# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/61 "2015-07-10T15:12:44Z")
Here’s a series that hasn’t been mentioned yet: **’Allo 'Allo** There were the waitresses in the café, Helga, and the various members of the French resistances. I’ll take Michelle, thank you; “listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.” Couldn’t really say if there’s similar eye candy among the male cast members, although the way all the women threw themselves at Rene you’d think he was sex on a stick. ---
**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 10, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/62 "2015-07-10T15:24:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Here’s a series that hasn’t been mentioned yet: > > **'Allo 'Allo** > > There were the waitresses in the café, Helga, and the various members of the French resistances. I’ll take Michelle, thank you; “listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.” I was just looking at IMDB, and realized for the first time that the women had surnames like Blanc-Cheque and LeBonq. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/63 "2015-07-10T15:42:09Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I was just looking at IMDB, and realized for the first time that the women had surnames like Blanc-Cheque and LeBonq. 😛 Yeah, highbrow stuff like that. It was _Are You Being Served_ but with more Nazis. ---
**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 10, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/64 "2015-07-10T15:58:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, highbrow stuff like that. It was _Are You Being Served_ but with more Nazis. I remember Crabtree’s line when he answered the phone at the police station: “What? Your pissy is up a tree?!?” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/65 "2015-07-10T16:33:36Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > 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. Barrowman’s Scottish, really. My vote goes to Torchwood, with Burn Gorman the only real non-looker of the bunch. He is, however, my Number One choice to play a resident of Innsmouth, should they ever film _The Shadow Over Innsmouth_ ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/66 "2015-07-10T17:25:26Z")
One of the reasons I love to watch _Ripper Street_ is Matthew Macfadyen. Not only is he a looker, but he has one of those rich, velvety well-modulated voices that are my weakness. Then I saw a younger version of him in the movie _Pride And Prejudice_, and my admiration only intensified. Hubba, hubba! ---
**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 11, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/67 "2015-07-11T00:35:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 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 I was all about Martha, with those amazing smoky almond eyes. [And I love it that she actually had a bum.](https://netflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/freema-agyeman-25.jpg) ---
**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 11, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/68 "2015-07-11T01:02:14Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Here’s a series that hasn’t been mentioned yet: > > **'Allo 'Allo** > > There were the waitresses in the café, Helga, and the various members of the French resistances. I’ll take Michelle, thank you; “listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.” > > Couldn’t really say if there’s similar eye candy among the male cast members, although the way all the women threw themselves at Rene you’d think he was sex on a stick. That show was so stupid and so awesome. I used to love the two escapee airman - Fairfax and Carstairs, I think - who would pop out of ridiculous hiding places like the piano and shout “Hello!”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/69 "2015-07-11T02:59:23Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > That show was so stupid and so awesome. I used to love the two escapee airman - Fairfax and Carstairs, I think - who would pop out of ridiculous hiding places like the piano and shout “Hello!”. I still like the way it handled different languages. The airmen with English accents couldn’t understand the people with French accents, unless Michelle was around to translate. Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/70 "2015-07-11T04:02:57Z")
There’s a series on PBS called Case Histories that stars Jason Isaacs, a very handsome english actor who plays a scottish detective. I can’t understand everything the actors say, but he’s the best excuse for drooling all through the show. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/71 "2015-08-18T20:29:39Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’ve been watching a BBC series called Death in Paradise, and it struck me as having an unusual number of _really_ good looking people, for British TV that is. My no doubt biased perception has been that beauty is practically mandatory for Hollywood actors, but the Brits were far more accommodating to actors who look like normal humans. > > Is the BBC succumbing to Hollywood beauty standards? Is the series an exception because of its exotic Caribbean location? > > And where can I find more BBC eye candy? I just popped in here to say I really am enjoying this show. I love the Columbo format, which this is, but Columbo is just so dated sometimes. I love Peter Falk but I could do without some of the other stuff. Anyway thanks for starting this thread! Death in Paradise is funny and the mysteries are interesting and fun. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/72 "2015-08-18T20:34:30Z")
You’re very welcome. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/73 "2015-08-19T09:58:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I still like the way it handled different languages. The airmen with English accents couldn’t understand the people with French accents, unless Michelle was around to translate. Brilliant! It was really quite clever, surprising for a silly farce. I too thought it was ridiculous the way the women threw themselves at Rene until I realised he was the only Frenchman in the village not over 70. Not a good show for male totty at all, that. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/74 "2015-08-19T10:14:41Z")
I never watched it but my sense from trailers was it came from a music hall tradition, I guess mostly farce. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/75 "2015-08-19T20:26:10Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > I never watched it but my sense from trailers was it came from a music hall tradition, I guess mostly farce. Pretty much farce, although as SciFiSam says it was really quite clever wrt the various different languages. It was also a parody of the 1970s UK/Belgian _Secret Army_, leading to such risky bits as having Rene (the main character) in front of a firing squad, and successfully writing a comedy Gestapo officer. The level of innuendo deployed would have made Frankie Howard blush, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/76 "2015-08-19T21:02:25Z")
I didn’t get to watch it but a saw a bit of “[Breathless](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2829558/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)” and everyone is wrapped up like an expensive piece of eye candy. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Here’s a series that hasn’t been mentioned yet: > > **'Allo 'Allo** > > There were the waitresses in the café, Helga, and the various members of the French resistances. I’ll take Michelle, thank you; “listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.” > > Couldn’t really say if there’s similar eye candy among the male cast members, although the way all the women threw themselves at Rene you’d think he was sex on a stick. 'Allo! I got a heck of a lot of laughs out of that show. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/77 "2015-08-19T21:31:05Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > It was really quite clever, surprising for a silly farce. > > I too thought it was ridiculous the way the women threw themselves at Rene until I realised he was the only Frenchman in the village not over 70. > > Not a good show for male totty at all, that. > [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > I never watched it but my sense from trailers was it came from a music hall tradition, I guess mostly farce. > [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Pretty much farce, although as SciFiSam says it was really quite clever wrt the various different languages. It was also a parody of the 1970s UK/Belgian _Secret Army_, leading to such risky bits as having Rene (the main character) in front of a firing squad, and successfully writing a comedy Gestapo officer. > > The level of innuendo deployed would have made Frankie Howard blush, too 🙂 > [@Aquadementia](#): > > 'Allo! > I got a heck of a lot of laughs out of that show. You know, all over the internet there are threads about TV and movies that turn into nothing but discussions of the eye candy. Or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/78 "2015-08-20T01:10:17Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Mary likes it. Ermm, no she doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/79 "2015-08-20T01:49:58Z")
Ground Force. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-tv-series-with-the-most-eye-candy/724090/80 "2015-08-20T03:03:44Z")
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