One thing we are very good at in Britain is making sitcoms .
Over the past 20 years alone we have produced Peep Show, The Office, Extras and The Inbetweeners to name just a few.
What the best show of all time is will always be open to debate but a panel of television experts for Radio Times magazine have had their say.
Like many others before them, this panel has crowned Fawlty Towers as the best British sitcom of all time.
John Cleese has been credited with channelling his rage as the highly-strung Basil Fawlty, proprietor of a sub-par Torquay hotel, which made the series a hit.
Fawlty Towers came top of the list ahead of other series including Father Ted, Blackadder, I'm Alan Partridge and Only Fools And Horses.
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The BBC series ran for just two series of six episodes each in the 1970s.
Speaking to the Radio Times, co-writer and co-star of Connie Booth said: "Fawlty Towers succeeds, I think, because it allows infantile rage and aggression a field day in a buttoned down, well-mannered English society.
"It's unique in being a farce, with all the plot surprises and precision that the style requires. And it doesn't hurt that the star of the show is a six-foot-five comic genius. If he was shorter I can't imagine how it would have worked."
Cleese added: "I was very lucky to be working at the BBC when decisions were taken by people who had actually made programmes. "What a cast. I'm proud we are up there with Porridge and Only Fools and Ab Fab and Blackadder and The Office and Reggie Perrin and The Thick of It."
I'm Alan Partridge came third on the list.
The character made famous by Manchester's Steve Coogan in the 90s and 00s has recently returned to TV this year for a six-episode series This Time with Alan partridge which was essentially a spoof of The One Show and Good Morning Britiain.
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Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, penned by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, came second in the list and Blackadder came fourth.
Highly-rated comedies Only Fools And Horses and The Office came in sixth and 12th respectively.
Full rankings:
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Fawlty Towers, 1975-9, BBC Two
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Father Ted, 1995-8, C4
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I'm Alan Partridge, 1997-2002, BBC Two
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Blackadder, 1983-9, BBC One
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Dad's Army, 1968-77, BBC One
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Only Fools and Horses, 1981-2003, BBC One
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Porridge, 1973-8, BBC One
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The Royle Family, 1998-2012, BBC One
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Absolutely Fabulous, 1992-2012, BBC Two, BBC One
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Dinnerladies, 1998-2000, BBC One
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The Thick of It, 2005-12 BBC Four, BBC Two
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The Office, 2001-3, BBC Two, BBC One
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Peep Show, 2003-15, C4
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The Vicar of Dibley, 1994-2007, BBC One
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, 1976-9, BBC One
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The Young Ones, 1982-4, BBC Two
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Gavin & Stacey, 2007-10, BBC Three, BBC One
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The Good Life, 1975-8, BBC One
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Detectorists, 2014-17, BBC Four
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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, 1973-7
