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He's like Blakey from on the buses

Terrible comedians..

David Kelly in one of my favourite episodes as O Reilly makes me laugh every time RIP

An early take on the Fonze

Summary; ran out of story ideas so end while on top. (short clip. I didn't have to write this.) The chemistry was there, and I think season 1 had 6.7 million viewers (for 5 point something), I don't know what their final year's viewers were. I wish they had done more anyway

clip too short. Add to it, or get rid of it. Headlight didn't get an answer, but maybe most of the 6.7K views happened early. Episode? something to do with xmas coming in a box and the store couldn't deliver. At least there was no ad I had to sit through, or at least 30 seconds of, which I always do to help send a few bob to Saddo. :)

Hashtag different times😂

Bring back AYBS with this team!

Ralph Bates was an amazing actor. A tragedy we lost him so young. I'm planning on visiting his grave this weekend along with Imogen Hassall. ❤❤🙏🙏

Felicity Kendal is just one of those ageless beauties....

An old friend of my grandad stayed there for a few days when Sinclair was manager and said that Basil Fawlty was exactly like him but exaggerated

If ever I need to know where people are going, this is still how I ask people, 4 decades after I watched this show once.

Very sad what happened to Paul due to his run in with T Cell Lymphoma.Very unlucky as these disorders are rare with most Lymphoma and Leukemia being B Cell which is much better understood.I think that apart from the positive type of Large Cell Anaplastic Lymphoma all T Cell Lymphoma is virtually incurable.

The British Karen.

I think I’ve seen this. If there was a U.S. tv spot ,that is.

Matt is a good mrs S.

Genius

As a teenager i had a crush on Panelope Keith she so beautiful.

Thank you 4 posting this!!!

Sadly the hotel gleaneagles in torquay is not in operation anymore.

Way better then the Australian version.

RIP Paul Eddington ❤

…or do it the hard way

Loved this show! Elizabeth Morten played Lucinda from the 80*s sitcom Watching on itv

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SORCERERS, FORTY FIVE YOUR MIME!

This is why the aliens decided not to visit our planet

The Quaker school he mentions was Sibford School, founded in 1842. I worked there for a year and loved it there. I think if I did have a faith, I would be a Quaker.

Dolly Mountshaft 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Margo was one of the greatest comedy characters ever. Fabulous

Are you smiling mr o'reilly

interesting insight

what a beautifully crafted character. and inadvertantly very sexy! lol. the real life vPenny Keith is so unlike Margo. According to the rest of the good life team, she was constantly hilarious and giggly, as opposed to Margo's humor bypass. beautiful work. the one where she and Tom got pissed? oooft!

it's hardly surprising Felicity, Richard, Paul, and Penny remained lifelong friends. All of whom were fairly, in personal lives, opposites of their on-screen personas. Which made them enjoy the work and each other all the more.

It was actually Douglas the bean, and Felicity is battling a cold during this episode.

Brilliant ..one of the best

Rex ! Who names their son after a dog ?

Great show. Like Minder and Fools and Horses it was funny without being foul-mouthed and had great characters. Kirk should have been such an unlikable tosspot but he was so well-played by Peter Blake you couldn’t help but like him. I remember watching this scene when I was about 13-14 and going “go on Kirk, go on my son”. Really well-written with a lovely understated lead performance by Ralph Bates.

As much as I loved the show, I wondered if, had Ralph Bates not sadly passed away, whether they could have gotten a third series John Sullivan sort of wrote himself into a corner here…Eric/Kirk was portrayed as a fantasist and mummy’s boy, yet here he EFFORTLESSLY defeats 1/2 dozen Hells Angels So…was Kirk actually telling the truth, and he was really a spy?

Thanks for these deep dives into Dear John. I videoed these off the TV back in the 80s. There is a missing 5 minutes or so from the scene in John's room with Kate. Kate says that she really feels in the mood for the first time in a long time but John says he respects her too much as a friend. She says something along the lines of everything feels just right for the first time but I've got a date with the Pope! She reluctantly accepts what John says and rolls over to sleep-John looks at her on the bed and says What the hell and jumps into bed with her. It then cuts to the next morning as they wake up. Not sure why this scene was cut out.

