Favorite BBC series

[JoeWoah]

Originally Posted by Connemara

AbFab is awesome!
AbFab had it's moments, like selling Saffron into slavery in Morocco or the entire French episode, including the coke scene at the end. It wasn't consistent.

 

[AR_Six]

Fawlty Towers is the obvious winner.
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TIP: to embed Youtube clips, put only the encoded part of the Youtube URL, e.g. eBGIQ7ZuuiU between the tags. Not mentioned so far: Jeeves & Wooster, with Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by JD_May

Not mentioned so far: Jeeves & Wooster, with Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry.
J&W wasn't a BBC production.

 

[Huntsman]

TopGear Chef! Kitchen Nightmares Jonathan Creek Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld Started watching Are You Being Served? and Allo', Allo', when I was 10 or so. Enjoyed As Time Goes By.

 

[Spatlese]

Coupling is hilarious
Before Kitchen Nightmares, there was Boiling Point and Beyong Boiling Point (available on youtube..highly recommended)
Chef was mentioned above. Was that the series featuring Lenny Henry? If so, good show.

 

[AR_Six]

Originally Posted by Connemara

J&W wasn't a BBC production.
I just assume everything involving TV and a british accent is somehow affiliated with the BBC.

 

[JoeWoah]

Rome... it was a BBC production aired on HBO here. That was an awesome series.

 

[crazyquik]

Top Gear and Fifth Gear (or is that not BBC? still Brit TV)
watched a lot of Cash In The Attic at one time

Are You Being Served. I was watching a few weeks ago and Captain Peacock's stroller definently had cuffed sleeves

 

[audiophilia]

I Claudius
The Office
Fawlty Towers
Prime Suspect

Two on ITV, and just as good.

Minder
Cracker

 

[Lachy]

Coupling (but only seasons 1 - 3, once Jeff was gone, so was the humor)
Blackadder
Green Wing (only just started watching it)
Topgear, of course
Reddwarf, surprised it hasn't been mentioned more.

 

[Huntsman]

Originally Posted by Spatlese

Chef was mentioned above. Was that the series featuring Lenny Henry? If so, good show.
Yep-- loved it. Though Season 3 was getting out of the kitchen and it was losing steam.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Lachy

Coupling (but only seasons 1 - 3, once Jeff was gone, so was the humor)
Amen to that. My friends still contest that Oliver has his moments but I know a smoke screen when I see one.

 

[Gradstudent78]

Doctor Who
Jekyl
Life on Mars
Spaced
Hustle


Guilty Pleasure: No Heroics and Secret diary of a coat hangers.

 

[Fulcannelli]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

Also an odd little gem called Gormenghast.

+100 Gormenghast was class
QI

not a beeb show but "Matina Coles The Take" was awesome

 

[Treen]

Originally Posted by Connemara

J&W wasn't a BBC production.

Neither was Father Ted or Prime Suspect, two of the shows you mentioned...

I think BBC drama is probably the best in the UK, beating ITV and the rest by a long way. Fawlty Towers, The Office and Red Dwarf are all classics that come to mind, as well as modern series such as Spooks and my guilty pleasure, Hotel Babylon.