Travesty that Sorry! has made it on to the list. I caught quite a few episodes on That's Tv at the end of last year and found it entertaining and well acted.
Don't get why sorry is disliked, i enjoyed it. Generally amusing, and a very distinctive theme tune. No masterpiece but I've always had a soft spot for it.
Can't believe Sorry was included in this line up. Sorry was one of the most believable sitcoms ever for me and it really made you part of it's world as a viewer. Language Timothy lol. Down to earth, quiet and thoroughly realistic while being nuttily over the top. Best of British
althought not my favourite sitcom , i still very much enjoyed sorry and watched them all many years ago when they were shown on bbc4, definitely doesn't deserve to be on this list.
I love Let the Blood Run Free. Linda Gibson was perfect as Matron Dorothy Conniving Bitch. And the names of the other characters, Pam Sandwich is just one that makes me chuckle every time I make a, you guessed it, a ham sandwich.
I thought straight away that Bottle Boys was something Jim Davidson would have been in, similar in tone to Up The Elephant and Round the Castle - and there it turned out it was meant for him anyway!
Let the Blood run free was an absolutely legendary sitcom. Jean Kitson and Linda Gibson, along with Brian Nankervis.... Oh that was just the type of weirdness that I needed at that time. Thank you for bringing it back to my memory,
I loved 'Sorry' back in the day the three main cast members were great. The only thing that I found a bit off about it was that the intro always seemed like it belonged to a quiz show, and not a sitcom.
I don't think Sorry quite deserves to be on this list. Okay, not in the league of Fawlty Towers or Porridge. But a decent enough effort, far better than Bottle Boys for example which seemed a decade out of date from the start.
Well The Young Doctors probably only screened in Australia and New Zealand I think. I guess you had to watch the soap to appreciate the humour of the parody, neither of which I was old enough to see or remember back then so I cannot fairly comment on that comedy either.
@@alaricbragg7843 The Young Doctors was cult viewing when I was in the VI form. Border TV showed them weekday afternoons. So bad it was good. There was an episode where 'Bunny's Place'; the local bar blew up (a bomb?) and the flying polystyrene building debris went everywhere. Let the Blood Run Free was a hugely creative show that may have went over the head of some folk and mercilessly parodied the Young Doctors.
Sorry was a bad Sitcom? WTF? It was a brilliant sitcom, very funny. Word to ‘a twisted mind’ you may not have liked it, but bad sitcoms don’t run for 7 years.
Wonder what Timothy, Done with his Mother's body when she died 🤔, Left her Down in the basement I supposed, I can hear him now in his Mother's voice, "Language Timothy." 🙄😁
Because "Sorry" wasn't funny. I hope that helps. Bad sitcoms often run for years. I can respect your preferences. Please respect the tastes of others. Insults are not necessary when it comes to such a trivial matter.
Chris Barrie is superb playing the slimy, the sad, the pathetic and the pompous! The trouble with Prince Among Men is that Gary Prince has NO redeeming features! Yes, Brittas is a socially inept and ineffectual manager, but he'd give you the last pound in his wallet if you needed it Likewise, Rimmer was a self-loathing coward, but frequently came through when needed on Red Dwarf Prince is a bully, braggart, sexist and thinks himself far more intelligent than he is. Yet, no matter what trouble he causes, his status as football's Golden Boy means he NEVER had to face up to the consequences. And audiences won't warm to someone like that!
@@iangascoigne8231 I tried watching The Brittas Empire and couldn't get past the first series. It was terrible. Although, I suppose you could say that the character of Gordon Brittas was something of a precursor to David Brent in the much more superior The Office.
I've DISLIKED this video because SORRY! WAS A GREAT 80'S SITCOM!! How DARE you? It has Ronnie Corbett, for a start, the BETTER part of the Two Ronnies! The domineering mother was harsh, but I loved the father who corrected Timothy on many occasions with "Language, Timothy!" but then there were the moments where they were talking about cricketers and the father said "Langridge, Timothy!" and how can you not like that! What particularly struck me is the episode where suddenly Timothy was never born and everyone didn't know him, very much like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life when he wishes he'd never been born. It was very memorable, it was very emotional when Timothy finally moved out of his parents' house and I will NOT HAVE ANY BAD WORDS SAID ABOUT THIS EXCELLENT 1980'S SITCOM, thankyouverymuch!
