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Watching

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Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A British television sitcom set on Merseyside that revolves around the relationship between Malcolm, a polite and friendly but dull man from middle-class Meols, and Brenda, a sharp-tongued, rough-arou...

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Shelley

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Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James...

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Rab C. Nesbitt

Rab C. Nesbitt

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Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 7.5

BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string vested layabout who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not gett...

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Gimme Gimme Gimme

Gimme Gimme Gimme

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Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Linda La Hughes (Kathy Burke) shares a flat with Tom Farrell (James Dreyfus). Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's...

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The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line

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Series Age rating: 8 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.

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The Detectives

The Detectives

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.

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Goodnight Sweetheart

Goodnight Sweetheart

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Series Age rating: 5 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when he stumbles upon a portal to WWII-era London and be...

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The Labours of Erica

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Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The Labours of Erica was a 1989/90 British sitcom starring Brenda Blethyn as self-made businesswoman Erica Parsons. The premise of the show was that Erica found a list she had made as a young girl of...

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Last of the Summer Wine

Last of the Summer Wine

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Series Age rating: 8 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their...

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Get Well Soon

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Comedy set in an English Tuberculosis sanatorium in 1947.

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