Rooms: Getting Old (1977)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Mrs Beale wakes to the sound of the Electric Light Orchestra (on the radio) and the Wests (upstairs) going out. Then a policeman calls to say her cat has been found dead.
This episode of Rooms is from series two and it was originally broadcast on Wednesday the 8th February, 1977.
Even though talkingpicture... is not currently been screening this wonderful series, please do keep a lookout for more Rooms episodes on their channel.
Could you imagine a modern-day UK policeman coming to tell you your cat died?
How times really have changed
I doubt the average copper would've cared back then either outside of a tv show, unlike dogs there's still no legal obligation to report a cat's untimely death.
Well MDC you gone and done it again!! Thank you soooo much, made my Christmas that has! Hope you and all MDC fans have a happy and peaceful Christmas.
Welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you too a very merry Christmas
Thank you muchly!
Looking forward to this Major. Thankyou
It's interesting that rooming houses are not really a thing anymore and someone of Mrs Beale's age would not be living in private rented accommodation but in sheltered housing or a council flat. Rooms like this may have been grim but they were affordable and easy to get. Many times as a youngster I arrived in London with one suitcase, bought a copy of the Evening Standard and had a place to live before nightfall, try doing that now!
Yes, I can see that being very, very different today, there is probably a waiting list for a £1,500 a month room the size of a broom cupboard today. This gives me an idea for a video project when I return, so thanks for putting that idea in my head. Merry Christmas Vivienne
@@majordolbyscat Merry Christmas Major
In the mid 80's, up from Bristol, we did a lot of work in London (construction).
Some of the lads took "lodgings" in Ealing, while the rest of us went for long-term hotel stays: £95 per week in W1 - Marble Arch!
A little while later we took a nice 2-bedroom flat in Clapham for £500 a month, all sorted within a single day.
It was a great time to be young and enjoying London.
Not these days, though.
Place is vile know
The old British Bobby, now you'd just get the divxrcity police haranguing you for misgendering or being wasist
PC Rocky was our local Bobby growing up in the 80’s 😉
Wasist? Well as an ethnic minority yeah good to know the law considers this wrong. Easy for you to mock if it’s never happened to you 🙄
@@moominmay yeh, I'm sure you're pleased, you do not understand that die-versity is doing the exact opposite, replacement of unique cultures so every country in the world looks the same, it's just the west being destroyed first. Outside the west they happily use bombs and bullets , here mxss migrat. and replacement of the original people
@@moominmay You are paraphrasing what Ash Sarkar said about London. Congratulations on wiping us out.
Thank you
Have a great Christmas and New Year Major and thank ypu so much for all your uploads ( especially the Jan ones mate)
Might just be a little more left in the Jan cannon for the new year 👌🙏😗 Cheers mate, have a lovely time this festive season, cheers for your support
@@majordolbyscat Are you a fan of Black Christmas (1974) Major? with Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder?
An absolute creepy classic so it is
Cheers mate
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it was a Tuesday 08/02/77
Thank you 😊
Welcome as always
Another Grange Hill alumni on Rooms, this time Jenny Twigge who played Mrs. Maguire (Zammo's mum). Given what happened to George, slightly ironic that ELO's 'Living Thing' came on the radio but preferable to 'Evil Woman' I suppose.
I always think of Paul Thomas Anderson and Boogie Nights soundtrack when I hear Living Thing.
Happy Christmas MDC.
And to you too
Poor George, thanks for this i'm old and its nice to have Animals check out my Fox Fredo he keeps me going, Happy Christmas...
Will go sir, all the best for Christmas and the new year🎅
😭 Why would you upload Getting Old now that the whole world is celebrating? I don’t want to be reminded of that! 😅 With such a Sad sad image! 🤦🏻♀️😄 I won’t watch until it’s at least 15 January. 😑
Well firstly, for the fan base of Mrs Beale who seems to go down quite well with my subscribers and in this episode (and the next) she is the focus of the story, and secondly ask yourself why millions choose to watch a British soap opera over Christmas, not exactly in a party mix tape to have playing around your family turkey dinner 😉✌🎄
@@majordolbyscat Well put Sir...
@@majordolbyscat 😅 You worked a Very Good reply. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Still.. 15 Jan it is.😅
But why'd you take your heart away? 😮
😅👌🏻
Sorry if I stirred something. I was just being humorous. 🤷🏻♀️ 🤍☮
Nothing stirred I promise you, and if it came down to Sharon Watts or Mrs Beale on Christmas Day Walford would be the last place I’d want to visit 😁 Merry Christmas to you @@hana.the.writer5074
@@majordolbyscat 😅👌🏻👌🏻
And Merry Christmas to you too our dear friend and may you have a very merry New Year. 🫶🏻🍃💐
I hope you have planned something new for us to upload on the next year, have you? 😍 Enjoy the holidays. Get out there and kick this here screen away for a few. You deserve a rejuvenation. 😌