New Yorker here. I am a teacher. That was a brilliant, poignant, incredibly moving, and funny movie. I was captivated. Their accent had me re-listen (a few times!) to some dialogue in spots because I didn't want to miss a thing but still couldn't decipher a few exchanges. hahaha, no matter. The castle argument between Briggsy and Ms. Kay hit a deep nerve with me: "they don't want them educated because they need fodder for the factories". The disparity in American education is most severe in the southern - central states. That's where they provide fodder for the American military. And that boy's natural insight into animal instinct at the zoo! Children can be so clever. I knew they brought the animals back to the bus! I called it! Finally, the cliff scene with Carol and Briggsy had my blood draining and choking back tears. I yelled, "tell her that you care you wanker!" Briggsy changing heart was too good to be true. Sadly, maybe he knew that Our Day Out was to remain only a dream for most of those kids. To him, there could be no record of false hope. Or was he really just a complete ASS? The children's hopes, feelings, and dreams inspired by the day were hopefully captured and harnessed by their hearts, never mind the camera film. Anyway, Briggsy didn't stop for Carol, and she paid no mind. For the record, I have only commented on a few things before, but never anywhere near as much as I have now for Our Day Out. Fantastic!
That's my hometown Liverpool accent haha. I was 10 when this came out and remember it well, just watched again for first time in over 30 years, thoroughly enjoyed and glad you did too.
The accent of The Beatles. It was a play not a movie. Transmitted originally on BBC TV. In those days superior to anything from 👉 🇺🇸 Think Shakespeare. The accent of the man collecting the thievery, from the bus is Welsh 👉 🏴 🇬🇧
Such a beautiful and unforgettable little play; very much a realistic snapshot of life in the Britain of over 50 years back. Human, warm, realistic and well written, excellently performed and filmed with a strong message. You won't regret watching this.
This bought back a lot of memories for me, just like it was back then for us poorer kids, I was still at school when this was made and this is how life was for many of us back then. A lovely little film and well worth the watch.
Very well written. When they are at the zoo and stand by the bear enclosure the teacher states that "it was born in captivity so it won't know any other sort of life" The thinking child responds with "I bet it does sir." Another child states "If it was born in a pit and lived its life in a pit, it won't know anything else, so it won't want anything else will it!".... "Why does it kill people then?"..."It kills em cause their cruel to it, they keep it in a pit so when it gets out its bound to be mad and want to kill people, don't you see?"... "Alright Sir, let's go to the childrens zoo" 😉😂 Absolutely briilliant script!
When I went to teacher training college. This movie was on the curriculum as essential viewing. I taught in the Liverpool area and it was seen as the explanation of how to be a teacher. Our Head of Special needs in EVERY school was like Mrs Kay and I met loads of deputy heads like this. They seemed to wear a suit of armour not letting ANYONE see their true selves for some reason. It is the finest drama I have EVER seen on the matter and there are also so many kids that school doesn't serve. I did 25 years in various schools and loved it until the weighing of the pig became more important than the quality of the meat.
I'm hoping this film is available for dvd or something because my Grandad is in the background in this film when all the kids go to the zoo and one of them falls in the penguin enclosure. I know one day, my grandad won't be around and this is a nice memory to watch. He was the actual bus driver so that's why he was there and I'm actually so happy to have seen him in this, even if he was just walking in the background! 💜💜
haha I was in this, we wouldn't let them film if they didn't let us in it so I am the kid with white headband playing tick on the roof ;) can also see my old house and of course my school, Tiber Street. Fond memories!
A truly wonderful play, which illustrates just how much times have changed. Imagine if a teacher were to put their arm around a pupil today? Willy Russell is a dramatic genius.
People like Willy Russell, Alan Bleasedale and Carla Lane have a lot to answer for, its people like them that have created the stereotypical scousers through productions like this. Carla Lane and Willy Russell werent even from Liverpool but made a living out of making out all Liverpool being under privaleged scroungers
@@johnbarton3252 Have to agree, love Willy but the whole "deprivation of the North" idea has caused a number of self-pitying generations and Coronation Street still pushes the idea and so did Brookside for a long while.
@@johnbarton3252 I agree with you. Their writing always looked down on the working classes, is fantasy and depicts a totally pointless, dreary life. I am working class but a bit younger than these kids. We had very few single parents/broken families, less people on welfare and most of the working classes were still well mannered and bought their children up better than many do today. It was very wrong to show poor kids with 'learning difficulties' as unruly thieves. I remember a few were like that but most were shy and would never steal. Carla Lane even got it wrong with Butterflies, middle class wives choose to work in jobs they liked and were less frustrated than those who had to work.
@@jamara3330 I think you are mistaken; Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.
@@johnbarton3252 Willy Russell was born in Whiston in the metropolitan borough of Merseyside, Liverpool, and Carla Lane was born in West Derby in the city of Liverpool. Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.
Was my life in the 70’s in north east England and I still carry the weight of poverty and a weird inferiority complex to this day but the look on my middle class kids faces when I tell my feral stories is priceless. A sophisticated, educated, privileged friend once asked intriguingly ‘if I was ashamed of the things I got up to’, I hesitated, about to say yes when I decided to be honest, ‘it was the best fun I have ever had’. Might write a book.
They are your kids …so they are not middle class. You came from poverty but they have less poverty. They are children of the working class. Middle class are not from working class.
Such a tragic ending. Many watching this today wont understand what he did when he over exposed the film. A real gem. First watched this at school in 1984.. what a find on youtube.
Just watched for first time, born 1963 only wanted to reminisce, thinking of my school years, but found a film that was truly moving, captivating, thought provoking and brilliantly written. Realised I was very very lucky in my youth.
I remember watching this back in the 70's when I was about 9. It made a big impression on me and I always wanted to watch it again. And now I have, much thanks to whoever uploaded it.
