What great satire. I love it. My college in the 80s was almost this backwards. It turns out the academic star who dominated the college had been doing horrible things to his favorite young male students. Now the nostalgic lost in time quality of the place feels less than ideal. But at the time the friends I made and the intellectual life of it was utopia to me. It is great to see it all made fun of in this way.
It might be a feast, but that's more than the poor dying master got. Scullion held on to the piece of meat, and every time the old boy tried to catch it with his mouth, he pulled it away. So the old boy gave up and kicked the bucket. The finest food, just out of reach. It's like an imaginative hellish torment. I've seen PB so many times, I'm beginning to now notice the bits that passed me by, before.
The master dies in his own bed, or not at all. 😆😁 How does that work ? If they pull him out of bed at the point of death, he'll become immortal ? Weird place. 😄😃
I recall reading the Wilt series in the early 70s and was constantly in fits of laughter. So irreverent and delightful. I never saw this Porterhouse series so looking forward to it,
This is one out of the box - no-one has seen this story-line before And only the English can make this one With a cast of England's best actors ever - mostly all dead now. They was a credit to their profession and something for new actors to be in awe of and aspire to. I haven't laughed so much in ages at various bits. Don't miss this. Thanks for the upload.
Loved "Frost" - and here he is!!! This is going to be great. My two fave Brit shows are political drama and/or dramas set in the halls of ancient colleges.
Check out Lewis. It's all set in the other place. Virtually every episode had a university connection, unlike Morse where some didn't, although obviously Morse was Oxford based.
I always have great pleasure to watch english comedy.... Many thanks for your videos.... David Jason... One of favourite...Regards From Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀☀️🌹🤗
Brilliant. I went through university life a bit like this but not at OxBridge. It also reminded me of the episode in Yes Minister when the minister attends a university dinner. Hugely funny.
For those new to this series it is important to realise that Porterhouse is actually Peterhouse (established 1284) and no satire or embellishment is involved within...
@@prof.heinous191 I went to Peterhouse in the early 80s, so recall well what kind of place it was. The extreme conservatism portrayed by Tom Sharpe had largely disappeared by then, though echoes remained. Female undergrads could eat in hall as guests of Peterhouse undergraduates. The college waited till its 700 anniversary to admit women, which was the right thing to do.
Brilliant comedic writer . I used to nearly break my ribs with mirth at his books Riotous Assembly ,Indecent Exposure ,Blott on the Landscape along with the Wilt series are still masterpieces of comedy .. Blott on the Landscape was made into a comedy drama a couple of decades ago with incisive acting to boot.
Shows like this, as well as A Very Peculiar Practice and The Singing Detective made television worthwhile watching- I loved them back in the 80s and before our ABC went woke they would regularly purchase these programs.
That word "woke" i KNOW you dont know what it means. Apparently you are not even awake. Liberal programming like this has been axed ever since the writers strike issued in "reality" shows bc network executives with the brains of 13 year old boys and the bodies of mature men, realized they could produce that shite CHEAPER. No regulations finished the job. That process of dumbing down our culture is the result of RWNJs supporting Corporate Rule my friend, you know where human beings are brands, money is actually a form of speech and corporations are People. So...maybe its you?that needs to wake up now eh?Great programming, American and British=Liberal legacy. FACT. Oh and while we are at it... Antifa[a term promulgated by the alt-wrong? means anti-fascist you know, like ALL of America and the UK was during WW2. Just FYI. And hey! Speaking of universities, you need to take "Know your words: 101".
66 year old American here. I'm just starting to enjoy this and so far it looks to me like it could be titled 'The Day Wolk came to Porterhouse.' I'm feeling a little sorry for the old boys. But not too sorry. It was past time to double the number of humans who could be scholars by admitting women. The idea of a university had its roots in the medieval era, the era when human beings were just trying to stay ahead of the Malthusian tendency to famines. Back then, the only thing that justified taking a human being away from farming crops to reading books was if the person could in fact retain, process, and then transmit what the person had read. I remember seeing Michael Palin in a film called "American Friends' where he played a senior Oxford professor in 1861. There is a scene in the movie where there's an entrance examination being done. A professor mentions a Great Book, and applicant is expected to repeat a section of the book word for word, for a number of paragraphs, completely from memory. C.S. Lewis was in fact a scholar who could do exactly that. You could pick any book in his house, read a single line in any random section of it, and he would than finished the rest of the reading from there from memory. That was what being a scholar was originally. Susan Sontag could do the same thing, so it was not a sex based talent. But in our quest to be 'equal' and 'fair' to all, there has been debasement of that standard. We can now educate a great many people beyond their general level of intelligence. We get highly educated stupid people. And that is the engine that drives the tendency in our modern societies to take decent ideas to their extreme, but logical conclusions. A sort of enantiodromia, as Jung called it. When extremes become their opposite. In a effort to become fair to all, fairness itself, and human decency suffers.