It was welcomed by a number of people who identified with Timothy, and found his fight against his overweening parents an inspiration for their own very real struggle. Next in this series: The Two Ronnies, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Monty Python, The Goons and Dad’s Army. Oh wait - to nominate Sorry! as one of the worst tv programmes is an April Fool’s joke, right? Right?
Chris Barrie. A Prince Among Men The scene you showed featured Bryan pringle as the Landlord who was stocking the shelves, He also played a landlord called Arthur Pringle in the second series of Auf Wiedersehen pet. His pub was in Derbyshire, where the Group of builders who were renovating a mansion formerly owned by a Porn baron gangster, At the last episode in Derbyshire they awoke Arthur to inform him they'd bricked up the main entrance to his pub. They then went to Spain to do up a Villa owned by gangster Ally frazer played by Bill Paterson.
Bottle Boys, of which I have no memory at all, would actually have been worse with Jim Davidson. And what a waste of the great Don Henderson's talent. Sorry wasn't terrible, it was just dull - Ronnie Barker's Clarence was far worse. And don't get me started on Laura and Disorder or Lame Ducks.
Let the Blood Run Free is now on my list to watch, looks a damn lot better than that "Carry On Being Shit But This Time In a Hospital". Also, anything with Ronnie Corbett that didn't have Barker in was quite bad. Sorry, not Sorry.
Let the Blood Run Free is an Aussie classic, I loved watching the tv series that I went to studio 10 to watch a episode or two being filmed, they had a audience when filming.
many people hate Sorry cause the mother so vile and bullied Timothy imho, plus Tim was pathetic, the show ran for 7 ? Seasons so it cant been that bad imho
I never heard of A Prince Among Men. I had thought Chris Barrie left Red Dwarf to do The Brittas Empire... The weirdest thing about Sorry was the synthy neon title sequence. It felt like it was more suited to Hitchhiker's Guide or a comedy Dr Who spinoff, than a tale of beige-tinted (or beige-drowned) suburban desperation.
Actually, Chris Barrie did Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire at the same time. 1991 was the fourth series of RD and is the year that TBE started. I actually like TBE but like I said above, I absolutely cannot stand A Prince Among Men!
Barrie did Red Dwarf and Brittas at the same time, although he did briefly leave Red Dwarf to focus more on Brittas near the latter show’s end. APAM came about a few months after Brittas ended.
OOHH! I remember 'Let The Blood Run Free' from somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind. Was it shown on Channel 4 late at night here in the UK at some point? When we were getting loads of Australian TV in the 80's/90's maybe? I have memories of watching it with mates during our video game nights back then. We would sit playing Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 games on one screen, with the TV running on the other side of the room showing late night stuff like Eurotrash etc.
If memory serves, A Prince Among Men got moved to 4.30pm on sunday afternoons to finish out it's second season. I had no idea Sorry ran that long. Didn't it end with him going off in a hot air balloon, having finally broken free of his mother? Language Timothy is a phrase I do still hear occasionally from people, so it did make a mark. Here's a show that just came back to me: Take a letter Mr. Jones. 1970's sitcom. Rula Lenska is the boss. John Inman is her secretary. A male secretary! It's so progressive! With hilarious consequences! But it was on ITV so the latter didn't apply. Cringeworthy theme tune and opening titles. The rest was no better.
Anyone remember Platypus Man? It was some godawful American sitcom buried on itv late at night in the mid 90s. It was about a TV chef who hosted a cooking show for bachelors and espoused on life while he cooked. It’s as dreadful as it sounds. It only ran for a few episodes and stared Richard Jani.
I liked "We Got It Made", but I was a teenager at the time, so... Anyway, another show I liked very much, but remember it as being pretty bad, was a cheesy sci-fi parody called "Quark" on NBC in 1977.