Loved this play. It was a voice for the voiceless and very emotional. It’s still relevant now and it always will be. I found the conversation between Briggs and Carol on the cliff top quite moving. When I left school I had very low self esteem and needed someone to believe in me to feel like I had any worth, so I understand the feeling of wanting to give up on life well.
@@Havanacuba1985 I think by late 70s I got about 4-5 pounds a week. Probably 8 pounds a fortnight. Depended on if I was definitely going to pics. If nothing on that my mates and me wanted to see then reduced accordingly. 🤗👍
Great film. Showing how school was back in the 70's. TBH its didnt change much in the 80's. Great times, simple times, no phones, no internet, no distractions, just kids doing what kids do... Playing. Brilliant
Kids weren't obese in those days because they had no computers, mobile phones etc. Instead we all played out and were always burning off the fat. Hence no kids with obesity
This is a little gem of a play. It's all about individual differences and the humility that comes with play and interaction with the natural, The antidote for seeing people as the fodder for factories is looking deep enough into every person to see the individual soul.
I did this in English in year 8. The teacher who taught it was my favourite teacher. We had her year after year. She is leaving the school and by September will be gone. Thanks for being a great teacher
This was a mirror image of my school days at Commercial Road school Sunderland, dirt poor but with a humility and dignity only the working class can show. The real character of Great Britain.
Poor little Carol. In my mind, she left school and went back to Conway...where she got a job in a cafe and met a lovely young man. Then through sheer hard work, she and her fella buy the cafe and she gets one of those nice white houses to live in.
It gives us comfort to hope she does OK for herself. I always think similar with Billy Casper in Kes. I want to believe he moved down south and became a bird of prey handler at a National Trust property and had a nice life.
That's a wonderful thought! That she got her dream of living in a beautiful house by the sea, tending to the plants in her garden, out in the fresh sea air every day! With a husband that treats her well and loves her. They have a couple of kids, all healthy with rosey cheeks because they run around and breathe in the fresh air. They've left the dinghy streets of Liverpool behind them, and no longer have to breathe in the fumes that the factory chimneys belch out 24/7. They even build an extension onto their home so that Carol's parents can come and live with them too! Maybe they run a smart, tidy little cafe on the sea front and serve cream teas to all the tourists. They make such a good living during the summer months that they can afford to live off the profits all year.
I really enjoyed watching this again! Its took nearly 20years to find what the hell they called it! we had the book to read to read for our course work. Brought back very fond memories of my English teacher, she managed to get the film later on, so we watched it as a treat. I think this may have been book number 3, we had to do, KES, Mice and Men and Our day out. After i finished school, got the GSCE, I happened to bump into my English teacher, She said that i did her proud, and really did deserve the grades i got. She said with you changing schools so late on, you really did push your self. She only had a year left until she retired after i left school. She was the best English teacher i had. The laugh was we were second from bottom grade, she pushed each and everyone of us with the higher grade stuff. We all ended up getting high grades, a lot more than expected thanks to her! She will be about 80 now bless her!
Good teachers are hard to come by and a real godsend, I had a very eccentric art teacher when I was in school in Liverpool and he saw I had a bit of talent for pencil drawing and helped me become very good at portrait drawing, I also had a good English teacher who helped me get good handwriting and grammar. Kids will always learn from the more experienced and compassionate teachers who take time out to help individual kids who run into difficulties. I thank Mr Gil and Ms Hay for their teaching me some cool stuff back in the day.
Watched this when it was first broadcast in 1977. This was when the BBC made top class drama, before the PC brigade screwed everything up as usual. Used to love being a kid in the 70's, and was so much happier without all the technology that kids have these days.
That monologue at 43:20 I remember so well. I was 14 when I saw this re run on channel 4 one Sunday afternoon. She made such a poignant point. “ The factories of England must have their fodder”.
It's a shame really because she's painted as the good person and he the villain, when in reality she's given up on the kids, and she's just another cog in the system that's failing them, while he actually, really, truly wants to see them succeed. He believes they can succeed. And that's the dichotomy between the liberal mindset and reality: Kindness is often just cruelty.
@@fredmercury1314 My thoughts exactly as she was delivering the speech. A more well intentioned, but equally flawed belief as the modern day divisive victimhood narrative: "you won't get anywhere without us [insert chosen group here] to fight the oppressor for you" rather than "here are the skills you need to succeed".
@@BM-jy6cbExactly, we should be building our own cars and motorcycles with real apprenticeships and real wages 🇬🇧, there's nobody with any Vision in politics today ,we got NOBODY 🇬🇧
I remember this. UK only had 3 TV channels then, so hard to miss it, just couldn't sop watching. Still remember it 40 years later. Right in my school era and so much of it was spot on for the time it was reflecting. Alun Armstrong was brilliant. Russell went on to do Educating Rita, genius writer.
The cafe where they stopped off was called the Wayside Cafe, Bodelwyddan just past the marble church on the A55. No longer there, replaced by stone built houses. Superb film capturing many emotions, remember watching it in my youth.
I watched this in school back in 2004 or 5 in my english class i hated it, but i couldn't stop thinking about it! Now years later i think this is brilliant! weird how things change.
I'm 18 and in year 8 we studied this and I was the only one who enjoyed it everyone else thought this was so boring but I appreciated this classic such good memories
Great to see the original tv film version of this play; I was involved with a local drama group (youth group) production of Our Day Out over twenty years ago in my home town of Carrick on Suir Co Tipperary; I played keyboard to accompany the various songs in the musical version of the play. Everyone involved had a wonderful time in rehearsing and presenting this great play by Willy Russell, with his usual trademark combination of humour and pathos. Thanks for sharing this video. Have been meaning to watch this television production for years. We too had a scary, disagreeable Briggs whose heart is softened later on in the story due to his interaction with Carol. Great social commentary.
I remember watching this on tv when it was first broadcast. I have fond memories of Carrick on Suir. The first place I visited on my first trip to Ireland. I particularly remember the New Inn (?), across the road from the Garda.
