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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,414
    Please Sir ! another one i absolutely loved growing up , strange how i didnt really notice that the Kids were 30 year olds pretending to be 15 ! . A really hard watch now .    
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,377
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I think TV companies have lost the plot. ITV is the worst IMO. Most of their programmes are an excuse to get people who can't afford it to gamble. 
    How so?
  • Coveredendchoir
    Coveredendchoir Posts: 270
    Not sure if this programme has been mentioned… but I convinced my wife to finally watch Spaced with me… which was going well until Mike & Tim got a bit too excited about going upstairs to the teenagers party..(the Amber character was a school kid) seemed a bit weird and the TV went off pretty quickly.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,809
    fadgadget said:
    Please Sir ! another one i absolutely loved growing up , strange how i didnt really notice that the Kids were 30 year olds pretending to be 15 ! . A really hard watch now .    
    Th film’s still quite funny in places 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,366
    charltonkeston said:
    fadgadget said:
    On The Buses , the uk used to stop for this programme back in the 70,s . Barely raises a chuckle now   
    Its so bad its almost worth a watch. As young kid the 70s I like most of my friends loved it. Now its nigh impossible to raise a chuckle at any point. But I think Stan gave all men confidence, if he could "pull a bird" with those looks, so could anyone. Cringing thinking about the whole cast and story lines now. 
    I think having just 3 channels back then it was an easy thing to dish up crap comedies endlessly to a captive market. 
    I get you r point, but think you're being a tad unfair on Reg there. For a fifty year old Stan looked alright. It was Jack that had looks a mother would struggle to love.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,366
    ... and who'd have imagined that Anna Karen once worked as a stripper?
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 25,039
    V - watched a rerun a couple of years ago and it’s bloody awful . 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,299
    Bedsaddick said:
    V - watched a rerun a couple of years ago and it’s bloody awful . 
    Think I watched it the same time as you. It's bad but still kinda liked it. 
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical Posts: 987
    Not a tv show but i saw Austin Powers a few weeks back which i loved as a kid and couldnt get over how unfunny it all seems now.
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,746
    Dempsey & Makepeace 

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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,381
    Was that with Glynis Barber? Very nice.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,295
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Dempsey & Makepeace 
    Worked for a transport company by the Thames (TankfeightLtd) and they use our warehouse to film in, 
    We were allowed to watch a car chase that ended with a Rover smashing into a pile of boxes and a stunt man jumping out of the way. 

    They had a mobile canteen that served them food, so we all pile up and ask for some grub and got told to FO.  The little yank was proper flash, and my mate mistook the blonde girl for Joanna Lumley.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,229
    usetobunkin said:
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Dempsey & Makepeace 
    Worked for a transport company by the Thames (TankfeightLtd) and they use our warehouse to film in, 
    We were allowed to watch a car chase that ended with a Rover smashing into a pile of boxes and a stunt man jumping out of the way. 

    They had a mobile canteen that served them food, so we all pile up and ask for some grub and got told to FO.  The little yank was proper flash, and my mate mistook the blonde girl for Joanna Lumley.
    Plenty of scenes around Charlton & Woolwich.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,857
    edited January 8
    I can enjoy On the buses with a sense of nostalgia but comedy changes. I think that whilst comedies like this are of course exagerations, it does give a sense of the times. I think the better ones do stand up like Steptoe and Son and Rising Damp for instance.
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 957
    I think Rising Damp stands the test of time better than most because of the standard of writing.
    Also because the jokes were usually at Rigsby's expense rather than Philp's, it doesn't seem so dated to that extent.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,414
    Dr Who , looking back at a program that used to scare me when younger to " My God what rubbish" the new ones are not much better .
    I  Quite like Man About The House , I find the Ropers absolutely  funny and their spin offs are pretty good as well    .
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,532
    CaptainRobbo said:
    I think Rising Damp stands the test of time better than most because of the standard of writing.
    Also because the jokes were usually at Rigsby's expense rather than Philp's, it doesn't seem so dated to that extent.
    Also because Leonard Rossiter was one of the best comic actors of all time (IMO at least)
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 957
    edited 4:27PM
    Jints said:
    CaptainRobbo said:
    I think Rising Damp stands the test of time better than most because of the standard of writing.
    Also because the jokes were usually at Rigsby's expense rather than Philp's, it doesn't seem so dated to that extent.
    Also because Leonard Rossiter was one of the best comic actors of all time (IMO at least)
    Without a doubt.
    Have you ever seen him in Barry Lyndon? He is absolutely hilarious in it.
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 888
    Stig said:
    ... and who'd have imagined that Anna Karen once worked as a stripper?
    My mate once had a gentleman’s magazine with her leaving nothing to the imagination. It was tragic. 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 957
    Greenhithe said:
    Stig said:
    ... and who'd have imagined that Anna Karen once worked as a stripper?
    My mate once had a gentleman’s magazine with her leaving nothing to the imagination. It was tragic. 
    Was it in colour or black and white?

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  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,873
    guinnessaddick said:
    usetobunkin said:
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Dempsey & Makepeace 
    Worked for a transport company by the Thames (TankfeightLtd) and they use our warehouse to film in, 
    We were allowed to watch a car chase that ended with a Rover smashing into a pile of boxes and a stunt man jumping out of the way. 

    They had a mobile canteen that served them food, so we all pile up and ask for some grub and got told to FO.  The little yank was proper flash, and my mate mistook the blonde girl for Joanna Lumley.
    Plenty of scenes around Charlton & Woolwich.
    Came out of Thames Poly one dinnertime and they were filming it in Wellington Street, we missed our first pint hoping to catch a glimpse of La Barber, to no avail. This would be about 1983/4.

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