Once upon a time: when a cultured and refined BBC produced authorial features. At that epoch "the audience" would have vomited watching "X Factor", "The Big Brother" and other idle idiocies at all... Thanks for having posted this TV gem dated 1986.
This is just as good now as I remember it being in 1987. An incredibly strong cast. The 80s really were the heyday of British TV drama - think of Edge of Darkness, etc.
@@patrickpaganini I left the UK 3 decades ago but love to stay up to date with their dramas. In my opinion one cannot beat British Dramas. In the Line of Duty I thought was very good, plus whatever Stephen Moffat does, SILK, etc. Great legal dramas. I miss the UK a lot when I watch shows old & new.
Bob Peck and Miranda Richardson reteamed in 1998 for the Minette Waters' adaptation "The Scold's Bridle". That was also a very good production from the BBC.
This is incredibly funny and imaginative! Thanks for sharing. A wonderful take on The Oxbridge academic scene. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Gary Waldhorn’s final scene is priceless.
Starts out looking and sounding like an episode of Morse. Actually ends up v similar to an episode of Midsomer with Hannah Gordon. Dialogue is sharp, cast is brilliant with maybe Richardson ever so slightly having a winning edge. Barry Foster as always does a nice line as an Oxford don. Thank you. Good stuff.
@@grays257 - Hmmm - Am wondering why we don't have doctresses as a counter to doctors. Think we should consult the language board--it's all getting pretty tricky and so terribly funny were it not sinister.
Excellent!....ok, you'll raise an eyebrow or two at plot detail, but that was then...watch it for a superb cast with Peck, Richardson and Foster shining!
The late Bob Peck was of course in this as well as the wonderful Edge of Darkness series before this in 1985. After Pilkington was first shown in the Screen Two strand of films on BBC2 in 1987. Thank you anyway!!
@@markstuckey6225She was great as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain , in Dance with a Stranger , 1985. Rupert Everett plays her violent younger lover.
Miranda Richardson always seems to be just on the edge of madness. Last scene not believable, as she had previously done a 180 and decided "Piglet/Porker" was not to be trusted.
Reminds me of Peter Sellers the one with the glasses. I think he's trying for that look too ... or maybe he's not. But I certainly see a similarity. He's a lot less manic and that's wonderful.
Don’t be ridiculous peck was a top billing actor in numerous productions often without glasses and Sellers was dead by this time and a comedic actor, Bob Peck was not usually a comedy actor
I think one of the funniest things in this drama is the way that Barry Foster never twigs at the obvious from Bob Peck's character. Despite Foster seeing Peck wear his clothes and his Turkish flip flops he realises something's amiss but doesn't question the obvious. Priceless as it implies he's thick as shit despite being an Oxford Don.
When I read the Sherlock Holmes stories as a kid, Bob Peck was always what I imagined Sherlock Holmes to be like - thin, hooked nose, intense eyes. Shame he never played the part imo. When I read about Elizabeth I, Miranda Richardson is always what I imagine Elizabeth I to be like, probably for different reasons ("there are simply hundreds of Catholics who can't wait to have their heads snicked off...").
Excellent. Funny at times but sad too. She was if it was real life very sick, an infantile sort of sickness. He loved her since they were children and he grew up she didnt. Locked in a childlike damaged world so of course she would need that type of husband. When she said she hadnt cleaned her teeth at end such a childlike response and a childlike unawareness of the damage she caused. Sad for him as he thought it could have worked but realised he had to end her life 😔
@@Shoshana-xh6hc Potter nursed his terminally ill wife, kept to a punishing schedule to write. He wrote his manuscript with a pen, bound in place with a bandage, as his psoriatic arthritis was so bad. It literally was 'blood, sweat & tears' from Dennis Potter. This story was actually told by Potter from an interview I once watched.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Just wonderd is actress julie foster sister to Actor Barry Foster who was in hitchcocks film frenzy and of course THE CLASSIC ITVS DUTCH DETECTIVE SERIES VANDER VALK.
After Pilkington (TV Episode 1987) / 8.1 What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.
