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You might appreciate the 1963 awards ceremony !
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Pure quality… as the younger generation would say.
Just one other thing. Even during this small snippet, it is obvious that the two were not bosom buddies off set – as well as on.
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I don’t think they show much dislike of each other there to be honest. It is sad though that they apparently didn’t get along. I find Steptoe and son very poignant. It’s sad to watch them and think that they never got along, and that neither are still here.
Two legends though.
I sort of wish that I hadn’t seen that programme about them; a case of too much information, I guess. Anybody watching Red Dwarf on Dave on Friday night?….probably one programme too many on top of one series too many, but for nostalgias sake I ‘ll have to tune in. I’ll never forget the episode where cat is sitting licking a pile of clothes, and on being asked what he’s doing replies ‘my, laundry of course’.
I think i might be giving the new Red Dwarf a chance but in my mind it went downhill when they turned it into a Sci Fi show and not a comedy that just happened to be in Space.
Brillent! God you can tell they hated each but were brillent together.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Just one other thing. Even during this small snippet, it is obvious that the two were not bosom buddies off set – as well as on.
This is an oft-quoted rumour- something of a pre-Hello! piece of celeb gossip, but truth be told I couldn’t spot any sign of distaste between the two actors. The lack of bottom-licking warmth could easily be interpreted as a result of previous generations’ comparitive humility from where I’m sitting.
This is an oft-quoted rumour- something of a pre-Hello! piece of celeb gossip, but truth be told I couldn’t spot any sign of distaste between the two actors. The lack of bottom-licking warmth could easily be interpreted as a result of previous generations’ comparitive humility from where I’m sitting.
Come on, the body language alone is a dead giveaway.
The fact is that both couldn’t stand the sight of one another – so much so that when they later toured with the show in Australia, they refused even to share the same dressing room or travel to the theatre in the same car. Brambell sometimes didn’t even bother to turn up for a performance, leaving Corbett to entertain the audience by himself. Wilfred Bramble thought that Corbett was arrogant and above himself, whereas Corbett said that Bramble was both unprofessional and aloof, turning up drunk for rehearsals, as he did, on many occasions, and forgetting his lines.
Their feuding and loathing of one another is not rumour or malicious gossip. Ray Galton verified this in a tv interview he gave – as did others who worked on the show.
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I gave up reading Biographies after the one on Frank Worthington exposed him as a complete a**ehole. Ruined thirty years of hero worship.
Same with Oliver Reed and Richard Harris – men of straw. Lemmy’s autobiography is the most tedious salt-in-the-eye read of all time and proof that just because God made writing easy by inventing word processors, not everyone can write.
Never watched Steptoe and Son. They seem to be very popular.
Max – i had you down as ages with Albnert Steptoe. The thing is though, his horse Hercules had a better chance than winning a race than any of your tips mate !!!
Joking aside, i bought the boxset a few weeks ago and i enjoy it. Like everything else though, it all boils down to taste.
You whippersnapper, you.
Fair comment about the tips, though I’ve got a bit to go yet till I get me free bus pass.I’ve been watching "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads" recently. Thought that was boring when I was younger, though I’m absolutely loving it now. Might do the same with S & S.
There’s a good chance that anything beginning with ‘S’ is worth watching
Shameless
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Southpark
Simpons
Steptoe and son
Still game
SharpeMax – i will take it for granted you like Only Fools, aswell as Porridge !
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Didn’t like the follow on series of the Likely Lads, but have always been keen on James Bolam; does anyone remember The Beiderbecke Tapes? Probably the first of it’s kind leading to things like A Very Peculiar Practice. I’ve not seen Beiderbecke since it was first on telly, and dvd’s have always seemed a bit pricey, but felt at the time that it was a different kind of television; dramedy perhaps?
Graeme, OFAH is the most overrated show ever broadcast on British TV. I categorically express this as a Bar None. 1/100. (NAP).
I can think of no show which has achieved such popularity with such miniscule merit. Unfathomable. Almost everyone I know (including my son), loves this show and not once have I laughed. Not once. What IS so funny about it? Is it that three wheeler? Is it the flat? The sheepskin coat?
Stewart Lee’s unhinged and lethal destruction of the British viewing public’s bizarre veneration of the falling-down-in-the-cocktail-bar scene is exactly my sentiment.
I love Porridge though. Now Ronnie Barker IS a genius…
Moe, never seen any of those shows…is there another Likely Lads series?
Stewart Lee’s unhinged and lethal destruction of the British viewing public’s bizarre veneration of the falling-down-in-the-cocktail-bar scene is exactly my sentiment.
He does the self-same thing to Tom O’Connor, in a remarkably similar monologue from what I recall, so Mr Lee’s target of derision is more likely the general public I’d suggest.
FWIW, I won’t hear a bad word said against Fools & Horses, apart from the notion that the infamous "bar" gag gets a hugely disproportionate amount of coverage, and think it’s one of the very best sitcoms ever aired. However, a friend of mine recently raised a good point- given an hours’ slot like OF&H, it becomes a damn sight easier to combine intricate plots, engaging characters etc. and still fit in a raft of high-quality gags.
Graeme, OFAH is the most overrated show ever broadcast on British TV. I categorically express this as a Bar None. 1/100. (NAP).
Seconded!
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Fair comment about the tips, though I’ve got a bit to go yet till I get me free bus pass.
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