A little too well. Stop me if you've heard this story but apparently when this show was at the height of its popularity Michael Crawford had a few "harassments" irl. Among them was one time he went to rent a car and they wouldn't let him have it because they thought he was as incompetent irl as Frank was in the show. 😂
That was the early 1970s. In the noughties the banker would have happily arranged for Frank to get a 200 year mortgage to buy a house, made a quick profit then been nationalised when the whole system collapsed
It is staggering that Michael Crawford was not first nor even the second choice to play Frank Spencer. I believe first was Ronnie Barker and second Norman Wisdom were both offered the role but turned it down. A young David Jason was also considered for the role before Michael, but when he got the part he definitely made it his own. Genius.
I wouldn't say he did that. He was the quivering wreck needing psychiatric help. These confident well educated professionals most certainly would not forget him.
Cool2BCeltic: The actor (yes, he's very good) is Geoffrey Chater (b.1921). According to Wikipedia he was also in the episode 'King of the Road'. He was also in an episode of Dad's Army called 'Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel'. Hope this is helpful.
I remember going on a waiting list at the Building Society in the early 80s. You had to save a set amount a month and then wait to be called for 'the interview' where they decided whether or not they would lend you money. Interest rates were 15% and they really made you grovel. I worked 2 jobs to pay it off. 18 hour working days 5 days a week. Crazy times but still better than they are now.
@milo6117 That's a good one. But I like it where the bank manager says he'll have to put up some form of security like a house and asks its value. Frank then says he doesn't know but he could ask the landlord.
@1979LITTLEMISS He's asking Frank Spencer searching questions here about his financial situation. I also recognised him in Gandhi, asking General Dwyer searching questions about the Amritsar massacre.
There's an episode where Betty says to Frank . My mum wanted me to marry someone else and Frank says who, Betty says no one in particular just someone else. Brilliant scripts and brilliant Actors and Acting.
@@andy73100 I also noticed him in Gandhi, playing a barrister asking searching questions at the inquiry into the Amritsar Massacre "General Dwyer, how does a child shot with a 0.303 Lee Enfield 'apply' for help?"
Frank would have been cancelled today... Genius actor, amazing comedian and wonderful singer... So underrated but clearly loved, and will always be remembered as a true legend... By me anyway... ❤️
"Ooh Betty, the dog's done a whoopsie on the carpet!" ... "I can feel my trouble coming on, I think it was the beans Betty gave me for tea last night!" ... "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better!" ... "I'm a man!" ... "You what? UA-cam? Never heard of it!" ... "Internet? I had a fishing net, when I was a boy! I used to catch sticklebacks in the canal!" ... "Chat room? That was where I met Betty, in the Farmers Arms!" ... "Computers? I once gave a computer a nervous breakdown! There was tape everywhere!" ... "I asked Betty if she would do me the honour of becoming Mrs. Frank Spencer? She said no!" ... "My mother in law doesn't like me, she called me weird!"
This has just popped up in a lot of people's recommends in 2022. Allowing us members of the "We know Geoffrey Chater lived to 100" Club to chime in on the comments.
In the 70s women and especially the working class, could not open a bank account with a signature from their father or male head of household. In addition if married, only the male was on signed documents to buy property or take out loans. If you look back, the seventies was a turning point for a lot of women.
My Mum wasn’t allowed to open a bank account without the approval of my father who had left her high and dry from one day to another. She found emergency work as a house cleaner and couldn’t bank her earnings. Hey salvation was the Post Office little savings book where every transaction was manually recorded. It was in France. Any other countries had that system?
Man killed four people. His doctor couldn't understand why! He told the detective he had a great family life and was well liked by everyone. But then he did live nextdoor to Frank Spencer! That might explain it.
What in God’s name are you on about? It’s free to watch content on their UA-cam channel, but of course they can sell programmes that are licensed to or produced by them if they so wish. Your licence fee entitles you to receive broadcast television - it doesn’t entitle you to free access to all of their material at any time. Buy the DVD if you want that.
@@andydroid2413 The licence fee only forms part of the BBC's revenue stream. If licence fee payers were covering all of the cost of making programmes across all the tv and radio channels, the fee would be a lot higher. The money they make from the licence fee is supplemented by their other commercial enterprises such as production services and media sales. What is the problem with that?
