C4's "They Came From Somewhere Else", just about as English as you like!

How on earth did I miss that one? Hilda Braid as well! Looks like a classic. Must check it out on DVD. Another great lost classic of the English sit-com is the darkly surreal Nightingales with a resident trio of night-watchmen played by Jimmy Ellis (Z-Cars etc.), Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith, My Family etc. and David Threlfall (Shameless etc.). Happily, this came out on DVD a couple of years back allowing its inner mysteries to be explored at leisure. Easily one of the finest sit-coms of all time; in our re-Imagined Village it would required viewing on dark winter nights when our cherished streets are overrun by The re-Imagined Village Young Team...