Well, I just discovered this (and it looks like the title owes a tip of the hat to "Oh, Mr. Porter!"). I can't say if it's very good or not from what little is available (it isn't anything like what I had in mind for my own effort, which would have been more operations oriented and wouldn't have had the laugh track among other things), but dang it, the Brits did it again with entertainment in a railway setting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0JknRKeNw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,_Doctor_Beeching!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oh ... !_episodes

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115302/quotes

Does anybody know anything more about this series, and can anyone say if it was good or not? In particular, I note that the series only lasted about two years. Did it fail to find an audience, or was there something else to explain a relatively short run?

I don't mean to be rude, but threads like this would be better on a more general train-oritented website. I understand RYPN's board is preservation-oriented?

I saw it once, perhaps twice and it did nothing for me. It was shot on the Severn Valley, but by all acounts there was precious little real railway plotting. The cast and writers had a very successful run with a series set in a holiday camp and tried to transplant the same story lines and gags to a railway.

Given half a chance the railway/railroad and its people will generate their own drama and humour. I had similar ideas to the correspondent above and one day I will finish that book. It will take a lot of work to polish the existing essays, but if anyone is interested, search for "Memoirs of a Railway Volunteer" on the National-Preservation site.

Tim.

You seem somewhat adept at finding stuff using the internet, yet you cannot find answers to your inquiry there? What about "Railway Preservation News" did you think would help you find answers to an inquiry about a BBC TV series, viewership, etc.?

I'm going to have to concur with a previous poster, I don't see what this has to do with preservation.