The Country Party - Starring Peter Barkworth

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  • @deborahrobertson8606
    @deborahrobertson8606 Рік тому +179

    I was 16 when this was broadcast. People are so insulting about the 1970's -I suppose because of the industrial upheaval - endless strikes etc. But, the culture was so much finer than today. (Apart from the architectural vandalism which was horrific). Popular music and television were superb - unmatched by anything today. Just for an hour or so I can go back and immerse myself in genuine excellence, something we took so much for granted then. Thank you.

    • @Blonde_Somnambulist
      @Blonde_Somnambulist Рік тому +15

      Totally agree 👍

    • @janicaribeiro6350
      @janicaribeiro6350 Рік тому +12

      100%

    • @sharoncox4776
      @sharoncox4776 Рік тому +21

      Well said. Oh if only we could go back to those days!! TV brilliant with only 3 channels as well!

    • @janicaribeiro6350
      @janicaribeiro6350 Рік тому +30

      @@sharoncox4776 I know ! And now 300 odd channels and nothing to watch !

    • @theresmore2learn516
      @theresmore2learn516 Рік тому +20

      Wonderfully said! I despise American tv and I thank God for the BBC and UA-cam taking us back to a more gentle way!

  • @suevans6436
    @suevans6436 Рік тому +36

    Very well put together performance, wonderful to see so many long forgotten faces and the superb Peter Barkworth. Thank you so much.

  • @Cortinaman63
    @Cortinaman63 Рік тому +34

    Stuart Fanning: Thank you so much for this, Peter Barkworth was a family friend, so I remember both him, and also Joshua Le Touzel (David) who was at my Stage School, with much affection, great being able to see this again, after all those years, and brings back such fond memories of two fine fellow Actors, I had the pleasure of knowing.

  • @lesleyromani
    @lesleyromani Рік тому +35

    Great to watch Peter Barkworth after all these years. Thank you!

  • @ange9663
    @ange9663 Рік тому +18

    Great thank you, anything Peter Barkworth is in is worth watching superb actor. ❤️

  • @ZefZerg
    @ZefZerg Рік тому +9

    Many thanks UA-cam for helping to highlight and preserve the quality of British television,and given us the opportunity to view episodes that I for one have never seen before 👌🏾

  • @rogermassey8844
    @rogermassey8844 Рік тому +4

    Well written and well acted. Very enjoyable! An interesting time capsule but with some universal truths.

  • @sheargillsparkie9588
    @sheargillsparkie9588 Рік тому +9

    I’ve watched Saturday Party and the whole series of Telford’s Change, absolutely scintillating. Peter Barkworth was an amazing actor and many others of his time. They seem to capture the Englishness of what was becoming an ever changing world in their time.

    • @DrLauraJoseph
      @DrLauraJoseph 11 місяців тому +2

      You must also watch Late Starter if you loved those

    • @sheargillsparkie9588
      @sheargillsparkie9588 11 місяців тому +1

      @@DrLauraJoseph thoroughly enjoyed Late Starter, his character was like a fish out of water. The ending was bit bizarre, not seeing the growing attention of one individual to whom he becomes indebted. Again, superb acting.

  • @DevonDandy
    @DevonDandy 2 роки тому +67

    Those were the days when the duration of a television play is not shoe horned into the straight jacket of a schedule slot. Once again this brilliant cast carry it off.

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 Рік тому +6

      You meant “ strait jacket”, not “straight jacket”. I wish the Brits would learn their own language. Strait means narrow or constrained. Straight means direct, in a line between two points, even.

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 Рік тому

      @@catrionarobertson9919 anyone who has visited the UK recently will be laughing. The British did have manners once upon a time. Now most are dim, blighted and numb to everything, oppressed by the inequalities of their sullen, hopeless society, suspicious of strangers, angry at anyone who is slightly different from themselves and yearning for a shot of their lost Imperial wealth and greatness. Arrogant - because which True Brit does not believe he or she is superior to all others, and resentful that they are fading into inconsequentiality in a world that has passed them by. Condemned by their own stupidity and self-harming isolation through Brexit, theirs is a dying culture. Violence, crime, child poverty. Zero hours contracts, wages marooned in the 1980s, falling house prices. A shrinking economy. Long live happy Britain and its smiling, polite, kind people. Doomed and dying. But keep up the pretence of your specialness. It's all you have left.

