With everything going on, if you want to take a break and have a good laugh I recommend Good Neighbors (also called Good Life). British show from the 70s about a guy with a 9 to 5 job that lives in the suburbs who decides to start a farm on his property with his wife and live off the land. I absolutely love it, but to be fair I have always been into British TV/have had a fascination with all things British since I was a kid for some reason. Sucks that they have gone so crazy with the diversity/inclusion obsession, but there is still a lot of older content I have yet to see and a good thing with the free streaming services is that they have quite a bit of older BBC shows or shows from Australia.
I did the ancestry DNA thing a while back and met some super distant British cousins online, but unfortunately they all live in the big cities so I'll have to wait for a cousin to pop up who has a fancy country estate where I can take a vacation.
"Are you being Served" is another good one.
keeping up appearances, red dwarf, basically anything with John Cleese in it...
That’s one on my list to watch. I am currently watching Keeping Up Appearances on Vudu
That's Bouquet.
Love it when she says that
I was just thinking of Keeping up Appearances.
...am I overthinking things, or does it feel like that show's producers peeked into the future and tried to warn us of what would cause the nonsense we're dealing with in the west now?
Like how she is such a snob and the way she treats her family?
that and the whole people going along with nonsense because it's what's popular in the moment.
love the brother-in-law, though.🤣
Yea, he is funny. I like how he tells it like it is
Used to love that series -- wasn't too fond when they moved to the old cottage. Lost a lot of the appeal of the classic department store aesthetic.
I know it’s not old but Midsommer Murders is good. Also if you have never seen Monty Pythons Flying Circus I’d check that out. It’s a million times better than the movies. Look up The Bishop on YouTube. I’d watch that show if it was real.
I love Monty Python and I really liked Midsomer Murders. I prefer the first Barnaby though. Maybe I’ll give it another chance because I stopped watching when they had an episode about drag queens (from 2022). I hear the guy from Doc Martin may take over. I want to get the Midsomer books. Bishop? Ok I’ll look it up
If you want something different, try Danger UXB. It's about a man who is forced to do on the job training as a bomb disposal officer in London during the Blitz. It gets too heavy into the soap opera aspects after a while, but each episode is at its heart about a bomb and how to get rid of it.
Cool! Thanks!
sounds a lot like Green Acres, a show from around-ish that time from the states.
Similar concept. Green Acres is very funny too.
Good Neighbors is awesome. I was recently on an old Brit kick and watched it. Only Fools and Horses is pretty good, too. Open All Hours is ok. Black Books is good. Last of the Summer Wine is relaxing and is devoid of politics from what I've seen. Dad's Army is fun. Mind Your Language is pretty good, too.
If you can find it, watch Campus. That show was incredible. Saw it on Amazon, I think, years ago and haven't been able to find it since. It was from the early 2000's and was very politically incorrect and funny.
'Allo 'Allo! was hilarious. I really liked how they handled foreign languages in particular.
Thanks! Heard of a few of those but haven’t seen them. Will definitely look them up
One of my all time fave britcoms.
I fell in love with it from the first episode
It's def goals for suburb life lol... lawns are useless. Gardens and chickens are what's up. Sustainaburbs!
It's an excellent show. Love it.
Sounds like Green Acres. Wonder if either inspired the other?
I'm an Anglophile myself. It's my highest match on 23andMe.
I love Green Acres as well but this is different in the sense that they stayed at their house. Although maybe they got the general premise from Green Acres.
May not have been as popular as some of the shows you're watching or being suggested, but Gerry Anderson made some good stuff back in the day, too. I grew up on Stingray and Thunderbirds, but I've been recently rewatching Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. It's a good sci-fi, espionage show with miniatures and puppeteers using super-marionation if you're into that sort of stuff.
There are full free episodes of captain scarlet old and new on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqS4kWK6aV0
Good looking out.
Looks like there's a documentary too, definitely going to check that out.
I’ve been meaning to watch Thunderbirds
Careful, there are several different iterations -- I personally prefer the originals from the 1960s, but your mileage may vary.
Don't do British TV honestly, even the old stuff is mostly shit, there was some okay shows like Dad's Army which had it's moments but most of it even back then was just bad. The one thing I could maybe recommend is Top Gear, that's because it's James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond though and it was pretty much the only British thing I watched.
Also don't get the international version of it if you do watch it, they make a lot of copyright references in the show and the international version ruined the series with bad music editing because they didn't want to pay for the music rights make sure you get the UK version. If you don't mind poor CGI and corny storytelling there's Dr.Who which people in Britain swear by but it was never really my thing and the fandom act like cultists and you also have Red Dwarf.
Most of British television is made up of either sports or awful reality and talk shows and this has been the case for a long while.
Like I said I’ve always love British stuff so there is that bias. I enjoyed Doctor who before they started attacking fans. Red Dwarf is really good. I’ve heard about Dad’s Army and am meaning to watch it. I’ve heard great things about Top Gear. They haven’t been bitten by the current year bug? Also, isn’t there a show called Clarksons Farm tied to Top Gear?
So bear with me on this because it gets a little bit complicated, there's the original UK version of Top Gear, there are International spin offs so if you download a different version you'll get different people who tried to copycat the format and have failed miserably. The Top Gear show with Clarkson, May and Hammond ended because Clarkson punched one of his producers in the face because he got served a cold meal after a long day and there was clearly some kind of drama behind the scenes.
The BBC then ended the contract with them which was due to expire anyway and that's when they started up The Grand Tour which is the new version of the same show but now they're with Amazon and it's a totally private enterprise. The Grand Tour is on it's last episode September 12th and they've decided to stop doing the show now because they're all getting very old which is fair enough.
Clarkson's Farm is Jeremy Clarkson by himself and that's his real farm he owns in the Cotswolds which he decided to take on as part of his retirement and also film everything going on, hope that clears everything up. Jeremy Clarkson is 62 now so it's no surprise he's calming things down a bit.
If you don't mind kid's shows which can be somewhat entertaining, there's also Wallace and gromit and Pingu which make use of claymation to animate, oh and the wombles I suppose lol.
I also enjoyed the show where Richard Hammond created tech on an island.
Brainiac?
The Great Escapists
Better than what happened on John Hammond's islands
They had an American Top Gear on the History Channel, yeah makes sense, and it was pretty good. Adam Ferrara was a host.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought the original American Top Gear wasn’t that bad. Was it as good as the original. Not even close. But Adam, Tanner, and Rutledge were pretty good together and their challenges were just one for one copies of the British show.
I mean, I'm being extremely British, to me there's only one Top Gear lol, the big thing with the whole show was the obvious chemistry between the three which other shows couldn't replicate at all.
The BBC tried going for Top Gear again after they left and it was terrible they had this radio host called Chris Evans and he's a typical BBC presenter soy infused twat because I thought I didn't particularly like his existence before but seeing him pop up on that show I grew up with really irked me. None of them could manage it and get the same ratings and they cycled through presenters repeatedly, until the show finally keeled over I think I don't know if it's even still airing anymore.
What's funny is, they tried so damn hard to astroturf the thing and in the end the public simply refused to acknowledge it because it was always Hammond, Clarkson and May. No one in the UK wants to watch a bunch of out of touch twats from London and they didn't want to watch Americans either on a British car show.
Thanks for the breakdown. Looks like I have a lot to get through. In grade school they showed us Wallace and Gromit
What do you think about Keeping Up Apperances?
Never watched it or heard of it, some of the stuff was before my time I think depending on when it aired.
Currently watching it now