Top 20 British TV Series of All Time
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- Does the UK have the best telly in the world? For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 20 British TV Series of All Time. We're looking at Britain's greatest television exports, from comedy to drama, including shows like Line of Duty, Doctor Who, Only Fools & Horses, and more classics. What do you think deserves a spot on this list? Let us know in the comments below!
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Doctor Who is the best.
This is simply just a bad list. How does Spaced and Derry Girls get on it!! Dad's Army should be on it instead of either of those along with Jonathan Creek.
My Family, Coupling are others that I like quite a bit. x:x
Doctor Who 1963-1984, best show ever. After that it was down hill to the woke modern crap that has 60% of viewers switching off.
@@thriddoctor that's not true and time is about moving forward. Try to be open to change it's good for the brain.
What was not on this list was..
The Benny Hill Show
My Family (which is kind of like a British Married... With Children)
Broadchurch was one of my favorites. The combination of Olivia Coleman and David Tennant was priceless!
With the lamest, most lazy, anticlimactic ending in TV world history
Great show!
It's very slow.
Upstairs, Downstairs.
You absolutely must do a part 2! Absolutely Fabulous, Father Ted, Are You Being Served?, Mr. Bean, The Young Ones, Only Fools and Horses, Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Selfridge, the list just goes on and on.
I think that the big takeaway from this comments section is that it is impossible to do a top 20 of UK television. There are simply too many amazing shows.
Foyle’s War, Doc Martin, Vera, Shetland, Grantchester, Call the Midwife are my faves
Yes Minister/Prime Minister?
Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine, As Time Goes By, Waiting for God, Allo Allo, The Thin Blue Line, One Foot in the Grave, The Avengers, The Vicar of Dibley and Father Ted should have been on this list. All of them are brilliant shows.
The bill
Awesome choices
Plus Morse, Not the Nine O'clock News, Drop the dead Donkey, Alas Smith and Jones to name a few
Inbetweeners and Rising damp!
Live action Mr. Bean not being here is criminal
No Upstairs Downstairs? Inconceivable!
Came here to say that!!
No Inspector Morse? Insane.
Must admit, Endeavour is infinitely better!
@@arabellamileham9978 Hardly. Nobody is better than John Thaw
What about Lewis or endeavour or even midsummer murders.
Definitely The Avengers!!! Who can forget John Steed and Mrs. Peel??? As Time goes By, and Are you being Served.
They forgot “Are You Being Served?”
Prime Suspect. Jonathan Creek
No Keeping Up Appearances ?
No Mr Bean ?
No A Touch Of Frost ?
No Midsomer Murders ?
No Heartbeat ?
These shows are legends...
Midsomer Murders, Upstart Crow, Vicar of Dibley, Ghosts, Horrible histories. I mean this should be a far bigger list.
UK Ghosts is so so so so superior to USA one!!
@@monykalynf3604 I totally agree. Couldn't get through the first episode.
Loved Upstart Crow!!
Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes deserved a mention ...
Defo yes.
The Gene Genie
Dad's Army, Mr Bean, Vicar of Dibley... I was expecting these on this list, surprised they didn't make it.
You might need to do a top 50. I mostly enjoy UK crime dramas, but many funny sitcoms too
- Midsomer Murders, Silent Witness, Shetland, Agatha Raisin
- The Thin Blue Line, Dinner Ladies, Black Books and Keeping Up Appearances
- All Creatures Great & Small
I'll probably remember more over the next few days.
Pity the UK are not producing such great shows anymore. ITV usually produces the best TV at present.
Literrally wanted to write this, they could do a top ten of just Graham Linehan
Boy, did I love that "Thin Blue Line". We sucked up anything Atkinson did, and that one was outstanding. Playing merry hell trying to find it either on DVD in a format I can use or streaming or something. What a great show!
how the hell is life on mars not on this list?!
I was sad to see Keeping up Appearances was left out. Brilliant comedy
I was about to say the same thing!
Yes, they must never have seen it, that show is beyond funny, and very good👍
I'm surprised Dad's Army wasn't in the mix. Of all the Croft and Perry series, the best.