    • @RiaLake
      @RiaLake Рік тому +2

      @@catrionarobertson9919 I wouldn't generalise regarding good manners and everyone can learn. Lol.

    • @DevonDandy
      @DevonDandy Рік тому +4

      @@judeirwin2222 I am mortified,,humbled, by your superior knowledge, How can UA-cam function without being policed by some one of your superiority

    • @Crystalquartz964
      @Crystalquartz964 Рік тому

      @@judeirwin2222 How clever of you, delighted to read your superior comment

  • @celiabeverton4514
    @celiabeverton4514 Рік тому +20

    Always like Peter Barkworth so cool and charming, great times the 70’s

  • @david11978
    @david11978 3 роки тому +28

    Superb acting, I remember watching it when it was first shown.Thank you.

  • @MrTang-qo9wm
    @MrTang-qo9wm Рік тому +12

    Peter Barkworth could accomplish more standing still for several seconds than most other actors could do in two hours. Amazingly subtle and beautiful.

  • @twinkle3026
    @twinkle3026 Рік тому +14

    This series was originally screened on British tv back in the late 1970's, but i was too young to be able to take interest in it at the time, but now i have luckily found this Gem on UA-cam, i am really enjoying watching it. I noticed the two very young Birds of a feather working in the kitchen! (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) who both went on to greater things! ...... Incidentally, Peter's character gave us a glimpse into the future, when he was conversing with the unconventional couple as he said to them, "until we have telephones with televisions attached to them, we cannot see who we are booking in!" Many thanks for resurrecting this wonderful blast from the past for me! xxxxx

    • @Ian-xm5on
      @Ian-xm5on Рік тому +4

      Twinkle - did you notice too, the poe faced looking woman? She played the part of the Meldrew's neighbour in "One foot in the grave!" I recognised quite a few other actors.

  • @jow6845
    @jow6845 Рік тому +17

    This was good - it’s held up very well.

  • @colleendaumen136
    @colleendaumen136 3 роки тому +39

    Brilliant play... also see Saturday Party with the same cast, both are excellent!

  • @marshhen
    @marshhen Рік тому +3

    These are a fascinating time capsule. I was only 8 years old at this moment but I feel a very strange nostalgia for this culture of my parents.

  • @myotheraccountonothe
    @myotheraccountonothe Рік тому +10

    Brilliant acting. Thank you for posting 😊

  • @GradKat
    @GradKat Рік тому +41

    How could I have forgotten Peter Barkworth? He was on the telly all the time when I was young. Fabulous actor with a beautiful plummy voice. It’s a shame the quality of this recording is poor, but it’s still very enjoyable for all that.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg Рік тому +6

      Most of the '70s t.v. material was recorded on tape, so the blurred images you see now nearly 50 years later are all you're ever going to get.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 Рік тому

      Seems a bit of a prat here ?

    • @eshaibraheem4218
      @eshaibraheem4218 Рік тому

      @GradKat: Yes, he's attractive, isn't he? Before six-pack abs became de rigeur.

    • @JJ21210
      @JJ21210 Рік тому +4

      @GradKat, I think you meant to write, "Thank you, uploader, for making this available; if not for you, I wouldn't be able to see this."
      It's indescribably rude of you to complain about the quality of the transfer for something that was taped from TV almost 50 years ago. It's incredibly rude of you to be anything other than grateful to someone who has gone to the trouble of uploading this so others can enjoy it. Please don't ever be rude again. Thanks.

    • @mattdavies7398
      @mattdavies7398 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@2msvalkyrie529 It's acting, love.

