Good Neighbors and To the Manor Born are a couple of my favorites.
Anyone for Toast (of London) ?
Great current series about a pompous, aging OTT actor.
The Thick Of It, and the spin-off movie In The Loop. Lots of swearing, though!
No, Honestly with a young Pauline Collins.
How on earth could I miss Steptoe and Son?
Chef!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef!
And one that hasnt been mentioned in this thread. This is a particular favorite of mine
Goodnight Sweetheart
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_Sweetheart_(TV_series)
Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between the London of the 1990s and the same area during the Second World War.
Gary Sparrow is a somewhat disillusioned TV repairman, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne, and best friends with Ron, a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. While on a TV repair call-out in East London, Gary accidentally discovers atime portal which leads to war time London. There he meets Phoebe, a pretty barmaid who works in the Royal Oak pub, and Reg Deadman, a dim-witted but friendly policeman.
Gary strikes up a friendship with Phoebe, and makes repeated trips through the time portal, gradually establishing a second life for himself in the 1940s. In this life, he claims to be both a secret agent (aided by his knowledge of future wartime events) and a singer-songwriter, in fact passing off modern day pop songs as his own, particularly songs by The Beatles. He impresses Phoebe by bringing her goods which are widely available in the present day, but were rationed in wartime Britain, such as chocolate, bacon, and nylons and they begin a romance.
Throughout the series, Gary flits between both time periods, struggling to balance his two lives and keep Yvonne and Phoebe happy, getting tangled in webs of lies and deceit as he invents cover stories to explain away his constant absences to both. Most episodes centre on a dilemma for Gary caused by his dual life, often having to choose between letting Yvonne or Phoebe down. Ron is the only other character who knows of his double life - he helps Gary by printing 1940s five pound notes and ID documents for him - and it is to him who Gary usually turns when in a predicament, even if helping him is to Ron’s detriment.
Sorry for being so late with this. Only just spotted the thread. If you loved The Vicar of Dibley, and you want something gently amusing to watch at bedtime, can I strongly recommend Ever Decreasing Circles. I think its a sorely neglected classic.
It stars Richard Briers as the neurotic Martin Bryce, with Penelope Wilton as his long-suffering wife, Anne. Everything is a stuggle for Martin, and then the effortlessly smooth Paul (Peter Egan) moves in next door....
It is sublime.