From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: UK SITCOM LIST     G-N
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:19:42 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


      The definitive UK sitcom list               Updated: 92-10-06
      =============================               part G-N 456 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?
 
George & Mildred (76,77,78,79)
   Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House
   Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fern,
   Nicholas Bond-Owen
George & the Dragon
   <synopsis>
   Peggy Mount, Sid James
Get Smart {USA}
   US techno-spy spoof
   Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Bernie Kopell, Edward Platt, Victor French,
   King Moody, Dick Gautier
Get Some In! (75,76,77,78)
   National Service
   Tony Selby, David Jason, Robert Lindsay, Gerard Ryder, Brian Pettifer
Gilligan's Island {USA}
   7 people marooned on island
   Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Tina Louise, Jim Backus
Girls on Top
   Girls share a flat
   Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French
Going Straight (78)
   Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
Goodbye, Mr Kent (82)
   Lodger won't leave
   Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers
Grandad (79,80)
   Old caretaker of rehearsal hall
   Clive Dunn
Green Acres {USA}
   Townies go farming
   Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram
Haggard (?,92)
   Tudorbethan spendthrift squire
   Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale
Hancock
   <synopsis>
   Tony Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour
   <synopsis>
   Tony Hancock
Happy Days {USA}
   US high school kids have cool biker friend
   Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Pat Morita,
   Scott Baio, Erin Moran
Happy Ever After (76,77,78)
   Retired couple, Terry+June sequel
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
Happy Families
   Attempts to find scattered family members
   Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson
Harry & the Hendersons
   Bigfoot thing
   <cast>
Harry Worth (sitcom?)
   Single man on edge of middle age in East Cheam
   Harry Worth
Have I Got You ... Right Where You Want Me? (81)
   Still 'going steady' after 10 years
   Ian Lavender, Kim Braden
Head of the Class {USA}
   Bright kids have cool teacher
   Howard Hesseman, Scott Baio, Robin Givens, Billy Connolly (?!)
Hell's Bells (86)
   <synopsis>
   Derek Nimmo
Hello Cheeky (76) [sitcom?-sketches?]
   <synopsis>  from radio4
   Dick Emery?
Here's Harry
   <synopsis>
   Harry Worth
Hi-De-Hi (79,80,81,?,83,84,85,?,87)
   Holiday camp
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(79+),
   Jeffrey Holland, David Griffin(83+?)
Hilary (84,86)
   Talk show producer's assistant
   Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody
Hogan's Heroes {USA}
   POWs do espionage
   Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Werner Klemperer, John Banner
Holding the Fort (80,81)
   She's in the army, he stays home with the baby
   Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly
Home James
   Chauffeur
   Jim Davidson
Home to Roost
   Son comes to live with long-divorced father
   John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale
Honky Tonk Heroes (81)
   S London Country&Western club
   James Grout, Sheila Steafel
Hope It Rains (91,92)
   Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter
   Tom Bell, Holly Aird
Horne A'Plenty (?1950s)
   <synopsis>
   Kenneth Horne
Hot Metal (87,88)
   Tabloid circulation wars
   Richard Wilson(87), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86),
   Richard Kane
Hotel Baltimore {USA}
   Denizens of the lobby of once-grand hotel, now dilapidated
   James Cromwell, Richard Masur, Conchata Ferrell, Al Freeman Jr
House Calls {USA} (81,?)
   Young hospital administrator versus doctors
   Wayne Roberts, Lyn Redgrave, David Wayne
How's Your Father? (74)
   Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
   Sheila Steafel, Arthur English, Michael Robbins
How's Your Father? (79,80)
   Widower with 2 teenage children
   Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming
Hugh & I
   <synopsis>
   Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
I Didn't Know You Cared (75,76,?77,78,79)
   The Brandons - happily miserable north country folk
   Robin Bailey, John Comer, Liz Smith, Anita Carey, Stephen Rea
I Dream of Jeannie {USA}
   USAF pilot has attractive female genie
   Larry Hagman, Barbara Eden, Bill Daly
I Love Lucy {USA}
   Cuban nightclub bandleader married to wacky redhead
   Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance
In Loving Memory
   Mother & son run funeral parlour
   Thora Hird, Christopher Beeny
In Sickness and In Health
   Till Death Do Us Part spinoff
   Warren Mitchell
Inside George Webley
   Worrier
   Roy Kinnear
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (?,76,77,78,80,?)