Ah, wonderful 1980s Oxford, when it sported a fine collection of independent bookshops. Alas, all now replaced by coffee shops, Cool Britannia and Harry Potter crap.
"Clever girl" "We had tea and cakes and venison and then a trip with a couple of little friends to the executions. If I wanted any of my little friends executed that was." Etc.
@@joankersting2358 yes i know, forgive me, i didnt want to lower the tone in a brand new comment section. but do you get the reference? do you know where the phrase comes from and why its relevant to this video? if not check out the "Ricky Gervais & Karl Pilkington podcasts" and in there, every 10 minutes or so, Ricky Gervais will call Karl Pilkington "a bald Manc twat with a head like a fookin orange". it doesnt look like any fans of the podcasts have clicked on this video yet though. i`m surprised they didnt, like me, just click on it for the name alone.
You might not be English - or maybe just expecting something different? Don't you find the drunken garden scene at the beginning funny? I wouldn't have thought the humour was that subtle - but I guess anything that goes over one's head is subtle.
Much more to it than meets the eye. Schubert’s “ Die Furelle” played throughout a subtle reference to what lies beneath the waters- a beautiful creature to look at- but much more than that.
Even though I've seen it before, I still found it hilarious and laughed out loud quite a few times. There must be something wrong with one of us, and I don't think it's I.
Please take the time to read this because you will laugh. Involving the famous John Thaw Inspector Morse. ; May, John Thaw, rest in peace he's is & alway's will be my most favorite Detective Inspector Morse. Please continue to read...... .... .. They're really should have been a continuation to this with the police and investigations.
Why, you ask ? Well outside her house where she stabbed that man in the neck, which was a veterinarian, but also Porkers lover. But in reality they were childhood boyfriend and girlfriend. -The lover is dead : - She is dead : - Porker is still, alive... - With the cheating husband... - alive & well Strolling home as he thinks ? -Where Porker was, covering for him, as he went to , London to see his, barmaid. This is where Inspector Morse would walk into the second movie. I could write the opening scene immediately, where Inspector Morse would pull, up pull up with Hastings in the , red jaguar. - In the small college town : - The husband calls the ambulance for his wife and she turns out not to be dead, She wakes up, In the hospital screaming. I will kill you with my scissors to her husband. She is immediately committed for the criminal insane. As Inspector Morse is quite puzzled over this Then Inspector, Morse goes to his boss, then talks him into continuing the case : still wants to investigate the husband and Porker. Hmm. ? Yes I have much more I could write. !
One author plagiaries the other yet is re-written by a third, not sure this would be taken seriously for publication. You need to change all the names & places to make it viable.
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Once upon a time: when a cultured and refined BBC produced authorial features. At that epoch "the audience" would have vomited watching "X Factor", "The Big Brother" and other idle idiocies at all... Thanks for having posted this TV gem dated 1986.
BBC just promotes the diversity agenda now . Needs to be finished, just like the NHS ..both swamps
Totally agree with you my friend. The mindless rubbish they put on now is beyond belief.
The BBC did not broadcast Big Brother
Ok boomer
We live in the age of Hype & Drivel..that vomits out of the media the masses are being hoodwinked..
This is just as good now as I remember it being in 1987. An incredibly strong cast. The 80s really were the heyday of British TV drama - think of Edge of Darkness, etc.
I came on here becsuse I remembered Edge of Darkness which I watched when it was first released and introduced me to the wonderful actor Bob Peck.
Bob was one of our greats. Unassuming, observational method actor with a trait of his very own. Passed but never passed by in anything he did.
And the Heyday of British comedy was the 70's. Such an array of talent.
@@susanford2388 very true. Humour without a cudgel.
@@patrickpaganini I left the UK 3 decades ago but love to stay up to date with their dramas. In my opinion one cannot beat British Dramas. In the Line of Duty I thought was very good, plus whatever Stephen Moffat does, SILK, etc. Great legal dramas. I miss the UK a lot when I watch shows old & new.
The British do drama and comedies like no other, always.