@@tjfSIM BBC studios are not accountable to the public unlike The BBC. That's why Graham Norton show is made by BBC studios not the BBC so they don't have to say how much they pay him. Netflicks create some amazing content for less.
@@andydroid2413 But equally, none of your licence fee goes to BBC studios - it is a self-funding enterprise, so why should they tell you how much he's paid?
It's better than lotto. It's a government-run scheme whereby you 'buy' an amount of premium bonds by investing the money with them. Every month there's a 'draw' (as if it were a raffle) and you might win a prize, anything from £10 to several thousand pounds. So it is a form of gambling, except the beauty of it is, you never lose your money. Everything you invest in premium bonds stays there, and you can take it back out whenever you want. And in the meantime you might win a prize!
He owned this role so well....comedy classic
A little too well. Stop me if you've heard this story but apparently when this show was at the height of its popularity Michael Crawford had a few "harassments" irl.
Among them was one time he went to rent a car and they wouldn't let him have it because they thought he was as incompetent irl as Frank was in the show. 😂
I’m 16 and even I love this show, my grandpa used to show me it
omg
The best actors, are those that make the role theirs, and theirs alone, so that no-one else could ever touch it... Now that's genius...
I always feel better about myself after watching Frank 🤣
What a way to watch it... to feel above him?
NICE !
His purpose is to make us feel better ;)
Michael Crawford is a legend👌
No a wonderful singet
What an absolute icon of theatre and tv .... fabulous actor ! 👍
And music he's an excellent singer
That was the early 1970s. In the noughties the banker would have happily arranged for Frank to get a 200 year mortgage to buy a house, made a quick profit then been nationalised when the whole system collapsed
200 years!
@@irenedavo3768 200 Beers
Did you know that I have an egg spoon for 11 years ago?
It is not anyone that I know.
So eggs are a must
Lol😅😅😊
You have just described the global economic system and the cause of our current problems
Classic ❤ I used to impersonate him ! I was a 10 year old … and would have everyone in stitches 😂
this kind of humor is the best!!!
"Just remember me as a little nut ........who's trying to grow!" Prophetic words Michael, prophetic words.
"I could ask the landlord." 😂
It is staggering that Michael Crawford was not first nor even the second choice to play Frank Spencer. I believe first was Ronnie Barker and second Norman Wisdom were both offered the role but turned it down. A young David Jason was also considered for the role before Michael, but when he got the part he definitely made it his own. Genius.
I had no idea that was the case, thanks for the info. cheers
Norman Wisdom probably would have been a very good call. However gotta love Michael Crawford
He used to have me in stitches..😊😂
@@johnkennethwiseman5460 he made it his own...
Ronnie Barker was first choice for Reggie Perrin before Leonard Rossiter, not Frank Spencer.
Comedy genius. It always got me the way he would turn the most confident, well educated professional into a quivering wreck needing psychiatric help.
I wouldn't say he did that. He was the quivering wreck needing psychiatric help. These confident well educated professionals most certainly would not forget him.
You know that they are both acting right?
@@gottliebdee263 Yes, and I was talking about the characters, not the actors playing them.
Love ❤ hapless Frank ,so funny and in away innocent 😄 🤣 😆 🥰♥️
Michael is has this cute look on his face in this one that I love...
It just shows that you can get married, even if you’re round the bend😂 poor Betty 😂
frank spencer is a comedy genius
What about John Cleese
You should hear him sing. Amazing 🤩
He definitely blew me out of then water with “The Phantom”
I was astounded when I found out that the great singer Michael Crawford was Frank !!!
Mickeal Crawford " Frank" , it is a great Actor. Thankyou, to bring me joy.
Da cat took a whoopsie on the carpet and Frank accidentally set the house of fire 🔥
His credit score is probably better than mine
wish i could watch the full episodes ...he is hilarious 😂 😂
rip geoffrey chater (the bank manager) passed away at 100.
16/10/2021
Good innings
LOL, not off hand, but I could ask the landlord :)
Cool2BCeltic: The actor (yes, he's very good) is Geoffrey Chater (b.1921). According to Wikipedia he was also in the episode 'King of the Road'. He was also in an episode of Dad's Army called 'Round and Round went the Great Big Wheel'. Hope this is helpful.
He lived to be 100.
