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British TV Classics
Put the kettle on. Seaside hotels, Peckham tower blocks, Whitehall mandarins and a surreal village in Wales: how well do you know the telly Britain treasures?
📺 TV
medium
20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- In Only Fools and Horses, in which part of south London do Del Boy and Rodney live?
- This teddy bear is the constant companion of which almost wordless comedy character?
- Fawlty Towers is set in a hotel in which English seaside town?
- Only twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers were ever made.
- Select ALL of these comedians who were members of Monty Python.
- In Blackadder, which actor played Edmund's grubby, turnip-loving servant Baldrick?
- Which sitcom follows the snobbish Hyacinth Bucket and her endless attempts to impress the neighbours?
- Select ALL of these sitcoms that are set during the Second World War.
- Dad's Army takes place in which fictional seaside town?
- Downton Abbey was filmed at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- In Yes Minister, what is Sir Humphrey Appleby's job?
- Which actress played the chain-smoking Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous?
- Was the 1960s series The Prisoner filmed in the Welsh village of Portmeirion?
- Father Ted and his fellow priests live on which fictional island off the west coast of Ireland?
- Put these British sitcoms in order of first broadcast, earliest first.
- Who played Mr Darcy in the BBC's 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?
- Which BBC sitcom, set in the Yorkshire Pennines, ran for 37 years from 1973 to 2010?
- In Red Dwarf, for how many years is Dave Lister kept in stasis before he wakes up?
- The BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son was remade in the United States as which series?
- Which actress played Emma Peel, John Steed's partner in The Avengers?