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Jan 2019
1:00pm, 3 Jan 2019
20,797 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Yes, CHannel 4 made it.
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Jan 2019
1:29pm, 3 Jan 2019
52,320 posts
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swittle
Ahem. Ch 4 made Brookside. And Hollyoaks. So it should go and sit in a corner and consider its position.
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Jan 2019
1:32pm, 3 Jan 2019
5,360 posts
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Dooogs
The Liver Birds was before my time but in terms of dreadful Carla Lane stuff, is Bread on the list?
By contrast, on the "awful but I secretly love it", I'll be very upset if Last of the Summer Wine isn't on the list...
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Jan 2019
1:37pm, 3 Jan 2019
52,321 posts
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swittle
Ah, A. J. W. Bell's baby, directed and produced by him. Most times, the Holme valley scenery would detract sufficiently from the hackneyed script but it remained tediously formulaic.
Oh, did I mention that I had a part, with a contract, in an episode Of 'Last Of The...'?
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Jan 2019
1:39pm, 3 Jan 2019
5,363 posts
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Dooogs
If you did, I'd forgotten it! - what was the part?
Agreed on the scenery over plot factor - although I do have a soft spot for the Foggy/Compo/Clegg imperial period.
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Jan 2019
1:50pm, 3 Jan 2019
52,322 posts
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swittle
Yep, the original trio meshed together so well - so convincing that I used to see myself in one or more of the characters 20-30 years hence!
I was pressed into service as a van driver by the director, as one hadn't been cast. I'd brought a van with a tail lift to the set for a visual gag involving crushed boxes of china and signed the contract, resting it on the roof of a car. I wrote a blog about this but can't find it for the moment. Non-speaking role, of course.
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Jan 2019
2:32pm, 3 Jan 2019
18,020 posts
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TRO Todd and alligator dodger
I think LOTSW part of the attraction was...the life.
Just a bunch of mates, seemingly no responsibilities, nothing to do but arse around all day.
You can kind of remember days like that during school summer holidays, always a nice thought there may be a few more similar coming in your latter years.
Never found it funny, but kind of watchable anyway...
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Jan 2019
2:38pm, 3 Jan 2019
5,367 posts
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Dooogs
There's a Myers-Brigg variant - what LotSW character are you? I suspect I'm probably somewhere between Wesley and Wally...
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Jan 2019
3:00pm, 3 Jan 2019
20,800 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Swittle, you didn't have to roll down hill in a bath, or get carried away on a giant kite, or sail down the local river in a different bath, get locked in the book of a driverless car, or maybe cause traffic chaos on a motorised wheelchair?
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Jan 2019
4:07pm, 3 Jan 2019
25,150 posts
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LazyDaisy
Oh how we laughed.
Not.
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SuperDeath XI
Jan 2025