Well, not being much of a telly user but rather a collector and "student" of comedy, what I've seen I mostly have, in some sort of recorded medium, from VHS tapes to DVDs and stuff from the... er... twilight zone...

So, reruns I would dearly like to see are of stuff I've actually never seen, or only partially, so as someone might record it and then I can grab it...

Off the top of my head good candidates would be "Not The Nine O'Clock News", the full series, not just compilations, or the surviving episodes of "Sykes and a..." (There's at least a dozen of those, I only got 3 or 4), Spike Milligan's Q5 (later series can be found "around" but not the first), the full "Curry and Chips", whatever survived of TW3 and David Frost's shows, the Frankie Howerd Show, Pete & Dud... oh, mostly prehistorical stuff, indeed, and few actual sitcoms in my wish-list, but those seem to be, generally, better "preserved" than sketch-shows, and what's not rerun you could at least buy, borrow or steal somewhere...

Problem is, our interests don't seem to match those of the broadcasters, especially overtly commercial ones, but the BBC doesn't seem to make much of a difference there.

My own access to TV these days is mostly satellite, I remember when my Sky subscription was "fresh", and the channel formerly known as BBC Prime was my main source, how I enjoyed seeing reruns of "Only Fools..." and the 2nd and 4th seasons of "Blackadder", and how I got utterly bored seeing those for the 4th time in a year, and wondering what happened to the later episodes of "Only Fools..." and the 1st and 3rd seasons of "Blackadder", which for some reasons are never repeated...

That recently became "BBC Entertainment", with very little actual changes, we're given more recent stuff, that's true, "Suburban Shootout" (nice! ), "Jam & Jerusalem" (boring...), the "Omid Djalili Show" (that's a funny man!), but how many times will we have to see the same stuff again and again in the foreseeable future?

Older stuff just doesn't work, at least in the mind of modern TV programmers, don't even mention black & white to them, ever, it's just unthinkable.

I know I'm sounding like a broken record here, but TV itself is the last "place" we should expect anything actually interesting to happen these days, for "research" purposes it's only DVDs and/or the Twilight Zone of the Internet...

There is, or at least was, a DVD of the first season of "Sykes" (1972), with some very interesting extras, btw, the "bloopers" alone are hilarious, well worth hunting for... around...

Terry and June would be nice to see again.... :

Aitch,

Er... "repeat" is meant as "re-run", not "re-make"...

And what we're complaining about is in fact that modern TV execs prefer to go for remakes rather than showing old original shows, which we would very much like to see again instead (OR new stuff, of course).

That said, a remake of "The Good Life" as a reality show, with Bill Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as neighbours could turn out rather interesting

Paramount are showing Terry and June at the moment, trouble is you need to get up early, its on at about 6 am!



LOL, Excellent idea!