R hay sir .i dont wanna go home .ye .remember that scene .he was a nasty teacher he destroyed all the camerra pictures. Love the way mrs kay bribes the driver..R I P
I remember my English teacher made my class watch this. Its actually nice when you dont have little cruds screaming "POGGERS" every two seconds. Its actually well done.
29:53 A very thoughtful insight from the young lad on how animals just "know" another life...instinct. This is a beautifully crafted film, watched by me many times and having been to that area many times.
Just going back to watch this after so long. I am 20 and we saw this film in Year 8. I remember at the time that everyone else in my group absolutely hated this and thought it was so boring. Makes me glad that i enjoyed this classic back then and now it has gotten even better than i remember. Thanks for the upload.
Interestingly ... I know some of the cast (and was in this myself in a ten second part haha), a few of these kids in the film became well known criminals, gangsters in Liverpool. Two of them even became mortal enemies (literally) ... so the conversations between teachers are all the more salient.
Early 70s, well I left school in 70 so can relate to the era. Very thought provoking. The Welsh who were mine and factory fodder taught themselves to read and write to break the cycle. Sunday School was just that, a school on Sunday so children could be educated and empowered. Back in the day every second teacher in school was Welsh, probably due to breaking he factory fodder cycle.
I watched this last year in year 11 and I think it was a really good film about children in the 1970s about how they had no phones, no technology, no consoles, no nothing it was the golden age so it will really make children in our generation realise not everything has gotta do with gadgets be sociable with others not be on your phones and technical gizmos and have a smile on your face to other people
As a teacher who during my twenty-seven year career led or participated in countless school trips, I have to say that this masterpiece captured the human qualities brought to the fore by such trips. Both students and teachers benefitted from being out of the classroom. Later in life it's often the extra-curricular trips that students remember most fondly from their time at school.
what a fantastic film so true all of it , take me back to school in the 70s /80s just bloody marvellous /the factories must have their fodder wow so deep /watch it you will not be disappointed x Thankyou for uploading this x
Love this, so funny & well written by Willy Russell who went to my son's school Rainford High. The scene that has me in stitches is the cafe they go to, raising their prices for the 'tourists' & karma as the little buggers Rob them of half their stock... 😂🤣😂🤣
2 weeks every year we would pile into my dads work van and go camping in Angelsey coming back into Liverpool was always depressing. ... This movie brought back those feelings ...
Bile duct My raging know what ye mean mate we used to do that all the time Anglesey barmouth Betsy coed loved it soon as ye got back u started coughing LOL shows you how bad the pollution was in Liverpool after breathing clean air in Wales 😊😋
Thanks so much for posting Our Day Out. I think I was about 13 years old the first time I saw it on TV and I loved it, especially the cliff scene, which has haunted me. It's still great 30+ years later.
Just came back from doing this for an interhouse competition at my college, loved playing Susan. We came 2nd overall and it really was great fun preparing and performing this :)
PAST..1983..Age 11 1st year drama class...teacher 'here is a play, 30 mins to read, pick a character to play'..I chose Carol..we had to perform in front of the whole school.I was so nervous..! PRESENT fast forward 35 years later..I find this online and remember my old school days..OUR DAY OUT..A classic! precious memories...brought tears to my eyes I dont mind admitting..🥲🤍⏳ xxx
@@user-sl1lx9sw1x i would be surprised if you did lol, it was filmed back 1978. The kids in that are old enough to be your grand parents. I did this for GCSE English back in 2001.
Hard to imagine it use to be like this in the old days, not a scumbag about or kids with street talk attitude. Nice to watch something that reminds me of England again and what we once had.
Really enjoyed that. I grew up in the 70s and was in the remedial class all the way through school. All the kids on free school dinners went camping to Bala North Wales in the summer Holidays We used to go in an old knackered purple bus. Must of looked like the clampett's rolling in to Town. We were a right little bunch of naughty bastards. Poor old Teachers !!
Wow this brings back great memories, the drama club I went to performed this at a local theatre, I was rubbish in it lol, but really enjoyed it. Penny sweets are 10 pence in this shop. Love this 💖🎭
Pedr and Willy, Our day out . Actors all fantabulous. Am 71 yrs and proudly Welsh. My school trip in 64 was to Porthcawl. Back of the bus we created hell and sang to The Beachboys. Cafe owners shut shops. And us so innocent !. Fabulous portrayal. Thanks all. Dave
I have never seen this before but it captivated me from start to finish. I was a teenager in the 60s actually in North Wales. It took me back to my school days, it was very realistic.
Just stumbled upon this masterpiece of yesteryear in my opinion, as it shows just how the majority of us how inner city life was back in the 60s to mid 80s. Born in the early 60s myself, I came across this same environment but made it in life. The best part in this flick is the argument between the teachers at the castle and the beach scene afterwards. A excellent message in that. What a world we were and are, churning out unwanted kids only to not be wanted by schools as the future was just factory fodder... We certainly reap what we sow. To have destroyed the camera film by exposing it at the end sums up how some teachers were back then. Enjoyed this indeed for the message.
Thank you for posting. A brilliant and beautiful film, right up there with Kes. Hilarious, yet depressing in its way; I couldn't stop laughing, even at the sad things like your man Ronson and his accidental life in the pit metaphor, God love him. Then dear Carol Chandler and the bore of a teacher, the baddie from New Tricks. As an English teacher, it reminded me of the rough lads at Rockingham High School. A gem of British tele.
Fantastic play, so like a lot of the Radio and TV plays of the day, good script, good acting and direction, stays in your memory for years after, have we lost something in modern Media Drama.
Conwy Castle, Cemaes Bay beach shots, not sure where the Fair was, probably Llandudno, and the School in Liverpool remains a mystery to me, no doubt demolished now? Wonderful snapshot of history there.
