# British TV series with the most eye candy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090 "2015-07-02T23:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/41 "2015-07-09T03:12:55Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Poldark unfortunately is not available on DVD or instant on Netflix yet. The 2015 remake is on Masterpiece on PBS, Sunday nights at 9pm. The next episode to air is the fourth of eight. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/42 "2015-07-09T03:37:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hell, the _original_ _ **Poldark** _! The women in that series were _gorgeous_, and I never met a woman who didn’t think Robin Ellis was incredibly hot! I certainly agree with that! But I’m glad they remade the series. There are probably a dozen books if they wanted to go on for years. FYI the original Poldark, Robin Ellis, played Rev. Halse (the judge in last episode). I don’t know if he’ll be doing any other episodes. He is still IRL a fine looking man. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/43 "2015-07-09T04:45:49Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > FYI the original Poldark, Robin Ellis, played Rev. Halse (the judge in last episode). I don’t know if he’ll be doing any other episodes. He is still IRL a fine looking man. I was gobsmacked when I realized that Mrs Barnaby in the original _ **Midsomer Murders** _ was played by the same actress who played Morwenna Chynoweth in _ **Poldark** _. [![](https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/poldarkmorwena.jpg) ](https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/poldarkmorwena.jpg) [http://webspace.webring.com/people/au/um\_11922/janewymark1a.jpg](http://webspace.webring.com/people/au/um_11922/janewymark1a.jpg) Back in the '70s, I’d melt every time she came on screen! :o ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/44 "2015-07-09T04:50:06Z")
If you’ll allow Australian TV, check out [Wonderland](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2879390/reference). Everyone is insanely gorgeous, male and female\*, younger and older, lots of surfer men with no shirts on and the locations are stellar. \*_Except the actress who plays Sasha, but the character is a total cow anyway so no loss._ ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/45 "2015-07-09T08:40:40Z")
I’m seeing a theme of Summer TV here. Perhaps it’s not the season for the most intellectually stimulating works dealing with Serious History or Serious Issues of Today–but shows featuring pretty people & good production values. (_The Jewel In The Crown_ definitely has depth but the surface is quite attractive.) So I’d say Australian can count–if it lets me recommend _Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries_, streaming on Netflix. She’s a rich & beautiful semi-amateur detective fond of glamorous 1920’s attire. Beyond a certain dashing Detective Inspector, she also amuses herself with a string of attractive fellows… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/46 "2015-07-09T13:25:57Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > _Torchwood_, Eve. Er, Gwen. > _Torchwood_, Eve. Er, Gwen. > > Sorry, sorry - I know the OP said “series with the _most_ eye candy.” I’ll get hold of myself shortly and come up with something els > > _Torchwood_, Eve. > ETA: Er, Gwen. I hate Gwen so much. I hated that entire show because of Gwen and her damn nosy ways. > [@](#): > > If you don’t mind your favourite characters killed off every other season, Spooks had a fair bit of eye candy with Matthew Macfadyn, David Oyelowo, Rupert Penry Jones and Richard Armitage. SPOILERS!!! But I’ll see if I can add this. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/47 "2015-07-09T13:30:59Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > +1 Diana Rigg was brought in specifically to appeal to male viewers, or what marketing jargon at the time called “M” appeal. 😉 > > (I probably learned that here.) I saw an interview with her well after the show was over; she said that, when she was making the rounds of interviews when the series was first on, they’d ask her what the show was about: “I play a character who dresses up in black leather and beats men up.” Worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/48 "2015-07-09T14:07:52Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > “I play a character who dresses up in black leather and beats men up.” > > Worked for me. Remember **this episode**? :dubious: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxe3ueE9jU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxe3ueE9jU) :eek: :o ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/49 "2015-07-09T16:29:32Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I hate Gwen so much. I hated that entire show because of Gwen and her damn nosy ways. You monster. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/50 "2015-07-09T16:36:01Z")
There’s enough eye candy for me in this just-released promotional [photo](https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/618917799109468160). ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/51 "2015-07-09T16:49:01Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > There’s enough eye candy for me in this just-released promotional [photo](https://twitter.com/BBCOne/status/618917799109468160). : fans self : Although that mustache is redonkulous. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/52 "2015-07-09T17:22:09Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Although that mustache is redonkulous. Mary likes it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/53 "2015-07-09T18:41:51Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Mary likes it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/54 "2015-07-09T19:48:30Z")
> [@Stealth\_Bragg](#): > > “Hollyoaks” a kind of soap-lite (set in Chester) had a load of awesome totty when it was first on (about 1995 - 2000). Well worth a look at the time hubba hubba 😛 I opened the thread just to mention Hollyoaks. It used to be on at a time when there was nothing else I wanted to watch, but I didn’t care to listen to the soapy script, so I’d put some music on, get some work done, and just glance at the screen occasionally 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/55 "2015-07-09T19:52:20Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > OH MY GOD. Was there a double meaning in that movie? When she said “call me totty” was she saying call me “hotty”? > > I love that movie but I never caught that. Absolutely, and the even bigger joke was that they got Helena Bonham-Carter to voice that character. Aardman animations tend to have lots of little jokes like that. I like to think I’m the only person who noticed -and got the joke - that, in Chicken Run, the one hen that ended up “on holiday” for not laying enough eggs was called Edwina\* (don’t worry, you’re not expected to, it’s a purely parochial thing, but Uncle Google may help explain it all). \*Absolutely no connection with “totty” at all, unless you’re a Tory of a certain age and somewhat restricted outlook. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/56 "2015-07-09T20:11:50Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > \*Absolutely no connection with “totty” at all, unless you’re a Tory of a certain age and somewhat restricted outlook. Including one former PM ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/57 "2015-07-09T20:32:38Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Absolutely, and the even bigger joke was that they got Helena Bonham-Carter to voice that character. > > Aardman animations tend to have lots of little jokes like that. I like to think I’m the only person who noticed -and got the joke - that, in Chicken Run, the one hen that ended up “on holiday” for not laying enough eggs was called Edwina\* (don’t worry, you’re not expected to, it’s a purely parochial thing, but Uncle Google may help explain it all). > > \*Absolutely no connection with “totty” at all, unless you’re a Tory of a certain age and somewhat restricted outlook. Edwina Currie? ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/58 "2015-07-09T21:52:41Z")
Thus far and no Doctor Who? So many gorgeous women, and I gather the men weren’t bad if you like that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/59 "2015-07-09T22:06:53Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Thus far and no Doctor Who? My favorite has always been Leela: [http://www.chicagonow.com/geek-girl-chicago/files/2013/12/LouiseLeela.jpg](http://www.chicagonow.com/geek-girl-chicago/files/2013/12/LouiseLeela.jpg) :o ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/60 "2015-07-10T14:02:39Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Thus far and no Doctor Who? So many gorgeous women, and I gather the men weren’t bad if you like that sort of thing. Captain Jack Harkness makes me weak in the knees. And it takes a lot for an American to do that to me on British telly, with goodlooking Brits all over the place. But I do so love David Tennant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090.md?page=4)