From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: UK SITCOM LIST    O-Tha
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:07:33 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


      The definitive UK sitcom list               Updated: 92-10-06
      =============================               part O-Tha 329 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?
 
Odd Man Out (77) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   John Inman, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers, Julian Orchard,
   Peter Butterworth
Oh Brother
   Monastery fun
   Derek Nimmo
Oh Father  (73)
   Oh Brother followup, Nimmo now a priest
   Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Derek Francis, Laurence Naismith,
   Pearl Hackney, David Kelly
Oh Happy Band (80)
   Brass band leads fight against new airport
   Harry Worth
Oh No It's Selwyn Froggit! (77,78)
   rerun just 'Selwyn Froggatt', second series just 'Selwyn'
   Utterly accident prone pillock
   Bill Maynard, Megs Jenkins
On the Buses (73)
   Bus crews
   Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis
On The Frontline
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
On the Up (90)
   Selfmade millionaire car hire magnate has trouble with social class
   Dennis Waterman, Joan Sims
One Foot in the Grave (90)
   It always goes wrong for retired Victor Meldrew
   Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Angus Deayton
One-upmanship (74,76,78) [?sitcom, more a sketch show really?]
   <synopsis>
   Richard Briers, Peter Jones
Only Fools and Horses (?,90,90-1)
   Market traders
   David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield, Leonard?(grandad)
Only When I Laugh (79,80,81)
   A men's ward in an NHS hospital
   James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli, Richard Wilson
Open All Hours (76,81a,81b,82,85)
   Corner shop in Bradford
   Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Our Man at St Mark's (60s)
   City vicar in country town
   Leslie Philips->Donald Sinden, Francesca Annis
Out of this World
   Half-alien child
   Maureen Flannigan
Parahandy (63ish)
   Tugboat on the Clyde
   <cast>
Pardon The Expression (66)
   One and only Coronation St spinoff
   Arthur Lowe, Betty Driver
Parker Lewis Can't Lose {USA} (?satellite only)
   High school pranks
   Corin Nemel, Abraham Benrubi
Partners (?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Perfect Scoundrels [?sitcom: amusing sometimes but 'funny' ?]
   Conmen end up doing good deeds
   Peter Bowles, that guy from the irish rm
Perfect Strangers {USA}
   American's greek?/east-european? cousin comes to stay
   Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot
Petticoat Junction {USA}
   Small rural community
   Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Baxter
Pig in the Middle (80)
   Husband, wife, temptress neighbor
   Liza Goddard, Dinsdale Landen, Joanna Van Gyseghem
Plaza Patrol
   Security men
   Cannon & Ball
Please Sir
   Inner city school
   John Alderton, Derek Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett
Police Squad {USA}
   Surreal/inane cop show
   Leslie Nielsen
Porridge
   Prison
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde
   Peter Vaughan, Christopher Biggins
Potter (79,80)
   Retired mint factory director
   Arthur Lowe (Robin Bailey after AL died), Harry H Corbett(80
Punky Brewster {USA}
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Queenie's Castle
   <synopsis>
   Diana Dors
Rab C. Nesbitt
   Glaswegian life
   Gregor Fisher
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)   (?drama with comic touches?) (69,?,71)
   Ghost of private eye helps out with cases
   Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope
Red Dwarf (88a,88b,89,91,92)
    [no I'm not putting in Red Dwarf II etc as separate]
   Space spoof
   Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn(89-)
   Norman Lovett(88ab), Hattie Hayridge(89-)
Relative Strangers
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Rentaghost (kids - sitcom?)  (?,80,81,?)
   Started as dead man trying to convince parents he;s still alive
   Michael Staniforth
Return Of Shelley
   Graduate still on dole
   Hywel Bennet
Rhoda {USA}
   Jewish girl in NY; MaryTylerMooreShow spinoff
   Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Lazlo Music, Nancy Walker
Rich Tea & Sympathy (sitcom?)
   Biscuit factory
   Patricia Hodge, Warren Clarke, Jean Alexander, Ray Lonnen?
Rings On Their Fingers  (78,79,80)
   Long term live-togethers finally marry
   Martin Jarvis, Diane Keen
Rising Damp (74,75,77,78)
   Bedsitland
   Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale(not78), Frances De La Tour
   Don Warrington
Robin's Nest (77,78a,78b,79,80,81)
   Bistro
   Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton, David Kelly
Roll Over Beethoven
   Rock star in big house has classical piano lessons
   Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard
Romany Jones
   Life on a mobile homes park
   Arthur Mullard
Room at the Bottom (? v.old 60s?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Room Service (79)
   Romm service manager of big London hotel tries to keep order
   Bryan Pringle
Root Into Europe
   Henry Root travels in Europe
   George Cole
Roseanne {USA}
   Mid-west family
   Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Laurie Metcalf, John Goodman
Rosie (77,78,79)
   Sensitive copper; followup to Perils of PC Penrose
   Paul Greenwood, Ian Wilmot
Roy's Raiders
   delivery firm
   James Grout, Sara Crowe, Rebecca Stevens
Rude Health
   Unpleasant GP
   John Wells
Rule Britannia! (75)
   <synopsis>
