@@joepineapples7774 that's the trouble these days there is no family like there was back then plenty to watch on telly and games to play grandparents to talk to
I was born in the west end of Newcastle in 1965, but my mother moved us to Nuneaton in Coventry when I was 7. I remember watching this and feeling incredibly homesick and sad. I missed my relatives who I didn’t see for three years, and especially my dad, as they were separated. At the end of each episode they show you kids playing on an almost demolished street where I used to play whenever my dad would take me to see my Grandma. She lived just across the road from that shot, at the top of Westgate Hill, in one of three high rise blocks of flats. It was bittersweet to watch, but I loved it. Hearing the familiar Geordie accent and looking out for areas of my hometown that I might recognize was sad but oddly comforting ❤️
Great comedy series of my younger years lovely to be able to enjoy again people in 2023 will also look back in 2073 and remember there favourite tv series its the way of it all time flies so just enjoy the trip
This episode starts my Christmas, 1st December without fail, sit in front of the box, indulge, reminisce , and enjoy a classic tv comedy. I have watched this episode many times, never fails to put a smile on my face. Happy times!
😂 the pandemic, lockdowns, and all the madness that ensued brought me to music streaming services, a huge part of my working day involves driving for miles and miles, hour upon hour, I needed to escape the COVID nightmare and music in my vehicle was the solution, I travelled back to the eighties and relive all of the musical influences that shaped my younger life, it rescued me, stopped me from going as mad as the world that was around me. I've never looked back, I've discovered music from that decade that I completely overlooked, and I just love it, it's kept me feeling young, fresh , vibrant..I have pulled the past into the present, and it is servicing me very very well. Ultimately you end up feeling as old as you want to be.
Was born 64 …., minder …professional s ..ain’t half hot mom ..sweeney … best days growing up ,,,the saint ,, Allo Allo … pure classics could watch everyday 😂😂
Got the box collection of these brings back so many memories of the 70s 1 of thee best comedies then and just love watching all the old furniture pubs clothes and streets brilliant
Ah, nostalgia. Make the most of it, lads!😁 I've always had a better top half than bottom half; not tall enough to look like much in a mini, but a pair of tights covered a multitude of sins, and platform shoes were a life-saver in party/panto season. I imagine everything (including parties, panto, legs, minis, platform shoes and probably women too) will be cancelled and banned soon for being too British and therefore 'wrong'.🙄
Agree totally. The BBC used to do great comedies but they are an absolute disgrace these days. I haven't paid the licence fee in years and never will again.
@@ianheaver3217 True for everything everywhere - they have literally destroyed everything everywhere including people - people barely act like human beings anymore - just weird self-absorbed wounded and warped zombies.
Can it really be 50 years? I was 13 and in my 1st year of high school. Here we are in 2024 and I'm retired- where did the time go? It really does seem like it was yesterday yet when we look at these old shows and news reporting from the period it really does look very old, a different world!
Christmas used to be great as a kid ,then we grow up at least I had a child hood kids now they don't,we build rafts ,climbing trees going for bike rides what have got now computers they don't move just sit there looking at screen
Or frightened to go out, and I know kids have to keep up but I think it's gone a bit too far now with screens, will kids be able to write or read in years to come
Nothing better than waking up Christmas morning (well before 6am) and discovering Santa had left us a new bike again. Kids all over the neighbourhood would be out cycling all day, whatever the weather.
I mean yeah they all have phones and screens but that's just part of this generation. The kids are still out on bikes and getting up to stuff where I live. Tell you what aswell, they're a lot more savvy about strangers and weirdos nowadays.
Great simpler times. We had a labour government back then but a much better Labour government than we have now that actually cared for the working man.
@mrelano65 At least people had jobs to go on strike from back then.The cost of living was less back then. You could buy a house for less than 10 grand. No people coming over on dinghies illegally and being allowed in the country. More jobs. Less benefit scroungers (with the exception of Terry perhaps). People didn't have to resort to food banks. A great time to be a child. No technology. Kids could play outside from morning till night. No two tiier policing. The law was less soft on criminals. You didn't get sent to prison for free speech and hurty words. And most of all we didn't have Kier Starmer as prime minister. People were nicer, not so selfish, not so greedy,not so materialistic that they have to have expensive things that they couldn't afford to make others think they are wealthy.We had the good old Ford Cortina. If you drove one of them you were doing well for yourself. No EVs.
