Up Pompeii - The Ides of March

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  • @SimonLeicester
    @SimonLeicester Рік тому +32

    Wonderful Frankie Howerd making it look so easy. What a comedic talent

  • @annehathaway2107
    @annehathaway2107 2 роки тому +56

    My father a Professor of Greek and Roman classics and really enjoyed these and would point out how accurate they were on many points!!

    • @kevinlinnane9637
      @kevinlinnane9637 2 роки тому +2

      Hathaway ... Anne ........Are you having us on ? ?

    • @lyndamcardle4123
      @lyndamcardle4123 Рік тому

      A little "Bardy" for me !

    • @geoffreycodnett6570
      @geoffreycodnett6570 Рік тому +2

      One of the "Carry On" series with a Roman setting equally accurate. The "Coccium in Cornovii" sounds marginally indecent but refers to Wigan, the butt of 1950s jokes.

  • @granthurlburt4062
    @granthurlburt4062 3 місяці тому +4

    What a treasure this was! Remember seeint it on late night TV

  • @PaulHunter-ih1ye
    @PaulHunter-ih1ye 11 місяців тому +4

    Frankie Howerd - absolute genius and master of saucy innuendo. I am now sixty years of age but never tire of his humour, and stage presence, a man who simply owned the screen and could work an audience like no other.
    R.I.P Sir Francis ❤

  • @michelleduplooymalherbe2837
    @michelleduplooymalherbe2837 Рік тому +18

    NEVER KNEW THIS SHOW EXISTED, SO GLAD I FOUND IT - THEY DO NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE.....

  • @mrh8279
    @mrh8279 4 роки тому +36

    It's fiunny when you hear people say how original Blackadder was, they obviously never heard of Up Pompeii which had already created a historical comedy with a discontented servant as it's main character.

  • @scottrooney8954
    @scottrooney8954 Рік тому +26

    Frankie was really one of the funniest characters of yesteryear 👏👏

  • @neilfleming2787
    @neilfleming2787 Рік тому +13

    I love how the whole thing is live and when they fluff lines they just make it up

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Рік тому +4

      Live studio Audience but it was recorded before transmission.

    • @jestermoon
      @jestermoon Рік тому +2

      Take A Moment
      15:25
      This show is perfect 🥰 15:41 🎉❤
      15:57
      Stay Silly 16:10
      Don't bother 16:30 ❤😂🎉
      Script written and rehearsed for a week
      Genius team 👏
      Stay Silly
      Stay Safe and Stay Free 🌐
      2023 September 21ish..
      No god's required or seen in my foxholes.
      Peace and love etc friend ❤️

  • @martinconnors6200
    @martinconnors6200 Рік тому +5

    I Loved Up Pompeii. So funny and hilarious. They don't make them anymore

  • @timc924
    @timc924 Рік тому +9

    One of the great costume farces. Frankie Howard at his best, in command of the double entendre and punning with abandon. RIP Frankie and good old fashioned historically-laced farce.

    • @carlozabbia1157
      @carlozabbia1157 Рік тому

      HOWERD

    • @timc924
      @timc924 Рік тому

      Thank you for the correction. It's a relief that people like you are on you tube to pick up on the minute mistakes other people make when sharing a happy thought. I'm sure you will derive some sort of joy yourself from managing to correct my spelling, but I also hope you manage to put your incisive spotlight on the fact that being a twat is harder than being on another happier plain where others simply want to share a thought on a what makes them still chuckle after so many years. @@carlozabbia1157

  • @lLoveCarolCleavland
    @lLoveCarolCleavland 3 роки тому +20

    I love how they always include the audience in their escapades.

    • @Kotka67
      @Kotka67 Рік тому +1

      It's called 'Breaking the fourth wall'. He does it very well...

  • @theenglishman9596
    @theenglishman9596 4 роки тому +11

    Every inch a scrubber, our historic humour, like no other once.

  • @bigmojo57
    @bigmojo57 6 років тому +52

    I watched this with my girlfriend who said "I like a double-entendre", so I gave her one!

  • @davidrobinson8224
    @davidrobinson8224 2 роки тому +3

    I just love the ad-lib stuff that comes out every now and then.

  • @analyne3024
    @analyne3024 4 роки тому +12

    Loved this guy on the carry on film, "Carry On Doctor" he was so funny 😂

  • @JustAnother_Irishman
    @JustAnother_Irishman Рік тому +8

    OMG modern day women could learn a thing or two from these ladies.

  • @jeremyhaines4481
    @jeremyhaines4481 Рік тому +2

    This is very clever 👏 I have forgotten about this 😅

  • @comonsensai
    @comonsensai Рік тому +12

    Elizabeth Larner came into her own in this fantastic episode. Thanks for sharing.

    • @lLoveCarolCleavland
      @lLoveCarolCleavland Рік тому

      I always had a thing for her, I found her sexy as heck in this show.