He played " Pat Holroyd " in the British sci-fi film " the day the earth caught fire " 1961.
I remember going on a waiting list at the Building Society in the early 80s. You had to save a set amount a month and then wait to be called for 'the interview' where they decided whether or not they would lend you money. Interest rates were 15% and they really made you grovel. I worked 2 jobs to pay it off. 18 hour working days 5 days a week. Crazy times but still better than they are now.
Just think of me as a little nut LMAO!
£50,000 would be worth £515,000 in July 2023 according to the Bank of England inflation calculator. Poor old Frank was so close! 😂
@milo6117 That's a good one. But I like it where the bank manager says he'll have to put up some form of security like a house and asks its value. Frank then says he doesn't know but he could ask the landlord.
such a legend (:
Happy Birthday 🎂 Geoffrey Chater. 100 years old today 😊
He's so funny 🤣👍🏼
And here comes a psychoanalyst with some mothers do ave em ~ 1:42 🤣👍
@1979LITTLEMISS He's asking Frank Spencer searching questions here about his financial situation. I also recognised him in Gandhi, asking General Dwyer searching questions about the Amritsar massacre.
Poor Frank 😂
He thought I was a failure too!
classic frank
Hahaha thhat part made me chuckle too lol.
Ooh betty !
Poor frank ...I know what he feels like everyone thinks he's a failure 😭,,,frank Ur not alone
No..... But I could ask the landlord 😉😅 You're only reference is a medical man who says your a failure! 🤣
I know a person just like Frank
Poor Frank!
I have just subscribed
Prophetic and relevant these days.
Jeeeeez that long ago, but still like him
There's an episode where Betty says to Frank . My mum wanted me to marry someone else and Frank says who, Betty says no one in particular just someone else. Brilliant scripts and brilliant Actors and Acting.
Fantastic
He has a psychiatrist vouch for him Good God and he said he thought frank was a failure too , this is great comedy
"Then go outside and grow in somebody else's bank"
"General Dwyer, how does a child shot with a 3-0-3 Lee Enfield "apply" for help"
Gandhi !
@@colindorrans9495 Lived to 100.
I see this just popped up in your recommends too
When you could actually laugh unlike the shite bbc put out today
Nowadays the bank manager would have had to be black!
😀😀😀 frank is a hoot
So true!!!Enjoyed every episode.
Keep ur only fools, this twice as better
Who is that actor playing the bank manager? He's very good. Strange that in the early 70s it was still acceptable to smoke in the workplace.
His name was Geoffrey Chater - amazingly, he's still alive and about to turn 100. He played an MP in Blott on the Landscape during the 1980s.
@@andy73100 I also noticed him in Gandhi, playing a barrister asking searching questions at the inquiry into the Amritsar Massacre "General Dwyer, how does a child shot with a 0.303 Lee Enfield 'apply' for help?"
Still smoking in the workplace in the early 90s. I sat opposite someone who smoked Rothmans.
April 2006 this smoking law came out in the UK.
Frank would have been cancelled today... Genius actor, amazing comedian and wonderful singer... So underrated but clearly loved, and will always be remembered as a true legend... By me anyway... ❤️
Crawford has won umpteen awards, and been a household name in the UK for 50 years. To suggest he's underrated is ridiculous.
@@nkt1 🙄🙄🙄
Omj.. Ahahaha Aww :')
"Ooh Betty, the dog's done a whoopsie on the carpet!" ... "I can feel my trouble coming on, I think it was the beans Betty gave me for tea last night!" ... "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better!" ... "I'm a man!" ... "You what? UA-cam? Never heard of it!" ... "Internet? I had a fishing net, when I was a boy! I used to catch sticklebacks in the canal!" ... "Chat room? That was where I met Betty, in the Farmers Arms!" ... "Computers? I once gave a computer a nervous breakdown! There was tape everywhere!" ... "I asked Betty if she would do me the honour of becoming Mrs. Frank Spencer? She said no!" ... "My mother in law doesn't like me, she called me weird!"
This has just popped up in a lot of people's recommends in 2022. Allowing us members of the "We know Geoffrey Chater lived to 100" Club to chime in on the comments.
Ah , SPENCER !
I used to look like FS, so much so that I was known as Frank😅
A reference off psychiatrist 🤣
I wish could do amazing old school wish we do best that it could keep going thank you crack me up watching some hurmo be they
Do I need 2 references to open a bank account?