One that should be on a future list is BBC ONE's 'Celeb'. Even though based on a long running Private Eye comic strip about an ageing rock star 'Gary Bloke' and starring Harry Enfield, it failed miserably. It simply did not capture the edginess of the cartoon. Having Amanda Holden as his wife 'Debs' didn't help!
I nominate "Flipside TV." This was a proto-Gogglebox from the mid 00s. However, instead of editing together footage of the public responding to TV clips, it was a live show in which Iain Lee/Richard Bacon/Justin Lee Collins and their Z-lister mates would channel-hop and mutter about whatever was on whilst the show aired.
I fucking loved that! It was the first time I remember seeing Alan Carr, even Frank Carson was on it once or twice and it was hilarious. I liked how it was all ad libbed and not contrived and,even though I like Gogglebox, I feel it can be a bit contrived at times.
I was intrigued enough by this video to look up 'Let The Blood Run Free' and I have to say I find it incredibly funny and quite addictive. It comes across as somewhere between 'The Young Doctors' (I mean it even has a place to 'socialise' called, 'Bunnies') and the Quebec Soap Opera Parody, 'Le Coeur A Ses Raisons' with a large dose of the chaotic slapstick of 'The Young Ones'. The late Lynda Gibson was brilliant in her role as the wicked Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch, overplaying it to the point that she came across as a silent era villain. Thank you for the heads-up, I am already 8 episodes in ! :)
@@TFOOS I read that. So sad. I don't think I know any of her other roles, but in this she was an amazing character actress. She managed to hit just the right note in really playing to the gallery, but reigning it in when necessary.
Never saw Prince amongst men but Barrie does seem to be slightly miss cast as a boring northerner ( I assume that’s what the accent was) instead of a tedious prat from down south. I liked Rimmer and the sports hall guy as well but northern monkey seems to be outside his reach. By’eck
A programme with Ronnie C, Barbara Lott and William Moore ( Mollie Sugden's husband) getting a 'worst of' ? Whatever next, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served, Steptoe & Son, or H-H-Hancock's Half Hour? Sorry but you have really dropped a bollock on this one. You will lose subscribers if you carry on like that, you know?
If these are the worst tv shows ever made, how did ronnie corbetts show SORRY last 7yrs, it must not have been that bad to last that long, usually bad tv shows don't make it past 1 or 2 seasons, but SORRY lasted 7 seasons, it must have done something right to last that long so i wouldn't have it on the list
Another American one for you. In 2008 the (now defunct) tech channel G4 released "Soaceballs: the Animated Series.' A TV series continuation of Mel Brooks's 1987 Star Wars parody movie. Only instead of charming satire, Spaceballs: The Aninated series had crude, cringey juvenile adult humor. Every episode was a parody of somwthing else (the Star Wars prequels, The Lord if the Rings, Jurassic Park, etc). Only Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, & Daphne Zuniga reprised their roles from the movie. The series ran for 15 epiaodes, which was 14 too many (seeing the first episode was enough to know this series was dead on arrival)
There was Roy's Raiders which featured Ed Tudor Pole in a minor role. The comedy was awful with mainly forced characters and it's a great shame that Ed Tudor Pole hasn't yet found a vehicle to properly show his many talents. Poor chap even had his scenes cut from Harry Potter.
Anyone who knows anything about Aussie soaps immediately recognises, 'Let the Blood Run Free', as an obviously parody of a certain other Australian soap called, 'The Young Doctors.' The shonky scenery and, 'over-acting', along with some of the ridiculous plot-lines should have made that pretty clear to anyone. 'Sorry!', was so terrible it lasted for 8 series! It wasn't one of my favourites by a long chalk, but it certainly wasn't one of the worse, either. Formulaic, like a lot of sitcoms were, but far from being the worst on the box.
GOT A VIDEO SUGGESTION - Much Loved Shows that BOTCHED the Ending! I even have a Nomination... A Show I loved, but The ending has me looking back going "SAY WHAT?" And its another Chris Barrie Project! Namely THE BRITTAS EMPIRE - I Loved the show as my Dad used to work for British Rail (Over 55 years in fact, Well... British Rail and later Midland Mainline), and I had met many folks he worked with and ... WOAH BOY! That show was ACCURATE... Every Character was a Stereotype of someone you would 100% meet in any working environment back then... Obviously exaggerated but everyone knew a Colin.... And Barrie as Brittas was BRILLIANT! But that Final Episode WHAT THE HELL!?
