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Originally Posted by peter12
Yes, Minister was a glorious British political sit-com. I think they used to have a political science course specifically on that show at the UoC. Before my time.
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For years, up until I want to say two years ago, for some inexpicalbe reason reason, "Are you Being Served" was shown on YTV latenight during the week. What followed right after was "Yes Minister" or "Keeping Up Appearances", they would switch every couple years.
Very dry humor, and somewhat simplied storyline...but real policitcs in Britan likely wasn't much different behind the scenes in those days.
To be honest, it took watching at least 10 episodes to start to see the humor...so there's no way, either in Britan or here, that that show or shows would ever get past 6 episodes these days.
WKRP was classic...nowhere to be found on the air in the last 5 years in Calgary. Can't believe the DVD has been ized like that though...its not as though they played full tracks.
The other old show I watch with extreme regularity, and it comes off and on Deja Vu (the only reason I ever watch those digital channels)depening on the time of year (noticed it the last two summers, but then gone come fall) and way back when used to be on A&E, is the Rockford Files. I've likely seen episode 3 or 4 times, but James Garner was a great actor and this was a great role for him, and a quality show all around.