The definitive UK sitcom list

From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Subject: sitcom list - doc

                       The definitive UK sitcom list
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This is supposed to be a complete list of all situation comedies that have
ever been broadcast on UK TV.
Satellite and cable channels are not included.
I don't care if they're actually funny or not.
I don't care where they were made.
Not included are sketch shows (Monty Python etc), stand-up comedy (Whose
Line Is It Anyway etc), comedy dramas (Auf Wiedersehen Pet etc), cartoons.
The line between a sitcom and a comedy drama can be rather indistinct, my
definition of a sitcom is:
  the comedy must predominate over any dramatic elements;
  the half-hour format is not the only one allowed;
  the plot should complete within one episode, though background themes may
  continue across episodes (as part of the situation);
  the situation may be defined by people or activity rather than location.
Please email me any omissions or errors.
I am: D.Budd@uk.ac.mcc  from within the UK,
  or: D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk  from the rest of the world.
The following are some where we can't even remember the name - can YOU help?
Arthur Haines  (Haynes ??)  tramp thing
Rochester with Jack Benny??  If just part of Jack Benny Show, not sitcom
funeral one, David Battley (REALLY old)
Ian Lavender as a dentist
Joanna Lumley & Jeremy Lloyd (early 70s)
TAXI spinoff

A Bit of a Do
   Group of people go through complex series of relationships
   David Jason, Nicola Pagett, Gwen Taylor
A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84)
   Prickly relationship
   Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick
A J Wentworth BA (Thames: 1982)
  School maths master and the dreaded third form
  Arthur Lowe (his last television role), Harry Andrews
A Roof over My Head (77) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Brian Rix, Lynda Baron, Francis Matthews
A Sharp Intake of Breath
   Factory//diff scenario each episode: sitcom? sketch show?
   David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson
A Soft Touch (78)
   <synopsis>
   John Flanagan, Maureen Lipman
A Touch of Spice
   2 young women start a catering company
   <cast>
A Very Peculiar Practice
   University docs: old alcy; nasty tory; manipulative feminist; nice guy
   Peter Davison, David Troughton, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn
Absolutely Fabulous (92)
   <synopsis>
   Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha,
   June Whitfield
After Henry
   Widow has daughter upstairs and mother downstairs
   Prunella Scales, Joan Sanderson, Janine Wood
Agony (79,80,81)
   About an agony-aunt
   Maureen Lipman, Simon Williams, Maria Charles
ALF {USA}
   An Alien Life Form lives with a US family
   <cast>
Alice {USA}
   Divorcee works as waitress
   Linda Lavin, Vic Morrow
All at Number 20
   Woman takes in student lodgers
   Maureen Lipman, Gabrielle Glaister
All Gas & Gaiters
   General fun'n'games with bishops etc
   Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare, William Mervyn
All in the Family {USA}
   US version of Till Death Us Do Part
   Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, Rob Reiner,
   Sherman Hemsley
Allo Allo (?,92)
   Resistance, Gestapo, everybody, eat at Rene's cafe in occupied France
   Gorden Kaye, Sam Kelly, Vicki Michelle, Carmen Silvera
An Actor's Life for Me
   An aspiring actor goes for many auditions and few jobs
   John Gordon Sinclair, Victor Spinetti
And Grandmother Makes Four  (exists?)
   (spinoff from next entry) Woman has a mother as well as 2 kids
   Wendy Craig
And Mother Makes Three (72,73)
   Woman has two kids
   Wendy Craig
And Mother Makes Five (74,76)
   spinoff from above, marries man with a child, to make it 5
   Wendy Craig
Andy Capp
   Hartlepool man: Dole, bookies, pub, snooker hall, telly
   James Bolam
Archie Bunker's Place {USA}
   Bar; spinoff from All in the Family
   Carroll O'Connor, Martin Balsam, Anne Meara
Are You Being Served
   Lots of double meanings etc in a department store
   Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard
As Time Goes By (92,93)
   Couple attempt to rekindle old flame
   Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (isn't this really a drama with comic elements?)
   Brit builders in Germany
   Jimmy Nail, Kevin Whately, Tim Healy
Bachelor Father
   A single foster father
   Ian Carmichael
Bagdad Cafe {USA}
   A slightly wacky small motel
   Whoopi Goldberg
Barney Miller {USA}
   US detectives
   Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda, Jack Soo, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Steve Landesburg,
   Ron Carey, Gregory Sierra, James Gregory
Batman {USA} [sitcom?]
   Caped crime fighter
   Adam West, Burt Ward
Benson {USA}
   Soap spin-off, Benson starts out as butler in governor's mansion
   Robert Guillaume, Rene Auberjonois
Bewitched {USA}
   Nice young couple - she's a witch!
   Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorhead, Dick Yorke(early),
   Dick Sargeant(later)
Big Boy Now! (76)
   <synopsis>
   Leslie Crowther, Fabia Drake, Ronald Lewis, Derek Farr
Big Jim and The Figaro Club ([79],81)
   Building site supervisor vs. workers   [79 was a one-off]
   Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, David John, Priscilla Morgan
Billy Bunter (just Bunter? sitcom?)
   Kid's show from the famous books
   Jimmy Edwards?
Billy Liar (73)
   Compulsive liar works at undertakers
   Jeff Rawle
Birds of a Feather (90,91,92)
   Convicts' wives
   Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson
Blackadder: see The Black Adder, Black-adder II, Blackadder The Third,
                Blackadder Goes Forth
   also: (were these series or one-offs?)
   Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (88); Blackadder's Christmas Carol (88)
Blackadder II (86)
   Elizabethan
   Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny,
   Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne
Blackadder the Third (87)
   Regency
   Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood
Blackadder Goes Forth (88)
   1st world war
   Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
Bless Me Father (78,79-80,81)
   Cynical priest and young curate
   Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri
Bless This House (73,74?,76)
   Aging father versus modern youth
   Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson
Bloomers (79)
   Resting actor works in florists
   Richard Beckinsale (his last role)
Blossom {USA}
   Girl growing up
   Miyam Bialik
Bootsie & Snudge (?,74,?)
   Employed at private club after leaving the army (cf.The Army Game)
   Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Clive Dunn
Born and Bred (78,80) [?sitcom]
   2 related S.London families, one respectable, the other not
   Max Wall, Rose Hill, James Grout, Joan Sims
Bottle Boys
   Dairy
   Brian Glover, Robin Asquith
Bottom (91)
   2 desperate morons share flat
   Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson
Brass (1 plot per episode?  if not, not a sitcom!)
   Dark satanic mills (yes I know Blake wasn't talking about cotton mills)
   Timothy West
Bread
   Scouser family
   Deborah Grant
Brothers-in-Law
   somebody said: 2 black brothers, one a policeman
   somebody else said: Richard Briers (but he's not black)
Brush Strokes (86,87,88-9,90,91)
   Decorators
   Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Howard Lew Lewis, Jackie Lye, Kim Thomson,
   Elizabeth Counsell
Budgie [sitcom?]
