# Your 5 favorite Brit-coms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910 "2006-03-26T01:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/1 "2006-03-26T01:37:45Z")
Since **Larry Mudd**'s post in the sitcom thread included some British shows, how about a thread just for those? What are your favorite Brit-coms? I realize the Brits on the board probably have at least a year’s head start on us Yanks as far as new ones go, but let’s go for it anyway. Mine (in no particular order): Blackadder (all series) Fawlty Towers The Young Ones Red Dwarf Open All Hours ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/2 "2006-03-26T01:47:34Z")
Red Dwarf Blackadder Fawlty Towers The Good Neighbors (tie) No, Honestly and My Hero ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/3 "2006-03-26T01:49:51Z")
In no particular order. Red Dwarf Black Books Monty Python BlackAdder Well, I can’t think of a 5th one at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/4 "2006-03-26T02:05:19Z")
1. Young Ones 2. Are You Being Served 3. Monty Python 4. Ballykiss Angel (I’m including it, even though it’s Irish) 5. Absolutely Fabulous ---
**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:** [March 26, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/5 "2006-03-26T02:11:12Z")
Blackadder Fawlty Towers The Thin Blue Line Solo Brittas Empire Ballykissangel I liked, but it was more Brit-ama than Brit-com. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/6 "2006-03-26T02:12:46Z")
_The Young Ones Blackadder_ (all of them) _Coupling Red Dwarf Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ ---
**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:** [March 26, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/7 "2006-03-26T02:12:49Z")
And Good Neighbors for good measure. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/8 "2006-03-26T02:27:03Z")
😃 Okay, then – Steptoe and Son The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Father Ted The Young Ones Blackadder and Red Dwarf I don’t know how I missed Blackadder the first go-round. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/9 "2006-03-26T02:31:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Ballykissangel I liked, but it was more Brit-ama than Brit-com. C’mon, I was list padding. I needed something to stretch out to five. However, you’re right. I guess Vicar of Dibley is out then too? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/10 "2006-03-26T02:37:35Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > In no particular order. > > Red Dwarf > Black Books > Monty Python > BlackAdder > > Well, I can’t think of a 5th one at the moment. On the Buses Declan ---
**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:** [March 26, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/11 "2006-03-26T02:38:12Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > C’mon, I was list padding. I needed something to stretch out to five. However, you’re right. I guess Vicar of Dibley is out then too? Nothing with Dawn French in it could ever be considered anything but comedy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/12 "2006-03-26T02:42:52Z")
Steptoe and Son The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Till Death Us Do Part The Young Ones Blackadder Fawlty Towers ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/13 "2006-03-26T03:10:20Z")
_Blackadder_ (all) _The Young Ones_ _Fawlty Towers_ _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ Does _Jeeves and Wooster_ count? ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/14 "2006-03-26T03:38:20Z")
Mine: Open All Hours Blackadder Are You Being Served? Mr. Bean Mulberry. Has anyone else heard of that last one? My cable company swithched PBS feeds one time, and I started watching it. Then they switched again, and I missed the last few episodes. It was about an older lady and the couple who took care of her. Another character was the son of the angel of death, who was supposed to “take her”, so it was a kind of comedy drama. (sorry for the hijack) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/15 "2006-03-26T03:41:14Z")
Blackadder Fawlty Towers 'Allo 'Allo The Britas Empire And I can’t decide between Red Dwarf and Spaced for my final entry. ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/16 "2006-03-26T05:42:02Z")
Fawlty Towers The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Is this out on DVD or VHS in America? I’d LOVE to find a copy of the whole series.) Blackadder The Thin Blue Line Rising Damp Monty Python’s Flying Circus (tho’ really a sketch comedy, not a Brit-com, per se) I can’t remember the name of the show offhand, but the one from the mid-80’s with the giant puppets that spewed wonderfully vicious political venom. I caught a few episodes when I was travelling in England in 86. I don’t think it ever made it in America – many of the politicos skewered on the show were British, so it would have sailed over the heads of Americans. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/17 "2006-03-26T05:53:09Z")
I believe I may have only seen about 5: Black Adder Are You Being Served Last of the Summer Wine Waiting For God As Time Goes By (not because it is hysterically funny, but because it is so well done) I have seen one or two others and Red Dwarf probably belongs on this list, but I’ve only seen 1 season of it. I have seen nearly all or at least a substantial portion of those listed. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/18 "2006-03-26T06:19:21Z")
The Office Spaced Blackadder The Royle Family (tie) The Young Ones/Bottom Honorable mention to Python, Jeeves & Wooster, and Little Britain - not quite sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/19 "2006-03-26T06:25:07Z")
Blackadder Black Books Father Ted The Office Fawlty Towers or AbFab, not sure. I leave off Monty Python ONLY because people are saying that as a sketch show it doesn’t count. Otherwise it’d be in there right after Blackadder. ---
**Author:** ![jkirkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@jkirkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkirkman)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910/20 "2006-03-26T06:36:20Z")
Have to mention the immortal Python, even though I’m not sure it is eligible. Does “Brit-com” require they be sit-coms? Anyways, Sitcom? (1) Fawlty Towers (2) Are You Being Served (3) Chef (4) To the Manor Born (5) The Good Life (Good Neighbors) Sixth would be Vicar of Dibley [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-5-favorite-brit-coms/349910.md?page=2)