Birds of a Feather
Still going strong, Birds of a Feather featured Pauline Quirke’s Sharon and Linda Robson’s Tracey as two Essex wives of a pair of jailed criminals, adjusting to their new lives alongside sexaholic older neighbour Doreen (Lesley Joseph). When the show ended its nine-series run in 1998, that seemed like the end of their story. But miraculously it reappeared for a new series in 2014, moving from the BBC to ITV.
It’s still going strong, about to have its thirteenth series this year, and what’s more it’s somehow managed to capture the magic of the original while still adapting to a new decade…