TV Comedy
Television comedy had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. The situation comedy, or sitcom, has been the most common, successful and culturally significant type of television comedy. As the name suggests, these programs feature recurring characters placed in humourous situations. Since the early 1950s with "I Love Lucy" in the US and "Hancock's Half Hour" in Britain, sitcoms have always had a special place in the hearts of viewers and gathered highly devoted followers, as the familar characters often become beloved. Below you may scroll though time to your fondly remembered telly programs. For Alice's motherlode of Television, stay with "Television Shows".
Pictured: Ricky Gervais as The Brentster in the BBC's brilliant 'The Office'.
One Foot in the Grave: Series 5 (1994)
7.6/10
Director: Susan Belbin
Starring: Angus Deayton, Annette Crosbie, Janine Duvitski, Richard Wilson, Owen Brenman
The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by Annette Crosbie. Wilson... Read more
One Foot in the Grave: Series 6 (2000)
7.6/10
Director: Susan Belbin
Starring: Angus Deayton, Annette Crosbie, Janine Duvitski, Richard Wilson, Owen Brenman
The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson and his wife, Margaret Meldrew, played by Annette Crosbie, in their battl... Read more
One Foot in the Grave: The 1996 and 1997 Christmas Specials (1996)
7.9/10
Starring: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie
The quintessential explosive pensioner Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) features in two feature length Christmas specials. Good will to all men be damn... Read more
Only Fools and Horses: Series 2 (1982)
8.9/10
Director: Ray Butt
Starring: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Lennard Pearce
Those wheeler-dealers that run Trotter's Independent Trading Company are at it again, purveying goods that were last seen falling off the back of a lo... Read more
Only Fools And Horses: The Specials - Volume 2 (1987)
8.9/10
Director: Tony Dow
Starring: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield
David Jason ('A Touch of Frost', 'The Darling Buds of May', 'Open All Hours') stars in this award-winning BBC series about crafty Cockney confidence t... Read more
Only When I Laugh: Series 1 - 4 (1969)
6.5/10
Starring: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Richard Wilson, Christopher Strauli
From the pen of Eric 'Rising Damp' Chappell, this dry comedy series follows the exploits of three hypochondriacal hospital patients who drive the doct... Read more
Ooh, You Are Awful (1972)
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, William Franklyn, Pat Coombs, Norman...
Charlie and Reggie are two London crooks who con a couple of rich Italians out of half a million pounds. Reggie stashes the loot in a Swiss bank accou... Read more
Open All Hours: Series 1 (1976)
7.7/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, the stuttering grocer, in the first series of this cornershop comedy. Arkwright's urge to take money from his custom... Read more
Open All Hours: Series 4 (1985)
7.7/10
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Starring: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Ronnie Barker's great creation Arkwright continues to mind the store where the only thing going cheap is talk. The elusive Nurse Gladys Emmanuel is st... Read more
Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 (2013)
8.2/10
Starring: Kate Mulgrew, Jessica Pimentel, Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Joel Garland,...
The story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transp... Read more