I grew up with these comedies , Hancocks half hour . likely lads . Re visiting them now what I notice is the characters are depressed with life and argumentative
9:23 Bit of a continuity problem there. It was only a few episodes ago that Bob was being berated for being an aggressive driver. SPOILER ALERT: Having Bob suddenly and without warning cheat on Thelma was quite a clumsy move by the writers. It totally undermined the character displayed by Bob over the last two seasons.
Bob always had a roving eye, but he continually blamed Terry for leading him astray when he never actually did. He was never as innocent as he liked to make out and quite the hypocrite too. Also, there is a time lapse between the last episode of the series and this Christmas special. It's September and Thelma says, "You haven't even seen Terry since Easter."
Season 2 Episode 14 Christmas Special is Whatever happened to the likely lads not the likely lads. There were 3 series of The Likely Lads between 1964 & 1966 This was followed by 2 series of Whatever happened to the likely lads in 1973 to 1974
@@sports872 The first series of the likely lads started in December 1964 and ran through Christmas and on till the end of January 1965 but non of them were classified as specials series 2 and 3 aired in the middle of the year so no specials. Only one of whatever happened to the likely lads was on at Christmas and that was 2-14
@@truthgiver8286 thanks. That's a pity. Really enjoyed that. I used to watch repeats in the 90s of this on BBC2 I'm sure. I would have been about 8/9/10. Always liked it. Enjoy it more now that I'm an adult but I've only watched odd episodes. That episode has made go and watch the it from the first episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. I will after posting this. I don't remember Bob being like that with other woman. I always thought he was under the thumb and knew his place. I love how careful and nervous he can be. The two of them are great together but love Bob.
I think the world has changed we haven't i am 67 and the programmes have changed the actors and actress are not good enough now and there are too many wokes people
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 ?"
Memories of a much gentler time.
tv shows much better. no socal media no mobile phones only 3 tv channels. britain much more pleasant lot less stabbings, hardly any illegal immigrants
titty,fanny and dick were innocent names back then.😂
Classic. I can't count the number of times I've watched this one over the years. Nostalgia overdrive.
Same, we are searching for simpler times, life is very messy nowadays.
Wished life was like this now Christmas was special back then now it doesn't seem the same
@@blackcountrywench6483 Yes, to be that child again, when mam & dad made it special, regardless of how we compared to the Jones's.
@@joepineapples7774 that's the trouble these days there is no family like there was back then plenty to watch on telly and games to play grandparents to talk to
You can get extra maths tuition at Sainsbury's....lol
I was born in the west end of Newcastle in 1965, but my mother moved us to Nuneaton in Coventry when I was 7.
I remember watching this and feeling incredibly homesick and sad. I missed my relatives who I didn’t see for three years, and especially my dad, as they were separated.
At the end of each episode they show you kids playing on an almost demolished street where I used to play whenever my dad would take me to see my Grandma. She lived just across the road from that shot, at the top of Westgate Hill, in one of three high rise blocks of flats.
It was bittersweet to watch, but I loved it. Hearing the familiar Geordie accent and looking out for areas of my hometown that I might recognize was sad but oddly comforting ❤️
Nuneaton isn't in Coventry it's its own town Coventry is a city, nuneaton is in Warwickshire
Born a year before you -funny how we’re all watching nostalgic shows to remember
@@leighmonty13Coventry is in Warwickshire too
@@colinwhite15 but nuneaton isn't in Coventry
@@leighmonty13 never said it was😉
This series was wonderfully written and beautifully acted. An absolute comedy classic.
Great comedy series of my younger years lovely to be able to enjoy again people in 2023 will also look back in 2073
and remember there favourite tv series its the way of it all time flies so just enjoy the trip
First time watching for me. I was 14 when this first aired. And I’m sure I would have been in bed. !!
Wish life was like this now.
I grew up watching this & the 2 ronnies, morcombe & wise, benny hill, basil brush, sooty & sweep, i miss the good old days.
My first Christmas, I now love watching all the 70s shows ❤❤
Just brilliant stuff from two comic geniuses ,the chemistry they have is rare indeed.
Especially considering they didn’t like each other and never spoke for 40 years after this. You can’t tell can you? Onscreen they sparkle.
@@TH-camMrP More to do with Bolam who appears to be exactly like Terry in real life.
Just brilliant stuff. Fabulous actors and world class writers
Brilliant 👏. An era with genuine comedy & documentarys, Where's it gone / what happened to authenticity eh... World in Action alike.
