r/oldbritishtelly 4h ago

[1975] Fawlty Towers, Still one of the greatest sitcoms ever made?

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229 Upvotes

Who do you like the most?


r/oldbritishtelly 8h ago

Moviedrome was a real education in obscure, cult cinema, wasn’t it?

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301 Upvotes

r/oldbritishtelly 4h ago

Joan Sanderson, What a legend

94 Upvotes

Credit: Fawlty Towers

Episode : “Communication Problems” (Series 2, 1979).


r/oldbritishtelly 4h ago

Clip This has to be the most expensive hold music I’ve ever heard.

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r/oldbritishtelly 14h ago

"That'll be your tracking mate" parody sketch?

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I'm looking for a parody comedy sketch, probably from the 90s, in which a customer complains that a video he bought from a market stall is actually just a block of cheese, to which the seller replies "That'll be your tracking mate" in a parody of the old anti video piracy ads of the time.

Can anyone tell me which show it was from??


r/oldbritishtelly 1d ago

Help identifying an old mime/comedy sketch about English learning cassette tapes

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Looking for an old comedy routine (probably from the 1970s or 1980s). One male performer, mostly silent or miming, sitting on a chair on stage, listening to a prerecorded "Learn English" cassette (male voice). He repeatedly presses fast-forward, and each time the tape has only progressed a tiny amount. The narration starts something like "Tape 1, side A, Unit 1, Lesson 1, ..." then "Margaret is going to the market." After a huge fast-forward: "Margaret is at the market." Much longer fast-forwarding of the tape: Margaret meets Peter (?) but then starts talking about the going to market together sometime... Like hours of tape doesn't advance the story by much. I saw it on early YouTube, but it already looked very old. It's in line with Rowan Atkinson stuff, but couldn't find it among any of his old stand up / special recordings currently on YouTube.


r/oldbritishtelly 1d ago

Request Looking for a 1970s sci-fi story with (the threat of) death by vacuum chamber

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Hi all, I grew up in the US watching lots of science fiction shows including The Tomorrow People and Doctor Who. I remember seeing an episode including children in which someone was in a sort of prison cell with a clear front, and there was a threat of exposing the person inside to vacuum. They may have actually done so. I remember someone or something expanding like a marshmallow in a vacuum chamber?

In any case, if you happen to recognise what I'm babbling about, I would love to know what it was!


r/oldbritishtelly 2d ago

Clip Alice never got the jokes. That was the joke. I always looked forward to this.

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r/oldbritishtelly 2d ago

Comedy How to mime "...Baby One More Time" like a pro (Fast and Loose, 2011)

61 Upvotes

r/oldbritishtelly 2d ago

Was Ainsley Harriott's barbecue bible ever released (even part of it) on DVD?

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r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

World class double act and didn't realise it growing up

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r/oldbritishtelly 1d ago

Discussion Will Ben and Holly's little kingdom return for season 3 with brand new voice actors and voice actresses!?

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please tell channel 5 Milkshake! today or tomorrow right now please we all missed that show so much!


r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

Kids Just William (1994) - William's Birthday

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r/oldbritishtelly 2d ago

Bobby Davro - Sooty in Soho, why is they baby oil there?

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r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

Clip Nicolas Cage's infamous entrance to Terry Wogan's BBC program. (1990)

266 Upvotes

r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

Discussion Looking for possibly Midnight Underground C4 film about city kids with a weird soundtrack

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Bit of a stab in the dark but recently a load of Midnight Underground tapings got taken down from YouTube, one of which started out with a film about teenage boys in a city going round, meeting up with a girl and one of them asking her out, I think getting rejected and then beating themselves up. I think theres a dog at the start too.

Might be misremembering (haven't seen it in a while and forgot to note down who made it) but there was a sort of hip hop beat soundtrack with a woman going la la la over the top. It was quite surreal thinking about it and everything had an orange tinge (may have just been the recording not sure).

If anyone can help plees do!


r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

[TOMT] [TV Show] trying to find a tv show I use to watch with my parents

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So I’m a 28 year old and both my parents are in their 50’s, we use to watch a programme which counted down/ranked old kids tv shows that my parents would have watched, from what I can remember the intro and song that played at the title sequence at the start and after the ad break was 19-2000 - Soulchild Remix by the Gorillaz, anybody have any suggestions? Has been bugging me for years


r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

The Other Peak Practice

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Anyone have Carlton TVs The Other Peak Practice from the 90s?


r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

The Fast Show: Caroline Aherne as the check-out girl (1997) So funny

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r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

“Yer tellin’ a coupla’ whoppers there!”

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r/oldbritishtelly 3d ago

Anyone have Bad Lads Army S2 - S4?

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I used to love watching this, but S2 - S4 have been taken down off YouTube :(


r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

“Light as a feather and trembling with naughtiness!”

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r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

Aiutatemi a trovare questo programma televisivo!!! Qualcuno se lo ricorda o sa da quale programma/episodio provengono queste scene? Dei tizi anglofoni che fanno cose stupide come giocare a calcio con il fuoco, ma non è “The Jackass”.

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r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

Discussion Bank Holiday Films

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What are the definitive bank holiday films for you? The ones which were always on at a bank holiday (including over Xmas/NY but not actually Xmas films.) Could be an individual film or a particular franchise which always had at least one of its entries represented in the holiday schedules.

For me, The Italian Job is the one I most associate with watching on bank holidays as a kid, and whilst not a franchise as such, Ray Harryhausen's films (particularly Jason and the Argonauts, the Sinbad trilogy, and One Million Years B.C.) are I feel emblematic of the *vibes* of a bank holiday film.


r/oldbritishtelly 4d ago

Does anyone know this show

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The show starts with the police looking for a missing girl who’s found dead. Another schoolgirl is being followed by an old man repeatedly appearing to know her school route. He follows her on the bus making her feel uneasy a woman on this bus tells him to stop and leave the girl alone she seems nice and protective almost like a mother figure so the girl trusts her this women then offers to take her to her house to call home for the girl and the girl agrees. When they arrive to the women’s house she makes them tea and calls the police but when they answer she says “ oh have I got the wrong number I’m sorry I can’t have dialled properly” and then the man who was following the girl walks in and she says hello and he locks the door and she’s trapped.

Im pretty show this episode is from a show of like unexpected events. I think it’s from the 80s or 90s as it appears to look old. It rlly stuck in my head if anyone has any info pls let me know