The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part L-M, 461 lines, updated 1998-04-06 # Copyright (c) 1993-1998 by Dave Budd ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).   Using this text without crediting the authors would be theft from over 200 contributors worldwide.   Any non-profit usage is permitted if this copyright notice remains attached. # L For Lester (82) BBC Dudley Long    Deliberately incompetent driving instructor    Brian Murphy, Amanda Barrie, Richard Vernon, Hilda Braid # The Labours Of Erica (89,90) ITV(Thames) ?writer    Erica has schoolgirl list of things to achieve by age 40    Brenda Blethyn # The Lady Is A Tramp (83,84) C4 Johnny Speight    Two women drifters in a van    Patricia Hayes, Pat Coombs # Lame Ducks (84,85) BBC Peter J. Hammond    Group of misfits and loners    Lorraine Chase, John Duttine, Patric Turner, Brian Murphy, Tony Millan # Land Of Hope And Gloria (92) ITV(Thames) Simon Brett    Marketing a stately home    Sheila Ferguson, Joan Sanderson, Andrew Bicknell # Langley Bottom (86) ITV(YTV) Barry Cryer & John Junkin    A Yorkshire village (pop 227 including the Asian grocer)    Bernard Cribbins, Tim Barrett, Don Crann, Elvi Hale, Barbara Hicks,    Rhoda Lewis # The Larkins (58,59,60,63) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson    Cockney couple keep country pub. From Radio4 (was then the Home Service)      ^from TV's Greatest Hits: episode de_script_ions don't match this too well    David Kossoff, Peggy Mount, Hugh Paddick, Barbara Mitchell,    Shaun O'Riordan, Ronan O'Casey # The Last Of The Baskets (71,72) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson    Heir and butler    Arthur Lowe, Ken Jones, Patricia Hayes, Richard Hurndall # The Last Salute (97) BBC Simon Nye & Tim Binding    Rival AA and RAC patrolmen in the 60s    Paul Bown, Philip Jackson, Jo Unwin, David Shane, Brett Fancy, Ben Pullen. # Last Of The Summer Wine        (73p,75,76,77-,ny78,x78,79x,x81,82xx,83x,x84,85,86ny&x,87x,88x,         89x,90x,91x,92,93,95abx,96x,97,98) BBC Roy Clarke    3 old geezers wander round a Yorkshire town    Bill Owen, Peter Sallis,    Michael Bates(-75)-Brian Wilde(76-85)-Michael Aldridge(86-89)-    Brian Wilde(90-), John Comer(-83), Mike Grady(86-), Jane Freeman,    Kathy Staff, Thora Hird(86-), Jean Alexander(88x-), Robert Fyfe(85-),    Juliette Kaplan(85-), Jean Fergusson(85-), Joe Gladwin(75-86),    Blake Butler(-76), Rosemary Martin(-73), Philip Jackson(76),    Gordon Wharmby(?83-), Jonathan Linsley(85-), Sarah Thomas(86-),    Danny O'Dea(87-), Stephen Lewis(90-) # The Last Song (81,83) BBC Carla Lane    Middle aged divorcee & young girlfriend    Geoffrey Palmer, Nina Thomas, Caroline Blakiston, Barbara Flynn(81),    Hetty Baynes, Gay Wilde(83) # Late Expectations (87) BBC ?writer    Middle aged woman gets pregnant...    Nanette Newman, Keith Barron, Sara Griffiths # Laura And Disorder (89) BBC Jonathan Marr and Ross Bentley    Relative returns from USA    Wendy Craig # Law And Disorder (94) ITV Alex Shearer    A female barrister    Penelope Keith, Simon Williams, Charles Kay, Eamon Boland, John Junkin,    Emma Davies # Lazarus And Dingwall (91) BBC Kim Fuller and Vicky Pile    Daft cops    Stephen Frost, Mark Arden (The Oblivion Boys), Peter Bland, Race Davies # Leave It To Charlie (78,79ab,80) ITV(Granada) H V Kershaw    Young overconfident insurance agent prone to good deeds    David Roper, Peter Sallis, Gwen Cherrell # Leaving (84,85) BBC Carla Lane    Middle aged couple get divorce.      