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The big list of sitcoms on the site is now fantastic. There isn't a British sitcom I can think of that isn't there. With this list, I'm going to attempt to name my top 100 sitcoms. Anybody else fancy doing the same (do top 50 if you want). You're going to have to make snap/controversial decisions. Show us what you're made of and come up with a list.

I'm game. I might have to start with 50 though rather than 100. After say, my top 20 I might be hard pushed to put them in any order. But I'll give it a go.

Def.

Good Man

Here we go then. Here is my top 50. The first 11 are in bestest order then the rest are in as bestest as possible. Apart from the first few, this list could change depending on what shows I'm currently into.

1The Young Ones
2Fawlty Towers
3Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
4Bottom
5The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
6The Office
7I'm Alan Partridge
8Are You Being served?
9Red Dwarf
10Absolutely Fabulous
11Some Mothers Do Ave Em
12The Vicar of Dibley
13Rising Damp
14Blackadder
15To The Manor Born
16The New Statesman
17Steptoe & Son
18Only Fools & Horses
19Bread
20Porridge
21Butterflies
22Dear John
23Goodnight Sweetheart
24Keeping Up Appearances
25Filthy Rich & Catflap
26Police Squad
27Father Ted
28Extras
29Spaced
30The Phil Silvers Show
31Only When I Laugh
32Game On
33Up Pompeii
34The Brittas Empire
35In Sickness & In Health
36Fresh Prince of Bel Air
37Black Books
38It Aint Half Hot Mum
39Grace & Favour
40Manns Best Friend
41One Foot in the Grave
42Man About the House
43Robins Nest
44George & Mildred
45Happy Families
46Just Good Friends
47Brush Strokes
48Not With a Bang
49Believe Nothing
50Hi-de-Hi

A nicely comprehensive list! I couldn't possibly begin to order mine, but the contents would be largely similar.

(You have too much time. ;))

Ooh I like lists. I'll do a top 20, the order will change every day though, it's tough ranking them in order. The top few are definitely my favourites though:

1. Blackadder
2. I'm Alan Partridge
3. Peep Show
4. Friends
5. Bottom
6. The Office
7. Only Fools and Horses
8. Porridge
9. Men Behaving Badly
10. Teachers
11. Dinner Ladies
12. Coupling
13. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
14. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
15. Spaced
16. Fawlty Towers
17. Gavin & Stacey
18. Extras
19. Black Books
20. The Young Ones
21. Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Also have these two somewhere in there:
Game On
Not Going Out

There's bound to be some I've forgotten too.

Edit: I forgot Men Behaving Badly.

Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2008, 2:35 PM BST

A nicely comprehensive list! I couldn't possibly begin to order mine, but the contents would be largely similar.

(You have too much time. ;))

I make it a point to disagree with Aaron on everything. Except this. Together at last!
Lovey

OK. You asked for it. OK, but it does not take much time and effort to scroll down to the next post...

These are all britcoms I felt I have seen enough of to judge and enter the list. In some cases, however, I have not seen all episodes.

Likewise, 1.-5. are definitive.
Then comes 6.-25.
then 26.-49.
The last 10 are in definite order as well ;)

1. Blackadder
2. Yes Minister / Yes, Prime Minister
3. The Vicar of Dibley
4. Still Game
5. 'Allo 'Allo
6. Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
7. One Foot in the Grave
8. Open All Hours
9. Porridge
10. Keeping Up Appearances
11. Coupling
12. Thin Blue Line
13. Waiting for God
14. Help
15. Are You Being Served?
16. As Time Goes By
17. Black Books
18. My Family
19. Chef!
20. Butterflies
21. Nightingales
22. To The Manor Born
23. Men Behaving Badly
24. Just Good Friends
25. Fawlty Towers
26. Absolutely Fabulous
26. Goodnight Sweetheart
27. Only Fools & Horses
28. Brittas Empire
29. Surgical Spirit
30. Time Gentlemen Please
31. Royle Family, the
32. Bread
33. Chelmsford 123
34. Good Life, The
35. Red Dwarf
36. Haggard
37. Alan Partridge
38. The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
39. Ever Decreasing Circles
40. Drop The Dead Donkey
41. Three Up, Two Down
42. dinnerladies
43. New Statesman
44. You Rang M'Lord?
45. Two's Company
46. Agony
47. In Loving Memory
48. Love Thy Neighbour
49. Maid Marian and her Merry Men
50. Mulberry
51. Gimme Gimme Gimme
52. Only When I Laugh
53. Rising Damp
54. George & Mildred
55. It Aint Half Hot Mum
56. Bless Me, Father
57. Don't Wait Up
58. Watching
59. Is It Legal
60. Dressing for Breakfast
61. Brush Strokes
62. Father Ted
63. Mind Your Language
64. Man About the House
65. Young Ones, The
66. Never The Twain
67. Oh Doctor Beeching!
68. Grace & Favour
69. IT Crowd
70. Girls On Top
71. Phoenix Nights
72. Birds Of A Feather
73. On The Buses
74. Upper Hand, the
75. Clarence
76. Magnificent Evans
77. Hi-de-Hi

Aaron wholeheartedly approves of the Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister love going on here! :D

Should have a completed list by tomorrow.

Should have a completed list by tomorrow. Come on Aaron, be a man, make snap decisions and sort a list out.

Nooo, impossible!

I havent thought this through but here goes:

1. The mighty boosh
2. The IT crowd
3. Father Ted
4. I'm alan partridge
5. Black Books
6. Only fools and horses
7. Blackadder
8. Phoenix nights
9. Gavin & stacey
10.Thing blue line
11.Green Wing
12.Spaced
13.Desmonds
14.my family
15.Mr bean
16.Red dwarf
17.Big bang theory
18.The inbetweeners
19.My hero
20.bottom

I'm sure I've missed something but here's a rough idea of my fave top 50's

1. Hancock's Half-Hour
2. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
3. Only Fools and Horses
4. Steptoe and Son
5. Drop the Dead Donkey
6. Porridge
7. Dad's Army
8. Men Behaving Badly
9. Rising Damp
10. Yes (Prime) Minister
11. One Foot in the Grave
12. Phoenix Nights
13. Not Going Out
14. Peep Show
15. The Office
16. I'm Alan Partridge
17. Blackadder
18. Goodnight Sweetheart
19. Fawlty Towers
20. Joking Apart
21. Lead Balloon
22. Time Gentlemen Please
23. Just Good Friends
24. Sykes
25. The New Statesman
26. Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
27. The Thin Blue Line
28. Shelley
29. Colin's Sandwich
30. Only When I Laugh
31. The Worst Week of My Life
32. Coupling
33. The Young Ones
34. Love Soup
35. Citizen Smith
36. Chalk
37. Red Dwarf
38. Men of the World
39. Is It Legal?
40. Ever Decreasing Circles
41. Extras
42. Kiss Me Kate
43. All Gas and Gaiters
44. Heartburn Hotel
45. Absolute Power
46. The Peter Principle
47. Black Books
48. Early Doors
49. The Book Group
50. Nelson's Column

In absolutely no order (self evidently):

The Thick of It
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
The Office
Alan Partridge
Ab Fab
Green Wing
Catterick
Game On
Black Books
Red Dwarf
Outnumbered
Not Going Out
Spaced
League of Gents
Mighty Boosh
Peep Show
Porridge
The Young Ones
Nathan Barley.
(!)

I've forgotten something really obvious...

Now that's a good list, Alan. :)

zooo: Bottom? The Young Ones? Nathan Barley?

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