@andrewjames I recall it’s premiere.....it was set up to be ITV’s answer to Till Death Us Do Part.....working class family, complained about bad language, even had the same watershed slot on Wednesday night 9.30
This caused outrage when it was first shown on ITV, Public opinion soon forced the cancellation of this show - it’s never been repeated on UK television to the best of my knowledge but it is a good mirror of 70’s attitudes and for that I’m glad it’s been preserved.
He was also in the sweeney with the best line - John Thaw is looking at a young lady in a short dress - and "Wally" goes 'I could go to jail for what your thinking!!' - which JT agrees with
@@bridgetgibson5998 Of course it wasn’t a local programme. Do you think it would say “*THAMES* Colour Production” on the end and have their ident on the front of it if it was about a city in the Granada region if it was a regional programme? The reason this isn’t remembered is because it was so crap it was dropped before the final episode as people didn’t watch it. It was never repeated so it didn’t get the chance to pick up new audiences on a second showing.
@@bridgetgibson5998 Crossroads wasn’t a local programme, it was a national programme as it was shown nationally. “Local programme” means only being shown in the region of the company that made it.
I say Nigel, let's write a sit com about those funny working class Liverpudlian chappies, , A few " Lavvie " jokes , a couple of steriotypical " scousers ", a "Posh one " and a thievin dad. Should be a winner. 🤪
I agree. I do my best to aquire copies of any surviving sitcoms from the era but even so, often times they'll be short several episodes. Tele is such trash these days. It makes my heart ache to see what's been left to historys deep abyss
After watching the first three and a half minutes of this in 1975, John Lydon called an old friend and said “Sidney- do you still happen to have that bass guitar, old chap? I’ve got an idea.”
Lovely - never saw it at the time. Full of great Northern actors - Bill Dean, Joe Gladwin, Ken Jones. Sheila Fay grates though - she is clearly doing a Hilda Ogden impression.
Yes!!!! Kind of like underproved baps...but also, I'm almost getting the vibe of a kitchen sink drama ...like something Morrissey would write a song about ...
Two glimmers of humour in the whole episode and they came in the last five minutes: The whole family knowing he's been in prison because it was in 'The Echo' (nicely delivered by the cast), and the Dad chalking up day 1 on the bedroom wall at the end. (Even if he HAD gone to bed fully clothed and carrying a pencil!) The cast were actually pretty good (apart from the mum - Tom O'Connor in drag - who only seemed to have one setting) and the production values were ok. BUT everything was undermined by the quality of the script. It was rubbish. It was all further undermined by the lukewarm reactions from the studio audience. Put that up against other sitcoms of the time, Porridge, The Good Life, Rising Damp, Dads Army, and you can get a feel of how much of a misfire this was.
Never heard of this, it came up in my recommended. Love all British TV shows. "Single retired American widow here interested in online discussions of same."
This was a poorly received sitcom set in Liverpool ( where I'm from) from the mid 70s. It didn't do to well due to its negative depiction of the working class and poor humour.
Like every 70's comedy show. They are funny to watch but you aren't laughing at what they are saying you are laughing at how shit they are. If you really want to cringe watch stand up from the 70's, The Comedians for instance. People call them legends but they were actually fat old men trying to be funny but wouldn't know comedy if it poked them in the eye then kicked em in the bollocks.
When this show was first broadcast it generated lost of negative press- described as "crude" "disgusting" and lowering standards on TV. The public ween't impressed either, the letters section of the papers printed loads of complaints! ITV cancelled it as a result of the backlash. 1975 seems like a whole different wold away now!
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 ?"
Peterdavid Brennan And now people are force fed such reality tv trash as Geordie shore, TOWIE , Big Brother, Celebrities in the jungle, for gods sake how things have been dumbed down over the last few decades. No wonder the general public voted for Brexit..