   British army concert party in WW2 Burma
   Windsor Davies, John Clegg, Michael Bates, Melvyn Hayes
It Takes a Worried Man (83)
   Mid life crisis
   Peter Tilbury
It's Garry Shandling's Show {USA/CAN?} (sitcom? approaches sketch/standup)
   Comedian lives in flat, has wacky neighbors
   Garry Shandling
It's Your Move
   Teenager
   Jason Bateman
Jeeves & Wooster (90,91)
   Valet saves socialite from scrapes
   Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie
Joannie Loves Chaachi {USA}
   Happy Days spinoff
   Scott Baio, Erin Moran
Joint Account (89)
   Female bank manager
   Hannah Gordon, Peter Egan, John Bird
Just Good Friends
   On/off relationship
   Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis
Just William (early 60s)
   Richmal Crompton's famous stories
   Dennis Waterman
Just William (77,77-78)
   Richmal Crompton's famous stories
   Adrian Dannatt, Bonnie Langford
Kate & Allie {USA}
   Two divorced mothers share apartment
   Susan St James, Jane Curtin
Keep It in the Family (80a,80b,81,82,83)
   Procrastinating cartoonist with 2 grown daughters
   Robert Gillespie, Glyn Houston, Pauline Yates(not83),
   Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle(80ab), Sabina Franklyn(81..83)
Keeping Up Appearances (90,91)
   Bossy pretentious woman with embarrassing lower class relatives
   Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes,
   Josephine Tewson, Shirley Stelfox(90), Mary Millar(91)
Knight & Daye {USA}
   Old friend radio djs re-meet
   <cast>
Lame Ducks
   Collection of misfits
   Lorraine Chase, John Duttine
Land of Hope and Gloria
   Marketing a stately home
   Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell
Last of the Baskets
   <synopsis>
   Ken Jones as heir, Arthur Lowe as butler
Last of the Summer Wine
   3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town
   Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde/Michael Bates/Michael Aldridge
   Mike Grady
Laura & Disorder
   Relative returns from USA
   Wendy Craig
Laverne & Shirley {USA}
   50s Milwaukee girls working at brewery: Happy Days spinoff
   Penny Marshall
Leave It to Charlie (78,79a,79b)
   Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds
   David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell
Let There Be Love
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Life Begins at Forty (78,?79,80)
   40yr old becomes 1st time dad
   Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach
Life with the Lyons
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Life Without George
   Woman rebuilds life after being dumped
   Carol Royle
Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (late 70s)
   domestic sitcom
   Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount
Love Thy Neighbour (?,75-76)
   Black'n'white neighbors
   Rudolph Walker
Lovely Couple (79)
   Reluctantly engaged couple
   <cast>
Lucky Feller (76)
   <synopsis>
   David Jason
Luna (86ish)
   12ish girl lives on moon
   <cast>
Maggie and Her (78,79)
   Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor
   Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl
Maid Marian & Her Merry Men (sitcom?)
   Robin Hood without Robin...
   Kate Longeran[sp], Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson
Major Dad {USA}
   US Marine major raises family of girls
   Gerald McRaney
Man About the House (73,74a,74b,75a,75b,76)
   Guy & 2 girls share flat
   Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox
   Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce
Marriage Lines
   Newlyweds
   Richard Briers, Prunella Scales
Married with Children {USA}
   The ultimate sleazy family
   Kathy Segal, Christina Applegate, David Faustino, Ed O'Neill
Mary {USA}
   <synopsis>
   Mary Tyler Moore
Maude {USA} (usa dates 72-3,73-4,74-5,75-6,76-7,77-8)
   All In The Family spinoff; somebody said: Domineering housewife
                        somebody else said: someone's liberal cousin
         somebody who seems to know a lot said:
         Suburban upper-middle-class outspoken politically liberal woman
                                and her 2nd marriage
   Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanaghan
   Hermione Baddeley, Adrienne Barbeau
May to December (89,90,90-1)
   Old solicitor with young girlfriend (wife in later series)
   Anton Rodgers, Leslie Dunlop(90-1), Eve Matheson(89,90)
Me and My Girl
   He's in advertising, has a daughter
   Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson
Me Mammy
   Meek son of domineering mother has domineering sexmad girlfriend
   (lots of catholic jokes)
   Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce
Me, You, and Him (92)
   3 post-uni guys
   <cast>
Meet the Wife
   <synopsis>
   Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird
Megavision
   TV company
   Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman
Men Behaving Badly
   Bedsit males
   Harry Enfield, Leslie Ash
Men of Affairs (73) [?sitcom]
   Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show
   Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell
Metal Mickey (80,81a,81b,82-3)
   Family life with a robot
   Irene Handl, Michael Stainton, Georgina Melville, Ashley Knight,
   Lucinda Bateson, Lola young, Gary Shail
Mind Your Language
   English classes for immigrants
   Barry Evans
Minder [some say not sitcom]  (79-80,80,82,83,84a,84b,84c,85,88,89,91)
   East End shady traders
   George Cole, Dennis Waterman
Misfits (81)
   2 drifters sheltered by widow
   Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd
Misleading Cases
   Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases
   Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim
Miss Jones and Son (77)
   Single mum
   Paula Wilcox
Mixed Blessings (78a,78b,80)
   Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]
   Murial Odunton, Christopher Blake
Mog [?sitcom]
   About a bloke called Mog
   <cast>
Moody & Pegg    (sitcom?)