36B. My very favourite Margo moment and line in the whole series. That and leering at Mrs Doombs Patterson through the window.

anyone got the full episodes?

The actor who played Roger briefly at the beginning of the first episode was mentioned. Michael Cochrane is still alive, as at November 2023,and is 76. Maybe he survived the 'curse' as it was a minor role!!! BTW I remember watching the second series in 1987 and looking up the viewing figures which used to be in the daily papers. Dear John was averaging 12 million viewers so quite popular.

CAN SOMEONE TECH SAVVY please fix this and repost

2:37 I find sweep (super dog ) pulling on the rope funny

I was surprised on the DVD liner notes that they showed Michael Cochrane, who played his friend Roger at the beginning of the first episode, as one of the main actors. However there was no mention of the actresses who played Mrs Arnott or Sylvia (later on in the series). I think the edit at the end of the first episode cut out a scene where John and Kate discussed whether they would return the following week.

Has anyone got a better copy?

Hate to be picky yet AGAIN, but you do seem to be DOING it yet again. Just because Ken [played by Terence Edmond] is a lying bastard and cheats on his wife, that doesn't make him "a dirty old perv" It makes him a cad, a bounder, a roue and a variety of other things, but suggesting he or John have noncy tendencies [especially when I'm pretty sure the girl in question is an 18-year-old sixth former, and thereby a fully grown adult old enough to own a car, buy a house, join the army, get married, drink alcohol, kill people etc etc, not to mention probably played by an actress in her 20s] is stretching credibility a bit. I don't have anything against you personally, but I'm just getting increasingly tired in general of this 'revisionist' attitude [not just from yourselves, but many other contemporary commentators] which continually tries to insinuate that everything that took place before some mythical arbitrary watershed date of political correctness groupthink was "inappropriate" "sick" "not OK" "problematic" and a multitude of other derogatory buzzword phrases: it gets bandied about far to freely these days, it comes across as smug and condescending, and it shouldn't be encouraged. After all, do you really think John Sullivan wrote this script, or indeed any script, with the purpose in mind of perving lecherously or appealing to old men in macs? Of course he didn't. Moreover, if you think he did, why are you enjoying his writing so much? Seems more than a little hypocritical. Look, I watch your podcasts [before you ask me why I bother] because when you're informative and intelligent, you're actually quite incisive and interesting- but please, for God's sake, would it be too much to expect, just for once, an analysis of something from the 70s or 80s that DOESN'T attempt to pick holes in it from a cynical modernist standpoint? Episodes such as this are a perfectly accurate reflection of their era, when bawdy, salacious humour, whilst in no way as broadly drawn as in the 70s, was still very much in evidence- and should be seen as such, nothing more. And no, I DON'T MEAN BY SAYING BLOODY 'HASHTAG DIFFERENT TIMES!' That isn't even a sentence. After all, back when I was a kid, they tried to make out that Noddy & Big Ears books were 'evil' because there was an allegedly homoerotic undercurrent to them- yet while that assertion clearly more from a right-wing stance rather than a liberal one, it was still just as much of a glaring misnomer, and just as reactionary, as some of the things you've been coming out with here. There really is no need for it: to people such as myself, who still look back very fondly on our 70s and 80s youths, such attitudes ARE offensive and VERY problematic. Almost as offensive to certain people, in fact, as calling them a "gyppo"...not that I have any problem with that MYSELF, although it's most curious that you don't seem to either....

This was a great show, everybody in the playground saying “ where you going now “, I still say it now and again and I’m 48, lol.

NB Oh and while we're at it, I don't think it's a particularly fair comment to link Prince Andrew's dodgy proclivities to him being a fan of the Confessions films....Robin Askwith is a great actor and a thoroughly well-liked person all round [as is Linda Hayden and as were most of the other people involved] and I think they would be shocked and insulted, as indeed the millions of people who loved those films would be, at any suggestion that their content was somehow linked to anything as uniformly dodgy as what the Prince ALLEGEDLY [for the record, nothing's ever been proven] got up to. I find your blog funny and informative, but please, as we swould say Daaahn Saahf where I cahm from, "leave it aaaht" with the generalisations already!! On serious note, people have been sued for lesser inferences, and you certainly wouldn't want to deal with THAT minefield.