@woody Vallallellalunga Selby was the established actor in the regular cast. You can really see why so many of the young talent went on to stardom - Robert Lindsay has since gone on to Citizen Smith, My Family and Hornblower, David Janson was the postman in Keeping Up Appearances and Brian Pettifer has had a fantastic career as a character actor.
I bet Tony Selby's Corporal Marsh and Windsor Davies's BSM Williams together caused a noticeable drop in applications to join the armed forces back in the mid '70s.
Saw this as a kid on original release, on ITV. Loved it. On a re-watch Ive enjoyed it again. Never realised until today that it was based in the mid-fifties. Nice one Same people who wrote "The Good Life", John Esmonde and Bob Larbey
As an American for which I was station at RAF LAKENHEATH I did watch this show & to be honest with you " I LOVE IT!" Thank you to whomever posted this. This is "AWESOME!" Again whoever posted this "THANK YOU!"
My old man was an RAF pilot in WW2. He thought Tony Selby's portrayal of Marsh was perfect and very near to the sort of NCOs my father came across in training.
I have just been reminded how funny this was … I remember watching it as a kid. My dad did National Service in the RAF … he loved this .. he said the Cpls were realistic!! lol Thank you for sharing.
Oh my gosh, this show is great! It's got Mr Cheeseman from dad's army, Robert Lindsey from all things awesome & that corporal is harder than a coffin nail! Cheers from Canada
I went with Mum and Dad and was so excited when I saw they were doing summer season as I never used to miss an episode. Great cast and certainly on a par with It Ain't Half Hot Mum which I think inspired it.
Just heard that Tony Selby died recently of Covid, he was a fabulous actor and this series he was top dog. I remember him in an episode of Bergerac and to me that was one of the better story lines, he was just effortless when he acted, a true gifted actor. Many thanks Tony for the years of great acting. Rip
I was an RAF cadet when GSI was showing and loved it! All the main characters were amazing!I later met Brian Leckie in Glasgow and was amazed to hear him with an English accent!!
I never saw any of this before (left the UK in 1972) and I just binge watched the lot. The first four series are worth watching, I only watched the fifth in the hope of seeing the corporal get demoted. great plot lines, excellent actors, interesting historically, reminder of how things 'was'. Some well known faces in there too, (Yes Minister etc).
Joined in 85. Really surprised when got to first unit and everyone had duvets. First weekend off went to Argos and got my first duvet. Glad to never see another bed pack. Later on got fitted sheets (made at local market) and my own pillows.
Bed Packs, I remember them well, and not fondly, but they were a necessary component of getting us to integrate into how the service works, and Instil teamwork, those of us could make them well did it for those who couldn’t, those were the days.
Bloody bedpacks...! Bain of my life! Only once had mine tossed out the window! 😁 We went through three Cpls and two Sgts in 6 weeks.! Practically put OURSELVES through training! 😋
Bed boxes, then bumping the floor for a nice shine after sweeping with some rather useless brooms and dustpan and brush. Then on to the ablutions. It seemed never-ending! Job creation at its finest!
I'm not old enough to have done National Service but I remember watching this as a kid and seeing it now brings back some memories of my own basic training in the 70s. Not much had changed by then and the DIs were just the same. Tony Selby does a great job. I wonder if he served?
A young Robert Lindsay! I didn't recognize him until the credits. We never saw this series in South Africa, but then we didn't have a tv service until the 1970's.
I remember turning up at lippstadt in West Germany, the Provo sergeant had the 5 of us new boys doubling around the camp with are suitcases, this was introducing of the British army 🤣,no servicemen will ever forget "STAND BY YOUR BEDS" 🤣🤣
@@Free_Ranger_CT110 You're not wrong FR. I done 23 years so it's a little easier for me, but in my Legion there are a few 'old timers' and they all know there 'service number'. Take care my brother.
Snowflakes is a term used by those who can't stand the heat and see the benefits of a professional armed service. Even places that have armed neutrality with compulsory service, armed or civil, produce a much more professional and effective resource than British NS ever did. NS post war was always seen as a joke, hence Get Some In.