Mr Briggs wanted to educate them, because educated people can make educated choices, uneducated people can',t they are reliant on advice from others. The liberals don't want kids educated, because they would see through their BS.
It’s a delusional mindset unfortunately. We need to stop telling people the lie they can be anything, because they can’t. Some kids are just doomed from birth. It’s sad but it’s reality.
I first watched this when I was a kid back when it first came out and thought it was hilarious. The Welsh accents used in this film are from south Wales. I have lived in North Wales for 30 years and they do not speak like this!
What a wonderful play takes you through all emotions and how society views the futures of those who have already been written off by it especially those who are supposed to be educating them to give them the opportunity to gain a better outcome on life, very thought provoking play , enjoyed it immensely 😊
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Here from my online school drama lesson😂
Literally same 😂
Same 😂
I’m not the only one :D
Same
same tho ngl
Absolutely bloody Brilliant, if they had this sort of quality on modern TV, I would purchase a TV licence.
A TV license? Why would you need a license to watch TV?
how did you learn foul language for youtube poop
@@baberoot1998 are you American?
do you by any chance drink a lot of guinnes
I’m sure you wouldn’t. That’s easy to say when you don’t have one - how convenient.
New Yorker here. I am a teacher. That was a brilliant, poignant, incredibly moving, and funny movie. I was captivated. Their accent had me re-listen (a few times!) to some dialogue in spots because I didn't want to miss a thing but still couldn't decipher a few exchanges. hahaha, no matter. The castle argument between Briggsy and Ms. Kay hit a deep nerve with me: "they don't want them educated because they need fodder for the factories". The disparity in American education is most severe in the southern - central states. That's where they provide fodder for the American military. And that boy's natural insight into animal instinct at the zoo! Children can be so clever. I knew they brought the animals back to the bus! I called it! Finally, the cliff scene with Carol and Briggsy had my blood draining and choking back tears. I yelled, "tell her that you care you wanker!" Briggsy changing heart was too good to be true. Sadly, maybe he knew that Our Day Out was to remain only a dream for most of those kids. To him, there could be no record of false hope. Or was he really just a complete ASS? The children's hopes, feelings, and dreams inspired by the day were hopefully captured and harnessed by their hearts, never mind the camera film. Anyway, Briggsy didn't stop for Carol, and she paid no mind. For the record, I have only commented on a few things before, but never anywhere near as much as I have now for Our Day Out. Fantastic!
So you’re Mr Dong...
That's my hometown Liverpool accent haha. I was 10 when this came out and remember it well, just watched again for first time in over 30 years, thoroughly enjoyed and glad you did too.
The accent of The Beatles.
It was a play not a movie.
Transmitted originally on BBC TV.
In those days superior to anything from 👉 🇺🇸
Think Shakespeare.
The accent of the man collecting the thievery, from the bus is Welsh 👉 🏴 🇬🇧
🫡👍❣️🇬🇧
Loved your reply and glad you did.
Carol on the cliffs scene is so touching. That is why play for today showed that Britain has the best playwrights and producers we witnessed.
i play carol in my school play of this
Such a beautiful and unforgettable little play; very much a realistic snapshot of life in the Britain of over 50 years back. Human, warm, realistic and well written, excellently performed and filmed with a strong message. You won't regret watching this.
I am definitely going to watch this Only seen a few minutes and saving it to savour later My era ...
This bought back a lot of memories for me, just like it was back then for us poorer kids, I was still at school when this was made and this is how life was for many of us back then. A lovely little film and well worth the watch.
Very well written. When they are at the zoo and stand by the bear enclosure the teacher states that "it was born in captivity so it won't know any other sort of life" The thinking child responds with "I bet it does sir." Another child states "If it was born in a pit and lived its life in a pit, it won't know anything else, so it won't want anything else will it!".... "Why does it kill people then?"..."It kills em cause their cruel to it, they keep it in a pit so when it gets out its bound to be mad and want to kill people, don't you see?"...
"Alright Sir, let's go to the childrens zoo" 😉😂 Absolutely briilliant script!
That lollipop man would be listed as a sex offender today.
@@katherinesgrannysquares Not quite 50 years ago yet.I left school the year this was made and you had me worried there, for a moment. lol!
A very moving and terribly sad film. Brilliant acting from everyone, including the kids. Really worth watching.
When I went to teacher training college. This movie was on the curriculum as essential viewing. I taught in the Liverpool area and it was seen as the explanation of how to be a teacher. Our Head of Special needs in EVERY school was like Mrs Kay and I met loads of deputy heads like this. They seemed to wear a suit of armour not letting ANYONE see their true selves for some reason. It is the finest drama I have EVER seen on the matter and there are also so many kids that school doesn't serve. I did 25 years in various schools and loved it until the weighing of the pig became more important than the quality of the meat.
i can see that
The weighing of the pig became more important than the quality of the meat. Never heard that one before. A cracker!
Incredible acting from the kids, hard to believe this wasn’t just a documentary rather than a drama.
I'm hoping this film is available for dvd or something because my Grandad is in the background in this film when all the kids go to the zoo and one of them falls in the penguin enclosure. I know one day, my grandad won't be around and this is a nice memory to watch. He was the actual bus driver so that's why he was there and I'm actually so happy to have seen him in this, even if he was just walking in the background! 💜💜
Just found this link Hannah Louise. www.foundthatfilm.co.uk/epages/es133404.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=45244317
groovygraham oh thank you so much! :D great price too haha
Hannah Louise thats so sweet
Just looked on Amazon,you can pre order it for £12.99.It is due to be released on DVD on October 1st.Hope this helps.
haha I was in this, we wouldn't let them film if they didn't let us in it so I am the kid with white headband playing tick on the roof ;) can also see my old house and of course my school, Tiber Street. Fond memories!
A truly wonderful play, which illustrates just how much times have changed. Imagine if a teacher were to put their arm around a pupil today? Willy Russell is a dramatic genius.
