With the BBC celebrating its 100th birthday on 22nd October 2022, We thought we’d have a look back at the staple of British telly over the decades, the mighty sitcom. We looked at the rankings and scores of more than 250 British sitcoms for a more data-driven approach. Here are the top 100 best sitcoms ever.
1987 – 1988 | 2 Seasons | 12 Eps
STARRING: Lenny Henry | Vas Blackwood | Gina McKee
1991 – 1999 | 8 Seasons | 56 Eps
STARRING: Gary Olsen | Belinda Lang | Clare Buckfield
STARRING: Jack Smethurst | Kate Williams | Rudolph Walker
STARRING: Reg Varney | Bob Grant | Stephen Lewis | Doris Hare
STARRING: Peter Sallis | Kathy Staff | Bill Owen | Brian Wilde
Last of The Summer Wine was one of the longest running British sitcoms ever. The story revolved around three old men from Yorkshire, who have never grown up, face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.
2011 – Ongoing | 4 Seasons | 41 Eps
STARRING: Brendan O’Carroll | Jennifer Gibney | Eilish O’Carroll
STARRING: Anton Rodgers | Frances White | Lesley Dunlop
1988 – 1991 | 3 Seasons | 22 Eps
STARRING: Judy Loe | Eamon Boland | Simon Cadell | Roger Rees
1968 – 1972 | 4 Seasons | 55 Eps
STARRING: Deryck Guyler | Erik Chitty | Richard Davies | Noel Howlett
1983 – 1986 | 3 Seasons | 22 Eps
STARRING: Paul Nicholas | Jan Francis | Sylvia Kay | Ann Lynn
1991 – 1997 | 7 Seasons | 52 Eps
STARRING: Chris Barrie | Michael Burns | Julia St. John | Pippa Haywood
1987 | 1 Season | 6 Eps
STARRING: Rik Mayall | Nigel Planer | Adrian Edmondson
1974 – 1981 | 8 Seasons | 56 Eps
STARRING: Windsor Davies | Melvyn Hayes | Don Estelle
1976 – 1979 | 5 Seasons | 38 Eps
STARRING: Brian Murphy | Yootha Joyce | Norman Eshley
A ’70s classic sitcom about married coupe, George and Mildred Roper, who have just moved to a middle class neighborhood. With the change, Mildred aims to climb the social ladder, while George only dreams of watching television and drinking beer.
STARRING: Richard O’Sullivan | Paula Wilcox | Sally Thomsett | Brian Murphy | Yootha Joyce
STARRING: Norman Beaton | Lenny Henry | Isabelle Lucas
The Fosters was a sitcom that showcased the early work of Lenny Henry as the budding artist son of easy going family man Samuel Foster. The series follows the day-to-day trials of Samuel and his lively wife Pearl (both immigrants from Guyana) and their three children on a South London housing estate.
1981 – 1986 | 5 Seasons | 37 Eps
STARRING: Mollie Sugden | Christopher Blake | Harold Goodwin
1984 – 1989 | 5 Seasons | 27 Eps
STARRING: Richard Briers | Penelope Wilton | Peter Egan
1966 – 1975 | 7 Seasons | 53 Eps
STARRING: Warren Mitchell | Dandy Nichols | Una Stubbs |
2012 – 2022 | 3 Seasons | 18 Eps
STARRING: Jack Whitehall | Layton Williams | Jack Binstead
One of the newer sitcoms on the list,Bad Education was written by and starred Jack Whitehall, as Alfie, the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system, and a bigger kid than his students.
1993 – 1997 | 5 Seasons | 31 Eps
STARRING: Robert Powell | Jasper Carrott | George Sewell
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