From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: UK SITCOM LIST   The-Z
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:20:24 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


      The definitive UK sitcom list               Updated: 92-10-06
      =============================               part The-Z 448 lines
 
      Please email me: anything missed off; any errors.
      Scope: Made anywhere, broadcast UK terrestrial TV.
      YES! I could look it all up in Halliwell, but that's no fun!
      Sitcoms only: no sketch/standup, dramatic comedy, comedy-drama
      [plot should complete in 1 episode, but background storyline
       may continue throughout series]                 NO CARTOONS
<name>  entries are ones where we can't remember the name - can YOU help?
 
The 19th Hole
   Barman/dogsbody at golf club
   Eric Sykes
The Addams Family {USA}
   Extremely eccentric family, based on the cartoon strip
   Caroline Jones, John Astin, Ted Cassidy
The Aldrich Family
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Army Game
   National Service
   Alfie Bass
The Betty White Show {USA?}
   Betty White as a teacher
   Betty White
The Beverley Hillbillies {USA}
   Hillbillies strike oil, move to Beverley Hills
   Buddy Ebsen, Max Baer Jr, Nancy Kulp, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas
The Black Adder (84)
   Middle ages
   Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny
The Bounder (early 80s)
   Conman released from prison moves in with sister&bro-in-law
   Peter Bowles, George Cole
The Brittas Empire
   Smeg-head manages leisure centre
   Chris Barrie
The Brothers MacGregor
   Black'n'white Liverpudlian brothers
   <cast>
The Bunkers {USA}
   US version of Till Death...
   <cast>
The Charlie Drake Show (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Charlie Drake
The Clitheroe Kid
   Snotty kid
   Jimmy Clitheroe
The Continental (The Ritz?)
   Nightclub antics
   <cast>
The Cosby Show {USA}
   Doctor has family
   Bill Cosby, Lisa Bonet, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm Jamal-Warner,
   Tempestt Bledsoe
The Cuckoo Waltz (75,?76,77)
   Hard up couple have well off lodger - there's a mother-in-law as well
   Diane Keen, Lewis Collins
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd {USA}
   Single girl in NY
   Blair Brown
<<The> Diary of a> Teenage Health Freak   [correct wording of title?]
   <synopsis>
   Daniel Peacock
The Dick Van Dyke Show {USA}
   3 comedy writers in NY
   Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam,
   Carl Reiner
The Dickie Henderson Show (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Dickie Henderson
The Dukes of Hazzard {USA} (sitcom? 2 votes against, 2 votes for)
   Young southern rural USA car nuts outwit sheriff
   Sorrell Brooke, Catherine Bach, John Schneider, Tom Wopat,
   Denver Pyle, James Best, Ben Jones, Peggy Rea
The Dustbinmen
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
   Executive has breakdown
   Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yeats, John Barron
The Famous Teddy Z {USA}
   Kid accidentally gets job as agent for famous actor
   John Cryer, Alex Rocco
The Fenn Street Gang
   Please Sir spinoff
   <cast>
The Flying Nun (US, ABC 1967-70; UK in 1968, at least)
   Wing shaped habit/hat enable nun to fly! (or something equally dumb)
   Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood, Alejandro Rey,
   Shelley Morrison, Linda Dangcil
The Fosters (76,77)
   Black family, S. London
   <cast>
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air {USA}
   Philly ghetto kid moves in with rich relatives in Bel Air
   Will Smith
The Fuzz (77) [sitcom?]
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Gaffer
   Builders, or engineering firm ?
   Bill Maynard
The Ghost & Mrs Muir (on UK TV?)
   Widow moves into haunted house
   Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare
The Ghosts of Motley Hall
   Haunted house
   Arthur English
The Glamour Girls (80)
   Sales promotion agency
   Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth
The Glums (79)
   Dad, bonehead son, girlfriend (from 50s radio Take It From Here)
   Patricia Brake, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards
The Gnomes of Dulwich
   Garden gnomes
   Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd
The Goldbergs {USA} (shown in UK?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
The Golden Girls {USA} (NBC:85-,86-,87-,88-,89-,90-,91-)
   Ageing single women share house
   Rue McLanaghan, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, Betty White
The Good Life (75,75-,76,77)
   Self-sufficiency in suburbs
   Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
The Goodies     (sitcom?)