Keith Barron, Susan Hampshire. # The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (96) BBC David Nobbs   Reggie left a will with a 'commit an absurd act' clause   Geoffrey Palmer, Patricia Hodge, Pauline Yates, John Barron,   John Horsley, Sue Nicholls, Tim Preece, Sally-Jane Spencer,   Bruce Bould, Theresa Watson # The Lenny Henry Show (87,88) BBC Stan Hey & Andrew Nickolds, ?Kim Fuller    Pirate DJ in back of cafe    Lenny Henry, Vas Blackwood, Gina McKee. # Let There Be Love (82) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke    Confirmed bachelor falls in love with widowed mother of three    Paul Eddington, Nanette Newman, Henry McGee # Life After Birth (96) C4 Simon Block & Teresa Poland    2 girls share a flat, one has a new baby    Emma Cuniffe, Paula Bacon, Jackie Downey, Paula Wilcox, Rachel Davies,    Fraser James # Life Begins At Forty (78,?79,80) ITV(YTV) Jan Butlin    40yr old becomes 1st time dad    Derek Nimmo, Rosemary Leach # A Life Of Bliss (60-61) BBC Godfrey Harrison.    A shy, confused bachelor's life is riddled with misunderstanding.    George Cole, Sheila Sweet, Colin Gordon, Isabel Dean. # The Life Of Riley (75) ITV(Granada) Brian Finch    Widower insurance agent with roving eye has disapproving god-fearing son    Bill Maynard, Frank Lincoln # Life With The Lyons (55-56) BBC (57-60) ITV/AR  Bebe Daniels Lyon & others    Synopsis: Real life American family in Britain.    Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels Lyon, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, Molly Weir,    Doris Rogers, Skeeter the dog. # Life Without George (87,89) BBC Penny Croft & Val Hudson                      88,89 according to TV's Greatest Hits    Woman rebuilds life after being dumped    Carol Royle, Simon Cadell, Ronald Fraser, Michael Thomas,    Rosalind March(88)-Elizabeth Estensen(89) # The Likely Lads (65ab,66,film84) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais    2 young blokes on Tyneside    James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Sheila Fearn # Little Armadillos (84) C4 ?Jim Sweeney & ?Steve Steen    Two mad criminal brothers (NOT the Krays!) own a seedy nightclub    Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Helen Lederer, Daniel Peacock # A Little Big Business (63,64) ITV(Granada) Paul Jackman, Jack Pullman    The furniture business    David Kossoff, Francis Matthews, David Conville, Joyce Marlowe,    Martin Miller, Billy Russell # The Liver Birds (69,71,72,74,75x,76abx,77x,78,96) BBC      Carla Lane & Myra Taylor & Lew Schwartz, at least in early series.    2 young girls in Liverpool    Pauline Collins(69)-Nerys Hughes, Polly James-Elizabeth Estensen,    John Nettles(4 series), Mollie Sugden # Lollipop (72) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry    Followup to Lollipop Loves Mr Mole;    Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount # Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (71) ITV(ATV) Jimmy Perry    Fulham couple; marriage of opposites    Hugh Lloyd & Peggy Mount, Rex Garner # The Lonelyheart Kid (84) ITV(Thames) Alex Shearer    School sweethearts live together for years but drift apart as she matures    Robert Glenister, Deborah Farrington, Julia Goodman # The Loner (75) ITV(YTV) Alan Plater     actually a series of comedy play    One man's fight against officialdom    Les Dawson # The Losers (78) ITV Alan Coren    Unsuccesful wrestler and his agent    Leonard Rossiter # The Love Of Mike (60) ITV(AR) ?writer    Dance band trumpeter, eternally broke, forever chasing girls    Michael Medwin, Brian Wilde, Goerge Roderick, Carmel Mcsharry # Love Thy Neighbour (72ab,73- or 73,74 ,75- or 75ab- ,film78)                     ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver    Black'n'white