What British TV series and Movies have you watched old and new?
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NoraLou |
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Posts: 8715 (04/09/08 9:36 AM) Rev. Nora |
Monty Python is one I can think of.
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Posts: 342 (04/09/08 10:31 AM) |
My utmost favorite, "Are You Being Served" with Mrs. Slocum always talking about how she needs to go home to check on her 'p u s s y' meaning
her kitty cat (not the word you dirty minds are thinking of). She always had different colored hair as well.
Trevor Bannister played, "Mr. Lucas" and he was hilarious! 
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theory536 |
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Posts: 8269 (04/09/08 11:41 AM) elxxxx doolittle |
I'm not sure where to start! It's probably easier to ask what I haven't - I never liked "Yes, Minister", I always thought that dull
I never really liked Monty Python or Are you Being Served either - sorry! Hehehe - I know I'm just about the only person ever who doesn't like Python. I like things like Blackadder, Red Dwarf and Steptoe - I think those three are my faves, but I love loads more. I love British films too - especially if they have the Beatles in *goes all patriotic* I really think some of our films are the best in the world - I've never much cared for the
Hollywood-action type stuff.
elxxx
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tehSharpe |
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Posts: 215 (04/09/08 12:30 PM) |
Doctor Who & Torchwood
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Posts: 1663 (04/09/08 12:31 PM) |
When it comes to comedies, I like Only fools and Horses, On the Buses, Keeping up Apearances, French and Saunders and Please Sir, those really make me laugh.
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Posts: 1664 (04/09/08 12:39 PM) |
tehSharpe wrote:
I love Doctor Who and Torchwood. The start of the new series of Doctor Who was on last Saturday  The first episode in the new series was great.
I also love Primeval, another great show, I believe series 1 and 2 are now out on Dvd. |
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Posts: 223 (04/09/08 12:42 PM) |
Yeah it is! I still have to watch it.. I'm so mad about the Torchwood series 2 finale though haha. I love David Tennant
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Palomino7 |
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Posts: 1666 (04/09/08 1:00 PM) |
Yeah, they have killed off Tosh and Owen ( who is meant to be already dead, lol ) Can't wait to see the new series of Torchwood.
David Tennant is
gorgeous.
Did you see him on the weakest link with Anne Robinson.
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Posts: 3225 (04/09/08 2:44 PM) In-a-GaGa-David-a |
Doctor Who (David Tennant is gorgeous),UFO,Red Dwarf,Monty Python,The Avengers,The Prisoner.....just a few.
  
  
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tehSharpe |
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Posts: 225 (04/09/08 4:12 PM) |
Palomino7 wrote: Yes, Yes I have |
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Posts: 3231 (04/09/08 5:18 PM) In-a-GaGa-David-a |
Thank goodness for the "BBC America" channel!
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Posts: 5745 (04/09/08 7:53 PM) Animation Guru |
Jumping into this thread right quick to add my favorites.
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Posts: 5721 (04/10/08 2:30 AM) FVB |
I never heard of most of those, or BBC America. In ages past I used to watch Monty Python once in awhile.
Sally B. 
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Posts: 2997 (04/10/08 4:22 AM) Raspy McSqueaks |
One of my favorite movies is "Girl On A Motorcycle" with Marianne Faithful. It's kind of off balance - like "Head" I had to watch it
several times before it made any sense. It was made in 1967. Hmmmm
 Smashing, Simply
Smashing!
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The Big Dogma |
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Posts: 613 (04/10/08 5:10 AM) GOMOTB |
dydrmblvr wrote: She's a Stone Fox! "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without
error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the
triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic,"
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Palomino7 |
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Posts: 1674 (04/10/08 5:14 AM) |
Talking about British movies made in the sixties, one of the movies I quite like is To Sir With Love.
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The Big Dogma |
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Posts: 615 (04/10/08 7:42 AM) GOMOTB |
A couple of the first British shows I ever really watched & enjoyed her in the USA in the late 60s early 70s time range was "The Saint" with
Roger Moore and "The Avengers" with Patrick McNee & Diana Rigg. Thes shows were in Black & white at the time too. I usually was able to catch
some of the old Dr Who. The Daleks were just too wierd!