  • @DavidDavid-kl4ru
    @DavidDavid-kl4ru Рік тому +16

    Marvelous. Fascinating insight into a lost world

    • @TenTenJ
      @TenTenJ Рік тому +1

      At least Britain can hold onto their culture, americas ravaged by manipulative dribble.

  • @barbarapalmer8224
    @barbarapalmer8224 2 місяці тому +2

    Peter Barķworth has lovely smile as well as being a great actor..

  • @englishweather9763
    @englishweather9763 Рік тому +39

    a delight to watch, times when everything was so much more tasteful than today.

    • @jasonchambers4495
      @jasonchambers4495 Рік тому +1

      Black and White Minstrel show was on. Not such great times.

    • @JJ21210
      @JJ21210 Рік тому +1

      Please don't make the mistake of glorifying the past. Every era has its pluses and minuses; the big minuses of past eras were amped-up racism and sexism -- life was pretty crummy for about 70% of the population.

    • @TenTenJ
      @TenTenJ 2 місяці тому +1

      @@JJ21210 has it improved?

  • @benjaminclasper9355
    @benjaminclasper9355 Рік тому +9

    I wish people would stop complaining always about having perfect quality with watching because you can’t have ever watched old video tapes if you expect the quality to always be as good as modern video and UA-cam quality and it is from 1977 after all what do you expect
    And about the number code at the top it doesn’t bother me really at all and it’s interesting to see aswell and it’s just because of it being a bbc copy too.

  • @maxinejacobson4006
    @maxinejacobson4006 Рік тому +20

    Thoroughly enjoyed this. Love the “stuffy middle class” theme, at least you can understand them.

  • @MrYorickJenkins
    @MrYorickJenkins 4 місяці тому +3

    Mick McGathy Jack Jones-that takes me back! Names on everyone's lips in 1977. Utterly forgotten now. How many people under 40 years old knows or cares who they were? Vanity, vanity all is vanity.That bit of trivia from me aside, an excellent play, well acted, very sad and very true to life.

  • @marymary5494
    @marymary5494 Рік тому +4

    Thank you for uploading. 👌💕

  • @steverhodesvideos6244
    @steverhodesvideos6244 2 роки тому +7

    Amazing. Thanks for posting.

  • @simonbath
    @simonbath 2 роки тому +6

    thanks for this first class noursihment

  • @finolaomurchu8217
    @finolaomurchu8217 Рік тому +7

    The pregnant girlfriend meeting wife, I was not expecting that. Then I see the actor who played the vicar is called Colin Farrell. Very enjoyable.☘️

  • @amsbestunderstanding1646
    @amsbestunderstanding1646 Рік тому +7

    Good story. Life is something that unfolds while we're making other plans.... not sure who said that, but it's very often true.

  • @kimbozw1808
    @kimbozw1808 Рік тому +1

    thanks for posting. been searching for a while. mark shivas production.

  • @melaniewalker5226
    @melaniewalker5226 Рік тому +5

    It's nice to see the guests know how to use a knife and fork.

  • @Ian-xm5on
    @Ian-xm5on Рік тому +5

    Superb. Thank you. ☺ The skill of the actors doing things and talking at the same time is impressive. Each person played their part!

    • @crystalawen
      @crystalawen Рік тому

      What a strange comment ; that’s what actors do

  • @dryflyman7121
    @dryflyman7121 Рік тому +8

    This reminded me of just how repulsive smoking in restaurants was. Great play, love Peter Barkworth.

  • @PeterShieldsukcatstripey
    @PeterShieldsukcatstripey Рік тому +1

    Fascinating to go inside the lives of the middle classes. Richard was a tremendous and selfless host.

  • @ria1636
    @ria1636 2 роки тому +10

    Definitely needs new staff! Thank you for the two, very enjoyable uploads.

  • @AntPDC
    @AntPDC 11 місяців тому +4

    A relief to see no performative hugging, high-fives and perpetual neuroses and emotional incontinence.

