Over the next 10 weeks there will be one prog a week dedicated to 1 of the top 10. At the end of this process the winner will be announced.
Top 10 in no particular order are:
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
Dads Army
Vicar of Dibley
The Good Life
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools and Horses
Open All Hours
Porridge
Yes Minister
And I’m sad that Father Ted did not make it into the top 10. Only missed by one place. Surely it could easily swap with the Vic of Dib?
If it had BTW we Micks would have most likely started a voting campaign to make it no. 1 ala the Wofle Tones winning best song in the world a while back
As an American British comedy fan I have to admit that this list surprises me. I mean, I had no idea that shows like “Only Fools and Horses” were that well respected.
Of the 10 available I guess my top five would be:
Fawlty Towers
Yes, Minister
Blackadder
The Good Life
Vicar of Dibley
But then, my real favorites seem to be farther down the list.
David Dickinson is reveiwing Only Fools and Horses?!?!?
Suffering duck.
Are they trying to rig the voting down?
Whoever decided that wants taking out and poking with a sharp stick.
I still reckon that it will win, but I must protest at any complaints about Porridge and Open all Hours. Classic stuff.
I must just be a David Jason groupie!!
Only Fools and Horses is one of the most popular TV prog’s ever in Britain. It was consistently huge for more that a decade with it’s xmas shows the must see event of the season for several years running.
Yes, Minister will win, hands down obvious. And deservedly so.
Blackadder will win the ‘slightly younger people’ vote, so will be second, or possibly third.
And the last of the top three will be Fawlty Towers. Actually, that one will probably be second.
I have no idea why Vicar of Dibley is in the top 10. Not that it isn’t funny sometimes, but you may as well put in Are You Being Served or Hi De Hi if you’re gonna put Vicar of Dibley in.
I would’ve thought Ab Fab would beat out Dad’s Army too.
I agree wiht most of the comments here. Blackadder, Red Dwarf and The Young Ones while damn funny at times, don’t appeal to enough people to make them top of the list.
Thought too that Ab Fab would have been higher in the listing
Open All Hours and Porridge were pretty funny I remember but as with a lot of things, if you weren’t around at the time you’re not going to find them as good as the more recent examples of British humour.
I jump merrily on the bandwagon and cast my ‘slightly younger people’ vote for, yes, Black Adder. Almost too funny sometimes, it is. I would have liked to see League of Gentlemen there too, but I guess it’s a fairly new series and there is the merest inkling of a suggestion of a possibility that not all people may love it as much as I do.
I’m royally sick of these polls but I’ll probably end up watching at least some of the programmes. The presence of the decidedly average Vicar of Dibley in the top ten is testament to the power of middle England. Father Ted, The Royle Family, The Office and Steptoe and Son probably deserved places in the top ten and my little known favourite of recent times is Early Doors. Still, my parents would prefer The Good Life or Dad’s Army any day so I suppose it’s balanced enough. My vote would go to Fawlty Towers, with Blackadder and Yes, Minister filling the podium places.
Dammit, yes. Coupling should have been in the top ten simply for the quality of the writing - exploiting the ‘situation’ aspect of sitcoms to the absolute.
I guess if Father Ted had been a BBC show it would have been in there instead of The Vicar of Dibley (WTF?). Presumably the Beeb don’t have the rights to show it. Anyway, is the whole thing just an elaborate excuse to show more repeats?