   Tony Melody, Richard Davies, Russell hunter, Joe Lynch, Jo Warne
Rumpole of the Bailey (78,79,83,87,88,91)
   Flamboyant/eccentric defence barrister
   Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe Bates(78-83), Marion Mathie(87-),
   Julian Curry, Jonathan Coy
Screaming
   Girls all dated same guy, who turns out not to be dead after all
   Gwen Taylor, Penelope Wilton
Scully
   Scouse scally
   Andrew Scofield, Elvis Costello, lots of liverpudlians
Sean's Show (sitcom?)
   Sean lives in a small flat and pines for Susan
   Sean Hughes
Second Thoughts
   Man might remarry if ex-wife would leave him alone
   James Bolam, Belinda Lang, Lynda Bellingham
Second Time Around (74)
   <synopsis>
   Michel Craig, Patricia Brake, Sheila Steafel
Seconds Out (81) [?sitcom]
   No-hope boxer
   Robert Lindsay, Lee Montague
Seinfeld {USA} (?sitcom  ?satellite only)
   Neurotic NY standup comic
   Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
Send in the Girls (78)
   Sales promotion girls
   Annie Ross, Elisabeth Sladen, Brian Miller, Andrew Sachs
Sergeant Bilko {USA} [originally "You'll Never Get Rich"]
   US Army Sgt concocts scams from deep in the motor pool
   Phil Silvers
Seven Faces of Jim
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Edwards
She's the Sherriff {USA}
   Woman takes over as sherriff[sp?] when husband killed
   Suzanne Sommers
Shelley (79-80,80-81,?,?90,92)
   On the dole with a degree
   Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair
Shillingbury Tales (81,?)
   Brass band/picturesque English village
   Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Bernard Cribbins
Shrinks (91) [?sitcom, I thought supposed to be drama but didn't watch]
   <synopsis>
   Bill Paterson, Yvonne Bryceland
Side by Side
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Singles
   4 people go to singles club
   Susie Blake, Judy Loe, Eamonn Boland
Sink or Swim   (80-1,81)
   Brothers living on canal boat
   Peter Davison, Robert Glenister, Sara Corper
Six More Faces of Jim
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Edwards
Sledge Hammer {USA}
   Tough cop satire
   David Rasche, Anne-Marie Martin
Slinger's Day
   Supermarket manager
   Bruce Forsyth
Small Wonder {USA?}
   Girl is really a robot
   <cast>
Snakes and Ladders (?89)
   2 people on wrong side of lines after N-S divide becomes an apartheid
   Ade Edmunson, John Gordon Sinclair
So Haunt Me
   Typical_Jewish_mother ghost
   Tessa Peake-Jones, George Kostigan
So You Think You've Got Troubles
   irish factory  (sitcom?)
   Warren Mitchell
Soap {USA}
   Surreal/inane things happen to family
   Billy Crystal, Robert Guillaume, Richard Mulligan, Katherine Helmond
Solo  (81,82)
   Single woman struggles for independance
   Felicity Kendal, Stephen Moore (81), Elspet Gray
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em  (?,73a,73b,?,76,78)
   Wimp gets into scrapes
   Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice
Son of the Bride (73)
   <synopsis>
   Terry Scott
Sorry! (81,?)
   Guy never left home - domineering mother
   Ronnie Corbett, Barbara Lott, William Moore
Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself
   1:Man leaves wife, moves into inherited house, punk squatter
   2:Librarian inherits house with oddball neighbors
   Robin Bailey
Sounding Brass (80)
   Brass band in deperate need of cash
   Brian Glover, Gwen Taylor
Spooner's Patch (79-80,80)
   Comic policeman
   Ronald Fraser(79-80), Donald Churchill(80), Patricia Hayes
Spring and Autumn (73,?,76)
   <synopsis>
   Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins
Square Deal [?]
   hunk next door to yuppies, earth mother+useless bloke downstairs
   <cast>
Steptoe & Son
   Rag'n'bone men
   Harry H Corbett, Wilfred Bramble
Straight Down The Middle
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Struck by Lightning (80)
   Frankenstein spoof
   <cast>
Supergran
   <synopsis>
   Gudrun Ure, Iain Cuthbertson
Surgical Spirit
   Surgeons squabble
   Nicola MacAuliffe, Duncan Preston
Sweet Sixteen (83)
   16years age difference romance twixt architect&contractor
   Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Mike Grady, Joan Blackham
Sykes (59,>,73,?74,75,76,77,78,79,?)
   <synopsis>
   Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Derek Guyler, Richard Wattis(pre75)
Tabitha {USA}
   Bewitched spinoff
   <cast>
Take A Chance (80-1)
   Theatrical digs grandly known as The Rose Marie Hotel
   <cast>
Take A Letter, Mr Jones (81)
   Career woman with male secretary
   Rula Lenska, John Inman
Take My Wife (79)
   Struggling standup comic and his agent
   Sheila Hancock, Duggie Brown, Victor Spinetti
Tales from the Poopdeck (kids - sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   Helen Atkinson-Wood
Tandoori Nights (mid-80s)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Taxi {USA}
   Taxi depot antics
   Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd,
   Andy Kaufman, Tony Danza
Terry & June
   <synopsis>
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
That Beryl Marston...! (81)
   Divorced couple can't stay apart
   Julia McKenzie, Gareth Hunt
That Girl
   ?1: Girl moves to city, gets boyfriend
   ?2: NY girl tries to break into show business
   Marlo Thomas
That Sinking Feeling (is this really Sink Or Swim ??)
   <synopsis>
   Peter Davison, Robert Glenister
That's Love
   Lawyer and wife fall out occasionally
   Jimmy Mulville, Diana Hardcastle, Tony Slattery
That's My Boy (81)
   Cleaner discovers employer is son she gave up for adoption
   Mollie Sugden, Christopher Blake, Jennifer Lonsdale


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