Travesty that Sorry! has made it on to the list. I caught quite a few episodes on That's Tv at the end of last year and found it entertaining and well acted.
Don't get why sorry is disliked, i enjoyed it. Generally amusing, and a very distinctive theme tune. No masterpiece but I've always had a soft spot for it.
I love Let the Blood Run Free. Linda Gibson was perfect as Matron Dorothy Conniving Bitch. And the names of the other characters, Pam Sandwich is just one that makes me chuckle every time I make a, you guessed it, a ham sandwich.
Well The Young Doctors probably only screened in Australia and New Zealand I think. I guess you had to watch the soap to appreciate the humour of the parody, neither of which I was old enough to see or remember back then so I cannot fairly comment on that comedy either.
@@alaricbragg7843 The Young Doctors was cult viewing when I was in the VI form. Border TV showed them weekday afternoons. So bad it was good. There was an episode where 'Bunny's Place'; the local bar blew up (a bomb?) and the flying polystyrene building debris went everywhere. Let the Blood Run Free was a hugely creative show that may have went over the head of some folk and mercilessly parodied the Young Doctors.
Can't believe Sorry was included in this line up. Sorry was one of the most believable sitcoms ever for me and it really made you part of it's world as a viewer. Language Timothy lol. Down to earth, quiet and thoroughly realistic while being nuttily over the top. Best of British
althought not my favourite sitcom , i still very much enjoyed sorry and watched them all many years ago when they were shown on bbc4, definitely doesn't deserve to be on this list.
I loved 'Sorry' back in the day the three main cast members were great. The only thing that I found a bit off about it was that the intro always seemed like it belonged to a quiz show, and not a sitcom.
Let the Blood run free was an absolutely legendary sitcom. Jean Kitson and Linda Gibson, along with Brian Nankervis.... Oh that was just the type of weirdness that I needed at that time. Thank you for bringing it back to my memory,
I don't think Sorry quite deserves to be on this list. Okay, not in the league of Fawlty Towers or Porridge. But a decent enough effort, far better than Bottle Boys for example which seemed a decade out of date from the start.
Chris Barrie is superb playing the slimy, the sad, the pathetic and the pompous! The trouble with Prince Among Men is that Gary Prince has NO redeeming features! Yes, Brittas is a socially inept and ineffectual manager, but he'd give you the last pound in his wallet if you needed it Likewise, Rimmer was a self-loathing coward, but frequently came through when needed on Red Dwarf Prince is a bully, braggart, sexist and thinks himself far more intelligent than he is. Yet, no matter what trouble he causes, his status as football's Golden Boy means he NEVER had to face up to the consequences. And audiences won't warm to someone like that!
@@iangascoigne8231 I tried watching The Brittas Empire and couldn't get past the first series. It was terrible. Although, I suppose you could say that the character of Gordon Brittas was something of a precursor to David Brent in the much more superior The Office.
I thought straight away that Bottle Boys was something Jim Davidson would have been in, similar in tone to Up The Elephant and Round the Castle - and there it turned out it was meant for him anyway!
Let the Blood Run Free is now on my list to watch, looks a damn lot better than that "Carry On Being Shit But This Time In a Hospital". Also, anything with Ronnie Corbett that didn't have Barker in was quite bad. Sorry, not Sorry.
I've DISLIKED this video because SORRY! WAS A GREAT 80'S SITCOM!! How DARE you? It has Ronnie Corbett, for a start, the BETTER part of the Two Ronnies! The domineering mother was harsh, but I loved the father who corrected Timothy on many occasions with "Language, Timothy!" but then there were the moments where they were talking about cricketers and the father said "Langridge, Timothy!" and how can you not like that! What particularly struck me is the episode where suddenly Timothy was never born and everyone didn't know him, very much like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life when he wishes he'd never been born. It was very memorable, it was very emotional when Timothy finally moved out of his parents' house and I will NOT HAVE ANY BAD WORDS SAID ABOUT THIS EXCELLENT 1980'S SITCOM, thankyouverymuch!
It was welcomed by a number of people who identified with Timothy, and found his fight against his overweening parents an inspiration for their own very real struggle. Next in this series: The Two Ronnies, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Monty Python, The Goons and Dad’s Army. Oh wait - to nominate Sorry! as one of the worst tv programmes is an April Fool’s joke, right? Right?
Chris Barrie. A Prince Among Men The scene you showed featured Bryan pringle as the Landlord who was stocking the shelves, He also played a landlord called Arthur Pringle in the second series of Auf Wiedersehen pet. His pub was in Derbyshire, where the Group of builders who were renovating a mansion formerly owned by a Porn baron gangster, At the last episode in Derbyshire they awoke Arthur to inform him they'd bricked up the main entrance to his pub. They then went to Spain to do up a Villa owned by gangster Ally frazer played by Bill Paterson.
many people hate Sorry cause the mother so vile and bullied Timothy imho, plus Tim was pathetic, the show ran for 7 ? Seasons so it cant been that bad imho
Sorry was a bad Sitcom? WTF? It was a brilliant sitcom, very funny. Word to ‘a twisted mind’ you may not have liked it, but bad sitcoms don’t run for 7 years.