No body like him .to play it he was good
Still funny 🙂
Frank is so babygirl :(
I never heard before of needing referees to open a bank account.
Heh. This was the 1970s. The only way you could get a bank loan was to prove beyond all doubt that you didn't need one!
@@peterowen9183 same as now if you bank with hsbc. I have good credit and they will not give me a bank loan.
In the 70s women and especially the working class, could not open a bank account with a signature from their father or male head of household. In addition if married, only the male was on signed documents to buy property or take out loans. If you look back, the seventies was a turning point for a lot of women.
My Mum wasn’t allowed to open a bank account without the approval of my father who had left her high and dry from one day to another. She found emergency work as a house cleaner and couldn’t bank her earnings. Hey salvation was the Post Office little savings book where every transaction was manually recorded. It was in France. Any other countries had that system?
In this scene, the referees were required for obtaining a loan, not just to open a bank account.
They knew how to make comedy in those days
Man killed four people. His doctor couldn't understand why! He told the detective he had a great family life and was well liked by everyone. But then he did live nextdoor to Frank Spencer! That might explain it.
I don't know how they do these episodes in front of a live audience without cracking up. Or maybe they do and that's edited out. Anyway, funny stuff!
Jan 2022, ironically, this is what meeting with a bank manager for a mortgage has returned to.
@rockchick80s That was a bit harsh. There are other imaginary comedy characters who are even more irksome, such as David Brent.
What episode/season is this clip from ?
Series 2 Episode 5 - Father's clinic.
@@artmallory970 thank you
Hennimore!!
You!
Should have shown him his 'Vesuvius'........
Early one morning!
👏👏👏
1:03 that’s bullshit
Did Cecil Parkinson invest in Premium Bonds?
2 referees to open a bank account?
I wet my trousers watching this.
i tried that once but it didnt work for me either ,but banks are like that if thay are robbed out of 5p thayre up in arms.
Cecil Parkinson?
Wasn't this made by the BBC. Why is it on BBC studios UA-cam account? Are you selling programs made with the licence fee?
What in God’s name are you on about? It’s free to watch content on their UA-cam channel, but of course they can sell programmes that are licensed to or produced by them if they so wish. Your licence fee entitles you to receive broadcast television - it doesn’t entitle you to free access to all of their material at any time. Buy the DVD if you want that.
@@tjfSIM the point is, the BBC studios a commercial organisation. Not the BBC is selling programs funded by the licence fee for profit.
@@andydroid2413 The licence fee only forms part of the BBC's revenue stream. If licence fee payers were covering all of the cost of making programmes across all the tv and radio channels, the fee would be a lot higher. The money they make from the licence fee is supplemented by their other commercial enterprises such as production services and media sales. What is the problem with that?
@@tjfSIM BBC studios are not accountable to the public unlike The BBC. That's why Graham Norton show is made by BBC studios not the BBC so they don't have to say how much they pay him. Netflicks create some amazing content for less.
@@andydroid2413 But equally, none of your licence fee goes to BBC studios - it is a self-funding enterprise, so why should they tell you how much he's paid?
Watching January 2022
still funny in 2022
Uploads without Season Year and episode what intelligence from the BBC.
Series 2 Ep. 5 - Father's Clinic
What are premium bonds? I suppose something like lotto, a form of gambling.
It's better than lotto. It's a government-run scheme whereby you 'buy' an amount of premium bonds by investing the money with them. Every month there's a 'draw' (as if it were a raffle) and you might win a prize, anything from £10 to several thousand pounds. So it is a form of gambling, except the beauty of it is, you never lose your money. Everything you invest in premium bonds stays there, and you can take it back out whenever you want. And in the meantime you might win a prize!
Top prize is now a million..minimum £25
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😭
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when did he mention the baby wasn't born yet?
Funny
Go outside and grow in someone else’s bank!
Soon to be banned for laughter.
two DR.referies lol
Ivehad400injectionsanditsnotthativehadmore😢
Franks still funny and Tory bankers haven’t changed a bit
my thoughts exactly!!
What are we going to do about it?
When comedy was actually funny.
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So BBC studios owns the rights to Some Mothers do have um. This should be owned by the people who paid for it. Not a private company. Disgusting.
hear hear