   Loony fix-it team
   Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
The Greatest American Hero {USA} (ABC:81,81-,82-)
   Wimp has super-suit
   William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare,
   Don Cervantes
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (87) [sitcom? several votes each way]
   Adrian Mole passes through adolescence
   Lulu, Beryl Reid, Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh
The Perils of PC Penrose (75) [?sitcom]
   Gently humourous view of police life
   Paul Greenwood, Bryan Pringle
The Happy Apple
   Secretary
   Lesley Ash
The Hogan Family {USA}
   Bland family: aunt & 3 boys
   Sandy Duncan, Jason Bateman
The Honeymooners {USA} (CBS:55-,56)
   Loudmouth NY bus driver /or/ working class NYers
   Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph
The House That Jack Built (77)
   newly married couple
   Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce
The Incredible Mr Tanner (81)
   2 street entertainers, one an escapologist
   Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear, Joseph O'Conor
The Irish RM (83,84)
   Resident Magistrate no match for the Irish
   Peter Bowles, Brian Murray, Anna Manahan
The Kit Curran Radio Show
   Local radio
   Denis Lawson
The Labours of Erica
   Erica has schoolgirl list of things to achieve by age 40
   Brenda Blethyn
The Larkins
   <synopsis>
   David Kossof, Peggy Mount
The Lenny Henry Show
   pirate DJ in back of cafe
   Lenny Henry
The Life of Riley
   <synopsis>
   William Bendix
The Likely Lads (mid60s, 3 series)
   2 young blokes on Tyneside
   James Bolam, Rodney Bewes
The Little World of Don Camillo (81)
   N.Italian village: communist mayor feuds with Catholic priest
   Mario Adorf, Brian Blessed, Cyril Cusack
The Liver Birds (?72,73,?,75,76,77,78,?)
   2 young girls in Liverpool
   Nerys Hughes, Polly James/Elizabeth Estensen
The Losers (78)
   Unsuccesful wrestler and his agent
   Leonard Rossiter
The Lovers (72)
   No sex before marriage
   Paula Wilcox, Richard Beckinsale
The Lucy Show {USA}
   <synopsis>
   Lucille Ball
The Magnificent Evans
   Randy Welsh photographer
   Ronnie Barker
The Many Wives of Patrick (76,77,78)
   Predicaments of a bigamist
   Patrick Cargill
The Mary Tyler Moore Show  {USA}
   Single girl in TV news bureau
   Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Gavin McLeod, Betty White, Ted Knight,
   Valerie Harper
The Mistress (?,85,?) [sitcom?]
   Mistress-angst
   Felicity Kendal, Jack Galloway
The Monkees {USA} [sitcom? a couple votes in favour]
   Pop band adventures
   Michael Nesmith, Mickie Dolenz, Peter Tork, Davy Jones
The Munsters {USA}
   Weirdos (but nowhere near as good as The Addams Family)
   Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis
The Munsters Today    {USA}
   Weirdos
   <cast>
The New[further?] Adventures of Lucky Jim
   <synopsis>
   Enn Reitel
The New Statesman
   Unscrupulous MP
   Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton
The Nutt House {USA}
   US hotel thing
   Cloris Leachman
The Odd Couple {USA}
   2 bachelors share apartment
   Tony Randall, Jack Klugman
The Old Boy Network
   spy thing
   Tom Conti
The Olympian Way (81)
   Health club
   <cast>
The Other 'Arf (80,81,?)
   Cockney girl has posh MP boyfriend
   Lorraine Chase, John standing
The Other One (77,79)
   ?2 guys meet on holiday, end up working for same comapany
   Richard Briers, Michael Gambon, ?Peter Egan
The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sergeant Bilko) (US, 1955-59 CBS)
   US army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool
   Phil Silvers
The Piglet Files (90,92)
   Inept british spies (what other kind do we have?)
   Nicholas Lyndhurst, Clive Francis, Michael Percival, Serena Evans
The Rag Trade (61...?, 77,78)
   Clothing manufacturers
   60s(BBC) Reg Varney, Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin
   70s(ITV) Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin, Christopher Beeny, Anna Karen,
            Diane Langton
The River
   Lock keeper
   David Essex,
The Rough with the Smooth (75)
   2 writers share flat, upper vs lower class, work on radio soap
   Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 (85) [sitcom? some votes for]
   Adrian Mole in puberty
   Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Beryl Reid, Stephen Moore,
   Steven Mackintosh
The Square Leopard (80)
   Struggling young solicitor lodges with widowed mother of 5
   John Leyton
The Squirrels
   Skiving department store workers
   Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Connor
The Standard (78) [??sitcom]
   Newspaper
   Colette O'Neill, Neil Stacey, Tom Watson
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
   <synopsis>
   Anthony Newley?
The Sun Trap (80)
   Ex-pat Brits on Mediterranean island
   Terence Alexander, Joan Benham, Graham Crowden, Donald Churchill,
   Zena Walker
The Three Stooges  {USA} (sitcom?)
   Imbecilic adventures
   Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita
The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
   Bungling MI5 man
   David Jason
The Train Now Standing (?,73)
   <synopsis>
   Bill Fraser
The Two of Us
   Young couple
   Nicolas Lyndhurst, Janet Dibley, Patrick Troughton
The Upchat Line (77)
   Fast talking bachelor sponges off everybody
   John Alderton
The Upchat Connexion (78)
   Successor to above
   Robin Nedwell
The Upper Crusts (?,73)
   <synopsis>
   Margaret Leighton, Charles Gray
The Upper Hand    (is this a UK version of Who's The Boss or vice-versa?)
   Male housekeeper
   Diana Weston, Joe McGann, Honor Blackman
The Very Merry Widow
   <synopsis>
   Moira Lister
The Wonder Years {USA} (sitcom?)