Willy Russell, the man. More writers like him please. To write from and for the people that are ignored. Thanks for posting
People like Willy Russell, Alan Bleasedale and Carla Lane have a lot to answer for, its people like them that have created the stereotypical scousers through productions like this.
Carla Lane and Willy Russell werent even from Liverpool but made a living out of making out all Liverpool being under privaleged scroungers
@@johnbarton3252 Have to agree, love Willy but the whole "deprivation of the North" idea has caused a number of self-pitying generations and Coronation Street still pushes the idea and so did Brookside for a long while.
@@johnbarton3252 I agree with you. Their writing always looked down on the working classes, is fantasy and depicts a totally pointless, dreary life. I am working class but a bit younger than these kids. We had very few single parents/broken families, less people on welfare and most of the working classes were still well mannered and bought their children up better than many do today. It was very wrong to show poor kids with 'learning difficulties' as unruly thieves. I remember a few were like that but most were shy and would never steal. Carla Lane even got it wrong with Butterflies, middle class wives choose to work in jobs they liked and were less frustrated than those who had to work.
@@jamara3330 I think you are mistaken; Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.
@@johnbarton3252 Willy Russell was born in Whiston in the metropolitan borough of Merseyside, Liverpool, and Carla Lane was born in West Derby in the city of Liverpool. Russell's work never patronised the working class, on the contrary, it showed that they had legitimate aspirations to leave the underprivileged environment they were born into but were stifled by the lack of opportunity. You only have to read or see "Educating Rita" to understand his ideas on what could be possible.
Was my life in the 70’s in north east England and I still carry the weight of poverty and a weird inferiority complex to this day but the look on my middle class kids faces when I tell my feral stories is priceless. A sophisticated, educated, privileged friend once asked intriguingly ‘if I was ashamed of the things I got up to’, I hesitated, about to say yes when I decided to be honest, ‘it was the best fun I have ever had’. Might write a book.
They are your kids …so they are not middle class. You came from poverty but they have less poverty. They are children of the working class.
Middle class are not from working class.
Do it!
Such a tragic ending. Many watching this today wont understand what he did when he over exposed the film. A real gem. First watched this at school in 1984.. what a find on youtube.
not sure why he ruined the film, could be many reasons, maybe not to undermine his needed discipline
Just watched for first time, born 1963 only wanted to reminisce, thinking of my school years, but found a film that was truly moving, captivating, thought provoking and brilliantly written. Realised I was very very lucky in my youth.
I remember watching this back in the 70's when I was about 9. It made a big impression on me and I always wanted to watch it again. And now I have, much thanks to whoever uploaded it.
Have you watched One Summer?
@@EA7SC with Billy and Icky? Yes, I saw it when it was first broadcast in 1980's and again last summer.
POV: your self isolating and this is ur drama work
FACTS BRO
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lol yup
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How a day out changed the outlook of these children and the teachers also. It was a beautiful story.
Loved this play. It was a voice for the voiceless and very emotional. It’s still relevant now and it always will be. I found the conversation between Briggs and Carol on the cliff top quite moving. When I left school I had very low self esteem and needed someone to believe in me to feel like I had any worth, so I understand the feeling of wanting to give up on life well.
Same here.
I'm very glad you didn't.😊
£2 in the early 70s would buy a pillowcase full of sweets.
Stuart no one got £2 pocket money mid to late 70s
I think the term is Shed load! LOL!
@@Havanacuba1985 I think by late 70s I got about 4-5 pounds a week. Probably 8 pounds a fortnight. Depended on if I was definitely going to pics.
If nothing on that my mates and me wanted to see then reduced accordingly. 🤗👍
In the early 90s 2 quid got me 200 sweets from the pick a mix penny counter
@@davidmarchant9386 That sounds right - mojos and black jacks were 4 to a penny at one time. by the late 70s they were 2 to a penny
A great piece of television & writing, many thanks for posting it.
Great film. Showing how school was back in the 70's. TBH its didnt change much in the 80's. Great times, simple times, no phones, no internet, no distractions, just kids doing what kids do... Playing. Brilliant
It was like this in my primary school lad and that was between 05 and 11, we were proper bastards haha
and now there's more stuff for kids to do and kids claim they're bored
Absolutely! I was there in the late 70s, albeit in primary school.
No medicine
Racism
No std awareness
Ah yes the good times
Kids weren't obese in those days because they had no computers, mobile phones etc. Instead we all played out and were always burning off the fat. Hence no kids with obesity
This is a little gem of a play. It's all about individual differences and the humility that comes with play and interaction with the natural, The antidote for seeing people as the fodder for factories is looking deep enough into every person to see the individual soul.
not even that now
lol anecdote but yes bang on assessment
Knowledge is Power.
Which is why we have poor schools for working class kid's. .....😮
@@jaywalker3087We don't. Far more complex than that. Kids BTW.
Which explains why an 11 year old Boris Johnson (His age at the time) was not on this particular school trip!@@jaywalker3087
I did this in English in year 8. The teacher who taught it was my favourite teacher. We had her year after year. She is leaving the school and by September will be gone.
Thanks for being a great teacher
I’m doing this in year 8 rn
I did this in year 7
@@chloewhetton3155 same
@@hpr_amin9713 lol it was funny lol xx
This was a mirror image of my school days at Commercial Road school Sunderland, dirt poor but with a humility and dignity only the working class can show. The real character of Great Britain.
But you had the benefit of a thriving community and Villette Road where the four corners of the world met.
This was me in the seventies Dublin Ireland, great film great acting
I read this in a irish accent
Poor little Carol. In my mind, she left school and went back to Conway...where she got a job in a cafe and met a lovely young man. Then through sheer hard work, she and her fella buy the cafe and she gets one of those nice white houses to live in.
i hope so too, bless her little heart
It gives us comfort to hope she does OK for herself. I always think similar with Billy Casper in Kes. I want to believe he moved down south and became a bird of prey handler at a National Trust property and had a nice life.