He also “wrote” Mind Your Language for LWT, who were more known for making these truly awful sitcoms. They shat out crap like On the Buses, Yus My Dear, Bottle Boys and Curry & Chips. Thames usually made better sitcoms, but their crap like this and Jim Davidson’s Up The Elephant & Round the Castle were very LWT in style and tastelessness.
I live in N.C. USA..I've never seen this show before..I've only watched a few minutes of it and not impressed. I love watching British shows and always looking for something new..Some of my favorites are Are You Being Served, Allo Allo and of course any thing related to Agatha Christie...
Not that this is great comedy but it's amazing that the BBC wiped tapes of Steptoe & son and Hancock, etc, to save some space to re-record over the tapes. Absolutely unbelievable!
All of Steptoe survives. While ITV companies like Thames did wipe tapes, they were more cash-rich in those days compared to the BBC as they were the only commercial channel and they earned much more money than the publicly-funded BBC, so they could afford to keep tapes if they saw reason to.
Generic 'northern housewife', the war against the working class was in full flow, making us look pathetic through the 70s then replacing us in the 80s (alternative comedy), it was all by design and it worked a charm
A Scouse family where half are catholic, the other protestant?!! Okay, I guess. A Scouse family where half support Everton, the other Liverpool? Oh, go 'ed.
Why not? Yorkshire TV made loads of sitcoms set in London, HTV in Wales made Robin of Sherwood (set in Nottinghamshire) and Central TV in Nottingham made Auf Wierdersehn Pet, set in Germany.
The mother is doing the same accent that Ma Boswell did in that other travesty of a so called 'comedy' Bread, the lady playing the mother and the woman who played Ma Boswell are both from Liverpool, I can only assume that's what scouse women spoke like back in the day, unless, as they are both classically trained actresses, that's what they think a scouse accent is like once they had had their own accent trained out of them.
Strikes me, in the first few scenes, as its the forerunner for Bread. Carla Lane was a wee bit more refined, but the woman even sounds like Nellie Boswells and grandad......well.
This is the best I love it I live in the Bahamas and this is a breath of fresh air 🇧🇸
Wally Batty!!!!!! I love you Wally.
RIP dear.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'd never even heard of this before, so thanks for posting it.
Same here Matt I can't remember it came across it today
Basically, it was ITV’s attempt to cash in on the controversy created by Till Death Us Do Part
@@illaveyoubutler2 how? i dont see any relation to till death us do part?
@andrewjames I recall it’s premiere.....it was set up to be ITV’s answer to Till Death Us Do Part.....working class family, complained about bad language, even had the same watershed slot on Wednesday night 9.30
Got to give Brendon O,Carroll credit...he obviously took this failed idea and made Miss Browns boys...still shite...but he became famous for it
"Are you havin' a laugh? IS HE HAVIN' A LAUGH?!?"
I don't get it...I actually understand what Gervais is on about. In this case, totally justified.
This caused outrage when it was first shown on ITV, Public opinion soon forced the cancellation of this show - it’s never been repeated on UK television to the best of my knowledge but it is a good mirror of 70’s attitudes and for that I’m glad it’s been preserved.
here here
That's why I never heard of this show it was taken off TV before we even got to watch it
Thanks for shatring this
Outrage about it being so shite
Let's have a London production company pay a Mancunian to write a sitcom about Liverpool. What could possibly go wrong?
😂😂
It's Wally Batty from Last of The Summer Wine at 3:54.
And, Walter from Nearest and Dearest❤️
I'm sorry...STAN...not Walter!😂
He was also in the sweeney with the best line - John Thaw is looking at a young lady in a short dress - and "Wally" goes 'I could go to jail for what your thinking!!' - which JT agrees with
And he was probably in his fifties!
I'm from Liverpool. I don't remember this. Funny how little this country has progressed in 50 years, in fact I think it's regressed in a lot of ways.