   Boy grows up
   Fred Savage
The Worker
   Accident prone bloke goes for new job each week
   Charlie Drake
The Young Ones
   Student house
   Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson,  Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan
There Comes a Time (85)
   Executive learns he is "about to make medical history"
   Andrew Sachs, Judy Cornwell
Thicker Than Water (81)
   Yorkshire widower with 2(3?) unmarried musical sons
   <cast>
Three Up, Two Down (85,86)
   Couple+baby up, her mother + his father down. her mid class, him lower
   Michael Elphick, Lysette Anthony, Neil Stacy(86), Angela Thorne
   Ray Burdis
Three's Company {USA}
   Stateside version of Man About The House
   John Ritter, Suzanne Sommers, Joyce Dewitt
Till Death Us Do Part (6?,?,75,81,?)
   A bigot
   Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth
   Patricia Hayes
To the Manor Born (79,80,81)
   Woman has to sell stately home and move to gatehouse
   Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne
Tom, Dick, and Harriet
   <synopsis>
   Lionel Jeffries, Ian Ogilvie, Brigit Forsyth
Tripper's Day
   Supermarket manager
   Leonard Rossiter
Trouble & Strife
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Trouble In Mind
   Psychiatrist
   Richard O'Sullivan, Susan Penhaligon)
Turtle's Progress (79,80)
   Petty crooks acquire lorryload of safe deposit boxes
   John Landry, Michael Atwell
Two Old Dears (?1972-73) [?sitcom]
   <synposis>
   Joan Hickson, Wynne Clark
Two Point Four Children
   Housewife has plumber husband & nympho neighbor, fancies mystery biker
   Belinda Lang, Gary Olsen
Two Up, Two Down (79) (this is not an error for 3 up 2 down)
   Squatters in couple's new Manchester dream house
   <cast>
Two's Company (75,76,?77,78)
   American writer in London has stormy relationship with butler
   Elaine Stritch, Donald Sinden
Tygo Road
   Chaotic community centre
   <cast>
Union Castle
   <synopsis>
   Stratford Johns
Up Pompeii
   Slapstick & tittilation in ancient Pompeii
   Frankie Howerd
Up The Elephant & Round The Castle
   Cockney capers
   Jim Davidson
Up The Garden Path
   <synopsis>
   Imelda Staunton
Up The Workers (73,?,76)
   <synopsis>
   Henry McGee, Lance Percival, Norman Bird
Us Girls
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Valerie {USA}
   Woman raises 3 boys whose father is away a lot coz he's a pilot (?)
   Valerie Harper, Jason Bateman
Waiting For God (9?,91)
   2 inmates kick against restrictions in an old folks home
   Graham Crowden, Stephanie Cole, Janine Duvitski, Daniel Hill
Watch This Space [?series ?sitcom]
   TV advertising
   <cast> guest star Magnuus Pyke
Watching (86,?,90,?)
   A love story of sorts
   Emma Wray, Paul Brown, Liza Tarbuck
Well Anyway (76)
   <synopsis>
   John Fortune, John Bird
West End Tales (81)
   Petty crook in Soho
   Robin Nedwell
Whack-o! (60s?)
   Headmaster
   Jimmy Edwards
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?  (?72,73,74)
   The later adventures of those 2 Tynesiders
   James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
When Things Were Rotten
   Medieval
   Dick Gauthier, Bernie Koppell
Whizzkid's Guide (81)
   School life
   Arthur Mullard, Kenneth Williams, Rita Webb
Whoops Apocalypse (80s?) [sitcom?]
   Last days before the quark bomb
   John Cleese, Barry Morse, Alexei Sayle, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer,
   Richard Griffiths, Bruce Montague, David Kelly
Whoops Bagdad (74or73{73ifaseeminglywellinformedpersoniscorrect}) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Frankie Howard
Who's the Boss? {USA} (USA version of The Upper Hand or vice-versa?)
   US male housekeeper.
   Tony Danza
Wilderness Road
   Down&outs in depressed area
   Robin Driscoll
WKRP in Cincinatti {USA}
   US radio
   Howard Hesseman, Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, Frank Bonner, Richard Sanders,
   Loni Anderson, Tim Reid
Worzel Gummidge
   Scarecrow
   Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs
Yanks Go Home (76) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Yes Minister (80,81,82)
   Civil service machinations
   Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Yes, Prime Minister (85-,87)
   More civil service machinations
   Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Yes, Honestly (?,76,77)
   No Honestly with different couple
   Liza Goddard, Donal Donnelly
You Must Be The Husband (87,88)
   Wife is writer of best seller steamy romance, husband has nowt to do
   Tin Brooke-Taylor, Diane Keen, Sheila Steafel, Garfield Morgan
You Rang M'Lord (?,90)
   Servants and masters
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Jeffrey Holland
You're Only Young Twice (77,78,79,81yorkshireonly?)
   Home for elderly women
   Pat Coombs, Peggy Mount, Lally Bowers
Young At Heart (80,81)
   Trauma of retirement for hard-working pottery worker
   John Mills, Meg Jenkins
Yus My Dear (76)
   mullard has a wife even thicker fatter and uglier than he is
   Arthur Mullard, Queenie Watts
 

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