Television
Top 50 British TV sitcoms
This page lists the top 50 British TV sitcoms, determined by a combination of the results of previous polls, award wins, and BCG's visitor data.
1. Ghosts
Comedy about a group of ghosts inhabiting a crumbling country manor and its new living owners.
2. Early Doors
Sitcom set in a small Manchester pub created by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey. Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and the other pub regulars.
3. Red Dwarf
Science fiction sitcom based in space. The crew aboard the damaged mining spaceship Red Dwarf are doomed to drift in space for the rest of eternity.
4. Friday Night Dinner
Channel 4 sitcom observing as twenty-something brothers Adam and Jonny go round to their parents' house for Friday night dinner.
5. Blackadder
The Blackadder dynasty has run through English history since time immemorial, seemingly always hampered by a Baldrick, and often a Percy and Melchett.
6. The League Of Gentlemen
Royston Vasey is an isolated Northern community where dark, perverted and horrifying things happen behind closed doors.
7. Mrs. Brown's Boys
Sitcom adaptation of the popular live stage show starring Brendan O'Carroll as aged housewife Agnes Brown.
8. Fawlty Towers
Comedy about a hotel and its owner, a man of infinite rudeness with a rabid dislike of almost all guests.
9. Still Game
Scottish sitcom about pensioners Jack and Victor, a duo who strike a blow against ageism with their rascally antics.
11. Plebs
Modern comedy set in Ancient rome, following a trio of very normal blokes who certainly won't make the history books.
12. Two Doors Down
Comedy focused on Latimer Crescent residents Eric and Beth Baird, plus their neighbours and immediate family.
13. Upstart Crow
Sitcom about the life of jobbing playwright William Shakespeare, struggling to find inspiration in Tudor London.
14. Car Share
Sitcom about two workers thrown together in a company car share scheme, who soon find a potential romance blossoms.
16. Benidorm
An ensemble sitcom that focuses on the adventures of a group of British holiday makers staying at the Solana holiday resort in Spain.
18. Mum
Sitcom about a middle aged mother who is trying to rebuild her life following the death of her husband.
19. This Time With Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge returns to BBC television as co-host of an evening weekday magazine show.
21. Fleabag
Comedy series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a woman living in London whose life is a mess.
22. The IT Crowd
Sitcom set in a computer support department. The staff are IT geeks Roy and Moss, and their boss Jen, who knows nothing about computers.
24. Father Ted
Fathers Ted Crilly, Dougal McGuire and Jack Hackett are the inept priests of Craggy Island, banished from the mainland in various circumstances.
26. Derry Girls
A warm, funny and honest look at the lives of ordinary people living under the spectre of the Troubles, all seen through the eyes of a local teenager.
27. Last Of The Summer Wine
Gentle sitcom following a group of pensioners living in Yorkshire. This show was Britain's longest-running TV sitcom.
28. Absolutely Fabulous
Public relations maven Edina and best friend Patsy drive sensible daughter Saffron up the wall with their self-absorbed, substance-abusing escapades.
30. Keeping Up Appearances
Suburban snob Hyacinth Bucket devotes her time to monitoring standards and attempting to impress influential people.
32. 'Allo 'Allo!
René Artois, proprietor of Café René in Nazi-occupied France, struggles to keep the business running whilst keeping the resistance and the army happy.
33. Are You Being Served?
Sitcom set in London department store Grace Bros., where the Ladies' Intimate Apparel and Men's Ready To Wear departments are forced to share a floor.
34. Gavin & Stacey
A critic-pleasing, gentle and warm comedy about the romance between an Essex lad and Welsh girl.
35. Still Open All Hours
Update of classic 1970s/80s sitcom Open All Hours, starring David Jason as Granville, now the owner of Arkwright's grocery store.
36. White Gold
Comedy series from the co-writer of The Inbetweeners about double-glazing salesmen in Essex.
37. The Goes Wrong Show
BBC One comedy series starring the original founding Mischief Theatre members.
38. The Vicar Of Dibley
Comedy about a small, backward rural village and its female vicar, Geraldine Grainger.
39. Miranda
Hit sitcom starring Miranda Hart as a woman desperate to fit into society and find a man. She runs a joke shop with childhood friend Stevie.
40. The Young Ones
Hippy Neil, nerdy Cliff Richard-obsessed Rick, psychopathic punk Vyvyan and smooth Mike share a squalid and collapsing student house together.
41. The Young Offenders
Comedy series about two inner-city teenagers, based on the 2016 Irish film of the same name.
42. Peep Show
Sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of socially dysfunctional flatmates with little else in common.
43. Scarborough
Sitcom series about a small handful of residents in Scarborough who meet most nights in a bar.
44. Meet The Richardsons
Sitcom in which real life couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont offer a fictional view of their marriage.
45. Bottom
Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler are a pair of disgusting, anti-social and regularly violent losers who share a grubby flat in Hammersmith.
46. Dad's Army
Beloved sitcom about the struggles of a Home Guard platoon during World War II who are fighting incompetence, age and pomposity more than Nazis.
47. All Round To Mrs. Brown's
Part chat-show, part-sitcom, fronted by the characters from Mrs. Brown's Boys.
49. Black Books
Sitcom focusing on a foul tempered bookshop owner, his trusty assistant and the girl next door.
50. Count Arthur Strong
TV sitcom following elderly, befuddled showbusiness character Count Arthur Strong and his friends.