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« on: September 24, 2014, 01:00:20 PM »

British, that is.
I grew up, and still live in Columbus, Ohio.
I saw a LOT of British TV. Whoda thunkit?
Lets see...
SECRET AGENT.
UFO.
SPACE 1999.
MY PARTNER THE GHOST.
DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE.
DR. WHO. (Tom Baker)
THE AVENGERS.
THE PROTECTORS.
THE SAINT.
MONTY PYTHON.
THE PRISONER.
Those are the ones I'm certain of. What shows did you guys see, and how did they colour your view of the folks across the pond?
Btw, The computer thinks the Brit spelling of Color is a mistake. Bloody colonial...
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2014, 04:59:07 PM »

Me, I own and/or have watched a lot of the following:

Doctor Who
The Prisoner
The Avengers
UFO
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet & the Mysterons
Space: 1999
The Saint
Are You Being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
My Family
Red Dwarf
Danger Man
Coronation Street
Fawlty Towers
The New Avengers
Rising Damp
The Omega Factor
The Young Ones
One Foot in the Grave
Mr. Bean
2point4 Children
Bottom
As Time Goes By

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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2014, 05:45:15 PM »

Ya know, the theme from DANGER MAN - Secret Agent is how I saw it here in the US, with the Johnny Rivers theme song...is really cool. You could hear it in the end credits of the show, as they left it alone.
Ever notice how 'Harpsicord heavy' most Brit. TV themes were then?
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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2014, 10:16:33 AM »

Monty Python was mainly how I learned to do a British accent (such as it is). They exaggerated that Cockney accent so much that it was easy to mimic.

"Benny Hill" was another show I watched as a youngster. (I confess, it was pretty much entirely for "Hill's Angels.")
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2014, 04:23:50 PM »

Are You Being Served? is where I first learned about cockney accents...

I instantly took a liking in my teenage years to The Young Ones and Red Dwarf...and eventually I discovered old episodes of Doctor Who playing on Space: the Imagination Station...and my interest in British shows just grew and grew...my parents actually find British English hard to understand...I suspect they'd find our Newfie slang even more confusing...
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2014, 07:24:33 AM »

I watched a lot of the same stuff on Jase's list:

Doctor Who
The Prisoner
The Avengers
UFO
Space: 1999
The Saint
Are You Being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances
Red Dwarf
Fawlty Towers
The New Avengers
The Young Ones

Along with a few others like:

Last of the Summer Wine
Agatha Christie: Poirot
Top Gear
Monty Python
Benny Hill
Sherlock Holmes (the Jeremy Brett ones)
The Protectors
The Vicar of Dibley
May to December
Prisoner: Cell Block H

I always enjoyed the good characters and their love of sci-fi.  Their sense of humor seems to come in two flavors:  extremely funny and extremely not.
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2014, 08:11:45 AM »


I always enjoyed the good characters and their love of sci-fi.  Their sense of humor seems to come in two flavors:  extremely funny and extremely not.
Yeah, I can be a bit disconcerting.
THE GOON SHOW id an examples of 'Ain't gettin' it.' And Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan can't get through to me. Yet some stuff is murder on the funny bone.
The best part of BLACKADDER is the way Rowan Atkinson does snide.
P.S. My first image of Hugh Laurie is as Percy the twit in series...three? The one with the weird Queen...who is Craig Ferguson's Ex.
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2014, 05:00:31 PM »

I've watched some Monty Python, Benny Hill too and The Two Ronnies was a favourite of my parents when I was just a kid so I saw a lot of that....watched Vicar of Dibley a few times as well.
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2014, 06:09:45 AM »

My first image of Hugh Laurie is as Percy the twit in series...three? The one with the weird Queen...who is Craig Ferguson's Ex.

Hugh Laurie's first recurring role in Black Adder was as George IV in the third series. Miranda Richardson was Queen Elizabeth in the second series.

My first introduction to Hugh Laurie as a comic actor was the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster (with Laurie as the latter). Both he and Stephen Fry managed to capture the characters so perfectly that I was willing to forgive some of the liberties taken with the source material (at least until the Charlie Foxtrot that was the fourth season).
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« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2014, 10:46:15 AM »

We still have a lot of good comedy over here still. I will compile a big list of shows at some point which I think are notable. It's very different to the US in the fact that for your average sitcom you get 6 episodes then 1-2 years to wait for the next season, oh and you see the same actors in everything  TeddyR

Also The Prisoner is one of my favourite shows ever. I have a danger man boxset that I have been meaning to get through as well.
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