It's all about opinions Jerry! We have different ones and you don't really need to try to force yours. I love Morecambe and Wise, Les Dawson and Fawlty Towers.
The golden girls, Barney miller, Maude, Soap, cops Columbo, Kojak best american programmes. Morecambe and wise brilliant, les, Frankie, Benny hill i was brought up on 1970 80's t v we never had it so good.
Absolutely love The Sweeney Tell you summat rather watch any cop series from the 70s The Sweeney Professionals Kojak Starsky & Hutch All streets above so called crime drama now
rising damp,dick emery show,the plank,open all hours, the likely lads,russ abbot's madhouse,dave allen show,dads army. so many good shows
Almost all crime drama (except the Blacklist) is just the same. Find the crime, identify the main suspect, make the viewer think they are guilty - find alternative slant, find a much more likely suspect, arrest the first person you questioned as a witness!!! Old cop shows are miles ahead in writing
Buffy the vampire slayer. Battlestar Galactica. Dr Who, until Russell T Davies left. Since then it's slowly gone downhill. And a word for MASH the film. 50 years old next year. Astonishing piece of work.
Wish they would still show Hancock, Bilko and the Laurel and Hardy films at around 9.25am on BBC 2 like they used to.
I think if Fawlty Towers had a more sympathetic main character then I would have maybe liked it more. I like a good anti-hero but Basil Fawlty was just a twat.
I just never found him funny Mind I did like the life of Brian which is strange considering I'm a strict catholic
I suspect that some are finding it difficult to compare two different genre's. M&W are Stand Up comedians. John Cleese is an actor who does comedy. However, in defence of Cleese, he was brilliant playing the, more or less, straight role to Les Dawson in his shows, and without him the Python sketches were not as good as those with him.
You really have never understood it have you In answer to the OP, absolutely love MASH, fond memories watching that with my Mam.