Love this series so beautifully observed and acted. When we could laugh at ourselves and others!!
This episode starts my Christmas, 1st December without fail, sit in front of the box, indulge, reminisce , and enjoy a classic tv comedy. I have watched this episode many times, never fails to put a smile on my face. Happy times!
They certainly were ❤
This was the year I was born.
I can honestly say that sitcoms were far better back then. In both writing, acting performance and production.
I was born this year. Put this on and looked at the comments lol happy 50 to us
I wished life was like this now Christmas doesn't seem the same anymore it's all buy buy
Hi
Hi
They were saying that 50 years ago lol.
@@theculturedthug6609 yu like curry
@@theculturedthug6609 50 years ago they’d be saying they’d be lucky to get an orange and sixpence and that they couldn’t get bananas :)
remember watching this as a 9 year old, top TV
was only 2yrs old but watched reruns on bbc 2.
I was 10 in 1974. Remember watching this it was brilliant loved the likely lads.
😂 the pandemic, lockdowns, and all the madness that ensued brought me to music streaming services, a huge part of my working day involves driving for miles and miles, hour upon hour, I needed to escape the COVID nightmare and music in my vehicle was the solution, I travelled back to the eighties and relive all of the musical influences that shaped my younger life, it rescued me, stopped me from going as mad as the world that was around me. I've never looked back, I've discovered music from that decade that I completely overlooked, and I just love it, it's kept me feeling young, fresh , vibrant..I have pulled the past into the present, and it is servicing me very very well. Ultimately you end up feeling as old as you want to be.
Terry's hand signal cracked me up🤣
can watch these over and over just great on every level
I usually do watch over and over, I miss the British way of life, when families were to together,
Can't believe it's 50 years ago..sadly both Thelma and Rodney have departed. 1974 The Great escape was on, it usually is!!
Brilliant show .
Thanks for uploading, seen this episode many times but still makes me laugh 50 years after it first aired 😁👍
still one of the very best shows ever
Was born 64 …., minder …professional s ..ain’t half hot mom ..sweeney … best days growing up ,,,the saint ,, Allo Allo … pure classics could watch everyday 😂😂
Totally agree with you I was the year before and looking back it was a golden age great writers and actors
Also loved The Avengers. I wanted to be Emma Peel 😊
@@janicelee9709 Well she was pretty much the all round perfect woman played by the wonderful Diana Rigg from North Yorkshire.
Got the box collection of these brings back so many memories of the 70s 1 of thee best comedies then and just love watching all the old furniture pubs clothes and streets brilliant
Some great legs in this episode, in the days when the mini skirt was every where, great days.
' Up with mini- skirts !'
Ah, nostalgia. Make the most of it, lads!😁 I've always had a better top half than bottom half; not tall enough to look like much in a mini, but a pair of tights covered a multitude of sins, and platform shoes were a life-saver in party/panto season.
I imagine everything (including parties, panto, legs, minis, platform shoes and probably women too) will be cancelled and banned soon for being too British and therefore 'wrong'.🙄
“Stir the pudding” 👍😂
Mid 70's, the pinnacle of British TV.
That theme tune brings back so many memories 😢
Good British comedy at its best .
Those were the times when the BBC was worth watching.
Those times have gone . 🧐
Yes - real life, real talent, real actors, real performances - authentic expression of real authentic talent.
Agree totally. The BBC used to do great comedies but they are an absolute disgrace these days. I haven't paid the licence fee in years and never will again.
@@ianheaver3217 True for everything everywhere - they have literally destroyed everything everywhere including people - people barely act like human beings anymore - just weird self-absorbed wounded and warped zombies.
@@ianheaver3217stupid criminal bastard. Then you have the fuck8ng cheek to criticise the BBC. Criminal and thick! 🤷🏻♂️
Those were the days. When middle class aspiration led inexorably to the new build Shangri-la that was the Elm Lodge housing estate!
The house depicted is number 8 Agincourt, Newcastle.
The Whitley Lodge Estate in Whitley Bay
This house is Agincourt in killingworth @@abagatelle
I used to play darts and drink with James Bolam when he was in Chelsea filming Otley...
Thanks for sharing brilliant timeless 😀
There's something about Thelma in that outfit! 😃👍❤️
She did have great legs.