I hope you'll pardon my presumption but I beg to disagree. Being able to quote whole sections, if not all, of any book is simply rote memory. It has nothing to do with interpretation or application of the author's thoughts and serves no useful purpose whatsoever unless you're living in a dystopia like the one described in Fahrenheit 451. I would also remind you (and others on this thread) that the idea of "woke" didn't exist in 1987. But the prejudices of the Old Boy network with its special privileges and inherent sexism, racism, class exclusion... were certainly alive and well.
Didnt rluse how many programs movie jadon james has maind , his great , he even played the toed , in wind in the wilores , loved that show , when my chikdern weere young , id whatch it with them ❤😊
To be expected, at least anticipated, the little fine details and touches that make a brilliant English humour. - 1987? Modesta declaratus. Do I hear a repetition of todays political sentiments, as satirical as it may be : we need a Master who, in this mad and changing world will retain tradition; a weakling will no longer do. "Half the BBC filled with Skullion's Scholars!!! It'll work, if you leave it alone." Ah, what a Philosophy. Everything is predestined.
I really, really want to go and study film and television so I can learn how to make every single background sound including music deafeningly loud while keeping the dialog on the down low, like this was done. My head is spinning 🤕 and I got a tennis finger changing the volume
I'm puzzled how All3Media can derive an income stream from publishing this high quality series for free on UA-cam when there are no advertisements interrupting viewing, at least in Australia ...
(brian) i do love stories of english varsity glories...in nz we had frederick raphael's "the glittering prizes" (with tom conti), waugh's "brideshead" etc. for comic writing you cannot beat "lucky jim", but that did not translate well as a film.
Satire on Peterhouse politics in the 80s. Loosely based on the threat to the status quo of Cowlingites at Peterhouse after Trevor-Roper was appointed Master.
"Character - not brains. It's always been the Porterhouse way." I guess some are willing to even lower their own standards to uphold the class system. No wonder the UK is in such trouble.
Intelligence is not a good substitute to common sense. Some very intelligent people, without an iota of common sense, have been swayed by dangerous ideologues and megalomaniacs. Character, on the other hand, is a close cousin of common sense.
This and Yes Prime Minister are equal satires. Despite the ability to mock their own institutions, the Poms still resist any reformation. It rather makes them redundant in the Real World.
Birth Control aims in the 1980's still had a Paternalist, sexist and invasive agenda. In the 2020's Birth Control is rather less invasive. Education is a growing trend. After surplus breeding (6 children from three mothers) I opted for a vasectomy and have never regretted it.
Probably very funny indeed if you happen to speak Latin! Twenty minutes in I remembered that I didn’t like Tom Sharpe’s humour in Blot so am giving this one a miss. Love the channel though 😊
Exactly so. 'Sex and violence' ... paraphrase: 'thank you for coming to hear my country's progress in sterilization of our population' ... woke goals and strategies. This was superb satire. And I very much enjoy David Jason. Big Frost fan.
My least favourite of David Jasons roles but he was undoubtedly good. Much prefer him this and in a Touch of Frost and Darling Buds of May, and even Diamond Geezer. A remarkable range.
The most captivating series. 😊
"They can improve things all they like. It never makes things any better." Very often, so true!
Just like the internet!😆
What great satire. I love it. My college in the 80s was almost this backwards. It turns out the academic star who dominated the college had been doing horrible things to his favorite young male students. Now the nostalgic lost in time quality of the place feels less than ideal. But at the time the friends I made and the intellectual life of it was utopia to me. It is great to see it all made fun of in this way.
What an assembly of fantastic actors. It’s a feast.
It might be a feast, but that's more than the poor dying master got. Scullion held on to the piece of meat, and every time the old boy tried to catch it with his mouth, he pulled it away. So the old boy gave up and kicked the bucket.
The finest food, just out of reach.
It's like an imaginative hellish torment.