Well yes and no. It all turns out to be about him. And he is a complete twat. No saving graces. Who ever heard of him since? Where as Wolfie, sorry Jakey AKA Admiral Pellew. Has carved his name.
@@alanwayte432 Yes, exactly that. He said he doesn't have working class friends, so why would he relate to a class of people he chooses not to interact with set in a time before his family declared themselves British? He even deserted our armed service veterans this afternoon. D-Day means nothing to him, and he'll have dual nationality by the time the next major anniversary comes around. You and Sunak should really consider relocating to a place where the stereotypical people are of a type you prefer to be around instead of insulting those of us who have been this stereotype longer than his entire family has been British.. Why would I want my homeland to be governed by someone who, by your own admission avoids the stereotypical native people like me? His performance today shows what he thinks of our armed forces.
Or sepoy Sunak as Indians call him. The RAF bombed and strafed unarmed Quit India protestors in 1942 and 43 [the years of the Bengal Holocaust - Churchill's Collective Punishment of Bengal for producing INA Leader Subhas Bose killing millions - then diverting Food Aid from his victims censorship of this last of over 3 dozen British-made famines was blown]. It is fitting that on Republic Day last year, PM Modi announced that a statue of INA leader Subhas Bose [in his military fatigues] would stand on the empty plinth facing India Gate in RajPath, New Delhi, where once the British King's statue stood.
Ahh, yes, army humour. Raw recruits vs no nonsense drill sergeant = hilarity ensues. We desperately need this sort of comedy today, the louder the better,
I was at Swinderby Sept 6th 1978, loved it our Cpl was Cpl Hagen, ex QCS, great times at the Newcomers club, but hated the Breakfast in the mess, outside cooks, breakfast was swimming in grease. remember the Benches we had to run across on the wall bars.
I went through RAF Swinderby in September 1970. On the day we arrived the DI in charge of us asked if there were any rejoiners or anyone had previous service in the other branches of the Armed Forces. I had previously been in boys service in the Royal Navy joining in 1964 at HMS Ganges. When I told the DI this he replied welcome to RAF Swinderby you have served your life in hell. I really enjoyed my time at Swinderby and compared with Ganges it was a holiday camp to me as a room leader in my flight. I served in the RAF for 13 happy years ending my service at RAF Cosford. I moved to Telford and still go to Cosford often being a civilian instructor in the RAF Cadets on a Squadron in Telford.
@@julianderrick8232 ok soz just seen SEPT 1978 ! surprised RONNIE HAGEN still there then ?! he broke his pace stick in a rage at a lad on parade ...ALL of us chipped in fr new one ! LATER heard he had a good rep Inthe REGT GREAT MAN
Just showing my Grandson and explaining how nothing much had changed by 1973 when I joined! (Apart from S.L.R.'s/ Shi..... Hawks' and Belt on No.1's/ Woolley Pulleys for Working Blues,and the appalling 'Flasher Macs' instead of Greatcoats)Just about everything still stood! This was very popular on T.V. especially with the Old 'Erks !, I even remember Tony Selby doing a P.R. visit to RAF Honington and He was in Uniform! Mind 'Basil Brush' up staged him the same year at 12 Sqdn!
@@user-xt9kl1vm3z I just missed the battledress but had it for 4 years in the spacers, once you'd either ironed or just worn it smooth nothing since has matched it as working dress.
When i joined The Lifeguards in 1971, we had a trained soldier with us who had his own room in the block. You had to ask his permission to enter or leave the room and call him trained soldier.
Has anyone else noticed how the welsh corporal (Cpl White) is nicknamed Chalky, I wonder if it's a reference to Private Cheeseman who he played in dad's army? Chalk and Cheese.
During my time in the RAF there was a number of nicknames that could be found at many different stations, Chalky. was one of these. Others that were often found were Dinger (Bell) and Bomber (Harris).
I've seen Tony Selby in other shows and he was nothing like Corporal Marsh. I saw him in two's company with Donald Sinden and Elaine Stritch. He played a bungling electrician who was a cringeing yes man.
