I don't think I ever put 2 and 2 together and realised Roise was Captain Zep until now. It was only last week that I realised the blind guy I was at college with grew up to be Gary O'Donoghue, the BBC News Washington correspondent.
Bread was about the most depressing program I've ever seen. Didn't paint anyone in a good light, from the great people of Liverpool, to the hard working staff in the Department of Social Security. Every character had issues. Was a horrible program.
Rosie often hard a nice whimsical sense of humour. It was written by summer wine writer Roy Clark, and sometimes has that same kind of feel. Roy himself was a young policeman in Doncaster, so I'm guessing that there is some semi autobiographical aspects to the series.
I remembered quite a few of these, even the somewhat early ones. I must say though...the saddest six words you are likely to hear on here: "No footage for this one, unfortunately..." 😭
It's surprising how many of the ITV sitcoms from this era I remember, and yet was never an avid watcher of any of them. They would invariably be on before or after some other show I wanted to watch and caught the end or beginning of. That's how us oldies used to watch TV, back in the days of yore. The TV was, 'on', most of the time. Whether you watched it, and which one of the few channels there was, depended on what was happened to be on. After watching a show you wanted to watch, it was left on, and you got to see the start of the next show. Sometimes you watched, sometimes you turned over to see what was on the other side. The worst feeling you could have, back then, was when there was, 'nothing on', and you had to go and do something non-television orientated! 🤣 Not that you ever switched it off. It was on as background noise. As for the shows; I remember some of them well, (of course), and, as mentioned, some of the others I probably recognise the theme tunes to, more than the shows themselves.
Wow. I was very young when this lot came out. I remember sapphire and Steel and A very peculiar practice and the Ghosts of Motley Hall. Etc. Time warp.
Growing up, sitcoms were old fashioned even when new. What excited me were forward looking British shows like sapphire & steel, the omega factor, Blake’s 7, the tomorrow people. It would be interesting to see your take on British sci-fi during this period
I remember seeing footage of Corner House on one of the red dwarf dvd extras. When they're talking about their pre dwarf work if your desperate to find footage!
She was lovely and still is. First saw her in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968). Last time I saw her, I remember: in the first series of Doctors.
8:00 What leap of faith did it take to assume that clairvoyants can't lie? I would have thought lying was an essential tool in any clairvoyants skill set tbh.
Less 'forgot' as much as 'never heard of'. It was almost the nineties before I cottoned on that grown-up TV existed. If it wasn't a lingering big name or repeated on Gold, I'm lost. Watching these videos, I'm amazed at how much was produced that I didn't know. How many series were built around Alf Garnett anyway?
I worked in Soho for years and Peter Bowls was always prowling around the knocking shops. Kind of surprised no one ever took a photo and sold it to the papers, though I got the feeling he probably had friends in high places (old boys club) and could have gotten the story hushed up.
Following on from Till Death was In Sickness and In Health in which the character of Else had to be written out in Series 2 after the passing of Dandy Nichols. It also featured some really good comedic talent outside of Warren Mitchell and Una Stubbs
Interesting that the Bristol Evening Post did a review (according to you!!) of "The Clairvoyant" in 1968 (???) Did they have a rime machine ? Or was it so bad it just seemed it was from 1968?
I recall quite a few names of shows which though I didn’t actually watch however i saw a bit of To the Manor Born. A few I’d never heard of, surprise not heard of Til Death as it appeared to lie between two sitcoms i watched, Til Death Us Do Part and In Sickness And In Health. As for Felicity Kendal sitcoms The Young Ones and Red Dwarf seemed to have a “thing” about her
@@vinnysamways63 I was only a kid when it originally aired (I was born in 1973) but I never missed it and remember loving it. I recently saw a dvd box set of all three series and picked it up. I approached it with great trepidation as isn't it all to often the case that when revisiting an old favourite film, TV series etc you find that you no longer understand what it was you liked about it (the sitcom "Bread" immediately springs to mind...). However, I laughed like a mule through every episode! I still think it's great! Silly, saucy, implausible, but very enjoyable!
@@andywood8385 That's fair enough. I remember it, as a kid myself but recently saw an episode on You Tube and couldn't forgive myself for wasting half an hour of precious time ))) Each to their own, I suppose mate.