Wonder what Timothy, Done with his Mother's body when she died 🤔, Left her Down in the basement I supposed, I can hear him now in his Mother's voice, "Language Timothy." 🙄😁
Because "Sorry" wasn't funny. I hope that helps. Bad sitcoms often run for years. I can respect your preferences. Please respect the tastes of others. Insults are not necessary when it comes to such a trivial matter.
One that should be on a future list is BBC ONE's 'Celeb'. Even though based on a long running Private Eye comic strip about an ageing rock star 'Gary Bloke' and starring Harry Enfield, it failed miserably. It simply did not capture the edginess of the cartoon. Having Amanda Holden as his wife 'Debs' didn't help!
Never saw Prince amongst men but Barrie does seem to be slightly miss cast as a boring northerner ( I assume that’s what the accent was) instead of a tedious prat from down south. I liked Rimmer and the sports hall guy as well but northern monkey seems to be outside his reach. By’eck
Let the Blood Run Free is an Aussie classic, I loved watching the tv series that I went to studio 10 to watch a episode or two being filmed, they had a audience when filming.
I never heard of A Prince Among Men. I had thought Chris Barrie left Red Dwarf to do The Brittas Empire... The weirdest thing about Sorry was the synthy neon title sequence. It felt like it was more suited to Hitchhiker's Guide or a comedy Dr Who spinoff, than a tale of beige-tinted (or beige-drowned) suburban desperation.
Actually, Chris Barrie did Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire at the same time. 1991 was the fourth series of RD and is the year that TBE started. I actually like TBE but like I said above, I absolutely cannot stand A Prince Among Men!
Barrie did Red Dwarf and Brittas at the same time, although he did briefly leave Red Dwarf to focus more on Brittas near the latter show’s end. APAM came about a few months after Brittas ended.
OOHH! I remember 'Let The Blood Run Free' from somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind. Was it shown on Channel 4 late at night here in the UK at some point? When we were getting loads of Australian TV in the 80's/90's maybe? I have memories of watching it with mates during our video game nights back then. We would sit playing Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 games on one screen, with the TV running on the other side of the room showing late night stuff like Eurotrash etc.
GOT A VIDEO SUGGESTION - Much Loved Shows that BOTCHED the Ending! I even have a Nomination... A Show I loved, but The ending has me looking back going "SAY WHAT?" And its another Chris Barrie Project! Namely THE BRITTAS EMPIRE - I Loved the show as my Dad used to work for British Rail (Over 55 years in fact, Well... British Rail and later Midland Mainline), and I had met many folks he worked with and ... WOAH BOY! That show was ACCURATE... Every Character was a Stereotype of someone you would 100% meet in any working environment back then... Obviously exaggerated but everyone knew a Colin.... And Barrie as Brittas was BRILLIANT! But that Final Episode WHAT THE HELL!?
There was Roy's Raiders which featured Ed Tudor Pole in a minor role. The comedy was awful with mainly forced characters and it's a great shame that Ed Tudor Pole hasn't yet found a vehicle to properly show his many talents. Poor chap even had his scenes cut from Harry Potter.
A programme with Ronnie C, Barbara Lott and William Moore ( Mollie Sugden's husband) getting a 'worst of' ? Whatever next, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served, Steptoe & Son, or H-H-Hancock's Half Hour? Sorry but you have really dropped a bollock on this one. You will lose subscribers if you carry on like that, you know?
If memory serves, A Prince Among Men got moved to 4.30pm on sunday afternoons to finish out it's second season. I had no idea Sorry ran that long. Didn't it end with him going off in a hot air balloon, having finally broken free of his mother? Language Timothy is a phrase I do still hear occasionally from people, so it did make a mark. Here's a show that just came back to me: Take a letter Mr. Jones. 1970's sitcom. Rula Lenska is the boss. John Inman is her secretary. A male secretary! It's so progressive! With hilarious consequences! But it was on ITV so the latter didn't apply. Cringeworthy theme tune and opening titles. The rest was no better.
Anyone remember Platypus Man? It was some godawful American sitcom buried on itv late at night in the mid 90s. It was about a TV chef who hosted a cooking show for bachelors and espoused on life while he cooked. It’s as dreadful as it sounds. It only ran for a few episodes and stared Richard Jani.
I nominate "Flipside TV." This was a proto-Gogglebox from the mid 00s. However, instead of editing together footage of the public responding to TV clips, it was a live show in which Iain Lee/Richard Bacon/Justin Lee Collins and their Z-lister mates would channel-hop and mutter about whatever was on whilst the show aired.
I fucking loved that! It was the first time I remember seeing Alan Carr, even Frank Carson was on it once or twice and it was hilarious. I liked how it was all ad libbed and not contrived and,even though I like Gogglebox, I feel it can be a bit contrived at times.
If these are the worst tv shows ever made, how did ronnie corbetts show SORRY last 7yrs, it must not have been that bad to last that long, usually bad tv shows don't make it past 1 or 2 seasons, but SORRY lasted 7 seasons, it must have done something right to last that long so i wouldn't have it on the list
I liked "We Got It Made", but I was a teenager at the time, so... Anyway, another show I liked very much, but remember it as being pretty bad, was a cheesy sci-fi parody called "Quark" on NBC in 1977.
I am shocked and surprised to see Sorry! appearing in one of these videos. It is true what they say, there is no accounting for taste. I should like to make my own suggestion, the ultimate cringe fest that was the Brittas Empire. How that lasted more than one series, I shall never know.
