A Bit of a Do

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

The Royle Family is a British sitcom created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and produced by Granada Television for BBC Two (series 1) and BBC One (series 2 and 3). It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising lazy patriarch Jim, his hard-working wife Barbara, their entitled daughter Denise, their put-upon son Antony, and Denise's lad fiancé–later husband–David.

Les héritiers de Downton Abbey ayant péri lors du naufrage du Titanic, la famille Crawley se retrouve dans une situation délicate : le domaine est soumis à l’entail, c'est-à-dire qu'il doit intégralement passer à un héritier mâle, le titre de Lord Grantham, le domaine et la fortune de la famille étant indissociables. Les trois filles ne peuvent prétendre ni au titre ni à l'héritage. Matthew Crawley, un lointain cousin, est le nouvel héritier. Il arrive à Downton Abbey où il découvre un style de vie nouveau pour lui, avec des règles très strictes qui régissent la vie entre aristocrates et serviteurs.

The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.

Married is a half hour comedy about being miserably in love. Russ and Lina Bowman can barely remember what life was like before kids, debt, and suburbia rained on their romance -- but every once in a while, in between the arguments about their declining sex life and who's driving carpool, they are reminded what drew them together in the first place -- they're best friends. The show also features Russ and Lina's friend AJ, who is recently divorced and pretending he's over his wife, and their other friend Jess, who is married to a much older man who can't keep up with her.

Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip.

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin endures a midlife crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', Perrin gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and later finds success with a chain of junk shops. However, it becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it.

Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon.

A middle-aged housewife feels frustrated with her mean and miserable husband, the married couple adapting to life in an up-market housing estate.

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers. The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.

Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon. Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.

Will Freeman mène une parfaite vie de célibataire sans emploi. C'était sans compter sur Fiona, sa nouvelle voisine, qui emménage accompagnée de son fils de onze ans : Marcus. Si dans un premier temps, la relation de Will et Marcus est conflictuel, l'adulte découvre que sa côté auprès des femmes remonte inexorablement lorsqu'il est accompagné du jeune garçon. Will propose alors un marché à Marcus : laisser ce dernier s'inviter chez lui quand il en a envie, et en échange, il devra accepter de se faire passer pour son fils...

Cette série met en scène les enquêtes de l'inspecteur William Frost, plus connu sous le nom de Jack, dans la ville imaginaire de Denton. Ce veuf quinquagénaire, brillant policier de l'ancienne école, n'a pas son pareil pour résoudre les affaires les plus complexes. Il a reçu la plus haute distinction civile, la croix de Georges, pour avoir été imprudemment blessé par un homme armé alors qu'il sortait d'un bar et était ivre, le jour où il a appris que sa femme, qu'il comptait quitter, était atteinte d'un cancer en phase terminale. Souvent en conflit avec ses supérieurs, désordonné et allergique à la paperasse, il est réputé pour son fichu caractère. Bourru et prenant parfois quelque liberté avec les règlements ou les procédures, il fait toutefois preuve d'empathie avec les victimes et a bon cœur. Il est assisté dans ses enquêtes par différents sergents détectives qui apportent leur point de vue particulier à la résolution de l'affaire. L'humour anglais et le ressort comique de la série sont inscrits dans les relations entre Frost et le bureaucratique Superintendant Mullett.

Christy, une mère de famille célibataire, tout juste sortie de cure de désintoxication, doit remettre de l'ordre dans sa vie. Mais sa mère, Bonnie, une alcoolique notoire avec qui elle n'a plus eu de contact depuis plusieurs années, refait surface et lui complique infiniment la tâche. Lorsque ses enfants et son boss s'y mettent à leur tour, rien ne va plus pour Christy... à nouveau !

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.

Le quotidien d'une famille anglaise, excentrique et drôle. Le père, Ben Harper, est un dentiste misanthrope, et son épouse, Susan, travaille comme guide touristique. Étourdie et optimiste, elle aimerait bien contrôler la vie de ses enfants. L'aîné, Nick, 19 ans, a pris une année sabbatique pour... se vautrer sur le canapé du salon ; sa soeur Janey ne pense qu'aux garçons et au shopping ; surdoué, Michael, le petit dernier, enchaîne les relations amoureuses. Sans oublier Brigitte, l'assistante plutôt fofolle de Ben...

Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.