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Originally Posted by Eichhornchen
My Dictionary of English Etymology is always close by.
If you've never heard of 'Allo 'Allo then you've missed a treat. It's a rather pantomimic comedy series set in occupied France, with an extremely vulgar take on things as you might expect from us, though without any bad language. In the same style of the "Carry On" films, if you know what I mean.
Or how about "Dad's Army", then, a comedy series about the Home Guard? If you've never seen that then you've missed absolute Comedy Gold: the best thing ever made for TV by anyone.
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About the only British shows that make it over here on the "telly" on a regular basis is what brought in by PBS (Public Broadcasting System, free but donation based television channels). Upstairs, Downstairs, Are You Being Served?, Benny Hill, etc. I think Downton Abbey and the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett are two of the best series you Brits ever came up with. Good stuff. It's a crying shame Jeremy Brett died of cancer before they could do all of Doyle's Sherlock stories-he was the best Holmes ever, bar none. And they followed the original storylines fairly close to the printed plots.