The funny thing about We've Got It Maid is that it was at the time that NBC was producing quality sitcoms. Soon Thursday nights would be "Must See TV." They knew HOW to make good shows, they just wanted to make this one. Go figure. While the promise was what we now call objectionable, it was not really THAT bad of a sitcom.
That clip of Let the Blood Run Free was hilarious I am going to watch it next. When the sister ran into the scenery I laughed out loud. I loved Sorry great last episode a complete classic.
Hoff The Record should get a mention. It was broadcast on Sky around 2016-2018 and focused on a fictionalised version of the life of David Hasselhoff. A kind of inferior version of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It won an international Emmy although goodness knows why.
Anyone else noticed that some of the info on some of these 'offerings', were a mix of descriptive dribble and mis remembered musings from contributions to IMDB and probably other people who gave negative comments on other CZcams videos, I am a self confessed TellyAddict of the old skool, but even if I had seen a few of them or two or three, I think I would have been very happily listing much more deserving titles than the ones that are in this vid. Nice to see some footage from decades ago. Good upload.
I was intrigued enough by this video to look up 'Let The Blood Run Free' and I have to say I find it incredibly funny and quite addictive. It comes across as somewhere between 'The Young Doctors' (I mean it even has a place to 'socialise' called, 'Bunnies') and the Quebec Soap Opera Parody, 'Le Coeur A Ses Raisons' with a large dose of the chaotic slapstick of 'The Young Ones'. The late Lynda Gibson was brilliant in her role as the wicked Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch, overplaying it to the point that she came across as a silent era villain. Thank you for the heads-up, I am already 8 episodes in ! :)
@@TFOOS I read that. So sad. I don't think I know any of her other roles, but in this she was an amazing character actress. She managed to hit just the right note in really playing to the gallery, but reigning it in when necessary.
Sorry! wasn't the worst Sitcom in my view... But I will be fair... It wasn't good!!! That being said - To this day I still emulate Ronnie Corbet's "SORRY MOTHER" and the fathers "LANGUAGE TIMOTHY!" Christ, I even got my kids copying it!!! LMAO!
Thanks for "Let the blood run free". It looks really good. Looking forward to watching this so thanks. I've been trying to get into more Australian comedy so double thanks. Been watching a lot of "Big Girls Blouse" & "Fast Forward", brilliant shows
An Australian sitcom I loved was called "All Together Now". It was about a one-hit wonder singer from the 70s who hasn't moved on but has to learn responsibility when he meets his two secret love children.
Bottle Boys, of which I have no memory at all, would actually have been worse with Jim Davidson. And what a waste of the great Don Henderson's talent. Sorry wasn't terrible, it was just dull - Ronnie Barker's Clarence was far worse. And don't get me started on Laura and Disorder or Lame Ducks.
Anyone who knows anything about Aussie soaps immediately recognises, 'Let the Blood Run Free', as an obviously parody of a certain other Australian soap called, 'The Young Doctors.' The shonky scenery and, 'over-acting', along with some of the ridiculous plot-lines should have made that pretty clear to anyone. 'Sorry!', was so terrible it lasted for 8 series! It wasn't one of my favourites by a long chalk, but it certainly wasn't one of the worse, either. Formulaic, like a lot of sitcoms were, but far from being the worst on the box.
Another American one for you. In 2008 the (now defunct) tech channel G4 released "Soaceballs: the Animated Series.' A TV series continuation of Mel Brooks's 1987 Star Wars parody movie. Only instead of charming satire, Spaceballs: The Aninated series had crude, cringey juvenile adult humor. Every episode was a parody of somwthing else (the Star Wars prequels, The Lord if the Rings, Jurassic Park, etc). Only Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, & Daphne Zuniga reprised their roles from the movie. The series ran for 15 epiaodes, which was 14 too many (seeing the first episode was enough to know this series was dead on arrival)
Not-fun fact: When Steve Coogan emerged with his early character, the foul-mouthed sub-man Paul Calf, his catchphrase "Bag o' shite!" made me think of Bottle Boys. Let The Blood Run Free was a kind of Young Ones rip-off but did it pretty well, hitting the anarchic / absurdist comedy nail on the head and featured cast who later went on to the peerless Kath & Kim. It was one of those TV gems you had to stay up until 3am in the 1990s to watch, same goes for the other mis-scheduled and brilliant Australian comedy, The Mecallef P(r)ogram(me).
I'd say the Legacy of Reggie Perrin was one of the worst series I've ever seen. Having the Reggie Perrin name attached to this dreadful series is a travesty.
@@johnsurrey7426 I hosted the Clunes version but it was actually written by the same guy who wrote the original books and the sitcom. The style was all wrong, and it still wasn't long enough from the original being regularly repeated
@@DenkyManner I didn’t realise David Nobbs was involved. It certainly wasn’t anything like as good as the books or the original series. ‘Don’t look back, you can never look back,’ as The Boys Of Summer says.
Let the blood run free just reminds me of Bottom! Also, Sorry! is a classic British comedy, I can still hear its theme tune now. As for the rest..... well not everyone can win a race, let alone actually finish it...😂
I don't think I ever saw any of A Prince Among Men. I suspect there must have been something better on another channel. I can't claim to be a big fan of Sorry, and I can understand some people disliking it, but there is too much about it that is meritorious for it to belong here.