   Small time crook
   Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson
Butterflies (78,79,80,83)
   Housewife angst: nice hubby, 2 sons, fancies other bloke but afraid
   Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall,
   Bruce Montague
Can We Get on Now, Please? (80)
   Magistrate's court
   Sheila Steafel, Hugh Paddick
Car 54 Where Are You? {USA}
   US cops
   Fred Gwynne
Chalk and Cheese (79)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Chance in a Million
   Unlikely things happen to a man & his girlfriend
   Simon Callow, Brenda Blethyn
Charles Endell Esquire [some say comedy drama not sitcom]
   Budgie spinoff
   Iain Cuthbertson
Charles In Charge
   Male au pair
   Scott Baio
Cheers {USA}
   Boston bar
   Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Woody Harrelson, John Ratzenberger,
   George Wendt
Chelmsford 123
   Roman Britain
   Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville
Chico & The Man {USA}
   Grumpy old bigot hires chicano to work in auto repair shop
   Freddie Prinz, Jack Albertson
Chintz (81)
   Suburbia
   Michele Dotrice, Richard Easton
Citizen Smith (77,78,78-9,79)
   Innocuous trotskyite
   Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Peter Vaughan then Tony Steedman, Hilda Braid,
   Stephen Greif
City Lights
   Scots bank clerk attempts to become a writer
   Gerard Kelly
Clarence {BBC2} (88)
   Myopic man starts delivery business/delivery man retires to country
   Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, ?(DJason=gardener,MoiraFoote)
Close To Home
   Vet
   Paul Nicholas, Angharad Rhys
Coach {USA}
   College football coach deals with problems of life & players
   Craig T Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke
Colin's Sandwich (88)
   BR complaints person tries to be a writer
   Mel Smith, Louisa Rix
Come Back Mrs Noah (77-8)
   Housewife & bureaucrats accidentally launched into space
   Mollie Sugden, Ian Lavender, Donald Hewlett, Michael Knowles, Joe Black,
   Gorden Kaye
Coming Home (81) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Roger Sloman, Philip Jackson, Linda Marchal, Muriel Maddocks
Comrade Dad
   If England was a communist state...
   George Cole
Cowboys (80a,80b)
   Incompetent builders
   Colin Welland, Roy Kinnear, David Kelly
Curry & Chips
   <synopsis>
   Spike Milligan
Cuthie (?1984)
   <synopsis>
   Bernard Cribbins
Dad's Army (68,?,72,73,74,75,77)
   Home Guard
   Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck,
   Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee
Dead Ernest (82)
   Teacher dies and goes to heaven
   Andrew Sachs
Dear John
   Therapy/encounter group for singles
   Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang
Dear John USA {USA}
   Therapy/encounter group for singles
   Judd Hirsch
Designing Women [satellite only?]
   4 women in business together as designers
   Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Dixie Carter
Desmond's (....92)
   Hairdressers
   Norman Beaton, Carmen Monroe
Diana
   Brit fashion consultant moves to NY
   Diana Rigg, David Sheiner, Carol Androsky, Richard B Schull,
   Barbara Barrie
Diff'rent Strokes {USA}
   2 poor black kids adopted by rich white man
   Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain
Different World {USA}
   Cosby spinoff: daughter goes to college
   Lisa Bonet, Dawnn Lewis, Marisa Tomei, Jasmine Guy
Doctor at Large (72)
   continuation of Doctor In The House with new lead
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies
Doctor at Sea
   2 ships doctors
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies
Doctor in Charge (73)
   further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge
   Ernest Clark
Doctor in the House (69-70,70,71,?)
   General hospital mayhem
   Barry Evans, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan (1 season),
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark
Doctor on the Go (75,?76,77)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Doctor Down Under (81)
   2 Brit docs emigrate to Aus
   Geoffrey Davies, Robin Nedwell/or/George Layton
Doctor at the Top (91) [is this correct title for 'Doctors on Top' ?]
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Doctors and Nurses (79-80)
   Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff
   <cast>
Doctors on Top
   Some of the old mates from other Doctor series together again, basically
   Robin Nedwell, George Layton
Doctor's Daughters (81) [sitcom?]
   3 venerable GPs upset when practise taken over by 3 young women
   Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch
Don't Drink the Water
   Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain
   Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes
Don't Forget to Write! (77,79)
   Playwright with writer's block
   George Cole, Gwen Watford
Don't Rock the Boat
   Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries
   Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson
Don't Tell Father
   Actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor
   Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin
Don't Wait Up
   Father & son doctors share flat
   Nigel Havers, Tony Britton
Doogie Howser MD {USA}
   Genius kid becomes doctor very young
   Neil Patrick Harris
Dora
   <synopsis>
   Dora Bryan
Double First (88)
   Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances
   Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary
Dream On {USA}
   Guy keeps getting movie clips in his brain
   <cast>
Drop the Dead Donkey (?,?,93)
   TV newsroom
   Haydn Gwynne(not 93), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson, Ingrid Lacey,
   Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Stephen Tompkinson
Duty Free (84?,?)
   2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other.
   Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor,
   Carlos Douglas
Educating Archie (did this really make it to TV?)
   Ventriloquism
   <cast>
El CID (91) [sitcom? atleast2voteagainst]
   2 ex-cops retire to the Costa del Sol and do some private eyeing
   Alfred Molina(notlastseries), John Bird, Donald Churchill
Empire Road (78,79) [?sitcom]
   W.Indians & Asians in industrial inner city
   Norman Beaton
Empty Nest {USA}
   Pediatrician has 2 grown daughters (lives next door to Golden Girls!!)
   Richard Mulligan
Evening Shade {USA}(sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner
Ever Decreasing Circles
   Compulsive organiser
   Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton
Executive Stress (86,87)
   Wife gets job at same publishing firm as husband, has to pretend not
   Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer(1st ser), Peter Bowles(2nd ser),
   Paul Boyle, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell
F Troop {USA}
   US Cavalry
   Forrest Tucker, Ken Barry, Larry Storch
Fairly Secret Army
   Attempt to start private army in England home counties; Perrin spinoff
   Geoffrey Palmer
Family Ties {USA}
   Family stuff
   Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J Fox, Justine Bateman, Michael Gross
Farrington of the F.O. (86)
   British woman diplomat in banana republic
   Angela Thorne
Father Dear Father (7x?, Aus 7x?)
