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Anyone here a fan of Rumpole of the Bailey BBS show staring Leo McKern?

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I was many years ago

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There were SO many great shows like that at one time. Now the only hope is putting up with 40 minutes of pledge drives for every 20 minute segment of good British Comedy each hour on PBS.

What about Dad’s Army, the best!!! On the Buses? Good Neighbours (absolutely priceless that one!!).

other BBS shows

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Oz,

Mostly watch Dr. Who [on PBS] Mystery [before Diana Riggs].

Don’t remember Dad’s Army, On the Buses or Good Neighbors [though Good Neighbors rings a bell for me].

Inspector Morse was a favorite.

Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone is my all time favorite. Just got the complete collection on DVD along with Rumple of the Bailey seasons 1 and 2.

Are You Being Served?

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One of the very best. Molly Sugden and John Inman are priceless as is Wendy Richard.

For the more (or less) technically inclined, Red Dwarf is FAB! And if your bent is history, I love Black Adder.

Dr. Who is a requirement and you are missing a bet if you have never seen Good Neighbours. Richard Briars and Penelope Keith are wonderful as a couple who have quit their London lives to “live off the land”. You won’t find better- the show is a stitch!

the good life

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Richard Briars and Penelope Keith that was The Good Life wanst it?

Yes! As a Brit, I was honour bound to correct that one!

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The Good Life – Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith and the late Paul Eddington. Tom and Barbara Good “living off the land” in the middle of suburbia. Best episode for me was the Xmas one, where Harrods didn’t “deliver Xmas” so Margo cancelled the entire event. Priceless.

Good neighbours? Don’t know that one. Do you mean Love Thy Neighbour by any chance? Rudolph Walker starred (stole the show) – he who is currently in Eastenders.

Love Rumpole – Leo McKern was one good actor, with a terrific sense of humour, on screen and off. The original beginning of the phrase “She Who Must Be Obeyed”.

Having had numerous repeats of Dads Army and Are You Being Served shoved down our throats for years now, I’m now avoiding those like the plague….I’m almost word perfect.

But if they start showing “Some Mothers” again, the telly really will go out of the window….!

oh – and if they don’t start repeating Dave Allen shows, I will be highly miffed……very funny, very clever guy. I hope his God went with him.

GG

She Who Must Be Obeyed

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was first coined by H. Rider Haggard in “She”. Sorry, babe, gotta get it right, you know. (NITS ™, famed for our accuracy)

Rumpole is on, I think, ITV3 at the moment. My favourites are where he before Judge Bullingham – Mad Bull – priceles stuff!

I always hated “Are you being served” – the humour is too simple and “in yer face”, camp crap from Inman and a dozen “Mrs Slocum’s pu$$y jokes”.

I saw a few clips of “Love thy Neighbour” in a documentary and I’d forgotten what it was like. They wouldn’t be able to show it in these PC days – racist? Whew!

Dave Allen was someone who got it absolutely right. One of my favourites from the Apartheit days in South Africa:

A black guy is on his knees in a Dutch Reformed Church. On the door there’s a “no blacks” sign. Allen, as a DRC pastor comes in, and asks what he is doing there in breach of the colour bar. The guy explains that he’s just scrubbing the floor.

“Alright” says Dave Allen’s pastor in a cod-South African accent. “Just don’t let me catch you praying”.

I’m not really sure that anyone is brave enough to repeat his stuff unedited but I do hope so.

Neil 😀

are you absolutely sure about Haggard?

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I read it not too long ago and don’t recall the “who must be obeyed part.”

Then again, they say the memory is the first thing to go…..

Yep.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole is probably the simplest reference or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28novel%29 . I remember it from the 1960’s movie with Ursula Andress as Ayesha which was repeated not so long ago on our TCM channel.

okay, I give!

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now if only I could find my car keys….

Another TCM-ite!

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Wahey! It’s not just me, then…….!!

(btw, apols for the mis-truth, but I was SURE it was Rumpole who said it first….!!)

Now, if I could just get TCM to stop showing bloomin’ Elvis movies on wet weekends, I’d be a happy bunny. There have been a few good films on recently, but I’m b*ggered if I can recall the names…the one with Alec Guiness, treating a pier as a ship at sea; Torpedo Run, Operation Pacific…

Wonder if they take requests? (our local ITV station used to, years ago) If so, San Demetrio, London, please….. true story, only amended to protect one person….that Pa knew…so got the real story..

Oh, hell, Neil, I just wanna go home and watch TCM all day now!! It’s all your fault!! ]:)

(hmm. Complete with gin, tonic, lime, no ice, thanks….) :p

GG

Dave Allen

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First of all, yes The Good Life was renamed good Neighbours in North America.

Dad’s Army, if ONLY they woul dshow some old repeats, we haven’t had a Canadian fix in over a decade.

Dave Allen, now there’s one I miss!!

Rumpole of the bailey

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of all the TV shows I can remember one that was on the UK TV only once and it was an American TV
show with Nancy Sinatra ,Frank ,Dean , Sammy, and Lee, the show was Yellow Balloon and was a
lot of dollars to put the show to-gether ,what
happened to it ? and these boots were made for walking ,it was one of America’s finest. One thing I still have the 78rpm record of it.

As it aired in the UK

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Unfortunately, in the US there was already a programme by that name so it was changed to Good Neighbours. In every other way it remained identical to “The Good Life”.

That is actually how you can tell if someone saw the BBC run or the PBS run. I only ever saw it on PBS.

Yes and No

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The Good Life was the European name, of course in North America they called it Good Neighbours.

Good Neighbors

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With all the posts about it, its time to see Good Neighbors.

Didn’t really think anyone would remember Rumpole of the Bailey. Just goes to show.

don’t forget..

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She Who Must Be Obeyed!

~note to self: read ENTIRE thread before inserting foot!~

Yep, right here, I even have all the books

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and waiting for the series to come out on DVD locally, missed the tapes.

Ear-wig

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I now have that bassoon theme tune running around in my head…

Dum Dum Dum Duuum Dum….

Bugger!

rumpole

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that was a great series to watch, we are a bit spoilt here in N.Z with UKTV, The Good Life, Dads Army, Touch of Frost Fauty Towers,to name a few, most of the good british stuff,,One I would love to watch again is A Bit of a Do. Mind, Grumpy Old Men is a good watch, And they are going to show The Worst Week of my Life again next month. most can be found on the net.Have to have my UKTV

Butterflies

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My all-time favorite of the BBC comedies is “Butterflies” with Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer – OUTSTANDING casting, and I swear the series was ghost-written by Sartre …

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