It might of been a local programme like cross roads was in Birmingham did Liverpool come under Granada years ago
Regional program they called it and I'm not sure if Yorkshire still do calender that's a program of theirs we never seen that in Manchester
I’m from Liverpool as well but this is crap though. Chegwin was from Bootle i think.
@@bridgetgibson5998 Of course it wasn’t a local programme. Do you think it would say “*THAMES* Colour Production” on the end and have their ident on the front of it if it was about a city in the Granada region if it was a regional programme?
The reason this isn’t remembered is because it was so crap it was dropped before the final episode as people didn’t watch it. It was never repeated so it didn’t get the chance to pick up new audiences on a second showing.
@@bridgetgibson5998 Crossroads wasn’t a local programme, it was a national programme as it was shown nationally. “Local programme” means only being shown in the region of the company that made it.
At the time I thought this was rubbish......I grossly overestimated it.
Did you mean underestimated?
@@sierra6588 she meant it was far worse then she remembered ... she's right
😂
@@sierra6588no he means underestimated, and he’s right…. Fucking rubbish
It was like the precursor of "Bread".
which was also crap
I say Nigel, let's write a sit com about those funny working class Liverpudlian chappies, ,
A few " Lavvie " jokes , a couple of steriotypical " scousers ", a "Posh one " and a thievin dad.
Should be a winner. 🤪
It was written by Vince Powell who came from the north, he wrote many sitcoms inc Love thy Neighbour & Bless This House..
jrgboy love thy neighbour was equally trashy.
@@jrgboy both a load of crap 🥴
Without canned laughter there'd be no laughter at all. Very weak fair
Alison Steadman wow! Ive only seen her playing grandmas!
Rest in peace Keith chegwin , Sad news today. 11/12/2017 xx
Way hay!!
It actually is Keith Chegwin! I thought it was just a lad who looked like him. Alison Steadman was fit back then.
The daughter was played by Alison Stedman who now plays Gavin's mum in Gavin and Stacey. And a young Keith Chegwin pre Swap Shop
BTW Alison was born in Liverpool..
Sadly Keith passed away gone to soon
Alison Stedman is known for more than that.
Abigail's Party anyone?
Yes ,she went to the same girl's school in Childwall as me ,probably 10-15 yrs before me.
Drinkies Sue !👍I absolutely loved her in the Mike Leigh amazing play ' Nuts In May' ..she's an incredible actress and far too good for this crap .
All those valuable lost tv shows and video tapes of the 1960's and 70's, yet this survives :/
Amazing that, eh?
I agree. I do my best to aquire copies of any surviving sitcoms from the era but even so, often times they'll be short several episodes. Tele is such trash these days. It makes my heart ache to see what's been left to historys deep abyss
She is being sarcastic cause its crap lol
After watching the first three and a half minutes of this in 1975, John Lydon called an old friend and said “Sidney- do you still happen to have that bass guitar, old chap? I’ve got an idea.”
What are you on about? Sid wasn't even in the original Pistols. Glen Matlock was the bass player.
Ken Jones was a Brilliant comedy actor, he's my wifes cousin.
Wasn't he married to the mother in real life?
@@anitahargreaves9526Yes he was.
We loved this in Ireland ✝️🙏☘️🇮🇪❤️ Love Liverpool
I'm an American and it's the first I've ever heard of this show quite like it
Lovely - never saw it at the time. Full of great Northern actors - Bill Dean, Joe Gladwin, Ken Jones. Sheila Fay grates though - she is clearly doing a Hilda Ogden impression.
David Benson Is that the mother? Overacting. Probably used to working on the stage. TV acting needs watering down...a. Bit like granddads tea!
David Benson yes, overacting and a really crap accent too.
we really were easier to please back then
Well that was depressing.
It's not Rising Damp is it, or even the Liver Birds. A sort of prototype Bread.
Bread : Pre-Oven.
@@mr.x9566 Par-baked!
@@MrThecarebear Ha ha ha, brilliant, spot-on!