This Colonist agrees
You obviously don't watch much British television...??
Completely bonkers and quite enjoyable, thanks for showing.
Bob Peck and Miranda Richardson reteamed in 1998 for the Minette Waters' adaptation "The Scold's Bridle". That was also a very good production from the BBC.
I've just found The scolds bride..I'm going to see what it's like, I hope it's as good as After Pilkington 😃 thanks for mentioning it.
Bridle 👍
The marvelous Barry Foster!
Yes ,he was ! But somehow he never actually became a huge star..?? A great mystery...?
Thanks for posting this. I recall watching it in 87 when i lived in Hampshire. Will be a great pleasure to see it again.
This is incredibly funny and imaginative! Thanks for sharing. A wonderful take on The Oxbridge academic scene. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Gary Waldhorn’s final scene is priceless.
that was excellent! it got better as it went along. Great cast, great story, great execution😀. Thanks for the upload.
Starts out looking and sounding like an episode of Morse. Actually ends up v similar to an episode of Midsomer with Hannah Gordon. Dialogue is sharp, cast is brilliant with maybe Richardson ever so slightly having a winning edge. Barry Foster as always does a nice line as an Oxford don. Thank you. Good stuff.
What a great find. Miranda Richardson is such a great actor so it's brilliant to see her in something I've never seen before ❤
Actress!
@@grays257 - Hmmm - Am wondering why we don't have doctresses as a counter to doctors. Think we should consult the language board--it's all getting pretty tricky and so terribly funny were it not sinister.
@@grays257~ They are all called *Actors* now.
Not by me. @@rubytuesday5412
@@rubytuesday5412 Maybe in your woke world, but to me they will always be the female gender "actresses".
What a very unusual saga! Actors were superb in their roles. Loved the sarcastic music of a song in the background, very funny.
Yes, the Schubert “Die Furelle” made me smile.
@@wendischofield4543 It's actually "Forelle".
@@AndyMangele:- as you say. I should check my text more thoroughly!
Great fun! Smoking in a café! oh my goodness how free we were in those days
The variety of different characters these tv actors play are 👏 brilliant.
Plenty of unexpected laughs crept up on me in this saga. Masterfully etched ✍️
That was excellent. Great actors and script.
Excellent!....ok, you'll raise an eyebrow or two at plot detail, but that was then...watch it for a superb cast with Peck, Richardson and Foster shining!
The late Bob Peck was of course in this as well as the wonderful Edge of Darkness series before this in 1985.
After Pilkington was first shown in the Screen Two strand of films on BBC2 in 1987. Thank you anyway!!
Thank you for that of course!
Oh what a gem! 😅 thanks very much 👍 👍 👍
Echos of the mad Elizabeth 1st from Blackadder even then!
Nobody does crazy quite as well.
A one trick pony and not even good at that.
@@markstuckey6225 It's funny because talented people are not normally haters. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
@@markstuckey6225 She is somewhat typecast, perhaps that's why you think this way?
@@markstuckey6225She was great as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain , in Dance with a Stranger , 1985. Rupert Everett plays her violent younger lover.
I thought this was going to be a documentary about Ricky Gervais after he stopped working with Karl Pilkington.
I do love an Oxbridge satire.
Very good; Thank-You so much! ;)
Awesome, really enjoyed that one 👍🏻
Miranda Richardson always seems to be just on the edge of madness. Last scene not believable, as she had previously done a 180 and decided "Piglet/Porker" was not to be trusted.
This fascinating drama has a really horrifying twist at the end.
Reminds me of Peter Sellers the one with the glasses. I think he's trying for that look too ... or maybe he's not. But I certainly see a similarity. He's a lot less manic and that's wonderful.
My English husband had a pair of those glasses. I called them his birth control glasses.
No, he's really always looked like that. And I agree, Great acting, not overacting.
Don’t be ridiculous peck was a top billing actor in numerous productions often without glasses and Sellers was dead by this time and a comedic actor, Bob Peck was not usually a comedy actor
@@naradaian They resemble each other to me. in any case, they both annoy me no end.