  • @HookBeak_66
    @HookBeak_66 Місяць тому

    Reminded me of my catering days, which was always hectic. Nice to see Pauline Quirke(18) & Linda Robson(19) as waitresses they'd later go on to perform, in the sitcom 'Birds of a Feather'. It must be difficult to find that people, you've had for ages as staff : Both are thieves & one's a drunk.

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 Рік тому +2

    Superb drama.

  • @FrederickBowdler
    @FrederickBowdler 2 дні тому

    Great camera work 😊

  • @Bambisgf77
    @Bambisgf77 Рік тому +7

    This was aired the year I was born. A curious look into life across the pond at that time.

    • @JJ21210
      @JJ21210 Рік тому

      Pssst: Nobody says "across the pond."

  • @Bible5771
    @Bible5771 Рік тому +5

    The opening scene looks like the vicarage in Miss Marple’s the Murder at the vicarage

  • @dee4174
    @dee4174 3 місяці тому +1

    What goes on in the kitchen is enough to put one offeating out! The wairtress with the cold and the vegetables on the floor! 😂

  • @harmoniabalanza
    @harmoniabalanza Рік тому +10

    For anyone who thinks this about "nothing": So much in here that reveals little chippings away at the fabric of society. at 39:00 the wife agrees to split up a property that was an integrated traditional farm so she can get more $$. The publisher laughs at a joke made by his author uneasily and a little too much, knowing that he himself doesn't really understand the joke and hoping the author doesn't cut into his profits. The "loyal" employees are cheats. The ex-wife is a piece of work, unsupportive, completely oblivious to why Richard gave up his money grubbing profession in the city. And when her daughter tries so hard to bring her parents back together she even asks "why is it so important to you?" Say what??? The young gate crashers don't even appreciate how he goes to extra trouble to accommodate them. Bottom line--the dissatisfaction and mean spiritedness of spoiled people who don't give a thing to anyone and think the world owes them everything they want. Sad all around, and our protagonist is just trying to have a decent life that doesn't rob or insult anyone. Then comes a subtle change and we see a touch of the warm humane in various people. A very human story well told.

    • @globallove
      @globallove Рік тому +3

      i want the whole thing (and the Saturday Party) annotated like this. i pick up on some of it

  • @clareshaughnessy2745
    @clareshaughnessy2745 2 роки тому +13

    Ha! Linda Robson and Pauline Quirk in the Kitchen! I’ll keep an eye out for Dorian

    • @electricleg207
      @electricleg207 2 роки тому +9

      She's up stairs in one of the bedrooms .

  • @larkatmic
    @larkatmic Рік тому +19

    Ahhh. The slower paced and quiet pause of 1970s TV storytelling and broadcasting. It sure beats the ear assaulting rushed abrasive ness and degenerate dark story content of today.

  • @Chahlie
    @Chahlie Рік тому +2

    Love the ending! :)

  • @Mick_Harrison
    @Mick_Harrison Рік тому +2

    Brilliant!

  • @Seaprincess6077
    @Seaprincess6077 Рік тому +4

    Didn't his menu sound FABULOUS! Proper going-out-to-dinner-best-frock food not the sort of twiddled morseld we get nowadays.

  • @juliet7703
    @juliet7703 Рік тому +3

    Nice twist at the end..

  • @Lakeslover1
    @Lakeslover1 Рік тому +3

    I loved it !

  • @ZefZerg
    @ZefZerg Рік тому

    And again thank you UA-cam!

  • @swanvictor887
    @swanvictor887 Рік тому +1

    as a film maker myself, my only regret about past film is that 16mm never lasts as well as 35mm, but of course, TV Budgets could not stretch to full-frame stock sadly. I hope one day, perhaps using new technology, in the future, every 70s film shot on 16mm can be not just restored but brought up to modern standards and colourized, as it was shot: I'm sure this could be done one day, although the costs of course, would be questionable. The videotape studio scenes from the 70s, still look ok, thanks to the quality of the equipment used, even back in those days!

