My favourite British Sitcoms

A ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion during World War II.

Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.

In France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René.

Accident-prone Frank Spencer fails to navigate the simplest tasks of daily life, while also trying to look after his wife and baby.

Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.

The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store.

Comic goings-on in this series. Ted's the camp comic but is always on the lookout for a way to make money. Gladys has her eye on the boss, and Peggy wants to swap her mop and cleaner's outfit for a 'yellow coat.'

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.

A British sitcom about the everyday life of a working-class family in Northwest England: watching telly, smoking, drinking, and bickering.

Adventures and misadventures of Lord Meldrum, his family and their servants in the 1920s.

Gordon Brittas is the manager of the Whitbury-Newtown Leisure Centre. Despite his good intentions, everything seems to go wrong when he's around, despite the best efforts of the center staff and his long-suffering wife, Helen.

Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.

The crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.

Funky hospital-based sketch-comedy-drama type show.

Two siblings share their Friday-night dinners at their parents' home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.

Set in Valco, a fictional supermarket in Warrington in northwestern England, Trollied is a sitcom that puts a comic twist on one of our most familiar everyday surroundings.

Sitcom exploring the trials and tribulations created by one man and two women flat-sharing in the 70s.

George and Mildred Roper have just moved into a middle-class neighborhood.

A comedy of the life of a divorced father and his two daughters.

The mishaps of slacker Lee and the love of his life, Lucy along with their friends & family.

Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.