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without
error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the
triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt..."Citizenship in a Republic,"
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Posts: 938 (04/10/08 7:53 AM) FVB |
Yes, I love to Sir with Love and Blow UP with David Hemmings
Also anything with Hayley Mills At the moment I like: Property Ladder Come Dine with Me Animal Cops (not British) I also watch the re-runs of The Prisoner and The Saint. xxx Viv xxx |
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Posts: 326 (04/10/08 9:47 AM) |
The only British tv show I can think of that I've watched is "Who's Line is it Anyway" and the only movies I can think of are "Shaun of
the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz". I do enjoy Hayley Mills too, but I think the only things I've seen her in were American shows (the original
"Parent Trap" and it's sequels, and the original season of "Saved By the Bell" which was originally called "Good Morning Miss
Bliss"). I think I saw her on some other Disney movies a while back (obviously re-airings because she was a kid on the ones I saw and I wasn't born
until 1976), but I don't remember the names.
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Posts: 3234 (04/10/08 11:37 AM) In-a-GaGa-David-a |
We have "Girl On A Motorcycle" on DVD and it's really an odd film. Marianne Faithfull is very pretty.
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theory536 |
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Posts: 8273 (04/10/08 12:28 PM) elxxxx doolittle |
OMG I
 Please Sir! I must have seen the film 30 times!
I also really like WLIIA, but I wouldn't really have called that a comedy show - although it is! I love comedy quizzes too like QI
elxxx
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Posts: 5086 (04/10/08 12:51 PM) Fuz Mulder |
I love comedy quizzes too like QI
You guys really have the best quiz shows. Comedy or not comedy. I love QI, so far I have only seen the very first season but I have "E" to watch all ready. And I never can get enough of "Never Mind The Buzzcocks", especially since Simon Amstell is doing it. When I am in England I always watch all kinds of quizzes on TV. *facepalm* I personally think British TV is the best anyway. I like American shows as well but the Brits produce more stuff I really get hooked upon. I adore nearly all the crime stuff. From "A Touch Of Frost" over "Inspector Lynley" to "Silent Witness" and everything in between. Also, of course, there is "Young Ones", and "Only Fools And Horses" (I've only seen a handful of those though  ), "Cold
Feet", "Coupling", Black Books", "The IT Crowd" (they tried to adapt it to German once and it failed BIG TIME!), "Dad's
Army" ... and so much more ...
At the moment I am all about Torchwood and Doctor Who! I never was able to get into Doctor Who before but then the Tennant and Billie Piper appeared on it with the new Who, and I just had to watch it and I got hooked. And from Doctor Who to Torchwood is not a big leap, is it? 
And all the various Jane Austen adaptions. So much love for those British made for TV movies are brilliant in general.
Haha, okay I stop now, I am just way too much in love with British TV at the moment
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Mare55 |
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Posts: 401 (04/10/08 7:00 PM) |
Movies I like are the Full Monty and Shaun of the Dead. Cindy, I also love How Clean is Your House. It amazes me that people actually live in that filth and
don't mind it being shown on TV!!
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Posts: 2054 (04/10/08 7:31 PM) FVB |
I used to watch one in college (a million years ago, before many of you were even born! ) that I think was called "Doctor in the House" (?) - used to
put me on the floor from laughing so hard.
And, of course "All Creatures Great & Small" - I loved that show! Movies - there are lots, but among my favorites are "84 Charing Cross Road" and "Hope and Glory" 
Cindi
"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) "Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Posts: 66 (04/10/08 8:37 PM) stitchy woman |
I've watched "Absolutely fabulous' "benny hill" "Monty Python" the Sean Connery/Roger Moore james bond, monty python and the
holy grail,life of brian and the meaning of life,faulty towers and that's all I can think of as far as british tv shows and movies i've seen right now.
Karen   
"That until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living things,he will never,himself,no peace." Albert Schweitzer |
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Maria
I don't have the chance to always watch it though since it comes on at
5PM Monday through Friday. Weekends is when I catch it. 
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