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A-Z British Comedy

Name the shows by their initials
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First submittedMay 13, 2018
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ABOFAL
Stephen Fry
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
AF
Jennifer Saunders
Absolutely Fabulous
AP
James Lance
Absolute Power
AA
Victoria Wood
Acorn Antiques
AFR
Judi Dench
A Fine Romance
ASAJ
Griff Rhys Jones
Alas Smith and Jones
AGAG
Derek Nimmo
All Gas and Gaiters
AA
Gordon Kaye
Allo Allo
AIA
Karl Pilkington
An Idiot Abroad
AYBS
John Inman
Are you Being Served
ATGB
Judi Dench
As Time Goes by
BM
Jack Dee
Bad Move
B
Johnny Vegas
Benidorm
BOAF
Pauline Quirke
Birds of a Feather
B
Rowan Atkinson
Blackadder
BB
Bill Bailey
Black Books
BTH
Sid James
Bless This House
B
Rik Mayall
Bottom
B
Timothy West
Brass
B
Jean Boht
Bread
BS
Gary Waldhorn
Brush Strokes
B
Wendy Craig
Butterflies
CS
Peter Kay
Car Share
C
Rob Delaney
Catastrophe
C
Lenny Henry
Chef
CS
Robert Lindsay
Citizen Smith
C
Ronnie Barker
Clarence
CF
James Nesbitt
Cold Feet
C
Jack Davenport
Coupling
DA
Arthur Lowe
Dad's Army
DG
Saoirse-Monica Jackson
Derry Girls
D
Toby Jones
Detectorists
DL
Julie Walters
Dinner Ladies
DM
Martin Clunes
Doc Martin
DITH
Barry Evans
Doctor in the House
DTDD
Stephen Tompkinson
Drop the Dead Donkey
DF
Keith Barron
Duty Free
ED
Craig Cash
Early Doors
EDC
Richard Briers
Ever Decreasing Circles
E
Ricky Gervais
Extras
FSA
Geoffrey Palmer
Fairly Secret Army
FDF
Patrick Cargill
Father Dear Father
FT
Dermot Morgan
Father Ted
FT
John Cleese
Fawlty Towers
F
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Fleabag
FOI
Brian Gleeson
Frank of Ireland
F&S
Jennifer Saunders
French & Saunders
FND
Tamsin Greig
Friday Night Dinner
G&S
James Corden
Gavin & Stacey
GAM
Yootha Joyce
George and Mildred
G
Charlotte Ritchie
Ghosts
GGG
Kathy Burke
Gimme Gimme Gimme
GS
Ronnie Barker
Going Straight
GS
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Goodnight Sweetheart
H&P
Gareth Hale
Hale & Pace
HHH
Tony Hancock
Hancock's Half Hour
HEA
June Whitfield
Happy Ever After
HDH
Su Pollard
Hi De Hi
HTR
John Thaw
Home To Roost
IAP
Steve Coogan
I'm Alan Partridge
ISAIH
Warren Mitchell
In Sickness and in Health
INN
Steve Pemberton
Inside No. 9
IAHHM
Windsor Davies
It Aint Half Hot Mum
JAJ
Jennifer Saunders
Jam and Jerusalem
JAW
Hugh Laurie
Jeeves and Wooster
JGF
Paul Nicholas
Just Good Friends
KUA
Patricia Routledge
Keeping Up Appearances
LOTSW
Peter Sallis
Last of the Summer Wine
LB
David Walliams
Little Britain
L
Jim Howick
Loaded
LTN
Jack Smethurst
Love Thy Neighbour
MATH
Richard O'Sullivan
Man About the House
MD
Roisin Conaty
Man Down
MTD
Anton Rodgers
May to December
MTR
Lucy Beaumont
Meet the Richardsons
MBB
Martin Clunes
Men Behaving Badly
MYL
Barry Evans
Mind your Language
M
Miranda Hart
Miranda
 