Have you got a copy of the Radio Times Comedy Guide? Also looking forward to you covering 2000’s comedies and getting to Office Gossip with Pauline Quirke and Danielle Denny Ash
Does anyone remember the tv show that I’m sure only had one season and was about a girl called Nancy. The only was I can remember from the theme tune is “Nancy is a proper secretary “
What happened to There Comes a Time (1985, Yorkshire TV) series, with Andrew Sachs, Robert Daws? I would gladly purchase the series if someone had it. I've been looking everywhere in vain. 😥😥😥
What decade was 'Mixed Blessings' from? I have never found any footage or anyone that has heard of it but i definitely watched it as a kid. Probably not politically correct these days.
I remember it well! Starring Christopher Blake, who also starred in That's My Boy with Mollie Sugden. He seemed to disappear after those 2 sitcoms though
There's no mention of her 80's work on wikipedia. IMDB notes the series mentioned and lists her in the cast of the show but that's about the only reference I can find for her back then.
@@jennifersivewright3117 I liked the 2 of us really enjoy goodnight sweetheart and when younger I was like him tall thin suits used to hang off me like a coat hanger but because he was on TV yes girls found us tall thin guys quite likeable so can't complain lol
@@Gmackematix when the current system of years was set up it started with 1 AD, which followed on from 1 BC. This means that any year ending in 0, such as 1980 is part of the preceding decade ie in the case of 1980 the 1970s.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I'm well aware of all that Dionysius Exiguus Anno Domino system popularised by Bede stuff. However, it isn't really a scientific system but a civil calendar. The years are labels and nothing physical depends on the count being an exact number of years from the birth of Christ (whose date was almost certainly neither 1 AD nor BC anyway). If almost everyone celebrates a new decade/century/millennium when 9 changes to 0 (as they do) it makes sense to follow that convention and not keep harking back to a irrelevant counting anomaly for dates over 2,000 years ago.
@@Gmackematix so which year was year 0? And what events occurred in it? If you can tell us an answer to either question then you'll get the Noble Prize for Fiction because there was no year 0. The counting of the years started with 1. As did the centuries. Currently we are in the 21st century of the Cristian calendar but all the years until the last one start in 20. This millenium started in 2001 not 2000 (see the truth above). Only the ignorant celebrate the decade/century/millennium changes in the years ending in 0.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 After I explained why the non-existence of year zero is irrelevant you are still hung up on it. You continue as pedantically as you like and the huge majority of the world will continue to celebrate when the last 9s change to 0s because, like it or not, that has long been the convention.
The thing that puzzled me about To The Manor Born I s Audrey going on about the fforbes-Hamilton family’s great history. But she can’t have been one of them, because it would have been her married name. Same with Hyacinth Bucket. Am I taking these things too seriously?
She always corrected the pronunciation of Bucket to Bouquet, which again is odd because it’s not her family name, and Richard never corrects her - in fact, I don’t think you ever hear him use his surname, so we don’t know how he pronounced it. But I doubt whether it was actually pronounced Bouquet. I need to get out more…
The double-barrelled surname may explain that one. It looks like there were two families involved with the Grantleigh Estate; the Fforbes and the Hamiltons. Maybe Audrey is part of one of the families and Marton (her late husband) was part of the other. Is that a feasible explanation?
@@johnsurrey7426 I can assure you I am quite proud of my married name. And I spend a lot of time correcting pronunciation and spelling. And telling people the history.
Had a bit of a crush on Janet Dibley back in the day.
Keep those Carla Lane Divorce/Affair/Broken home jokes coming....
A women truly with just 3 ideas. I love it.
Solo was unbelievable . If you were dating Felicity Kendal why would you have an affair? Why??!
I don't remember Rosie, but the guy who played him went on to be Captain Zep space detective and Jimmy Nail's boss in Spender.
I don't think I ever put 2 and 2 together and realised Roise was Captain Zep until now. It was only last week that I realised the blind guy I was at college with grew up to be Gary O'Donoghue, the BBC News Washington correspondent.
"Indian Ocean...that was ours, when we owned India" -- Priceless - I loved Alf's, constantly misguided, logic.
You're being sarcastic, right?
Apart from The Liver Birds, Butterflies and Bread - Carla Lane wrote some utter tripe didn’t she?
