I was just thinking about the British TV that our PBS stations no longer play. I adore Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served?, and As Time Goes By, but with their British television budget reduced, I wonder what they still have available. They did stop playing Keeping Up Appearances and As Time Goes By for a while, and I thought it was a good idea to let them come back refreshed. However, they replaced it with things like Mulberry. I don't know anyone who needs to see Mulberry. So, here is a list of what I'm missing, or what I remember them playing that they haven't in ages, or don't enough, or whatever:
1) Open All Hours
2) Fawlty Towers
3) Home to Roost***
4) It Ain't Half Hot, Mum (Not a favorite)
5) Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Also not a favorite)
6) Goodnight, Sweetheart***
7) Caroline***
8) Kiss Me Kate (Never ever ever a favorite)
9) That's My Boy (Corny, but Mollie Sugden is a personal favorite)
10) Mulberry (Best viewed in moderation)
11) Fresh Fields
12) Only Fools and Horses
13) The Piglet Files
14) May to December (A Bit Eh)
15) A Fine Romance
16) The Duchess of Duke Street
17) Waiting for God
18) Inspector Morse (Of the varied sort)
19) To the Manor Born
20) Monarch of the Glen (listed on their website, and might be an amusing diversion)
21) One Foot in the Grave
22) Bless Me, Father
23) The Vicar of Dibley (seen and seen again, but still good and possibly this time with the end of series episodes)
24) Blackadder
25) My Hero
26) Good Neighbors
27) Chef! (same as VoD, though without the new episodes)
28) Red Dwarf
29) Born & Bred (Never ever liked at all)
29) All Creatures Great & Small
30) The Thin Blue Line
31) 'Allo 'Allo (I've heard bad things, but I'm curious anyways)
32) The Peter Principle (Is that the name? It's Jim Broadbent being a bank manager or something)
33) On the Up (haha Cannot leave the hilarious Dennis Waterman off the list)
I'm sure there are others that I'm not thinking of. Also, there is Last of the Summer Wine. I don't believe they will ever stop playing that. Honestly, I've seen them get to the end of the episodes they have and start over where they have earlier episodes. Two for one deal with the BBC? Also, I know they aren't BBC America and will not be playing Little Britain or Black Books or Spaced or The Robinsons, but who knows. I see they're going to play The Old Guys at the end of the month and that is awesome! More like that--on Sundays, bitte.
*sigh* I just miss the variety, I guess!
I'd like them to run Only Fools and Horses again! I agree with the entire list, obviously, but the little I've seen of that was very enjoyable! I know I've seen a bit of Porridge but I can't recall if PBS ever played it ... or if I liked it. Hmm.
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No one can leave Dennis Waterman off the list. They make fun of him in Absolute Power, too. Apparently his lot in life is to be a one-man one-liner.