As a young leading hand in the Fleet Air Arm I was posted to 360 sqdn RAF at RAF Watton. It was a combined RAF/RN unit with T17 Canberras that were used as electronic jammers (ECM) and trained the flying crews from both services. I assume the reason was to also use them against ships hence the RN involvement. Anyway I arrived at Watton and I got my own room which was strange to me as we just usually shared a mess with everyone else. We never got treated separately until the lofty heights of Petty Officer. We did have "Killicks "of the mess but we just shared the accomodation. I was being treated as a corporal of the mess, as I was a Leading Hand, so I was entitled to a room and I always think of this sit com as being very realistic although not sure about the sadistic corporal It certainly wasn't me lol
@@SpeccyMan I never said I had risen to lofty heights??? At 77 I think missing out an M can be put down to age and big thumbs without the spelling police on my case.
@@Odysseuss. Not sure what you mean?? I was on 360 at RAF Watton in 1968, we then moved to Cottesmore when Watton closed down. I was there until 1970 and some time later when Cottesmore closed they moved to Wyton.
There was a petition when it was cancelled after series 4 so they brought it back. Unfortunately, Robert Lindsay wasn’t in the last series because he was starring in Citizen Smith. Viewing figures plummeted and the show was cancelled again. Nobody complained this time. 😄
@@Horsley-Green Ohh, I see. I think after watching the series from start to finish, you'd have to agree that the show wasn't quite the same after "the Edwardian thug" left.
@@patrioticarchive You're quite right Pat. Carl Howman was a good actor, but we'd already got used to Robert Lindsey in the role and to be honest, he played the part much better. I've ALWAYS thought I was 'Born Too Late' (The Pony Tails, please look it up ;-) ) I really would have LOVED to have done National Service. I volunteered in '78. Not quite the same.
50 years on how funny can it be? Just as good as it was then. And way better than the trash being put out today. "Not you, Nance" When nobody was offended. Good times.
I don't remember this programme at all. My father did National Service, but it was in the Army (RAMC) and between 1951-1953. He spent most of that time in Hong Kong!
I lived the 70's as a Youth , it was a completly Diffrent time an it was a Hell as was This it May have been the Fiftys , but the Fucks of the New Gen Z wouuld Die now ..
Do they still do bed packs? Used to make one up and hide it for morning inspection, thought I was really smart until found out.... all about getting the lines straight down the middle of those horse hair blankets and squaring off the sides.
Interesting to see that the actor destined to become Tooting's Che Guevara - Wolfie Smith - is also called Smiff in this. :) And if Sunak gets his way, all of this will be topical again..... What goes around, comes around.
my dad wanted to join the paras but had flat feet, so they put him in the pioneer cor all the time while in he hated it but me and my brother heard for years and years how he loved it , i now miss those storys r i p dad STRANGE HOW THIS IS ON UTUBE NOW AFTER RISSHI SAID JHE WOULD BRING BACK NAT SERVICE MMM MANY A TIME THE M P ,S WOULD COME TO MY NANS HOME TO TAKE HIM BACK AWOL MUM CRYING , THEY TOOK HIM TO HACKNEY NICK ONCE TOOK AWAY HIS BELT BOOT LACES AND MADE HIM SHAVE IN COLD WATER GREAT DAYS HE SAID YEARS LATER MISS YOU DAD
@@SpeccyMan NO SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL DIDNT TEACH ME THAT HE TAUGHT ME A WORD THAT SUMS YOUR COMMENT UP BOLLOCKS THERE DID I SPELL IT RIGHT SEE YOU NEXT TEUSDAY
Pity the erk who told the Cpl his belt was upside down for the first half of the episode... Tony's line "I shall kill you, bring you back to life & kill you all over again" turned out to be a bit ironic. This week his death has been mistakenly reported on social media, so at 83 he gets to come back from the dead...
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Tony Selby was marvellous , he was the star of the show and no one else could have played the part better . salute the corporal !
yeah , but the show was centred around Tony .
@woody Vallallellalunga Selby was the established actor in the regular cast. You can really see why so many of the young talent went on to stardom - Robert Lindsay has since gone on to Citizen Smith, My Family and Hornblower, David Janson was the postman in Keeping Up Appearances and Brian Pettifer has had a fantastic career as a character actor.
The way Tony Selby played a sadistic corporal in the camp and a seriously hen pecked husband who was scared stiff of his wife was amazing.
