Chalk never got another series i think, but it was damn good...well...ok...it was quite good...mediocre?....a bit rubbish?....shit?
help me out here, i can't be expected to form my own opinions.

Chalk *did* get another series: the first series had the late John Wells as the headmaster and in the second one he was replaced by Duncan Preston (who's normally in anything by The Victoria Wood Rep Company).

>Chalk *did* get another series: the first series had the late John Wells as the headmaster and in the second one he was replaced by Duncan Preston (who's normally in anything by The Victoria Wood Rep Company).
>
But the fact that Chalk got a second series isn't what Mich seems to be on about - both Babes in the Wood and Holding the baby got a second series - which kind of makes this thread pointles IMO - after all, most sit-coms never got that 'next' series.

So this thread is about any sitcom that ever gets cancelled or otherwise comes to an end? Does this mean we can't talk about Last of the Summer Wine here?

I think the idea is discussion of sitcoms that looked promising, but only got a single series.

But you knew that - you were just trying to be 'funny.'

That Beryl Marston (Southern 1980)
Take A Letter Mr Jones (Southern 1981)
Marjorie and Men (Anglia 1985)

Perhaps the regionals should stear clear of sitcoms.

Brighton Belles!


... Anyone?

Honey For Tea? Felicity Kendall's career falls apart when the nation discovers that she was only endearingly cute in her twenties. Perhaps we should just take a stroll through that big old Worst Comedy Series Ever thread.

The Keith-Barron-starring "All Night Long" only got one series. You probably don't need me to explain why.

there was a program on once called First of the Summer Wine which was really awful

You mean like last of the summer wine. I couldn't really decide what to put,I added stuff in which changed the meaning, Sitcoms that should have got another series either a second or third etc.

"Down to Earth" (1994) with Richard Briers

I remember that, yeah it should hve got another series, How about Nelsons Column and is it only me who loved, Loved by You?

>This strand inspired by the one above TV sitcoms that never got another series...
>...Babes in the Wood - come on give it another chance


Babes in the Wood ran to a second series. Another glory from Carlton... the people who brought you the glorious Kiss Me Kate.

I quite liked 'If You See God Tell Him'. Ah well.

>I remember that, yeah it should hve got another series, How about Nelsons Column and is it only me who loved, Loved by You?

I would say that Loved by You is a lesson to everyone about how not to remake a sitcom. It was Brits doing to Mad About You what American's tried to do to Ab Fab with disasterous consequences.
I'm not for one second saying that Mad About You is highly entertaining or unique but it does have something about it, perhaps it's okay because of Helen Hunt or the crowned prince of sitcom Paul Reiser (remember My Two Dads? He was the less favoured by Lee and Herring 'one who wasn't Greg Evigan'). Anyway, Loved By You just completely lifted every single bit of the script and tried to add some Britishness to it. In my opinion it was awful, unless you love John Gordon Sinclair, which perhaps you do...who knows...

I still say that Loved By You was other than posibly the Grimleys, Holding the Baby and Babes in the Wood the only ITV sitcoms that weren't slatted by the press (second series of Babes was and towards the end of the second of Holding was as well). It is one of the only itv sitcoms worth watching.
I liked all of them, anyway i like Treveyn McDowell - very nice.

>I liked all of them, anyway i like Treveyn McDowell - very nice.

Finally - the revelation which explains your otherwise mystifying defence of this *&%$£@(*)! awful show.



Sorry, that's a misprint. It should of course say "fucking".

Mrs Merton and Malcolm deserved another series - granted, it was flawed, but there were moments of greatness (Malcolm singing "Rabbit", Malcolm and Mr Capstick Riverdancing, etc.) Probably too disturbing for most people's taste, though.

Could I just point out that I didn't actually intend for that "fcking awful show" bit to come out as a mail address, and I'm mystified as to why it did. (Unless someone has actually chosen that as their e-mail address...)

I think it was the @ sign that did it, Alan. As in

98027537*&^%)*)(!%@_(*&_-986-9-98-9*_(&

(I'll look a bit silly if that didn't work)

There was the ITV (again, surprise surprise!) sictom Downwardly Mobile with Josie Lawrence and some others. That came and went very quietly.
I thought Babes in the Wood and Holding the Baby were slated right from the start.

Not on there first series, they only got it from the start of the second.