Bread was about the most depressing program I've ever seen.
Didn't paint anyone in a good light, from the great people of Liverpool, to the hard working staff in the Department of Social Security.
Every character had issues.
Was a horrible program.
Bread was awful. She’s written the same show so many times, just with different titles…😊
@@steevobarker581 Every character had repetitive catchphrases and traits. It was execrable.
@@tentringer4065 grlleetings
They were tripe too.
Rosie often hard a nice whimsical sense of humour. It was written by summer wine writer Roy Clark, and sometimes has that same kind of feel. Roy himself was a young policeman in Doncaster, so I'm guessing that there is some semi autobiographical aspects to the series.
I remembered quite a few of these, even the somewhat early ones. I must say though...the saddest six words you are likely to hear on here: "No footage for this one, unfortunately..." 😭
I wonder if some of these missing footage could be found in the Bob Monkhouse estate?
Thanks for mentioning Square Deal. Enjoyed it when it was Broadcast
Absolutely love these videos!! Thank you so much for all your hard work in producing them 🍺🍺
Seconded.
And third
It's surprising how many of the ITV sitcoms from this era I remember, and yet was never an avid watcher of any of them. They would invariably be on before or after some other show I wanted to watch and caught the end or beginning of. That's how us oldies used to watch TV, back in the days of yore. The TV was, 'on', most of the time. Whether you watched it, and which one of the few channels there was, depended on what was happened to be on. After watching a show you wanted to watch, it was left on, and you got to see the start of the next show. Sometimes you watched, sometimes you turned over to see what was on the other side. The worst feeling you could have, back then, was when there was, 'nothing on', and you had to go and do something non-television orientated! 🤣 Not that you ever switched it off. It was on as background noise.
As for the shows; I remember some of them well, (of course), and, as mentioned, some of the others I probably recognise the theme tunes to, more than the shows themselves.
I remember the family having to play cards when the TV broke down or there was a power cut. Candles and cards, those were the days...
Wow. I was very young when this lot came out. I remember sapphire and Steel and A very peculiar practice and the Ghosts of Motley Hall. Etc. Time warp.
Probably already said it but another was Agony with Maureen Lipman in the 80s on ITV, this had a 90s reboot as Agony Again on BBC
Growing up, sitcoms were old fashioned even when new. What excited me were forward looking British shows like sapphire & steel, the omega factor, Blake’s 7, the tomorrow people. It would be interesting to see your take on British sci-fi during this period
I remember Blake's 7 when there were 7 of them and one was Blake.
Wow! Brilliant channel. Thanks for the blast from the past. Think I even remember Till death... ❤ Subscribed
I remember seeing footage of Corner House on one of the red dwarf dvd extras. When they're talking about their pre dwarf work if your desperate to find footage!
It was also on the Red Dawf comedy connections episode. Robert Llewyelyn described it as a sitcom with not much sit and not much com.
Diane Keen (Rings On Their Fingers) was married to Paul Greenwood (Rosie) from 1969 to 1979.
She was lovely and still is. First saw her in Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968). Last time I saw her, I remember: in the first series of Doctors.
“Rings on their fingers” was a regular watch. Obscure now, not then.
Ooohhh Penelope Keith.. As Roy sort of says to Moss in 'The I.T. Crowd..' The things I could learn from that woman..
8:00 What leap of faith did it take to assume that clairvoyants can't lie? I would have thought lying was an essential tool in any clairvoyants skill set tbh.
Less 'forgot' as much as 'never heard of'. It was almost the nineties before I cottoned on that grown-up TV existed. If it wasn't a lingering big name or repeated on Gold, I'm lost.
Watching these videos, I'm amazed at how much was produced that I didn't know. How many series were built around Alf Garnett anyway?
I worked in Soho for years and Peter Bowls was always prowling around the knocking shops. Kind of surprised no one ever took a photo and sold it to the papers, though I got the feeling he probably had friends in high places (old boys club) and could have gotten the story hushed up.
I remember many of these. Rosie used to drive a little Mini patrol car!
With the ITV Till Death series; gonna also say the ITV version of The Goodies when they left BBC for LWT.
2:20 Elspet Gray, Blackadder's mother and one of the 3 Dr. Abbots in Fawlty Towers.
