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Mind Your Language. Written by Vince Powell, who also wrote Love Thy Neighbour, as well as Bless This House, Never The Twain, Bottle Boys and quite a few other ITV 70s & 80s abominations. I see him as a White Horse man myself, but everything else sounds accurate.

But even the more 'lowest common denominator' sitcoms that the BBC did were of much better quality. Are You Being Served, Hi De Hi, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Last of the Summer Wine, Miranda etc. were formulaic, but in a different class to On the Buses etc. Brass was good in parts, but it doesn't...

Putting aside discussions in cultural attitude changes over time, there is a more obvious criticism of both shows: They were crap. Even at the time they were hacky, by numbers rubbish, poorly written, terribly acted pantos with no character depth beyond catchphrases and stereotypes. They...