[SimonSmith42]

Originally Posted by Squealer_Mahony

Futurama.

Lucy Liu people dont care about these things in 2012 let alone in 3000 lol!

Speak for yourself

[Sambda]

The Goodies
The Lovers

watched multiple episodes of both recently (for work, not pleasure).... hell...

[Justabloke]

Originally Posted by Sambda

The Goodies
The Lovers

watched multiple episodes of both recently (for work, not pleasure).... hell...

you watch old sitcoms for a job dunno whether to be jealous or to commiserate....

[lundavra]

Originally Posted by northlad

Dads Army is still the funniest sit com on TV at the moment.

Agreed, it is in a completely different class to most of the so called comedy around now. I watch any repeat of it and have the PVR record on series in case I miss them.

[lundavra]

Originally Posted by davelovesleeds

Just Good Friends,
Terry and June,
George and Mildred
On The Buses

I haven't see Just Good Friends for some time but it was very well written and acted so I would think it would still be worth watching though many are now used to well written and acted comedy. It is the type of programme that might not be as funny to someone seeing a single episode without being familiar with the whole series.

[Listentome]

Originally Posted by Warwick_Hunt

2 that are still being shown on GOLD

The Liver Birds - once you stop laughing at the strange 70s clothes, there's nothing much else to see.

Bread - dreadful, one dimensional characters when it was first shown, even worse now.

Totally agree with both of these. The acting is wretched. The actors just shout out their lines like they're in a nativity performed by 5 year olds.

Carla Lane's dialogue is totally unbelievable.

[Justabloke]

Originally Posted by Listentome

Totally agree with both of these. The acting is wretched. The actors just shout out their lines like they're in a nativity performed by 5 year olds.

Carla Lane's dialogue is totally unbelievable.

that's how liverpudlians communicate wuth each other... it s actually a very accurate rendition.

re Dad's Army. It was very funny but I don't think it's hilarious except for the odd episode... such as the German submarine one.

[davelovesleeds]

Originally Posted by sarahcs

I remember watching reruns of Not the Nine O' Clock news. Some of its segments were painful to watch, they've aged so badly.

Very dated now with references to 'coloured' people and 'poofs'

[Valentine]

Dare I say it, Monty Python...!

Also, Men Behaving Badly.

[apaul]

Don't think Python has aged. The sketches that work still do and those that didn't still don't.

[Charles II]

Only Fools & Horses, I absolutely love it but come on in this day & age...White people in Peckham?

as Del would say ''leave it out mate''

[BrambleRamble]

Originally Posted by quizzimodo

I don't think any of Carla Laine's comedies have dated badly as I never thought any of them were funny in the first place..

U got that right.

[NickLangley]

You have to remember that 1970s studio sit coms were shot multi-camera and vision mixed. This gives you a lot less control than the modern practice of shooting single camera and then editing in post production.

[Joel Robinson]

Shows set in the past or future, hairstyles are usually one of the worst anachronisms.

The writers of Dad's Army cleverly worked it into the script. In several episodes Manwaring is critical of the length of Wilson's hair.

Although to me watching I didn't think John Le Mesurier's hair was that long for a 70s haircut but it probably was by 40s standards.

[Object Z]

Space 1999 set in, er, 1999
UFO...Set in 1980
The Martian Chronicles.

etc

Most sci fi not set far enough in the future, also cheapo sci-fi productions

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Originally Posted by BrambleRamble

U got that right.

Butterflies is a classic, in an understated, touching way.

[lundavra]

Originally Posted by NickLangley

You have to remember that 1970s studio sit coms were shot multi-camera and vision mixed. This gives you a lot less control than the modern practice of shooting single camera and then editing in post production.

Though it could result in more care being taken rather than "we will sort it out in post production". Technology does not always result in a better production and can just make it easier to make a poor production.

[Listentome]

Originally Posted by Object Z

Space 1999 set in, er, 1999
UFO...Set in 1980
The Martian Chronicles.

etc

Most sci fi not set far enough in the future, also cheapo sci-fi productions

I remember back in 1990 my Dad got it on video after wanting to see it again for years. I was really looking forward to seeing it after how my Dad had bigged it up. When we watched it, even back in 1990, it looked so dated.

[Justabloke]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Lazarus

Butterflies is a classic, in an understated, touching way.

Its nothing like her other stuff though. Wasn't set in Liverpool for a start.

[Scott_P]

The early episodes of Friends have aged a lot, they are visibly "90's"

[Mrs Mackintosh]

I can just about stomach Butterflies but can't bear any of Carla Lane's other output. I hated the way her characters would do all that cod philosophising and musing into the ether. Have seen Lane interviewed a couple of times and she's as flakey and annoying as most of her characters.

[maycontainnuts]

Well granted that humour and attitudes can change over the years, but I love , for instance an 70's or 80's drama lthat looks very of it's time..The Minder, Sweeney,Saint and Professionals reruns on ITV4 are great for spottting cars, fashions,hairstyles etc ..make me feel right nostalgic.

[darkisland]

Originally Posted by sarahcs

I remember watching reruns of Not the Nine O' Clock news. Some of its segments were painful to watch, they've aged so badly.

So true. Some of the sketches (which I howled at first time around) now seem like telethons.
Long, laboured and usually for a fairly feeble tag line. Very much of its time. The current fashion for comedy seems to more for sharper, actue setup and delivery IMHO.

[jo2015]

ITV sitcoms of the eighties look very dated - they are all lit extremely brightly.

[Sambda]

Originally Posted by NickLangley

You have to remember that 1970s studio sit coms were shot multi-camera and vision mixed. This gives you a lot less control than the modern practice of shooting single camera and then editing in post production.

I'm not sure that's entirely fair as some comedies made like that still work - Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Men Behaving Badly.. The ones that date badly are the ones directly commenting on topics/personalities of the time (e.g. "Goodies"), or expecting a "gee whiz" response to what were considered racy situations at the time (e.g. "The Lovers", "Robin's Nest", "Liver Birds", "Marriage Lines", "Cuckoo Waltz", "Mixed Blessings"). Having said that, I think some of today's sitcoms which are trading on currently "edgy"/right-on topics (e.g. "Little Britain", "Grandma's House") will date even faster, and will be forgotten about in a very few years.

"Dad's Army" (for example) mostly still works. What lets some of it down is not the dating of the humour so much as (as with all David Croft sitcoms) the parading of the characters one-by-one in "funny" costumes etc. when ideas for the plot have run out. And that was crap at the time too! There's a "Dad's Army", for example, where the sole joke of an entire episode is Cpl. Jones dressed as a tree. Jeez...