neighbours    Rudolph Walker, Jack Smethurst, Kate Williams, Nina Baden-Semper # Loved By You (97) ITV Danny Jacobson & Paul Reiser   Newlyweds (copy of US Mad About You )   John Gordon Sinclair, Trevyn McDowell, Gary Love, Kim Thomson,   Gillian Bevan, Steven Alvey # Lovely Couple (79) ITV Christopher Wood    Reluctantly engaged couple    <cast # The Lovers (70,71,{film72}) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal                                          (71 Geoffrey Lancashire)    No sex before marriage    Paula Wilcox, Richard Beckinsale # Lucky Feller (76) ITV Terence Frisby    Dipstick, driving a bubble car and attempting to woo a blonde    David Jason, Robert Lindsay, Cheryl Hall # Luv (93,94) BBC Carla Lane [comedy drama surely says one: I didn't laugh]    Working class boy made good has communications problems with family    Michael Angelis, Sue Johnston, Sandy Hendrickse, Russell Boulter,    Stephen Lord, Peter Caffrey, Julie Peasgood, Jackie Downey, # Maggie And Her (78,79) ITV Leonard Webb    Divorced schoolteacher and nosey neighbor    Julia MacKenzie, Irene Handl # The Magnificent Evans (84) BBC Roy Clarke    Randy Welsh photographer and antiques dealer    Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan. # Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (91,92,93,94) BBC Tony Robinson    Marian was the real boss [knockabout kid's stuff really]    Kate Lonergan, Danny John-Jules, Howard Lew Lewis, Tony Robinson    Wayne Morris # Man About The House (73,74ab&film,75ab,76) ITV(Thames)                       Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke    Guy & 2 girls share flat    Richard O'Sullivan, Sally Thomsett, Paula Wilcox    Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Doug Fisher # Mann's Best Friends (85) C4 Roy Clarke   Redundant Water Board martinet tries to bring order to a boardinghouse   Fulton Mackay, Barry Stanton, Barbara Hicks, Patricia Brake,   Bernard Bresslaw, Clive Merrison # The Many Wives Of Patrick (76,77,78) ITV(LWT) Richard Waring    Predicaments of a much married and divorced man    Patrick Cargill # Marjorie and Men (85) ITV(Anglia) John Gorrie   Long-divorced bank clerk decides to look for a new husband   Patricia Routledge, Patricia Hayes # Marriage Lines (63-66) BBC Richard Waring    Newlyweds    Richard Briers, Prunella Scales # Married For Life (96) ITV  adapted Carl Gorham & Michael Hatt    UK version of Married With Children    Russ Abbot, Susan Kyd, Lucy Blakely, Peter England, Hugh Bonneville,    Julie Dawn Cole # May To December (89,90x,91,92,93,94)       BBC(Cinema Verity) Paul A Mendelson, 93:Geoffrey Deane    Old solicitor with young wife (girlfriend in 1st series)    Anton Rodgers, Eve Matheson(to90)-Lesley Dunlop(90onwards),    Frances White, Rebecca Lacey, Paul Venables, Kate Williams,    Chrissie Cotterill, Carolyn Pickles, Clive Francis(89), Ashley Jensen(94) # Me And My Girl (84,85ab,87,88ab) ITV(LWT)       John Kane, Bernard McKenna, Colin Bostock-Smith, others    He's in advertising, has a daughter    Richard O'Sullivan, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sanderson, Joanne Ridley # Me Mammy (69,70,71) BBC Hugh Leonard    Meek son, dom. mother, dom. sexmad girlfriend, mucho catholic jokes    Milo O'Shea, Yootha Joyce, Anna Manahan, Ray McAnally, David Kelly # Me, You, And Him (92) ITV Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis + Nick Hancock    3 post-uni guys    Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Nick Hancock, Harriet Thorpe # Meet The Champ (60) ?BBC ?writer   Gormless boxer   Bernard Bresslaw # Meet The Wife (64,66) BBC Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney    Couple married 25 years  [from 63 Comedy Playhouse 'The Bed']    Freddie Frinton & Thora Hird # Megavision (?) ?channel ?writer    TV company    Richard Wilson, Erica Hoffman # Men Behaving Badly  (91,92ab) ITV(Thames) (94,x97) BBC(Hartswood) Simon Nye    Bedsit males    Harry Enfield(91), Neil Morrissey(92-), Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin,    Leslie Ash, Ian Lindsay, Valerie Minifie # Men Of Affairs (73) ITV(HTV) Michael Pertwee    Early attempt at a Yes Minister type of show    Brian Rix, Warren Mitchell # Men Of The World (94,95) BBC(Alomo) Daniel Peacock    Know-it-all travel agent passes wisdom to lodger    David Threlfall, John Simm # Mess Mates (60,61,62) ITV(Granada) Talbot Rothwell & Lew Schwarz    Crew of the SS Guernsey    Archie Duncan, Victor Maddern, Sam Kydd, Fulton Mackay, Dermot Kelly # _meta_l Mickey has been adjudged as kid's stuff # Middlemen (77) BBC Alan Plater  [?sitcom]    Prosthetic toenail salesman    Frank Windsor, Francis Matthews, Avril Elgar # Mike And Bernie (71-) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver   Down-and-out music-hall act tries for a comeback   Mike and Bernie Winters # Mind Your Language (77-,78,79,80:3eps only) ITV(LWT) Vince Powell    English classes for immigrants, very non-PC    Barry Evans, Francoise Pascal, Zara Nutley, Jacki Harding # Minder has been adjudged a comedy-drama: a rather good one!      1st series started Oct79; final series started Jan94. # The Misfit (70,71) ITV(ATV) Roy Clarke        {not to be confused with 81 series Misfits}    Ex-colonial gent bewilderd by aftermath of swinging 60s    Ronald Fraser, Simon Ward, Susan Carpenter # Misfits (81) ITV(YTV) Eric Chappell    2 drifters sheltered by widow    Anne Stallybrass, Enn Reitel, Kevin Lloyd # Misleading Cases (71) BBC ?APHerbert:original Punch articles/book    Should be A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases    Man conducts own defence in series of slightly wacky cases    Roy Dotrice, Alistair Sim, Avice Landon, Thorley Walters # Miss Jones And Son (77) ITV(Thames) Richard Waring    Single mum    Paula Wilcox, Luke Steensil, Cass Allen, Charlotte Mitchell, Norman Bird,    David Savile, Catherine Kirkwood # The Mistress (85,87) BBC Carla Lane [?sitcom]    Mistress-angst    Felicity Kendal, Jack Galloway(85)-Peter McEnery(87), Jane Asher # Mixed Blessings (78ab,80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green    Mixed race marriage [US version Bridget loves Bernie shown in UK?]    Muriel Odunton, Christopher Blake, Joan Sanderson # Mog (85,86) ITV(Central) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais.                       _base_d on a book by Peter Tinniswood.    Comedy adventures of a petty crook hiding out in a mental institution    Enn Reitel. # Moody And Pegg (74,75) ITV(Thames) Donald Churchill & Julia Jones    2 people both have apparently valid lease on flat so share    Judy Cornwell, Derek Waring, Terence Alexander # The More We Are Together (71) ITV ?writer    <synopsis    <cast # Mornin' Sarge (89) BBC         Pete McCarthy, Robin Driscoll, Tony Haas, Rebecca Stevens    Loony cop-shop    Tony Haas, Robin Driscoll, Paul Brooke # Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors (89) BBC Tony Hawks & Neil Mullarkey    Singing idiots fix cars    Tony Hawkes # The Most Likely Girl (57) ITV(ATV) ?writer    <synopsis    Beryl Reid, Noele Gordon # Mother's Ruin (94) ITV John Stevenson    50yr old bachelor with girlfriend and dragon-tongued mother    Roy Barraclough, Dora Bryan, Julia Deakin, Kay Adshead, Jason Done #   Moving (85) ITV Stanley Price    Moving house    