Scrubs, Spaced, Doctor Who, Arrested Development, The Prisoner, Porridge, Lost, The Simpsons. I canne choose.
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I have watched Spaced, Father Ted and Arrested Development a lot! They would be in my top 10 for sure.
I love Prison Break, total American cheese, but totally edge of seat fun. Probably not best ever, but I'd like to throw it out there.
Cracker!
Queer As Folk!
Doctor Who!
I'm leaving comedies out completely cos there's too many best ones.
Quote: Leevil @ May 21 2008, 9:26 PM BSTI love Prison Break, total American cheese, but totally edge of seat fun. Probably not best ever, but I'd like to throw it out there.
And that right there is why I used to love watching The Littlest Hobo.
Has no one mentioned the Wire yet? For shame!
Ooh I like the extended picks.
In no particular order (comedy wise)
auf wiedersehen pet (S2 eps 1-7)
hancock's half-hour
drop the dead donkey
only fools and horses
steptoe and son
rising damp
father ted
porridge
not going out (S1)
roger, roger
and not forgetting
one man and his dog 
Gah, can't choose at all.
Red Dwarf (1-6 =P)
Heroes S1
Doctor Who (all of them)
Monkey Dust
Black Books
Shooting Stars!! ;D
Nighty Night
Tribe (Spot the odd one out...)
The Mighty Boosh
Nathan Barley
The IT Crowd
Fawlty Towers...
I could go on forever.
steptoe and son
i would have to agree with you upon that one, Galton and Simpson. The best sitcom writers of the 20th Century
Waterloo Road. What a cast. What a guest writer in Jake How. How I'll miss him. (Sorry to all those who missed his execution.) Was that off topic? Ok. Desert Island disk moment. Blackadder Goes Forth. The fifth and best.
Quote: roscoff @ May 22 2008, 12:45 AM BSTWaterloo Road. What a cast. What a guest writer in Jake How. How I'll miss him.
I'm pretty certain that The Simpsons stands head and shoulders above everything else. I remember when I first saw it, back in '95. I'd missed the first few years of it being shown here, because I didn't have access to Sky. Then, one Saturday, in September (yes, I'm sad enough to remember the month) '95, I went to the house of a mate, who had Sky, and saw the adverts for the 'Who Shot Mr. Burns?' two-part episode, which was being shown for the first time the following day, and was being built up, as if it was a big sporting event. They were also showing a "Marathon" of episodes, from the previous series', on both days, so I settled down, and ended up watching all of it, spending the whole weekend on my mate's couch. I couldn't get over how good it was. It was so consistently good, and the amount of laugh-out-loud jokes in each episode was huge. The influence the show has had on comedy in general is HUGE.
Really pleased that I'm not alone with my view of >>
Blackadder series 1.
Everyone says I'm nuts but it was brilliant. Only got slated by people after the inytroduction of the oh so different subsequent following series.
In no particular order>>
Rest of Blackadder
Porridge
Liver Birds
The Lovers
OFAH
Open all hours
His Lordship entertains/Futtocks End
The Two Ronnies (espec. the Hardware Shop sketch)
Please Sir!
Morecambe and Wise (espec. the breakfast sketch)
HIGNFY
QI
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine - beuatiful ending,
Dinnerladies.
Simpsons
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Whacky Races
Star Trek - original + New Generation (ish) + Voyager.
Loads more probably but particularly a series about two young men living on the Isle of Dogs, one black one white, encounters with racists and their incarceration in an open prison, escape and 'finale' recapture. Anyone remember this never repeated classic?
Oh, and of course, Blue Peter and the Jeremy Kyle Show.
Non British:
House
Sopranos
Curb Your Enthuisiasm
Arrested Development
One Foot In The Grave, Yes Minister and Frasier must be worth a mention. However...
Time Team is both relaxing and informative. I don't think you're allowed to speak to Tony Robinson on camera unless you've got a beard or crazy hair [or both].