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Missing Sitcoms
editTwo popular sitcoms which appear to be missing from this page are The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 1976 and Just Good Friends 1983. Could they be included ? Murfas (talk) 13:13, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Murfas. It's not that they are 'missing', indeed it would be impossible to include the 100s of 20th century sitcoms (that's why there are links to the decade categories).
- I believe the purpose of this article is to provide an abstract of the development of Britcom as a genre and how the relatively close-knit community of actors, producers, and directors portrayed British humour culture through the second half of the 20th century. (Probably Black Adder was unique among them in its period settings as a hard satire of English history). It in was following on from this perspective that Philip Cross and I greatly expanded and updated the article in 2022, deliberately avoiding turning it into an anthology or a list of popular of Britcoms; indeed some are included that were less popular or less well known but which represent the style of the genre or ones made from comic novels such as Jeeves and Wooster, featuring the comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie of Black Adder, and Clochemerle by the prolific team Galton and Simpson.
- If you think that adding two more, albeit popular sitcoms will add more background in what is now already a rather long article, do go ahead. I certainly agree that adding Perrin would not be amiss considering the involvement of Rossiter, Palmer, and composer Hazelhurst. Likewise Sullivan's Just Good Friends considering he created Only Fools and Horses (with yet more music by Hazelhurst). Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:43, 12 November 2024 (UTC)