Definitely an all time great!
Definitely R U B S
Porridge, Inspector Frost, Top Gear, the Young Ones, Bottom, Fast Show, League of Gentlemen just to name a few.
Well, I suppose there were a few acknowledgements in there that they did make tv shows before 2000.... The Avengers, The Prisoner, Thunderbirds, The Saint, Public Eye, Secret Army, The Onedin Line, I Claudius, Upstairs Downstairs, Dad's Army, Steptoe & Son, Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel
Quatermass, I Claudius, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Blake's 7, State of Play, Vera
FOYLE’S WAR! Not only one of the best shows from the U.K., but probably one of the best written series to ever appear on television anywhere. Period setting is perfectly done, acting is out of this world, each episode includes several complex interwoven storylines done brilliantly. The combination of fiction and non-fiction, of personal stories and historical events has never been bettered. And then there is lead actor Michael Kitchen, who can convey more with a silent facial expression than many actors can with pages of dialogue.
No AbFab?
Honorable mention for The Mighty Boosh. I truly don’t think any tv series ever made could even try to top the imaginativeness of that completely bonkers masterpiece.
I don't get this feeling much, but I remember seeing The Mighty Boosh for the first time and thinking "I've never seen anything like this before". Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, and Fleabag were the British shows that gave me that feeling. That's not a comment on their quality, but just that they really felt totally original.
Many of the shows from Masterpiece Theater were groundbreaking and made British series become global phenomena. Sadly, too many viewers today are unfamiliar with them. Despite the lower budgets many had, and sometimes the need to do sets like theatrical stages, the actors in these shows reflect some of the greatest in British history and many are based on classics of writing that are themselves, masterpieces. The first three (of many) that come to mind are:
- I, CLAUDIUS. - THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. - BRIDESHEAD, REVISITED.
Each features an unbeatable cast, and the content of the stories are deeply profound.
There are so many... British TV shows are the best. I missed All Creatures Great and Small (the classic) and Being Human. Kind regards from Austria.
Being Human was brilliant, but I kind of lost interest when Mitchell was killed off.
love Being Human. It's everything.
Let's see, you've got Doctor Who for number one, as it should be, and also Monty Python, Black Adder, Downton Abbey and Red Dwarf in there, so this Yank is satisfied :) thank you!
I agrée & I’m a yank! 😉😘
Father Ted is amazing! While it's set in Ireland, it was made by a British production company.
you forgot Inside No 9 and the Fast Show!
Top 20 without Porridge, Dads Army, Peaky Blinders, Black Books, Silent Witness, Midsummer Murders, Jonathan Creek, Yes Minister, Dinner Ladies, Mr Bean, Black Mirror, Poirot, One Foot In The Grave, League of Gentlemen
No Top Gear is shocking.
Great list but I loved ‘Yes, Minister’!
Top 100 British Tv series of all time
"Are You Being Served?" "Good Neighbors," "Vera," "Upstart Crow," the list goes on. It's next to impossible to narrow it down to 10.
I was waiting for Midsomer Murders to get a mention, as well as Upstairs Downstairs, the original Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, and Dad's Army.
My top 25 British shows or shows I'd love to come back = Father Ted, Inbetweeners, Only Fools and Horses, Keeping Up Appearances, One Foot In The Grave, Harry Enfield and Chums, Red Dwarf, Young Ones (or Bottom), Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Graham Norton show, Monty Python, Top Boy, and An Audience with..., EastEnders, Corrie, Hollyoaks, Crimewatch, Line of Duty, The Bill and Absolutely Fabulous, Rub Wax show, Jo Brand Show, Lenny Henry show, Jeeves and Wooster and Nurses, London's Burning, Art Attack, CDUK/SMTVLive, Big Breakfast, Biker Grove and Peep Show
My 30* I edited 😋
Yeah I thought Corrie would be number one but they obviously skipped over Soaps sadly
Primeval. They show look like it been forgotten but it will always be remembered to me.
No Morse/Lewis/Endeavour? No Last of the Summer Wine?
No Midsumer Murders?