  • @annienicholson7425
    @annienicholson7425 2 роки тому +27

    Still the best after a these years. Pure genius without needing to touch the purile. Don't make them like that anymore

    • @docm27
      @docm27 Рік тому +2

      The puerile nature of it makes it great!

    • @GirGir183
      @GirGir183 Рік тому +1

      He does skirt about the fringes of the puerile, tho.

  • @pmajudge
    @pmajudge Рік тому +4

    THOSE WERE THE " NAUGHTY " DAYS OF TELEVISION !!! 1960's /1970's !!! HILARIOUS INDEED !!!! From , U.K. (2023).

  • @Murray9452
    @Murray9452 Рік тому +3

    So nice to see Miss Brahms and Mr. Rumbold.

  • @davesmith8975
    @davesmith8975 7 років тому +33

    Frankie Howard was a bloody genius, in the Roman Sense and in general, came from Plebs back to this, both as good!!!

  • @davidjones4291
    @davidjones4291 4 роки тому +8

    Oh mighty cesar, it's a great honour you do me 😁

  • @aljol54
    @aljol54 4 роки тому +11

    Produced by David Croft, who also produced, directed and co-wrote It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Dad's Army and Are You Being Served (amongst others). Perhaps not surprising he remembered actors he'd worked with before when he came to cast those series.

  • @timothyshawnjohnston278
    @timothyshawnjohnston278 9 років тому +17

    A very trippy show of British wit and humor.

  • @cliffwheeler7357
    @cliffwheeler7357 2 роки тому +13

    Blimey! Wendy Richard was stacked.

  • @mrh8279
    @mrh8279 4 роки тому +6

    General Ponderous is a fine figure of a man! That handsome face, the deep voice!

  • @2490debrick
    @2490debrick 6 років тому +45

    Frankie Howard what a legend...

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 2 роки тому +3

      unique comedy genius, on a par with the great Dave Allen

    • @garygrimmett7945
      @garygrimmett7945 Рік тому +1

      Absolutely!!...frankie was hilarious 🤣 major fan..the voice...the face...adlibs galore!!!!...-got boxset of up pompei...the way he looked into camera...cracks me up...brilliant in carry ons too...shame he didn't do more...so funny...😁👍gazzz

    • @carlozabbia1157
      @carlozabbia1157 Рік тому

      HOWERD

  • @corbe1970ify
    @corbe1970ify 10 місяців тому +2

    Love when he says something towards a sexual innuendo and the audience starts laughing them he stops and gives a dirty look as if to say your filthy minds 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ludo9234
    @ludo9234 Рік тому +5

    Strangely enough i was only allowed to watch this at my grandmother's house. A very strange affair i must say.

    • @Kaytecando
      @Kaytecando Рік тому +1

      Lucky you. I had to endure Lawrence Welk at mamaw!

    • @ludo9234
      @ludo9234 Рік тому

      @@Kaytecando Who ?.

  • @glynbrain1083
    @glynbrain1083 Рік тому +8

    Took me a while to realise it was Wendy Richards. Beautiful.

  • @bernadettebigger3283
    @bernadettebigger3283 2 роки тому +14

    Frankie Howard is so funny I like when he goes off his script well done 😂

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 Рік тому +3

      He was never 'off script'.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Рік тому

      It was actually all scripted, But Frankie delivered it so well.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 Рік тому

      @@dogwalker666
      There's a strange, kind of distorted, 'echo' here. 🤔

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Рік тому

      @@trueaussie9230 lol UA-cam didn't show your comment.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 Рік тому

      @@dogwalker666
      YT seems to be very selective in to whom it will show which comments.
      I've experienced that situation many times.

  • @simonf8902
    @simonf8902 Рік тому +9

    Bless Frankie ❤

  • @carlozabbia1157
    @carlozabbia1157 3 місяці тому +1

    The wonderfully talented Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith: together again.

  • @johnhuwroberts7766
    @johnhuwroberts7766 3 роки тому +10

    Wendy Richard! She was certainly a looker.

    • @retahfufo
      @retahfufo Рік тому

      Yes, she played a role as Private Walker's sexy girlfriend in an episode of Dad's Army too. She was also a glamourous sales assistant to Mrs Slocombe in "Are you being served?"

  • @Tenortalker
    @Tenortalker 2 роки тому +9

    Great Frankie and the wonderful Elizabeth Larner who had such a wonderful soprano voice.

  • @alexhamilton4084
    @alexhamilton4084 Рік тому +5

    Wendy Richards looking stunning.

  • @anthonywalsh785
    @anthonywalsh785 4 роки тому +13

    my word a very young wendy richard, who went onto "are you being served" etc.

  • @Sasfoot
    @Sasfoot Рік тому +1

    Wendy's legs were to die for. This and the early seasons of AYBS proved that.

