Rent Barbara: Series 1 (1999)

Developed from a pilot screening in ITV's 1995 'Comedy Firsts' season, this acclaimed sitcom cast Gwen Taylor as Barbara Liversidge, a blunt-talking, heftily opinionated, advice-giving and occasionally ranting 52-year-old Yorkshirewoman. Sam Kelly also stars as Ted, Barbara's cab-driver husband of 35 years and a man who has learned long ago to play second fiddle, while Sherrie Hewson is her nouveau-riche sister, Jean - victim of many a withering look and practised put-down. Rob Brydon, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Zoe Lucker also appear in this first series, originally screened in 1999. Also included is the 1995 pilot episode.