Never thought about it before, but was it ever explained why Timothy had a Scottish accent in Sorry, while all the other Lumsden’s were terribly Home Counties? Bang on the head as a baby?
"TLC" BBC Two's desperate attempt at a British "Scrubs." Starred Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen/Inside No.9) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller show/Pointless).
I actually went to college with the young actress featured in "A Prince Among Men" (Samantha Power). She was easily the most talented acting student in my time there, and she has had a long acting career since. This was her first major role on TV; she did her best with what she was given, but it wasnt really the best of scripts that she or Chris Barrie has worked with.
How about Bobobobs as a contender? I found the English version of Bobobobs had a forgetable opening theme, very forgetable characters with bland character animation (even for 80s BRB standards!), and a terrible ending credits. It just makes you want to go on a different 'space trip'.
Travesty that Sorry! has made it on to the list. I caught quite a few episodes on That's Tv at the end of last year and found it entertaining and well acted.
Yep great show
I think the person who nominated Let the blood run free has completely missed the point of the show 😂😂
Don't get why sorry is disliked, i enjoyed it. Generally amusing, and a very distinctive theme tune. No masterpiece but I've always had a soft spot for it.
I disagree with Sorry! about it being the Worst Sitcom. It was Ronnie Corbett's best performance.
Sorry was great! language Timothy!!
The Only One After The Two Ronnie's
Yes it was fab
A fine comment. Corbett was much loved. I have no idea why. "Sorry" was terrible. Glad you enjoyed it, I haven't met anyone else who did.
@@tomsenior7405 maybe reminds majority of them their mother's were like that, Norman Bates, O sorry 😁
I love Let the Blood Run Free. Linda Gibson was perfect as Matron Dorothy Conniving Bitch.
And the names of the other characters, Pam Sandwich is just one that makes me chuckle every time I make a, you guessed it, a ham sandwich.
What about late for school and Bingies would love to see again
The commenter reviewing Let The Blood Run Free clearly has no idea it's a mickey take of The Young Doctors.
Well The Young Doctors probably only screened in Australia and New Zealand I think. I guess you had to watch the soap to appreciate the humour of the parody, neither of which I was old enough to see or remember back then so I cannot fairly comment on that comedy either.
@@alaricbragg7843 The Young Doctors was shown in at least some regions of Britain for many years.
@@alaricbragg7843 The Young Doctors was cult viewing when I was in the VI form. Border TV showed them weekday afternoons. So bad it was good. There was an episode where 'Bunny's Place'; the local bar blew up (a bomb?) and the flying polystyrene building debris went everywhere. Let the Blood Run Free was a hugely creative show that may have went over the head of some folk and mercilessly parodied the Young Doctors.
Can't believe Sorry was included in this line up. Sorry was one of the most believable sitcoms ever
for me and it really made you part of it's world as a viewer.
Language Timothy lol. Down to earth, quiet and thoroughly realistic while being nuttily over the top.
Best of British
Thank you, I agree also. I also thought it was a great sitcom, and Ronnie Corbett is always a winner!
Sorry! is one of the greatest British sitcoms ever. Ridiculous to put in this list.
Agree with all these comments made above and elsewhere. The Barbara Lott/mother character was quite Machiavellian.
althought not my favourite sitcom , i still very much enjoyed sorry and watched them all many years ago when they were shown on bbc4, definitely doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Loved "Sorry".
Sorry was, and is a classic......this is an April Fools joke....must be!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Timothy"
I loved 'Sorry' back in the day the three main cast members were great. The only thing that I found a bit off about it was that the intro always seemed like it belonged to a quiz show, and not a sitcom.
Yes it doesn't fit does it
Let the Blood run free was an absolutely legendary sitcom. Jean Kitson and Linda Gibson, along with Brian Nankervis.... Oh that was just the type of weirdness that I needed at that time. Thank you for bringing it back to my memory,
Loved it
I thought it was a brilliant show nurse bitch was a legend
I don't think Sorry quite deserves to be on this list. Okay, not in the league of Fawlty Towers or Porridge. But a decent enough effort, far better than Bottle Boys for example which seemed a decade out of date from the start.
I now have to go check out Let the Blood Run Free, wasn't expecting to find a recommendation in the 5 Worst TV Shows but that looks up my street too!
It was bonkers LOL
@@deswynne8172 Yep, loved it :)
Sorry was a decent show, no way should it be on this list.
Chris Barrie is superb playing the slimy, the sad, the pathetic and the pompous!
The trouble with Prince Among Men is that Gary Prince has NO redeeming features!
Yes, Brittas is a socially inept and ineffectual manager, but he'd give you the last pound in his wallet if you needed it
Likewise, Rimmer was a self-loathing coward, but frequently came through when needed on Red Dwarf
Prince is a bully, braggart, sexist and thinks himself far more intelligent than he is. Yet, no matter what trouble he causes, his status as football's Golden Boy means he NEVER had to face up to the consequences.
And audiences won't warm to someone like that!
Indeed. I'm a rare Red Dwarf fan in that I prefer The Brittas Empire to RD. Just.. But the point stands.
The Brittas Empire was tripe as well.
I always thought that Chris Barrie was doing an impression of Craig Charles throughout the show.