   Man has 2 daughters
   Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pine, Sally Conabere, Sigrid Thornton
Father's Day
   Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch
   John Alderton, Dominique Barnes,
Fawlty Towers
   Nutter runs small hotel
   John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth
Feet First (79) [?sitcom]
   Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth
   Joe Melia, ? McGann
ffizz
   Wine company
   Richard Griffiths
Fiddlers Three (91)
   Office comedy, ripoff of The Squirrels
   Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day
Filthy, Rich & Catflap
   Actor, minder, and agent
   Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer
First of the Summer Wine {BBC1} (88)
   What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth
   David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain
Foley Square {USA}
   NY DA's office
   Alex Harrington, Margaret Colin, Hector Elizondo
Foreign Bodies
   N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse
   <cast>
Forget Me Not (76) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Patricia Brake
Foxy Lady
   Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper
   Diane Keen
Frank's Place {USA}
   New Orleans restaurant run by guy from Boston
   Tim Reid, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Robert Harper, Francesca P Roberts
Freddie & Max {Thames} (90)
   Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter
   Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman
French Fields (89,90)
   French continuation of next entry
   Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther,
   Robin Kermode
Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86)
   Accountant & wife after kids have left home
   Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe
Full Stretch {ITV} (93)
   Ex-footballer in luxury limo business
   Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston (Wendy Morgan, Rowena King,
   David Howey, Clarence Smith, James Aubrey, William Armstrong)
George & Mildred (76,77,78,79)
   Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House
   Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn,
   Nicholas Bond-Owen
George & the Dragon
   <synopsis>
   Peggy Mount, Sid James
Get Back (92)
   Working class brothers who made it are hit by recession and have to
   return to the council estate
   Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison
Get Smart {USA}
   US techno-spy spoof
   Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Bernie Kopell, Edward Platt, Victor French,
   King Moody, Dick Gautier
Get Some In! (75,76,77,78)
   National Service
   Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerard Ryder, Brian Pettifer
Gilligan's Island {USA}
   7 people marooned on island
   Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Tina Louise, Jim Backus
Girls on Top
   Girls share a flat
   Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French
Going Straight (78)
   Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
Goodbye, Mr Kent (82)
   Lodger won't leave
   Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers
Grace & Favour (?,93)  {USA: Are You Being Served, Again}
   Are You Being Served spinoff: big country house
   Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith,
   Fleur Bennett, Billy Burden
Grandad (79,80)
   Old caretaker of rehearsal hall
   Clive Dunn
Green Acres {USA}
   Townies go farming
   Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram
Haggard (?,92)
   Tudorbethan spendthrift squire
   Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale
Hancock
   <synopsis>
   Tony Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour
   Morose person vs. the world
   Tony Hancock, Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield
   William Kerr, Hattie Jacques
Happy Days {USA}
   US high school kids have cool biker friend
   Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Pat Morita,
   Scott Baio, Erin Moran
Happy Ever After (76,77,78)
   Retired couple, Terry+June sequel
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
Happy Families
   Attempts to find scattered family members
   Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson
Harry & the Hendersons
   Bigfoot thing
   <cast>
Harry Worth (sitcom?)
   Single man on edge of middle age
   Harry Worth
Have I Got You ... Right Where You Want Me? (81)
   Still 'going steady' after 10 years
   Ian Lavender, Kim Braden
Head of the Class {USA}
   Bright kids have cool teacher
   Howard Hesseman, Scott Baio, Robin Givens, Billy Connolly (?!)
Hell's Bells (86)
   <synopsis>
   Derek Nimmo
Hello Cheeky (76) [sitcom?-sketches?]
   <synopsis>  from radio4
   Dick Emery?
Here's Harry
   <synopsis>
   Harry Worth
Hi-De-Hi! (79,80,81,?,83,84,85,?,87)
   Holiday camp
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(79+),
   Jeffrey Holland, David Griffin(83+?)
Hilary (84,86)
   Talk show producer's assistant
   Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody
Hogan's Heroes {USA}
   POWs do espionage
   Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Werner Klemperer, John Banner
Holding the Fort (80,81,82)
   She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer
   Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly
Home James
   Chauffeur
   Jim Davidson
Home to Roost
   Son comes to live with long-divorced father
   John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale
Honky Tonk Heroes (81)
   S London Country&Western club
   James Grout, Sheila Steafel
Hope It Rains (91,92)
   Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter
   Tom Bell, Holly Aird
Horne A'Plenty (?1950s)
   <synopsis>
   Kenneth Horne
Hot Metal (87,88)
   Tabloid circulation wars
   Richard Wilson(87), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86),
   Richard Kane
Hot l Baltimore {USA}
   Denizens of the lobby of once-grand hotel, now dilapidated
   James Cromwell, Richard Masur, Conchata Ferrell, Al Freeman Jr
House Calls {USA} (81,?)
   Young hospital administrator versus doctors
   Wayne Rogers, Lynn Redgrave, David Wayne
How's Your Father? (74)
   Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
   Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins
How's Your Father? (79,80)
   Widower with 2 teenage children
   Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming
Hugh & I
   <synopsis>
   Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
Hugh & I Spy
   <synopsis>
   Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,?77,78,79)
   The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk
   Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea
I Dream of Jeannie {USA}
   USAF pilot has attractive female genie
   Larry Hagman, Barbara Eden, Bill Daly
I Love Lucy {USA}
   Cuban nightclub bandleader married to wacky redhead
   Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance
In Loving Memory (79,80,?)
   Mother & son run funeral parlour
   Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
In Sickness and In Health
   Till Death Do Us Part spinoff
   Warren Mitchell
Inside George Webley
   Worrier
   Roy Kinnear
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (?,76,77,78,80,?)
   British army concert party in WW2 Burma
   Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes
It Takes a Worried Man (81,83)
   Mid life crisis
   Peter Tilbury, Christopher Benjamin
It's Garry Shandling's Show {USA/CAN?} (sitcom? approaches sketch/standup)
   Comedian lives in flat, has wacky neighbors
   Garry Shandling
It's Your Move
   Teenager
   Jason Bateman
Jeeves & Wooster (90,91)
   Valet saves socialite from scrapes
   Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Joannie Loves Chaachi {USA}
   Happy Days spinoff
   Scott Baio, Erin Moran
Joint Account (89)
   Female bank manager
   Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird
Joking Apart {BBC2} (93)
   Divorce
   Robert Bathurst, Fiona Gillies
Just Good Friends
   On/off relationship
   Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
Just William (early 60s)
   Richmal Crompton's famous stories
   Dennis Waterman
Just William (77,77-78)
   Richmal Crompton's famous stories
   Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford
Kate & Allie {USA}
   Two divorced mothers share apartment
   Susan St James, Jane Curtin
Keep It in the Family (80a,80b,81,82,83)
   Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters
   Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83),
   Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83)
Keeping Up Appearances (90,91)
   Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives
   Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes,
   Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90), Mary Millar(91)
Knight & Daye {USA}
   Old friend radio djs re-meet
   <cast>
L for Lester (~83)
   Incompetent driving instructor
   Brian Murphy
Lame Ducks
   Collection of misfits
   Lorraine Chase, John Duttine
Land of Hope and Gloria
   Marketing a stately home
   Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell
Last of the Baskets
   <synopsis>
   Ken Jones as heir, Arthur Lowe as butler
Last of the Summer Wine (74.....92)
   3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town
   Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde/Michael Bates/Michael Aldridge
   Mike Grady
Laura & Disorder
   Relative returns from USA
   Wendy Craig
Laverne & Shirley {USA}
   50s Milwaukee girls working at brewery: Happy Days spinoff
   Penny Marshall
Leave It to Charlie (78,79a,79b)
   Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds
   David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell
Let The Blood Run Free {Aus} (92)
   Spoof hospital soap
   <cast>
Let There Be Love (82)
   Confirmed bachelor falls in love with mother of three
   Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman
Life Begins at Forty (78,?79,80)
   40yr old becomes 1st time dad
   Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
Life with the Lyons
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Life Without George
   Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
   Carol Royle
Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (late 70s)
   domestic sitcom
   Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount
Love Thy Neighbour (?,75-76)
   Black'n'white neighbors
   Rudolph Walker
Lovely Couple (79)
   Reluctantly engaged couple
   <cast>
Lucky Feller (76)
   <synopsis>
   David Jason
Luna (86ish)
   12ish girl lives on moon
   <cast>
Maggie and Her (78,79)
   Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor
   Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl
Maid Marian & Her Merry Men [sitcom?] (?,93)
   We all knew Marian was the boss even before we watched this...
   Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson
   Wayne Morris
Major Dad {USA}
   US Marine major raises family of girls
   Gerald McRaney
Man About the House (73,74a,74b,75a,75b,76)
   Guy & 2 girls share flat
   Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox
   Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce
Marriage Lines
   Newlyweds
   Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
Married with Children {USA}
   The ultimate sleazy family
   Kathy Segal, Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Ed O'Neill
Mary {USA}
   <synopsis>
   Mary Tyler Moore
Maude {USA} (usa dates 72-3,73-4,74-5,75-6,76-7,77-8)
   All In The Family spinoff; somebody said: Domineering housewife
                        somebody else said: someone's liberal cousin
         somebody who seems to know a lot said:
         Suburban upper-middle-class outspoken politically liberal woman
                                and her 2nd/Nth marriage
   Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanaghan
   Hermione Baddeley, Adrienne Barbeau
May to December (89,90,90-1)
   Old solicitor with young girlfriend (wife in later series)
   Anton Rodgers, Leslie Dunlop(90-1), Eve Matheson(89,90)
Me and My Girl
   He's in advertising, has a daughter
   Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson
Me Mammy
   Meek son of domineering mother has domineering sexmad girlfriend
   (lots of catholic jokes)
   Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce
Me, You, and Him (92)
   3 post-uni guys
   Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nich Hancock
Meet the Wife
   <synopsis>
   Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird
Megavision
   TV company
   Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman
Men Behaving Badly  (91,92)
   Bedsit males
   Harry Enfield(91), Leslie Ash, Neil Morrisey(92)
Men of Affairs (73) [?sitcom]
   Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show
   Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell
Metal Mickey (80,81a,81b,82-3)
   Family life with a robot
   Irene Handl, Michael Stainton, Georgina Melville, Ashley Knight,
   Lucinda Bateson, Lola young, Gary Shail
Mind Your Language
   English classes for immigrants
   Barry Evans
Misfits (81)
   2 drifters sheltered by widow
   Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd
Misleading Cases
   Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases
   Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim
Miss Jones and Son (77)
   Single mum
   Paula Wilcox
Mixed Blessings (78a,78b,80)
   Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
   Murial Odunton, Christopher Blake
Mog [?sitcom]
   About a bloke called Mog
   <cast>
Moody & Pegg    (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Mork & Mindy  {USA}
   Alien lives with nice girl
   Robin Williams, Pam Dawber
Mornin' Sarge
   Loony cop-shop
   Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke
Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors
   Singing idiots fix cars
   Tony Hawkes
Mother & Son {AUS}
   Aussie senile manipulative mother
   Garry MacDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henry Szepes
Moving (85)
   Moving house
   Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
Mr Big (77a,77b)
   Criminal mastermind
   Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins
Mr Ed {USA}
   Talking horse
   <cast>
Mrs Thursday
   Charlady made chair of company
   <cast>
Mulberry
   Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart
   Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan
My Brother's Keeper
   Brothers: student and policeman
   <cast>
My Dead Dad (92)
   TV producer haunted by embarrassing father
   Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon
My Favorite Martian {USA}
   Man's room-mate is a Martian
   Bill Bixby, Ray Walston
My Good Woman (?72,73-4)
   <synopsis>
   Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims
My Honourable Mrs (75)
   <synopsis>
   Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates
My Mother the Car {USA}
   Mother rein*car*nated
   Jerry Van Dyke, Ann Southern
My Son Reuben (75) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
My Three Sons {USA}
   Single father has 3 sons
   Fred McMurray, William Frawley, William Demerest, Don Grady,
   Tim Considine, Stanley Sullivan
My Two Dads {USA}
   Girl has 2 dads!
   Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, Florence Stanley, Paul Reiser
My Wife Next Door (72)
   Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
   John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
M*A*S*H {USA}
   US army doctors in Korea
   Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, Wayne Rogers,
   Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Alan Arbus,
   McLean Stevenson(early), Harry Morgan(later)
Nearest & Dearest
   Owners of a pickle factory
   Jimmy Jewel, Hylda Baker
Nearly Departed
   Ghost
   Eric Idle
Neat and Tidy (sitcom?) {USA?}
   Guy & girl run from Mafia thru Europe on motorcycle, Elvis soundtrack
   Nick Neat, ? Tidello
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
   Tailors, Jewish&Irish. Lots of cultural jokes
   John Bluthal, Joe Lynch
Never the Twain (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,?88,?89,90,?]
   2 antique dealers with adjoining shops (were partners)  (kids engaged)
   Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies
Newhart {USA}
   Hotel in ski resort in Vermont
   Bob Newhart, Mary Frann
Nice Work (80? 89ish?)
   Academics and industrialists
   Haydn Gwynne, Warren Clarke
Night Court {USA}
   Rookie judge
   Harry Anderson, Richard Moll, Paula Warfield, John Laroquette,
   Selma Diamond(early), Markie Post(late)
Nightingales (?,93)
   Psycho nightwatchmen
   Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall, James Ellis
Nine To Five {USA}
   Secretaries
   <cast>
No Appointment Necessary (77)
   Hairdresser's shop
   Roy Kinnear, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers
No Frills (88) [?sitcom]
   Several generations of women in a family
   Kathy Staff, Katharine Schlesinger
No Job For a Lady (90,91)
   Labour Lady MP
   Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, George Baker, Paul Young, Garfield Morgan
No Place Like Home (83,84,85)
   Kids keep coming back
   William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Marcia Warren, Michael Sharvell-Martin,
   Martin Clunes, Dee Sadler, Stephen Watson, Beverley Adams, Daniel Hill
No, Honestly
   <synopsis>
   Pauline Collins, John Alderton
Nobody is Norman Wisdom (73) [?sitcom or comedy/sketch?]
