Listen Up Opposites Quiz #2

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All clues are opposites of British comedies, period dramas, or crime dramas. Two correct answers per day please - if you get one wrong you can guess again. Inclusion as a quiz answer does not indicate approval. Quality of clue is not guaranteed.

1. White subtracter - Blackadder :Y
2. Sad surrounding-hills - Happy Valley :Y
3. Is staying in - Not Going Out :Y
4. Moriarty - Sherlock :Y
5. Birdie hand out above-ground - One Foot In The Grave :Y
6. She didn't-know she is left - He Knew He Was Right :Y
7. Thick pink polygon - The Thin Blue Line :Y
8. East and West - North and South :Y
9. First of the winter water - Last Of The Summer Wine :Y
10. Fagin - Oliver Twist :Y

11. Butter - Bread :Y
12. Humility and impartiality - Pride and Prejudice :Y
13. Caterpillars - Butterflies :Y
14. Mayoress of castortunnel - The Mayor Of Casterbridge :Y
15. Mum's conchies - Dad's Army :Y
16. Humbleness unjust - Vanity Fayre :Y
17. Badmorning sour-head - Goodnight Sweetheart :Y
18. Husbands and sons - Wives and Daughters :Y
19. Green giant - Red Dwarf :Y
20. The rise - The Fall :Y

21. Sinking dry. - Rising Damp :Y
22. Birth out purgatory - Death in Paradise :Y
23. Bad death - The Good Life :Y
24. Noisy suspect - Silent Witness :Y
25. No shadow-leader of the opposition - Yes Minister :Y
26. The found - The Missing :Y
27. Your friends - My Family :Y
28. Putting-to-sleep the living - Waking The Dead :Y
29. Women disobedient well - Men Behaving Badly :Y
30. Black-church - Whitechapel :Y

31. Giving-away down absences - Keeping Up Appearances :Y
32. Unfair bad enemies - Just Good Friends :Y
33. Working single-storey-building
34. Midnight-snack gentlemen - Dinner Ladies :Y
35. Top - Bottom :Y
36. Uncertainly unamazing - Absolutely Fabulous :Y
37. Ta-ra ta-ra - 'Allo 'Allo :Y
38. Dubious lasses - The Likely Lads :Y
39. Old birdies. - The Young Ones :Y
40. Mr. Blonde's girls - Mrs Brown's Boys :Y

All finished. :-clap
 
2. - Happy Valley
4. - Sherlock
 
8 North and South
9 Last Of The Summer Wine
 
Whoops, the clue for #14 should be 'Mayoress of castertunnel", caster with an 'e' not an 'o' :-doh
 
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1 Blackadder
3 Not Going Out
 
14.The Mayor Of Casterbridge
19. Red Dwarf
 
I did wonder. I was expecting something like "demerara" as the replacement word.
 
11. - Bread
15. - Dad's Army
 
37 'allo 'allo
40 Mrs Brown's Boys
 
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