@@iangascoigne8231 I tried watching The Brittas Empire and couldn't get past the first series. It was terrible. Although, I suppose you could say that the character of Gordon Brittas was something of a precursor to David Brent in the much more superior The Office.
@@robertmcelwaine7024 The office is shite as well.
I rewatched “Sorry!” recently and the quality of the acting and writing is generally excellent. Did you put this in as click bait??
Let the blood run free is awesome!
I always wondered if the title sequence for Bottle Boys was made by the same animation company that did the United biscuits ad.
'Sorry!', a bad sitcom? I think we're owed an apology, or at least you should say sorry!
Sorry was Ok a trillion more laughs than Ghosts!
This Let The Blood Run Free slander will not stand
I remember watching that too as a kid. It was just weird, and that's saying a lot for an Australian show.
Some quality 💩 from Australia 🇦🇺.
I thought straight away that Bottle Boys was something Jim Davidson would have been in, similar in tone to Up The Elephant and Round the Castle - and there it turned out it was meant for him anyway!
Sorry was actually a laugh
I totally agree with Bottle Boys, but Sorry!? No way, it was brilliant.
I loved Sorry! as a kid. Haven’t seen it since, but I remember really laughing at it.
"...as a kid". That sums it up really. "Sorry" should have been on Children's Hour.
Sorry was good.
Sorry, but Sorry was a great comedy!
Sorry
Let the Blood Run Free is now on my list to watch, looks a damn lot better than that "Carry On Being Shit But This Time In a Hospital". Also, anything with Ronnie Corbett that didn't have Barker in was quite bad. Sorry, not Sorry.
I've DISLIKED this video because SORRY! WAS A GREAT 80'S SITCOM!! How DARE you? It has Ronnie Corbett, for a start, the BETTER part of the Two Ronnies! The domineering mother was harsh, but I loved the father who corrected Timothy on many occasions with "Language, Timothy!" but then there were the moments where they were talking about cricketers and the father said "Langridge, Timothy!" and how can you not like that! What particularly struck me is the episode where suddenly Timothy was never born and everyone didn't know him, very much like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life when he wishes he'd never been born. It was very memorable, it was very emotional when Timothy finally moved out of his parents' house and I will NOT HAVE ANY BAD WORDS SAID ABOUT THIS EXCELLENT 1980'S SITCOM, thankyouverymuch!
I totally agree. What a bizarre suggestion to be placed on a worst of list. What next, Fawlty Towers?
It was welcomed by a number of people who identified with Timothy, and found his fight against his overweening parents an inspiration for their own very real struggle.
Next in this series: The Two Ronnies, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Monty Python, The Goons and Dad’s Army.
Oh wait - to nominate Sorry! as one of the worst tv programmes is an April Fool’s joke, right? Right?
@@johnsurrey7426I hope so ! 😂
Chris Barrie.
A Prince Among Men
The scene you showed featured Bryan pringle as the Landlord who was stocking the shelves, He also played a landlord called Arthur Pringle in the second series of Auf Wiedersehen pet. His pub was in Derbyshire, where the Group of builders who were renovating a mansion formerly owned by a Porn baron gangster, At the last episode in Derbyshire they awoke Arthur to inform him they'd bricked up the main entrance to his pub.
They then went to Spain
to do up a Villa owned by gangster Ally frazer played by Bill Paterson.
I love Ronnie Corbett but Sorry wasn’t actually very good. I tried a few times but didn’t work for me 😊
I loved Let The Blood Run Free. To many of my generation, it was kind of iconic for it's ridiculousness.
It was awesome
I see I'm not the first to say that Sorry! shouldn't have been on this list.
many people hate Sorry cause the mother so vile and bullied Timothy imho, plus Tim was pathetic, the show ran for 7 ? Seasons so it cant been that bad imho
It wasn't, it was f great in my opinion.
Why not? On the buses went on forever. And that was shite!
It. Wasn't that bad. Ronnie Corbett was always a joy to watch.
A show running is no indicator it's good.......look at Mrs Brown's Boys or Citizen Khan
@@GordonHeaney Ronnie Corbett was better than Ronnie Barker ANYDAY. Porridge was rubbish, and Barker's own son was a paedophile. Case closed.
Sorry was a bad Sitcom? WTF? It was a brilliant sitcom, very funny. Word to ‘a twisted mind’ you may not have liked it, but bad sitcoms don’t run for 7 years.
Totally agree. If it was shit it wouldn'tve run for 7 years
I agree. I used to enjoy watching it with my Mother 😂 language Timothy!
@@alanmahoney167 “my family” ran for 11 years and was absolute garbage
Wonder what Timothy, Done with his Mother's body when she died 🤔, Left her Down in the basement I supposed, I can hear him now in his Mother's voice, "Language Timothy." 🙄😁
Because "Sorry" wasn't funny. I hope that helps. Bad sitcoms often run for years. I can respect your preferences. Please respect the tastes of others. Insults are not necessary when it comes to such a trivial matter.
One that should be on a future list is BBC ONE's 'Celeb'. Even though based on a long running Private Eye comic strip about an ageing rock star 'Gary Bloke' and starring Harry Enfield, it failed miserably. It simply did not capture the edginess of the cartoon. Having Amanda Holden as his wife 'Debs' didn't help!
A Prince Among Men was so unfunny I found given a terminal illness from my GP was way funnier!
