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Sat 4 Oct, 2003 05:54 am
Which do you think is the best sitcom ever?
Does it agree with this list?
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1052410,00.html
I know of Sgt. Bilko, but I'm a bit too young to have caught it. As for the "best" list, there are lots I would agree with, and a couple UK shows I wasn't familiar with. I had almost forgotten 'The Good Life'. I had a boyhood crush on the wife. As for the "worst" list, thankfully I did not recognize a single show.
I don't recognize all those British sit-coms and none of the bad ones, but in general I agree. I did watch Sgt. Bilko with my daddy when I was just a little thing and then it was a rerun through the late sixties & seventies. I am surprised that Ballykissangel wasn't on that list. I loved that show.
They left out the Cosby Show, Rosanne, All in the Family, Barney Miller, Ozzie and Harriet, I Love Lucy. While I watched Phil Silvers' show avidly, I would not put it in the same class with the greatest shows of all time.
They also left out The Jeffersons, and Sanford and Son, which were also great shows.
Far too many to enumerate; but how seriously can one take a list which doesn't include the previously mentioned "I Love Lucy"?
I never knew Bilko, but I love, love, love Fawlty Towers. It's too bad so few were made. Cheers (UK) really, I had no idea, I would like to see it. I thought the american show was outstanding.
Dr. Quinn was my favorite. I still watch it.
Well, it was more like a series.
My all-time fav U.S. sitcom was Mary Tyler Moore. I still get the giggles thinking about some moments. "you're perky" "i hate perky"
For Britcoms it has to be Fawlty Towers for me. hamburger and mrs. hamburger are addicted to the series. "mr. fawlty, he is crazy"
Oh. I forgot about the Cosby Show and Barney Miller, both great shows. There was also one with Micheal J. Fox as the Type-A personality son in a Type B family. I liked that one as well.
Friends (USA) and Coupling (UK) and ManChild (UK)... I like those a lot now.
Only Fools & Horses, Fawlty Towers & Porridge from the oldies, and Friends & Scubs from the newies.
Phoenix, Bilko is still on a sky prog although I cant remember which.
Cav, Sanford and son had it's name changed from Steptoe and son (no.15 in the list) for the US market.
I think some on the list are terrible, and how can Blackadder not be on it?
I'm happy to see Seinfeld so high, surprised that Frasier is so high. A series (Cheers) and its spin-off (Frasier) both being on the top 20 is kind of amazing. (Yeah, is there a UK version of "Cheers" or was that a typo?)
Kev - indeed, how could they miss Blackadder?
"I'm as weary as a man with no legs who's just climbed Ben Nevis..."
"That plan is so cunning you could put a tale on it and call it a fox."
Sozobe, I may have misunderstood, but cheers is the same cheers you get
I like Fawlty Towers but they needed more Us sitcoms on the list.
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