Not quite easy to cast a vote when you don't know most of the candidates...

I wish people voting for political elections would be as concerned as that...

However, my vote here goes to "Porridge", with runners-up being "Man about the House" and "The Likely Lads".

The vote, mind you, goes more to Ronnie Barker than the actual movie itself, he's one of those folks I could enjoy if they read the weather report...

And I never wanted to watch "Rising Damp", because Richard Beckinsale not being in it would just break my heart...


Cheers!

Ah, yes, I watched a few more myself, in the meantime, and have a new favourite in "Bless this House" which, to me, felt a lot just like a longer episode of the TV series, and I guess that's the best we could expect from this kind of stuff.

It was a bit weird seeing different actors in some of the main roles, but Peter Butterworth was probably a better Trevor than the original, while Robin Askwith as the son felt a bit odd, not because he wasn't good, he was, but because he'd been a guest in a recent previous episode in the regular TV series, playing a friend of the son, and that could be seen as a tad confusing...

I also rather liked "Whoops Apocalypse", despite the excessive Americanization of the plot, but the guy playing Kramer in Seinfeld (can't be bothered to look the name up right now ) was brilliant as the killer, even better than John Cleese in the original (and that's saying something, for me ), while Peter Cook as the PM is still regarded as his best performance ever in a "pure acting" role.

I wonder, however, if this film fits the bill, here, being the remake of a mini-series rather than the "spinoff" of a sitcom...

I guess we watch the two things with different attitudes, with a remake comparisons with the original are more immediate, because it's the same plot, while with spinoffs we check the new plot against the series, seeing if it measures up, or, as often happens, it's just a "stretched" episode that doesn't gain much from the longer time-slot allowed, if it doesn't actually suffer from it.

I think that's indeed where most of the quoted titles succeeded, the longer time was usefully employed, rather than wasted.

You are right about "On the buses" Phil,I have all the films and have watched 'em many times,they seem to have more about them than the tv shows..................