  • @jujulionesselsa1416
    @jujulionesselsa1416 Рік тому +3

    I feel like I am there with them. "If Only"

  • @paulgarrod1066
    @paulgarrod1066 2 роки тому +19

    Peter Barkworth was a great actor (Telford's Change) but a great pity about the needless intrusive timer

    • @roslynaubrey7766
      @roslynaubrey7766 Рік тому +1

      I so agree and so glad someone said so! What was the point of it?

  • @jackiecampbell7903
    @jackiecampbell7903 3 роки тому +4

    Great drama!

  • @lb2505
    @lb2505 2 роки тому +3

    love it

  • @Sunny25611
    @Sunny25611 Рік тому

    I wish I could watch this movie but I can’t because of the flashing numbers on it. Thank you for uploading I’ll try to find it another way ❤

    • @robyn203
      @robyn203 Рік тому

      Yes I had that problem too but solved it by covering it up with some material draped over the corner of the screen.

    • @adamssoraya7505
      @adamssoraya7505 Рік тому +4

      Just ignore it

    • @melaniewalker5226
      @melaniewalker5226 Рік тому

      ​@@robyn203 😂

    • @rounz1
      @rounz1 Рік тому

      @@adamssoraya7505 For real. I was so engrossed in the story I forgot it was there.

    • @mattdavies7398
      @mattdavies7398 Рік тому

      Sunny, you're like a character in the play.

  • @mungomuff9716
    @mungomuff9716 Рік тому +4

    The Vicker has a passing resemblance to David Walliams..

  • @roslynaubrey7766
    @roslynaubrey7766 Рік тому +2

    Great, but why that timer???

  • @nickwalter9630
    @nickwalter9630 Рік тому +1

    Touch of the Fawlty Towers about all this.

  • @gardenroom65
    @gardenroom65 2 роки тому +3

    He lives in Folkestone

  • @darrendodd6674
    @darrendodd6674 2 роки тому +11

    It seems that Ted is now getting success with his tomatoes and, as a result, has moved away from the dreaded tomatoe chutney to more of life's delicate perks. He's definitely made progress.

    • @clareshaughnessy2745
      @clareshaughnessy2745 2 роки тому +3

      Ah, but that was just the weather. Not enough sun that summer to ripen ‘em.

    • @thadtuiol1717
      @thadtuiol1717 2 роки тому +6

      @@clareshaughnessy2745 Nonsense, the summer of '76 was famous for being incredibly hot and sunny!

    • @clareshaughnessy2745
      @clareshaughnessy2745 2 роки тому +1

      @@thadtuiol1717 lol, that’s true actually!!!

    • @ria1636
      @ria1636 2 роки тому +1

      Tomato. Lol

  • @stephenwitherington879
    @stephenwitherington879 День тому

    At around 45.00, PB informs two who have reservations that they are inappropriately dressed. This reminds me of a 'stuffy' US restaurant, some years ago, which adopted the same policy. Funny, isn't it, that, when Clint Eastwood turned up in his jeans, the proprietors found nothing wrong! Perhaps Clint has 'restaurant presence', unless, of course, he pointed his Magnum 45 (the most powerful handgun in the world) straight at them. That'd do it!

  • @swanvictor887
    @swanvictor887 Рік тому +1

    Good Lord! Mrs. Warbouys! AND Pauleen Quirk & Linda Robson! Were they conjoined twins lol.

  • @kattydover6356
    @kattydover6356 Рік тому +1

    The pubs were great though!!

  • @benjaminclasper9355
    @benjaminclasper9355 Рік тому +1

    The scene at 43:40 the scene when outside couple come in, does anyone get the feeling a lot of the other people dining at the restaurant are staring them down judgemental stares as if they’ve never seen anyone in different clothing from theirs. The woman in the background at 44:05 definitely shows that I think in the blue dress staring daggers at them , it’s like saying to her “Oi you keep your nose out of other people’s business and affairs and get on with your own.” It’s also like “what the heck are you staring at eh?”

