Category: Thought Vomit
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Five
Sometimes a dip into the more unknown sitcoms is fun, especially when you unwrap a possible tasty gem. Behind door five we find The 5 Mrs Buchanans (it’s going to be impossible to keep up with this number theming). This one ran for 17 episodes on CBS in 1994-5, was created by Jamie Wooten and…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Four
There’s an absolutely delicious nugget waiting for us behind door four of the sitcom advent calendar today. Just have a look at this from the final episode of series four of The Brittas Empire. That crane shot showing the destruction of the leisure centre is absolutely astonishing. Here’s a nice quirk of fate, nestling in…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Three
Behind the little door marked 3 today, we find a sitcom I watched a lot when it was on, but have never seen since. Three Up, Two Down was a BBC sitcom, starring Angela Thorne, Michael Elphick, and Lysette Anthony. It was written by Richard Ommanney, and ran for four series in the mid 1980s.…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door Two
Pull open the little door emblazoned with a 2, and gorge on the chocolatey morsel that is … What a cast. This is Second Thoughts, which was written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie, and ran for 49 episodes on ITV in the first half of the 1990s. Glinting in the reflection of the discarded…
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Sitcom Advent Calendar Door One
It’s that (most wonderful) time of the year again, where advent calendar theming means blog content creation becomes a little easier for a month. It won’t always be sitcoms per se, but comedy in general, and I won’t always do the number thing. Let’s begin though with the short-lived CBS sitcom First Impressions, which began…