September 28th 1974. The game Bob missed was home to Ipswich. Newcastle won 1-0 and Pat Howard scored the goal.
Fucking hell. You are a wizard with that google eh? 😂😂
@@canderson1955 Pat Howard left Newcastle in Sept 1976 for Arsenal who paid £40,000 for him🤪
Brilliant classic comedy with my favorite theme tune. Shame they are both no longer with us R.I.P. Bob and Terry.
James Bolam (Terry) is still with us...87
He’s now 89 and still with us, thankfully. Comedy royalty and forever a likely lad.
Love the theme tune ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can it really be 50 years? I was 13 and in my 1st year of high school. Here we are in 2024 and I'm retired- where did the time go? It really does seem like it was yesterday yet when we look at these old shows and news reporting from the period it really does look very old, a different world!
My DVD box set of The Likely Lads does not have this episode as far as I recall. A Big Thanks.
It's on the DVD set of the second series.
Excellent
Best days of our lives 😢
I was 16 when this came out. I don't know how many times I've seen it.
I was 15, great times
Wonderful.
Brilliant. They don't make 'em like this anymore
“Do us a favour Bob. Get stuffed” 😂
Christmas used to be great as a kid ,then we grow up at least I had a child hood kids now they don't,we build rafts ,climbing trees going for bike rides what have got now computers they don't move just sit there looking at screen
Or frightened to go out, and I know kids have to keep up but I think it's gone a bit too far now with screens, will kids be able to write or read in years to come
You are so correct … best days of my life
Nothing better than waking up Christmas morning (well before 6am) and discovering Santa had left us a new bike again. Kids all over the neighbourhood would be out cycling all day, whatever the weather.
Great times
I mean yeah they all have phones and screens but that's just part of this generation. The kids are still out on bikes and getting up to stuff where I live. Tell you what aswell, they're a lot more savvy about strangers and weirdos nowadays.
This reminds me of my childhood..
Great simpler times. We had a labour government back then but a much better Labour government than we have now that actually cared for the working man.
Too many strikes. Too many power cuts. Too much discontent. It wasn't great under Labour even back then.
@mrelano65 At least people had jobs to go on strike from back then.The cost of living was less back then. You could buy a house for less than 10 grand. No people coming over on dinghies illegally and being allowed in the country. More jobs. Less benefit scroungers (with the exception of Terry perhaps). People didn't have to resort to food banks. A great time to be a child. No technology. Kids could play outside from morning till night. No two tiier policing. The law was less soft on criminals. You didn't get sent to prison for free speech and hurty words. And most of all we didn't have Kier Starmer as prime minister.
People were nicer, not so selfish, not so greedy,not so materialistic that they have to have expensive things that they couldn't afford to make others think they are wealthy.We had the good old Ford Cortina. If you drove one of them you were doing well for yourself. No EVs.
@piledriverpotter9847 Don't get me wrong, I grew up in the 70s and I would go back in a heartbeat. Just saying, it wasn't all milk and honey.
Love this episode
Thelmas fancy dress outfit though, but........
I was 5 the year this episode was broadcast and I wish I had been older either 10 15 or even 20
There is know way we can turn back time wish I could
Rodney Bewes (Bob/Captain Hook) and Brigit Forsyth (Thelma/Tinkerbell) have both passed on now.
Merry Christmas to you too.
@@keithbrown7681 It's not Christmas. Stop snorting whatever you're snorting.
Brilliant love this show
❤
I grew up with these comedies , Hancocks half hour . likely lads . Re visiting them now what I notice is the characters are depressed with life and argumentative
Thelma is absolutely gorgeous,
When Comedy was Actually Funny
Thanks for posting this. You might get more clicks if you include "The Likely Lads" in the title
bob's beard though
He looked better in the beard
So I'll try again .
British Comedy at its best , before the BBC went 'woke' and broke ❗
Another classic
Nice pokies, Thelma ;)
"Aunt from West Hartlepool." I have family in Hartlepool. 😁
I wonder if that home decor will ever come back in fashion.
Don't know how Bob puts up with that nagging little Thelma.
I know how I put up with my nagging little Mary - 42G tits.
It’s easy “nagging little Thelma” is a fictional character written by two men. They wrote her like that.
Thelma is brilliant
Class !
Classic! 😂
just class
I wish they hadn’t deleted the original Likely Lads series
Think Thelma's curtains ended up in Fools & Horses.
