Coming of Age should be at number one with a bullet in the all time list of worst things ever never mind worst ever sitcoms.
Worst 10 British sitcoms ever Page 6
Quote: Badge @ February 21 2009, 12:48 AM GMTUhh... so where's the logic leading to "therefore unwatchable"? There are plenty of films and TV programmes with spineless annoying tits in them.
And I'm sure that I'd find them, and the shows/films they're in, equally as frustrating to watch.
Quote: Stuart Doherty @ February 21 2009, 1:20 AM GMTI think it's Corbett's unlikable character that does it for me. He dreams to be a proper man, but only dreams, never properly properly tries. He has basically zero spirit. Constantly and EASILY manipulated by his mother.
It's like if you got Steptoe and took all the fight out of Harold.
And regarding the Frank Spencer argument. He's clumsy, innocent and trying to provide the best for his wife and child. Likeable.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Why is being "spineless" in a sitcom a bad thing? Surely lack of courage is a perfectly acceptable thing to explore, especially for laughs?
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ February 21 2009, 11:05 AM GMTWhy has no-one mentioned the one about Hitler living next door?
Because it's quite amusing. (And only one episode was ever broadcast, so not entirely fair to judge.)
Quote: Aaron @ February 23 2009, 10:56 AM GMT(And only one episode was ever broadcast, so not entirely fair to judge.)
Cows?
I cannot think of ten. A few suggestions.
All about me.
Doctors Daughters.
Hardwicke House? the one with Roy Kinnear that was cancelled after one episode.
Roger Roger.
Up the Gate.
Before I state that something is really bad I take into account that things date and attitudes change. Shows such as On the Buses and Love thy Neighbour provide a useful social history of the time.
There are a couple of obscure shows above, I have watched them.
Was Hardwicke House really that bad though?
Quote: Aaron @ February 24 2009, 9:16 PM GMTWas Hardwicke House really that bad though?
Yes on taste grounds. Similarly Curry and Chips, which I watched one episode on YouTube was grossly offensive even by the standards of the time.
Thought of another two by Johnny Speight.
Curry and Chips
The Nineteeth Hole.
Ah well, fair enough then.
More suggestions.
The Legacy of Reginald Perrin? when they brought back all the characters years later to flog a dead horse.
Doctor Down Under the characters went to Australia.
Another Australian spin off. Father, Dear Father with Patrick Cargill in Melbourne/Sydney? I remember there were two young ladies who I think were his nieces who spent all their time in swimming costumes. Sexist rubbish.
That's my ten.
Quote: vim1 @ February 24 2009, 9:21 PM GMTYes on taste grounds. Similarly Curry and Chips, which I watched one episode on YouTube was grossly offensive even by the standards of the time.
Thought of another two by Johnny Speight.
Curry and Chips
The Nineteeth Hole.
I know what you are saying by Curry & Chips but I think it is also fair to point out that it wasn't Johnny Speight's intention to be racist and offensive, his aim was to highlight discrimination, not be discriminate. But I think the problem was, with the exception of the Eric Sykes character, there were too many racist characters in it, whereas in Speight's Till Death Us Do Part there was only really Alf being the racist character, hence it was a lot more clever and we got a classic sitcom.
Quote: vim1 @ February 24 2009, 9:21 PM GMTCurry and Chips
This does sound like a sitcom in which me and Edwina Curry share a flat - with hilarious consequences.
Edwina Curry sharing a flat with Jon and Ponch from CHIPS would be even funnier.
'Oh no, a truck full of rotten eggs has jack knifed on the highway!'
Cue action theme music.
Alternatively, it could be Tim Curry and his Crossdressing Highway Patrol.
It's weird as before I watched Curry & Chips, I was convinced it was a sitcom set in a restraunt. Anyway, I think the show got its title from a popular comic that was about at the time called Whizzer & Chips.
Quote: chipolata @ February 25 2009, 1:31 PM GMTThis does sound like a sitcom in which me and Edwina Curry share a flat - with hilarious consequences.
Might one hilarious consequence involve you spearing her in the back of the head with a sharp instrument of some description?
Quote: Jack Massey @ February 25 2009, 3:16 PM GMT... a popular comic that was about at the time called Whizzer & Chips.
Blimey! Now you're showing your age. (And mine!)