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MPFC
Eric Idle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
M&W
Eric Morecambe
Morecambe & Wise
M
Anna Maxwell Martin
Motherland
MB
Rowan Atkinson
Mr Bean
MBB
Brendan O'Carroll
Mrs Brown's Boys
M
Lesley Manville
Mum
MF
Zoe Wanamaker
My Family
NTT
Donald Sinden
Never the Twain
NGO
Lee Mack
Not Going Out
NTNOCN
Mel Smith
Not the Nine O'Clock News
OTB
Reg Varney
On the Buses
OTU
Dennis Waterman
On the Up
OFITG
Richard Wilson
One Foot in the Grave
OFAH
David Jason
Only Fools and Horses
OWIL
James Bolam
Only When I Laugh
OAH
David Jason
Open All Hours
O
Hugh Dennis
Outnumbered
OE
Brenda Blethyn
Outside Edge
PS
David Mitchell
Peep Show
PN
Peter Kay
Phoenix Nights
PS
John Alderton
Please Sir
P
Tom Rosenthal
Plebs
P
Ronnie Barker
Porridge
P
Arthur Lowe
Potter
RCN
Gregor Fisher
Rab C Nesbitt
RD
Chris Barrie
Red Dwarf
RY
Michael Palin
Ripping Yarns
RD
Leonard Rossiter
Rising Damp
RN
Richard O'Sullivan
Robin's Nest
SMDAE
Michael Crawford
Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
S
Ronnie Corbett
Sorry
S
Simon Pegg
Spaced
SI
Steve Nallon
Spitting Image
S
David Tennant
Staged
SAS
Wilfred Brambell
Steptoe and Son
SG
Ford Kiernan
Still Game
T
Greg Davies
Taskmaster
TAJ
Terry Scott
Terry and June
TBHS
Benny Hill
The Benny Hill Show
TBE
Chris Barrie
The Brittas Empire
TFARORP
Leonard Rossiter
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
TFS
Paul Whitehouse
The Fast Show
TG
Bill Oddie
The Goodies
TGL
Richard Briers
The Good Life
THGTTG
Peter Jones
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
TI
Joe Thomas
The Inbetweeners
TIC
Richard Ayoade
The IT Crowd
TLOG
Reece Sheersmith
The League of Gentlemen
TLL
Rodney Bewes
The Likely Lads
TLB
Nerys Hughes
The Liver Birds
TMB
Noel Fielding
The Mighty Boosh
TNS
Rik Mayall
The New Statesman
TO
Ricky Gervais
The Office
TPF
Nicholas Lyndhurst
The Piglet Files
TRT
Sheila Hancock
The Rag Trade
TRF
Caroline Ahearn
The Royle Family
TTOI
Chris Addison
The Thick of It
TTBL
Rowan Atkinson
The Thin Blue Line
TTR
Ronnie Barker
The Two Ronnies
TW
Harry Enfield
The Windsors
TVOD
Dawn French
The Vicar of Dibley
TYO
Ade Edmondson
The Young Ones
TDUDP
Warren Mitchell
Till Death Us Do Part
TOL
Matt Berry
Toast of London
TTMB
Penelope Keith
To the Manor Born
TDD
Arabella Weir
Two Doors Down
2P4C
Gary Olsen
2Point4 Children
TPOLAAPOC
Will Mellor
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
UP
Frankie Howard
Up Pompeii
UC
David Mitchell
Upstart Crow
U
Tom Hollander
Us
WFG
Stephanie Cole
Waiting for God
WHTTLL
James Bolam
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
WOA
Hugh Bonneville
W1A
YOTR
Alun Armstrong
Year of the Rabbit
YM
Nigel Hawthorne
Yes Minister
YPM
Paul Eddington
Yes Prime Minister
7 Comments
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Level 48
May 13, 2018
Epic quiz! :o) About a third didn't ring a bell so only 41/110 for me.
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Level 59
Aug 7, 2019
Brilliant quiz! 100/110, happy with that but I knew some of the ones I didn't get, grr!

One thing - TDDUP - the TV show was actually TDUDP - "Til Death Us Do Part".

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Level 51
Aug 17, 2019
You are so right - thank you. Now corrected, and glad you enjoyed it.
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Level 71
Dec 27, 2020
Really enjoyed this. Quite a challenge, but also so many lovely memories of decades of great British comedy television. Thanks for the quiz, and the memories.
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Level 51
Dec 30, 2020
Thank you so much for your lovely comment - it brought back those happy memories writing it, and we all need a laugh (especially now)
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Level 67
Nov 29, 2021
Left out Absolute Power and Toast of London, which is a bit disappointing; and Father Ted is Irish; but apart from that, it was a great quiz.
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Level 51
Dec 5, 2021
Well, I have never heard of either of your suggestions, but happy to be able to include them - and will try and catch up with this too. Thanks. Also, I am prepared to overlook Father Ted's nationality!!