9:23 Bit of a continuity problem there. It was only a few episodes ago that Bob was being berated for being an aggressive driver.
SPOILER ALERT: Having Bob suddenly and without warning cheat on Thelma was quite a clumsy move by the writers. It totally undermined the character displayed by Bob over the last two seasons.
Just before his wedding a drunk Bob tried chatting up a girl. Who turned out to be Thelma's sister. Bob and booze are not good companions.
Does the name Deirdre Birchwood mean nothing to you???
Bob always had a roving eye, but he continually blamed Terry for leading him astray when he never actually did. He was never as innocent as he liked to make out and quite the hypocrite too. Also, there is a time lapse between the last episode of the series and this Christmas special. It's September and Thelma says, "You haven't even seen Terry since Easter."
@@iaindunbar1578 used to fancy her, her sister
I wouldn’t drink in their local. Look at 9min 15 seconds. They ask for two pints and you can clearly see two full pints in front of the barman.
"It was in a bowl and everything.." but everything didn't include water :p
What’s the programme!!?
The likely Lads
And not a swear word at all
360p really!!
Thelma had fantastic legs.
When the boat comes in
the days when you have a drink with the police and they take you to the station to pick the car u
Season 2 Episode 14 Christmas Special is Whatever happened to the likely lads not the likely lads. There were 3 series of The Likely Lads between 1964 & 1966 This was followed by 2 series of Whatever happened to the likely lads in 1973 to 1974
So this is actually 'The Likely Lads'?
@@mrdeafa25 No it is "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" which is a different series that followed on nearly 10 years later
@@truthgiver8286was there anymore Christmas specials?
@@sports872 The first series of the likely lads started in December 1964 and ran through Christmas and on till the end of January 1965 but non of them were classified as specials series 2 and 3 aired in the middle of the year so no specials. Only one of whatever happened to the likely lads was on at Christmas and that was 2-14
@@truthgiver8286 thanks. That's a pity. Really enjoyed that. I used to watch repeats in the 90s of this on BBC2 I'm sure. I would have been about 8/9/10. Always liked it. Enjoy it more now that I'm an adult but I've only watched odd episodes. That episode has made go and watch the it from the first episode of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads. I will after posting this.
I don't remember Bob being like that with other woman. I always thought he was under the thumb and knew his place. I love how careful and nervous he can be. The two of them are great together but love Bob.
Something about 'Thelma' drives me mad! She wouldn't have a very long life expectancy if she were my girlfriend!
I'm glad i am not the only one who thinks that, she was very very sexy.
I agree, she was educated at Watson's, Edinburgh, they are all very prissy out of that school, she grinds my bones.
@@macca1146 Not at all what I wrote.
@@MrMenefrego1 Oh, i see what you mean now reading it again lol.
@@macca1146 😉
Simon when did Bob cheat on thelma
Who’s the actor playing Terry? Is his name Scottie mc something ? He looks like a guy that has a podcast on here
James Bolam. Exceptional actor. Watch him in “When The Boat Comes In”.
@ thanks. I will check it out
that woman told the guy to sit with a wiggle of her finger and he obeyed. watch her First finger. about 22 and a half minute in.
Always depress the clutch when turning ignition on. Also saves battery drain.
What a load of nonsense
27:49 😂
So sad they fell out
So sad that they fell out and didnt speak for yrs
They did not speak ever again. I saw an interview with Susan Jameson (Bolam's wife) where she appeared to be uncomfortable with the situation.
Theres something depressing about the realness of this.
They were funny in their day but even by 1974 humour was changing.
Yeah thank god for Mrs browns boys that's much funnier
I think the world has changed we haven't i am 67 and the programmes have changed the actors and actress are not good enough now and there are too many wokes people
Totally agree, the actors these days are dull
Rewind
who wouldn't divorce thelma she such a whiney woman.
Thelma was so hot!
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😆
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 ?"
I always hated Terry, such an a..hole, great show mind.
Terry was canny - Bob was a pain in the a*se.
The days when weak comedy was accepted as good.How we have evolved since.
You sure about that, comedies in the 70's, 80's and 90's are far far better than todays non funny non so called comedies
Yeah Mrs Brown's Boys Versus the writers of Porridge,don't be talking such shite
Two middle aged men supposed to be teenagers!? Northern rubbish! 🤣
@@Bing_Bong60
Touch a nerve did I Jethro? Eee by gum!
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Get back to your shandy, tarquin.