I've seen PB so many times, I'm beginning to now notice the bits that passed me by, before.
This is an absolute gem, stick with it!
The master dies in his own bed, or not at all.
😆😁
How does that work ? If they pull him out of bed at the point of death, he'll become immortal ? Weird place.
😄😃
I loved this when it first came out. I read all Tom Sharpe's novel. Every novel is hilarious. The Wilt series is a must.
Then, he's sort of a more modern day Wodehouse.
I recall reading the Wilt series in the early 70s and was constantly in fits of laughter. So irreverent and delightful. I never saw this Porterhouse series so looking forward to it,
This is one out of the box - no-one has seen this story-line before
And only the English can make this one
With a cast of England's best actors ever - mostly all dead now.
They was a credit to their profession and something for new actors to be in awe of and aspire to.
I haven't laughed so much in ages at various bits.
Don't miss this.
Thanks for the upload.
Not to mention Tom sharps writing. Love his books
Loved "Frost" - and here he is!!! This is going to be great. My two fave Brit shows are political drama and/or dramas set in the halls of ancient colleges.
Check out Lewis. It's all set in the other place.
Virtually every episode had a university connection, unlike Morse where some didn't, although obviously Morse was Oxford based.
A brilliant and under-rated series.
I always have great pleasure to watch english comedy.... Many thanks for your videos.... David Jason... One of favourite...Regards From Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀☀️🌹🤗
It seems Sir David Jason is always on a bike as he was in Open all hours. Thank you so much.
I loved the poor underpaid college servants in the kitchen, swigging Chateau Latour '71.
It's a hard life.
Wonderful. Thank you, Real Drama.
"Arrogant, rude.... something one could respect." 😂😅😊
great music I love that singing
Well done! Thank you for sharing this series.
Wonderful to catch up with this old favourite. Thank you.
Brilliant. I went through university life a bit like this but not at OxBridge. It also reminded me of the episode in Yes Minister when the minister attends a university dinner. Hugely funny.
Really enjoyed the music too.
Nothing beats british movies❤❤❤❤❤
For those new to this series it is important to realise that Porterhouse is actually Peterhouse (established 1284) and no satire or embellishment is involved within...
The writer of the book, Tom Sharpe, went to Pembroke, so the satire is probably based at least partly on his experiences there.
@@aletheia6506 I hear what you say, but Porterhouse completely takes the cake for for whacky traditions, I suspect TS must have had a few chums there!
@@prof.heinous191 I went to Peterhouse in the early 80s, so recall well what kind of place it was. The extreme conservatism portrayed by Tom Sharpe had largely disappeared by then, though echoes remained. Female undergrads could eat in hall as guests of Peterhouse undergraduates. The college waited till its 700 anniversary to admit women, which was the right thing to do.
"Wooster?. Isn't that the blighter who once came before me, for stealing a policeman's helmet, I believe it was?"
More Please. Great to re-visit this brilliant series
Just found this , and I love it.
Got to love David Jason, in everything he does. X
Thank you very much for posting
Brilliant comedic writer . I used to nearly break my ribs with mirth at his books Riotous Assembly ,Indecent Exposure ,Blott on the Landscape along with the Wilt series are still masterpieces of comedy .. Blott on the Landscape was made into a comedy drama a couple of decades ago with incisive acting to boot.
Adored Blott on the Landscape 🤣🤣🤣
A bit of a warm up for Sir Ian before House of Cards. Wonderful. (Mr. Richardson as was...)
Oh, and permission to eat swans from Queen Elizabeth... the first.
I own House of Cards and love it every 2 years or so.
The book is fantastic.
A wonderful script.
God I so love these thank you
Almost liked it. New headmaster and his wife OMG, last folks i would want to hang out with.
Wonderful, when can we watch the other 3 parts of Porterhouse Blue? We were left with a cliffhanger, anxious for the next episode!
We have already uploaded part 2. Part 3 and 4 are coming! ua-cam.com/video/in2yX8msG7g/v-deo.html
@@RealDramaChannel Hurrah.
Great Show. Love it.
Sharpe was my generation's Evelyn Waugh. A superbly funny writer.
Permission to eat Swans !? Apart from the QUEEN & KING!? Ha ha ha this is outrageus😅😮😢
What a find! Not House of Cards but looks great. I would watch Ian Richardson in anything. Thank you, thank you.