No As Time Goes By?
What kind of list is this?
As time goes by, vicar of dibley and keeping up appearances are favs here
Death in Paradise should be in the top 10, but not even a mention.
I have been rewatching the IT Crowd. It is still funny to me, even after seeing every episode quite a few times, same goes for Red Dwarf. Seems a top 20 isn't enough. Some of my favourites that were left out:
1. 'Allo 'Allo
2. Keeping Up Appearances
3. Midsomer Murders
4. Father Ted
5. A Touch of Frost
6. Last of the Summer Wine
7. The Two Ronnies
8. Death In Paradise
9. Top Gear
10. Mr Bean
11. Larkrise to Candleford
12. The Avengers
13. Minder
14. Desmond's
What about Rumpole of the Bailey?
This is a great list to be sure, but I truly don't think such a list can be complete without Poirot or The Young Ones. Poirot, I believe, defines British murder mystery and was so insanely well-made and I'm not sure you get more British than David Suchet's interpretation of Agatha Christie. And The Young Ones changed the face of British comedy irrevocably. I would certainly argue (and I know I might be creating the environment for a comments argument) that it is far more influential and quite frankly better than Fawlty Towers. And one final quibble: while I do agree that what Moffat and Gatiss did modernizing Sherlock is totally brilliant and fresh and was insanely popular, the absolute best portrayal of the iconic detective was Jeremy Brett's.
Any list without 1967s `The Prisoner` anywhere on it, is no list to me.
A Touch of Frost.
The Prisoner is my all time #1.
I, Claudius
The Avengers
Yes, Minister
Killing Eve (until the last five minutes of the finale!)
The Saint
As Time Goes By
Keeping Up with Appearances
Are You Being Served
And, of course, Masterpiece Theater
No BBC Ghosts or The Vicar of Didley or The Inbetweeners then, I hope you will do another top 20 list with this shows on it and many others that didn't make it
Pride & prejudice the 90’s series that inspired Bridget Jones’s Darcy, Morse, Vera, Bean,abfab, the young ones, time team, etc top 50 would probably still not be enough to list all that I love
The Professionals should be up there too!
Keeping Up Appearances
Absolutely Fabulous
The Vicar of Dibly
To the Manor Born
and of course...
Are You Being Served?
The Prisoner, I Claudius, The Sweeney, Rising Damp, The Singing Detective, Minder, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Likely Lads.
Yeah - I’m an old codger, and whilst I don’t agree that the past was any sort of golden age - yours is an “all time” list made by someone a lot younger than me.
Many good ones, but also many I never heard of (But then I'm Swedish). Some tv-shows you forgot to mention in this video that are my personal favorite where:
* Midsomer Murders
* Death in paradise
* Allo Allo
* Lark Rise to Candleford
* Grantchester
But I also love:
* The Crown
* Downton Abbey
* Sherlock
* Black Adder
* Dr Who
* Good Omen
* Monty Pythons flying circus
So proud to be British ❤
Very surprised not to see One Foot in the Grave featured on this list. Undoubtly had a harder edge to it than OF&H for example, but still an all time classic.
You missed - Life on Mars, Broadchurch, one of the Morse shows (my choice would be Endeavour), Foyle's War, Mr. Bates vs the Post Office
Men Behaving Badly! (Not season 1).... captured the zeitgeist of its time.
Yeah im amazed they managed to turn it into such a good show, Harry Enfieled was totally miscast
You mention Faulty Towers, but not “Are You Being Served”? I loved that series about the Grace Brothers department store.
Swap Downton for 'Upstairs Downstairs', 'Luther' for 'Inspector Morse' and 'The Thick of It' for either 'The Inbetweeners' or 'The Vicar Of Dibley' and you have a top list
I haven’t watched tv in 4 years nearly and I have to say I don’t miss it.
Are you Being Served? Keeping up Appearances and Midsommer Murders
I think Being Human and The Fades are very unique shows… I liked them. They didn’t last the same way for me as Dr Who, but they’re still very good
A masterclass in acting: TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY. Top of the line writing.