Rising Dough?
Yes!!!! Kind of like underproved baps...but also, I'm almost getting the vibe of a kitchen sink drama ...like something Morrissey would write a song about ...
Ken Jones played Rex in a sitcom The Squirrels.
The comment about the G/Dad and G/Daughter was a well iffy.
Wow, this was brutal to get through..
i couldnt manage it myself. but well done to you if you did
Joe Gladwin. Playing Joe Gladwin. As usual! Hey were gwwwweat though! 😂
He might aswell have been Australian...No concession to a ''Scouse' accent whatsoever.
There's a reason why this has never been repeated on t.v...
The mother is ahead of her time, women now go out with rollers in their hair, lol
Two glimmers of humour in the whole episode and they came in the last five minutes: The whole family knowing he's been in prison because it was in 'The Echo' (nicely delivered by the cast), and the Dad chalking up day 1 on the bedroom wall at the end. (Even if he HAD gone to bed fully clothed and carrying a pencil!)
The cast were actually pretty good (apart from the mum - Tom O'Connor in drag - who only seemed to have one setting) and the production values were ok. BUT everything was undermined by the quality of the script. It was rubbish. It was all further undermined by the lukewarm reactions from the studio audience.
Put that up against other sitcoms of the time, Porridge, The Good Life, Rising Damp, Dads Army, and you can get a feel of how much of a misfire this was.
Dreadful. People shouting out a dire script.
Agreed. Truly awful and it actually reminds me of Liverpool in the 70’s, also truly awful.
@@jonsixtythree Nothings changed really
Proper Hilda Ogden impression!!! More Salford than Scouse ...guessing it wasn't networked then 😂
Jean Alexander, who played Hilda Ogden, was from Liverpool wasn't she
It was networked.
@@zeddekaSo was Sheila Fay who's playing the mum in this.
Some great names from TV there. Not seen this for years. Thanks.
Never heard of this, it came up in my recommended. Love all British TV shows. "Single retired American widow here interested in online discussions of same."
same here
This was a poorly received sitcom set in Liverpool ( where I'm from) from the mid 70s. It didn't do to well due to its negative depiction of the working class and poor humour.
watch extras, or dare i say it, Love Thy Neighbour (same era).
You know this is a show I can't remember at all
A very young Alison Steadman.
Yes,Alison was born in Liverpool.
very funny. Have you got anymore episodes of the wackers?.
youre having a laugh arent you? im certaintly not although i could only take the first 5 minutes
I can't afford to get drunk no more 😂🤣
Ken Jones was great at doing fed up/panic.
Wtf is up with the grandad checking out his grandaughter.
trump checks out invanka all the time?
@@burnellbrowne4303 . There you go...
This really got slated when it was first broadcast
im not surprised... its crap....
Furst time i watchd this nrver heard of this show but it funny had a laugh so watching next episode
Thankyou for shareing
Is this the inspiration for The Simpsons British sitcom parody 'Do Shut up'?
About as funny as finding diarrhoea in the kettle. Makes Bread seem like Noel Coward!
LOL. Excellent. Yes, it's terrible, embarrassing, awful.
Agreed. Many sit coms of that era where as funny as having piles and the only bog roll available is sheets of izatol medicated tracing paper.
Diarrhoea in the kettle ! That is anew one on me. Definitely one to file away for future use.
Like every 70's comedy show. They are funny to watch but you aren't laughing at what they are saying you are laughing at how shit they are. If you really want to cringe watch stand up from the 70's, The Comedians for instance. People call them legends but they were actually fat old men trying to be funny but wouldn't know comedy if it poked them in the eye then kicked em in the bollocks.
When this show was first broadcast it generated lost of negative press- described as "crude" "disgusting" and lowering standards on TV. The public ween't impressed either, the letters section of the papers printed loads of complaints! ITV cancelled it as a result of the backlash. 1975 seems like a whole different wold away now!