   <synopsis>
   Norman Wisdom
Nobody's Perfect {ITV} (80,82)
   UK version of Maude
   Elaine Stritch, Richard Griffiths, Kim Braden, Moray Watson
Northern Exposure {USA} (92,93) [2 vote against sitcom]
   City-boy doctor fetches up in Alaska
   Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Darren E Burrows, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles,
   John Cullum, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Peg Phillips, Adam Arkin,
   Grant Goodeve, Catherine De Prume, Diane Delano
Not in Front of the Children
   Nuclear family
   Wendy Craig, Ronald Hines
Not With A Bang
   Only a few people left alive
   Josie Lawrence,
Now Look Here (73) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach
Nurses {USA} (92)
   About nurses!
   Arnetia Walker, Stephanie Hodge, Mary Jo Keenan, Ada Maris,
   Kenneth David Gilman, Carlos Lacamara, Jeff Altman
N.U.T.S. (76) [?sitcom, comedy/sketch?]
   <synopsis>
   Roy Kinnear,
Odd Man Out (77) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   John Inman, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Julian Orchard,
   Peter Butterworth
Oh Brother
   Monastery fun
   Derek Nimmo
Oh Father  (73)
   Oh Brother followup, Nimmo now a priest
   Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Derek Francis, Laurence Naismith,
   Pearl Hackney, David Kelly
Oh Happy Band (80)
   Brass band leads fight against new airport
   Harry Worth
Oh No It's Selwyn Froggit! (77,78)
   rerun just 'Selwyn Froggatt', second series just 'Selwyn'
   Utterly accident prone pillock
   Bill Maynard, Megs Jenkins
On the Buses (73)
   Bus crews
   Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis
On The Frontline
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
On the Up (90)
   Selfmade millionaire car hire magnate has trouble with social class
   Dennis Waterman, Joan Sims
One Foot in the Grave (90)
   It always goes wrong for retired Victor Meldrew
   Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Angus Deayton
One-upmanship (74,76,78) [?sitcom, more a sketch show really?]
   <synopsis>
   Richard Briers, Peter Jones
Only Fools and Horses (81,?,90,90-1)
   Market traders
   David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield, Leonard?(grandad)
Only When I Laugh (79,80,81)
   A men's ward in an NHS hospital
   James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson
Open All Hours (76,81a,81b,82,85)
   Corner shop in Bradford
   Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Our Man at St Mark's (60s)
   City vicar in country town
   Leslie Philips->Donald Sinden, Francesca Annis
Out of this World
   Half-alien child
   Maureen Flannigan
Parahandy (63ish)
   Tugboat on the Clyde
   <cast>
Pardon The Expression (66)
   One and only Coronation St spinoff
   Arthur Lowe, Betty Driver
Parker Lewis Can't Lose {USA} (?satellite only)
   High school pranks
   Corin Nemel, Abraham Benrubi
Partners (?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Perfect Scoundrels [?sitcom: amusing sometimes but 'funny' ?]
   Conmen end up doing good deeds
   Peter Bowles, that guy from the irish rm
Perfect Strangers {USA}
   American writer's greek(ish) cousin comes to stay
   Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot
Petticoat Junction {USA}
   Small rural community
   Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Baxter
Pig in the Middle (80,81)
   Husband, wife, temptress neighbor
   Liza Goddard, Dinsdale Landen(80), Joanna Van Gyseghem, Terence Brady(81)
Plaza Patrol
   Security men
   Cannon & Ball
Please Sir
   Inner city school
   John Alderton, Derek Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett
Police Squad {USA}
   Surreal/inane cop show
   Leslie Nielsen, Alan North
Porridge (74,75,76,77,78)
   Prison
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde
   Peter Vaughan, Christopher Biggins
Potter (79,80,?)
   Retired mint factory director
   Arthur Lowe (Robin Bailey after AL died), Harry H Corbett(80
Punch Drunk (93)
   Boxing in Glasgow
   Kenny Ireland, Diana Hardcastle, John Kazek
Punky Brewster {USA}
   <synopsis>
   Soleil Moon-Frye, George Gaynes(Gaines?)
Queenie's Castle
   <synopsis>
   Diana Dors
Rab C. Nesbitt {BBC} (?,?,93)
   Glaswegian life
   Gregor Fisher, Elaine C Smith, Tony Roper, Barbara Rafferty
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)   (?drama with comic touches?) (69,?,71)
   Ghost of private eye helps out with cases
   Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope
Red Dwarf (88a,88b,89,91,92)
    [no I'm not putting in Red Dwarf II etc as separate]
   Space spoof
   Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn(89-)
   Norman Lovett(88ab), Hattie Hayridge(89-)
Relative Strangers
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Rentaghost (kids - sitcom?)  (?,80,81,?)
   Bungling ghosts
   Michael Staniforth
Rep (ITV:1982)
  Struggling theatre in Northern seaside town
  Iain Cuthbertson, Patsy Rowlands, Caroline Mortimer, John Fraser,
  Brian Carter
Return Of Shelley
   Graduate still on dole
   Hywel Bennet
Rhoda {USA}
   Jewish girl in NY; MaryTylerMooreShow spinoff
   Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Lazlo Music, Nancy Walker
Rich Tea & Sympathy (sitcom?)
   Biscuit factory
   Patricia Hodge, Warren Clarke, Jean Alexander, Ray Lonnen?
Rings On Their Fingers  (78,79,80)
   Long term live-togethers finally marry
   Martin Jarvis, Diane Keen
Rising Damp (74,75,77,78)
   Bedsitland
   Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale(not78), Frances De La Tour
   Don Warrington
Robin's Nest (77,78a,78b,79,80,81)
   Bistro
   Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton, David Kelly
Roll Over Beethoven
   Rock star in big house has classical piano lessons
   Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard
Romany Jones
   Life on a mobile homes park
   Arthur Mullard
Room at the Bottom (? v.old 60s?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Room Service (79)
   Room service manager of big London hotel tries to keep order
   Bryan Pringle
Root Into Europe
   Henry Root travels in Europe
   George Cole
Roots (81)
   <synopsis>
   Stanley Meadows, Joy Shelton, Allan Corduner
Roseanne {USA}
   Mid-west family
   Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Laurie Metcalf, John Goodman
Rosie (77,78,79,81)
   Sensitive copper; followup to Growing Pains of PC Penrose
   Paul Greenwood, Ian Wilmot, Tony Haggarth
Roy's Raiders
   delivery firm
   James Grout, Sara Crowe, Rebecca Stevens
Rude Health
   Unpleasant GP
   John Wells
Rule Britannia! (75)
   <synopsis>
   Tony Melody, Richard Davies, Russell hunter, Joe Lynch, Jo Warne
Rumpole of the Bailey (78,79,83,87,88,91)
   Flamboyant/eccentric defence barrister
   Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe Bates(78-83), Marion Mathie(87-),
   Julian Curry, Jonathan Coy, Geoffrey Palmer
Screaming
   Girls all dated same guy, who turns out not to be dead after all
   Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton
Scully
   Scouse scally
   Andrew Scofield, Elvis Costello, lots of liverpudlians
Sean's Show (sitcom?)