    • @1960dave1960
      @1960dave1960 Рік тому

      I never noticed her legs….😊😅😂

  • @alecblunden8615
    @alecblunden8615 4 роки тому +6

    The captain from It Ain't 'alf Hot, Mum as Senator and conspiritor.

  • @garyswift5
    @garyswift5 3 роки тому +14

    Great series. Frankie Howerd is just laugh out loud. He's perfect for this and made the most of Talbot Rothwell's scripts.
    If anyone has got a copy of the feature film to upload that would round off the collection nicely.

  • @brianhaskard1042
    @brianhaskard1042 4 роки тому +9

    Wendy very nearly revealed the lot!

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 3 роки тому +8

    Frankie was an original ! Oh titter ye not . R.I.P .

  • @kayjones1252
    @kayjones1252 10 років тому +24

    MR RUMBOLD.

  • @TomFynn
    @TomFynn Рік тому +2

    I busted my LOL-muscle.

  • @foxitewhig
    @foxitewhig 10 років тому +25

    And Miss Brahms!

  • @billcobbett9259
    @billcobbett9259 3 роки тому +6

    Frankie put the character wig on over the top of his own wig, which he wouldn't take off.

  • @robertpayne6366
    @robertpayne6366 2 роки тому +6

    Robert Gillespie is particularly funny as a world weary desk sergeant in 'Whatever happened to the Likely Lads'.

    • @terencejay8845
      @terencejay8845 Рік тому +2

      I remember him in a TV series where he was main character as a cartoonist, Keep it in The Family.

  • @carlozabbia1157
    @carlozabbia1157 Рік тому +2

    Frankie Howerd: Master at breaking the 4th wall.

  • @fritzbundeslange6902
    @fritzbundeslange6902 4 роки тому +10

    . Boy not only do you have Wendy Richards is in this episode but so is Nicholas Smith. To bad they didn’t have Captain peacock as Caesar.

    • @thetessellater9163
      @thetessellater9163 2 роки тому

      Mollie Sugden also appeared in one episode, another who went on to "Are You Being Served" - innuendo abounded there too.

    • @dpr821
      @dpr821 Рік тому

      @@thetessellater9163 Larry Martyn also appeared in at least one episode, who went on to play Mr. Mash in Are You Being Served?

    • @carlozabbia1157
      @carlozabbia1157 Рік тому

      RICHARD

  • @antoniod
    @antoniod 9 років тому +8

    I love the fake blooper.

  • @eugenebell3166
    @eugenebell3166 Рік тому +3

    I read recently that Frankie Howard wasn't too keen on the series. I think the part was made for him, no one else could have done it as good

  • @kennethbooker4955
    @kennethbooker4955 3 роки тому +4

    Another British film good cast comedy

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc Рік тому +4

    Jug Ears!

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 6 місяців тому +1

    Is there a branch of Grace Brothers in Pompeii? Mr. Rum old and Miss Brahms are in this episode, and Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Mash have been in others. :-)

  • @fredfisher6121
    @fredfisher6121 Рік тому +2

    Grew up with this probably not allowed today

  • @herewardthewake2636
    @herewardthewake2636 26 днів тому

    At around 2:15 the reference is to adverts for Schweppes fizzy drinks, which were famous in the 1970s.

  • @Big_Smoke90
    @Big_Smoke90 2 роки тому +3

    I came here for Wendy Richard

  • @johncorti3585
    @johncorti3585 Рік тому +2

    Brilliant

  • @tribefenatic
    @tribefenatic 8 років тому +4

    I wish Up pompeii 1971 version was here

  • @lyndamcardle4123
    @lyndamcardle4123 4 роки тому +4

    The inspirational part belonged to Elizabeth Larner....as Ammonia !

  • @bigdogzone3177
    @bigdogzone3177 2 роки тому +3

    The guy with the big nose looked more like caesar to be honest

  • @HrhFish
    @HrhFish 8 років тому +13

    It aint half being served Mum.

  • @realitycheck3363
    @realitycheck3363 4 роки тому +6

    If there were ever a competition for the highest number of innuendos in one episode, this one will be right up there. No pun intended. XD
    Btw, why did they give that Jeremy Young guy such an enormous fake nose?!?

  • @walternullifidian
    @walternullifidian Рік тому +2

    I think that bald senator played in Are You Being Served. I'm not sure, though..🤔

  • @anthonyslattery8808
    @anthonyslattery8808 4 роки тому +11

    why did women seem sexier in those days

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 4 роки тому +4

    Mr. Rumbold!

  • @henryedmonds4653
    @henryedmonds4653 4 роки тому +9

    Infamy Infamy. They've all got it in for me. Wish Kenneth Williams was Ceaser.

