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Thread #58852   Message #934273
Posted By: Don Firth
15-Apr-03 - 06:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Best Brit-com
Subject: RE: BS: Best Brit-com
Lots of them, but particular favorites are As Time Goes By, Good Neighbors, The Vicar of Dibley, and Waiting For God. In addition to being hilarious, I regard the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister pair as the best telecourse I've ever seen on the way politics actually works (or doesn't). Too bleedin' true, no matter what political system you're talking about.

I couldn't begin to list the more serious British shows we (my wife, Barbara, and I) have watched and enjoyed. After watching the remake of The Forsyte Saga a few weeks back, Barbara got the videotapes of the older series (with Susan Hampshire, Eric Porter, et al) from the library and we're watching that. We actually like it better than the remake. They haven't shown Monarch of the Glen on our local PBS affiliate, but Barbara discovered that the library has at least some of the videotapes. We've watched the first couple of episodes, but the rest of the tapes are either checked out or missing. We've got them reserved, so I hope it isn't the latter. We're hooked.

Don Firth