   Sean lives in a small flat and pines for Susan
   Sean Hughes
Second Thoughts (?,92-3)
   Man might remarry if ex-wife would leave him alone
   James Bolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Mark Denham,
   Geoffrey Whitehead
Second Time Around (74)
   <synopsis>
   Michael Craig, Patricia Brake, Sheila Steafel
Seconds Out (81,81-2)
   No-hope boxer
   Robert Lindsay, Lee Montague
Seinfeld {USA} (?sitcom  ?satellite only)
   Neurotic NY standup comic
   Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
Send in the Girls (78)
   Sales promotion girls
   Annie Ross, Elisabeth Sladen, Brian Miller, Andrew Sachs
Sergeant Bilko {USA} [originally "You'll Never Get Rich"]
   US Army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool
   Phil Silvers
Seven Faces of Jim
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Edwards
Sharon and Elsie
   Secretary & typist in greeting card factory
   Brigit Forsyth
She's the Sherriff {USA}
   Woman takes over as sherriff[sp?] when husband killed
   Suzanne Sommers
Shelley (79-80,80-81,?,?90,92)
   On the dole with a degree
   Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair
Shillingbury Tales (81,?)
   Picturesque English village
   Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Bernard Cribbins
Shrinks (91) [?sitcom, I thought supposed to be drama but didn't watch]
   <synopsis>
   Bill Paterson, Yvonne Bryceland
Side by Side
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Singles
   4 people go to singles club
   Susie Blake, Judy Loe, Eamonn Boland
Sink or Swim   (80-1,81)
   Brothers living on canal boat
   Peter Davison, Robert Glenister, Sara Corper
Sitting Pretty {BBC} (92)
   Airhead returns to family when husband dies bankrupt
   Diane Bull, Heather Tobias, Alison Lomas, Vilma Hollingbury
Six More Faces of Jim
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Edwards
Sledge Hammer {USA}
   Tough cop satire
   David Rasche, Anne-Marie Martin
Slinger's Day
   Supermarket manager
   Bruce Forsyth
Small Wonder {USA?}
   Girl is really a robot
   <cast>
Snakes and Ladders (?89)
   2 people on wrong side of lines after N-S divide becomes an apartheid
   Ade Edmunson, John Gordon Sinclair
So Haunt Me (92,93)
   Typical_Jewish_mother ghost
   Tessa Peake-Jones, George Kostigan, Miriam Karlin
So You Think You've Got Troubles
   irish factory  (sitcom?)
   Warren Mitchell
Soap {USA}
   Surreal/inane things happen to family
   Billy Crystal, Robert Guillaume, Richard Mulligan, Katherine Helmond
Solo  (81,82)
   Single woman struggles for independance
   Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore (81), Elspet Gray
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em  (?,73a,73b,?,76,78)
   Wimp gets into scrapes
   Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice
Son of the Bride (73)
   <synopsis>
   Terry Scott
Sorry! (81,?)
   Guy never left home - domineering mother
   Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore
Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself
   1:Man leaves wife, moves into inherited house, punk squatter
   2:Librarian inherits house with oddball neighbors
   Robin Bailey
Sounding Brass (80)
   Brass band in deperate need of cash
   Brian Glover, Gwen Taylor
Split Ends
   Hairdressers
   Anita Dobson
Spooner's Patch (79-80,80)
   Comic policeman
   Ronald Fraser(79-80), Donald Churchill(80), Patricia Hayes
Spring and Autumn (73,?,76)
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins
Square Deal [?]
   hunk next door to yuppies, earth mother+useless bloke downstairs
   <cast>
Steptoe & Son (?,70,?)
   Rag'n'bone men
   Harry H Corbett, Wilfred Bramble
Straight Down The Middle
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Struck by Lightning (80)
   Frankenstein spoof
   <cast>
Supergran
   <synopsis>
   Gudrun Ure, Iain Cuthbertson
Surgical Spirit
   Surgeons squabble
   Nicola MacAuliffe, Duncan Preston
Sweet Sixteen (83)
   16years age difference romance twixt architect&contractor
   Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Mike Grady, Joan Blackham
Sykes (59,>,73,?74,75,76,77,78,79,?)
   <synopsis>
   Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Derek Guyler, Richard Wattis(pre75)
Tabitha {USA}
   Bewitched spinoff
   <cast>
Take A Chance (80-1)
   Theatrical digs grandly known as The Rose Marie Hotel
   <cast>
Take A Letter, Mr Jones (81)
   Career woman with male secretary
   Rula Lenska, John Inman
Take My Wife (79)
   Struggling standup comic and his agent
   Sheila Hancock, Duggie Brown, Victor Spinetti
Tales from the Poopdeck (kids - sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Helen Atkinson-Wood
Tandoori Nights (mid-80s)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Taxi {USA}
   Taxi depot antics
   Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd,
   Andy Kaufman, Tony Danza
Terry & Julian (92)
   Julian Clarey moves in with A.N.Other and camps it up (what a surprise)
   Julian Clarey, Lee Simpson
Terry & June (79,80,81,82,?)
   Dull things happen to suburban couple
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
That Beryl Marston...! (81)
   Divorced couple can't stay apart
   Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt
That Girl
   ?1: Girl moves to city, gets boyfriend
   ?2: NY girl tries to break into show business
   Marlo Thomas
That Sinking Feeling (is this really Sink Or Swim ??)
   <synopsis>
   Peter Davison, Robert Glenister
That's Love
   Lawyer and wife fall out occasionally
   Jimmy Mulville, Diana Hardcastle, Tony Slattery
That's My Boy (81)
   Cleaner discovers employer is son she gave up for adoption
   Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Jennifer Lonsdale
The 19th Hole
   Barman/dogsbody at golf club
   Eric Sykes
The Addams Family {USA}
   Extremely eccentric family, based on the cartoon strip
   Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Ted Cassidy, Blossom Rock, Lisa Loring,
   Ken Weatherwax, Jackie Coogan
The Aldrich Family
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Army Game
   National Service
   Alfie Bass
The Betty White Show {USA?}
   Betty White as a teacher
   Betty White
The Beverley Hillbillies {USA}
   Hillbillies strike oil, move to Beverley Hills
   Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer Jr, Nancy Kulp, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas
The Black Adder (84)
   Middle ages
   Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny
The Bounder (early 80s)
   Conman released from prison moves in with sister&bro-in-law
   Peter Bowles, George Cole
The Brittas Empire {BBC1} (91,92,93)
   Smeg-head manages leisure centre
   Chris Barrie, Pippa Haywood, Julia StJohn, Michael Burns, Harriet Thorpe,
   Judy Flynn, Russell Porter, Tim Marriott, Jill Greenacre
The Brothers MacGregor
   Black'n'white Liverpudlian brothers
   <cast>
The Bunkers {USA}
   US version of Till Death...
