Beverly Hillbillies was my favourite American Comedy - It started to get quite surreal in later years and I well remember Jethro becoming leader of Hippy commune because he dressed as Robin Hood and smoked Crawdads :-)

I never really got into British Comedies (Which is odd, being British and all that) until Python came along but I enjoy re-runs of Steptoe and Till Death us do part now. Full agreement with Richard about The Avengers and not the new ones (Apart form Purdey). Steed was my role model and if you saw any other 14 and 15 year old with a rolled umberella you could bet it was Patrick MacNee's fault. Even at that tender age there was something about Dianna Rigg in a leather cat-suit... :-) As teenagers though the MUST watch at our school was The magic Roundabout. So wacky at times. I decided to become Mr McHenry in later life and bought a tricycle. Well, A Reliant Supervan:-)

Branded - That brought back a flash of the theme song

"Branded, marked as the one who ran
What do you do when you're branded
When you know you're a man?"

Talking of songs - How about 'Circus Boy' with Davey Jones before he became a Momkee? I seem to remember being frightened of the lions jumping toward the camera in the opening credits! Funny thing is I have had an irrational fear of stone lions since!

Eeeeh. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.