I bet Tony Selby's Corporal Marsh and Windsor Davies's BSM Williams together caused a noticeable drop in applications to join the armed forces back in the mid '70s.
Smiff - 'One F or two? - free!'
Saw this as a kid on original release, on ITV. Loved it. On a re-watch Ive enjoyed it again. Never realised until today that it was based in the mid-fifties. Nice one
Same people who wrote "The Good Life", John Esmonde and Bob Larbey
"Now get this and get this straight, my name is Marsh - B.A.S.T.A.R.D - Marsh".
😂🤣🤣😂
Grew up watching this and STILL joined the RAF!
6 years as a Fireman. Never knew I had it so good.
thank you for being there.
5 years,like the curate's egg,good in parts!
Sad to hear of his passing today.... 6.9.21. RIP Tony. Thanks for the memories.
I saw that and am saddened.
I used to love this when I was kid, great memories!
As an American for which I was station at RAF LAKENHEATH I did watch this show & to be honest with you " I LOVE IT!" Thank you to whomever posted this. This is "AWESOME!" Again whoever posted this "THANK YOU!"
My old man was an RAF pilot in WW2. He thought Tony Selby's portrayal of Marsh was perfect and very near to the sort of NCOs my father came across in training.
I have just been reminded how funny this was … I remember watching it as a kid. My dad did National Service in the RAF … he loved this .. he said the Cpls were realistic!! lol
Thank you for sharing.
Rip Tony Selby such a sad loss a great show full of childhood memories for me and many others x
Oh my gosh, this show is great! It's got Mr Cheeseman from dad's army, Robert Lindsey from all things awesome & that corporal is harder than a coffin nail! Cheers from Canada
Joined the Royal Navy in '83 and yes, we did hear "Stand by your beds" in basic training.
Same in 1966!
A year after you, still going
@@199Paramedic Blimey mate - fair play.
@@199Paramedic Memories!
I went to see the live stage version of this in 1977 in Torquay. I laughed so much my sides have only just stopped aching in 2024.
I did too John. Robert Lindsey still in the cast before going off to star in Citzen Smith the same year.
@@billjones9627 the best bits were when they went off script, me and the missus still reminisce and laugh all over again nearly 50 years on 😂
I went with Mum and Dad and was so excited when I saw they were doing summer season as I never used to miss an episode. Great cast and certainly on a par with It Ain't Half Hot Mum which I think inspired it.
So glad I found this on youtube again. I watched this at my grandads 2 years ago and I've loved it ever since
Just heard that Tony Selby died recently of Covid, he was a fabulous actor and this series he was top dog. I remember him in an episode of Bergerac and to me that was one of the better story lines, he was just effortless when he acted, a true gifted actor. Many thanks Tony for the years of great acting. Rip
Of Covid ? Your having a laugh. covid was a scam
I was an RAF cadet when GSI was showing and loved it! All the main characters were amazing!I later met Brian Leckie in Glasgow and was amazed to hear him with an English accent!!
Brian was born in South Africa, might have had some influence on his brogue!
When I was a lad my parents took us to see this show live at the princess Theater while on summer holiday . It was fantastic. Still have the program:)
that’s pretty cool. its nice to have those type of memories and this is a nice place to share them.
programme
Fantastic series, great to catch up with this again. Thanks for posting .
I grew up watching this, didnt realise at the time I'd have 2 tours as a Cpl DI on RAF Basic Training at Halton!
Halton? Must be a lot younger than me! Swinderby was the place in my youth!
@@JohnSmith-ei2pzHemswell for me!😊
Ah, bed blocks, the bane of every recruit and all military courses.
I never saw any of this before (left the UK in 1972) and I just binge watched the lot. The first four series are worth watching, I only watched the fifth in the hope of seeing the corporal get demoted. great plot lines, excellent actors, interesting historically, reminder of how things 'was'. Some well known faces in there too, (Yes Minister etc).
Wolfie Smith , comes to mind ...
I loved this as a wee boy, Tony Selby was brilliant in it!
Joined in 85. Really surprised when got to first unit and everyone had duvets. First weekend off went to Argos and got my first duvet. Glad to never see another bed pack. Later on got fitted sheets (made at local market) and my own pillows.