Yeah well that's better than the alternative that she died of a heroin overdose at 16 😢
That's a wonderful thought! That she got her dream of living in a beautiful house by the sea, tending to the plants in her garden, out in the fresh sea air every day! With a husband that treats her well and loves her. They have a couple of kids, all healthy with rosey cheeks because they run around and breathe in the fresh air. They've left the dinghy streets of Liverpool behind them, and no longer have to breathe in the fumes that the factory chimneys belch out 24/7. They even build an extension onto their home so that Carol's parents can come and live with them too! Maybe they run a smart, tidy little cafe on the sea front and serve cream teas to all the tourists. They make such a good living during the summer months that they can afford to live off the profits all year.
What a wonderful play. Little Carol felt as I felt, and as a now old man still do. Pure magic.
Brilliant film. So real, the different teacher’s personalities, kids, and that fair ground!
"Don't be friggin stupid" she delivers that line perfectly.
I really enjoyed watching this again! Its took nearly 20years to find what the hell they called it! we had the book to read to read for our course work. Brought back very fond memories of my English teacher, she managed to get the film later on, so we watched it as a treat. I think this may have been book number 3, we had to do, KES, Mice and Men and Our day out. After i finished school, got the GSCE, I happened to bump into my English teacher, She said that i did her proud, and really did deserve the grades i got. She said with you changing schools so late on, you really did push your self. She only had a year left until she retired after i left school. She was the best English teacher i had. The laugh was we were second from bottom grade, she pushed each and everyone of us with the higher grade stuff. We all ended up getting high grades, a lot more than expected thanks to her! She will be about 80 now bless her!
Good teachers are hard to come by and a real godsend, I had a very eccentric art teacher when I was in school in Liverpool and he saw I had a bit of talent for pencil drawing and helped me become very good at portrait drawing, I also had a good English teacher who helped me get good handwriting and grammar. Kids will always learn from the more experienced and compassionate teachers who take time out to help individual kids who run into difficulties. I thank Mr Gil and Ms Hay for their teaching me some cool stuff back in the day.
When television was great. A golden era. Black stuff, Brideshead, lLife on Earth etc
Watched this when it was first broadcast in 1977. This was when the BBC made top class drama, before the PC brigade screwed everything up as usual. Used to love being a kid in the 70's, and was so much happier without all the technology that kids have these days.
ok boomer
I don't like black stuff :people, black people. I was born in 1960, so it is normal for men of my age
My drama class loved it lol
@@lellowlobster2143 No it’s not...
Beautifully written and acted, a real gem of British television. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks luv.
That monologue at 43:20 I remember so well. I was 14 when I saw this re run on channel 4 one Sunday afternoon. She made such a poignant point. “ The factories of England must have their fodder”.
Yes,it was very true what she said.
It's a shame really because she's painted as the good person and he the villain, when in reality she's given up on the kids, and she's just another cog in the system that's failing them, while he actually, really, truly wants to see them succeed. He believes they can succeed.
And that's the dichotomy between the liberal mindset and reality: Kindness is often just cruelty.
@@fredmercury1314 My thoughts exactly as she was delivering the speech. A more well intentioned, but equally flawed belief as the modern day divisive victimhood narrative: "you won't get anywhere without us [insert chosen group here] to fight the oppressor for you" rather than "here are the skills you need to succeed".
@@fredmercury1314Well said FRED 😮🙏🇬🇧
@@BM-jy6cbExactly, we should be building our own cars and motorcycles with real apprenticeships and real wages 🇬🇧, there's nobody with any Vision in politics today ,we got NOBODY 🇬🇧
Feel sad seeing this now -after all the years gone by, when life made more sense then :/ K
I remember this. UK only had 3 TV channels then, so hard to miss it, just couldn't sop watching. Still remember it 40 years later. Right in my school era and so much of it was spot on for the time it was reflecting. Alun Armstrong was brilliant. Russell went on to do Educating Rita, genius writer.
And Blood Brothers & the brilliant Shirley Valentine.
@@Muswell And the short series (5 eps) One Summer. Unforgettable.
So pleased to have found this - remember it so well. If only we could have plays like this on TV today.
The cafe where they stopped off was called the Wayside Cafe, Bodelwyddan just past the marble church on the A55. No longer there, replaced by stone built houses. Superb film capturing many emotions, remember watching it in my youth.
I watched this in school back in 2004 or 5 in my english class i hated it, but i couldn't stop thinking about it! Now years later i think this is brilliant! weird how things change.
That lolly pop man was brilliant
lolly pop man is god
+FireIceBoyGaming I played him in the school play
I'm 18 and in year 8 we studied this and I was the only one who enjoyed it everyone else thought this was so boring but I appreciated this classic such good memories
I just finished watching it in English today and I have know idea why were watching it
Great to see the original tv film version of this play; I was involved with a local drama group (youth group) production of Our Day Out over twenty years ago in my home town of Carrick on Suir Co Tipperary; I played keyboard to accompany the various songs in the musical version of the play. Everyone involved had a wonderful time in rehearsing and presenting this great play by Willy Russell, with his usual trademark combination of humour and pathos. Thanks for sharing this video. Have been meaning to watch this television production for years. We too had a scary, disagreeable Briggs whose heart is softened later on in the story due to his interaction with Carol. Great social commentary.
I remember watching this on tv when it was first broadcast. I have fond memories of Carrick on Suir. The first place I visited on my first trip to Ireland. I particularly remember the New Inn (?), across the road from the Garda.
POV : your teacher told you that u cannot do drama without watching this video
That scene Carol on the edge of the cliff brought tears to my eyes
It actually made me sad to
It was so sad ;c
R hay sir .i dont wanna go home .ye .remember that scene .he was a nasty teacher he destroyed all the camerra pictures. Love the way mrs kay bribes the driver..R I P
Ye ikr I did this play in school and i was Carol
Same
I trained as a teacher at a college in the 70s
- I remember the kids like this, cheeky, playful
and full of bounce and adventure.
