Ah, British TV. Back when I was a kid it had all the good stuff. We watched whatever we could get. We watched Monty Python in black and white on PBS. Glued to the TV every week to see which queen was getting shortened a bit in The Six Wives of Henry the VIII, still unsurpassed for the Tudor topic. Who didn’t love the Carnaby Street psychedelia of The Prisoner? No one I know. Memorized Fawlty Towers, of course.
Much too young to see Honor Blackman in the leather jumpsuit, however. But somehow, we never felt we had missed out on anything. We wanted a girl with a mind like a diamond. We got one.
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Loved those British comedies on PBS. Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served…. At the end of my TV viewing, the only stuff I watched were pro football games and British comedies. But as I don’t watch TV anymore, I have no idea if there are still British comedies on PBS.
we are starting our third review of the Morse, Lewis, Endeavour epic. The well spoken language, the dry wit, and the honorable characters soothes as well as engages the viewer. We simply refuse to do Gothic anything! In American police dramas, the noise is awful, the plot is thin, the characters are too brash, and omg–the simpleton dialogue is pathetic. However, it is an accurate reflection of today’s public school and university graduates!