No wrong answers. Could be a game show, docu-series, fiction, sci-fi, anything that didn’t make it but should have.
It has its flaws, but I quote The IT crowd almost weekly
Good morning, that’s a nice tnetennba.
I’m disabled.
Leg disabled!
And how did it happen, if you don’t mind me asking?
Acid.
I think that’s one of the best episodes in the history of TV.
A fire? At a Sea Parks ?
Sir, the police are here.
They would like to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund.
I enjoyed it in the past, but lost all ability to after it became known what a piece of human shit Graham Linehan is.
Pretty much all of the cast have done better things without him which are more worth watching.
100% it sucks having to reccomend the show, after hearing what he did/is doing.
I first learnt about it via an HBomberguy talk (and wikipedia research to confirm)
Black Books was great.
The little book of calm!
best depiction of a choleric autist so far
Time team. That shit was amazing. It went on for like 20+ years and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it was fascinating. The closest thing we have now is josh gates’ expedition unknown, which is really hit and miss. Recently it’s been so picky about things they’re likely to hit on that some seasons only have 4-6 episodes. He tries to make the finds to be to big. Time team found all kinds of fantastic things because they were just looking for historical significance, not mountains of treasure. But they always found treasures of some kind. That was a really great, fascinating show.
I’m also a really big fan of top gear.
I feel like this about another C4 program of that era - Grand Designs.
Gone on for years now, but it just seeing how these people underestimate what they are getting into and will then just throw extra fuel on the pressure fire “just started renovating this massive listed barn that’s 90% falling down and has no actual foundations, time to have a baby! Oh and you’re also self employed and going to manage the project yourself and do some of the building yourself you say?”
"To sum it up, how financially crippled are you and how many mortgages do you now have 😂 " .
Kevin McCloud is basically taking the piss out of you for the whole show.
It will be weird when it’s not on anymore.
Now we’re going down to the bottom field where Barry and Lucia believe they’ve found a wall.
Yeah, but guess what? They found a wall! It always felt so much better than like supernatural shows where they’re like “we totally found evidence” yeah, sure ya did. “No, we did, see this spec of dust? That’s a ghost”. Alright, but did ya find a floor or nails? Show me the gpr.
You might be interested in the Time Team Classics channel on YouTube. (link)
It’s still going!
Time team?!? Or top gear? Cause I’ve seen the new top gear and it’s… Meh.
No, new Time Team!
It’s not the original crew (mostly) but still really good.
Seriously? I hadn’t seen anything newer than 2014 or so! Is it exclusively BBC? Cause usually I saw it on random public access and Amazon.
Time Team was for Channel 4, but since they cancelled it they’ve done occasional privateer episodes on YouTube.
Time team was Channel 4. Not sure how they sell it abroad.
Absolutely Fabulous is a great sitcom about a teenaged girl dealing with her narcissistic mother’s shenanigans. funny AND has some real moments.
The Young Ones!
Jam.
Dark and weird sketch comedy from Chris Morris (probably best known for the film Four Lions, and the already-mentioned TV series Brass Eye). Transgressive comedy from the past usually either feels tame or completely unacceptable as social mores drift over time, but this (for the most part) still manages to sit in the sweet spot.
Seems my brain just assumed that Brass Eye had already been mentioned… Double checked the thread, and it somehow hasn’t, despite the Paedogeddon episode being one of the most notorious pieces of British TV in history. If you’re going to watch just one piece of Morris’ TV work, it should be this episode.
Bottom
Red dwarf
Such an epic comedy!
I think Red Dwarf isn’t really underrated. It’s considered a highly successful cult classic.
Most people that I talk with about it, haven’t heard of it. I hadn’t heard of it until I started playing Elite Dangerous and one of the available voice packs for a voice assistant was (among many other) for Holy
Huh, mind-boggling.
The first six series of Red Dwarf are amazing and incredible classic television, and the rest of Red Dwarf also exists.
Waiting for God doesn’t seem to get the love it should. That was a brilliantly written show
Great show. Not enough fans of it out there.
Inside Number 9. I don’t hear much talk about it, but for me, it’s up there with Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, etc. for a series of short stories with twists.
You beat me to it!
Some of the episodes are weaker than others, but the depth of characters on the first episode got me hooked on the show.
I forgot about Look Around You. Classic stuff.
Look Around You is great! I remember stumbling on it at 3am as a teen and being so bewildered about what the fuck I was watching!
The four-episode Dirk Gently miniseries.
It was so much better, both as TV and as something in the spirit of Douglas Adams, than that mess of a Netflix series which followed it.
Toast of London, Stewart Lee - 7th greatest comedian special, Duchess of Duke street
Life On Mars
Life on Mars and its sequel, Ashes to Ashes.
I loved Life on Mars, and Ashes to Ashes was one of those rare sequel/reboot things which really added to and honored the original while still being interesting on its own and expertly continuing to develop and explore its world. Great stuff!
I should check this out, haven’t seen the original but the American adaptation was pretty good until they canceled it prematurely
If you liked the American version check out the original, it was so much better.
Copy that, I had intended to but it kinda fell off the radar
Note that you can go in totally fresh storyline-wise. The main plot mystery is mostly the same, but the hints and solution of the mystery were totally changed in the adaptation and have nothing to do with what’s really going on in the original version.
Blake’s 7, at the time for me was the greates show ever. I guess I was the right age.
In terms of innovative storyline and the actors’ performances, Blake’s 7 pretty much still holds up. If you can look past wobbly effects, some plots awkwardly forced in or abandoned due to behind-the-scenes stuff (like cast leaving), and the occasional silly-ass cockroach suit, it’s a great chunk of surprisingly dark, moody, and clever television.