Felicity Kendal will always be Barbra in the good life for me . She was the only woman who could make dungarees look sexy.
I remember Rosie 'cos I was growing up in Scarborough at the time, where they filmed it.
If Diane Keen had wanted to marry me, i'd have been down that aisle in seconds flat
i remember Rosie it was filmed in scarborough used to love seeing the places we knew
Loved the cuckoo waltz with Lewis Collins 🍀
Following on from Till Death was In Sickness and In Health in which the character of Else had to be written out in Series 2 after the passing of Dandy Nichols. It also featured some really good comedic talent outside of Warren Mitchell and Una Stubbs
I recognize Dandy Nichols from her bit part in HELP! She was one of the two neighbor ladies who waved at The Fab Four.
Interesting that the Bristol Evening Post did a review (according to you!!) of "The Clairvoyant" in 1968 (???)
Did they have a rime machine ? Or was it so bad it just seemed it was from 1968?
I recall quite a few names of shows which though I didn’t actually watch however i saw a bit of To the Manor Born. A few I’d never heard of, surprise not heard of Til Death as it appeared to lie between two sitcoms i watched, Til Death Us Do Part and In Sickness And In Health. As for Felicity Kendal sitcoms The Young Ones and Red Dwarf seemed to have a “thing” about her
"Chance In A Million" with Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn is easily my favourite '80s sitcom!
It was bloody awful!!
@@vinnysamways63 I was only a kid when it originally aired (I was born in 1973) but I never missed it and remember loving it. I recently saw a dvd box set of all three series and picked it up. I approached it with great trepidation as isn't it all to often the case that when revisiting an old favourite film, TV series etc you find that you no longer understand what it was you liked about it (the sitcom "Bread" immediately springs to mind...).
However, I laughed like a mule through every episode! I still think it's great! Silly, saucy, implausible, but very enjoyable!
@@andywood8385 That's fair enough. I remember it, as a kid myself but recently saw an episode on You Tube and couldn't forgive myself for wasting half an hour of precious time ))) Each to their own, I suppose mate.
Have you got a copy of the Radio Times Comedy Guide?
Also looking forward to you covering 2000’s comedies and getting to Office Gossip with Pauline Quirke and Danielle Denny Ash
I remember all of these!
You definitely did Cuckoo Waltz a few weeks ago
and The Two of Us...
I met Martin Jarvis in real life
Did he smell of homely baked bread and slightly moving self-pity?
I forgot about Rosie
Have you done 'Hardwicke House'? Can't remember and I know it got pulled but all the footage is here on YT.
I remember Rosie and it was enjoyable enough as I recall. I liked the slobbish PC Wilmot character. Never seen it again since broadcast.
I like sitcoms
good
Technically 1980 is the last year of the 70s because there isn’t a year 0 in the Gregorian calendar
Remember sink or swim with peter davison (doctor who)
You know you're in for a bad time when the only good thing the critic has to say is about the sets
Does anyone remember the tv show that I’m sure only had one season and was about a girl called Nancy. The only was I can remember from the theme tune is “Nancy is a proper secretary “
Found it, it was called the happy apple
Nancy is junior secretary
In an advertising agency..
What happened to There Comes a Time (1985, Yorkshire TV) series, with Andrew Sachs, Robert Daws? I would gladly purchase the series if someone had it. I've been looking everywhere in vain. 😥😥😥
Nicklus lindhurst one liners yea please
Does anybody remember Big Jim & The Figaro Club? Early eighties on bbc2, I thought it was wonderful..
I was wondering if you’ve covered Chelmsford 123?
yes, he's done it
What decade was 'Mixed Blessings' from? I have never found any footage or anyone that has heard of it but i definitely watched it as a kid. Probably not politically correct these days.
1978-1980.
I remember it well! Starring Christopher Blake, who also starred in That's My Boy with Mollie Sugden. He seemed to disappear after those 2 sitcoms though
Mixed blessings was available on DVD. I have a copy of it.
@@allhandlestaken Do you ever watch it?!
@@HyperdriveTwo he died young at 55 unfortunately
Have you done The Many Wives of Patrick yet? Or did I just imagine that?