   <cast>
The Charlie Drake Show (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Charlie Drake
The Clitheroe Kid
   Snotty kid
   Jimmy Clitheroe
The Continental (The Ritz?)
   Nightclub antics
   <cast>
The Cosby Show {USA}
   Doctor has family
   Bill Cosby, Lisa Bonet, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm Jamal-Warner,
   Tempestt Bledsoe
The Cuckoo Waltz (75,?76,77)
   Hard up couple have well off lodger - there's a mother-in-law as well
   Diane Keen, Lewis Collins
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd {USA}
   Single girl in NY
   Blair Brown
<<The> Diary of a> Teenage Health Freak   [correct wording of title?]
   <synopsis>
   Daniel Peacock
The Dick Van Dyke Show {USA}
   3 comedy writers in NY
   Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam,
   Carl Reiner
The Dickie Henderson Show (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Dickie Henderson
The Dukes of Hazzard {USA}
   Young southern rural USA car nuts outwit sheriff
   Sorrell Booke, Catherine Bach, John Schneider, Tom Wopat,
   Denver Pyle, James Best, Ben Jones, Peggy Rea
The Dustbinmen
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
   Executive has breakdown
   Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yeats, John Barron
The Famous Teddy Z {USA}
   Kid accidentally gets job as agent for famous actor
   John Cryer, Alex Rocco
The Fenn Street Gang
   Please Sir spinoff
   <cast>
The Flying Nun (US, ABC 1967-70; UK in 1968, at least)
   Wing shaped habit/hat enable nun to fly! (or something equally dumb)
   Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood, Alejandro Rey,
   Shelley Morrison, Linda Dangcil
The Fosters (76,77)
   Black family, S. London
   <cast>
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air {USA}
   Philly ghetto kid moves in with rich relatives in Bel Air
   Will Smith
The Fuzz (77) [sitcom?]
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Gaffer
   Builders, or engineering firm ?
   Bill Maynard
The Ghost & Mrs Muir (on UK TV?)
   Widow moves into haunted house
   Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
   Haunted house
   Arthur English
The Glamour Girls (80)
   Sales promotion agency
   Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth
The Glums (79)
   Dad, bonehead son, girlfriend (from 50s radio Take It From Here)
   Patricia Brake, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards
The Gnomes of Dulwich
   Garden gnomes
   Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd
The Goldbergs {USA} (shown in UK?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Golden Girls {USA} (NBC:85-,86-,87-,88-,89-,90-,91-)
   Ageing single women share house
   Rue McLanaghan, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Betty White
The Good Life (75,75-,76,77)
   Self-sufficiency in suburbs
   Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
The Goodies     (sitcom?)
   Loony fix-it team
   Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
The Greatest American Hero {USA} (ABC:81,81-,82-)
   Wimp has super-suit
   William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare,
   Don Cervantes
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (87) [sitcom? several votes each way]
   Adrian Mole passes through adolescence
   Lulu, Beryl Reid, Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh
The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (75) [?sitcom]
   Gently humourous view of police life
   Paul Greenwood, Bryan Pringle
The Happy Apple
   Secretary
   Lesley Ash
The Hogan Family {USA}
   Bland family: aunt & 3 boys
   Sandy Duncan, Jason Bateman
The Honeymooners {USA} (CBS:55-,56)
   Loudmouth NY bus driver /or/ working class NYers
   Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph
The House That Jack Built (77)
   newly married couple
   Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce
The Incredible Mr Tanner (81)
   2 street entertainers, one an escapologist
   Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear, Joseph O'Conor
The Irish RM (83,84)
   Resident Magistrate no match for the Irish
   Peter Bowles, Brian Murray, Anna Manahan
The Kit Curran Radio Show
   Local radio
   Denis Lawson
The Labours of Erica
   Erica has schoolgirl list of things to achieve by age 40
   Brenda Blethyn
The Larkins
   <synopsis>
   David Kossof, Peggy Mount
The Last Song (81)
   Middle aged divorcee & young girlfriend
   Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Thomas
The Lenny Henry Show
   pirate DJ in back of cafe
   Lenny Henry
The Life of Riley
   <synopsis>
   William Bendix
The Likely Lads (mid60s, 3 series)
   2 young blokes on Tyneside
   James Bolam, Rodney Bewes
The Little World of Don Camillo (81)
   N.Italian village: communist mayor feuds with Catholic priest
   Mario Adorf, Brian Blessed, Cyril Cusack
The Liver Birds (?72,73,?,75,76,77,78,?)
   2 young girls in Liverpool
   Nerys Hughes, Polly James/Elizabeth Estensen
The Losers (78)
   Unsuccesful wrestler and his agent
   Leonard Rossiter
The Lovers (72)
   No sex before marriage
   Paula Wilcox, Richard Beckinsale
The Lucy Show {USA}
   <synopsis>
   Lucille Ball
The Magnificent Evans
   Randy Welsh photographer
   Ronnie Barker
The Many Wives of Patrick (76,77,78)
   Predicaments of a bigamist
   Patrick Cargill
The Mary Tyler Moore Show  {USA}
   Single girl in TV news bureau
   Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin McLeod, Betty White, Ted Knight,
   Valerie Harper
The Mistress (?,85,?) [sitcom?]
   Mistress-angst
   Felicity Kendal, Jack Galloway
The Monkees {USA} [sitcom? a couple votes in favour]
   Pop band adventures
   Michael Nesmith, Mickie Dolenz, Peter Tork, Davy Jones
The Munsters {USA}
   Weirdos (but nowhere near as good as The Addams Family)
   Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
The Munsters Today    {USA}
   Weirdos
   <cast>
The New[further?] Adventures of Lucky Jim
   <synopsis>
   Enn Reitel
The New Statesman
   Unscrupulous MP
   Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton
The Nutt House {USA}
   US hotel thing
   Cloris Leachman
The Odd Couple {USA}
   2 bachelors share apartment
   Tony Randall, Jack Klugman
The Old Boy Network
   spy thing
   Tom Conti
The Olympian Way (81)
   Health club
   <cast>
The Other 'Arf (80,81,?)
   Cockney girl has posh MP boyfriend
   Lorraine Chase, John standing
The Other One (77,79)
   ?2 guys meet on holiday, end up working for same comapany
   Richard Briers, Michael Gambon, ?Peter Egan
The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sergeant Bilko) (US, 1955-59 CBS)
   US army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool
   Phil Silvers
The Piglet Files (90,92)
   Inept british spies (what other kind do we have?)
