six children.