Research Catalog

Title

Best of the Britcoms : from Fawlty Towers to Absolutely Fabulous / by Garry Berman.

Author

Berman, Garry.

Publication

Dallas, Tex : Taylor, c1999.

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Description

xx, 140 p. : ill., ports.; 28 cm.

Summary

Describes a variety of British sitcoms, including "Are You Being Served?," "The Young Ones," "Keeping Up Appearances," and "The Thin Blue Line."

Subject

Television comedies > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. 131-132.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: The case for the Britcom -- A thumbnail history of British television.
• Britcoms of the 1970s (Dad's army -- The last of the summer wine -- Are you being served? -- Rising damp -- Fawlty Towers -- Good neighbors (The good life) -- Open all hours -- The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin -- Bless me, father -- Butterflies -- Shelley -- To the manor born)
• Britcoms of the 1980s (Hi-de-hi -- yes, minister/yes, prime minister -- Only fools and horses -- The bounder -- The young ones -- The black adder -- Don't wait up -- No place like home -- 'Allo, 'allo! -- Three up, two down -- Hot metal -- Executive stress -- The two of us -- Red dwarf -- Colin's sandwich -- May to December)
• Britcoms of the 1990s (One foot in the grave -- The piglet files -- Waiting for God -- Keeping up appearances -- The Brittas Empire -- As time goes by -- Don't measure up -- Britcoms on video)

ISBN

0878331603

LCCN

^^^99035301^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library