Hello.
I'm currently working at a place that allows you to listen to your iPod whilst you work, so I'd like to become more accustomed with radio sitcoms, as I'm thinking of writing one myself.
I'm leaning towards listening to present/past radio sitcoms without a laughter track, as they tend to go against my writing style. However, if they're simply amazing, I'm welcome to all suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
Not a sitcom but still wonderfully brilliant - http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/partridge/life/kmky_radio_index.shtml
I love Fags, Mags And Bags a Glasgow newsagent run by an asian family, fast and very funny, also Clare In The Community, set in a social work dept. Again fast and really funny. They are available on iPlayer.
Party.
Lots of recs in this thread: https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/12/
For me personally, Old Harry's Game, Absolute Power, Cabin Pressure, Hut 33 are four excellent ones to start with.
EDIT: Oh, All Bar Luke is one of the best things ever.
Dan
I'm going to be a bit useless and say I'm not really sure where to start on the laughter track front, but I'll throw some names up that I've enjoyed:
Bleak Expectations
15 Minutes Of Misery
Cabin Pressure
Laverloch Findo Speaks
Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard
Safety Catch
Rudy's Rare Records
Hancock's Half Hour
And not sitcoms, but I can't fail to mention Bigipedia and Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking.
Only managed to listen to the first episodes of Party and Cabin Pressure today. I enjoyed Party more (although the limitations of Johnny Sweet's acting ability is particularly shown when you watch/listen to more than one thing he's done) and made me laugh a couple of times, Cabin Pressure not so much. The style to Cabin Pressure was all a bit too sitcomy, the acting was too sitcomy, the situation was too sitcomy...I know it's a sitcom, but I just couldn't relate/empathise with any of the characters. It wasn't terrible, just not fantastic imo.
I've also downloaded Bleak Expectations, Hut 33, Cool Bar Luke and a few others.
Cheers guys.
Have you caught up with ITMA yet?
With what?
Don't worry, chances are you've never listened to ITMA seeing as how most of the episodes are now lost. Mind you, seeing as it was made during the war it's perhaps not that surprising.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/itma/
In terms of other radio sitcoms there is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the first incarnation of the series, before the books), Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (something of a Marmite show), and there are also radio adaptations of TV sitcoms such as Dad's Army.
Also, if you are looking for something different, you might be interested in King Street Junior, usually regarded as being the first comedy drama as we would recognise it.
Count Arthur FTW