Lol we were never allowed to watch this So funny
Ken Jones and Sheila Fay were married in real life.
Didnt know that
Takes me back
the mother in this played Billy's mum in One Summer with David Morrissey(1983)
samtyler100 Bloody hell yes, thought I recognized her dulcet tones, she was a horrible cow In that too.
I forgot about that, it was great. I'll have to try and find it.
I loved that back yon..
Did she also play one of the mothers in the Liver birds ?
I think they mistakingly put a C in the title instead of an N.
06:34 the seventies..... they were all at it.
Thanks for sharing 😉😂😂
This comedy only ran for one series because it was so unpopular.
apparently i didnt manage even that as they pulled it before the end of the series
So Carla Laine got the idea for Bread from this?
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 ?"
good. slightly better than this crap methinks
@@garyinspain HE BITE POLLY TOO !
From what year was the series from
People saying this was a bad show. But Bread was absolute shit.
We'd laugh at any old shite in them days...
It was cancelled..there WERE limits back then.
@@cotswoldcuckoo775 the last episode was broadcast in 2013 evidently
compared to the reality shite which infects todays TV?
Peterdavid Brennan And now people are force fed such reality tv trash as Geordie shore, TOWIE , Big Brother, Celebrities in the jungle, for gods sake how things have been dumbed down over the last few decades. No wonder the general public voted for Brexit..
This reminds me of slavery. Some things seemed good at the time but should be left in the past as they are both bad ideas
Oh, dear.....amazing what passed for entertainment in the 70s 🙄.
Fawlty Towers?
What does that make today's bag of manure for entertainment?
This didn't pass for entertainment then, it doesn't now, and NEVER will.
It's the first time 😮 ever saw this show it was hated in England as woe d as it wasi l liked it. Especially the accent. God. Love. It
What’s Liverpool supporter? And why is it bad? I heard it on “keeping up appearances” too
That's "Horrible" Ives from Porridge . . . . Reasonable bit of continuity there.
@John Henshaw It is. Even if you couldn't see the face there's no mistaking the Voice . . .
With the writer of Love Thy Neighbour this show guarantees to offend without a single laugh.
Vince Powell did sail close to the wind and was often castigated for racism
He also “wrote” Mind Your Language for LWT, who were more known for making these truly awful sitcoms. They shat out crap like On the Buses, Yus My Dear, Bottle Boys and Curry & Chips. Thames usually made better sitcoms, but their crap like this and Jim Davidson’s Up The Elephant & Round the Castle were very LWT in style and tastelessness.
Did Foucalt write about this?
Glad I missed this shite!
Aye, utter shite.
Uhm, grandad leering at his grandfather? Referencing sex? Well that's a right bit of bile isn't it?
Streuth, that's Keith Chuffin' Chegwin!!
Muttley and look at Alison Steadman !
Cheggars! Before he played pop. Or went on the pop 😂
@@annoldham3018Please have respect.
I was surprised to hear the words 'Bollocks' and ' Pissed' in a sitcom. I wonder if this rubbish was shown post-watershed?
harry cross, brookside (and groovy train video - the Farm) - bill dean, the toffee landlord
Yeah, it's not brilliant, but there was a lot worse then, and now!
I remember watching it. They pulled the show off before the last episode
Was ‘Orrible Ives ‘Ere Appeared Before, During Or After Porridge & Wally Batty ‘Ere Before Or During Last Of The Summer Wine?
Great upload
The grandad is the guy that used to run 'Jacksons Chip Shop' in Coronation Street, back in the 60's...
He was in a lot of stuff...Nearest and Dearest, Last of the Summer Wine.....
LOVED IT !!!!
I live in N.C. USA..I've never seen this show before..I've only watched a few minutes of it and not impressed. I love watching British shows and always looking for something new..Some of my favorites are Are You Being Served, Allo Allo and of course any thing related to Agatha Christie...
you're not impressed, the british public hated it.