Cushy!Bit different in 1966.
5:19 -- I have been waiting decades to hear this once again... I so much cracked up when I first hear it on television in the seventies.
Wolfie Smith....POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
He left the series to do Citizen Smith. I believe Carl Howman replaced him.Remember him from Brush strokes.
Love how calls him three f smith for the rest of the programme
I was an Air Cadet back when this first aired!… We had a flight sergeant just like Marsh!… LOOOOOL
Same with me, finally got up to Senior Cadet, we also had a FS who was very much the same 🙂
Thank-you for the up-load, I've not seen this since I was a kid. GET SOME IN!
My name is Marsh, BASTARD, Marsh.
Forty odd years later and still one of the most memorable lines in a British sitcom.
Absolutely. It's a brilliant line.
Also used by Frazer in a Dads Army episode.
R.I.P Tony selby cracking actor
Bed Packs, I remember them well, and not fondly, but they were a necessary component of getting us to integrate into how the service works, and Instil teamwork, those of us could make them well did it for those who couldn’t, those were the days.
Bloody bedpacks...! Bain of my life! Only once had mine tossed out the window! 😁
We went through three Cpls and two Sgts in 6 weeks.! Practically put OURSELVES through training! 😋
And bumpering the floor!
Bed boxes, then bumping the floor for a nice shine after sweeping with some rather useless brooms and dustpan and brush. Then on to the ablutions. It seemed never-ending! Job creation at its finest!
I'm not old enough to have done National Service but I remember watching this as a kid and seeing it now brings back some memories of my own basic training in the 70s. Not much had changed by then and the DIs were just the same. Tony Selby does a great job. I wonder if he served?
Swinderby in '74.
No. He was never in any service.
Same here. It was on in the early 70's. I was zbout 6 or 7. 😂
Is that Ben Harper?!? Woooowww..... 🤯
My Family was also a really good sitcom.
Loved it. Laughed alot. Thank you for sharing.
A young Robert Lindsay! I didn't recognize him until the credits.
We never saw this series in South Africa, but then we didn't have a tv service until the 1970's.
Cheers for this.....very nostalgic!
RIP Tony Selby
Excellent brilliant 👏 comedy I have forgotten about this I have just been watching this on Talking Pictures TV this morning
I remember turning up at lippstadt in West Germany, the Provo sergeant had the 5 of us new boys doubling around the camp with are suitcases, this was introducing of the British army 🤣,no servicemen will ever forget "STAND BY YOUR BEDS" 🤣🤣
And will never forget their service number...
@@Free_Ranger_CT110 You're not wrong FR. I done 23 years so it's a little easier for me, but in my Legion there are a few 'old timers' and they all know there 'service number'. Take care my brother.
@@Corky341 thanks mate & the same to you
Funny they even let you in with such poor command of English. It is OUR suitcases!
@@Corky341 No! You DID 23 years ... ... THEIR service number ... (All that time and never mastered the language, eh?)
Millennials will just love a bit of national service
Would 💩thenselfs.😂😂
Probably spend some time in the guardroom!
God help us all. Snowflakes in uniform?
Snowflakes is a term used by those who can't stand the heat and see the benefits of a professional armed service. Even places that have armed neutrality with compulsory service, armed or civil, produce a much more professional and effective resource than British NS ever did. NS post war was always seen as a joke, hence Get Some In.
@@user-xt9kl1vm3z Regional Detention Centre?
Tony Selby was brilliant.
Well yes and no. It all turns out to be about him. And he is a complete twat. No saving graces. Who ever heard of him since? Where as Wolfie, sorry Jakey AKA Admiral Pellew. Has carved his name.
@@joeturner1597 He's supposed to be an asshole here.
@@joeturner1597 He's supposed to be an ass here.
Thank you for the series. Much appreciated 😀
Very topical. Hope Rishi is watching this😊
He wouldn't like it. Too many working class characters...
@@mikecrimlis3366or British stereotypes like yourself
@@alanwayte432 Yes, exactly that.
He said he doesn't have working class friends, so why would he relate to a class of people he chooses not to interact with set in a time before his family declared themselves British?
