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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
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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?