No wrong answers. Could be a game show, docu-series, fiction, sci-fi, anything that didn’t make it but should have.
BBC Show - Post zombie apocalypse, they’ve managed to cure the zombies and they’re trying to re-integrate into society.
Waiting for God doesn’t seem to get the love it should. That was a brilliantly written show
Great show. Not enough fans of it out there.
Come Dine With Me and Four in a Bed.
I’ll never get over old mate putting the whole whisk in his mouth! 😂
hahahah absolutely!
The Goodies
Cadfael 1994 - 1998
Benedictine monk solves murder mysteries in the 11th century.
The four-episode Dirk Gently miniseries.
It was so much better, both as TV and as something in the spirit of Douglas Adams, than that mess of a Netflix series which followed it.
Black Books was great.
The little book of calm!
best depiction of a choleric autist so far
The League of Gentlemen
It has its flaws, but I quote The IT crowd almost weekly
I’m disabled.
Leg disabled!
And how did it happen, if you don’t mind me asking?
Acid.
I think that’s one of the best episodes in the history of TV.
A fire? At a Sea Parks ?
Sir, the police are here.
They would like to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund.
Good morning, that’s a nice tnetennba.
I enjoyed it in the past, but lost all ability to after it became known what a piece of human shit Graham Linehan is.
Pretty much all of the cast have done better things without him which are more worth watching.
100% it sucks having to reccomend the show, after hearing what he did/is doing.
I first learnt about it via an HBomberguy talk (and wikipedia research to confirm)
I really, genuinely, have always loved Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. It’s got a reputation of being lowest-common-denominator toilet humour, which… it always was. And it had a lot of problems, the worst being that three fifths of the original cast had quit by the end.
But it also had an awful lot of heart. A totally different writing style to any other sitcom I’ve seen. An amazing dedication to silly wordplay. They were constantly trying new things (two public votes, two musical episodes, a horror episode, and a live episode). And there were some genuinely great performances, particularly from Natalie Casey (who carried the heart of the show in later seasons), and, weirdly, Beverley Callard.
Even when it did totally fall apart towards the end, they brought in new cast members and somehow managed to make it feel like a return to form.
Also The Murder Game, a BBC crime-scene investigation reality show that I desperately want the right TV executive to hear about so they can reboot it. 😬
best answer, the others so far mainly seem to be just lesser known rather than actually underrated
IT Crowd
Father Ted is also incredible and highly underrated.
Definitely worth mentioning but also definitely not underrated! We still quote it almost daily “Awright, 'arry? D’you see that ludicrous display last night?” 🤣
For us it’s always “Fire. Exclamation mark. Fire. Exclamation mark.” and Matt Berry’s “Faaaaatheeeeeeeeeer!!”
They just walked it in!
I used to watch As Time Goes By with Judy Dench and Lionel somebody. That was funny.
Also there was one called “Good Neighbours” in American Syndication, and The Good Life in the UK. It was weird and funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life\_(1975_TV_series)
Father Ted
I used to watch a lot of British comedy but never really watched any that aren’t highly rated. The only two that come to mind are Man Stroke Woman and Green Wing
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