He even deserted our armed service veterans this afternoon. D-Day means nothing to him, and he'll have dual nationality by the time the next major anniversary comes around. You and Sunak should really consider relocating to a place where the stereotypical people are of a type you prefer to be around instead of insulting those of us who have been this stereotype longer than his entire family has been British..
Why would I want my homeland to be governed by someone who, by your own admission avoids the stereotypical native people like me?
His performance today shows what he thinks of our armed forces.
Wait till they have to supply uniforms for all the different genders
Or sepoy Sunak as Indians call him. The RAF bombed and strafed unarmed Quit India protestors in 1942 and 43 [the years of the Bengal Holocaust - Churchill's Collective Punishment of Bengal for producing INA Leader Subhas Bose killing millions - then diverting Food Aid from his victims censorship of this last of over 3 dozen British-made famines was blown]. It is fitting that on Republic Day last year, PM Modi announced that a statue of INA leader Subhas Bose [in his military fatigues] would stand on the empty plinth facing India Gate in RajPath, New Delhi, where once the British King's statue stood.
Is that one 'f' or two? Classic. :)
Wow, had forgotten this series! Thanks! 👍 👍 👍
Glad this is still up, remember watching it on my blackberry in year 8 lol
Ahh, yes, army humour. Raw recruits vs no nonsense drill sergeant = hilarity ensues.
We desperately need this sort of comedy today, the louder the better,
RAF humour and drill Corporal I think you mean.
RIP Tony Selby 6th Sept 2021.
That was a false alarm....Died to day: 6 Sept 2021.
I did my training at RAF Swinderby in the 70's; then had the bad luck of being posted back there as staff after trade training!
We got a poofta!, haha gold, try getting away with that now.
😂😂😂😂
I love it!
Not much left of Swinderby nowadays, happiest 6 weeks of my life and the Newcomers club lol
I was at Swinderby Sept 6th 1978, loved it our Cpl was Cpl Hagen, ex QCS, great times at the Newcomers club, but hated the Breakfast in the mess, outside cooks, breakfast was swimming in grease. remember the Benches we had to run across on the wall bars.
I went through RAF Swinderby in September 1970. On the day we arrived the DI in charge of us asked if there were any rejoiners or anyone had previous service in the other branches of the Armed Forces. I had previously been in boys service in the Royal Navy joining in 1964 at HMS Ganges. When I told the DI this he replied welcome to RAF Swinderby you have served your life in hell.
I really enjoyed my time at Swinderby and compared with Ganges it was a holiday camp to me as a room leader in my flight. I served in the RAF for 13 happy years ending my service at RAF Cosford. I moved to Telford and still go to Cosford often being a civilian instructor in the RAF Cadets on a Squadron in Telford.
Ditto. RAF St.Athan. 46 entry. Boy Entrants 1962.
@@julianderrick8232 you were at swinderby in 1978 ? MAYBE we were on same intake CRSE ?? RUSS MAY from BELFAST ENLISTED APR 78 ...12 YRS RAF REGT!
@@julianderrick8232 ok soz just seen SEPT 1978 ! surprised RONNIE HAGEN still there then ?! he broke his pace stick in a rage at a lad on parade ...ALL of us chipped in fr new one ! LATER heard he had a good rep Inthe REGT GREAT MAN
Free F Smifff. Love it... 😷😂
Just showing my Grandson and explaining how nothing much had changed by 1973 when I joined!
(Apart from S.L.R.'s/ Shi..... Hawks' and Belt on No.1's/ Woolley Pulleys for Working Blues,and the appalling 'Flasher Macs' instead of Greatcoats)Just about everything still stood!
This was very popular on T.V. especially with the Old 'Erks !,
I even remember Tony Selby doing a P.R. visit to RAF Honington and He was in Uniform!
Mind 'Basil Brush' up staged him the same year at 12 Sqdn!
You had wooly pulleys!
@@user-xt9kl1vm3z I just missed the battledress but had it for 4 years in the spacers, once you'd either ironed or just worn it smooth nothing since has matched it as working dress.
Perfect time to rewatch this with the return of national service.
Bril! Wonder how some would go if National Service was brought back?. 🤣🤣
Would love spending time in the guardroom.