   Nicholas Lyndhurst, Clive Francis, Michael Percival, Serena Evans
The Rag Trade (61...?, 77,78)
   Clothing manufacturers
   60s(BBC) Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin
   70s(ITV) Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen,
            Diane Langton
The River
   Lock keeper
   David Essex,
The Rough with the Smooth (75)
   2 writers share flat, upper vs lower class, work on radio soap
   Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 (85) [sitcom? some votes for]
   Adrian Mole in puberty
   Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Beryl Reid, Stephen Moore,
   Steven Mackintosh
The Square Leopard (80)
   Struggling young solicitor lodges with widowed mother of 5
   John Leyton
The Squirrels
   Skiving department store workers
   Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Connor
The Standard (78) [??sitcom]
   Newspaper
   Colette O'Neill, Neil Stacey, Tom Watson
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
   <synopsis>
   Anthony Newley?
The Sun Trap (80)
   Ex-pat Brits on Mediterranean island
   Terence Alexander, Joan Benham, Graham Crowden, Donald Churchill,
   Zena Walker
The Three Stooges  {USA} (sitcom?)
   Imbecilic adventures
   Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita
The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
   Bungling MI5 man
   David Jason
The Train Now Standing (?,73)
   <synopsis>
   Bill Fraser
The Two of Us (86,87,?)
   Young couple
   Nicolas Lyndhurst, Janet Dibley, Patrick Troughton(86),Tenniel Evans(87)
The Upchat Line (77)
   Fast talking bachelor sponges off everybody
   John Alderton
The Upchat Connexion (78)
   Successor to above
   Robin Nedwell
The Upper Crusts (?,73)
   <synopsis>
   Margaret Leighton, Charles Gray
The Upper Hand (?,92)
   Male housekeeper; UK version of Who's The Boss?
   Diana Weston, Joe McGann, Honor Blackman
The Very Merry Widow
   <synopsis>
   Moira Lister
The Wonder Years {USA} (sitcom?)
   Boy grows up
   Fred Savage
The Worker
   Accident prone bloke goes for new job each week
   Charlie Drake
The Young Ones
   Student house
   Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson,  Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan
There Comes a Time (85)
   Executive learns he is "about to make medical history"
   Andrew Sachs, Judy Cornwell
Thicker Than Water (81)
   Yorkshire widower with 2(3?) unmarried musical sons
   <cast>
Third Time Lucky (ITV:1982)
  Divorced couple want to remarry, but there are complications
  Derek Nimmo, Nerys Hughes, Angela Douglas, Gerald Flood
Three Up, Two Down (85,86)
   Couple+baby up, her mother + his father down. her mid class, him lower
   Michael Elphick, Lysette Anthony, Neil Stacy(86), Angela Thorne
   Ray Burdis
Three's Company {USA}
   Stateside version of Man About The House
   John Ritter, Suzanne Sommers, Joyce Dewitt
Till Death Us Do Part (6?,?,75,81,?)
   A bigot
   Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth
   Patricia Hayes
To the Manor Born (79,80,81)
   Woman has to sell stately home and move to gatehouse
   Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne
Tom, Dick, and Harriet
   <synopsis>
   Lionel Jeffries, Ian Ogilvie, Brigit Forsyth
Tripper's Day
   Supermarket manager
   Leonard Rossiter
Trouble & Strife
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Trouble In Mind
   Psychiatrist
   Richard O'Sullivan, Susan Penhaligon)
Turtle's Progress (79,80)
   Petty crooks acquire lorryload of safe deposit boxes
   John Landry, Michael Atwell
Two Old Dears (?1972-73) [?sitcom]
   <synposis>
   Joan Hickson, Wynne Clark
Two Point Four Children
   Housewife has plumber husband & nympho neighbor, fancies mystery biker
   Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen
Two Up, Two Down (79) (this is not an error for 3 up 2 down)
   Squatters in couple's new Manchester dream house
   <cast>
Two's Company (75,76,?77,78)
   American writer in London has stormy relationship with butler
   Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden
Tygo Road
   Chaotic community centre
   <cast>
Union Castle
   <synopsis>
   Stratford Johns
Up Pompeii
   Slapstick & tittilation in ancient Pompeii
   Frankie Howerd
Up The Elephant & Round The Castle
   Cockney capers
   Jim Davidson
Up The Garden Path
   <synopsis>
   Imelda Staunton
Up The Workers (73,?,76)
   <synopsis>
   Henry McGee, Lance Percival, Norman Bird
Us Girls
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Valerie {USA}
   Woman raises 3 boys whose father is away a lot coz he's a pilot (?)
   Valerie Harper, Jason Bateman
Waiting For God (9?,91)
   2 inmates kick against restrictions in an old folks home
   Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole, Janine Duvitski, Daniel Hill
Watch This Space [?series ?sitcom]
   TV advertising
   <cast> guest star Magnuus Pyke
Watching (86,?,90,?)
   A love story of sorts
   Emma Wray, Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuck
Well Anyway (76)
   <synopsis>
   John Fortune, John Bird
West End Tales (81)
   Petty crook in Soho
   Robin Nedwell
Whack-o! (60s?)
   Headmaster
   Jimmy Edwards
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?  (?72,73,74)
   The later adventures of those 2 Tynesiders
   James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
When Things Were Rotten
   Medieval
   Dick Gauthier, Bernie Koppell
Whizzkid's Guide (81)
   School life
   Arthur Mullard, Kenneth Williams, Rita Webb
Whoops Apocalypse (80s?) [sitcom?]
   Last days before the quark bomb
   John Cleese, Barry Morse, Alexei Sayle, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer,
   Richard Griffiths, Bruce Montague, David Kelly, Joe Melia
Whoops Bagdad (74or73{73ifaseeminglywellinformedpersoniscorrect}) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Frankie Howard
Who's the Boss? {USA}
   US male housekeeper.
   Tony Danza
Wilderness Road
   Down&outs in depressed area
   Robin Driscoll
WKRP in Cincinatti {USA}
   US radio
   Howard Hesseman, Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, Frank Bonner, Richard Sanders,
   Loni Anderson, Tim Reid
Worzel Gummidge
   Scarecrow
   Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs
Yanks Go Home (76) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Yes Minister (80,81,82)
   Civil service machinations
   Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Yes, Prime Minister (85-,87)
   More civil service machinations
   Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Yes, Honestly (?,76,77)
   No Honestly with different couple
   Liza Goddard, Donal Donnelly
You Must Be The Husband (87,88)
   Wife is writer of best seller steamy romance, husband makes less dosh
   Tim Brooke-Taylor, Diane Keen, Sheila Steafel, Garfield Morgan
You Rang M'Lord (?,90)
   Servants and masters
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland
You're Only Young Twice (77,78,79,81yorkshireonly?)
   Home for elderly women
   Pat Coombs, Peggy Mount, Lally Bowers
Young At Heart (80,81)
   Trauma of retirement for hard-working pottery worker
   John Mills, Meg Jenkins
Yus My Dear (76)
   mullard has a wife even thicker fatter and uglier than he is
   Arthur Mullard, Queenie Watts

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