  • @benjaminclasper9355
    @benjaminclasper9355 Рік тому +1

    I wonder how some of the wives at the restaurant got lumbered with some of those husbands in the first place. 🙂

  • @rosemarywilliams9969
    @rosemarywilliams9969 Рік тому +1

    😮So this was middle class... interesting!

  • @lindabiggs3905
    @lindabiggs3905 3 роки тому +9

    Mrs Warboys, one foot in the grave,,

    • @dilly1863
      @dilly1863 3 роки тому

      One Foot in the Grave stars Janine Duvitski, Angus Deayton, Annette Crosbie, Richard Wilson!

    • @ppotter
      @ppotter 2 роки тому +4

      @@dilly1863 and Doreen Mantle as Mrs Warboyes.

  • @bronwynbrown2693
    @bronwynbrown2693 7 годин тому

    Don't no what the nomber going around on the screen ,

  • @bronwynbrown2693
    @bronwynbrown2693 7 годин тому

    I loved the 1970 80s 90, dont like 200 it crap ,all cards no cash pay on ph ,extra, no ,and love the movie,s and sures, in those times, keep coming thank,s 😊

  • @missiontent111
    @missiontent111 Рік тому +1

    All of these plays from this period featured endless drinking of alcohol.

    • @AntPDC
      @AntPDC 11 місяців тому

      Nowadays it's hard "recreational" drugs and Big Pharma-prescribed mass-medication dulling the natural senses of children and adults. ADHD my bottom: the USA is now Ritalin Nation. Cheers!

  • @petewoodroffemusic
    @petewoodroffemusic Рік тому +1

    Everyone has a public school accent and uses upper class language (apart from the servants ofcourse!)

  • @benjaminclasper9355
    @benjaminclasper9355 Рік тому +1

    And Susan never said she wanted someone to keep her in horses and clothing everything else as you said you old hazbeen.

  • @rosemarywilliams9969
    @rosemarywilliams9969 Рік тому +2

    🤢 that's sick server girl with the nose blowing... this is why I say a protection prayer with every meal if I eat out🙏

  • @mikemyers8064
    @mikemyers8064 Рік тому +1

    👍🏻

  • @cindersmolloy6584
    @cindersmolloy6584 2 місяці тому

    An indictment of a man being too good and too accommodating. He is taken advantage of by practically everyone through his weakness. Very well portayed and could easily have been overdone. Now at a srage where he has to start again from scratch with a child he may not have planned.

  • @pmullins1495
    @pmullins1495 Рік тому +1

    This grass is growing too s l o w l y.

    • @TenTenJ
      @TenTenJ 2 місяці тому

      Did you watch The Saturday Party? It’s kind of the part one of this play. And if you had watched that, this entire second play would be fascinating.

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 Рік тому +6

    Oh ! A St Georges flag in opening scene . Wouldn't be allowed by BBC today . Not " diverse " enough and might offend new Britons..

    • @carolthomas8528
      @carolthomas8528 Рік тому

      Maybe it’s to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday.

    • @JJ21210
      @JJ21210 Рік тому +2

      Yes, be snide about diversity (which is the hallmark of Nature) -- that really shows you in a great light.

    • @mattdavies7398
      @mattdavies7398 Рік тому +1

      Msvalkyrie, don't be a prig.

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 2 місяці тому +1

      Why are you upset.? You know it's true...?
      Look at the fuss about Keir Starmer giving a speech with Union Jack in background..?!?

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 3 роки тому +4

    Wow another classic play, best stick something annoying and distracting on the screen!

  • @AntPDC
    @AntPDC 11 місяців тому +1

    Have these women no respect for male privacy, and shameless springing of "surprises" as part of their instinctive manipulations?

    • @TenTenJ
      @TenTenJ 2 місяці тому +1

      Male privacy? Are you referring to having an affair while one is married? It was a surprise birthday party so how would she know?

  • @fraseredk7433
    @fraseredk7433 3 роки тому

    Is that Arthur Daley?