This was great! Funnily enough I never fancied it at the time so I've never seen it before.
When i joined The Lifeguards in 1971, we had a trained soldier with us who had his own room in the block. You had to ask his permission to enter or leave the room and call him trained soldier.
We had to call them staff.
Someone should put Cpl Marsh on a charge, his belt was upside down for the first half of the barracks scene.
Classic British Comedy
Has anyone else noticed how the welsh corporal (Cpl White) is nicknamed Chalky, I wonder if it's a reference to Private Cheeseman who he played in dad's army? Chalk and Cheese.
Every White in the forces is called Chalky. Chalk being white.
During my time in the RAF there was a number of nicknames that could be found at many different stations, Chalky. was one of these. Others that were often found were Dinger (Bell) and Bomber (Harris).
@@johnallen4315Same in the Fire Service. Everyone called Miller is nicknamed ‘Dusty’
They missed your point :-)
And Smudger Smith and Nobby Clarke!
When comedy was good.
In a past life, I was that Corporal. Hours of fun !
In a past life, you might have got jumped up dark alleyways by a few recruits
I've seen Tony Selby in other shows and he was nothing like Corporal Marsh. I saw him in two's company with Donald Sinden and Elaine Stritch. He played a bungling electrician who was a cringeing yes man.
He did a couple of Minder episodes as a bumbling hardcase. He was in an episode of ITV's Thriller anthology series too. He played the good guy!
I loved this as a kid
Yes, I had a DI at Swinderby who spelt his name exactly the same way, and it fiited him to a tee
Great series, the only problem I have is the aspect ratio should have been 4:3 hence the distortion, degrading the viewability
12:35 when the Ted gets his hair cut!
If Corporal Marsh was still I service he'd be right down that commentor's throat for saluting him.....you don't salute a bloody NCO...lol
No the NCO's work for a living so we were told 😂
As a young leading hand in the Fleet Air Arm I was posted to 360 sqdn RAF at RAF Watton. It was a combined RAF/RN unit with T17 Canberras that were used as electronic jammers (ECM) and trained the flying crews from both services.
I assume the reason was to also use them against ships hence the RN involvement.
Anyway I arrived at Watton and I got my own room which was strange to me as we just usually shared a mess with everyone else. We never got treated separately until the lofty heights of Petty Officer. We did have "Killicks "of the mess but we just shared the accomodation.
I was being treated as a corporal of the mess, as I was a Leading Hand, so I was entitled to a room and I always think of this sit com as being very realistic although not sure about the sadistic corporal It certainly wasn't me lol
was on the Tatty ton. Great place, some good lads on 360.
Rose to lofty heights, yet never learned to spell accommodation?
@@SpeccyMan I never said I had risen to lofty heights??? At 77 I think missing out an M can be put down to age and big thumbs without the spelling police on my case.
Wyton.
@@Odysseuss. Not sure what you mean?? I was on 360 at RAF Watton in 1968, we then moved to Cottesmore when Watton closed down. I was there until 1970 and some time later when Cottesmore closed they moved to Wyton.
Great show! Was it popular when it was first aired? I've never heard off it before.
There was a petition when it was cancelled after series 4 so they brought it back. Unfortunately, Robert Lindsay wasn’t in the last series because he was starring in Citizen Smith. Viewing figures plummeted and the show was cancelled again. Nobody complained this time. 😄
@@Horsley-Green Ohh, I see. I think after watching the series from start to finish, you'd have to agree that the show wasn't quite the same after "the Edwardian thug" left.
@@patrioticarchive You're quite right Pat. Carl Howman was a good actor, but we'd already got used to Robert Lindsey in the role and to be honest, he played the part much better. I've ALWAYS thought I was 'Born Too Late' (The Pony Tails, please look it up ;-) ) I really would have LOVED to have done National Service. I volunteered in '78. Not quite the same.
I think my corporal at Swinderby, Corporal Drake used the same introduction… funny how Drake and Marsh are both spelt B.A.S.T.A.R.D. 😀
50 years on how funny can it be? Just as good as it was then.
And way better than the trash being put out today.
"Not you, Nance" When nobody was offended. Good times.