I'd say the Legacy of Reggie Perrin was one of the worst series I've ever seen. Having the Reggie Perrin name attached to this dreadful series is a travesty.
@@johnsurrey7426 I hosted the Clunes version but it was actually written by the same guy who wrote the original books and the sitcom. The style was all wrong, and it still wasn't long enough from the original being regularly repeated
@@DenkyManner I didn’t realise David Nobbs was involved. It certainly wasn’t anything like as good as the books or the original series. ‘Don’t look back, you can never look back,’ as The Boys Of Summer says.
The funny thing about We've Got It Maid is that it was at the time that NBC was producing quality sitcoms. Soon Thursday nights would be "Must See TV." They knew HOW to make good shows, they just wanted to make this one. Go figure. While the promise was what we now call objectionable, it was not really THAT bad of a sitcom.
Thanks for "Let the blood run free". It looks really good. Looking forward to watching this so thanks. I've been trying to get into more Australian comedy so double thanks. Been watching a lot of "Big Girls Blouse" & "Fast Forward", brilliant shows
An Australian sitcom I loved was called "All Together Now". It was about a one-hit wonder singer from the 70s who hasn't moved on but has to learn responsibility when he meets his two secret love children.
I am shocked and surprised to see Sorry! appearing in one of these videos. It is true what they say, there is no accounting for taste. I should like to make my own suggestion, the ultimate cringe fest that was the Brittas Empire. How that lasted more than one series, I shall never know.
Hoff The Record should get a mention. It was broadcast on Sky around 2016-2018 and focused on a fictionalised version of the life of David Hasselhoff. A kind of inferior version of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It won an international Emmy although goodness knows why.
I actually went to college with the young actress featured in "A Prince Among Men" (Samantha Power). She was easily the most talented acting student in my time there, and she has had a long acting career since. This was her first major role on TV; she did her best with what she was given, but it wasnt really the best of scripts that she or Chris Barrie has worked with.
Sorry! wasn't the worst Sitcom in my view... But I will be fair... It wasn't good!!! That being said - To this day I still emulate Ronnie Corbet's "SORRY MOTHER" and the fathers "LANGUAGE TIMOTHY!" Christ, I even got my kids copying it!!! LMAO!
That clip of Let the Blood Run Free was hilarious I am going to watch it next. When the sister ran into the scenery I laughed out loud. I loved Sorry great last episode a complete classic.
Anyone else noticed that some of the info on some of these 'offerings', were a mix of descriptive dribble and mis remembered musings from contributions to IMDB and probably other people who gave negative comments on other RU-vid videos, I am a self confessed TellyAddict of the old skool, but even if I had seen a few of them or two or three, I think I would have been very happily listing much more deserving titles than the ones that are in this vid. Nice to see some footage from decades ago. Good upload.
Loved Sorry and Let the Blood run free. Let the Blood run free was very unique in that the audience could vote what the outcome of the cliffhanger would be.
Let the blood run free just reminds me of Bottom! Also, Sorry! is a classic British comedy, I can still hear its theme tune now. As for the rest..... well not everyone can win a race, let alone actually finish it...😂
How about Bobobobs as a contender? I found the English version of Bobobobs had a forgetable opening theme, very forgetable characters with bland character animation (even for 80s BRB standards!), and a terrible ending credits. It just makes you want to go on a different 'space trip'.
Never thought about it before, but was it ever explained why Timothy had a Scottish accent in Sorry, while all the other Lumsden’s were terribly Home Counties? Bang on the head as a baby?
"TLC" BBC Two's desperate attempt at a British "Scrubs." Starred Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen/Inside No.9) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller show/Pointless).
I always thought of Prince Among Men as an alternative universe where Gordon Brittas was a bit more successful. I watched it keenly when I was young as I loved the Brittas Empire but it wasn’t as good. Can I nominate Believe Nothing which was a pseudo sequel to the New Statesman. Had its moments but was a pale shadow of the original
