Nobody Talks About How Brilliant Evening TV Used to Be in the UK

My wife and I have had a great time coming up with this list, and we will continue to add to the list as things come into our head! Growing up, we didn’t realise just how good we had it! I know there are a few American shows on the list too, but we all loved them growing up!

Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? (In no particular order!)

Blind Date

Noel’s House Party

Gladiators

You’ve Been Framed

Beadle’s About

Stars in Their Eyes

Mr Bean

X-Files

Family Fortunes

Wheel of Fortune

The Thin Blue Line

Catchphrase

Bullseye

Robot Wars

Fort Boyard

Strike It Lucky

Generation Game

Kids say the funniest things

Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie

Bottom

The Young Ones

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Men Behaving Badly

WWF

WCW

Royal Family

Father Ted

My Family

League of Gentleman

Crystal Maze

Keeping up Appearances

One Foot in the Grave

Brass Eye

Vicar of Dibley

Only Fools and Horses

Open All Hours

EuroTrash

Allo ‘Allo!

Faulty Towers

Are you Being Served

Heartbeat

Footballers Wives

I never watched this one, but my wife insists it was popular lol.

Dinnerladies

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Xena Warrior Princess

Hercules

Absolutely Fabulous

Surprise Surprise

Martial Law

Balls of Steel

Dirty Sanchez

Jackass

Harry Enfield and Chums

The Mighty Boosh

Crimewatch

Mastermind

University Challenge

Jonathan Creek

CSI

Little Britain

Bo’ Selecta

Still Game

One of, if not the greatest Scottish show ever created!

Chewin the Fat

This show shaped Scottish humour as we know it. Hilarious sketch show that had the spinoff Still Game (above). A lot of the jokes in Chewing the Fat were written by the boys who done Burnistoun too (which is also outstanding)

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Catherine Tate Show

Karen Dunbar Show

Another of Scotland’s iconic comedy sketch shows (Karen Dunbar was also in Chewin the Fat). I recently seen Karen do stand-up and my jaws were in agony because I was laughing so much!