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Maude
annoying Beau) should be burned.
I loved "Maude"! It is Far more entertaining than "The Golden Girls."
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The first season was good, I thought. By year three, I think I'd had enough.
Was that when The Cosby Show preempted the '86 World Series?
LOL, delayed the start at least since NBC had no intention of losing a week of its #1 cash cow. That kind of started the trend of these too late start times at night.
Maude had nothing going for it. And since I'm not among those who would put Adrienne Barbeau on a Yum list, that gives me even less reason to watch.
80s sitcoms and beyond I can't say much about because the latest ones chronologically I have in my collection are Taxi, Newhart and Night Court.
Did you ever get those Frost/Nixon interviews transferred to disc? *hint, hint*
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Fodder to contemplate. As a maven of this sort of thing, I shall have to sort through the wheat- and the crap. Hmmmm, 
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It's not "vintage", but I think the worst sitcom I ever saw was on the Fox network. It was called "WHOOPS!", and was a sitcom about the six or seven last survivors of an atomic holocaust. Yes, it was GILLIGAN'S ISLAND with hydrogen bombs. Astonishingly unfunny and tasteless.
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My least favorite sitcom isn't very old: it's the one about the GEICO Cavemen. The original commercials were funny, but I hated the resulting show with a firey vengeance.
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I don't think most of those made it to the UK. Maybe we're just lucky....
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I don't think most of those made it to the UK.
Maude, Gilligan's Island and The Cosby Show all did (only the last one had all the episodes shown here).
I've never seen a single episode (though thinking about it, it's possible I might have caught a Cosby at one point).
Maybe we're just lucky....
Unfortunately the UK is just as good (sic) at producing unwatchable sitcoms as the US - step forward On The Buses, 'Allo 'Allo, the later years of Red Dwarf, Butterflies, The Army Game (based on watching on the late lamented Granada Plus it hasn't held up as well as Phil Silvers's own comic exploits in the Army), The Young Ones, and so on...
Well, The Young Ones is held in very high regard by a lot of people. I liked Allo Allo when it first started but I suspect I wouldn't enjoy it much today. And On The Buses was hugely popular at the time so it must have had something going for it that's probably dated horribly since its original airing (the three spinoff films are hideously bad). However, I can't abide anything written by Carla Lane or Roy Clarke (we're currently enjoying, or subjected to, Last Of The Summer Wine's 32nd series).
I'll agree on the later years of Red Dwarf - specifically series 7 and 8 - but the latest ones shown over Easter were actually rather good.
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Well, there is a problem on that front because they were released on VHS by MCA/Universal Home Video and I discovered that commercially released tapes by MCA/Universal and CBS/FOX (with a few MGM/UA ones) are the ones where anti-copy features kick in when you try to do a transfer. I've been stuck with a couple dozen tapes that have to stay that way in the process.