@@naradaianNor was the great
Barry Foster.
Great Stuff. Thanks
Bob Peck was the
Game Warden that
died in Jurassic Park..."Clever Girl"
BBC TV really did have some corking productions.
there's really no ending here.
I shall never be able to listen to Chamber Music ever again without thinking of scissors & one-buttoned, cast-off apricot shirts.
Funny as hell
An utter, utter delight.
Stick with this. It gets better and better.
No, it doesn't, it's dreadful all the way through.
man, all the haters. Dunno why they can't understand the subtlety.
@patrickpaganini Dislike is not necessarily Hate!
Such a good drama! No swearing either! Loved it. ❤
They do- they keep saying For C***st's Sake.
Miranda Richardson is so good.. Her Ruth Ellis was amazing too
In 2018, a scientific paper opined that infantilism was becoming increasingly common. HELP!
😂
Bob Peck looks so astonishingly like Harold Pinter throughout it adds a whole new level. Of course HP and Simon Grey were best mates.
Bloody good
I think one of the funniest things in this drama is the way that Barry Foster never twigs at the obvious from Bob Peck's character. Despite Foster seeing Peck wear his clothes and his Turkish flip flops he realises something's amiss but doesn't question the obvious. Priceless as it implies he's thick as shit despite being an Oxford Don.
Hilarious . Thanks for posting
I watched this just because of the name, very entertaining
So did I.
I'm still waiting for the hairy chinese kid.
Yikes! Barry Foster. Brilliant and unexpected.
How THIS won an award, THE Mind boggles...
Absolutely terrible 😮😢😅
I remember not watching Edge Of Darkness when it was first screened because of the tv times cover with Craven having a gun. My loss.
It made a lasting impression on me. Mel Gibson produced and starred in a n American remake of it.
I did not enjoy this,
but I am glad so many did.
Wonderfully dotty.
like a very bad drug trip
Hilarious! Thx
I only watched this play as the great Barry Foster never seen him play comedy, you can't wog these days Barry 😂😂
Wow. He is so creepy. And such a complete narcissist. 🙄
When I read the Sherlock Holmes stories as a kid, Bob Peck was always what I imagined Sherlock Holmes to be like - thin, hooked nose, intense eyes. Shame he never played the part imo.
When I read about Elizabeth I, Miranda Richardson is always what I imagine Elizabeth I to be like, probably for different reasons ("there are simply hundreds of Catholics who can't wait to have their heads snicked off...").
Excellent. Funny at times but sad too. She was if it was real life very sick, an infantile sort of sickness. He loved her since they were children and he grew up she didnt. Locked in a childlike damaged world so of course she would need that type of husband. When she said she hadnt cleaned her teeth at end such a childlike response and a childlike unawareness of the damage she caused. Sad for him as he thought it could have worked but realised he had to end her life 😔
Night would be best.More conventional too I should think for burying bodies on the quiet.
Simon Gray - the thinking man's Dennis Potter!
Dennis Potter was a genius, this stuff is dated, unlike the Singing Detective.
@@Shoshana-xh6hc Potter nursed his terminally ill wife, kept to a punishing schedule to write. He wrote his manuscript with a pen, bound in place with a bandage, as his psoriatic arthritis was so bad. It literally was 'blood, sweat & tears' from Dennis Potter. This story was actually told by Potter from an interview I once watched.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
😂 shut up YOU bloody PIF 💯😎
Just wonderd is actress julie foster sister to Actor Barry Foster who was in hitchcocks film frenzy and of course THE CLASSIC ITVS DUTCH DETECTIVE SERIES VANDER VALK.
Not related.
Great movie👍
Brilliant 😅
Weird and sadistic
After Pilkington (TV Episode 1987) / 8.1
What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.
test your wit IQ on this one. delicious.
Delicious...
They could have cleaned the sound up
Ah, wonderful 1980s Oxford, when it sported a fine collection of independent bookshops. Alas, all now replaced by coffee shops, Cool Britannia and Harry Potter crap.