    • @pornlove99
      @pornlove99 3 роки тому

      No... Sh1t hed

    • @fraseredk7433
      @fraseredk7433 3 роки тому +1

      @@pornlove99 i was referring to Mr Jones not Richard. Passing resemblance

  • @benjaminclasper9355
    @benjaminclasper9355 Рік тому

    Gosh the daughter Emma in the story seems very much kind of jumping the gun especially the fact that she arranged this dinner at her father’s restaurant in the country without much permission from the rest of the family and without her mother knowing and she’s got a sarcastic kind of classy cheekiness about her and just very kind of an adult thinking that she’s the arranger for all of this and kind of vivacious in a manipulative sort of way tricking with her mother, and as well did the thought not strike any of the family members especially the children that their father may have divorced and that he had remarried in a way it is Richard’s fault I think partly with him to blame just that he must have been desperate to be in a relationship with another woman but then again it should be a free country for him shouldn’t it as he had divorced anyway previously from his wife Jane but then it’s understandable on one hand why seeing his new wife there would be a shock and the family would be disappointed and as well I would have thought that Richard would have informed Jane or Emma that his current wife would perhaps visit later on and join them and it doesn’t seem much of a family occasion by the end of the play with Richard’s new wife dropping by like that and nothings mentioned about Richard’s new wife really for most of the play before as if they really didn’t know that much before even though they left each other I would have thought they could have stayed in contact with each other with telephoning each other perhaps.

    • @Sharon-vq3bf
      @Sharon-vq3bf Рік тому +2

      Richard did not divorce or remarry. The last scene with Jane indicated that they would be in touch with lawyers.

  • @deegeraghty9426
    @deegeraghty9426 Рік тому +1

    What a miserable man! Had everything, had nothing.

  • @crystalawen
    @crystalawen Рік тому +1

    ‘You’re a reed’ ...!

  • @paulgrieve7031
    @paulgrieve7031 Рік тому

    Shades of Fawlty what!

  • @electrictofumuffins6384
    @electrictofumuffins6384 Рік тому

    What a collection of cnuts. They're so desperate for fools gold and meanwhile trach the only thing they have of real value. Very good production. Thank you.

  • @abcmyrie
    @abcmyrie Рік тому

    19:32

  • @suzyp7178
    @suzyp7178 Рік тому

    For the price of a duck.

  • @chrisrainbow2393
    @chrisrainbow2393 Рік тому

    Supurb

  • @anthonymee2599
    @anthonymee2599 Рік тому +1

    A middle class 1970s borefest Hoorah!!!!!

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Рік тому +6

      Indeed, but sometimes an old borefest is comforting.

    • @andersdottir1111
      @andersdottir1111 Рік тому +10

      What are you doing here.
      Be off with you.

    • @soniavadnjal7553
      @soniavadnjal7553 Рік тому +7

      @@Bevity nothing with Peter Barkworth in it is boring.

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Рік тому +1

      @@soniavadnjal7553 I was just saying in general ...

    • @Dracarys_xxx
      @Dracarys_xxx 2 місяці тому

      You're the uneducated bore!!😂😂😂

  • @IwasBlueb4
    @IwasBlueb4 Рік тому +1

    What a stupid story...all about nothing..

    • @twinkle3026
      @twinkle3026 Рік тому +5

      If you read between the lines and you look behind the facade, you'll find there is a lot going on. x

    • @harmoniabalanza
      @harmoniabalanza Рік тому +4

      If you actually paid attention to the dialogue you'd see it's very much about something. But obviously something you know nothing about and of which you can't see the importance. Ho hum. But if you are older than 30, I feel very sorry for you.

    • @capesofwraith
      @capesofwraith 2 місяці тому +1

      A slice of life then.

    • @normabyde4766
      @normabyde4766 Місяць тому

      @@harmoniabalanza. Being much older than 30, this play is entirely reminiscent of the ‘ dining out’ huge dinking ( and driving) ethos of those days.

    • @normabyde4766
      @normabyde4766 Місяць тому

      Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke in early roles.