Penelope Keith, Ronald Pickup # Moving Story (94,95) ITV Jack Rosenthal and other writers including:       Bill Gallagher, Willis Hall, Michael Russell, Bernard Dempsey    Team of removals men (billed as comdram but fits my sitcom def quite well)    Warren Clarke, Philip Davis, Con O'Neill, Ronny Jhutti, Kenneth Colley,    Sheila Kelley, Melanie Kilburn, Meera Devon, Emma Amos # Mr Aitch (67) ITV(AR) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais    Mr Aitch owns half a house on a bomb site    Harry H Corbett, Norman Chappell, Gordon Gostelow # Mr Bean  doesn't quite fit the sitcom definition but deserves a mention # Mr Big (77ab) BBC Peter Jones & Christopher Bond    Criminal mastermind    Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins # Mr Digby Darling (69,70-) ITV(YTV) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland    Rid-o-rat pesticide company    Sheila Hancock, Peter Jones, Michael Bates # Mr Don And Mr George (93) C4 Jack Docherty & Moray Hunter    Surreal    Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter # Mrs Thursday (66,67) ITV(ATV) Ted Willis also Robin Smyth    Charlady made chair of company; one hour light drama    Kathleen Harris # Mulberry (92,93) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey    Grim reaper's apprentice has soft heart    Karl Howman, Geraldine McEwan, Tony Selby, Mary Healey # Mum's Boys (68) BBC Jimmy Grafton & Jeremy Lloyd    Ex-chorus girl and conjuror's assistant has 2 sons (by different fathers?)    Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw, Pete Murray # My Brother's Keeper (75,76) ITV(Granada) Jonathan Lynn, George Layton    Nowhere-near identical twin brothers: student and policeman    Jonathan Lynn, George Layton, Hilary Mason, Tenniel Evans # My Dead Dad (92) C4 John McKay    TV producer haunted by embarrassing father, from stage play Dead Dog Dad    Forbes Masson, Roy Hanlon # My Good Friend (95,96) ITV Bob Larbey   <synopsis   George Cole, Richard Pearson, Minnie Driver # My Good Woman (72ab,73-) ITV(ATV) Ronnie Taylor    Man believes himself in decline, wife is champion do-gooder    Leslie Crowther, Sylvia Sims, Keith Barron # My Honourable Mrs (75) BBC Richard Waring    <synopsis    Derek Nimmo, Pauline Yates # My Husband And I (56) ITV  Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton    <synopsis    Evelyn Laye, Frank Lawton # My Husband And I (87,88) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer    Personnel Officer gets retired husband job as Commissionaire at her work    Mollie Sugden, William Moore, Deddie Davies and Carol Hawkins. # My Name Is Harry Worth (74) ITV(Thames) Ronnie Taylor    Harry Worth as himself living in digs    Harry Worth, Lally Bowers # My Old Man (74,75) ITV(YTV) Gerald Frow    Crusty old war veteran lives with daughter & her husband in flat    Clive Dunn, Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke # My Son Reuben (74[tvgh75]) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell    Dry cleaner with stereotypical overbearing Jewish mother    Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye # My Wife Next Door (72,73,80) BBC Richard Waring    Newly divorced couple have neighboring cottages    John Alderton, Hannah Gordon # My Wife's Sister (56-) ITV(Granada) Reuben Ship    Continuation of Our Dora after Dora Bryan left: only the names changed    Helen Christie, Martin Wyldeck, Eleanor Summerfield # My Wonderful Life (97) ITV Simon Nye   Chaotic life and loves of a busy nurse and mother   Emma Wray, Vicky Connett, Amanda Riley, Elizabeth Berrington,   Tony Robinson, Oliver Furness, Hamish Clark, Gary Webster # {end of part L-M}