This ended the year Father Ted started

This really amazes me. When I see KUA, it almost seems like a product of the 60s or 70s. It amazes me that a show about a posh woman constantly trying to impress the local vicar and councillor (and falling into a hedge every week) was on after and around the same time as anarchic, no-holds-barred sitcoms like Blackadder, Father Ted, Drop the Dead Donkey, etc.

Did this show succeed (and it undoubtedly did) because it evoked nostalgia by evoking the comedies of the past? It seems to me more akin to Terry and June than anything else that came out of the 90s. I have to say though that it was much lazier than Terry and June - KUA was essentially a string of repeated catchphrases and running gags presented week after week after week, albeit delivered with aplomb by a great cast.

KUA to me is lucky combination of stellar comedic performances coupled with execrable, lazy writing. Patricia Routledge managed to make the exact same joke work for the seventieth time.