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1980s British comedy television series
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The list 1980s British comedy television series includes
'Allo 'Allo!, The Benny Hill Show, Mind Your Language, Last of the Summer Wine and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
The list consists of 231 members
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'Allo 'Allo!
British 1982–1992 TV series
Overview: 'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom television series, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner and Richard Gibson. Originally broadcast on BBC1, the series ...
Release date: 30 December 1982Director: David Croft, Martin DennisProducer: David Croft, John B. HobbsWriter: David Croft, Jeremy LloydIn WW2 France, Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily ...
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The Benny Hill Show
Television series
Overview: The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketches typified by slapstick ...
Release date: 19 November 1969Genre: ComedyDirector: Dennis Kirkland, John RobinsProducer: Dennis Kirkland, Nigel CookWriter: Cheryl Gilham, Benny HillA skit based show with Benny Hill, often containing smutty humour. 0
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Mind Your Language
British TV sitcom (1977–1985)
Overview: Mind Your Language is a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977. It was produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stuart Allen. Three series were made by London Weekend Television between ...
Release date: 30 December 1977Genre: ComedyDirector: Stuart AllenProducer: Stuart Allen, Albert MosesWriter: Vince PowellBarry Evans plays a put-upon language teacher who tries to make a living by teaching English to immigrants... 0
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Last of the Summer Wine
British sitcom
Overview: Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 ...
Release date: 4 January 1973Director: Alan Bell, Sydney LotterbyProducer: Alan Bell, Sydney LotterbyWriter: Roy ClarkeThree old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about ... 0
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
English television programme
Overview: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven British construction workers who leave the United Kingdom to search for employment overseas. In the first series, the men ...
Release date: 11 November 1983Genre: Drama, ComedyThe adventures of a gang of British workmen abroad. Combines black and white humour with moments of drama... 0
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Are You Being Served?
Television series
Overview: Are You Being Served? is a British television sitcom that was broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was created and written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. Croft also served as executive producer and director ...
Director: Ray Butt, Bob SpiersProducer: David Croft, Martin ShardlowWriter: Jeremy Lloyd, David CroftThe misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store. 0
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The Two Ronnies
British television comedy sketch show (1971–1987)
Overview: The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format ...
Genre: ComedyDirector: Marcus Plantin, Marcus MortimerCast: Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, The Fred Tomlinson Singers, John Owens, Claire Nielson, Barbara DicksonProducer: Terry Hughes, Michael HurllWriter: Ronnie Barker, Peter VincentLong running BBC comedy show consisting of sketches and humourous musical routines involving the large Ronnie Barker and the small Ronnie Corbett... 0
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Rentaghost
British children's television series
Overview: Rentaghost is a British children's television comedy show, originally broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked ...
Release date: 6 January 1976Genre: Family, Comedy, FantasyDirector: David Crichton, Renny RyeProducer: Jeremy Swan, Paul CianiWriter: Bob BlockHarold and Ethel Meaker live in South Ealing and run 'Rentaghost' where they rent ghosts out to the public... 0
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Red Dwarf
British comedy programme
Overview: Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy programme created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult ...
Release date: 15 February 1988Director: Ed Bye, Doug NaylorCast: Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett, Hattie HayridgeProducer: Doug Naylor, Ed ByeWriter: Rob Grant, Doug NaylorThe adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf. 0
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Rab C. Nesbitt
Scottish TV comedy series
Overview: Rab C. Nesbitt is a Scottish comedy television series that originally aired between 1988 and 1999. The show returned for a one–off special in 2008, before being re-commissioned in 2010. Its second run ...Genre: ComedyDirector: Colin Gilbert, Ron BainProducer: Colin Gilbert, Rab ChristieWriter: Ian PattisonRab C. Nesbitt is lowlife scum (and proud of it) in Glasgow, Scotland who spends his time drinking in his local and speaking to the camera about the state ... 0
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Open All Hours
British sitcom
Overview: Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which aired in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme was developed ...Release date: 20 February 1976Genre: ComedyDirector: Sydney LotterbyProducer: Sydney LotterbyWriter: Roy ClarkeArkwright is a tight-fisted shop owner in Doncaster, who will stop at nothing to keep his profits high and his overheads low... 0
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Only Fools and Horses....
British television sitcom
Overview: Only Fools and Horses.... is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen s ...
Release date: 8 September 1981Cast: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack, Buster Merryfield, John Challis, Kenneth MacDonaldProducer: Ray Butt, Gareth GwenlanWriter: John SullivanClassic comedy following the misadventures of two Wheeler Dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods be ... 0
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum
British TV sitcom (1974–1981)
Overview: It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the final months of the ...
Release date: 3 January 1974Genre: War, ComedyDirector: David Croft, John KilbyCast: Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett, Don Estelle, Michael Knowles, Christopher MitchellProducer: David Croft, Graeme MuirWriter: David Croft, Jimmy PerryThe comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and... 0
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Desmond's
British television situation comedy
Overview: Desmond's is a British television sitcom broadcast by Channel 4 from 5 January 1989 to 19 December 1994. Conceived and co-written by Trix Worrell, and produced by Charlie Hanson and Humphrey Barclay, ...
Release date: 5 January 1989Genre: ComedyDirector: Charlie Hanson, David AskeyProducer: Humphrey Barclay, Al MitchellWriter: Trix Worrell, Carol Williams 0
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Brush Strokes
Television series
Overview: Brush Strokes is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1986 to 1991. Written by Esmonde and Larbey and set in South London, it depicted the (mostly) amorous adventures of a wisecracking house ...Genre: ComedyDirector: Mandie Fletcher, John B. HobbsProducer: John B. Hobbs, Sydney LotterbyWriter: John Esmonde, Bob LarbeyJacko is a house painter who "appreciates" women, he sees the best in each one of them and they in turn... 0
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Bread
British sitcom
Overview: Bread is a British television sitcom, written and created by Carla Lane, about a close-knit, working-class family in Liverpool, England. It was produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 ...
Release date: 1 May 1986Genre: ComedyDirector: Robin Nash, John B. HobbsProducer: Robin Nash, John B. HobbsWriter: Carla Lane 0
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You Rang, M'Lord?
UK television series airing between 1988 and 1993
Overview: You Rang, M'Lord? is a BBC television sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army. It was broadcast between 29 December 1988 and 24 April 1993 on the BBC. The show was set ...Release date: 29 December 1988Genre: ComedyDirector: Roy Gould, David CroftProducer: David CroftWriter: David Croft, Jimmy Perry 0
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Yes Minister
British political satire sitcom television and radio series
Overview: Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Comprising three seven-episode series, it was first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime ...
Release date: 25 February 1980Genre: ComedyDirector: Peter Whitmore, Sydney LotterbyCast: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott, John Nettleton, Neil FitzwiliamProducer: Peter Whitmore, Sydney LotterbyWriter: Antony Jay, Jonathan LynnThe Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power ... 0
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To the Manor Born
BBC television sitcom
Overview: To the Manor Born is a BBC television sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special one-off episode was produced in 2007. Starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the first 20 episodes ...
Release date: 30 September 1979Director: Gareth GwenlanProducer: Gareth Gwenlan, Justin DaviesWriter: Peter Spence, Christopher BondAudrey fforbes-Hamilton is sad when her husband dies but is shocked when she realises that she has to... 0
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The Young Ones
British sitcom
Overview: The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC Two for two ...
Release date: 11 November 1982Genre: ComedyDirector: Paul Jackson, Geoff PosnerProducer: Paul Jackson, Geoff PosnerWriter: Ben Elton, Rik MayallThe crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain. 0
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