What's this all about. Good? The emperor's new suit complex
Please expound upon your misunderstanding.
i am sure i have not a clue what hit me. 😮😂
"Clever girl"
"We had tea and cakes and venison and then a trip with a couple of little friends to the executions. If I wanted any of my little friends executed that was."
Etc.
Is that you Queenie?
I just loved her 😍
Decline and Fall of a Simp..
Why did he kill her in the end? Why not just phone the police?
Because he loved her, could not bear to see her arrested, tried and convicted.
@@sholemgimpel6050
Appreciated. That makes perfect sense given the situation that they were in. Thanks. 👍
Anyone else feel a touch guilty for finding things funny which, in reality, wouldn't have been?
I watched it because it won a prize, if you want to be bored to death, watch this
head like a fookin orange!
Toilet tongue
@@joankersting2358 yes i know, forgive me, i didnt want to lower the tone in a brand new comment section. but do you get the reference? do you know where the phrase comes from and why its relevant to this video? if not check out the "Ricky Gervais & Karl Pilkington podcasts" and in there, every 10 minutes or so, Ricky Gervais will call Karl Pilkington "a bald Manc twat with a head like a fookin orange". it doesnt look like any fans of the podcasts have clicked on this video yet though. i`m surprised they didnt, like me, just click on it for the name alone.
@@joankersting2358hat's wrong with "fookin"? Obviously you have swear words on your mind. Wash your mind.
@@davidmyles9967 Bill Haily maybe
Bob Peck dreadfully miscast here..!
BBC prewoke day😊
Enough with the phony movie projector sound - So I'm not going to watch a movie with such crap!
I can't for the life of me work out why this was award winning. A very implausible and sketchy plot. Very daft.
You might not be English - or maybe just expecting something different? Don't you find the drunken garden scene at the beginning funny? I wouldn't have thought the humour was that subtle - but I guess anything that goes over one's head is subtle.
Probably for just those reasons, you know what the so called intellectual classes are like, the complete opposite of intelligent.
For the intellectual toffs only
Much more to it than meets the eye. Schubert’s “ Die Furelle” played throughout a subtle reference to what lies beneath the waters- a beautiful creature to look at- but much more than that.
Even though I've seen it before, I still found it hilarious and laughed out loud quite a few times. There must be something wrong with one of us, and I don't think it's I.
Boring...a waste of time..fell asleep during this.
😅😅
not funny at all just sick
😅😅
Please take the time to read this because you will laugh.
Involving the famous John Thaw
Inspector Morse. ;
May,
John Thaw,
rest in peace
he's is & alway's
will be my most favorite Detective
Inspector Morse.
Please continue to read...... .... ..
They're really should have been a continuation to this with the police and investigations.
Why, you ask ?
Well outside her house where she stabbed that man in the neck, which was a veterinarian, but also Porkers lover.
But in reality they were childhood boyfriend and girlfriend.
-The lover is dead :
- She is dead :
- Porker is still,
alive...
- With the cheating husband...
- alive & well
Strolling home
as he thinks ?
-Where Porker was,
covering for him,
as he went to ,
London to see his,
barmaid.
This is where Inspector Morse would walk into the second movie.
I could write the opening scene immediately,
where Inspector
Morse would pull,
up pull up with Hastings in the ,
red jaguar.
- In the small
college town :
- The husband calls the ambulance for his wife and she turns out not to be dead,
She wakes up,
In the hospital screaming.
I will kill you with my scissors to her husband.
She is immediately committed for the criminal insane.
As Inspector Morse is quite puzzled over this Then Inspector,
Morse goes to his boss, then talks him into continuing the case :
still wants to investigate the husband and Porker.
Hmm. ?
Yes I have much more I could write. !
One author plagiaries the other yet is re-written by a third, not sure this would be taken seriously for publication. You need to change all the names & places to make it viable.
Boooriiiing!!
😅
Oh heck. Will it ever get going? ........🙄 10 minutes in and it's so dreary....
@susanvaughan-schiele210 😅😅
Where's Karl??