I remember my English teacher made my class watch this. Its actually nice when you dont have little cruds screaming "POGGERS" every two seconds. Its actually well done.
Utterly brilliant, did this at school in the 1980's, loved it, I played mrs Kay, suck it up kids of today, fantastic.
Im performing a big play on this in a Theatre and im playing colin😂
29:53 A very thoughtful insight from the young lad on how animals just "know" another life...instinct.
This is a beautifully crafted film, watched by me many times and having been to that area many times.
What area? Liverpool or Conway?
@the-gman7797 4 yrs later..my reply.....both areas.
Brilliant, brings back happy memories of school trips in the 70s and 80s
I absolutely love this,I remember as a kid watching it on TV.....I still watch it regularly in 2022...it has me laughing like a nutter
Just going back to watch this after so long. I am 20 and we saw this film in Year 8. I remember at the time that everyone else in my group absolutely hated this and thought it was so boring. Makes me glad that i enjoyed this classic back then and now it has gotten even better than i remember. Thanks for the upload.
23 now and still enjoying this
I knew some of these kids, went to school with them. Malcolm Meads and Phil Johnson, where two of them. 🇬🇧
were they reasonable actors ? did they stay in the acting profession ?
Interestingly ... I know some of the cast (and was in this myself in a ten second part haha), a few of these kids in the film became well known criminals, gangsters in Liverpool. Two of them even became mortal enemies (literally) ... so the conversations between teachers are all the more salient.
@@MrRileyColeman great story. dont know if the little girl carried on acting but what a performance
Did u know Carol?
@@MrRileyColeman do you know which ones became criminals and gangsters and who became enemies with eachother
Early 70s, well I left school in 70 so can relate to the era.
Very thought provoking.
The Welsh who were mine and factory fodder taught themselves to read and write to break the cycle.
Sunday School was just that, a school on Sunday so children could be educated and empowered.
Back in the day every second teacher in school was Welsh, probably due to breaking he factory fodder cycle.
I watched this last year in year 11 and I think it was a really good film about children in the 1970s about how they had no phones, no technology, no consoles, no nothing it was the golden age so it will really make children in our generation realise not everything has gotta do with gadgets be sociable with others not be on your phones and technical gizmos and have a smile on your face to other people
Great to see this, I remember watching it first time. Thanks for the upload. Once we had great dramas.
As a teacher who during my twenty-seven year career led or participated in countless school trips, I have to say that this masterpiece captured the human qualities brought to the fore by such trips. Both students and teachers benefitted from being out of the classroom. Later in life it's often the extra-curricular trips that students remember most fondly from their time at school.
what a fantastic film so true all of it , take me back to school in the 70s /80s just bloody marvellous /the factories must have their fodder wow so deep /watch it you will not be disappointed x Thankyou for uploading this x
who else is here for quarantine work?
me for drama! Im watching this all bundled up in my quilt and sweets and my book to take notes lmao
same, but i cant find out what the name of the lollipop man is!
@@ChaR_OfTheK0Rn i had this for English TT
@@dumbledwarf8888 oh damn same
@@tajveen Cool :)
Who is watching this because they have to do it for english?
Me
me
same here my guy
ME AND I NEVER WATCHED IT SO-
Me too
Love this, so funny & well written by Willy Russell who went to my son's school Rainford High. The scene that has me in stitches is the cafe they go to, raising their prices for the 'tourists' & karma as the little buggers Rob them of half their stock... 😂🤣😂🤣
I miss the days of thoughtful television; now it's pretty moribund intellectually.
2 weeks every year we would pile into my dads work van and go camping in Angelsey coming back into Liverpool was always depressing. ... This movie brought back those feelings ...
Bile duct My raging know what ye mean mate we used to do that all the time Anglesey barmouth Betsy coed loved it soon as ye got back u started coughing LOL shows you how bad the pollution was in Liverpool after breathing clean air in Wales 😊😋
Thanks so much for posting Our Day Out. I think I was about 13 years old the first time I saw it on TV and I loved it, especially the cliff scene, which has haunted me. It's still great 30+ years later.
I was Mr Briggs when we did it at school. I did it in the style of Keith Pratt from nuts in may. Another great 70s play for today
I love Nuts In May, my favourite Mike Leigh play.
I'm mr Briggs in an up coming production I'm nervous
I’m Colin doing this in year 8 rn
Just came back from doing this for an interhouse competition at my college, loved playing Susan. We came 2nd overall and it really was great fun preparing and performing this :)
What a lovely film it really showed that love compassion and understanding to make all the difference to children’s lives very moving
I'm such a softie, that I always hoped that Carol got to retire in a lovely cottage by the sea near Conwy.
Hope so.
Go ed Phil Jones. Will you be gigging when all this shi**s finished ?
I've watched this in high school as an English or drama lesson. It might have been drama. Anyway,, good film. 👍
I am watching this for the same reason no school tho as quarantime
PAST..1983..Age 11 1st year drama class...teacher 'here is a play, 30 mins to read, pick a character to play'..I chose Carol..we had to perform in front of the whole school.I was so nervous..! PRESENT fast forward 35 years later..I find this online and remember my old school days..OUR DAY OUT..A classic! precious memories...brought tears to my eyes I dont mind admitting..🥲🤍⏳ xxx
I remember watching this back then . A simpler time .
I've watched this so much, I know almost all the words haha. Currently watching at 4:16AM because I can't sleep lol. (Scouser here)
I just came in from preforming this play....I was Carol (and I'm a lad haha) It was hilarious :D
I was briggs I got the sweets sweets but wrong in every
I said it like in SPONGEBOB with chocolate CHOCOLATE
Don't jump Carol!