It's sad that you caught a terminal illness from your doctor. Then again, it's impressive you've continued to live for almost thirty years since then.
Even the clip was bad
Never saw Prince amongst men but Barrie does seem to be slightly miss cast as a boring northerner ( I assume that’s what the accent was) instead of a tedious prat from down south. I liked Rimmer and the sports hall guy as well but northern monkey seems to be outside his reach.
By’eck
I kinda chuckled at the clips shown of “Sorry”.
Let the Blood Run Free is an Aussie classic, I loved watching the tv series that I went to studio 10 to watch a episode or two being filmed, they had a audience when filming.
That must have been brilliant 👍
I never heard of A Prince Among Men. I had thought Chris Barrie left Red Dwarf to do The Brittas Empire...
The weirdest thing about Sorry was the synthy neon title sequence. It felt like it was more suited to Hitchhiker's Guide or a comedy Dr Who spinoff, than a tale of beige-tinted (or beige-drowned) suburban desperation.
Yes the title sequence makes no sense at all
Actually, Chris Barrie did Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire at the same time. 1991 was the fourth series of RD and is the year that TBE started. I actually like TBE but like I said above, I absolutely cannot stand A Prince Among Men!
Barrie did Red Dwarf and Brittas at the same time, although he did briefly leave Red Dwarf to focus more on Brittas near the latter show’s end. APAM came about a few months after Brittas ended.
OOHH! I remember 'Let The Blood Run Free' from somewhere in the deepest recesses of my mind. Was it shown on Channel 4 late at night here in the UK at some point? When we were getting loads of Australian TV in the 80's/90's maybe?
I have memories of watching it with mates during our video game nights back then. We would sit playing Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 games on one screen, with the TV running on the other side of the room showing late night stuff like Eurotrash etc.
It was indeed late night tv. On after Married With Children as I recall
GOT A VIDEO SUGGESTION - Much Loved Shows that BOTCHED the Ending! I even have a Nomination... A Show I loved, but The ending has me looking back going "SAY WHAT?"
And its another Chris Barrie Project! Namely THE BRITTAS EMPIRE - I Loved the show as my Dad used to work for British Rail (Over 55 years in fact, Well... British Rail and later Midland Mainline), and I had met many folks he worked with and ... WOAH BOY! That show was ACCURATE... Every Character was a Stereotype of someone you would 100% meet in any working environment back then... Obviously exaggerated but everyone knew a Colin....
And Barrie as Brittas was BRILLIANT! But that Final Episode WHAT THE HELL!?
I very much beg to differ re Let The Blood Run Free. It was a work of genius
Agree
There was Roy's Raiders which featured Ed Tudor Pole in a minor role. The comedy was awful with mainly forced characters and it's a great shame that Ed Tudor Pole hasn't yet found a vehicle to properly show his many talents. Poor chap even had his scenes cut from Harry Potter.
Good suggestion thanks
A programme with Ronnie C, Barbara Lott and William Moore ( Mollie Sugden's husband) getting a 'worst of' ? Whatever next, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served, Steptoe & Son, or H-H-Hancock's Half Hour? Sorry but you have really dropped a bollock on this one. You will lose subscribers if you carry on like that, you know?
As the title suggests, these were viewer suggestions.
If memory serves, A Prince Among Men got moved to 4.30pm on sunday afternoons to finish out it's second season.
I had no idea Sorry ran that long. Didn't it end with him going off in a hot air balloon, having finally broken free of his mother? Language Timothy is a phrase I do still hear occasionally from people, so it did make a mark.
Here's a show that just came back to me: Take a letter Mr. Jones. 1970's sitcom. Rula Lenska is the boss. John Inman is her secretary. A male secretary! It's so progressive! With hilarious consequences! But it was on ITV so the latter didn't apply. Cringeworthy theme tune and opening titles. The rest was no better.
It's being repeated on Talking Pictures TV, never liked the series to be honest.
Anyone remember Platypus Man? It was some godawful American sitcom buried on itv late at night in the mid 90s. It was about a TV chef who hosted a cooking show for bachelors and espoused on life while he cooked. It’s as dreadful as it sounds. It only ran for a few episodes and stared Richard Jani.
This sounds amazing
Come on! Sorry was great. One great line I remember. Timothy says his girlfriend lives on a narrowboat. His Mum replies she can't afford a wide one.
Haha.. It's only fair that Chris Barrie's biggest faux pas in his career involved him affecting an awful scouse accent.
I nominate "Flipside TV." This was a proto-Gogglebox from the mid 00s. However, instead of editing together footage of the public responding to TV clips, it was a live show in which Iain Lee/Richard Bacon/Justin Lee Collins and their Z-lister mates would channel-hop and mutter about whatever was on whilst the show aired.
Richard Bacon now works behind the camera and survived the Blue Peter drug scandal. The BBC are and always have been such hypocrites.
I fucking loved that! It was the first time I remember seeing Alan Carr, even Frank Carson was on it once or twice and it was hilarious. I liked how it was all ad libbed and not contrived and,even though I like Gogglebox, I feel it can be a bit contrived at times.
How about Up The Elephant And Round The Castle, from around the same time as Bottle Boys but even worse. Jim Davidson was the lead, enough said!
I loved that at the time, but it was a throwback to the 70s and I was a kid.
