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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite British TV show, past or present? [View all]lynintenn
(727 posts)78. Call the Midwife is one of the best shows I've ever watched .
Shows you what is was like to be poor and what life was like without birth control or health insurance.
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"I'm not dead yet!" -- wasn't that from the Monty Python's "Bring out your dead" segment?
CTyankee
Feb 2024
#29
This is a real toughie but I gotta go with the original '70's Poldark series.
50 Shades Of Blue
Feb 2024
#7
I was thinking, "How can you pick?" then I read "I, Claudius." And yep. That's the one.
Scrivener7
Feb 2024
#27
Love all that are mentioned here and I still watch and stream many of them...
ohtransplant
Feb 2024
#24
Easy----"Escape to the Country" makes me want to move there every time I see it.
walkingman
Feb 2024
#26
Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife...
greatauntoftriplets
Feb 2024
#41
The Avengers (with Diana Rigg), Lovejoy (love Ian McShane) and Monty Python.
highplainsdem
Feb 2024
#58
Me too! My wife and I have been consuming Brit crime dramas for about a year.
Chainfire
Feb 2024
#83