My mom was a huge Danger UXB fan.

You didn't mention -- though you have previously blogged extensively on it -- I, Claudius.

I don't remmenber the series on the English Civil War.

Colossus -

I, Claudius!! What memories - I was a kid, but I certainly remember that my parents were addicted to it. They would have bridge parties on Friday nights, and we the children would be banished upstairs (however, of course, we would sit huddled at the top of the stairs to listen to the grown-up talk and enjoy the secondhand smoke floating up to us ...) but I so remember everyone playing bridge and talking about I, Claudius. It wasn't just a TV show, it was an event!! Like Roots was an event.

"Flambards"
Goopy WWI-era soap opera BBC but it had GREAT theme music performed by a whistler - and everyone was so beautiful!!

How about “Tenko”—as intense a television-viewing experience as I've ever had.

"A Town Called Alice"

MT was great and Upstairs Downstairs was good. Don't quite remember if I, Claudius was done by MT.

Fawlty Towers, No Honestly, To the Manner Born, and the Goode Neighbors were all great commedies.

Dave Allen was much better than Benny Hill, and the 2 Ronnies were good as well.

Aaaah... I, Claudius. The reason I didn't mention that one is because I've seen it several times since it ran on MT. Once, we borrowed the tapes from somebody and, more recently, one of the cable networks ran the series. But I sure remember when MT ran it as well. Looking back - what a cast! Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Sian Phillips, John Hurt, Patrick Stewart....They don't make them like that any more.

I loved Danger UXB and I keep hoping it'll be released on DVD someday. I also loved Tenko and look for that on DVD as well.

My mother loved Upstairs, Downstairs and said that Godsford Park reminded her a lot of that.

And I grew up watching No Honestly when we lived in England. Hilarious and probably highly inappropriate for me at that tender age if I remember it properly.

Um, that's Gosford Park.

Danger UXB is on DVD.

Yes - I'd like to borrow or rent it before buying, tho.

It is? In the US? Where????

I have searched with no success for years.

Danger UXB dvd was an anniversary (wedding) gift from my beloved and indulgent wife to me. She's so good to me.

Add to your list: To serve them all my days. From the book by RF Delderfield. It is just terrific.

My all time favorite BBC comedy was The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. "Have a good day at work, dear." "Don't worry, I won't."

I remember the English Civil War series, but not the title. In one scene the besieged royalists walk out to the church for a wedding, the roundheads fire on them, the priest hits the deck, but the bride doesn't turn a hair. Of course, in all that underwear she probably couldn't.

Why doesn't PBS replay these? Have they lost the rights? A&E used to show some BBC productions, but they're all crime now.

those were the days, indeed. masterpiece theatah was one of the highlights of my week. and what about that long series of anthony trollopes, the pallisers, with that yummy little english cupcake, susan hampshire, a great favorite of dad's, too.
another great fave of mine was the mapp and lucia series--geraldine mc ewan, nigel hawthorne, and
prunella scales ( sybil of fawlty towers).
also all those super mystery productions, esp.
sherlock holmes being personified by jeremy brett.
(some people have complained that he made s. holmes a closet pansy. duuuuh!) what little drama is now being shown on pbs is either dumbed down or nastied up, or is it just me?
(aside to robbo--i have tinker-tailor on dvd, and if you're good, you can watch it in the explorer this summer while you're up.) (sorry, other people, another tiresome family joke.)

another delightful alec guiness movie i just thought of--
the horse's mouth. delightful.
do not know names of any other cast members, but there's a dear hard-faced woman in it who plays a bar maid--one of her first lines is, 'when they saw what i was going to look like, they tried religion on me.'
it was on vhs but i don't think on dvd, and it's never on tv that i'm aware of but if it ever does turn up somewhere, i think you'd like it.

sorry, this one shd have been under the ladykillers blog.

I saw DANGER UXB and it was pretty interesting to see just what dangers the WW II bomb handlers had to go through and just what kind of bombs the germans dropped on london during the blitz