If these are the worst tv shows ever made, how did ronnie corbetts show SORRY last 7yrs, it must not have been that bad to last that long, usually bad tv shows don't make it past 1 or 2 seasons, but SORRY lasted 7 seasons, it must have done something right to last that long so i wouldn't have it on the list
Let The Blood Run Free looks awesome!
It's mad
Yeah. I enjoyed it. A little bit like The Young Ones in its way.
@@davepoole9520 Well I’m definitely sold, I love The Young Ones!
Sorry was the only one I've heard of and seen. I even bought the the VHS box set of the complete series, I thought it was that enjoyable.
6:30 i think my neighbors heard me laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I'm going to Hell 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the best TV characters ever
I liked "We Got It Made", but I was a teenager at the time, so...
Anyway, another show I liked very much, but remember it as being pretty bad, was a cheesy sci-fi parody called "Quark" on NBC in 1977.
I am shocked and surprised to see Sorry! appearing in one of these videos. It is true what they say, there is no accounting for taste.
I should like to make my own suggestion, the ultimate cringe fest that was the Brittas Empire. How that lasted more than one series, I shall never know.
The funny thing about We've Got It Maid is that it was at the time that NBC was producing quality sitcoms. Soon Thursday nights would be "Must See TV." They knew HOW to make good shows, they just wanted to make this one. Go figure. While the promise was what we now call objectionable, it was not really THAT bad of a sitcom.
When you really think about it, 95% of sit-coms are awful.
For every Porridge or Yes Minister, there's 20 Bottle Boys or Brittas Empires......
LLBRF is an absolute classic
That clip of Let the Blood Run Free was hilarious I am going to watch it next. When the sister ran into the scenery I laughed out loud. I loved Sorry great last episode a complete classic.
Hoff The Record should get a mention. It was broadcast on Sky around 2016-2018 and focused on a fictionalised version of the life of David Hasselhoff. A kind of inferior version of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It won an international Emmy although goodness knows why.
Anyone else noticed that some of the info on some of these 'offerings', were a mix of descriptive dribble and mis remembered musings from contributions to IMDB and probably other people who gave negative comments on other CZcams videos, I am a self confessed TellyAddict of the old skool, but even if I had seen a few of them or two or three, I think I would have been very happily listing much more deserving titles than the ones that are in this vid. Nice to see some footage from decades ago. Good upload.
I'm glad you finally got round to Sorry, that is without doubt the worst "comedy" I have ever seen.
Sorry! isnt THAT bad damn hope its inclusion was because its april fools...
I was intrigued enough by this video to look up 'Let The Blood Run Free' and I have to say I find it incredibly funny and quite addictive. It comes across as somewhere between 'The Young Doctors' (I mean it even has a place to 'socialise' called, 'Bunnies') and the Quebec Soap Opera Parody, 'Le Coeur A Ses Raisons' with a large dose of the chaotic slapstick of 'The Young Ones'. The late Lynda Gibson was brilliant in her role as the wicked Matron Dorothy Conniving-Bitch, overplaying it to the point that she came across as a silent era villain. Thank you for the heads-up, I am already 8 episodes in ! :)
Glad you like it, it's phenomenal. Linda Gibson "Gibbo" died young sadly 😥
@@TFOOS I read that. So sad. I don't think I know any of her other roles, but in this she was an amazing character actress. She managed to hit just the right note in really playing to the gallery, but reigning it in when necessary.
I agree with you about Let the Blood Run Free. I loved it. A bit of late night silliness in the vein of The Young Ones.
Sorry! wasn't the worst Sitcom in my view... But I will be fair... It wasn't good!!! That being said - To this day I still emulate Ronnie Corbet's "SORRY MOTHER" and the fathers "LANGUAGE TIMOTHY!"
Christ, I even got my kids copying it!!! LMAO!
I'll be that guy. Chris Barrie.... isn't funny.
Thanks for "Let the blood run free". It looks really good. Looking forward to watching this so thanks. I've been trying to get into more Australian comedy so double thanks. Been watching a lot of "Big Girls Blouse" & "Fast Forward", brilliant shows
Try Big Bite or anything with Chris Lilley especially Summer Heights High
@@gbhxu Oh I already know about Chris, have done for years. Very funny man but he's not as popular as he once was.
An Australian sitcom I loved was called "All Together Now".
It was about a one-hit wonder singer from the 70s who hasn't moved on but has to learn responsibility when he meets his two secret love children.
@@dhenderson1810 I remember that, was shown here too in the UK back in the day.
Bottle Boys, of which I have no memory at all, would actually have been worse with Jim Davidson. And what a waste of the great Don Henderson's talent. Sorry wasn't terrible, it was just dull - Ronnie Barker's Clarence was far worse. And don't get me started on Laura and Disorder or Lame Ducks.
Ha ha! Lame Ducks. Even had title credits drawn by Franklin of The Sun.
Anyone who knows anything about Aussie soaps immediately recognises, 'Let the Blood Run Free', as an obviously parody of a certain other Australian soap called, 'The Young Doctors.' The shonky scenery and, 'over-acting', along with some of the ridiculous plot-lines should have made that pretty clear to anyone.
'Sorry!', was so terrible it lasted for 8 series! It wasn't one of my favourites by a long chalk, but it certainly wasn't one of the worse, either. Formulaic, like a lot of sitcoms were, but far from being the worst on the box.