I watched this in my English class in 1994 at Harborne Hill School , UK. Thanks Mrs Orchard
I forgot how brilliant this was still counts for today
POV : you were sent here by your drama teacher while doing online class
omg how did u know
One of the young lads was in my class at school, Peter Wild. takes me way back..
Lol im 12 so i dont know anyone in it XD.
@@user-sl1lx9sw1x i would be surprised if you did lol, it was filmed back 1978. The kids in that are old enough to be your grand parents. I did this for GCSE English back in 2001.
Hard to imagine it use to be like this in the old days, not a scumbag about or kids with street talk attitude. Nice to watch something that reminds me of England again and what we once had.
Back when every teenager with an authentic regional accent didn’t speak like they were from London .
@@leopoldstotch3524 like big tuff blik gangsta bredrin from da hood lol 🤣😂🤣
Really enjoyed that. I grew up in the 70s and was in the remedial class all the way through school. All the kids on free school dinners went camping to Bala North Wales in the summer Holidays
We used to go in an old knackered purple bus.
Must of looked like the clampett's rolling in to Town.
We were a right little bunch of naughty bastards.
Poor old Teachers !!
8:37 on the right is my old school mate joey jenkins we went to stocktonwood school in speke, long time ago, now we are 60yrs old, memories 👍❤
Oops his name is Jennings, not Jenkins sorry Joey 👍❤️
I thought that this film was a brilliant one I was born in liverpool in 1971. Bigging up the film ❤❤❤❤😊😮❤
Wow this brings back great memories, the drama club I went to performed this at a local theatre, I was rubbish in it lol, but really enjoyed it.
Penny sweets are 10 pence in this shop.
Love this 💖🎭
Pedr and Willy, Our day out . Actors all fantabulous. Am 71 yrs and proudly Welsh. My school trip in 64 was to Porthcawl. Back of the bus we created hell and sang to The Beachboys. Cafe owners shut shops. And us so innocent !. Fabulous portrayal. Thanks all. Dave
Tuppence, not 10 pence lol
Another bloody good gem from Willy Russell. So many issues woven into a delightful story.
I have never seen this before but it captivated me from start to finish. I was a teenager in the 60s actually in North Wales. It took me back to my school days, it was very realistic.
My dad told me about this, I searched for it on here and luckily I found it.
I’m from Conwy, so this is intriguing to me.
i'm from Llanberis:)
So are you like 80-
@@charlottebest7023 No seventy next January, born in nineteen fifty two.
@@abitrickett9188 I grew up in Bala. Have you ever been on the Bala Lake Railway? My Dad built that in the nineteen seventies.
Les........waitin for the car to come before he steps out into the road. :o)
I am lolipop man and do the same to all audi drivers ..
My school is learning this right now and I bet I will be the top of class after this
I'm doing this play in drama really enjoying it hopefully we get to finish it!
Reminded me of my school days in the 70s we had the cane or the slipper to contend with
Just stumbled upon this masterpiece of yesteryear in my opinion, as it shows just how the majority of us how inner city life was back in the 60s to mid 80s.
Born in the early 60s myself, I came across this same environment but made it in life.
The best part in this flick is the argument between the teachers at the castle and the beach scene afterwards.
A excellent message in that.
What a world we were and are, churning out unwanted kids only to not be wanted by schools as the future was just factory fodder...
We certainly reap what we sow.
To have destroyed the camera film by exposing it at the end sums up how some teachers were back then.
Enjoyed this indeed for the message.
Thank you for posting. A brilliant and beautiful film, right up there with Kes. Hilarious, yet depressing in its way; I couldn't stop laughing, even at the sad things like your man Ronson and his accidental life in the pit metaphor, God love him. Then dear Carol Chandler and the bore of a teacher, the baddie from New Tricks. As an English teacher, it reminded me of the rough lads at Rockingham High School. A gem of British tele.
I watched this when I was 8yrs old....absolutely spot on to the time... fabulous
Fantastic play, so like a lot of the Radio and TV plays of the day, good script, good acting and direction, stays in your memory for years after, have we lost something in modern Media Drama.
Conwy Castle, Cemaes Bay beach shots, not sure where the Fair was, probably Llandudno, and the School in Liverpool remains a mystery to me, no doubt demolished now? Wonderful snapshot of history there.
That was so bloody good. Terrific.
I remember doing this in English, it is old yet good. ❤️
My daughter is doing the same in English
Im doing it in english rn
I'm doing it rn
Mr Briggs may be more harsh but he is by far the best teacher because belives if the kids work hard they can do anything
You can't achieve anything you want just by working hard.
That's not how life works.
@@moonwalk6896 Very true. It's often not what you know but who, that's not just a cliched line
Mr Briggs wanted to educate them, because educated people can make educated choices, uneducated people can',t they are reliant on advice from others. The liberals don't want kids educated, because they would see through their BS.
It’s a delusional mindset unfortunately. We need to stop telling people the lie they can be anything, because they can’t. Some kids are just doomed from birth. It’s sad but it’s reality.
Heartwarmingly wonderful, thank you xxx
I knew this existed. My school showed it 10 years ago. Finally found it!
We watched this in school as well as reading the script for it. We were told to just watch this in preparation for our English exam.
Thankyou so much for uploading. Wasn’t born til 71 but what a great piece of writing by the great man ❤️
I first watched this when I was a kid back when it first came out and thought it was hilarious.
The Welsh accents used in this film are from south Wales. I have lived in North Wales for 30 years and they do not speak like this!
Great memories of the 70's --thanks ! :)
Enjoyed very much. Plenty of philosophy intermingled with down to earth everyday. Thank you.
What a wonderful play takes you through all emotions and how society views the futures of those who have already been written off by it especially those who are supposed to be educating them to give them the opportunity to gain a better outcome on life, very thought provoking play , enjoyed it immensely 😊