Shows like this, as well as A Very Peculiar Practice and The Singing Detective made television worthwhile watching- I loved them back in the 80s and before our ABC went woke they would regularly purchase these programs.
That word "woke" i KNOW you dont know what it means. Apparently you are not even awake. Liberal programming like this has been axed ever since the writers strike issued in "reality" shows bc network executives with the brains of 13 year old boys and the bodies of mature men, realized they could produce that shite CHEAPER. No regulations finished the job. That process of dumbing down our culture is the result of RWNJs supporting Corporate Rule my friend, you know where human beings are brands, money is actually a form of speech and corporations are People. So...maybe its you?that needs to wake up now eh?Great programming, American and British=Liberal legacy. FACT. Oh and while we are at it... Antifa[a term promulgated by the alt-wrong? means anti-fascist you know, like ALL of America and the UK was during WW2. Just FYI. And hey! Speaking of universities, you need to take "Know your words: 101".
The Singing Detective was epochal.
@@markfisher7962 I remember being mesmerised by it.
BBC are not like they used to be.
Amen
❤ a touch of frost is here. Yeah
66 year old American here. I'm just starting to enjoy this and so far it looks to me like it could be titled 'The Day Wolk came to Porterhouse.' I'm feeling a little sorry for the old boys. But not too sorry. It was past time to double the number of humans who could be scholars by admitting women. The idea of a university had its roots in the medieval era, the era when human beings were just trying to stay ahead of the Malthusian tendency to famines. Back then, the only thing that justified taking a human being away from farming crops to reading books was if the person could in fact retain, process, and then transmit what the person had read. I remember seeing Michael Palin in a film called "American Friends' where he played a senior Oxford professor in 1861. There is a scene in the movie where there's an entrance examination being done. A professor mentions a Great Book, and applicant is expected to repeat a section of the book word for word, for a number of paragraphs, completely from memory. C.S. Lewis was in fact a scholar who could do exactly that. You could pick any book in his house, read a single line in any random section of it, and he would than finished the rest of the reading from there from memory. That was what being a scholar was originally. Susan Sontag could do the same thing, so it was not a sex based talent. But in our quest to be 'equal' and 'fair' to all, there has been debasement of that standard. We can now educate a great many people beyond their general level of intelligence. We get highly educated stupid people. And that is the engine that drives the tendency in our modern societies to take decent ideas to their extreme, but logical conclusions. A sort of enantiodromia, as Jung called it. When extremes become their opposite. In a effort to become fair to all, fairness itself, and human decency suffers.
Wolk, aye. Punctured your gasbag.
I hope you'll pardon my presumption but I beg to disagree.
Being able to quote whole sections, if not all, of any book is simply rote memory. It has nothing to do with interpretation or application of the author's thoughts and serves no useful purpose whatsoever unless you're living in a dystopia like the one described in Fahrenheit 451. I would also remind you (and others on this thread) that the idea of "woke" didn't exist in 1987. But the prejudices of the Old Boy network with its special privileges and inherent sexism, racism, class exclusion... were certainly alive and well.
Didnt rluse how many programs movie jadon james has maind , his great , he even played the toed , in wind in the wilores , loved that show , when my chikdern weere young , id whatch it with them ❤😊
Nice to see Francis Urquhart made his way back into politics after his tenure at Porterhouse.
Oh yeah,now only i know about this videos
Ian Richardson is brilliant
Oxford & Cambridge & Eaton... Old pillars of Old fashion Kingdom...
Please, what is the song the little choir boys are singing at around 18:40? So pretty!
A song of salutation and celebration to welcome the new master. Very probably created for the film.
To be expected, at least anticipated, the little fine details and touches that make a brilliant English humour. - 1987? Modesta declaratus. Do I hear a repetition of todays political sentiments, as satirical as it may be : we need a Master who, in this mad and changing world will retain tradition; a weakling will no longer do. "Half the BBC filled with Skullion's Scholars!!! It'll work, if you leave it alone." Ah, what a Philosophy. Everything is predestined.
I really, really want to go and study film and television so I can learn how to make every single background sound including music deafeningly loud while keeping the dialog on the down low, like this was done. My head is spinning 🤕 and I got a tennis finger changing the volume
Please do all the rest
ua-cam.com/video/wtIxc_UNB2Q/v-deo.html
Hello! We've uploaded part 2 already: ua-cam.com/video/in2yX8msG7g/v-deo.html
Part 3 and 4 is coming shortly! Thank you for watching!