Loved Let The Blood Run Free
Another American one for you. In 2008 the (now defunct) tech channel G4 released "Soaceballs: the Animated Series.' A TV series continuation of Mel Brooks's 1987 Star Wars parody movie. Only instead of charming satire, Spaceballs: The Aninated series had crude, cringey juvenile adult humor. Every episode was a parody of somwthing else (the Star Wars prequels, The Lord if the Rings, Jurassic Park, etc). Only Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, & Daphne Zuniga reprised their roles from the movie. The series ran for 15 epiaodes, which was 14 too many (seeing the first episode was enough to know this series was dead on arrival)
"Full English" a brazen "Family Guy" rip off.
Sorry, but i loved Sorry..." Language Timothy "
From the clips shown here Bottle boys fully deserves its place. It looks absolutely pitiful.
To be honest I was in my teens when I watched Bottle Boys & I liked it. I suppose watching it 40 years later it wouldnt've aged well.
@@deswynne8172 Appropriately enough it's aged about as well as a bottle of milk 😂😂😂
@@chriswilkinson7636 LOL I'll have a look on youtube out of curiosity
Sorry?? Sorry?!
Sorry
Some people need to suck on a delicious porridge lolly.
Not-fun fact: When Steve Coogan emerged with his early character, the foul-mouthed sub-man Paul Calf, his catchphrase "Bag o' shite!" made me think of Bottle Boys. Let The Blood Run Free was a kind of Young Ones rip-off but did it pretty well, hitting the anarchic / absurdist comedy nail on the head and featured cast who later went on to the peerless Kath & Kim. It was one of those TV gems you had to stay up until 3am in the 1990s to watch, same goes for the other mis-scheduled and brilliant Australian comedy, The Mecallef P(r)ogram(me).
Can't remember the name of the show but, it was basically "Saved By The Bell" set in France.
"USA High"?
I'd say the Legacy of Reggie Perrin was one of the worst series I've ever seen. Having the Reggie Perrin name attached to this dreadful series is a travesty.
Oh goodness me yes. I’m a huge Perrin fan, and The Legacy was embarrassingly awful.
Ditto for Martin Clunes remake what people will do for money…
Hold on. If we're talking about Reggie Perrin then you have to mention , the awful American remake, and , the pointless Martin Clunes British remake.
@@johnsurrey7426 I hosted the Clunes version but it was actually written by the same guy who wrote the original books and the sitcom. The style was all wrong, and it still wasn't long enough from the original being regularly repeated
@@DenkyManner I didn’t realise David Nobbs was involved. It certainly wasn’t anything like as good as the books or the original series. ‘Don’t look back, you can never look back,’ as The Boys Of Summer says.
I'm Sorry but Sorry on a list of worst comedies are you mad? Anything with Ronnie Corbett is wonderful
Let the blood run free was brilliant, so was sorry.
Let the blood run free just reminds me of Bottom!
Also, Sorry! is a classic British comedy, I can still hear its theme tune now.
As for the rest..... well not everyone can win a race, let alone actually finish it...😂
Does anyone remember Fox's "Get Smart" revival with Andy Dick? Trick question! No one does. Not even me.
I got it on DVD along with the box set of the original *Get Smart" series.
I don't think I ever saw any of A Prince Among Men. I suspect there must have been something better on another channel.
I can't claim to be a big fan of Sorry, and I can understand some people disliking it, but there is too much about it that is meritorious for it to belong here.
'Sorry' was a brilliant sitcom, 40+ espisodes were made, I love it!
I do enjoy the use of the ident before each show. That's proper nostalgia.😂
... Comedy is subjective and I don't put much faith in the opinions of people who need to fill their socials handles with numbers or obscenities!
My most hated show was Last of the Summer Wine. It is so painful unfunny.
Never thought about it before, but was it ever explained why Timothy had a Scottish accent in Sorry, while all the other Lumsden’s were terribly Home Counties? Bang on the head as a baby?
Oh Dr Beeching was the absolute pits
Ditton You Rang My Lord.
Thanks for introducing me to Let the Blood run free, reminds me of a hospital set Acorn Antiques.
"TLC" BBC Two's desperate attempt at a British "Scrubs." Starred Reece Shearsmith (League of Gentlemen/Inside No.9) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller show/Pointless).
Sorry would be successfully remade as Bates Motel
OMG! Got It Made was awful.
I actually went to college with the young actress featured in "A Prince Among Men" (Samantha Power). She was easily the most talented acting student in my time there, and she has had a long acting career since. This was her first major role on TV; she did her best with what she was given, but it wasnt really the best of scripts that she or Chris Barrie has worked with.
Cool
Was that Don Henderson in Bottle Boys? What a come down from serving on the Death Star.
I think it was
Yep
Teddy Z. A late eighties American sitcom with him out of Two ana a Half Men.
The best thing about You Got It Made is Teri Copley😉
I get the feeling we got it made was meant to be a Batchler Party type film for Tom Hanks.. But they decided to get it on tv and over done it
I’d add ‘Sunnyside Farm’ to this list unfunny and crass
Let the blood run free was great never took it's self serious
How about Bobobobs as a contender? I found the English version of Bobobobs had a forgetable opening theme, very forgetable characters with bland character animation (even for 80s BRB standards!), and a terrible ending credits. It just makes you want to go on a different 'space trip'.