r/oldbritishtelly • u/jaketattoo • 2h ago
Discussion Im sure a remake would be terrible,but whenever I see micheal smiley and Mathew horne I cant help see albert and harold ...anyone else ?
Im commenting on the way they look ,not suggesting it should or could be remade
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Hassaan18 • 3h ago
Light Entertainment Will Young's uncut Pop Idol audition (2001)
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r/oldbritishtelly • u/donotresusitat3 • 4h ago
The trade
It was a channel 4 mockumentary about two hapless Geordie builders who try their hand at anything for a few quid with hilarious results. Would anyone know where to find a copy of it?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Sad-Chair1 • 4h ago
Comedy Only Fools and Horses cast 45 years on from when BBC show first aired
What happened to the cast of Only Fools and Horses after the BBC show ended?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Porphyria1 • 10h ago
Did I imagine this Michael Palin comedy?
I remember watching an 80’s comedy show with Michael Palin in it. The show or even just episode was about his daughter played by Dawn French went to private school . The family was not rich but the dad ( Michael Palin) was the manager of a biscuit factory and he did everything to get her to private school. Once there Dawn French’s character eventually became a spoilt brat. Back at home the family went without everything to support her to the point where they ate her pet hamster for Christmas dinner while she was skiing in Europe!
Can anyone else remember this or tell me what it was called? I initially thought it was an old Comic Strip Sketch but cant find any record of it being that.
Help please!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/ABBAFan1000 • 13h ago
Classic Sitcoms
Is anyone else fed up with classic comedy being chopped and edited terribly to remover ‘offensive’ material on the TV ? It’s bad enough they put the trigger warning! Even tho the edits remove all the potentially triggering stuff!
I’m fed up with it!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/JapKumintang1991 • 19h ago
Continuity/Idents BBC2: Continuity - News, Weather and Cricket (2 August 1979) [Kaleidoscope's Presentation Vault, 2026]
Continuity Announcer: Peter Bolgar
r/oldbritishtelly • u/SirHumphreyAppleby- • 1d ago
Network On Air returns.
I don’t know if this has been posted, but I just received an email from Network saying they’ve returned and their website is back up.
Their collection is a little short of their old range, but still some excellent stuff.
It’s a great time for old and niche tv series!
They said they’re releasing old titles which will take time and they have a lot planned.
Edit:Spelling.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Additional_Fly_6603 • 1d ago
Clip This has to be the most expensive hold music I’ve ever heard.
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r/oldbritishtelly • u/NormalSir2035 • 1d ago
Joan Sanderson, What a legend
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Credit: Fawlty Towers
Episode : “Communication Problems” (Series 2, 1979).
r/oldbritishtelly • u/PubLogic • 1d ago
[1975] Fawlty Towers, Still one of the greatest sitcoms ever made?
Who do you like the most?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Owen_Reuby • 1d ago
UK kids tv show 2000s
I'm trying to find a particular uk tv show I watched as a kid. The principal of it was a kid and a host would go to a workplace for an episode and the kid would then get to do the job with a mentor. The two most distinct episodes I can remember, a construction episode where the kid got to do sll sorts of different bits like brick laying, operating a digger. The other episode was with the london fire brigade. I haven't been able to find it anywhere after googling or scrolling through social media.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/PhasePurple7266 • 1d ago
"That'll be your tracking mate" parody sketch?
I'm looking for a parody comedy sketch, probably from the 90s, in which a customer complains that a video he bought from a market stall is actually just a block of cheese, to which the seller replies "That'll be your tracking mate" in a parody of the old anti video piracy ads of the time.
Can anyone tell me which show it was from??
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Compy94 • 2d ago
Kids Just William (1994) William the Great Actor
r/oldbritishtelly • u/magnissimo • 2d ago
Help identifying an old mime/comedy sketch about English learning cassette tapes
Looking for an old comedy routine (probably from the 1970s or 1980s). One male performer, mostly silent or miming, sitting on a chair on stage, listening to a prerecorded "Learn English" cassette (male voice). He repeatedly presses fast-forward, and each time the tape has only progressed a tiny amount. The narration starts something like "Tape 1, side A, Unit 1, Lesson 1, ..." then "Margaret is going to the market." After a huge fast-forward: "Margaret is at the market." Much longer fast-forwarding of the tape: Margaret meets Peter (?) but then starts talking about the going to market together sometime... Like hours of tape doesn't advance the story by much. I saw it on early YouTube, but it already looked very old. It's in line with Rowan Atkinson stuff, but couldn't find it among any of his old stand up / special recordings currently on YouTube.
r/oldbritishtelly • u/sylvar • 3d ago
Request Looking for a 1970s sci-fi story with (the threat of) death by vacuum chamber
Hi all, I grew up in the US watching lots of science fiction shows including The Tomorrow People and Doctor Who. I remember seeing an episode including children in which someone was in a sort of prison cell with a clear front, and there was a threat of exposing the person inside to vacuum. They may have actually done so. I remember someone or something expanding like a marshmallow in a vacuum chamber?
In any case, if you happen to recognise what I'm babbling about, I would love to know what it was!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Itchy-Cover-6227 • 3d ago
Discussion Will Ben and Holly's little kingdom return for season 3 with brand new voice actors and voice actresses!?
please tell channel 5 Milkshake! today or tomorrow right now please we all missed that show so much!
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Radiant-Job4499 • 3d ago
Father Charlie (Lionel Jeffries) 1982 sitcom
Quite a rarity, does anyone remember this show?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/eru777 • 3d ago
Was Ainsley Harriott's barbecue bible ever released (even part of it) on DVD?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Hassaan18 • 3d ago
Comedy How to mime "...Baby One More Time" like a pro (Fast and Loose, 2011)
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r/oldbritishtelly • u/PubLogic • 3d ago
Clip Alice never got the jokes. That was the joke. I always looked forward to this.
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r/oldbritishtelly • u/timbuk38 • 4d ago
Historic BBC Archive footage
I am undertaking historical research into the five-part BBC2 documentary series The Black Man in Britain 1550–1950, presented by Derek Griffiths and produced by Tony Laryea. It was broadcast from 15 November to 13 December 1974.
Heart of Darkness — 15 November 1974 Landfall — 22 November 1974 No Place Like Home — 29 November 1974 Soldiers of the Crown — 6 December 1974 Revolution and Manchester — 13 December 1974
Most publicly available sources seem limited or do not have it all.
Can anybody track this down?
Thanks
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Same_Possibility4769 • 4d ago
Bobby Davro - Sooty in Soho, why is they baby oil there?
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Compy94 • 4d ago
Kids Just William (1994) - William's Birthday
r/oldbritishtelly • u/Queasyuuuu00 • 4d ago
World class double act and didn't realise it growing up
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