Not that this is great comedy but it's amazing that the BBC wiped tapes of Steptoe & son and Hancock, etc, to save some space to re-record over the tapes. Absolutely unbelievable!
This was an ITV sitcom
All of Steptoe survives.
While ITV companies like Thames did wipe tapes, they were more cash-rich in those days compared to the BBC as they were the only commercial channel and they earned much more money than the publicly-funded BBC, so they could afford to keep tapes if they saw reason to.
But this was made by Thames and not the BBC is what I was saying
@@ziyaadjamil2324 I was replying to dobythedog.
The mother reminds me of Hilda Ogden 😂
The funniest part is the robotic subtitles at the beginning " we speak Lux and take seeded Lila meet sunburst exceedingly there".
i thought the font for "wackers" at the ad breaks really progressive.
"It's Ives...horrible Ives". This is definitely a sitcom of its time. Totally unfunny.
Is it me, or does this woman in the curlers sound like Hilda Ogden out of classic coronation Street ? lol.
She does haha
Generic 'northern housewife', the war against the working class was in full flow, making us look pathetic through the 70s then replacing us in the 80s (alternative comedy), it was all by design and it worked a charm
Nice..Grandad is Joe Gladwin(Wally Batty from LOSW)
A Scouse family where half are catholic, the other protestant?!! Okay, I guess. A Scouse family where half support Everton, the other Liverpool? Oh, go 'ed.
+Barry McCann My sister was one blue in a sea of reds.
Barry McCann ignorant mixed marriages would raise some kids as Catholics and some as protestants. Sean Casey was raised that way.
A Scouse family where half of them aren't in prison? Not at all realistic /s
My Mom was Catholic and my dad Lutheran. Lutherans won.
Grand dad looks a bit like Gove
In comparison, this makes Carla Lane's Bread look & sound like Shakespeare.
MRS bROWN!
precursor to Bread - i suppose.
Wouldnt expect Thames Tv to make a show set in Liverpool, in any event this is utter tripe.
Why not? Yorkshire TV made loads of sitcoms set in London, HTV in Wales made Robin of Sherwood (set in Nottinghamshire) and Central TV in Nottingham made Auf Wierdersehn Pet, set in Germany.
im just in time for my favorite programme oh crikey on itv
Blimey I don't recall this at all!
I think there's a few of us that have never heard of it and seen it must have been on in the 70s 80s
Is that a very young Alison Steadman as the daughter?
Yes it is.
The acting was shocking!!
Wow, great stuff well ahead of its time, can see why it got banned, proer bawdy laughing funny. Like Bread but funnier
The mother is doing the same accent that Ma Boswell did in that other travesty of a so called 'comedy' Bread, the lady playing the mother and the woman who played Ma Boswell are both from Liverpool, I can only assume that's what scouse women spoke like back in the day, unless, as they are both classically trained actresses, that's what they think a scouse accent is like once they had had their own accent trained out of them.
She spoke the same way in the program called the liver birds
Sheila Fay was a scouser born and bred and married to Ken Jones. The accent is genuine if, perhaps, a bit of a caricature.
Craig Chater who you calling a dick head
Not that bad, better than Bread.
25 minutes of my life I will never get back. Utter drivel.
lol
It really is!
I was transfixed with morbid curiosity 😵💫
had forgotten all about that....
The mother sounds like Hilda Ogden.
Aquaseventytree Jean Alexander was a very quiet refined lady in real life my dad knew her she was just
lovely
Aquaseventytree 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👵👵👵👴👴
Hilda Ogden was a Liverpudlian.
Ives in prison again, chegwin, hilda ogden impression, him from last of the summer wine... I'm confused. But alison steadman hot though..
Strikes me, in the first few scenes, as its the forerunner for Bread. Carla Lane was a wee bit more refined, but the woman even sounds like Nellie Boswells and grandad......well.