Going Straight (1978)
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
Superior comedy that pulled no punches in addressing the realities of growing old, whilst treating its core characters in a positive way, proving that not only did life begin at forty it also went on well into the 50's, 60's and beyond.
Promoted by ATV as "the liveliest live show ever!", one critic responded, "this is the deadest dead duck ever".
This hit US sitcom spin-off about an incompetent southern bumpkin who is enlisted into the Marine Corps was a top-ten hit throughout its entire five-season run
Three suburban mothers find themselves facing desperate financial circumstances and decide their only choice is to rob a supermarket. But it has dire consequences when they later discover that the supermarket manager was money-laundering for a local crime boss
British teenage drama series in which a young student is not satisfied that the killing of a local school girl has been investigated enough, and takes matters into her own hands
The mere mention of this series name is likely to bring a very large smile to the faces of British sitcom fans, for The Good Life is one of the few series that is considered a true classic.
Mock Edwardian entertainment that proved so successful that it ran for 30 years and in the process introduced around 2000 performers
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's comedic apocalyptic fantasy of the final days before Armageddon.