1. Steptoe and Son
2. The Good Life
3. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
4. To the Manor Born
5. Are You Being Served?
Someone wrote on YouTube that an episode of Steptoe and Son was dire compared to Sanford and Son, utterly ridiculous! Sanford and Son would never have even existed had it not been for Steptoe and Son. Steptoe really was quite dark in places with a tragic undertone and a grittiness, Sanford was just your typical US sitcom that was full of obvious and larger-than-life humour. One of the other things that made Steptoe was how grim and run-down the setting was, the setting in Sanford was a lot brighter and more airy (I guess that's Los Angeles for you), it just didn't feel or look right to me.
Someone wrote on YouTube that an episode of Steptoe and Son was dire compared to Sanford and Son, utterly ridiculous! Sanford and Son would never have even existed had it not been for Steptoe and Son. Steptoe really was quite dark in places with a tragic undertone and a grittiness, Sanford was just your typical US sitcom that was full of obvious and larger-than-life humour. One of the other things that made Steptoe was how grim and run-down the setting was, the setting in Sanford was a lot brighter and more airy (I guess that's Los Angeles for you), it just didn't feel or look right to me.
Steptoe was far superior on all counts than the US 'copy'...the pathos and sad undertone didnt travel across the pond. Similarly Till Death Us Do Part was heavily sanitised in the States,,,there was never a hope in hell that All In The Family would cope with Johnny Speight's sublime scripts and characterisations
As a big fan of British Sitcoms I thought it only right I make my first post here.
I'm going to pick a top twenty five
1) Steptoe and Son
2) Fawlty Towers
3) The Royle Family
4) Only Fools and Horses
5) Dad's Army
6) Porridge
7) I'm Alan Partridge
8) Blackadder
9) Father Ted
10) Till Death Us Do Part
11) Still Game
12) The League Of Gentleman
13) Hancock's Half Hour
14) Peep Show
15) Rising Damp
16) The Mighty Boosh
17) Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
18) Bottom
19) One Foot In The Grave
20) The Young Ones
21) Operation Good Guys
22) Saxondale
23) Open All Hours
24) The Office
25) Allo Allo
Only Fools and Horses
Fawlty Towers
Dads Army
One Foot in the Grave
The Good Life
The Young Ones
Rising Damp
Birds of a Feather.
Porridge
Steptoe and Son
Have to say that I have never really got into any American sitcoms
As a big fan of British Sitcoms I thought it only right I make my first post here.
I'm going to pick a top twenty five
1) Steptoe and Son
2) Fawlty Towers
3) The Royle Family
4) Only Crap and Horses (WHY?????????)
5) Dad's Army
6) Porridge
7) I'm Alan Partridge
8) Blackadder
9) Father Ted
10) Till Death Us Do Part
11) Still Game
12) The League Of Gentleman
13) Hancock's Half Hour
14) Peep Show
15) Rising Damp
16) The Mighty Boosh
17) Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
18) Bottom
19) One Foot In The Grave
20) The Young Ones
21) Operation Good Guys
22) Saxondale
23) Open All Hours
24) The Office
25) Allo Allo
Only the British ones I like (excluded The Office as it is technically not a sitcom):
- Red Dwarf
- Not Going Out
- Blackadder
- Peep Show
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Brittas Empire
- Outnumbered
- Perfect World
- Game On
I always thought both One Foot In The Grave and Keeping up Appearances would have been improved by moments like that. Both characters would have surely had attitudes like that,but they were written in the 90s when policitical correctness came along.
I think it probably has more to do with the fact that Victor and Margaret were both depicted as being intelligent and likeable.
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2. The Good Life
3. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
4. To the Manor Born
5. Are You Being Served?
Someone wrote on YouTube that an episode of Steptoe and Son was dire compared to Sanford and Son, utterly ridiculous! Sanford and Son would never have even existed had it not been for Steptoe and Son. Steptoe really was quite dark in places with a tragic undertone and a grittiness, Sanford was just your typical US sitcom that was full of obvious and larger-than-life humour. One of the other things that made Steptoe was how grim and run-down the setting was, the setting in Sanford was a lot brighter and more airy (I guess that's Los Angeles for you), it just didn't feel or look right to me.
US Seinfeld
UK
Keeping Up Appearances
Still Game
Father Ted
Only Fools & Horses
One Foot In The Grave
Are You Being Served
US
Frasier
3rd Rock From The Sun
Friends
Everybody Loves Raymond
King of Queens
Just don't.
Steptoe was far superior on all counts than the US 'copy'...the pathos and sad undertone didnt travel across the pond. Similarly Till Death Us Do Part was heavily sanitised in the States,,,there was never a hope in hell that All In The Family would cope with Johnny Speight's sublime scripts and characterisations
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How not to live your life
Black Books
The IT Crowd
Bottom
Don't what?
I'm going to pick a top twenty five
1) Steptoe and Son
2) Fawlty Towers
3) The Royle Family
4) Only Fools and Horses
5) Dad's Army
6) Porridge
7) I'm Alan Partridge
8) Blackadder
9) Father Ted
10) Till Death Us Do Part
11) Still Game
12) The League Of Gentleman
13) Hancock's Half Hour
14) Peep Show
15) Rising Damp
16) The Mighty Boosh
17) Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
18) Bottom
19) One Foot In The Grave
20) The Young Ones
21) Operation Good Guys
22) Saxondale
23) Open All Hours
24) The Office
25) Allo Allo
Sorry
Watching
Brush strokes
Only Fools and Horses
Fawlty Towers
Dads Army
One Foot in the Grave
The Good Life
The Young Ones
Rising Damp
Birds of a Feather.
Porridge
Steptoe and Son
Have to say that I have never really got into any American sitcoms
Father Ted should be higher.
Why Only Fools and Horses? Because I like to laugh.
- Red Dwarf
- Not Going Out
- Blackadder
- Peep Show
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Brittas Empire
- Outnumbered
- Perfect World
- Game On
And as a bonus a scene from Perfect World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzGGq7nsA90
And the (first part of the) first ever episode of Game On:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqyCpoZdR_8
I think it probably has more to do with the fact that Victor and Margaret were both depicted as being intelligent and likeable.