I never realize how old it is when I watch it again.
It's just a great show and never gets old for me 😄
Glad I missed national service by 18 months 😅
Theres a Swinderby FB page thats got lots of good stories and memories
What about a Hemswell one?
Ah Swinditz.
Yes Edward the seventh, your in 🤣👍
... you're in.
I don't remember this programme at all. My father did National Service, but it was in the Army (RAMC) and between 1951-1953. He spent most of that time in Hong Kong!
I fell in love with Robert Lindsey watching this and still love him now ❤❤😊
His wife on My Family is just as evil as Marsh
I lived the 70's as a Youth , it was a completly Diffrent time an it was a Hell as was This it May have been the Fiftys , but the Fucks of the New Gen Z wouuld Die now ..
POOF HOUSE RICHARDSON IS MRS BUCKETS POSTMAN CHALKY WAS MR CHEESEMAN IN DADS ARMY
RIP Tony Selby.
Do they still do bed packs? Used to make one up and hide it for morning inspection, thought I was really smart until found out.... all about getting the lines straight down the middle of those horse hair blankets and squaring off the sides.
Remember him in the sweeny
RIP Cpl Marsh
Interesting to see that the actor destined to become Tooting's Che Guevara - Wolfie Smith - is also called Smiff in this. :)
And if Sunak gets his way, all of this will be topical again..... What goes around, comes around.
my dad wanted to join the paras but had flat feet, so they put him in the pioneer cor all the time while in he hated it
but me and my brother heard for years and years how he loved it , i now miss those storys r i p dad
STRANGE HOW THIS IS ON UTUBE NOW AFTER RISSHI SAID JHE WOULD BRING BACK NAT SERVICE MMM
MANY A TIME THE M P ,S WOULD COME TO MY NANS HOME TO TAKE HIM BACK AWOL MUM CRYING , THEY TOOK HIM TO HACKNEY NICK ONCE TOOK AWAY HIS BELT BOOT LACES AND MADE HIM SHAVE IN COLD WATER GREAT DAYS HE SAID YEARS LATER MISS YOU DAD
And your father never got around to teaching you the correct use of the English language. Spelling, grammar or punctuation!
@@SpeccyMan NO SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL DIDNT TEACH ME THAT HE TAUGHT ME A WORD THAT SUMS YOUR COMMENT UP BOLLOCKS THERE DID I SPELL IT RIGHT SEE YOU NEXT TEUSDAY
If I’m not mistaken Cpl Marsh has his belt on upside down, the buckles on the rear face upwards and nit downwards.
1937 pattern belt was worn with rear buckles at top to accept shoulder straps.
Was get some in filmed at a real RAF Station which station was it would like to know please
It was filmed at Hobbs Barracks in Surrey, which was an Army base, never RAF, www.felbridge.org.uk/index.php/publications/hobbs-barracks/
never seen it before but a pisser. reminds me of recruit school in the r.a.n.
Pity the erk who told the Cpl his belt was upside down for the first half of the episode... Tony's line "I shall kill you, bring you back to life & kill you all over again" turned out to be a bit ironic. This week his death has been mistakenly reported on social media, so at 83 he gets to come back from the dead...
.........And now....6-9-21-. He is actually. RIP Tony.
Glitz !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did Marsh chin Chalky to get his £15 back? 😅
R.I.P TONY SELBY (CORPORAL MARSH)
Anybody remember swinderby?
oh yes !!!
Yes hated the place at the time 1986 feel quite nostalgic about it now. Sgt Fosbury must have used Cpl Marsh as a role model.
August '74
Al-zein Kusmantoro Oh crikey what would Marsh say if he found out 24:09
Wow never new jarvis cocker was in get some in ?
And the Tories have nailed this.
RIP Cpl Marsh died of covid age 83....
NOBOBY under 82 years of age actually died of 'covid'. (FFS :-( ).
Died 'with'........... at a push
or maybe not depends which post you believe
Marsh should have said 0530 hours as The Military The Police The NHS The Civil Service and BBC World Service all use the 24 hour clock
Nope.
gGreat actor as were all the cast, unfortunatly on atehnical coment , his belt is upside down,.