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
Mork & Mindy  {USA}
   Alien lives with nice girl
   Robin Williams, Pam Dawber
Mornin' Sarge
   Loony cop-shop
   Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke
Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors
   Singing idiots fix cars
   Tony Hawkes
Mother & Son {AUS}
   Aussie overbearing mother
   Garry MacDonald, Ruth Cracknell, Henry Szepes
Moving (85)
   Moving house
   Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup
Mr Big (77a,77b)
   Criminal mastermind
   Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins
Mr Ed {USA}
   Talking horse
   <cast>
Mrs Thursday
   Charlady made chair of company
   <cast>
Mulberry
   Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart
   Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan
My Brother's Keeper
   Brothers: student and policeman
   <cast>
My Dead Dad (92)
   TV producer haunted by embarrassing father
   Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon
My Favorite Martian {USA}
   Man's room-mate is a Martian
   Bill Bixby, Ray Walston
My Good Woman (?72,73-4)
   <synopsis>
   Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims
My Honourable Mrs (75)
   <synopsis>
   Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates
My Mother the Car {USA}
   Mother rein*car*nated
   Jerry Van Dyke, Ann Southern
My Son Reuben (75) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye
My Three Sons {USA}
   Single father has 3 sons
   Fred McMurray, William Frawley, William Demerest, Don Grady,
   Tim Considine, Stanley Sullivan
My Two Dads {USA}
   Girl has 2 dads!
   Greg Evigan, Staci Keanan, Florence Stanley, Paul Reiser
My Wife Next Door (72)
   Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages
   John Alderton, Hannah Gordon
M*A*S*H {USA}
   US army doctors in Korea
   Alan Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, Wayne Rogers,
   Larry Linville, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Alan Arbus,
   McLean Stevenson(early), Harry Morgan(later)
Nearest & Dearest
   Owners of a pickle factory
   Jimmy Jewel, Hylda Baker
Nearly Departed
   Ghost
   Eric Idle
Neat and Tidy (sitcom?) {USA?}
   Guy & girl run from Mafia thru Europe on motorcycle, Elvis soundtrack
   Nick Neat, ? Tidello
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
   Tailors, Jewish&Irish. Lots of cultural jokes
   John Bluthal, Joe Lynch
Never the Twain (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,?88,?89,90,?]
   2 antique dealers with adjoining shops (were partners)  (kids engaged)
   Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies
Newhart {USA}
   Hotel in ski resort in Vermont
   Bob Newhart, Mary Frann
Nice Work (80? 89ish?)
   Academics and industrialists
   Haydn Gwynne, Warren Clarke
Night Court {USA}
   Rookie judge
   Harry Anderson, Richard Moll, Paula Warfield, John Laroquette,
   Selma Diamond(early), Markie Post(late),  Harry Stone(?)
Nightingales
   Psycho nightwatchmen
   Robert Lindsay, David Threlfall
Nine To Five {USA}
   Secretaries
   <cast>
No Appointment Necessary (77)
   Hairdresser's shop
   Roy Kinnear, Josephine Tewson, Avril Angers
No Frills (88) [?sitcom]
   Several generations of women in a family
   Kathy Staff, Katharine Schlesinger
No Job For a Lady (90,91)
   Labour Lady MP
   Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, George Baker, Paul Young, Garfield Morgan
No Place Like Home (83,84,85)
   Kids keep coming back
   William Gaunt, Patricia Garwood, Marcia Warren, Michael Sharvell-Martin,
   Martin Clunes, Dee Sadler, Stephen Watson, Beverley Adams, Daniel Hill
No, Honestly
   <synopsis>
   Pauline Collins, John Alderton
Nobody is Norman Wisdom (73) [?sitcom or comedy/sketch?]
   <synopsis>
   Norman Wisdom
Nobody's Perfect (80,?)
   UK version of Maude
   Elaine Stritch, Richard Griffiths, Kim Braden, Moray Watson
Northern Exposure {USA} [2 vote against sitcom]
   City-boy doctor fetches up in Alaska
   Rob Morrow, Janine Turner, Darren E Burrows, Barry Corbin, Elaine Miles,
   John Cullum, Cynthia Geary, John Corbett, Peg Phillips, Adam Arkin,
Not in Front of the Children
   Nuclear family
   Wendy Craig, Ronald Hines
Not With A Bang
   Only a few people left alive
   Josie Lawrence,
Now Look Here (73) [?sitcom]
   <synopsis>
   Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach
N.U.T.S. (76) [?sitcom, comedy/sketch?]
   <synopsis>
   Roy Kinnear,


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