I'm puzzled how All3Media can derive an income stream from publishing this high quality series for free on UA-cam when there are no advertisements interrupting viewing, at least in Australia ...
And are you not pleased that they do?
I read Tom Sharpe. Loved him. But I guess words aren't as savage as actually seeing carcasses wheeled in to be fed on.
(brian) i do love stories of english varsity glories...in nz we had frederick raphael's "the glittering prizes" (with tom conti), waugh's "brideshead" etc. for comic writing you cannot beat "lucky jim",
but that did not translate well as a film.
Satire on Peterhouse politics in the 80s. Loosely based on the threat to the status quo of Cowlingites at Peterhouse after Trevor-Roper was appointed Master.
What amazing television ???? David Jason at his best !!!! And as I am just working class oink a world I know absolutely nothing about !!!
"Character - not brains. It's always been the Porterhouse way." I guess some are willing to even lower their own standards to uphold the class system. No wonder the UK is in such trouble.
Intelligence is not a good substitute to common sense. Some very intelligent people, without an iota of common sense, have been swayed by dangerous ideologues and megalomaniacs. Character, on the other hand, is a close cousin of common sense.
@@satyannair4837 True in general, but the character sought after at Porterhouse seems to lean towards megalomania rather than common sense.
India lecturing UK!? 😂
pls upload Foreign Affairs with Joanne Woodward and Brian Dennehy 1993
This and Yes Prime Minister are equal satires.
Despite the ability to mock their own institutions, the Poms still resist any reformation.
It rather makes them redundant in the Real World.
Better be a self aware conservative than a ( unhappily too frequent nowadays) mindless reformer.
Snobbery should be the eighth deadly sin, IMHO.
Does anyone write the opening lyrics? I think they are in Latin?
There's much I don't understand about the language and what involved with that group. I enjoyed it but wish I understood more.
Latin?
@@tomkent4656 Yes, the Latin but some of the English as well.
@@cmcull987I'm using subtitles and l speak English.
It is a pity that Latin has disappeared now...
@2:02 A boy's school with a coat of arms depicting a bull reaching, touching a star?
It looks like it. What does it mean?
@@bumblebee4280 Just go back to sleep
@@electrictofumuffins6384
Just one hint please. I won't bother you again.
@@bumblebee4280 Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle... and the cow jumped over 🌙
Just a thought 😊
Boris Johnson went to
Porterhouse
Del-Boy has certainly moved up in his world. But Where's Trigger and GranDad????
Eh? Well, don't you know, Trigger's busy listening to the Karaoke version of Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major.
😎🤣
If it's labeled drama, why are you calling it comedy?
Satire minus humour.
Birth Control aims in the 1980's still had a Paternalist, sexist and invasive agenda.
In the 2020's Birth Control is rather less invasive. Education is a growing trend.
After surplus breeding (6 children from three mothers) I opted for a vasectomy and have never regretted it.
Prince Harry, "Surplus."
Feel so sorry for your children and the women who have you in your life. Some people should remain confirmed wankers.
look where india has gone without vasectomy .
Probably very funny indeed if you happen to speak Latin! Twenty minutes in I remembered that I didn’t like Tom Sharpe’s humour in Blot so am giving this one a miss. Love the channel though 😊
Just the facade... Behind it ... Out of date former British Empire.... However snobism is still present... 😅
It's satire dude - get real.
Lady Mary = proto-woke
Exactly so. 'Sex and violence' ... paraphrase: 'thank you for coming to hear my country's progress in sterilization of our population' ... woke goals and strategies. This was superb satire. And I very much enjoy David Jason. Big Frost fan.
GROSS!
INDEED a Satire of english traditions... Sometimes so out of date... Still a mild one...😅
How sick and evil it is poor swans
Once knew a Turkish gentleman who got angry because of the way Mr Murdstone treats David in Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield'.
It's comedy - watch something else a bit simpler.
Holy mackerel! “The Master dies in his own bed or not at all.” Dang. Way ‘to go.’ 😮 Tradition MUST prevail! 🫣
Del-Boy has certainly moved up in his world. But Where's Trigger and GranDad????
My least favourite of David Jasons roles but he was undoubtedly good. Much prefer him this and in a Touch of Frost and Darling Buds of May, and even Diamond Geezer. A remarkable range.