Felicity Kendell was a right slag even if she t on the good life I sooner have Margo the polish one😅
Have you covered Packet of Three? I seem to be the only person who remembers. From memory it was Frank Skinner running a club
I remember that, Jenny Eclair & Henry Normal?..
he's done that one already
Piglet files 😂
Was hoping to find out who the blonde on your thumbnail is. Oh well...
Diane Keen heavy episode today...
I’d love to see 80s footage of Arabella Weir.
There's no mention of her 80's work on wikipedia. IMDB notes the series mentioned and lists her in the cast of the show but that's about the only reference I can find for her back then.
two of us very much like his other goodnight sweetheart very much on the same sort of Lyndhurst standing around speaking the one liners
I found him rather attractive, a bit thin but cute.
@@jennifersivewright3117 I liked the 2 of us really enjoy goodnight sweetheart and when younger I was like him tall thin suits used to hang off me like a coat hanger but because he was on TV yes girls found us tall thin guys quite likeable so can't complain lol
I thought I dreamed Square Deal. It was an odd show from what I remember
Anthony Daniels (C3PO) was in it.
Everything Carla Lane wrote was rubbish
Hahahah
Have to say, I agree.
Ehh? Felitity Kendle 2.10🤣🤣
1980 was the last year of the 1970s as there was no year 0.
Nope. Whatever the history, eighties means years starting with an 8. The clue is in the name.
@@Gmackematix when the current system of years was set up it started with 1 AD, which followed on from 1 BC. This means that any year ending in 0, such as 1980 is part of the preceding decade ie in the case of 1980 the 1970s.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I'm well aware of all that Dionysius Exiguus Anno Domino system popularised by Bede stuff. However, it isn't really a scientific system but a civil calendar. The years are labels and nothing physical depends on the count being an exact number of years from the birth of Christ (whose date was almost certainly neither 1 AD nor BC anyway). If almost everyone celebrates a new decade/century/millennium when 9 changes to 0 (as they do) it makes sense to follow that convention and not keep harking back to a irrelevant counting anomaly for dates over 2,000 years ago.
@@Gmackematix so which year was year 0? And what events occurred in it? If you can tell us an answer to either question then you'll get the Noble Prize for Fiction because there was no year 0. The counting of the years started with 1. As did the centuries. Currently we are in the 21st century of the Cristian calendar but all the years until the last one start in 20. This millenium started in 2001 not 2000 (see the truth above). Only the ignorant celebrate the decade/century/millennium changes in the years ending in 0.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 After I explained why the non-existence of year zero is irrelevant you are still hung up on it. You continue as pedantically as you like and the huge majority of the world will continue to celebrate when the last 9s change to 0s because, like it or not, that has long been the convention.
'Sandra Dickinson - always a likable character'. Not by me she wasn't. Can't stand her. I like her singing though.
Button Moon? 😁
@@j0hnf_uk That's her! I heard her singing solo on a programme hosted by Noel Edmonds, I think.
she was great in The Hitchhikers' Guide...
tidbits? Come on your British not American aren't you?
Carla Lane wrote awful sitcoms long monologues always down and depressing very not funny
I'd like to see Solo, I like Felicity Kendal!
I had a feeling The Clairvoyant would be on this list 😉
The thing that puzzled me about To The Manor Born I s Audrey going on about the fforbes-Hamilton family’s great history. But she can’t have been one of them, because it would have been her married name.
Same with Hyacinth Bucket. Am I taking these things too seriously?
When did Hyacinth ever mention the Bucket family heritage? I never got the impression her husband came from a prestigious family as such.
She always corrected the pronunciation of Bucket to Bouquet, which again is odd because it’s not her family name, and Richard never corrects her - in fact, I don’t think you ever hear him use his surname, so we don’t know how he pronounced it. But I doubt whether it was actually pronounced Bouquet. I need to get out more…
The double-barrelled surname may explain that one. It looks like there were two families involved with the Grantleigh Estate; the Fforbes and the Hamiltons. Maybe Audrey is part of one of the families and Marton (her late husband) was part of the other. Is that a feasible explanation?
@@joehurst That will do for me! Thanks for spending time working this out!
@@johnsurrey7426 I can assure you I am quite proud of my married name. And I spend a lot of time correcting pronunciation and spelling. And telling people the history.
I liked "Whoops have a banana" I think it was on ITV