I've been watching Season one on Talking Pictures TV, having originally watched the show with my parents as a teenager back in the 1970's. That moment at the will-reading when the bombshell drops about The Brothers having a sister, and her being Jennifer Kingsley's daughter, was just as spine-tingling more than 50 years later! Jennifer Wilson and Jean Anderson are marvellous, their hatred for one another crackles away subtly and ominously in every scene they are involved in, either separately or together, and it is testament to their acting ability that they could make their mutual hostility so believable when were actually great friends off-screen.
@@benzflynn Oh, the joys of the internet, meaning that fans of a show, not matter where they are, can share their thoughts in real-time: we could never have imagined that happening back in the 1970s! I've yet to see evidence of a computer of any sort in Hammond Transport, and the old fashioned phones that had to be dialed manually are adorable. Just don't get me started on the cars: they look like bone-shakers that are about to fall apart!
@@denisej4813 Boneshakers ? Not at all, Madam ! Brian has a fairly new Hillman Minx saloon. Ted seems to have a high-spec (2.5L or 3.0L) Mark 2 Cortina. David has some sort of sports car I couldn't even dream of in them days. For people of that time they are doing all right for themselves carwise🚗
I've never been a motorist, so don't have too much interest in, or knowledge of, cars in general, but I'm going to award myself a point here, as I did recognise Ted's car as being some sort of Ford Cortina!
@@denisej4813 I can't wait to reach that moment in Series 5 when Ted - newly married to Jennifer and after adopting a baby - says to Jenny after she feeds the baby: "Did you burp him ?"
Yeah - he looked the part of a bluff start-at-14 haulier from Norf West Landon. O'Connell is more of an arguey Brummie - you just can't picture him horsing a load up the M1 for years.
I read at the time he threatened industrial action and the BBC called his bluff and demonstrated nobody is indispensable. He was replaced and others also thinking about industrial action scuttled back.
In 1970s Finland ? How did such a cautious man like Urho Kekkonen allow such a daring TV show to be rebroadcast ? Oh, my oh my ! What would Comrade Brezhnev think ? 😨
I've been watching Season one on Talking Pictures TV, having originally watched the show with my parents as a teenager back in the 1970's. That moment at the will-reading when the bombshell drops about The Brothers having a sister, and her being Jennifer Kingsley's daughter, was just as spine-tingling more than 50 years later! Jennifer Wilson and Jean Anderson are marvellous, their hatred for one another crackles away subtly and ominously in every scene they are involved in, either separately or together, and it is testament to their acting ability that they could make their mutual hostility so believable when were actually great friends off-screen.
Same age group as you and same sentiments.
Maybe we should watch it together.
But, of course, we already are . . . 🛋
@@benzflynn Oh, the joys of the internet, meaning that fans of a show, not matter where they are, can share their thoughts in real-time: we could never have imagined that happening back in the 1970s! I've yet to see evidence of a computer of any sort in Hammond Transport, and the old fashioned phones that had to be dialed manually are adorable. Just don't get me started on the cars: they look like bone-shakers that are about to fall apart!
@@denisej4813 Boneshakers ?
Not at all, Madam !
Brian has a fairly new Hillman Minx saloon. Ted seems to have a high-spec (2.5L or 3.0L) Mark 2 Cortina.
David has some sort of sports car I couldn't even dream of in them days.
For people of that time they are doing all right for themselves carwise🚗
I've never been a motorist, so don't have too much interest in, or knowledge of, cars in general, but I'm going to award myself a point here, as I did recognise Ted's car as being some sort of Ford Cortina!
@@denisej4813 I can't wait to reach that moment in Series 5 when Ted - newly married to Jennifer and after adopting a baby - says to Jenny after she feeds the baby: "Did you burp him ?"
Great series with a great cast. I thought Glyn Owen was brilliant as elder brother ted.
Yeah - he looked the part of a bluff start-at-14 haulier from Norf West Landon.
O'Connell is more of an arguey Brummie - you just can't picture him horsing a load up the M1 for years.
Please why? Did u switch it from Monday to Thursday
Why was Glyn Owen who played Edward Hammond replaced by Patrick O'Connell from season 2 onwards? Does anyone know?
I read at the time he threatened industrial action and the BBC called his bluff and demonstrated nobody is indispensable. He was replaced and others also thinking about industrial action scuttled back.
THIS CAME IN FINLAND AS NAME TESTAMENTTI
In 1970s Finland ? How did such a cautious man like Urho Kekkonen allow such a daring TV show to be rebroadcast ?
Oh, my oh my !
What would Comrade Brezhnev think ? 😨