GENERALLY it is best to leave something alone if it ended on a high and no-one can find anything bad to say about it.

No good usually comes of doing an idea to death and this is pretty much always true with sit- coms.

A sit-com either sinks without a trace, runs for ninety series until everyone is sick of it, or bows out on a high after a few series leaving everyone mourning it for decades.

Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em, the Office and many more spring to mind for the latter category.

Admittedly there were a few series of Only Fools and Horses but I don’t think they should have returned to it once they won the jackpot and became millionaires.

I was happy imagining Del, Rodders and Uncle Albert finally enjoying expensive cocktails and not having to worry about council tax bills.

I was equally happy leaving the cast of Are You Being Served firmly in the ‘70s so news this and a handful of other favourites were being dredged up, along with some pilot offerings of potential new comedies, for a special one-off series on the BBC did not fill me with a lot of confidence.

You can look back through rose tinted glasses and think the continual innuendo of the department store comedy was warm and in-offensive but watching the new episode, which had dragged the action into the 1980s, it just became tedious.

None of the new comedies I watched so far were funny either.

And that can’t be for want of trying since the cast of the Johnny Vegas one, set in a holiday village in the Lake District, was fairly starry.

But I did laugh quite a bit at the Porridge episode.

Comedian Kevin Bishop struck just the right note as the grandson of the original Fletch and had the same amount of sarcasm and cheeky lovability Ronnie Barker achieved.

I am actually hoping this gets a run of its own while praying they consign Are you Being Served to the bin.