One-Upmanship starring Richard Briers & Peter Jones (1978) - based on the books by Stephen Potter
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This charming series is based on the books by acclaimed British humourist Stephen Potter. Each week a specific topic is chosen, and how to get "one up" on the other person. This episode - "Litmanship" - the art of being one up when reviewing books.
Broadcast 14th August 1978
See en.wikipedia.o... for more information. One of the books is still in print:
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I was 16 in 1978 and to see this again, all these years later is Fabulouso.
Comforting but first class clever.
Thank you so much. 🧡
The late great Richard briers and Peter Jones marvelous
Thanks for this - I have been trying to locate this for many years having fond memories of watching it first time round. I did not realise the adaptation was by Barry Took, but the cast were as excellent as I remembered them, and it is as you say charming, and I would add witty and clever.
Peter Jones was also brilliant in the film version of the Potter lifemanship story 'School for scoundrels'. Fantastic
Yes - when he was painting the 'tread' on the car tyre in their showroom!
@@tomhaskett5161 He & Dennis Price played The Winsome Welshmen!
22:04 I was 7 in 1978 and have no recollection of this, but 46 years later, having come across it through subscription, it is brilliantly funny and very much, great comedy from a great era!
Thank you ❤
Super! I hope you have more of these. Thanks for sharing.
Well, that was different. I quite liked it.
Thought I was watching an episode of 'Allo 'Allo 😀
3:36:, this " dim
secretary " sketch
reminded me of
" Mr. Tudball" and
"Mrs Wiggins", in
The Carol Burnett Show.
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The BBC is frequently suspected of having used laugh tracks back then, but unlike in NYC and LA, the BBC did not and does not use laugh tracks. The impression seems likely to come from the lack of low end in the distantly miked recorded audience track, which makes it tonally similar to the obviously fake american laugh tracks. Apparently, there has been the occasional use of a laugh from one show to juice up another. Even this is quite rare according to techs who really have no reason to lie about it.
I do believe the intro music was performed by Instant Sunshine 🤔
I vaguely remember this. Also Creck Brissol with Andrew Sachs and Tony Robinson.
Nice theme tune by the comedy group "Instant Sunshine", who - according to Wikipedia - first formed in the 1960s and are still going.
I thought it was! Always thought they were fantastic. Nice to hear they are still active.
Alistair Sim captured the true Potter in School for Scoundrels.
I like the way Barry Took slipped in a bit from Jean Cocteau’s Orphée.
That was a very good book indeed.
The 1960s film School for Scoundrels captured the Potter magic best
A new discovery for me! Out of interest, did 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' and 'Allo, Allo' come before or perhaps were influenced by this!?
The original book by Stephen Potter was written in the 1950s so long before even the Perrin novel was published or either sitcom was first broadcast.
From memory Reginald Perrin was almost contemporary (this was 1978 and at the time I was a young man and too busy to watch TV, but I remember my school housemaster talking about it. So very much from the same school.
Allo allo was slightly later, but started life as an extended parody of a series called "Secret army" of which the resistance scene here was similarly a parody.
Thumbs up😅
Briers such a good actor shame he couldn't find the right series after the good life
He did, try Ever Decreasing Circles
Shame that the TV producers had to ruin this with a canned laughter track.
Agreed !
It’s not canned laughter; it would have been filmed in front of a live studio audience and that was their genuine reaction.
No. Canned
@@paulgeraghty1448 Not in British television comedy of this period. They had live audiences.
@@cranp4764 just sounds canned. Still believe it is