Legends and Icons wrote:bloody racists what was the bold headed guy called in in sickness and in health ?

Warrem Mitchell played Alf Garnett

Bingo

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Seinfeld

The Office

The Royle Family

prob Rising Damp or Only Fools 5th - actually it is only fools, the "Cwying" episode alone seals the deal

Wonder how many of our chosen programmes would make us laugh now. Some things are just not as funny when you watch them years later - thinking particularly about The Young Ones, On The Buses, Love Thy Neighbour etc.

Agree. When i first started watching Only fools and horses and saw the episodes with the blow up dolls and Margate i could not stop laughing but when i watch them now i still find them funny but not as funny as when i first saw them.

That has aged particularly bady. Think it depends on the show, Porridge and the like are still superb. May be a bit heretic, but I don't think Fawlty Towers is all that good years after the event either.

The Young Ones is terrible now. I remember watching universally challenged at the time and was in pain laughing that much. Watching it recently it was still painful but for different reasons

Probably just the right age at the right time - Porridge still good though

The first series of Phoenix Nights was superb.
Only Fools (although I loved grandad it was better when it switched to 50 mins)
The Inbetweeners
Loved watching repeats of Man About the House & On the Buses
Some Mothers do 'ave em

It certainly was. Then Peter Kaye's ego took over.

My favourites are

Blackadder (every series, Blackadder II being the best)
Rising Damp
Porridge
Fawlty Towers
Father Ted
Citizen Smith
Dear John
The Young Ones
Only Fools and Horses (before Raquel and Cassandra joined the cast)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Red Dwarf (Up to series 6)
Steptoe and Son

Would be mine, with honourable mentions for Yes Minister/Prime Minister, 1st 3 series of Coupling, and Black Books.