  • @TheOneTakeLiveCast
    @TheOneTakeLiveCast 3 роки тому +3

    Both Pauline fowler and Peggy Mitchell been in this series

    • @cliffwheeler7357
      @cliffwheeler7357 2 роки тому +1

      Wendy Richard and Barbara Windsor, both sadly no longer with us.

  • @PercyOrlock
    @PercyOrlock 9 років тому +6

    Private Sponge

  • @darrylguerrant5101
    @darrylguerrant5101 4 роки тому +2

    Young Master got more action than Lucas ever did!

  • @davidmorgans5147
    @davidmorgans5147 4 роки тому +1

    Very good

  • @jamesmurray8558
    @jamesmurray8558 Рік тому +1

    Like Are you being Served.

  • @chrisnewman7281
    @chrisnewman7281 2 роки тому +1

    It’s Mr rumble from are you being served?

  • @Sjmby95
    @Sjmby95 Рік тому +1

    Talbot Rothwell was responsible for the carry on films

  • @petert9110
    @petert9110 4 роки тому +4

    I half expected Benny Hill to pop out with his blinking eyes & crooked cap character.

  • @hongkongbeat2164
    @hongkongbeat2164 Рік тому +1

    Wendy Richards... My word, where are they now?

  • @1960dave1960
    @1960dave1960 Рік тому

    “Beware the elides of March” ….last week it was “Beware the nuts in May”……😊😅😂

  • @ivorbiggun710
    @ivorbiggun710 4 роки тому +1

    Willy Ruston as Jupiter Optimus Maximus giving dictation.

  • @snowflakemelter1172
    @snowflakemelter1172 5 років тому +8

    Wendy Richards charms were sadly wasted on Frankie.

  • @operatorjeffdeathstar7759
    @operatorjeffdeathstar7759 3 роки тому +3

    10:16 Miss Brahms...

    • @cliffwheeler7357
      @cliffwheeler7357 2 роки тому

      Wendy Richard. Anyone who hasn't seen Are You Being Served wouldn't have a clue .

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 3 роки тому +1

    What can you do do in five minutes ? And that 's enough from you madam !

  • @jnuttso1
    @jnuttso1 10 років тому +3

    :-)

  • @Sjmby95
    @Sjmby95 Рік тому +1

    Wendy Richards

  • @alexthrill1386
    @alexthrill1386 4 роки тому +2

    Mr rumbold

  • @whatonearth9809
    @whatonearth9809 7 років тому +9

    Was god played by Willey Rushton?

    • @nogbad1958
      @nogbad1958 5 років тому +1

      Indeed he was, good old Willie. Much missed

    • @williamsmith752
      @williamsmith752 4 роки тому +3

      He is not playing God....he is plautus.....a roman playwright...

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 Рік тому

    Miss Brahms!

  • @EDMcIntoshBrocher
    @EDMcIntoshBrocher Рік тому +2

    Comedy used to be charming

  • @walternullifidian
    @walternullifidian Рік тому

    Senna the soothsayer, forsooth?

  • @Nine-Signs
    @Nine-Signs Рік тому +2

    how much of this ran to script vs adlib I wonder 😂 😂, show turned the fourth wall to rubble.

  • @thesceptic1018
    @thesceptic1018 Рік тому

    Miriam margoyles?

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 3 роки тому +1

    Ludicrous Sextous !

  • @pfarquharson1
    @pfarquharson1 4 роки тому

    9:57

  • @lynnedanieli733
    @lynnedanieli733 5 років тому +2

    It's 'jug ears' lol

  • @matofviney
    @matofviney Рік тому

    🛼🛼💓☮️💗🛹🍄🥍🥅🕳️🌐

  • @martincook318
    @martincook318 Рік тому +2

    Frankie Howerd was a comic genius in the and in other things and this Program was far better than Black adder because unlike Rowin akinson Frankie Howerd could act

  • @moklistamimi1859
    @moklistamimi1859 Рік тому

    UN

  • @liquidsonly
    @liquidsonly Рік тому +2

    Willie Rushton was never funny.

  • @paulhunter6742
    @paulhunter6742 Рік тому

    I am avid fan of British Comedy, but unless your teaching a class in Greek or Roman History, this show absolutely, BORING. Now I, Claudius in the 1980s mini series, that was awesome...

    • @neilmclaughlin2347
      @neilmclaughlin2347 Рік тому +3

      I Claudius was out in 1976.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Рік тому +3

      You can't be much of a comedy fan if you find this boring, oh and I claudius was the 70's

    • @manfromnocky
      @manfromnocky Рік тому +2

      Belive me Paul. If you don't find this funny, you just can't be a fan of British comedy, it's quintessential.

    • @brianhepke7182
      @brianhepke7182 2 місяці тому

      ​@manfromnocky .... yes I think you have to be a Brit to appreciate this type of humour. If you have to explain the gags then there's no point.