(The follow-up of SMILEY’S PEOPLE was excellent but not quite as stunning.)
I thought I would have seen
Life on Mars
Ted Lasso (set in UK, but not sure if it is considered a UK series)
Broadchurch
Jekyll
Primeval (2007 - 2011) needs to be on there and a Bit of Fry and Laurie, Horrible Histories too
Brideshead Revisited, I, Claudius, To The Manor Born, The Irish R.M., Rumple of the Bailey, The Forsyte Saga (1967), The BBC Television Shakespeare, Upstairs, Downstairs, Jeeves and Wooster, - to name a few. It would be easier to compile a list of the Bottom British TV Series of all Time.
There are some other good shows that didn't make the list. Maybe they could've at least been honourable mentions?
Still Game 🏴
Father Ted, Derry Girls ☘️
Red Dwarf
The IT Crowd
The Office
Blackadder
Mr. Bean
Danger Mouse
Are you Being Served? The Vicar of Dibley? Torchwood? So many great British series :)
Your missing, silent witness, life on mars & ashes to ashes ❤
Peep Show at four and no Auf Wiedersehen Pet. What a list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mrs. Browns Boys and Goodnight Sweetheart was me absolute favourite!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Father Ted 🥰🥰
Then Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Bean and anything else that Rowan Atkinson was in. The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family!!
Good list Great shows.
I would definitely add Derry Girls!
I hope The Traitors make it on here in years to come.
This must have been a very difficult list to put together but no arguments from me about the top two.
Prime Suspect/ Scott and Bailey/Criminal/Esat Enders/Gentleman Jack
I would have thought that Monty Python and Blackadder would be closer to the top. Also, where is Ab Fab?
Oh my goodness - just too many to name .. Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister, Keeping Up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine, Are You Being Served, Open All Hours, Absolutely Fabulous, Gentleman Jack, Killing Eve, Inspector Morse, Endeavour, Lewis, Midsommer Murders … I could go on and on.
Outnumbered bered was very funny. We love The Doctor!
I'm sure that anything with David Tennant would make this list if it was a series
Death in paradise, inspector barnaby, inspector morse, ripper street. I love the brit crime series. A fan from germany😊
Where's Ted lasso, young ones, father Ted, byker grove, Grange hill, Waterloo road pre-2023, Inbetweeners and FND
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Time Team.
Neverwhere
As others have mentioned,
I Claudius
Blake’s Seven
Mr. Bean
I’m surprised there aren’t any documentaries here
OK, I'm commenting from across the pond -- excuse my Texas accent if it comes through from time to time -- but most of what I get to see of British TV has come across local Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS). Most PBS programming is made in the USA, but the Masterpiece series features a LOT of British telly. PBS is where I cut my teeth on Monty Python, Doctor Who and Red Dwarf.
But there's one series that DIDN'T make the list that my wife and I agree should have: Vera! Whose smeg up left Vera off the list?
And don't blame it on Baldric . . . .
This is England deserves a mention
Maybe do a list of the best children’s shows from the UK 🇬🇧 like Fireman Sam Bob the Builder Peppa Pig Danger Mouse and Thomas the tank engine and friends
and the sweeney/ avengers / boys from blackstuff... i could and will go on. this list is bow locks
I' Claudius, Upstairs Downstairs and Prime Suspect. Any could have taken Sherlocks place. It wasn't about Sherlock Holmes. It was about showcasing Benedict. I am in the states and know these 3 well.
My personal gem is "My Family"
Gavin & Stacey. Waterloo Road and Casualty.
WHY ISN'T BLAKE'S 7 AND DAD'S ARMY ON THIS LIST!?!!?
Shameless!!!😂❤
Oj, Mr. Bean deserved at least an honourable mention. ❤
I would add Sandbaggers
I think that I am the only person in world, that still has not seen Doctor.Who. 😊😊
As an American who lived in the UK for over 10 years, I’m surprised The Inbetweeners, Life on Mars, Mr Bean, Benny Hill, Misfits and Black Mirror are not included, or is this too modern?
No Life On Mars??? You're kidding me