Lesser Known TV Shows You'd Recommend?

Inside No. 9. @fjh recommended it to me here, and it’s just superb—lightyears better than the superficially similar Black Mirror (both British anthology shows that usually have twist endings), which I don’t like very much. Somehow a cohesive blend of Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, and modern horror. Some of the best and cleverest plotting I’ve ever seen in a TV show—and absolutely hilarious to boot (humor somewhat close to That Mitchell and Webb Look; Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, who write and star in every episode, are from The League of Gentlemen and Psychoville).

Best episodes I’ve seen: “Sardines,” “The Harrowing,” “The 12 Days of Christine,” “The Riddle of the Sphinx,” “The Bill.” Many episodes serve both as straightforward stories in their own right and as parodies of other things (“The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge,” for example, has a large dose of Monty Python; “The Riddle of the Sphinx” employs a similar premise to Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth [not a spoiler]).

Highly recommended.

My go to answer on the subject is UK series UTOPIA - two series and a prequel in between. Looks beautiful, great cast, dark humour and some genuine shocks



And if you need a better taste....but beware, SPOLIERS..maybe best not go beyond the halfway mark where there are some SUPER SPOILERS

You do...but now I've seen you were listing the best not all that you saw.  It's one of my faves, though it did appear early in the run, so I had no comparison at the time to make to the later more impressive episodes

I would personally only recommend season 1 because season 2 in my personal opinion was awful.

The Fantastic Journey is available for free on youtube.

As far as cute 1960s-style family sitcoms go, one of my favorites was Please Don't Eat the Daisies, which ran from 1965-1967. It starred Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller as the parents of four young sons, who all lived in an old oversized house with their sheepdog, Ladadog (named after the title of a then-famous dog novel, Lad: A Dog). The fun thing about the show was that the mother was not simply a cookie-cutter housewife who wore a dress and pearls at all times and kept a perfect house; she was a working writer who often overlooked the housework while concentrating on her writing. The husband was a professor and the kids were rambunctious without being obnoxious. The show had a cute theme song, too. I remember seeing it in reruns in the early 1970s, but since then, it seems to have been overlooked by retro TV cable stations. I wish a station such as Antenna or Me TV would pick it up and show it now and then, instead of the reruns of such drivel as Small Wonder and Three's a Crowd that they've been showing.